Hometown Living At Its Best 117
“Once you find a beautiful stone native to the earth, you
can’t just walk through the woods anymore,” Emory said.
“You pay attention.”
After accumulating three
rooms of equipment, Emory
decided to convert a pole
barn to his permanent
workshop. Here he creates
beautiful pieces that he sells
at shows and jewelry stores.
in a June 2000 online article for the “ICMJ’s
Prospecting and Mining Journal”:
There are a number of ‘gold belts’ and
portions of belts, which cut northeastwardly
across the Piedmont and Blue
Ridge provinces of Georgia…. The most
prominent is the Dahlonega Belt, which
extends from Alabama to North Carolina.
“There’s no telling what you can find on
Graves Mountain,” now privately owned, “or
in Lincolnton and the Washington, Georgia,
areas,” said Emory. According to the Georgia
Mineral Society, Inc., website, “Graves
Mountain,” in east Georgia’s Lincoln County,