Morefield Gem Mine
Contact: Sam or Sharon Dunaway
Phone: (804) 561-3399 Fax: (804) 561-4799
Address: 13400 Butlers Road - Amelia, Virginia 23002

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• Exhibits & Gift Shop
• Collecting From Mine Dumps (bring your own bucket or container)
• Outcrop Digging - for the advanced collector.
• Sluice Screening - screens and shovels available.
• Picnicing - Soda & Snack Machines
• Birthday Parties are popular at the mine.
• Restrooms

The Morefield Mine is a highly mineralized pegmatite dike having a length of 2,000 feet and a depth of 300 feet. It produces over 70 different minerals, with more new ones being discovered. The mine produces mica, feldspar, beryl, phenakite for a few popular ones. It produces minerals of the tantalum/columbite series too.

Customers love finding topaz and garnets especially. The children's favorite would be the purple amethyst. The microcrystals are popular with the collectors of micromounts, also.

The Morefield is world-famous for the Amazonite, and more can be found on the ground here, than anywhere in the U.S.A.

Morefield Mine was discovered in 1929, and has been mined by various owners. In the 1940's the U.S. Bureau of Mines was mining there, because of WWII.

Sam & Sharon Dunaway moved from Anchorage, Alaska to acquire the mine in 1996. They have started a new 60 foot level, and discovered a large vug with crystals in July 2006. The 45 foot level of the mine is finished and has been popular for rugged tours.

You may also visit the Morefield Mine collection and exhibit

at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
National Museum of Natural History

2008 Spring Schedule

Open to the public on Saturdays Only

First Saturday open is April 12, 2008
Last Saturday open is May 31, 2008

Eight Saturdays only

Saturday Hours
9:30a.m. - 4:30p.m.
Gift Shop closes at 5:00p.m.

Tuesday - Friday = By Reservation Only

Mine Closing Pending Sale

Clearance Sale Prices on Jewelry and Specimens

So Come One And All

Fees

Free Picnic Areas to use.

Admissions

Age 3 and under are free.

Age 4 and thru Grade 2 = $7.00

Grade 3 thru Grade 6 = $8.00

Grade 7 and thru High School = $10.00

Adults, including seniors = $12.00

* Admission fees include up to one five-gallon bucket of rocks per person.

So bring your own bucket or pail.

Wear sturdy footwear to the mine, if you are going to go into a area for digging, for safety.

(Flip-Flops or Sandals not allowed)

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