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As seen on Travel Channel’s Cash & Treasures
Dig and screen through designated pile of fresh unprocessed ore for free all day, keep what you find (mine personnel must be present). Additional days are $50 per person per day, keep all. Kids 12 years old and younger are free, always. Clubs and families welcome. Bring screens and hand tools (see "digging tools" at bottom of this page). Spectrum Sunstone Mine is OPEN MAY 10th - NOV. 1st, 9:00AM-5:00PM. 
NEW AT THE SPECTRUM MINE...
- · High-Grade Conveyor Belt Run...For the ultimate mining experience, pick off our commercial screen plant conveyor belt and our crew will help you pick the gems and payer gets to keep everything that shows up in one hour of running the plant, $200 per hour, nearly 6 tons of ore is processed during the hour and many stones are found. Water is used to wash the dirt from the ore processed on the conveyor belt. Families and groups welcome.
- · High-Grade Condensed Commercial Ore Piles: Screen through concentrated high-grade sunstone bearing ore piles, $100, $150, or $200 per pile. Families and groups welcome. Water washing is available.
- · High-Grade Pit Digging: For the "hands-on" experience... Use your digging tools to break through basalt lava rock in one of our high-grade red and green sunstone pits. $100-$200 per person (or sectioned off area).
- · Tipi Accommodations: Stay in a 20 foot tipi with fire pit, $35 per night. Please call Jessica 775-830-5797 for tipi reservations.
Primitive camping is available on our property. There are no RV hook ups, but there is plenty of pull-offs for tent camping/RV parking, and parking. The roads are great and small vehicles and RVs will be fine. We have a water well. We have a store with faceted and rough gemstones available for purchase, including red labradorite a.k.a. Oregon Sunstone, Himalaya Mine Tourmaline from San Diego, CA, Nevada turquoise and variscite, and much more! Loaner screens and screens for sale ($40) will be available at the mine to accommodate your mining experience. Pets are welcome.
Small shelter trailers are available at the mine for $20 by reservation.
Visa and Mastercard are accepted. For more mining info please contact us.
DIGGING TOOLS: 1/4” wire mesh screen sandwiched between light weight wood (up to 24” square), screen stand (an A-frame works good), shovel (whatever size you are comfortable with, bucket (whatever size you like), plastic bags (for sunstones). For pit digs (see above description) please bring chisel, hammer, rock pick, and screw driver.
Buckets of very high grade sunstone bearing ore concentrate now available through mail. $100 per 5 gallons (plus $30 shipping/handling). Please send email or call 775-830-5797 for ordering information.
Motels/RV Hook-ups near Spectrum Mine: The nearest town is Plush, 23 miles away (there is a store/fuel), there are no accommodations there. A little over 70 miles away is Lakeview, OR, where there are groceries and accommodations: Interstate 8 Motel please call 541-947-3341, or for RV hook ups at Hunter's RV call 541-947-4968. Also there is an airport in Lakeview, OR called Oregon Sunstone Aviation, if you need to land your personal airplane. The nearest airports are Klamath Falls, OR (3 hour drive to mine) and Reno, NV (4.5 hour drive to mine).
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