Henderson County Mineral and Lapidary Museum
400 North Main Street
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Phone: 828-698-1977
Hours:
Monday thru Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Admission: free
The Hendersonville Mineral
and Lapidary Museum was the project and dream of Mr. Larry Hauser. The
museum was opened on November 6th, 1997. This museum contains one of the
best mineral collections in North Carolina, many of the minerals on display
were donated and loaned by locals in the area and members of the Henderson
County Gem and Mineral Society.
One attraction of the museum is this excellent
display of dinosaur eggs from China.
Another of the attractions
is cracking geodes mined in Mexico. Although the museum and the mineral
club are two separate entities, many of the Henderson County club members
volunteer to work at the museum and have become experts at cracking
the geodes !
Amethyst
specimen from the Reel Mine in Lincoln County, N.C., top picture, below
is one of the largest corundum/ruby specimens ever found at the Propst
Farm in Lincoln County, N.C.
Amethyst donated by Bill & Margaret
Johnson
Ruby donated by Larry Hauser.
This case holds excellent specimens from
North Carolina.
The museum recently decided to upgrade one
of the North Carolina cases with quality specimens and asked me if
I could provide some material for the case. I provided over thirty specimens
for the display, twenty five of these were self collected and I decided to
add some specimens that my friends had given me:
Carolina minerals
by Richard Jacquot
Notice the three pieces on
the top center shelf, all large Ray mine beryl crystals from the flood
of 2004.
Below are a few of the specimens
we have in the case.
My 77 lb. emerald plate from
the Crabtree Mine earned it's own display case.
Ruby and sapphire display,
almost all the specimens were donated by local rockhounds, including
eight of my corundum specimens.
Museum President Larry Hauser
(deceased)
Please stop by and visit, one of the knowledgeable
volunteers will show you around the museum and answer all your questions.
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