Miller Mountain Mine

  Here is a mine worth going to if you are in the area.  If you visit the Ron Coleman mine there is a rock shop along Highway 7 next to the road you turn to go to the Ron Coleman mine. Just so you know there are two bothers named Coleman, both are in the crystal business and are bit at odds with each other. The Miller Mountain Crystal Mine is owned my Jim Coleman. The store near Ron's place is owned by Jim.  Here is another kicker, the Miller Mtn. mine is owned by Jim, but he has very little to do with the day to day operations, Bill and Faith are the care takers of the mine and pay some sort of fee to Jim to operate it. Now remember that rock shop I mentioned before? Well this is were you can pay for your digging fee for the Miller Mtn. mine, but if you do this, Bill and Faith LOOSE their commission fee. So if you want the money to go directly to those operating the mine you can pay the $10.00 at the mine.  You can get the directions to the mine at this store, just tell them you are going there to see what it looks like. By the way, DO NOT buy anything at this store, the prices are OUTRAGOUS.  You can but crystal at the mine site for 50% less.
  Anyway, after 4 hours of digging at Ron's place we went to Miller Mtn. We felt we struck gold, within 4 hours we took home some beautiful tabbies and many other specimens. We called it a day and told Bill and Faith we would be back in the morning. We showed up at 8am. Bill had turned over the previous days pile of dirt and brought two more front end loads of new material. For about 40 minutes we had the entire place to ourselves and we started hitting the jackpot. Even after three more people showed up, those folks did not want to deal with the red clay and thick Arkansas mud. That was ok with us, as we continued to pile up beautiful crystal specimens.  After 4 hours, our back started hurting, our hands were cut up so bad from getting cut by the crystals we decided to call it a day.
  It will take some time to do the clean up of these plates of crystals but when we do they will look like a million bucks. We must have found at least 100 plates and single crystals in 2 four hour days of digging.  Here are some pictures of the mine and ONLY  few of our finds.