Welcome To The Lucky Strike Gold and Gem Mine
The Lucky Strike is a gold and gem mine with a campground that is committed to making sure our visitors have a memorable outing. You can take a step back in time to the days of yesteryear by taking a pan or sluice box into the stream. Gold Panning, sluicing, and crevising are popular ways of prospecting in the river. You don't need complicated equipment for recreational gold mining. Enjoy the outdoors and bring your family and friends to share in the fun. A full day of gold panning, sluicing or crevising in the river is only $5.00. Keep all you find! Experience the thrill of that golden gleam in your pan that only finding your first flake of gold can give. It immediately inflicts you with what the old timers called gold fever. Beware; when you see that first glint of gold in your pan you will be hooked! Gold fever has no cure but to hunt for more gold. We have Gold Panning at the flume line with local ore from the Second Broad River. When you get tired or hungry you can visit the Miners Diner , located next to the covered panning area and have a delicious Bonanza burger or Klondike dog with a frosty glass of Sluice Juice. So come and enjoy the day mining for gold in The Second Broad river or just sit and relax at The Miners Diner with a huge Bonanza Burger or a mouthwatering Klondike Dog, and a refreshing glass of Sluice Juice (ice tea).
Vein Mountain Gold Mine trails sponsored by the Lucky Strike gold and gem mine and the NC Gold Foundation.
2024
VMRC Club Digs
April 12-13 Club Dig
April 12-21 Spring Dirt Fling youtube group dig
May 17-18 Club Dig
July 19-20 Club Dig
August 30-31 Club Dig
with club auction the 31st
October 11-12 Club Dig
NC Gold Festival
The festival will be held at 251 Lucky Strike Drive in Marion, NC.
May 31, 2024
2 pm - 9 pm
June 1, 2024
9 am - 6 pm