Plan your visit to Mason's Ruby & Sapphire Mine and a wealth of other attractions, well-known and undiscovered, using our Franklin day trip site. Cold drinks, snacks, ice cream, lunch items, t shirts, souvenirs, fire wood etc. Porta potties are on site and maintained daily. Children are free! Sorry but there is no water hookups or dumping station available at this time.

All campsite prices include 2 adults, additional adults are $5 each. RV sites with electrical hook ups $15 a night. Primitive camping is available for only $10 a night. Adults $30, ages 6-11 $15, 5 and under mine for free! Groups of 10 or more $25 per person.

Just last year a 129.5 carat sapphire was found by Mike Taylor from Indiana! On an average day customers find between 10 and 60 total carats. Mason's Sapphire Mine is one of only 3 mines in Macon county offering native sapphire dirt. The beautiful purplish pink sapphires were an added bonus! For years now The mine has been operated as a dig your own dirt sapphire mine. It was operated as a commercial abrasive mine.

Historic Mason's Sapphire Mine was originally owned by the Mason family in 1942.

Mason's ruby and sapphire mine