We have a celebrity now. 

That is awesome and cool find. Green and around saint pattys day...... Luck of the Irish LOL.

And ofcourse the highlight of this years Tar Heel Extravaganza
was Robert's Wake County Emeralds!
(You can call them green beryl if you want. )
Here are some pics of Robert's display of rocks from Pop-Pop Point
with the emeralds front and center.
And Wake Countys' Man-of-the-Year himself talking with some interested visitors.

THE GREAT 2015 WAKE COUNTY EMERALD HOAX?
It seems that low quality emerald specimens have been suddenly turning up at Key Wake County collecting sites.  The example from Mine Creek is one of several.  the interesting thing is they all look alike, and they all look exactly like the classic brazilian material and they were all found just laying there waiting to be picked up.   In addition to Mine Creek, finds were reported from Garnet Hill and triangle quarry!!!!  It seems quite possible that someone out there is trying to fool us.  I for one am not taking the bait.

r  I must apologize, sometimes i word things wrongly.  I did not mean to imply that your finds were not genuine, only that the other sites are suspicious.  Actually, much more than suspicious, downright unbelievable.  I'll explain a little better.  At the Raleigh show this year, Kenny Gay, a longtime Tarheel Club member and acknowledged expert on many aspects of NC mineralogy was approached by at least three different people asking for identifications.  This often happens at club shows where you have experts in the field available for folks to bring in their locally collected stones for identification.  Two of these were very well intentioned people that had what Kenny described as "unmistakable" Brazilian emeralds that they had found at the Triangle Quarry and at Garnet Hill.  The pieces at Garnet Hill were very obviously placed there, sitting in plain view on the sloping outcrop.  This would certainly not be the first time someone has tried to pull such a prank.  Minor "salting" of specimens from far away localities at prominent collecting sites has been going on for a long time.  Usually its just an insignificant prank, but sometimes someone tries to commercially benefit from claiming that a locality produces something it doesn't.  You'll always have a few bad apples out there.  But r's specimens were collected over a long period of time, not all at once, and I doubt were just sitting there in an obvious place waiting to be picked up.  So again, i am sorry to have implied that your finds were salted.  I congratulate you on a significant discovery.

R - Many years ago, there was a gentleman here in my home county who told me that he was finding schrol tourmaline in vein quartz about 5 miles from my house. I was sceptical. Then he brought over a shoe box full of it. I rode to the site and sure enough, there it was, lots of it. Today that site has grown up in briars and thickets and it is doubtful that one would find anything unless some land clearing were done. Anyhow, this same fellow told me about another man who lived nearby and hunted a local creek bottom for squirrel that I know has pegmatite, smoky quartz, etc. in it. Supposedly he found a green rock in the banks which a local jeweler said was emerald. We rode to his house and the fellow showed the rock to me. It was emerald again, it too looked like a Brazilian emerald. Anyways, the old fellow wouldn't tell us exactly where along that creek that he found it and denied me access to the creek on his property. I searched this creek several times at other nearby spots and never found an emerald but did turn up rose and smoky quartz, nice mica books and an assortment of pretty rocks. I truely believe that anything is possible in NC even an emerald in locations where they aren't historically documented as having come from. I've seen stuff from my own county that folks don't believe actually came from here but I know it did. Wake county is a unique and diverisfied mineral county, no telling what is there. I went looking for beryl near Purnell some years ago after reading about the location in an old reference book. The area was rural but was being developed with new homes sprouting up all over the place. I found the creek and there was a new subdivision being built to its north. After much knocking on doors, I finally found a man who had bought property there and told me that there was in fact an old mica prospect along the creek that could be accessed from behind his property, I asked permission to dig and was denied. I tried walking up the creek from the road and found nothing and was stopped several times by people asking what I was doing so I left and never again tried to find the beryl. Soem years later, I was at a show up that way and a fellow had some yellowish-green opaque beryl in a display case labeled "Wake County Beryl". He was from Virginia and had purchased the specimens from someone in Wake County. He said that it came from north of Raliegh. He would part with a single piece. That was the end of my pursuit for Wake County beryl. You have a golden oppertunity there since you have access to a creek that lies right in the heart of such a mineral rich location and I hope that you find that third emerald. I keep hoping that I will gather the strength and time to make it back down to the creek in my area, where there is pegmatite there could be anything and its certainly worth exploring. Lots of luck to you I hope you find the source of the emeralds!