Location: (Source: Mindat.org) Sugar Grove Basalt is a amygdaloidal basalt dike or sill that intruded into the Devonian Millboro shale formation. This outcrop is located along the west side of County…
Gemstone information is available for the following counties. Information comes from Gemstones of Idaho written by Alice Allebaugh. Reference: Idaho Lands website (I'm reposting here because data has a way of disppearring…
This information comes Department of Lands website. I'm reposting here because data has a way of disppearring off the internet. (Reference: Information comes from Gemstones of Idaho written by Alice Allebaugh.)…
This last week, my family and I took a mineral collecting vacation to Thunder Bay, Ontario. The last stop on the trip was Pebble Beach in Marathon, Ontario in search…
Today, we visited our second amethyst mine in the Thunder Bay area: Panorama Amethyst Mine, in nearby Shuniah Ontario. Web site:http://www.amethystmine.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmethystMinePanorama/ Map: https://goo.gl/maps/zjFPFFsPakEt9dUo9 Things to know before you go... As of…
Yesterday, my family and I visited the Diamond Willow Amethyst Mine in Pearl Ontario which is about 40 km north of Thunder Bay. It is one of several mines in…
I recently collected geodes in southern Indiana for the first time. References: https://digitalrockhound.com/?p=506ml Map: Collected geodes near a reservoir just north of Bloomington Indiana. Collected geodes in the woods near…
Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils. For long ages Ohio lay beneath a shallow sea which received successively enormous quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian…
From Indiana DNR The Falls of the Ohio is a great place to see fossils, but collecting is illegal except at the designatedcollecting piles next to the parking lot behind the…
The flint at the Nethers Farm is part of the Vanport flint formation that is Pennsylvanian in age and covers a ridge tops in an area of about 6 square…