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…
Made another attempt to today find petrified wood in Ohio in Barnesville Belmont County area, using this article as a guide: The Aboriginal Use of Petrified Wood…
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…
Photos taken June 26, 2012. This is the main collecting area within the park. Collecting at the park yielded some nice specimens: brachipods, gastropods, and trilobites. There was plenty of…
Address: 5675 Centennial Road, just south of Sylvania-Metamora Road, Sylvania Ohio. Site: http://www.olanderpark.com/pages/Fossil.htm Field guide for the park: fieldguide.pdf. This park was built from inactive quarry owned by the Medusa…
Link to our second trip to Lodi Park Link to our first trip of Lodi Park Date: August 6, 2011 We have moved back to Ohio after spending a year…
Visited the Steward tunnel last September. Beware of parking, I got a $175.00 parking ticket but it was still worth it. When you are in the middle of the tunnel,…