[Rockhounds] Falls Fossil Festival

[Mark Easterbrook]

The Falls Festival is held at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in
Clarksville, Indiana (across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY).

Mark Easterbrook


> [Original Message]
> From: Carolyn Reynard <sunstone3 at hvc.rr.com>
> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
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> Date: 9/16/2007 10:22:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Falls Fossil Festival
>
> Where is the Falls Fossil Festival?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Goldstein" <deepskyspy at insightbb.com>
> To: <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 9:46 PM
> Subject: [Rockhounds] Falls Fossil Festival
>
>
> Well, the 13th Falls Fossil Festival is history. Saturday was busy, Sunday
> was quieter but still steady. The weather was perfect. We had a 15 minute
> downpour about an hour before the show started this morning - with one
clap
> of thunder.
>
> The star of the Festival this year was the "Mineral Collecting Pile" from
> the fluorspar district. Someone told me a geology club came up from
> Lexington, KY specifically to collect in the pile! I would guess that of
the
> 15 tons in the pile, well over a ton of rock was removed from it yesterday
> and another nearly another ton was taken out today! It is really rich in
> minerals. I picked up a nice cube (which I gave to a volunteer) because
> there is a lot of sand-size particles mixed in that help protect crystals
> from being pulverized to dust. A child picked up a partial crystal
(yellow &
> purple with chalcopyrite inclusions) that could be chipped into a decent
> size octahedron. One woman found an 8" rock with yellow fluorite that
> contained a vug with a beautiful 5mm spray of strontianite. That had to be
> from the Minerva No. 1 mine. I've still got my specimens in HCl, but will
> check on them tomorrow. Next year we may bring down two truck loads - 30
> tons - of material. You can't even tell anything was removed from the dump
> in Rosiclare. It looks like it has been scraped, but not excavated.
>
> The Waldron shale fossil pile wasn't attacked nearly as much, so it ought
to
> produce some excellent fossils over the next year.
>
> The 2008 Falls Fossil Festival is Sept. 20 & 21.
>
> Alan
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