[Rockhounds] Looking for collecting locations around Denver, CO (and plac...

[rocknlight at aol.com]

I would go to Castle Rock and stop in to see a GREAT?rock dealer, who has tons of stones.

His name is Brian Costigan, of Costigan's Minerals West.?

He is polite and professional and has many rock materials to choose from ...

You must call to make an appointment -? YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT !!

Can't find his number right now, but search the net and if you can't find it, let me know and I'll dig around for it.

Make sure to ask Brian what he has in stock and how many pounds of it to choose from, as he sells a lot of rocks !

RocknLight.




-----Original Message-----
From: Pmodreski at aol.com
To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
Sent: Sun, 4 May 2008 9:00 am
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Looking for collecting locations around Denver, CO (and plac...



Hi Kreigh,
 
I'm glad you will be coming to Denver, and I hope I'll get to meet you in  
person and perhaps go collecting together on those days (and your "one solid  
collecting day) when you are here.
 
Regardless of whether you take a complete day for field collecting or split  
a day between museum(s) and collecting, you should for sure visit the Colorado 
 School of Mines geology museum, and also if possible, the Denver Museum of  
Nature & Science.  I'd perhaps make the CSM museum the "for sure" stop,  
because it's even more convenient to get to (closer to possible collecting  
places?), free admission, and easy to make just a short stop to visit, as  
opposed to 
kind of programming a whole half-day to visit, like DMNS.  And  the CSM
museum has a really first-class mineral collection, especially of Colorado  
minerals (not that DMNS isn't worth seeing too, of course).
 
Also, the weekend of Aug. 8-10 is the Contin-Tail rock swap in Buena Vista  
(CO, I hear tell that you CA folks have one of those towns too), "all the local 
 collectors" (including myself) will be out there for that, but I guess it 
will a  little too early for you.  But however, there's a consolation prize, the 

 Lake George Mineral Club will be holding its mineral show, an outdoor  
tailgating event very similar, just slightly scaled down in size, to the  
Contin-Tail, the next weekend, August 15-17--that when you'll be here, and if  
you are 
up for the 100-mi drive to Lake George, it would be a good place to go,  
perhaps combined with a field trip to the famous Crystal Peak area.  (The  LGGMC 

show actually will begin a few days earlier than that, and there may be a  field 

trip being held by them too--I'll get you more info about that, I thought  it 
would be posted on their website already, but it's not yet, they still need  
to update all their show info.)
 
Back to collecting here, one possibility here is collecting zeolite  minerals 
on North Table Mountain.  Good part, it's right next to Golden,  & you could 
easily combine a half-day at the CSM Museum and then up on Table  Mountain; 
down side (?), it's kind of a rough 600-foot climb up the crude trail  up the 
mountain side to get there.  Other good possibilities are further  away, such as 

the Crystal Peak area--you've heard of all those pegmatite  localities of 
course, and we can perhaps email further about that.
 
Looking forward to hearing back from you, Kreigh!  And much the same  applies 
to anyone else from the List who'll be visiting Colorado--don't pass up  the 
CSM Museum, the DMNS, the Contin-Tail, and Lake George Show, and, give me a  
call if any of you will ever be in town here!
 
Pete Modreski
Denver (actually, Wheat Ridge), Colorado
 
 



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