[Rockhounds] Our summer trip

J Bryan Kramer codeburner at gmail.com
Sun May 11 16:16:50 PDT 2008


Thanks Alan

BK

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Alan Goldstein <deepskyspy at insightbb.com>
wrote:

> The fluorspar district in western KY is not too far from Mammoth Cave
> (about 2 hours west on the Western Kentucky Parkway). You can contact the
> Clement Museum (beclement at kynet.biz) to see what is available. There are
> geode collecting areas on the Cumberland Parkway and fossil and minerals
> around Lake Cumberland which is currently 30' below summer pool while they
> repair the Wolf Creek Dam. I can offer anything more specific because I
> don't get down there very often.
>
> Alan
>
>
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>
>  We are heading North this summer, up to Mammoth caves for 3 days and then
> > up
> > to Niagara, thru the Adirondacks and across to Acadia NP. Maybe a side
> > trip
> > to Canada from there. Then back down via the Blue Ridge.
> >
> > We plan on fossiling in Kentucky (any good spots near Mammoth Caves?),
> > and
> > then doing Herkimers in NY. I tried to buy a book on Maine from Amazon
> > (Northeast Rockhounding or some such) but they just notified us that
> > they
> > don't have it and don't expect to find one. So anyone have any
> > suggestions
> > for a book or ideas for Maine?
> >
> > All this from the end of June to Mid July. Hope the blackfly season is
> > over
> > by then.
> >
> > BK
> >
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J Bryan Kramer
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