[Rockhounds] Club

[Jim Daly]

The vivianite (and other phosphates) came from the lowest point in the Clear Springs Mine. The mine is now gone. It was closed about 10 years ago, and the site has been completely reclaimed. I visited it when the reclamation was just starting, and found nothing.
  Jim Daly

Lawrence Rush <larryrush at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
  In the early 1980's, there were some nice examples of Vivianite found in an 
area called the Clear Springs Mine, near Bartow, Florida. These were small, 
Thumbnails and Miniatures, but the crystals, in a matrix of Limonite, were 
well formed, terminated, and gemmy. I don't believe that there were more 
discovered there after that time, but they also have been found in Plant 
City, Florida. Vivianite is often found associated with bones and shells, 
and iron-rich clays and sediments, so chances are that there is more, 
somewhere in the phosphate pits in Florida.

Larry Rush
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From: "J Bryan Kramer" 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Club


> There are actually some interesting materials near here but just not in
> interesting form. There are Zirconium mines an hour or so from here, but
> they are mining Zirconium compounds in sand. The phosphate mines have
> uranium compounds but again in not very interesting or accessible form.
>
> So 99% of what we have is calcium carbonate or phosphate. Or whatever else
> you could expect to find on the bottom of an Eocene or Miocene shallow 
> sea.
>
> BK
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Alan Silverstein wrote:
>
>> > I would imagine there is a lot more in Florida than most people
>> > expect.
>>
>> Yup. Mostly limestone, but agates near Tampa, lots of fossil
>> (phosphate) bone, some quartz/calcite shell geodes in various spots
>> (such as years ago in a construction area in North Miami Beach). You
>> can web search to learn more. Plus, shell and coral collecting is
>> always fun too.
>>
>> If interested in a trip report from 2000, when I did some collecting:
>>
>> http://silgro.com/trip_reports/2000.0829_FloridaCollecting.htm
>>
>> And in 2006, Tampa Bay agate:
>>
>> http://silgro.com/trip_reports/2006.1202-09_TampaBayAgate.htm
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alan Silverstein
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>
> J Bryan Kramer
> North Florida, USA
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