[Rockhounds] Got Fluorite?

[Jim Askeland]

I hope the field trip to Marion, KY  for the Boston Mineral Club went well but not so well as to have picked the place clean. My grand-daughter and I are going with the Memphis Archaeological and Geological Society to Marion this weekend and would like to come home with some nice specimens.  My question to Nate and others who may have visited the area mines recently, is : How do you feel time is best spent digging for fluorite?  Scratching through the tailing piles?  Trying to follow veins into the creek? Trenching into the mud banks? What techniques worked best for your group on your recent field trip?  We unfortunately won't be able to stay for the blacklight dig.  We will only have about 6-7 hours of dig time so we don't want to dig in vain ( would rather dig in vein)
 
Thanks guys
 
Jim & Lydia
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Nathan Martin <rocknate at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Nathan Martin <rocknate at gmail.com>
Subject: [Rockhounds] Got Fluorite?
To: "Rockhounds Email List" <Rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 7:52 AM

This is an invitation to anyone on the Rockhounds mailing list to join a
Boston Mineral Club fieldtrip to Marion, KY over the Columbus Day weekend
(Oct 11th to 13th).  We will be collecting at the Eureka, Columbia and Mary
Belle mines near Marion, KY with the permission of the Ben Clement Mineral
Museum.  This is different from the museum's monthly schedule of trips in
that they will be doing some special excavating for us at a location near
the Eureka Mine that we identified as promising during our trip their last
year (I took out 20 decent fluorite specimens within 6" of the surface).
There will be a fee to help cover the costs of the excavation in addition to
the museums normal $20/day/bucket collecting fee.  All proceeds from this
special fieldtrip will go to support the museum - a very worthwhile cause!

This will be my 5th trip to Marion, KY and I will be driving 1200 miles one
way to get there.  That alone should be enough to tell you that I think the
collecting will be worthwhile.  Trip attendees will also be given directions
to some Indiana geode localities as well as KY and IN fossil localities that
can be visited either on the way out or on the way home.

Some of our members will be flying out for this.  Southwest Airlines (2
checked bags free) flys into Nashville, TN which is about 2.5 hours drive
south of Marion, KY.  I have done this twice and it is a reasonable way to
go.  Those of us who drive will have heavy tools to share with those who
have luggage constraints.

If you have any interest in this trip please email me off list and I will
provide you with the complete details.

best regards,
Nate Martin
Lexington, MA


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