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I've never had a problem with Piedmont collecting, it is almost as rich as Maine. Lancaster is a bit far from me too, but when I get there, I keep my eyes peeled. Grace Magnetite Mine? New one on me. Details? Kibbelhouse is also new to me. (hint, hint..) >…there…
Yay, Doug!!! Fool's pyrite? LOVE IT! 🙂 The term immediately gets into my new novel on Cleopatra, who is into (surprise!) alchemy and mineralogy. She's also not the fink the Romans claimed she was. Nope, not my controller in trouble. Running my entire system from my controller, including Bernoulli, twin…
Lanny, the wall of green tourmaline in stark white cleavlandite was to kill for a view of! I personally would love to know the identity of the vandals. I mean, we're talking Aladdin's cave type of stuff! Boiling blood indeed. *Mine* did, both times and for different reasons. The elbaites…
Hi Doug- The matrix is indeed quite fine, and since I can't get it to do much of anything, I'm convinced it's a mudstone-type of thing. Acid certainly does nothing. Some of the limonite cubes were completely embedded, and judging by appearance, would guess they all were at some point,…
Mystery Specimens
Message #159607
ACK! And I thought *I* got myself into tight spots! Reminds me of Greenlaw Quarry (?) in Maine. Vertical mud, 40 feet. At the top, main mine. GORGEOUS wall of PURE white albite, studded with green tourmaline. (Visited again with ropes and 1st aid kit. I'm learning…) (Vandals got the…
Mystery Specimens
Message #159606
Hi Nathan- ..and I thought I'd finally covered SE Pennsylvania with my "discovery" of the Wheatley. Another sleepout at Warwick Woods Campground seems in order. Apparently I missed a few… As for Lancaster, I visit there for pleasure, not rocks. This is not to say I don't keep my eyes…
Mystery Specimens
Message #159604
Hi Nathan- ..and I thought I'd finally covered SE Pennsylvania with my "discovery" of the Wheatley. Another sleepout at Warwick Woods Campground seems in order. Apparently I missed a few… As for Lancaster, I visit there for pleasure, not rocks. This is not to say I don't keep my eyes…
Hi Guy- ROFL!!!! I'm sure some of *my* socks are on that barge. As well as a few gigs of *my* e-mail. On the serious side, I find out that if you leave your mailbox, any deleted messages are lost *forever*. Scenario: Use your favorite navigator, tell it "Get the…
Hi Doug– Good of my source to send me some specimens in matrix. Haven't got to testing it. Looks like siltstone, or perhaps "muddy" limestone. Haven't busted out the chemicals yet. Solidified clay is a best guess at the moment. >makes me itch to rebuild the hard disk starting with…
Hi Lanny- I guess I just don't get to the right areas or something. You'd think I'd have seen something like that in the field… Wanna swap boring areas? (g) Never been in your area, it's GOT to beat miles of Devonian shale and fossils… Yes, goethite is indeed present,…
Hi Doug- That's what I would have thought, too, the limonite would crumble and wash away. I was talking to the person in litforum, and my first guess from her description was galena. We *all* know what color limonite is. Nope, these are honest to God black. On the inside,…
#Mystery Specimens
Message #157182
..Well, OK, this one is a well known, not at all a mystery specimen. It is 100% provably limonite. Blackish cubes, pseudomorphs after pyrite. The books tell me this is common, yet in my many years as a r-hound, I've never even heard of such a thing. Beautiful blackish brown…
Hi Nathan!!! GOOD directions. Without them, I'd *still* be driving the streets of Phoenixville! We got there right after a thunderstorm and picking was fine! From the sounds of it, I was in the Brookdale dumps, by the smoke stack. A piece of graphite (!!!???!!!), one mimetite, anthracite (of course…
…….also, a bit farther northeast is Gore Mountain, famous for its garnet mines. As far as fossils go: On Rte. 20 they are Silurian, and Rte. 20 is great picking for its whole length. South of Rte. 20 it turns to Devonian. And it STAYS Devonian well into Pa., where…
Hi Guy!! Good to be back. Except for Phoenixville, I've managed to land in places all summer which had no good rocks to speak of! No problem, I still have a ton of Colorado and Bancroft stuff from last summer that I'm just beginning to sort……..JayDee
Hi Doug!! >We mineral collectors are in danger of being outnumbered >by lapidaries, fossil collectors, and sometimes even cavers… Yeah, I noticed. I was on vacation for the big Internet Geo-goofup. You would not BELIEVE what my E-mailbox looked like when I got back. >most of mine (time) is spent…
Hi Cliff- You're thoroughly P'd FJI (G) – The Wheatley Mine is an old Revolutionary War lead mine, famous for massive crystals of pyromorphite and the like. (YEEK! Lead phosphate arsenates!) It is a mine I've been seeking for years. Where is it? Well, if you want me to, I…
Wheatley Mine, Misc.
Message #144171
Yo Michael: Yep, I'm back. One of the faithful and all of that. My SO successfully plotted a course to the Rhinebeck (NY) airshow here, and that means a trip into potentially good granite country. >working on the crab (sheesh) < Take your time. I'm not an octagenarian yet… And…
Wheatley Mine, Misc.
Message #143225
Hi All- I'm baaaack……. (I notice high volumes here, maybe some of you didn't know I was gone?) Anyway, I've been travelling for several months. Lower PA (Phila. area., etc.), paw-in-law died (Hudson, NY, nothing but nearly blank shale & limestone), Carribean (volcanic, fast cooling granite. No Joy…..) Maybe I…
Al- You're looking for ARCE.COM, which seems to be in about 19 places in CI$. (GO IBMFF, search for keyword ARC, ARCE.) An easy place to get it is to GO IBMNEW, lib. 2, Library Tools, and look for ARC-E.COM and ARC-E.DOC. Or in IBMSYS, File Utilities (sorry, it didn't…
Containers in the field
Message #131600
Hi Elizabeth— Sorry for the LONG delay in responding….. I tend to be REALLY slow. (A number of reasons. A lot of typing to do, but mostly, you don't want to know….) >…[The thread] has real importance. < You betcha it is important!!!! Decomposed blasting material doesn't look like rocks…..…
Devonian Fossil Hunting
Message #129245
Hi Joe- Your fossils are being put together. >unless you are a paleodentist< **** GROAN ****** ARGH!!!!! …..JD
Hi Joe– If I recall rightly, I already have a pyrite (G), but if you want, I wouldn't turn down an odd shaped specimen. I'm putting together your stuff right now, and for an extra pyrite, I might be able to toss in a few Pennsylvanian leaves (DANG! I still…
Hi Doug– Aside from what *I* think of it (not much, by the way, but I'm of course a private collector!), what OCR software are you using? What scanner? (I'm using a Chinon 3000, a 300 dpi flatbed scanner. GREAT B/W pics, but I have yet to find ANY OCR…
…by all means. DON'T cave alone. I almost learned twice (!!) the hard way at Palermo, NH. Mines and caves are best explored by groups with equipment. (A buildup of CO2 can be quite as lethal as a rockfall….. And *NEVER* peg rocks at barrels. I *almost* did once, and…
………Todd gives good advice. DON'T go in alone. Carry several flashlights and a candle. Gas buildup can be a rather lethal problem. (A candle extinguishing might be a tipoff!) MAKE SURE you have at the very least a spotter. (Someone who can run for help instantly!) A buildup of methane…
Hi Joe- (Again, give me a couple of weeks) My page scanner (Chinon DS-3000) can focus on objects up to about an inch. As I note to John, it is B/W and of no use for minerals at all. BUT for fossils, B/W is cool, and I will try to…
Hi John- Uploading GIF images wouldn't do much for minerals. They would need to be museum quality, and in color. The idea of uploading FOSSIL GIFs stikes me as a good idea! I can get my page scanner to focus +/- 1/2" or so, I bet I could manage some.…
Heh! If I could box my back yard and sell it, rest assured I would! One of the premises that we're here on CI$ for, is that my backyard junk is your treasure, and vice-versa! (The ol' Back Yard Theory!) (For instance, I recieved some INCREDIBLE ammonites from Jurassic (?…
Hi Doug!!! We haven't got the bugs worked out of CO-ing yet….. 4/24 1PM pacific is fine with me!!!!! I 'll be there unless otherwise specified…… Announce early…… Vote now, vote often!!! (OK, I'm on the horn in the wee hours as usual) (hee)……..JayDee PS I'm not even going to…
Hi Joe- Well, I'm not familiar with the Columbus limestone, but we probably have lots of varieties that the other doesn't have. Email (or send private message) with your address, and I'll send you a bunch of local Binghamton stuff. Expect me to take a couple of weeks, I'm not…
Hi Doug- My CI$ line was down, and not answering – so I had to reroute my call via Ithaca. I got there about 4:25, no one was there…… Perhaps you might want to reschedule?…………..JD
Hi Francis- The Buffalo area (and the Niagara Falls area) are largely shale and limestone. Any creek bed will have extremely nice Silurian fossils (sea life), and if you go south about 15 miles, you're into Devonian. The Devonian fossils aren't so hot since the water was rather deep. As…
……….and yes, there is such a thing as $20,000 for a nice slab of crinoids. They have to be crinoid *heads* though, and are VERY uncommon. I have what might be one, but really too mangled to tell. The heads were soft and didn't fossilize easily. See _A Pictorial Guide…
Devonian Fossil Hunting
Message #127905
Hi Michael- I'll have plenty of trading material whenever you're ready (G). At the rock show last Sat., I saw a *gorgeous* (Cretaceous? I forget) lobster about 5" long. For $200, I let him keep it though……..
#Devonian Fossil Hunting
Message #127904
Hi Joe- >Are you interested in trading for stuff from Ohio's >Devonian limestones? You bet! I have an, er, *abundant* supply to trade! Where in Ohio? I've only seen Ordovician from Ohio (and have tons of it, I used to live near Cincinnati) What kind of stuff do you have?…
Devonian Fossil Hunting
Message #127903
> What's the uncommon stuff there?< I'm told that all Devonian fossils are uncommon. But you couldn't prove it by me. At the rock show I almost died laughing when I saw a chunk of backyard with a price tag of $8. *BUT* they get the price in other parts…
Devonian Fossil Hunting
Message #127237
Hi Joe- As a lot of our forum guys know, I live in Binghamton, NY, right off of the Devonian shore. Uses of Devonian: chucking at rabbits in the garden, boat anchors, etc. (G) We have mostly shale here, and some extremely uncommon (so I'm told) stuff. I'm always up…
Is collecting proper?
Message #126192
Hi All- Having only recently gotten some time to hang around here again, and realizing I'm probably flogging a deceased equine (G) (and for the record, as a polite rockhound, I'm against closing public lands for collectors…) but a few observations from my experience: Depending on the size of the…
Hi Nathan- I don't specifically know of any silicosis tunes, but if anyone would, the R-netters would. (My 2nd favorite forum after this one) GO ROCKNET. And tell 'em all I said hi, I haven't had a chance to get there lately……JD
Hi Doug- I have to be brief this time, I just logged on and found a *most* gratifying ton of stuff on the forum. I still haven't had time to even read it all, much less answer. Anyway, I just *finally* got Windows 3.1, and was able to get MINDB1.ZIP…
#Geo conference
Message #124577
Hi again– My vote is for 4/10. Easter is likely to be out for me, the SO will likely want to travel. I *can* be available on 3/27 though. Of *course* I plan on attending! Send out reminders, if possible! (I hit my e-mail daily, and here about every three…
#Your ROCKDB data
Message #124576
Hi Doug— Yes, starting a formula with PO4 *did* come from a phosphate-oriented book. (As usual, I'm late answering, and have lost the train of thought. Any day now (actually, next week…) I'll be more free with my time.) Starting a formula with PO4 is totally alien to me as…
Hi Doug- Well, your cheats on the Dana group entries are OK with me. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't understand them (and me a crystallographer, chemist, and rockhound!), so I ignore them. Heck, your choices will probably break ground if we finally get our full database together.…
#Your ROCKDB data
Message #123222
Hi Doug– As you gathered from my e-mail, my schedule is somewhat uncertain at the moment. Heck, I'm all in favor of consisteny, as you know. It makes life a lot simpler to searh on "TRG', rather than "TGL", "TRI", and "TGN"….. My formulae were copied directly from the books,…