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| Local appraisers: | Local geocaching/treasure hunting clubs: Club name, contact info |
| Best time of year to go: Kentucky weather is best during the spring, summer and fall. | Other helpful resources: |
| Have a question about treasure hunting or geocaching in this region? | |
| THE BEST PLACES TO HUNT Regions can have multiple good spots to go — add details to build a complete guide. |
| Location #1: Ben Clements Museum and Mine Digs General description: One of the nation's finest collections of fluorite and related minerals from the Kentucky-Illinois mining district, and a large collection of other minerals from across the world. There are planned digs scheduled from the spring through the fall. | How to get there: The museum is located in Marion Kentucky in the northwest corner of the state. http://www.marionkentucky.us/clementmineralmuseum/ The town of Marion has a good Bed & Breakfast (Myers see link below) and a great little restaurant "The Front Porch". Real southern home cooking with a casual atmosphere. Be sure to stop in on your treasure hunt. http://members.tripod.com/~MarionKYKingdomHall/Marion.html |
| Grade this location: (A to F): A - I have enjoyed rockhounding trips to Marion. Every time I've gone and I have some fine specimens that I dug. | GPS coordinates: |
| Handy to bring along: 1. Digging tools 2. Collecting buckets 3. Rock Hammer 4. Safety Glasses 5. Gloves | Helpful notes to newcomers: The mining district extends into Illinois. Cave in Rock and Rosiclair are also great spots on your trip. |
| Location #2: Kentucky Agate General description: Kentucky Agate is the State Rock by act of the State Legislature on July 14, 2000, It is a sedimentary agate found in the Borden Formation of Early Mississippian Age. The agate is beautifully colored and contains bands, fortifications,and sometime plumes or moss formations. It can be found in the creeks and river drainage where it has been weathered out of the host rock. | How to get there: Estill, Jackson, Powell, Madison, and Rockcastle Counties in Kentucky. For more information and pictures of the agates see: http://www.uky.edu/KGS/rocksmn/kentuckyagate.htm |
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| Handy to bring along: 1. Wading shoes 2. Small mattock 3. Rock bag 4. Rock hammer | Helpful notes to newcomers: Do not strike the nodules of agate with a rock hammer. There is the temptation to see what is inside but many valuable specimens have been destroyed by an overly eager rockhound. |
| Location #3: Geodes General description: Geodes have cavities lined with crystals of quartz or calcite. Occasionally celestite, millerite or other minerals can be found in the geodes. | How to get there: Along the roadside highway 60, east of Garrett. Road cuts on highway 31 west. Almost any creek bed. |
| Grade this location: (A to F): C | GPS coordinates: |
| Handy to bring along: 1. Water 2. Brick hammer 3. | Helpful notes to newcomers:Some will look like potatoes lying along the ditches. If they feel lighter than they should for their size, they are probably hollow. |
| Location #4: Fossils General description: Types of fossils: brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, conodonts, corals, gastropods, monoplacophorans, pelecypods, scolecodont teeth, stromatoporoids, trace fossils, trilobites. Mineralized brachiopods, aulocerid stromatoporoids and colonial corals with calcite, dolomite, celestine and other minerals. This link contains a number of collecting sites : http://www.fallsoftheohio.org/collecting.html Great site for fossil information. | How to get there: State Road 155 between Fisherville (Jefferson Co.), KY and Taylorsville (Spencer Co.), KY Type of exposure: Road cut Rock type: interbedded shale and limestone |
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| Handy to bring along: 1. Hand tools 2. Rock bag 3. Rock hammer | Helpful notes to newcomers: Kentucky has designated the generic "brachiopod" as its state fossil. |
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