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| TREASURE HUNTING IN MARYLAND Add what you know about this area to create a handy guide for other treasure hunters. |
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| What this area is known for: 1. Shark teeth 2. Gold 3. Fossils 4. | Biggest finds in this area: 1.shark teeth up to softball size as far as I know 2. Gold - 50,000 oz 3. |
| Local appraisers: 1. Name, contact info/website 2. 3. 4. | Local geocaching/treasure hunting clubs: 1. American Federation of Mineral Societies http://www.amfed.org/ 2. Maryland Geological Survey http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/fs/fs10.html 3.Maryland Geological society http://www.ecphora.net/mgs/ 4. |
| Best time of year to go: The warmer months of the year April through October. | Other helpful resources: (newspapers, websites, etc) 1. 2. 3. |
| 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: Brownie Beach in Chesapeake, MD General description: Miocene fossils that include. sharks, rays, turtles, shells, fish and other marine fossils. Fossils from Brownie Beach can be seen at: http://mysite.verizon.net/browniebeach/ | How to get there: From Routes 2 or 4 in northern Calvert County, take Route 260 to Chesapeake Beach, where you turn right (south) on Route 261. Immediately after crossing a stream at the bottom of the first hill south of Chesapeake Beach, you will see a locked gate and a parking area on the left (east) side of the road. From the parking area, follow a path for roughly 1/4 mile to the cliffs. |
Grade this location: (A to F): A+ best in the country from what I have heard | GPS coordinates: |
| Handy to bring along: 1. beach shoes 2. plastic bags to hold findings 3. shifting screen | Helpful notes to newcomers: Two other collecting sites are listed on the Maryland Geological Survey . http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/fs/fs10.html |
| Location #2: Rock Run General description: Gold was discovered in southern Montgomery County during the Civil War and the first of many mines and prospects began operating in 1867. There were 5 gold mines along Rock Run, including a placer mining operation using water under high pressure to wash the stream and flood plain sediments through long California-style sluice boxes. | How to get there: Rock Run is a small stream in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, that originates just north of Potomac Village and flows about 9.1 kilometers (about 5.5 miles) in a generally southeasterly direction to the Potomac River at the Naval Surface Warfare Center |
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| Handy to bring along: 1. Shovel 2. Screen 3. Gold pan 4, Hand Pick  | Helpful notes to newcomers: 1. Most of the richest gold mines were in a few gold-bearing quartz veins that had a higher concentration of gold than most of the others in the area. 2. All of the gold-bearing veins run roughly parallel with the general direction of the Appalachian Mountains, which trend a little east of north in this area. Some veins vary in their strike (direction) by as much as 25 to 30 degrees to the east or to the west of north. 3. Nearly all streams and smaller tributaries have been explored in the past by miners who were quite thorough in their recovery methods, so most stream sediments have been pretty well cleaned of gold. 4. Therefore, I have learned to use a compass to determine the approximate strike of a stream's bedrock, which, in this area, is generally a nearly vertical quartz/mica schist. Then I search for exposures of the bedrock or dig deep enough in the stream's alluvium to reach the upper levels of the bedrock. Most of the upper levels of the bedrock encountered in this fashion are either chemically altered to a soft consistency (saprolite - disintegrated rock that lies in its original place), or nearly so and can be removed and broken up in the gold pan. By exploiting the altered areas of the bedrock, I increase the chances of finding gold. Most of what I find in this fashion is lode gold (freshly broken out of the rock it formed in) rather than placer gold (naturally eroded out of its host rock and then stream worn). Needless to say, finding the gold in the pan is exciting since the finder is the first person to see it since it was first formed here about 200 million years ago through the actions of tremendous tectonic forces From Mineral News, Vol. 16, No. 3, March, 2000. Reprinted with permission of the author and the publisher. This article may be reprinted or copied as desired for other mineral publications |
| Location #3: Calvert Cliffs General description: The Calvert cliffs contain an amazing Miocene fauna. More than 600 species of plants and animals have been found here (Glaser, 1979, p.56). On the beaches you can find a wide spetrum of marine fossils including sharks & rays. | How to get there: "The Calvert Cliffs run for roughly 24 miles from near Chesapeake Beach to Drum Point on the western shore of Maryland in Calvert County" Fossil Guy See the following link for additional information: ://www.fossilguy.com/sites/calvert/ |
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| Handy to bring along: 1. Shovel 2. Bucket or rock bag 3. Camera | Helpful notes to newcomers: The scenery is spectacular. Even without the fossils this is a great place to visit. |
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