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| TREASURE HUNTING IN MISSOURI 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.Geodes 2.Lace Agate 3.Mozarkite 4.Galena & Zinc Minerals (Tri-State & Viburnum Trend) | Biggest finds in this area: 1.Valuable specimens of Tri-State and Southeast Missouri mineral specimens. 2. Missouri lace agate 3.Mozarkite |
| Local appraisers: 1. Name, contact info/website 2.John Gerzen, Springfield MO 417-887-2330 3. 4. | Local geocaching/treasure hunting clubs: 1. http://www.amfed.org/club.htm 2. Ozark Mountain Gem & Mineral Society 417-725-3001 http://www.treasurechestspringfield.com 3. 4. |
| Best time of year to go: Almost any time except during the winter months. The Ozarks are exceptionally beautiful in the fall. | Other helpful resources: Missoui is known for its beautiful springs and caves 1. http://www.missouricaves.com/mo-map.htm 2. http://www.dnr.mo.gov/geology/ 3. http://www.mospeleo.org/ozark_caving/springs/jspring.html 4. http://www.riverbluffcave.com |
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| THE BEST PLACES TO HUNT Regions can have multiple good spots to go — add details to build a complete guide. |
| Location #1: Lincoln, Missouri - Mozarkite General Description: Mozarkite is a pastel colored chert with swirls, blossoms, and bands. The color varies from pink,yellow, blue, and sometimes green. In 1967 the Missouri Legislature proclaimed Mazarkite the state gemstone. | How to get there: The chert is found in streams, ditches, fields, and road cuts around a wide area around Lincoln, Missouri. The area extends along the Cotter Dolomite Formation of Ordovician age. The word is a combination of Mo for Missouri, Ozark for the region and ite for rock. Lincoln is south of Sedalie on HWY 65. I have also found Mozarkite at Harry Truman lake west of Lincoln. http://www.dnr.mo.gov./pubs/pub653.pdf http://www.mazarkite.com |
| Rate this site: (A to F) A Plenty of good material | GPS coordinates: |
| Handy to bring along: 1. Rock Hammer 2. Safety Glasses 3. Pick or Maul | Helpful notes to newcomers: Permission must be granted from the land owner. I have found all I wanted in ditches, road cuts and along the lake. |
| Location #2: Everett J. Ritchie Tri-State Mineral Museum General description: The best museum to study an extensive collection of Tri-State minerals from the mines of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Galena, calcite,sphalerite, dolomite and chalcoprite crystals are truly impressive. | How to get there: The museum is at Schifferdecker Park in Joplin Missouri. The complex is at the corner of 7th street and Schifferdecker Drive. If you desire to collect some samples, drive north on Schifferdecker Park to W Perkins and turn right. There are tailing dumps from the mining operations on your left. Calcite , dolomite , galena, and sphalerite specimens can be found. |
| Grade this location: (A to F): A for the museum C+ for the mine tailing piles. | GPS coordinates: http://www.joplinmuseum.org/info.htm |
| Handy to bring along: 1.camera 2.Hand tools 3.Rock Hammer 4. Safety Glasses - the host rock is chert (flint) and can be extremely sharp especially with fresh breaks. Flint has a conical fractures and used by flint nappers to create Native American tools. Some Mozarkite that is free of fractures makes incredible arrowheads, spear points and other tools. 5. Gloves | Helpful notes to newcomers: The museum will take your breath away for the size and beauty of the crystal habitat of the minerals. There is a scale model of the Lead and Zinc mines and the extraction process. Be careful when handling sharp edged chert. It is best not to hit the chert with a hammer. A friend of mine went to the hospital to have a flint shard removed from his hand from holding a nodule in his hand and hitting the flint with a hammer. Bad Idea |
| Location #3: Elephant Rocks State Park General description: Giant Boulders of pink granite resemble huge elephants marching in a circus area. A nature hike circles through 1.6 billion year old pre-Cambrian formations | How to get there: http://www.mostateparks.com/elephantrock/geninfo.htm |
| Grade this location: (A to F): A | GPS coordinates: |
| Handy to bring along: 1.Camera 2.Hiking shoes 3. | Helpful notes to newcomers: Collecting is illegal in the park. However, there is an operating quarry at the backside of the park. Ask at the office to gather some pieces from the scrape piles. The pink granite is cut for monuments and building stone, The scape has been sawed and is quite attractive. |
| Location #4: Potosi, Old Mine, Cadet, Missouri General description: Missouri lace agate, drusy quartz, and barite blades Missouri Lace agate resembles Mexican Lace agate with tight banding, swirls, and grays, blues, and some red colors. | How to get there: Potosi is in south east Missiouri. The area around Potosi contains a number a abandoned mine pits. Go east from Potosi on HWY 8 and turn on CR O. Tailing piles are on both the right on left sides of the road. Do not cross no trespassing signs. |
| Grade this location: (A to F): A | GPS coordinates: |
| Handy to bring along: 1.Hammer 2.Rock bag or 5 gallon bucket 3.Hang tools | Helpful notes to newcomers: The drusy can be quite large specimens (2 square feet) with bitroydal formations. Very little digging is necessary. The mine waste piles are extensive. |
| Location #5: Keokuk Geodes General description: The Warsaw formation of Iowa, Illinois, and northeast Missouri has yielding immense amounts of geodes with as many as 30 different minerals. The most common minerals are quartz and calcite. | How to get there: . The streams and rivers around St Franceville and Fox Missouri have exposed geodes. The well know Betty Sheffler's Rock Shop and Mine is being closed due to highway construction. http://www.ruralmissouri.org/02pages/Feb02geodes.html |
| Grade this location: (A to F): A | See samples of the Geodes: http://www.geodegallery.com/keokuk.html |
| Handy to bring along: 1.Shovel 2.Hand tools. | Helpful notes to newcomers: Do not break the Geodes with a hammer. Many a valuable stone has been destroyed by an over zealous rockhound. |
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