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TREASURE HUNTING IN SOUTH CAROLINA
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THE BEST PLACES TO HUNT
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Location #1: Diamond Hill Quartz Property
General description: The state gem stone is amethyst. Diamond Hill is an excellent site to collect this rich purple gem. Skeletal crystals , smokey quartz, cacoxenite on quartz and other minerals are found at at the big pit.		 How to get there:
The following site gives contact information to collect at the site for a fee:
http://www.gamineral.org/commercial-diamondhill.htm
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South Carolina - Travel Channel Cash and Treasures		 GPS coordinates:

Handy to bring along:
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2. Pick
3. Bucket
4. Rock hammer
5. Safety glasses		 Helpful notes to newcomers:
Diamond Hill is one of the better sites in South Caroline. On the web site, there is a page to apply to collect.

Location #2: Lee Creek
General description: The mine itself is an open-pit phosphate mine on the south shore of the Pamlico River which exposes: Pungo River Marl (Lower Miocene), Yorktown ( Early Pliocene), Chowan River (Late Pliocene) and James City (Pleistocene) Formations Fossils are collected at the mine or from tailings used by local highway departments as road fill. Sharks, rays, boney fish, corals, clams and many other fossils.
Ref: http://www.elasmo.com/
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The PCS Phosphate mine is private. However, they welcome fossil hunters. Each season, the mine allows clubs and individuals that apply for collecting slots to enter the mine. The mine simply asks that hunters only come in once a season, to give other hunters a fair chance to obtain slots

See the folowing link to reserve a slot:
http://www.fossilguy.com/sites/l_creek/
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Visit the Auora Fossil Museum to see fossils from the area:.
400 MAIN STREET; P.O. BOX 352; AURORA, NC 27806-0352
TELEPHONE: (252)322-4238 FAX: (252) 322-2220

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