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Tresure hunting in Kentucky
Hello i live in louisville kentucky, and would like to know if any one might know of some good places to go treasure hunting here.. are if anyone has a group in Kentucky i might join..
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Good Spots in Kentucky
anyone know of any good spots in kentucky? i live in louisville and i'm still a newbie at this all.
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Agates of the World
Kansas Kentucky Agate is a sedimentary agate that is prized for the variety of patterns and colors. The agate
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U.S. National Directory
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Illinois
: If you would like to dig your our fluorite specimens visit the Ben E Clements Museum across the Ohio River to Marion, Kentucky. (see Kentucky
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Great Treasure Museums
. Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky Region was the major source of Flourspar. The crystals of Flourspar have no domestic equal How to get
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Treasure Hunters Guide
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Treasure Hunting
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Events Calendar
, cabochon cutting; contact Robert Schweitzer, (920) 674-2544 3-4--LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY: 19th annual show and sale; Rockhounds of Central Kentucky
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 kentucky driveway agate
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 Alabaster ?
Pulled from a rock face in a Kentucky roadcut.
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 6. Elijah's pillow
These lumps of quartz crystals which have intergrown form in marine environments. They tend to be oval shaped and the surface covered in ring "doughnuts". They are very common (lots in Kentucky). In Israel they are know as Elijah's pillows.
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Treasure hunting vacation...
Indiana - geodes, Michigan - Petoskey/Favosite stones, agates and lots of fossils. Kentucky - geodes, calcite crystals. Visit my profile and order the books I've listed from your local library. They have good info and some have maps.
Have a good vacation
Pam
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Jul 13 2008, 7:33 AM EDT by
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Geodes & Agates just trying to get started with a new hobby.
Hi aweddington, there is a link on the Kentucky page found in the national directory on the left hand menu that mentions the Swift's Silver Mine. However, it is a link to Amazon and some books. But they maybe of interest to you. Here is the link: http://cash-and-treasures-wiki.travelchannel.com/page/Kentucky
Paul
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Apr 20 2009, 2:43 PM EDT by
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Uncut agate?
I have hunted agates for decades - all over the country. Most agates have a weathered exterior that hides the beauty. Some have a rind of host rock. I have hunted along the Cumberland collecting the sedimentary agates. Kentucky agate generally does not look like agate (full of colors and patterns) on the exterior. Generally it looks like a ball or egg shaped cauliflower. There is no way to be 100% sure you have a great agate or a so so one. That is part of the fun. It is a little like a present - sometimes it is more than you expected . Sometimes you are disappointed. Thundereggs , Texas plume , Paint Rock, Tennessee Agate, Kentucky Agate, Nebraska Blue Agate, Brazilian agate are all hidden by the exterior.
I know of no sure way of knowing what the interior will look they. Jake sent me some Washington Thundereggs from Naches Creek. They looked like Tan footballs (nothing special) . He also sent bright red Lucas Creek (no question about the rocks being agate). But when I cut the eggs open, they were far more interesting than I had anticipated.. The t-eggs were bright blue with horizontal bands (typical of T-eggs). Experience will help you to discriminate. There will come a time when you will easily tell a Kentucky agate from a common rock. That will not take long. But even after years there will be surprises. One of my most beautiful Cumberland agates looked like hundreds of junk agate around it. Toms idea of carrying a rechargeable dermil to remove a little rind was a good ideal. Some hounds whack a little off with a hammer to see if it worth hauling out, I do not recommend this. Lot's of great agates have been distroyed this way. I get up your way from time to time. Maybe we could hunt together?
Bill
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Mar 31 2009, 9:40 AM EDT by
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take a closer look at that pic
"I wish I could get it but I'm aproximatly(sp) 3000 miles away I live in ky but I was born and raised in wet washington, from what I could tell in the pic it looks like it would make a really nice cab and maybe some dangly earrings, oh well, good luck to whom ever does get it.
Donna" Donna; you live in Kentucky and are wishing you could collect beautiful agate? You are setting on by far one of the most beautiful agates in the world. Google Kentucky Agate and you will see agates that will blow your socks off. Kentucky agate is highly prized and that is an understatement. It is not just red. It had swirls, bands, plumes of yellow, red, pink, blue you name it. If I lived in Kentucky I would be in agate heaven. A lover of agates judges quality on the variety of colors, patterns and clarity. Great agates are like a brilliant painting. No! It is far more breath taking than a master painting. I have some Kentucky and will post. That a gander at this agate and drool
http://www.uky.edu/KGS/rocksmn/kentuckyagate.htm
Bill
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Jan 31 2009, 10:33 PM EST by
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Congratulations "Rockhound of the Year"
"Bill,
Could you find out if there are any other facet quality gems that can be hunted along the Cumberland River? I have a river trip planned in coming years and would love to combine that with a hunt on film.
The plan is to duplicate part of Bill Fiero's trip:
http://www.geocities.com/bill_fiero/cumber.htm
into my own "Great Loop" cruise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkQ5eCRX3r0
You might want to clue him in on Bill's website as he was a working geologist and has many writings on geology of the areas cruised." I visited the link. Great site and a fantastic journey. There is some beautiful material off the river on the steep sides of the Cumberland Plateau. The plateau is 50 miles wide in some places and has a string of State Parks along the top. Fall Creek Falls is the most famous State Park. The sides drop off steeply to the Tennessee River on the east and the rolling hills of the Nashville dome on the west. The Cumberland runs for 450 miles. Daniel Boone discovered a narrow gap in the unbroken chain that led into Kentucky. The Cumberland Falls on the river is one of the most spectacular falls in the east. As for gems, the most famous is the Kentucky Agate and the Paint Rock Agates. These gems are best made into cabs but there is also beautiful clear carnelian that facets well.
The gravel bars yield blue green, gem grade fluorite; colored quartz (citrine, carnelian and clear quartz.) and jaspers.
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Jan 3 2009, 6:10 PM EST by
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nows the time
I missed you guys, my old pc fried and had to wait to get a new one, but just this last weekend we was able to go to lake cumberland at the conley bottoms boat ramp, the last time we was there I was finding fossils along the shore line, but now that they are keeping the lake levels way down you can find fossils every where. I will be posting pics soon. The main ones that I was finding were crinoids-taxocrinus, I have a fossil guide so I looked them up and I found a few clam fossils. So if you are in the southeast kentucky area you might want to check out the shores of lake cumberland, they will be having the lake down for a few more years.
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May 6 2009, 2:33 PM EDT by
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Road Cuts are a Tourist Attraction
Hi Bill,
I just started my new job, so I have to wait a about 6 months before I can take some vacation time. I know its is a long way out, but I am planning to head back to IN summer of 09. While I am there I am planning a trip down to Del Hollow Lake (I think that's how it is spelled). The lake is between Kentucky and Tennessee. I explored a cave there once before I moved here to AZ. It was before I new about fluorescent and phosphorescent crystals. I remember that every time we turned our light off we could see little glowing lights. I can't wait to get in that cave with my U.V. Lamp!!! Maybe if we drive we could stop in Arkansas and find some crystal. My wife likes to fly :( Maybe when My father-in law goes back to IN this spring to bring all of his belonging to AZ I could then. I'm not sure.
Tom(AZrhound)
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