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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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Oct 23 2008, 4:16 PM EDT by
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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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Aug 16 2009, 8:11 AM EDT by
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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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Sep 29 2008, 12:11 AM EDT by
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Ohio
I am in Columbus Ohio playing with twin grand daugthers, Billie and I stopped at Flint Ridge and meet with the well known napper, Roy Miller. (see Ohio - National Directory) Did we everget into great cutting material. Top grade , multi colored, banded flint. I will post some pictures, we plan on hitting the flourite mines in Illinios and Kentucky or the agates beds. Having a great time chasing grand girls.
Bill & Billie
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Oct 26 2008, 9:24 AM EDT by
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Patagonianstar
"Dear Bill :
Weis Museum agate Show was amazing! We met old and new friends there. And people in Menasha made ua feel at home , although we were thousands of miles away.
Of course , you may post our pictures! Please , let us know how to find the web-site later.
And ... may we take a look at your Cumberland Plateau Agates?
All our best!
Ricardo & Claudia Birnie" Yes I will show some of my agates. A have a wide variety of agates but I have one of the better collections of the Cumberland Agates. They include Kentucky Agate, Tennessee Paint Rock, and Alabama Paint Rock. The agate are sedimentary agate of the late Mississippi Era in the Pennington formation. The Cumberland is a wide Plateau that is hundreds of miles long. Its sides are steep slopes and cliffs that blocked early pioneers moving west until Daniel Boone discovered the Gap in the Cumberland. It is one of the most wild and beautiful regions in the eastern United States. The agate are found between the sandstone Bluffs and the limestone . The interface forms a bench where the agate can be found, I have written an article on the agates.
Bill
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Jul 29 2008, 11:26 PM EDT by
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Reflections - Lucas Creek
I could see and have heard in the foxfire books that they used to and possiblly still do eat the nettles out here, I was born and raised in washington but now live in kentucky , and have been around nettles in both areas the ones here dont really have a sting(yes I touched and tested) but the ones in washington will eat you up, just wonder if they might be different varieties of the same plant?
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Sep 9 2008, 12:51 PM EDT by
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I have too many proven mineral areas......
New to treasure hunting, but love it! Do you have any near the Kentucky Tennessee area?
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Feb 28 2009, 8:23 PM EST by
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Agate question
The glassy rhyolites include obsidian, pitchstone, perlite, and pumice. Most rhyolites are porphyritic, indicating that crystallization began prior to extrusion. The thunder eggs are formed in welded rhyolitic ash flows from violent eruptions like the Mount Saint Helens eruption. The vesicles in thunder eggs are star like or block shaped. I have not seen any agate posted from Lucas Creek that would fit a thunder egg. I guess what I am thinking is that I would be very surprised if the carnelian agate formed in rhyolite ash flows.( Pyroclastic flows) I would love to see a post that shows the host rock. Tom said there was a limestone layer higher up Lucas Creek. Just looking at the agate I would guess basalts or andesitic rock. The agate found in the clays eroded from the host rock. I am really curious to see where the carnelian comes from. Tom might have something. Everyone would be surprised if the carnelian was sedimentary agate from the limestone (like Fairburns or Kentucky Agate) I hope you solve the mystery Jake.
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Apr 28 2009, 11:52 PM EDT by
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Anywhere in Illinois
"Thanks. Yes Keokuk is a good place and I have been to the Mazon but didn't have much luck. Will try again though. If you think of any other or from here to Florida let me know. I did go to southern Ill last spring but it was after they had the 100 mile an hour winds and there was so much destruction you could not get most places." Cross the Ohio at Cave in Rock Illinois and you will discover the world's finest fluorite museum is in Marion Kentucky. The Ben Clements Museum (google it up) or visit our Great Museums page. They have scheduled field trips. I have found really nice mineral specimens. If you take I 40 through Tennessee stop at the Gray Fossil Museum. Fantastic museum and you can schedule a dig with paleontologist at the site. They recently found a Red Panda fossil. Stay on I40 you will enter Western North Carolina. Gemstone Mecca. Hiddenite NC for emeralds and Franklin for rubies and sapphires. Catch I 95 South to Georgia and stop at Graves Mountain; the most important mineral site in the East. Contact the Georgia Gem and Mineral Society for access. Schedule this stop in advance. Just visit the National Directory on the drop down menu for more detail and many more stops if you take a different route.
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Sep 27 2009, 7:44 PM EDT by
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Our rock collections
Charles ~
The red horn coral is awesome! What causes it to be red? Iron? I've never seen one like that before, thanks for sharing. I have only found one large horn coral; still stuck in the limestone. I found it walking a Lake Michigan beach. You can check it out under the Lk MI stones album. I can find numerous small horn corals in southern Indiana/northern Kentucky areas. They are lying on top of the ground. I have purchased a couple large horn corals this fall at a rock show; but they are only gray (not sure what they are). I'll try to take pics this weekend.
Good Friday to you,
Pam
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Oct 24 2008, 11:28 AM EDT by
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A little Game - Just for fun.
KENTUCKY FRIED - STONE GROUND
EYES OF SILVER - THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
HEART OF GOLD - NEIL DIAMOND
ROCK AND ROLL DREAMS - WILD LIFE
ROCKIN' DOWN THE HIGHWAY - THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
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Feb 22 2009, 5:54 PM EST by
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Peanut - Its got to be peanut. It does not burn as easily as other oils. Brine the bird with:
1 brown cup sugar
- 1 cup kosher salt or sea salt
- 2 bay leaves, broken into pieces
- 1/3 cup fresh chopped thyme
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 TBS Tony Catcher Cajun Spice
Bast the bird after frying:
Pint Jack Daniels
1/2 pint Wild Turkey Kentucky Whiskey
1/2 pint Jim Beam Bourbon Whiskey
One quart Southern Comfort
Now throw away the bird and drink the gravy
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Nov 29 2008, 9:33 PM EST by
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Washington Gravel Pit
I played around with facetting and settled on free forms, carvings, and cabs. There is a little more freedom in that for me. Besides I go to the shows and they are covered up with facetted stones from Asia. I could not made a dime selling facetted stones when you look at what the Asian imports sell for. They pay almost nothing to the cutters. With that said, I have two Highland Park units. They are big. They are heavy but the are the best units ever built. I have 6 - 8" diamond wet wheels., two wet sanding drums, two leather wheels, one buffing wheel, and a 10 inch saw. I also have , as I said in a previous post, a high speed vertical sander, and a 16" bull wheel with leather polisher. I also have a vibratory polisher, a 12" drum polisher, and a three drum tumbler polishers. My slabbing saw is an 18" Lortone. They were bought used and for the most part hardly used. Oh yes I have a diamond drill press and a diamond drimel set.
I have so much cutting material that I will never get it all cut. So what I cut I want to sell and I have learned what sells for me. There is only so much that you can give to family and friends before they are saturated. One of these days I will donate the museum pieces in my collection to a museum. Maybe the Ben E Clement in Marion, Kentucky. I have donated to them before. What I don't want to do is leave Billie with tons of rock to figure how to get rid of it.
Bill
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Jun 11 2008, 11:50 AM EDT by
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Site Maintenance
"Hey Bill, just about the only thing I can see worth while would be the faceting stuff I put together a long ime ago. Zeke linked that to the Lapidary page. That is cool. If there is anything else useful he can link to that is great. It is all there to be shared s always. I just didn't think htat I had to much in my profile that would be useful.
So Bill when is you next trip out and about? Man it rained all day here. We sure needed it It is dry down like 4 feet right now. This will help some, won't fix it tho0ugh, but sure helps. The forests sure needed the moisture, maybe we won't burn up this fall. . It was cool and a great day to be working on some wood in the garage.
Paul" I have been prospecting a lot this summer. It has been a cool summer. 70s and 80s. I will be going to the highest mountain in Arkansas this weekend. I know some stops along the way. I am also planning a trip this fall to see my grand girls. I will be stopping in Kentucky for fluorite, agates and in Indiana for geodes. I am planning on writing a couple of articles for Rock and Gem. I am going to contact Lynn about Tom's article. The part about Lucas Creek has to be changed because of the recent changes about the status of the site. His article was great.
Bill
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