DMC field trip for September 2005

The site is four miles from the square in downtown Woodbury and will only take a few minutes to drive. We will park on the owners property and then "hay ride" on a tractor and trailer to the site. This is a new site! The owner has recently bull dozed the hills. When I last visited the site there were a number of geodes showing at the surface. After a few rains there should be more visible! As always, there are some solids, but hollows are to be found. Even the solids are attractive when slabbed. I will have some opened geodes to show the group what is available.

We can stay as long as we wish. No breaking of the geodes on site as this leaves very sharp fragments that can ruin tires and injure livestock. There will be a disclaimer sheet for all to sign and a $5.00 per person charge to be given to the owner. I will check everyone in at the parking site and will handle the payments to the owner.

SPECIAL TRIP: After the hunt there will be an added attraction. We now have a Gem, Mineral and Fossil Museum in Murfreesboro. It is on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University which is a few miles from the geode site. I will provide directions to the museum and will open it for anyone who desires to visit. This museum has one of the world's finest displays of exquisite calcite, fluorite, barite, and sphalerite specimens from the now closed Tennessee Elmwood zinc mine.

BRING: You may want to bring a rock pick if you need to dig out any larger geodes that are mostly beneath the surface. As always, bring, sunscreen, a hat, gloves, sturdy shoes, newspaper, 5 gallon buckets w/lids, bug spray, plenty of water/fluids and lunch or a snack.