DMC field trip for June 2006

DMC/FIELD TRIP COMMITTEE
DMC Field Trip Sharing Program
FIELD TRIP FOR June

An Official Field Trip of Forsyth County Gem & Mineral Club(HOST)

8:00 am -12:00, Saturday, June 10, 2006
Site Name: Vulcan Materials Company’s Morganton Quarry
City and State: Morganton, NC
County within State: Burke County

Children: Over 12 years old can attend if supervised closely by parent or guardian. Must wear appropriate safety gear.

No Pets

TRIP: Vulcan Materials Company’s Morganton Quarry

COLLECTING: This quarry has several rock types, which include augen gneiss, chlorite biotite gneiss, amphibolite, and pegmatite. The following collectable minerals have been found at this location: garnet, golden beryl, black tourmaline, apatite, sphene, feldspar, biotite and muscovite books, and siderite. The majority of these minerals are found in the pegmatite zones. Garnets are almandine variety and have been found up to silver dollar size. However, the majority of them are 1/8” to 1/4” in diameter imbedded in the pegmatite.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS: This is an operating mine. All persons attending the fieldtrip will be required to sign a hold harmless agreement, take 15 minute hazardous training, and wear the required safety gear at all times. This includes a hard hat, safety glasses, and steel-toed boots. We will meet at the quarry office at 8 a.m., sign releases, receive instructions on boundaries and safety, and be lead into the collecting area. We must leave the quarry by 12 noon! In addition, all persons are asked to stay away from the quarry walls. There is plenty of material loose on the quarry floor. VEHICLES WILL BE PERMITTED INSIDE THE QUARRY ON THIS TRIP and parked until leaving.

BRING: Hard hat, safety glasses, rock hammer, and something to carry and wrap samples.

DIRECTIONS AND WHERE TO MEET:
Where we will meet: We will meet at the quarry at 8:00 am and be allowed to collect until 12:00.

Directions to our meeting place: From Interstate 40, take Highway 18 North at exit 105. At the fourth traffic light, turn right on Fleming Drive. Continue to end of road at Route 64/70 (dead end at Bi-Lo Food Store). Turn left on Route 64/70, travel under the railroad bridge. Immediately after crossing under bridge, at the Viscotec plant, turn right on Kirksey Drive. Make another right on Quarry Road. Quarry entrance is 1/4 mile off Quarry Road.

Drive Time: This is approximately a 1-½ hour drive from Winston-Salem, NC.

"Field trips are open to all members of associated clubs of the DMC program of the SFMS Field Trip Committee and to all members of SFMS member clubs who have provided their membership with SFMS liability insurance. Because of insurance requirements, members of the GENERAL PUBLIC are NOT invited on this or any DMC program field trips!"

DMC Program / SFMS Field Trip committee's purpose:
To collect field trip information from it's member societies; schedule and coordinate field trip dates; disseminate field trip information to all member clubs so that each member society may publish this information as one of their "official" scheduled field trips.