EPWORTH, GA
[CLOSED TO COLLECTING]

Collecting very large Almandine garnets and staurolite.  The iron garnet specimens at this site range in size from a small egg to as large as a grapefruit or bigger.  You may even find a double or triple!!

May 2004

Frank DeCaminada's prize garnet. . . 
May 2004
70+ rockhounds attended this field trip.

Blue Ridge, GA.  meeting place.
1998 GMS/Cobb County G&MS field trip. 

"The garnets are down there under 3 to 4 feet of soil!"

Charlie Broome (standing w/hat) of Jacksonville, FL and
Frank Decaminada (foreground)

"I know those big garnets are down there!"
Larry Landry (w/shovel) of Mobile, AL. digging the big hole!
GMS trip on May 5, 2001
60 collectors attended this 2001 field trip!
Blue Ridge, GA.  meeting place.
2001 GMS/Cobb County G&MS field trip.

View of the collecting area!

Perry Curl starting to dig hole #1.

Two examples of very large Almandine garnet found on this dig.

 

Harry Vas Dias
(1998 collecting trip)
Close-up pictures of garnets from this collecting location:

Lisa Cudworth
(1998 collecting trip)
 Dixie Mineral Council
1999 & 2000 Field Trips to this location:
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