LADD'S MOUNTAIN
CARTERSVILLE, GA.

COLLECTING: Cave Onyx, Dendrites, Calcite crystals (botryoidal and stalactic),
Aragonite, Dolomite, and tiny Quartz Crystals. 

DMC Program of the SFMS Field Trip Committee

 COBB COUNTY GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY  (HOST)
 GEORGIA MINERAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP
9:00 AM, Sunday, January 14, 2007
Ladd's Mountain, Cartersville, GA.

[Photographs provided by Jay Gorday]


Cave Onyx


Kim Cockrum watches as Jay Gorday works on a slab of cave only.


Digging on the hill in front of the main pit.


Sharon Javed with her Cave Onyx boulder.


Jim Haege, Cobb County Gem and Mineral Society Field Trip Leader.


The main pit at Ladd's Quarry.  We were allowed to collect on the left side of the pit, away from the high wall.


(Unless otherwise noted, all photographs by Jim Flora)

At the meeting place.
 The Mrs. Winners parking lot at the corner
of US 41 and SR 113 in Cartersville, GA.

Receiving driving instructions!
Samples of Cave Onyx from previous field trips to this location.

 LADD MOUNTAIN

One of the cave formations...

 And formations outside the caves on the quarry walls..

Cave Onyx

More Cave Onyx
Photo by Jeff Deere
Photo by Jeff Deere
Photo by Jeff Deere
Photo by Jeff Deere

A whole wall ripe for the wedge and hand sledge!

Charles Carter and Cheryl Cornell watching
Jim Haege and Jim Flora digging up 
cave onyx at the base of the high wall.

Jim Haege liberating cave onyx.

 
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