THE 2oo7 field trip itinerary

 

November 3, 2007.....Mid-Hudson Valley .... Centralia, PA....... for plant fossils & fumarole minerals….  No limit…. No facilities. Contact sunstone3@hvc.rr.com  for details.

November 3, 2007........Connecticut Valley Mineral Club........Shaft 10 Quabbin, Aqueduct, Hardwick, MA. ......... Babingtonite, Calcite, Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite, etc. 9am to 3pm dig limited to 15 people Contact Lee Champigny pullg4fun@verizon.net 413-583-3565

Nov 10, 2007.......... Pennsylvania Earth Sciences Association .......... .  Snyder Co., PA ,,,,,,,,,,
Calcite, dolomite, fluorite, strontianite, quartz    meet 7:30 at quarry
gate, no persons under age 18, no facilities, 48 hour minimum sign up
and EFMLS card required. Directions through Merrill Dickinson +1
(610) 473-9973

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May 1, 2005.....Capital District.... Ravena, NY....... for quartz & calcite xls  limit 30 people, working quarry rules.  Sorry no one under 12.  No facilities. Contact phartig@nycap.rr.com for details.

 

April 15,2006.......Syracuse...... Crystal Grove, St. Johnsville, NY....... for quartz (Herkimer diamonds). Contact * *timhart@a-znet.com <mailto:phartig@nycap.rr.com> for details. 

April 14th,2007..........Connecticut Valley Mineral Club.........Shaft 10 Qaubbin Aqueduct,  Hardwick, MA .......... Babingtonite, Calcite, Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite, etc. 9am to 3pm dig limited to 15 people Contact Lee Champigny pullg4fun@verizon.net 413-583-3565 for directions and more info

April 28th,2007..........Connecticut Valley Mineral Club.......Emery Mines Chester, MA ....... Margarite, Corundum, Diaspore, Epidote, Pyrite, Magnetite 9am to 3pm 18 and over only Contact Lee Champigny pullg4fun@verizon.net 413-583-3565

May 5 2007.......Mineralogist's Guild .........Lancaster Co., PA ....... Calcite, dolomite, quartz, sphalerite, fluorite    7:45 AM at quarry gate, no persons under age 18, no facilities, 48 hour minimum sign up required and directions through Dave Rieur: +1 (908) 938-5525

May 19,  2007.......Mineralogist's Guild .........Lancaster Co., PA .......Calcite, dolomite, quartz, sphalerite, fluorite    7:45 AM at quarry gate, no persons under age 18, no facilities, 48 hour minimum sign up required and directions through Dave Rieur: +1 (908) 938-5525

May 19-20, 2007 ......Rochester Lapidary Society: Roxbury, CT ....... garnets and Clark Hill/CCC Quarries, CT. ...... Garnets and other  pegmatite minerals such as biotite, muscovite, beryl, zircon, autunite, albite, columbite, fluorapatite, etc. Contact Cindi Newman at kcnewman@frontiernet.net

June 3, 2007.........Delaware Mineralogical Society.  Purse State Park (Liverpool Point) Charles Co., MD... Collect Eocene and Paleocene aged fossils including crocodile, ray, fish and shark teeth along the banks of the Potomac River.  Be prepared to get wet!  Limit 10 people.  Children allowed.  Contact glauconite5@yahoo.com for details.

June 9, 2007.....Capital District.... Ironville, NY….. Blue/green slag, some cutable grade.   Dump digging, no facilities.  Contact phartig@nycap.rr.com for details.

June 16, 2007.....Mid-Hudson Valley .... Falls Village, CT....... for Fluorescent tremolite in marble, limit 6 people, working quarry rules.  Sorry no one under 18.  No facilities. Contact sunstone3@hvc.rr.com

June 16, 2007......St. Lawrence County Rock & Mineral Club....... Pitcairn, NY.....CANCELLED DUE TO CURRENT CONSTRUCTION.....Contact Bill deLorraine.wdellie@northnet.org

June 23, 2007......Boston Mineral Club.......Palermo #1 mine, North Groton, NH ......... for rare phosphate minerals, beryl, etc, hard hats, safety glasses and strudy boots required

June 30, 2007.......SACO Valley Gem & Mineral Club................ Lord Hill Quarry,  Stoneham, Maine .......... smoky quartz, fluorapatite, topaz, phenakite.  Field trip contact:  Bob York   603-356-4424    quartzhunter@aol.com

June 30, 2007..... Lapidary and Mineral Society of Central Connecticut.... Stoddard mine, Westmoreland, NH....... for fluorite, quartz, barite, calcite xls.  No facilities. Contact hmoritz@pirnie.com for details

July 7,  2007.......Mineralogist's Guild .........Lancaster Co., PA .......  Calcite, dolomite, quartz, sphalerite, fluorite    7:45 AM at quarry gate, no persons under age 18, no facilities, 48 hour minimum sign up required and directions through Dave Rieur: +1 (908) 938-5525

July 21, 2007......St. Lawrence County Rock & Mineral Club.......Powers Farm, West Pierrepont, NY.....Classic Powers Farm Uvites, and maybe some Uralites......Contact Bill deLorraine.wdellie@northnet.org

 July 26-29, 2007.......Rochester Lapidary Society: Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. Many sites, variety of minerals. ....... Contact Cindi Newman at kcnewman@frontiernet.net.

July 28, 2007..... Lapidary and Mineral Society of Central Connecticut.... Case Quarries, Portland, CT....... for beryl and other pegmatite minerals.  No facilities.  Details at http://www.lmscc.org/case.htm

July 29, 2007......Boston Mineral Club.......Sanford Vesuviante Locality, Sanford, ME ......... for vesuvianite, grossular garnet, meionite, molybdenite, powellite, scheelite, titanite

August 4, 2007......Boston Mineral Club.......Harvard Quarry, Greenwood, ME ....... for pegmatite minerals

August 11, 2007....North Shore Rock and Mineral Club.......Wild Ammonoosuc River, Swiftwater NH.....Gold Panning, Sluicing for Gold.....Camp sites, panning on campground property available, but not required.....Tools- picks and shovels, trowels, gold pans, sluices, etc.       Contact Joe Grace.... joergrace@msn.com 

August 18, 2007.....Mid-Hudson Valley....  Ilion, NY....... for fluorescent & phosphorescent travertine….No limit… No facilities. Contact sunstone3@hvc.rr.com for details.

August 18, 2006.....Capital District.... Roxbury, Ct........ for well formed garnet xls and staurolite.   Easy digging/screening and tough ledge work for matrix.  Small ($5 per car?) fee.   No facilities.  Contact phartig@nycap.rr.com  for details.

August 26, 2007, Orange County Mineral Society,   Wurtsbort Lead Mine ........dig in old tailings, quartz,sphalerite,galena, covelite........

Contact George Gardianos 845-683-1167 or gggard@optonline.net

August 25 & 26, 2007......St. Lawrence County Rock & Mineral Club.......Powers Farm, West Pierrepont, NY & Bush Farms;.....Classic Powers Farm Uvites, and maybe some Uralites & Bush Farms for the Brown Uvites also known as Dravites and Fluoresces like Dravites......Contact Bill deLorraine.wdellie@northnet.org

August 25 & 26 2007.......SACO Valley Gem & Mineral Club................ VAG quarry- Eden Mills, VT- asbestos related minerals, including diopside, gemmy grossular garnets, titanite, vesuviani   $5.00 per day digging fee.  Field trip contact:  Bob York   603-356-4424    quartzhunter@aol.com

September 1-3, 2007 .......Rochester Lapidary Society:Herkimer "Diamonds"...... and Ilion Gorge Travertine........ Contact Cindi Newman at kcnewman@frontiernet.net.

September 8, 2007.....Capital District.... Minerva, NY......An old railroad cut, about a mile walk.  Main minerals are blue calcite with small graphite and tiny blue apatite crystals included.  Also yellow & green calcite, vesuviamite, wollastonite, scapolite, diopside and others in lesser amounts.  No facilities.  For history buffs - the historic Tahawus mine and village of Adirondak  are a few miles north.  Garnet collecting sites are several miles south.  Contact phartig@nycap.rr.com  for details.

September 8,  2007.......Mineralogist's Guild .........Lancaster Co., PA ....... Calcite, zeolites, quartz    7:45 AM at quarry gate, no persons under age 18, no facilities, 48 hour minimum sign up required and directions through Dave Rieur: +1 (908) 938-5525

September 16, 2007.......SACO Valley Gem & Mineral Club................ Moat Mountain- Conway, NH-  smoky quartz, microcline, topaz,albite. Field trip contact:  Bob York   603-356-4424    quartzhunter@aol.com

September  22, 2007.....   Pennsylvania Earth Sciences Association ....... Lancaster Co., PA ........
Calcite, dolomite, quartz, sphalerite, fluorite    7:30 AM at quarry gate, no persons under age 18, no facilities, 48 hour minimum sign up and EFMLS card required. Directions through Merrill Dickinson +1
(610) 473-9973

September 23, 2007 .......Rochester Lapidary Society.........Meckley Quarry, Mandata, Pennsylvania....12:00 noon to 5:00 pm.... Celestine, Fluorite, Calcite, & Strontianite.......SAFETY EQUIPMENT REQUIRED and a small fee.........Contact Cindi Newman at kcnewman@frontiernet.net.

Sept 23, 2007..........Orange County Mineral Society, Ellenville NY……. Check out new site also visit the Sun-Ray Tunnel ……. 

Contact George Gardianos 845-683-1167 or gggard@optonline.net

September 27, 2007.......Mineralogist's Guild .........Lancaster Co., PA ....... Calcite, dolomite, quartz, sphalerite, fluorite    7:45 AM at quarry gate, no persons under age 18, no facilities, 48 hour minimum sign up required and directions through Dave Rieur: +1 (908) 938-5525

September 29-30 Sept. - Franklin Mineral Museum's.........51st Annual Franklin-Sterling Hill Mineral, Gem & Jewelry Show......Franklin School, Washington Ave. Info - Lee Lowell 973/827-3658 ....... Show Treasurer ........ fmm1954@earthlink.net

October 6-9, 2007........Boston Mineral Club fieldtrip to Marion, Kentucky October 6-9, 2007...

Nate Martin from
Boston Mineral Club

I will be leading another Boston Mineral Club fieldtrip to Marion, KY in early October to collect at fluorite localities in Kentucky and Illinois.  I can take up to 30 people on this trip so far have about 15 registered from the Boston Mineral Club.  Thus I am opening it to members of EFTA clubs in addition to Boston Mineral club members.  This will be my fourth trip into this area and I am looking forward to introducing others to this unique collecting opportunity.  If possible, please post this on the EFTA website and urge people to contact me immediately if they are interested.  Other details are included in the attached announcement. 
 

October 13-14, 2007........FLUORITE FANTACY ........ WOLWORTH QUARRY, NY ..........

“FLUORITE FANTASY V”
Walworth Quarry
Walworth, NY.
 

October 13^TH and 14^TH 2007
 

October 13, 2007........Pennsylvania Earth Sciences Association ........ Monroe Co., PA ..........
Calcite, dolomite, fossils, fluorite    meet 7:30 AM at exit Saylorsburg of Route 33 North on Cherry Valley Road, no persons under age 18, no facilities, 48 hour minimum sign up and EFMLS card required.
Directions through Merrill Dickinson +1 (610) 473-9973

October 13, 2007        Delaware Mineralogical Society.  JT Dyer Quarry, Gibraltar, PA... Collect: zeolites, pyrite and calcite…Limit 10 people, working quarry rules.  Need safety glasses, rock hammer, chisels, hardhat, and steel-toed boots.  Contact glauconite5@yahoo.com for details.

2007 Oct 20    Mineralogist's' Guild    Passaic Co., NJ     Calcite, zeolites, quartz    meet 8:00 at quarry gate, no persons under age 18, no facilities, 48 hour minimum sign up and EFMLS card required.  Directions and sign-up through Dave Rieur +1 (908) 938-5525

Oct. 21, 2007 ...........Orange County Mineral Society, Roxbury, CN…… for garnets great spot for new collectors……

Contact George Gardianos 845-683-1167 or gggard@optonline.net

October 21, 2007        Delaware Mineralogical Society.  Liberty Lake Mine Dumps.  North of Sykesville MD.  Limit 10 people.  Note:  There will be a 3/4 mile hike along the reservoir to the collecting area.  Minerals to collect include pyrite, magnetite, chalcopyrite, malachite smudges, and more.  Need safety glasses, rock hammer, and chisels.  Contact glauconite5@yahoo.com for details.