Have you made it up to Mt Ida in Arkansas to rockhound for Quartz yet? There are numerous Pay-to-Dig mines up in the area around Hot Springs where you pay a reasonable day fee & collect all the quartz you can carry home with you! It’s a fun and educational activity for the whole family!
Thank You to our member Auston F. for sharing some of the fantastic Quartz Crystals he collected during his most recent trip to Arkansas! Hope these pics inspire you to go try it out!
Do you have any pics of your favorite Rockhounding trip? Let us know!
Thank You Gerald P. for giving us a DGMS Blast From The Past with some pictures from The Creede Mine!! We used to have a bi-annual field trip there in August every other year, so many of our members will remember this place.
Gerald P. says:
I snapped a couple of photos of the entrance to the mine where the annual Creede Gem and Mineral Show is held. The entrance had some issues so the whole face of the mine had to be removed and rebuilt. The rest if the work will be done in September.
History: Blasted out of solid rock cliff by three Creede miners, construction of the museum began in 1990. County-hired laborers and volunteers completed all the other work, including rock removal, cribbing, rock batting and cement work. The next summer, tours were given to show actual mining in operation. The miners created 600 feet of drift with 22 displays, a gift shop and the Creede Community Center. While the Museum and Community Center have never been used for the commercial production of silver, the spaces were ‘mined’ from solid rock and are an authentic example of the methods and techniques used in the ‘boom’ days of the silver rush in Creede, Colorado.
Thanks Gerald! If you have anymore interesting pics from cool rock related places you’ve been, let us know by emailing dgms.sec@gmail.com
One of our DGMS Members, Betsy Bloodworth, recently visited North Carolina and visited the Linville Caverns between Linville and Marion and was struck by the natural beauty of the rock formations.
Linville Caverns is an active limestone cave system formed in a deposit of Shady Dolomite at the base of Humpback Mountain located in northern McDowell County, North Carolina.
This picture is of an area of the caverns with an unusual history. During the Civil War, deserters from both sides hid out here using the sandbar to build fires too cook food and keep warm since the average temperature in the caves is 52 degrees year round!
Unfortunately, we also want to highlight and inform you about White-Nose Syndrome (WNS) that is beginning to affect the local bat population at the Linville Caverns. PLEASE be aware of and follow any safety procedures the caverns (and any other local area) provide to help prevent the spread of this deadly disease. Bats are very important members of the local ecology.
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