ziggy
spending too much on rocks
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Post by ziggy on Oct 13, 2016 19:40:10 GMT -5
Yes. I will agree. Some people think Ohio has rocks, they need to show me where. From the Dayton area, Bellbrook known for its magnetic springs, Xenia 5 miles away is the home of Tuecomsha. Flint all over but only solid colors, nothing like flint ridge. Ohio is full of granite, geodes ( solid and no color, yet) and flint but only in some areas. Also, geodes don't tumble good, granite... Nothing special about that. Only flint ridge, flint is again something special. We have a top notch college football team(Buckeyes) good pro baseball team along with ...a good place to be. But...very few good rocks. forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/41579Would have been nice to see them. The photos don't show. He might have stumbled onto the only glacial moraine in Ohio whose leading edge had a load of agate. I have never heard of what he finds being found there. Also, I still wouldn't make agate my first choice of mineral to search for in Ohio by any means.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2016 14:08:15 GMT -5
I have always respected you Chuck. But today I learned a new perspective. A new level of respect.
Pure respect here.
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balddawg
off to a rocking start
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Post by balddawg on Jul 27, 2018 12:27:24 GMT -5
I have found several different colors of flint in westcentral ohio in farm fields. Now in the Great Miami River there are not many different colors of flint.
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mgrets
spending too much on rocks
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Post by mgrets on Jul 27, 2018 20:41:33 GMT -5
What about the fossils? Trilobites from here (Western Utah) are great to make jewelry out of. Jut hit them with a wire brush and they are ready. Yeah, I used to live in Sylvania Ohio for years and years. Fossils can be found in Sylvania Ohio and Hueston woods. Collecting in Sylvania is sponsored by the Sylvania Park district and the (I believe) Medusa Quarry just east of the quarry in a small park where the collecting piles are covered by collectors finding mostly nothing because they don't refresh the piles often enough for the crowds that flock here on field trips from the local schools. I wasted half a day there waiting to search a pile that consisted mostly of limestone waste rock and little else. Down by Dayton is a park called Hueston Woods where nice fossil specimens can be found (way better than in Sylvania) and the park allows collecting. I haven't been there since probably the 1980's and have no idea what is still available to find there. Of the two, for actually finding something worth keeping, Hueston woods is my pick. Up by Norwalk under a bridge going over a river is one site where if you are lucky, Iron Pyrite crystals can occasionally be found between slabs of slate. To me personally, Ohio is one of the worst rockhounding states when it comes to minerals. Go one or two states in any direction from Ohio and your hounding will be far more rewarding. I find WAY MORE fossils up here in Michigan where I now live, just by walking the beaches near Leland. Sure, Ohio has some stuff, but it's geologic history does not have much in the way of volcanoes or other mineral forming habits. Most of the clubs in Ohio save up for field trips to more promising spots in other states or to quarries where collecting under supervision is permitted. As another (current) resident of Sylvania, I agree that Flint Ridge is as good as it gets in Ohio, unless you like fossils. The Medusa quarry allowed digging in the actual quarry 40 years ago, and it was a fantastic place for trilobites, but for legal liability reasons that is by the wayside. It is now Hanson Stone. Once or twice a year they let our local group (Toledo Gem and Rockhound Club) into the quarry, but only a small group and you have to complete a safety course beforehand. The Sylvania Fossil Park is for schoolkids, not collectors.
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