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Proposed 2010 Field Trip list for the Idaho Gem Club, alternate trips you can take with the family and Tri-Federation field trip. Items marked in red (grey if in black & white) are extra trips for your information, if you want to go on these trips they will be on your own. Please make arrangements to get information from Tony Griffin as to GPS coordinates and places to stay.
March 20th Queenstone/Whang Doodle IGC claims
jasper & opal
April 24th Hooker Creek for petrified wood and Mahogany Mtns. for jasper
May 22nd Haystack Butte Jasper - near Adrian, Or.
May 29 - 31 Tri Fed Field Trip - Blue Forest, Wyoming
June 19th Bruneau Woodpile for fossils, petrified wood/pine cones
July 10th - 14th Texas Springs, Nevada - combined trip with Magic Valley Gem Club; stay as long or as little as you want, multiple places to collect
July 24th Graveyard Point - IGC claim – will also have cleanup party -
plume agate, moss agate
Aug 21st possibly Yellow Pine or Silver City for crystals – Permits for National Forest digging will be the only problem.
Sept 25th Carey moss agate- Carey, Idaho
Sept 11th & 12th Dismal Swamp – Smokey quartz, topaz – combined trip with Magic Valley Gem Club; Dave Hughes (MVGC Field Marshal) says, we will meet in Featherville at the Rocky Bar turn off at 9am and will leave there at 9:15am.
Oct 23rd Succor Creek – geodes, petrified wood
Nov 20th Succor Creek or McBride Creek - Leaf fossils, petrified wood
Beacon Hill when roads dry out - Doug will let us know when to go
Sunstone Claim when it is not so hot or cold.
Need ideas for other places to go? Here are a few others as metioned an interest in!
http://spenceropalmines.com/ - official website for Spencer Opal - note that there is no longer digging at Spencer ...they have a dump pile at the store people can stop by any day, but they are no longer doing the digs up on the mountain.
http://www.dustdevilmining.com/ - this website has information pertinent to collecting sunstones; it gives directions to their collecting site.
http://www.amfed.org/nfms/nwnews/nw0110.pdf - Northwest News (NFMS) has info about the Tri_Federation Field Trip on Memorial Day.
http://www.mineralmarket.com/TopazMtn/topazmt.html#maps - Topaz Mountain in Utah. Also, has Dugway Geodes Link.
http://www.orerockon.com/green%20River%20fossils.htm - Tim Fisher page on where to find fossils in Wyoming. Excellent synopsis on what is available; tips and tools to take with you. Includes fee digging.
Wagontown, Silver City, Idaho City, Emerald Creek, Mcdermitt, Trilobites (Delta, Utah), some place for other fossils, Juntura, other places in Oregon? Coal Mine Basin with Dean Pritchard; Rome, Oregon for snakeskin agate;
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