Minerals
Smokey Quartz! NOT! Calcite Crystals!
Now please understand that I know nothing about rocks and minerals, but I’m learning. 🙂 A TFF friend gave me this incredibly beautiful rock (I had to put it on the TFF “Rock & Mineral” Forum to find out what it was) that he had found in northeastern Iowa while fossil hunting. The picture just … Continue reading
2015 MAPS EXPO!
The Mid-America Paleotological Society’s yearly Expo in Iowa City, Iowa is the Largest Fossils Only Show in the World! Learning lectures, exhibitions and activities! And FOSSILS! The Hotel Show is for the minerals, etc. Here is the PDF for the April 10-12 Expo! http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/MAPS-2015.pdf
Gold & Pyrite in Bluff Country!
There’s gold in them there hills, folks! LOL 😀 Actually, yes there is! There are gold claims all over the bluffs of southeast Minnesota and yes, people even come here to pan for gold in our many creeks and rivers! But, to date, there have been no mother lodes of the precious ore found; just … Continue reading
