Keokuk Area Geode Trip
Missouri and Illinois
May 2006
By Everett Harrington
Jesus_everett@hotmail.com
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Everybody filling everybody elses buckets to make sure
they were all flowing over with geodes.

Packing up for the trip back down the hill, special thanks
to Virgil for allowing everybody put their buckets in the
DWS rockhound wagon for the trip across the creek.

Bill and Rich, I don't think they had enough of this place,
still hunting till the end...still finding geodes
"...not my butt that time...." "...that would be my butt..."

Geodes exposed in wall at Jacob's geode mine Hamilton, Hamilton Co, IL. IL

You know your having a great geode trip when you have to put
buckets of geodes between your legs in order to get everybody
and their finds into your truck.

Area C 61 parking spot

Looking across the top of Area C 61

Looking the other direction at Area C 61

Donna finding some geodes and enjoying the dig.

Virgil and the Black hole pocket

Another view of the black hole pocket. This vug/geode
was close to 18-20 inches across.

Jim's moster vug/geode he was able to liberate from the hard tan shale.

Floyd and his first of two monster museum calcite geodes.

number two monster calcite.

left to right: Donna Templeton, Everett Harrington, Carol Poole (white shirt),
Rich Ewick (white hat), Virgil "Richard Nixon" Richards, Floyd
Speck (blue shirt), Bill Clark, Cori Nelson, and Jim Ericson (Jim E)not in
photo Celia Harrington (somebody has to take the photos). I could not have
had a better group to dig with, I'm honored to have met
and dug with each and every one of you!

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