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OREGON Oregon Field Trip 2003 July 2003 By Doug Merson Petrified Wood Eugene, Oregon August 30, 2003 By Dan Kelly Lookout Point, Oregon January 10, 2004 By Dan Kelly Glass Buttes & Prineville/Madras Areas May 22-23, 2004 Oregon By Dan Kelly The Fossils That Weren't July 24, 2004 Thomas Creek, Oregon By Dan Kelly and Herb Bastuscheck Oregon Micromineral and Fossil Trip May 7-12, 2005 Lemolo Lake, Kahler Creek Burnt Cabin Creek & Fossil, Oregon By Doug Merson Inspiration and an Exceptional Calcite Mill Creek Quarry Polk County Oregon May 17, 2005 By John Cornish Darren and Tulley in Oregon Richardson Ranch - Maury Mountain Glass Buttes - Lucky Strike - Lookout Point June 2005 Oregon By Dan Kelly Bates Brothers Oregon Trip June-July 2006 By Lee Bates Oregon's Outback: Owyhee Area Hounding August 31, 2006 By Rhonda Gheen Alvord and Steens Mt. to Hart Mt. and Rabbit Hills Oregon Thunderegg & Sunstone Hunt Sept. 17-21 2006 By Rhonda Gheen Crater Rock Museum Central Point, Oregon August 10, 2006 By John Cornish Orthoclase Crystal Hunt Lime, Oregon May 6, 2007 By Rhonda Gheen Back to SE Oregon & Virgin Valley August 2009 By Herb Bastuscheck PENNSYLVANIA Sunny Brook Crick Goethite Oreland, Pennsylvania October 21, 2004 By Joe Dunleavy Shamokin and Meckley's Quarries Pennsylvania September 20-21, 2003 By Jay Loch Meckley's Limestone Quarry Mandata, Pennsylvania August 14, 2005 By Mike Streeter National Limestone Quarry Mount Pleasant Mills, Pennsylvania August 4, 2007 By Mike Streeter Meckley's Limestone Quarry Mandata, Pennsylvania August 5, 2007 By Mike Streeter National Limestone Quarry Mount Pleasant Mills, Pennsylvania April 20, 2008 By Mike Streeter National Limestone Quarry, Mt. Pleasant Mills, PA New Street Quarry, Paterson, NJ Cornwall Iron Furnace, PA October 2012 By Mike Streeter SOUTH CAROLINA Diamond Hill Quartz Mine Antreville, South Carolina November 22, 2003 By Mike Streeter Diamond Hill Smokey Quartz Antreville, South Carolina December 24, 2003 By Mike Streeter Diamond Hill Quartz Mine - Again! Antreville, South Carolina January 10, 2004 By Mike Streeter Diamond Hill Quartz Mine Geology and Selected Minerals Antreville, South Carolina March 2004 By Mike Streeter Another Diamond Hill Weekend Antreville, South Carolina March 27-28, 2004 By Mike Streeter Unusual Quartz Crystallization Diamond Hill Quartz Mine Antreville, South Carolina August 2004 By Mike Streeter Savannah River Agate Diamond Hill Quartz Mine Jackson's Crossroads Amethyst NE Georgia and NW South Carolina August 2004 By Mike Streeter Silicified Fault Breccia, Quartz Druse and Banded Chalcedony Greenville County, South Carolina February 19, 2005 By Mike Streeter Amethyst and Other Minerals Diamond Hill Mine Antreville, South Carolina March 2005 By Mike Streeter Monster Skeletal Quartz & More Diamond Hill Quartz Mine Antreville, South Carolina January - April 2005 By Mike Streeter A Dark Purple Amethyst Day Diamond Hill Mine Antreville, South Carolina April 2-3, 2005 By Mike Streeter Diamond Hill Quartz Mine Fantastic Smokies and More November/December 2005 By Mike Streeter Diamond Hill Quartz Mine Southern Appalachian Mineral Society March 11, 2006 By Mike Streeter Geology and Minerals of the Diamond Hill Quartz Mine A PowerPoint Presentation October 2006 By Mike Streeter Silicified Microbreccia Marietta-Tryon Graben North & South Carolina February 2011 By Mike Streeter Carolina Agate A New Find South Carolina January 2012 By Mike Streeter TENNESSEE Douglas Lake Diamonds and Calcite Douglas Lake, Tennessee January 16 & February 6, 2005 March 5, 2006 By Mike Streeter A Vugaliscious Vacation with Geodes Galore Lincoln Co., Kentucky - Monroe Co., Indiana Hancock and Adams Co., Illinois - Clark Co., Missouri Davidson Co., Tennessee April 30 - May 8, 2005 By Mike Streeter A Rockhounding Vacation Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico April 8-23, 2006 By Mike Streeter Norris Lake Kimberlite Magnetite Lead Zinc Mine Collecting Union County, Tennessee February 2007 By Mike Streeter Douglas Lake Diamonds and Calcite . . . again Douglas Lake, Tennessee January 27, 2008 By Mike Streeter Field Quartz Collecting Greene County, Tennessee March 1, 2008 By Mike Streeter Tennessee Paint Rock Agate Prospecting Eastern Tennessee July 2008 By Dave Timpany Geodes, Quartz & More Jackson Co., Tennessee Mount Ida, Arkansas October 2010 By Tom Kuzia Moccasin Gap and Williams Barite Mines Cocke Co., Tennessee December 2012 By Mike Streeter Quartz, Pyrolusite, Psilomelane, Limonite, Hematite & Jasper Tennessee February 2019 By Mike Streeter Quartz, Limonite, Hematite, Goethite, Hemimorphite & Jasper Tennessee March 2021 By Mike Streeter TEXAS Fossilized Wood Hunt & Johnson's Rock Shop Jasper & Indian Springs, Texas February 2007 By Denise Bicknell Lake Texoma Ammonite Adventure Grayson County, Texas April 6, 2007 By Mike Streeter Petrified Wood Station- Decatur, Texas Sulfur River - Ladonia, Texas November 2007 By Docia Lenz Decatur, Midlothian, Sherman and more Texas October 2009 By Docia Lenz UTAH Petrified Wood Collecting Washington County, Utah May 2002 By Mike Streeter Septarian Nodule Hunt Kane County, Utah May 2002 By Mike Streeter Topaz Mountain Juab County, Utah May 2002 By Mike Streeter Topaz Mountain Area NW Utah July 2003 By Jay Bates Utah and Nevada Collecting Trip Northwest Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy June 21-26, 2004 By Doug Merson Topaz Mountain U-Dig-Em trilobite quarry NW Utah September 2006 By Kevin Dunlap VERMONT Verde Antique Marble & Grossular Garnet Windham and Chester, Vermont September 2003 By Tom Kuzia Quartz Dig Manchester, Vermont September 22, 2004 By Tom Kuzia White Quartz Mountain South Wardsboro, Vermont November 2007 By Tom Kuzia VIRGINIA Virginia Calcite with Iridescent Hematite September 2008 By Mike Streeter   Fairy Stone State Park Virginia July 2015 By Mark Stadul WASHINGTON Winchester Creek Beryl Pend Oreille County, Washington April 29, 2004 By Dean Welter Saddle Mountain Mattawa, Washington February 25-26, 2005 By Richard Price Washington Weekend; A Gathering Of Friends July 2005 By John Cornish Northwest Mineral Shows Washington State October 2005 By John Cornish The Light Slowly Fades Strait Collecting on the Olympic Peninsula Washington State December 2005 By John Cornish Another Great Fossil Hunt on the Olympic Peninsula Washington State January 2006 By Jason Boddy Salmon Creek Agate Hunt Lewis County, Washington February 7, 2006 By Richard Price Another Fossil Hunt on the Olympic Peninsula Washington State February 2006 By Jason Boddy Yet Another Fossil Hunt on the Olympic Peninsula Washington State February 2006 By Jason Boddy Western Washington Get Together 2 July 2006 By John Cornish Western Washington Get Together 2 July 2006 By Jason Boddy An Old Friend A Washington Quarry December 2006 By John Cornish The 33rd Annual Pacific Northwest Friends of Mineralogy Symposium Kelso, Washington October 2007 By John Cornish Crabs, Crabs and More Crabs (Fossil Crab Collecting) Grays Harbor, Washington April 2008 By Jason Boddy Big Chief King County, Washington August 2008 By John Cornish Mason County, Washington October 2008 By John Cornish Olympic Peninsula Crystal and Fossil Collecting Clallam County, Washington December 2009 By John Cornish WISCONSIN Vulcan Quarry Oshkosh, Wisconsin April 2006 By Carl Mauritz Vulcan Quarry Oshkosh, Wisconsin April 2007 By Carl Mauritz The Diamond Hunters Demonstration Get-Together Kid's Day Omro, Wisconsin June 3, 2007 By Donna Nolte Field Trip Reports Continued . . . 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