Flatirons
Mineral Club Field Trips
· Unless otherwise stated, trips take place on Saturday or Saturday and Sunday.
· Due to liability concerns, field trips are open only to FMC members and their guests. Nonmembers may attend only as personal guests of individual members.
· Please RSVP to the field trip leader or designated contact person as early as you can to make planning easier.
· Because many of the trips are on private land and claims, we must abide by any restrictions they choose to set.
· You must RSVP to go on a trip. Sign up at any meeting or contact the trip leader before the day of the trip.
· Unless it is cleared with the trip leader in advance, start times are firm.
· If you find you can’t go on a trip you’ve RSVPd for, please let the leader know if at all possible.
· All participants are expected to abide by the AFMS Rockhound Code of Ethics.
We
would love to have two field trips a month throughout the summer, but we need
more volunteers to lead trips. Perhaps you have a favorite place to go
collecting that you would like to share with club members, or maybe there’s a
new place that you’d like to explore with others in the club, or pick a
collecting place out of one of the Colorado collecting books and have other
club members join you. If this sounds
like you, consider leading or co-leading a trip for the club. Leading a trip is pretty simple, you just
need to select a place and date, promote the trip and get club members to sign
up, collect the liability releases from participants, and go out and have a
good time. For more information about leading a trip, or to suggest a trip, please
contact Anita Colin or Gabi Accatino.
All trip information and sign-up sheets will be available at club
meetings or contact Anita.
Planning Your Own Field
Trips
Colorado is blessed with many, many areas of geologic interest. When planning
you summer trips to visit our beautiful state, consider adding a stop or two to
learn more about
If you found some great specimens at one of our club field trips, or on a trip of your own, please bring them to the next club meeting to show others. Everyone enjoys learning where to collect specimens and what can be found.
Remember: While
you are out collecting this summer, pick up specimens for grab bags. Each year we need nearly 10,000 specimens for
the grab bags we fill. The money earned
selling grab bags is used for college scholarships for geology students.
2011 Field trips
Please contact Anita Colin
for more details or to sign up for the
trips.
We are still looking for great places to go and for field trip leaders
for this summer. Please contact Gabi Accatino
or Anita Colin if you have an idea
for a field trip or you would like to lead a trip.
May 28-30 (Memorial Day Weekend) – Yellow Cat, UT and Book Cliffs, Grand Junction, CO, seeking barite, calcite, fossil wood, and pseudomorph jasper. Contact: Anita Colin. Head west for one, two, or three days and hope for dry weather! We will try for Book Cliffs barite and calcite near Grand Junction on Saturday (dry roads required!) and then head to eastern Utah (just south of I-70 near Cisco) for Yellow Cat Flats black and white fossilized wood and pseudomorph jasper.
August 6 (Saturday) – Flat Tops, CO, seeking fossils. Trip leader: Anita Colin.
August 13 (Saturday) – Arnold Gulch (Chaffee County), CO, seeking agate & jasper. Trip leader: Craig Hazelton.
August 14 (Sunday) – Missouri Hill (near Salida), CO, seeking quartz, magnetite, & skarn minerals. Trip leader: Gabi Accatino.
September 3 (Saturday) – Crawford, NE, seeking Fairburn Agate.
October 1 (Saturday) – Tepee Buttes, CO (east of Pueblo), seeking Cretaceous marine fossils, including clams and ammonites. Trip leader: Dennis Gertenbach.
Future trips, proposed &
in development:
TBA – Red Feather Lakes, CO, seeking amethyst.
TBA – Rt. 93 Quarry seeking fossils.
TBA – Rawlings, WY, seeking sapphire & corundum with CMS
TBA – Socorro Symposium , Socorro, NM, for exhibits, talks, field trips.
TBA – Clear Creek, CO, Gold Panning with CMS.
2011 trips past:
February 25 (Friday) – NOAA Research
Labs, 325 Broadway, Boulder , CO. 4
p.m. Trip leader: Anita Colin. The main event will be a
showing of “Science on a Sphere” by NOAA Executive Director and club member Don
Mock. The show includes demonstrations
of continental drift, ocean currents, and global warming. Don will lead an optional tour of the
facilities after the show. You must sign up ahead of time to be
admitted to the NOAA campus. A current,
government-issued photo ID is required for entry. If you are a foreign national, you will need
your passport or green card (and let us know beforehand). Contact Anita Colin to sign up. The tour limit is 25 people so don’t wait
until the last minute!
March 12
(Saturday) – Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum, 13th and Maple, Golden,
CO. We will meet at 10 AM at
the museum for a tour. Trip Leader: Anita
Colin.
April 23
(Saturday) – North Table Mountain, Golden, CO. seeking zeolites. Trip Leader: Dennis
Gertenbach. North Table Mountain is a
world-famous locality for zeolites, a series of
alumina-silicate minerals. You are sure to find thomsonite,
analcime, and chabazite,
plus the possibility of less common minerals. This is a great place for kids,
because everyone will find great specimens. The trip involves a hike of about
3/4 mile with a 700-foot elevation climb. (snow date
May 7)
May 21 (Saturday) – Two Creeks, North of
Sterling, CO,
seeking Blue Barite. Trip leaders:
Mel and Charlotte Bourg. Contact: Gabi
Accatino. Mel and Charlotte like to go to Two
Creeks in the spring and especially if it is, or was, a wet spring. They say
that the barite shows up better. The quality of barite is different from the
barite found at the Stoneham site. Two Creeks is BLM land and they have found
some pretty nice specimens.
May 22
(Sunday) – Holcim Quarry, Florence, CO, seeking fossils & pyrite with CMS. Trip leader: Gabi Accatino
June 4
(Saturday) – Lake George, CO, seeking
topaz. Trip leaders: Anita Colin and Gabi Accatino. For all of you who missed the topaz hunt last
year, we will be going again to Joe Dorris' Topaz
claim. $40 fee, currently waitlisting.
.
June 5 (Sunday) – Hartsel,
CO, seeking barite with CMS.Trip
leader: Anita Colin.
June 11 (Saturday) – Nederland, CO, seeking gold, silver, and related minerals. Trip
leader: Gabi Accatino.
Tom Hendricks has invited us to visit his Caribou Mine dumps.
June 18 (Saturday) – Calumet Mine, CO, seeking epidote, actinolite, & quartz with CMS. Trip leader: Gabi Accatino.
June 19
(Sunday) – Sedalia, CO, seeking
garnet, magnetite, & copper minerals with CMS. Trip leader: Gabi Accatino.
Limit 10.
June 25-26 – Shirley Basin, WY, seeking agate. Trip leader: Gabi Accatino.
July 8 (Friday) – Route 93 Quarry, seeking fossils.
Trip leader: Anita Colin.
July 9
(Saturday) – State Bridge, CO,
seeking pyrite. Trip leader: Gabi Accatino.
July 23 (Saturday) Trip 1 – Leadville , CO,
seeking orthoclase feldspar. Trip leader: Betsy
Lehndorff.
July 23
(Saturday) Trip 2 – Joe Dorris' Claim at Crystal Peak, seeking amazonite. Trip leader: Anita
Colin.
July 30-31 – Mount Antero, CO, seeking blue beryl with CMS. Trip leader: Gabi Accatino.
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