The St. Louis Mineral & Gem Society
schedules field trips during most of the months between September and June.
Local trips range from within sight of the gateway Arch, for agates, petrified wood, and vertibrate fossils, up to four hours away for geodes. Occasional overnight trips travel to places such as Mt. Ida, Arkansas for quartz crystals.
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UPCOMING FIELD TRIPS!!!
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Check Rock Lore or come to a club meeting for details.
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For More Information
Email our Field Trip Coordinator.
Field trips are open to Society members only!
Field Trip Pictures from the
St. Louis Mineral and Gem Society
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Chris Widga shows us around the Collections Center of the Illinois State Museum.
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We saw drawers full of treasures.
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A fossil worm from Mazon Creek.
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Sloth, mammoth and giant beaver.
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Surveying the next spot to look in Lohr Quarry.
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Heavy equipment rolls by.
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Going after some calcite.
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Finds seem to occur in clusters.
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A mixed bag.
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Interesting internal structures.
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Now that's my kind of creek!
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Geodes collected from Hamilton, Illinois.
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Tower at the Pea Ridge Mine.
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Digging right in!
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The general landscape.
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Trekking back to the car.
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Lined up along Route A.
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Travis scores a chunk of calcite!
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Divide and conquer!
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Wailing on the wall.
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Barite.
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Seeing what gravity brought you.
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Calcite over barite.
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Janet inspects a find.
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