Agate Collection Field Trip

From: Trocke, Laurie A. <Laurie.Trocke@landsend.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 10:40 AM
To: Trocke, Laurie A.
Subject: Saturday Field Trip

Hi Badgers, The field trip for Saturday, August 13 will be to the Bellevue Quarry for agates. Please RSVP to this email so that we know who to expect.  Hope you can join us! Laurie

Bellevue Iowa Sand & Gravel Quarry.   This has been a fun site to visit and no one ever seems to go home from here empty handed.   We hope to find Lake Superior Agates, carnelian, and jasper.  Thomsonite, sagenite agate and even petrified wood has been found here, but is very rare. This has been an excellent producing quarry.  Sorry - there are no bathroom facilities in the quarry.

Date: SATURDAY, Aug 13th, 2016

Field Trip Leader / Contact Person: Dan Trocke, Cell # 608-215-5307 dtrocke@acscm.com Please call my cell if you are running late or lost.

                                                       

Meeting Places & Times:

10:00AM   - Meet us at the Bellevue sand & gravel yard near the Bellevue golf course (any time after 10:00 AMuntil sundown).  For those of you who have not been there before, look for a gravel driveway heading east off of 395^th Ave, across from the Bellevue Golf course and between 320^th Street and 334^th Street.  The gravel drive may not be marked other than a chain gate.  If the gate is open you should drive in and park near the gravel piles. 

                     Note: The Badger club was given permission to enter the quarry by the owner.  This trip is open to all Badger Club & MWF Members – please do not contact the owner to set up additional collecting trips or trespass on this property.  

6:00 PM    - Leave the quarry and head home.  We might catch a bite to eat in Dubuque.

What to bring: Sack Lunch, as we will be eating lunch in the quarry.  Small garden tools, buckets, knee pads, gem scoops, sunscreen and plenty of water and liquids! 

See you Saturday!

Dan Trocke

Badger Lapidary and Geological Society