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Mineralogical Societies, Inc
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SFMS Field Trip Committee

DMC Program of the SFMS Field Trip Committee

An Official Field Trip of the Mid-GA Gem and Mineral Society (Host)
An Official Field Trip of the Knoxville Gem and Mineral Society (Host)

9:30 AM, Saturday, February 12, 2005
Jackson’s Crossroads Amethyst Site
Jackson’s Crossroads, Georgia
Wilkes County

Fee: This is a fee dig; There will be a $15.00 charge per adult and this allows you one 5-gallon bucket full of goodies to take home with you. Children under 18 are free.

A Note from Rodney Moore (operator of dig site): In 1920 Tiffany Jewelers mined for amethyst near the site and around 1970 some guys digging a hole to hide moonshine also made a discovery of amethyst near the area. These digs are planned months in advance and I can't guarantee what the surface of the place will be like in February, you may actually have to work and dig for them. There is plenty of amethyst on the property, as crystals in boulders and as free crystals in the soil, however they are NOT like apples just hanging from a tree, and NOT like snakes that will leap up
and bite you. Visit www.dixieeuhedrals.net for more information.

To Collect: Amethyst and clear quartz crystals, facet grade Amethyst. Some of the finest Amethyst in GA and the SE.

Meeting Location: Dollar General Store in Tignall, Ga. (Tignall, Ga. is between Washington, Ga. and Elberton, Ga. on Hwy 17) Meeting time: 9:30 a.m. Dig until 3:30 p.m.

Directions: On I-85 take exit 173 which is Highway 17 and head south to Elberton, Ga. Continue on Highway 17 on Elberton to Tignall, Ga. The Dollar General Store is on the right in Tignall.

Tools: Sledgehammer, safety glasses, rock hammers, chisels, shovel, pick, scratching tools, and bucket with something to protect your finds such as newspaper, bubble wrap, or, etc.

Children: OK, Children allowed only under close adult supervision. Please be careful of holes. Pets: OK, if they are well mannered. Pets allowed at this site on a leash.

We will have food and drinks to buy. Dress for the weather can be cold this time of year! If you would like to bring stuff to trade, that would be great addition to this field trip!

Contact: Jay Batcha, 478-784-1965 (Day of dig if needed cell# 478-319-2859), rocky1s@cox.net

Field trips are open to all members of associated clubs of the DMC program of the SFMS Field Trip Committee and to all members of SFMS member clubs who have provided their membership with SFMS liability insurance. Because of insurance requirements, members of the GENERAL PUBLIC are NOT invited on this or any DMC program field trips! DMC Program / SFMS Field Trip committee's purpose: To collect field trip information from it's member societies; schedule and coordinate field trip dates; disseminate field trip information to all member clubs so that each member society may publish this information as one of their "official" scheduled field trips.