Helvetia Trip Report 2017
Helvetia. Just the name conjures up all sorts of thoughts, images and expectations. Goddesses, Switzerland, and perhaps even hell itself. Who knew what awaited us in the heart of the Arizona desert?Dan Moore, a resident of the area, had researched the area looking for...
Franklin Super Diggg 2017, Trip Report
Originally posted on Nature's Rainbows in 2017 by Chris Clemens. The promise of this year’s Super Diggg on April 29th was too tempting to resist- over six million pounds of Mill Site rock material, purported to contain copious amounts of rare fluorescent Parker Shaft...
Fluorescent Mineral Collecting Field Trip to the Midwest
Originally posted on Nature's Rainbows in 2018 by John Smith. In early September 2018, after it looked like my grandchildren’s parents were required to prepare for a U.S. Government shutdown on the first of October, I cancelled my plans to take the grandchildren to...
Agate from Scott’s Gulf, Smyrna, Tennessee
This article was originally published on Nature’s Rainbow in August 2017. A major component of rock collecting (for me) is simply getting out in nature. A buddy dragged me out to a very remote area here in middle TN to hunt for agate. Since I'm a pure "Glow Hound" I...
Monteagle Miner Cave, a Fluorescent Chamber of Icicles
Over the 2018 holidays my daughters were in town. One left after Christmas but was replaced by my BFF Howie Green and his wife. Always looking for something to do besides explore the many fluorescent rocks down at my barn, this year we got lucky. My local glowhound...