August 2002

Pendleton Quarry

Eleven people showed up for my August 24th field trip to the Irving Materials Pendleton Quarry near Anderson Indiana. They were all Friends of Mineralogy members. I was the only person from our Lansing Club. I tried to contact by phone all those who regularly participate in field trips, but with little success. I usually could only talk to machines or received no answer.

As usual for my field trips we had good weather. It was mostly cloudy until almost noon, which kept the temperature at a comfortable level. I saw some good calcite specimens collected even though there had not been a blast in the calcite zone for a long time. It shows that you can always find some good calcite at this quarry if you are willing to expend a little effort.