July 2007

FIELD TRIP, TO ANDERSON  IND.
PENDLETON QUARRY IRVING MATERIALS

Six members traveled to Anderson Ind. On July 14th  for a visit to the quarry where we hoped find the usual honey calcite that had been plentiful in the past.
We joined with members of the Tulip City club and four other clubs, a total of 25 rockhounds went into the Quarry at 9AM , the Weather was perfect, just like one of George’s trips.  It has been several years since we had been to the site and nothing is as constant as change, they have removed a great deal of material  including the massive honey calcite vugs that we found before.  New members Doug & Janet Sjoquist 
Vug close up
found the largest calcite vug.  It took both of them to lift the block, that has two crystal vugs, Neil Snepp and I and Marie and Gordon Lewis all found material for the children’s table. Our finds did not however include large blocks of the honey calcite.  
Group