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I haven't bought this yet. I wanted to see if anyone thought it was a lost cause or has potential. All I know is that it is from China. If appears that it may be able to be cleaned up a bit, kind of like the green river fish...not that I have prepped any of those either.

My Eurypterid hunting from this past weekend has got me chomping at the bit! The current thaw hasn’t been buried in snow yet so good news. I had about 40 free minutes today and I was 15 minutes from a roadcut known to expose the Phelps member of the Bertie group. I decided to slip out and scout the outcrop and see what it looks like for 2019. I want to give it a good try this year. I ended with a lucky little visit!! It’s hard to hunt here but with some work it could produce. Finding anything is a win. I use to hunt here more often years ago (2012) but lost all my progress to another fossil hunter. No hard feelings at all. It’s just fossil hunting. Long story short I exposed a good shelf and cut my hand and had to leave. The next time I came back the shelf was busted into a million pieces. So I’ve left it alone mostly for years and hunt there once in a very great while. In a sense they helped me get the rock out to weather. It it looks like a pretty tired exposure with the one hole I started with help of my unknown fossil friend. Each time I go back it seems like me and one other person are the only visitors. It’s getting more overgrown each year. I’ve seen a super nice double come from this place...but back when it was much less overgrown.