worthy 55 Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Tom , I thought you mite like these. Se Bill's Dad, brought them up for me cool as can be! It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomclark Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 A Worthy post for sure! Check it out under a blacklight.....!!! Glows green Ruck's Pit, Okeechobee, FL 65 bucks per day with Eddie Rucks special appearance and red carpet treatment and puts you on a good spot, or go with the club and take your chances with the group for around 10 bucks. We try to go for the red carpet tour once per year. This trip, a few years ago, was my brother and I, and Nic and Mike...and Eddie Rucks. He is a trip. Calcite Geode Mercenaria campechiensis (quahog clam) in hard, hard, sharp coquina matrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted July 8, 2007 Author Share Posted July 8, 2007 Yeh, Bill's Dad was telling me about the black light thing. That is some awesome stuff! 8) 8) It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Those are awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Great finds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomclark Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 We will plan a trip and meet at the mine when the temps are more "moderate". It's a fun trip and one good specimen pays for the trip. I've been three times, once with fossil club and twice private trip and private trip is the way to go. He has machine operators take off overburden, etc. and shows where they are showing up at the moment. It's a working mine. Only things like it in the world! Also plenty of shell fossils in the shell layers and also some rarer vertebrate material, dugong, whale, turtle etc. Could be a good chance for us all to meet that live in FL. It's pretty far for everybody, LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emtilt Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Wow, Ruck's Pit looks amazing. I don't know how I never heard of it despite living in Florida and being a mineral and fossil collector my whole life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 Tom, count me in just let me know well in advance! 8) 8) 8) It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 ha, some of the sharks teeth from around here are supposed to glow green under a blacklight. Talk about a different way to display them I'd love to go there with a group.... Looks and sounds like it would be fuuun... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 That would be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted July 14, 2007 Author Share Posted July 14, 2007 Tom, Would we need to bring any of these tools ! ??? It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Have you ever found one of those full with Vivianite cristals? Marvellous blue-greenish cristals... :Thumbs-up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronbo Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Wheres the place at Tom and what all would be needed? Them clams are cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomclark Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Haven't been there yet this year.... I'll post and email you guys when I get a few times/dates for a trip down there. It's far from Tampa Bay even !! LOL. Just N. of Lake Okeechoobee. You need heavy equipment it is in a strip mine and the material the clams are in is like glassy cement, called coquina I think. Need breaker bars, sledges, chisels, mauls, etc. etc. Break you back ouch boom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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