Bart Twp., Lancaster County Trip

Date: 4/13/2019 12:00 AM

Location: Bart Twp., Lancaster County, PA, ,

NoJMS and FM-NJ attendees: Groundhog Dave, Steve “Pickles” Wien, Mike “the Pie Man” Dunton, “The Crystal Collector” Bryan Major, Jeremy “Buster” Silverman, Billy Archer, Dan “the Photog” Sackerman, Linda Sackerman, Paul “Mr Reveille” Radziewicz, “Hitchhiker” Tim Hollister and Mark Hollister, Linda Lovstad, Julia Chien, Nina Kiliszek and Joey Erard, John Kushmerick, Laura “Schmeltz” Lynne, Kimm Brancato, Rolf Schudel Jr, Jose Paz, Frank and Judy Schlessinger, Julia Tiene and Ivan V., Kris and Bill Fisher, and Debra Majeski and Olivia Majeski. Well we had one OUTSTANDING field trip to Lancaster, PA for Amethyst. A big thank you to the Delaware Mineralogical Society and Field Trip Coordinator Tom Pankratz and President Teddi Silver for the invitation. Over 120 people from more than six clubs attended! Everyone found points and clusters of smokies, Amethysts and milky or colorless quartz. Surface collecting, aided by recent rain, turned up a lot of nice small points and clusters of amethyst and smokies. Most attendees, after doing a healthy amount of surface scanning, started digging down as recommended to about a 1 1/2 feet where the greyish soil layer turned to an orange-tan sand. Here the larger clusters and points were found, particularly large in some cases. Everyone went home with various size and quality pieces; too numerous to name “Finds of the Day”.NoJMS and FM-NJ attendees: Groundhog Dave, Steve “Pickles” Wien, Mike “the Pie Man” Dunton, “The Crystal Collector” Bryan Major, Jeremy “Buster” Silverman, Billy Archer, Dan “the Photog” Sackerman, Linda Sackerman, Paul “Mr Reveille” Radziewicz, “Hitchhiker” Tim Hollister and Mark Hollister, Linda Lovstad, Julia Chien, Nina Kiliszek and Joey Erard, John Kushmerick, Laura “Schmeltz” Lynne, Kimm Brancato, Rolf Schudel Jr, Jose Paz, Frank and Judy Schlessinger, Julia Tiene and Ivan V., Kris and Bill Fisher, and Debra Majeski and Olivia Majeski. Well we had one OUTSTANDING field trip to Lancaster, PA for Amethyst. A big thank you to the Delaware Mineralogical Society and Field Trip Coordinator Tom Pankratz and President Teddi Silver for the invitation. Over 120 people from more than six clubs attended! Everyone found points and clusters of smokies, Amethysts and milky or colorless quartz. Surface collecting, aided by recent rain, turned up a lot of nice small points and clusters of amethyst and smokies. Most attendees, after doing a healthy amount of surface scanning, started digging down as recommended to about a 1 1/2 feet where the greyish soil layer turned to an orange-tan sand. Here the larger clusters and points were found, particularly large in some cases. Everyone went home with various size and quality pieces; too numerous to name “Finds of the Day”.