Gem Trails of Idaho and Western Montana
by Lanny Ream
Gem Trails of Idaho and Western Montana
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| Idaho and Western Montana Collecting sites |
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| Site Locator Map |
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| Map Legend |
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| Introduction |
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| Rockhounding Rules and Ehtics |
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| Collecting Sites - Idaho |
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| 1. Cow Creek - Soda Creek - agate, jasper, petrified wood |
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| 2. Wagontown - petrified wood |
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| 3. Silver City - quartz |
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| 4. South Mountain - hedenbergite, garnet |
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| 5. Round Mountain - Succor Creek (Oregon) - petrified wood |
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| 6. Succor Creek (Oregon) - thundereggs, clinoptilolite |
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| 7. Graveyard Point - plume agate, jasper |
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| 8. Graveyard Point (Oregon) - plume agate, jasper |
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| 9. McBride Creek - petrified wood, leaf fossils |
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| 10. Coal Mine Basin - petrified wood |
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| 11. Sommer Camp Road - jasper, opal |
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| 12. Bruneau Woodpile - petrified wood |
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| 13. Hagerman Fossil Beds - fossils viewing |
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| 14. Rabbit Spring - fluorescent thundereggs |
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| 15. Texas Spring (Nevada) - petrified wood |
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| 16. City of Rocks and Little City of Rocks - geologic features |
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| 17. Fir Grove Mountain - agate, hyalite |
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| 18. Dismal Swamp - topaz, smoky quartz |
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| 19. Cold Spring Creek - agate, jasper |
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| 20. Ovid / Liberty - trilobites |
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| 21. China Hat - fluorescent rhyolite |
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| Collecting Information |
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| Color Photo Supplement |
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| Collecting Tools |
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| 22. Bitch Creek - quartz |
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| 23. Cinder Butte - gem feldspar |
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| 24. Spencer Opal Mine - precious opal |
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| 25. Lidy Hot Springs - cristobalite |
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| 26. Lime Creek - Pass Creek - agate, jasper |
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| 27. Mackay - copper minerals, garnet, magnetite |
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| 28. Chilly Cemetery - calcite |
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| 29. Little Fall Creek - quartz, molybdenite |
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| 30. Lone Pine Peak - agate, jasper |
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| 31. Lime Creek - agate, jasper, geodes |
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| 32. Road Creek - agate, jasper, geodes, amethyst |
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| 33. Herd Creek - agate, geodes |
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| 34. Daugherty Gulch - fluorite |
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| 35. Pat's Creek - agate |
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| 36. Williams Creek - jasper |
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| 37. Hells Canyon Dam - red tuff, flowerstone prophyry |
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| 38. Homestead, Oregon - red tuff, greenstone |
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| 39. Seven Devils Mining District - epidote, garnet, chrysocolla |
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| 40. Sloans Point - garnet, epidote, quartz |
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| 41. Burgdorf - Ruby Meadows, Quartz Mountain - sapphire, quartz |
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| 42. Ruby Rapids - garnet |
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| 43. Slate Creek - analcime, natrolite, chabazite |
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| 44. Cottonwood - siderite |
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| 45. Woodrat Mountain - kyanite |
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| 46. Muscovite Mine - mica, tourmaline |
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| 47. Fossil Bowl - leaf, insect, fish fossils |
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| 48. Emerald Creek - star garnet |
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| 49. Freezeout Mountain - kyanite, almandine |
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| 50. Crater Peak - almandine |
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| 51. Goat Mountain - kyanite, almandine |
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| 52. O'Donnell Creek - quartz |
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| 53. Bathtub Mountain - staurolite |
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| 54. Sierra Silver Mine Tour |
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| 55. Crystal Gold Mine Tour |
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| Collecting Sites - Montana | |
| 56. Blacktail Deer Creek - fossils |
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| 57. Clark Canyon Reservoir - fossils, chert |
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| 58. Regal Mine - soapstone / talc |
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| 59. Treasure Mine - soapstone / talc |
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| 60. Sweetwater Creek - wonderstone |
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| 61. Warm Springs Creek - fossils |
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| 62. Ruby Reservoir - garnets |
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| 63. Red Rock Mine - garnets |
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| 64. Alder Gulch Gold - gold |
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| 65. Ennis Pass - garnets, feldspar |
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| 66. Revenue Flat - quartz, feldspar |
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| 67. Big Sky - fossils |
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| 68. Storm Castle Creek - chert |
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| 69. Bulldozer Creek - feldspar |
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| 70. Cedar Creek - petrified wood, agate |
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| 71. Gardiner - travertine |
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| 72. Beartooth Highway - chromite, serpentine, feldspar |
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| 73. Crystal Lake - fossils |
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| 74. Judith Peak - quartz |
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| 75. Arrow Creek - calcite, barite, gypsum, fossils |
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| 76. Canyon Ferry Lake - petrified wood, agate, jasper |
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| 77. Spokane Bar - sapphires |
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| 78. Craig-Hardy - augite |
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| 79. Montana City - chert |
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| 80. Strawberry Butte - topaz |
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| 81. Indian Head Rock - barite |
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| 82. Whitehouse Campground - barite |
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| 83. Homestake Pass - Delmoe Lake - smoky quartz, feldspar, tourmaline |
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| 84. Rader Creek - Toll Mountain - smoky quartz, feldspar |
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| 85. Bald Mountain - diopside, garnet |
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| 86. Butte - Mining History |
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| 87. Dewey - calcite |
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| 88. Crystal Park - quartz |
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| 89. Calvert Hill - epidote, garnet, quartz |
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| 90. Gem Mountain - sapphires |
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| 91. Rattler Gulch - fossils |
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| 92. Snowbird Mine - parisite, fluorite, quartz |
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| 93. Pat's Gulch - garnet, epidote |
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| 94. Kading Campground - agate, geodes |
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| 95. Coopers Lake - pyrite, limonite ps. after pyrite |
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| 96. Blackfoot River - agate, jasper |
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| 97. Fishtrap Creek - trilobites |
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| 98. Libby Creek - gold |
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| 99. Martin Creek - Olney - limonite ps. after pyrite |
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| Appendices | |
| Information Sources |
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| Glossary |
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| Bibliography |
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| Mineral Locator Index |
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