What city of Illinois is this mine close bye?

Good to know, thank you.

What’s the one in Elizabeth town??

@@kayleehaas1283 I can't remember. I could go look for flurspar and then go eat cat fish. Lol

There was Eureka and Minerva but they are closed and private property I think there was others but I can’t remember my grandpa, great grandpa as well a lot of my distant relatives all worked at Minerva

Old old Floruite mine entrance on bay city road. Can't miss it.on the turn from Golconda on a black top road where there's a 4 way next to Shawnee national forest.

im all ears

i would love to go

Lol there's tons of them there

@@rockhoundingmidmo8873 @7:21 very interesting, nice specimen

Fluorite can also be found out west. Maybe Arizona if you're closer to those areas. But pretty much everywhere out west is good rock hunting. If I'm ever out that way, whether it's Utah, Oregon, Arizona, I just go on dirt roads and start looking around and usually find something. I saw a picture someone posted online once of an agate they found outside of Austin. You might do some research of what kind of stuff can be found in Texas

@@rockhoundingmidmo8873 thank you for the information. Texas has incredible fossils, I have ammonites the size of my truck tires. But, the best agate hunting is out by Big Bend national park. I bought 5 acres out there recently to camp on and just got my first RV, since I'm retired it's travel time. Lol. So, came upon your video looking for a geode trail. My first trip will be through Illinois and Iowa stopping different places to hunt geodes. Then, the big one! A month in Utah! Geodes, obsidian, agates, topaz, etc. Can't wait just me and my dog. Id never be home if I didn't have horses to care for. Lol

Wow, sounds like you have an adventurous life. I always wondered if Big Bend had any good rocks. Never found anything out when I did research on it. But it looked like an area that would have some

@@rockhoundingmidmo8873 it does, but no collecting inside national parks, so... I bought land. Lol If you ever head that way I'll give you the coordinates and you can use it for camping or rock hounding. I'll probably go a couple of times a year, so it'll be empty. It's right outside terlingua on 118.

Around what parts do you live at?

@@rockhoundingmidmo8873 I’m in the Schaumburg Area

Oh ok that's pretty far from where I go rock hunting. The only thing you're close to that I can think of that would be neat to go is the Illinois beach park or something like that. It's on Lake Michigan (the west side) the west side of the lake has big pebble type rocks that are fun to look through. There also some area south of you maybe a couple hours that has fossils. I've never looked there. It starts with an M. Like Mazzus creek maybe. Spelling might be off.

@@rockhoundingmidmo8873 awesome thank you! Yeah living in the city isn’t the best for rock hunting lol. Might have to splurge on some gas money and head south a bit.

@@DankMcDANK1738 Seeing this 10 months later, but I'm in the same general area and was also curious. The fossil beds are Mazon Creek. Illinois Beach State Park is a place I used to go to look at rocks as a kid, but watch out for the beach police. lol Got kicked out of there about 25 years ago with the hubby for standing on a big rock and doing the flying scene from Titanic. That's IL for you...

Its private. I got kicked out in March 🙈 Best bet is the scraps at minerva

I have another video on here of Minerva mine and how to get to it

This was at an active quarry. And yes it's Fluorite, not amethyst

I keep calling it a mine, but it's actually a quarry lol

I'm not sure if this one has a name

dang there are so many on minedat that i can't figure out which one this is from the video lol. got the coords or something?@@rockhoundingmidmo8873

I guess you could say that. It's a business, which I've heard they don't even mine for the fluorite

I haven't looked in Kentucky yet, but not far past the river is supposed to be a mine. There are a couple quarries in Illinois by Cave in Rock. Not sure if the other one is accessible or not. I had to sneak in this one. I'm not sure how strict they are about the public going in, so I don't give the exact location of it

The nearest city to garden of the gods has a flooded fluorite mine that is no longer a mine . I believe it now has an interpretive center. ROSICLAIR ILLINOIS.

It's called a map

The cave by the river is neat, and the restaurant by it has good food. I posted another video of how to get to Minerva Mine

Is this where you took the video?

No, this wasn't at Minerva, it was at an active quarry there

Ok well I'm going exploring starting this afternoon. Between Google maps and a couple mine apps I'll be ok

Already hunting. Saw a head frame from the road made a right turn. Pockets full of purple

Cave in Rock is way down south close to the Kentucky border

Southern Illinois near cave in rock

Slicing your hand open is not good for you 😂

No

As far as I know there is no amethyst in that area.