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GMS Adopt-a-Highway Field Trip
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Little Garnet Hill
GMS Adopt-a-Highway Field Trip
Almandine Garnets in Georgia
Saturday, March 26, 2016
After cleaning up a mile and cleaning up some BBQ (and fries), GMS members collected small almandine garnets!.
Garnets were so abundant you could get piles of them just by running your hand across the ground! Casey Sosebee brought a screen so we were able to use the ground scraping method plus the screen to gather a whole gallon bag of garnets for grab bags!
Then, we picked up perfect little garnets plus some garnets in matrix. Many of the garnets will be used in schools.
It took some effort to get this field trip arranged, so thank you to Charles Carter for getting permission to collect and many thanks to the property owner for allowing us access.
Lori Carter, on behalf of
Charles Carter, GMS Field Trip Chair
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Photos by Lori Carter
Richard White found some beautiful matrix pieces
Photos by Lori Carter
Charles using the scraping technique
Photo by Lori Carter
Wes Mayo picked up lots of tiny garnets.
Somehow, everywhere he went we found specimens reminiscent of Graves Mountain
Photo by Lori Carter
David Bruce doing some heavy lifting
Photo by Lori Carter
Bill Waggener and Casey Sosebee found garnets in the woods
Photo by Lori Carter
Casey picking up tiny garnets
Photos by Lori Carter
Pretty flowers! Notice the garnets to the left and right of the flower at the top.
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