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Field CollectingField collecting help please! Mineral Hill, Pa.

30th Jun 2015 21:05 UTCGemmy Horse

Hi all!

I would like some help with a place called Mineral Hill in Media,Pa. It's supposed to have many minerals around this actual hill.

I have found botroidial hematite there and plenty of clinkers, but nothing else listed on this site, or where to look.

That's why I would like your help. Where do I look for the actual specimens? I look along streams and wherever there's a rock, but I usually come home with an empty bucket.

I have someone else who might be interested in rock collecting, but I still have to woo them into the rock hound fold. They love trails and she has a 2 and a half year old. So shiny rocks are a plus.

Any/ all help greatly appreciated!


Thanks you very much!

Rosewarrior

1st Jul 2015 06:24 UTCMark Heintzelman 🌟 Expert

MIneral Hill has been saved from development but is currently viewed as a protected watershed for the area.


Mineral collecting on this property is strictly forbidden, at least for the time being. If people don't respect that, there may be no hope in the future of ever negotiating the opening the area to some occasional "sensitive" collecting (something we all hope for again someday). So again, please do not go rockhounding on this property.


MRH

1st Jul 2015 16:08 UTCD. Peck

There are sure to be some mineral collecting clubs in your area of Pennslvania. Find one and check it out. Fellow collectors in the area are the best source of info on collecting sites.


There is a list of PA clubs at: http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/clubs/pennsylvania.shtml

1st Jul 2015 18:16 UTCMark Heintzelman 🌟 Expert

I Agree with Donald, there are still good opportunities to collect productively in Pennsylvania, via mineral club outings and visits to still operating and productive sites. Hunting and pecking has it's perks, but it is often a lot of work with little "pay off" (not the kind of thing you'd want to subject someone to who's new to the hobby in hopes of engendering an appreciation for rockkounding).


Most importantly, clubs outings will guaranteed have permission to enter and collect on these sites. Never work an area without doing your research first and checking your permission to do so. As with the case of Mineral Hill, which unfortunately is currently a particularly controversial site for such activities, there are any number of places that were once well known mineral site, which are now very much "off-limits" to collecting activities.


MRH

2nd Jul 2015 16:36 UTCGemmy Horse

-- moved topic --

3rd Jul 2015 00:19 UTCGemmy Horse

I contacted them and they said I could collect rocks and minerals on that land. I wanted to cover my butt.

I'm sorry if I did something wrong.

You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder, is this something I should know about?

I always try to leave the area cleaner than I left it, rock in, trash out is my motto. And I also try not to be greedy, so other rock hounds can have some.

:-S

Thanks.

3rd Jul 2015 04:55 UTCMark Heintzelman 🌟 Expert

Contacted who?

This area was under threat of development, and a lot of work went into designating it as parkland and a protected watershed to prevent that There has been hopes of negotiating collection permissions, but to my knowledge there has been no budging on any approval for that kind of activity. I will contact Roger Mitchell at the Delaware County Natural Historical Society about it. This is certainly news to me, no chip on the shoulder, just a sensitive negotiation that's gotten nowhere thus far (to my knowledge anyway, so I'll check for an update).


It is land that is open to the public, so trespassing is certainly not an issue of course, but disturbing rock/soil and vegetation was, to my knowledge, still not permissible.



MRH

3rd Jul 2015 23:13 UTCGemmy Horse

I called my local Delaware county Parks office about Mineral Hill in Media,Pa. They said it was fine to collect there because it is public land. This was in early May, of this year.

12th Jul 2015 05:59 UTCDoug Rambo Expert

According to the Natural Lands Trust, the organization that put together the Master Plan fof the Mineral Hill area parks for Delaware County, PA - there are no restrictions on the parklands related to Mineral Hill. I have been in contact with the planners at the NLT that wrote the master plan and they had no recommendations made to them during the process about removing the mineral collecting heritage from the site.


I had plans to get there this weekend, but they fell through when my meeting agenda changed. Next time, perhaps...


-Doug
 
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