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26th Feb 2018 18:53 UTCKevin Conroy Manager

Some friends and I are thinking about going to Oklahoma this spring to do some collecting. Does anyone have any spots they would recommend (other than the Salt Plains)?

26th Feb 2018 19:57 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager

First thing I would have said was Broken Bow area for quartz crystals, but since the passing of Cephis Hall at the North Slope Rock shop, I have no idea what the status of collecting is now. The local logging companies own much of the land in the area and strictly forbid mineral collecting on their lands. That I know of, no one from our group (Houston Gem & Mineral Society) has ventured up that way in quite some time either. I can ask around or maybe one of them will post here with more information. You might also ask someone at the McCurtain Gem and Mineral Club, in Idabel, if they can give you some current information.

26th Feb 2018 22:40 UTCKevin Conroy Manager

Thanks Paul, that sounds good!

27th Feb 2018 01:55 UTCVma Buck

I am north of Tulsa. Don't know if there is anything around there though. I know they mine coal in the area...

27th Feb 2018 18:05 UTCDave Barnard

In north-central Oklahoma, you can visit the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge. There you can collect selenite crystals with hourglass intrusions.

"Below the plains, ground water travels through the salt-saturated sand and comes to the surface where it evaporates, leaving the crust of salt. The concentrated saline solution combines with gypsum to promote selenite crystal growth in a portion of the salt flats. Selenite is a crystallized form of gypsum. Chemically, it is a hydrous calcium sulfate. Gypsum is a common mineral that takes on a great variety of crystal forms and shapes. On the Salt Plains, the crystals are formed just below the salt encrusted surface. They are seldom found deeper than two feet below the surface. Crystals take on the characteristics of their environment; the finer the soil, the more clear the crystals. Iron oxide in the soil gives the crystals their chocolate brown color."

https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Salt_Plains/about/selenite.html

27th Feb 2018 18:23 UTCBob Harman

DAVE B should mention that crystal digging and collecting is ONLY PERMITTED between the dates of April 1 and Oct 1.

No exceptions and nothing permitted other than these dates as the area is otherwise reserved for Whooping Cranes during their spring and fall migrations. CHEERS.....BOB

8th May 2018 16:39 UTCScott DeLano

Rose rocks out by the Norman / Noble / Slaughterville area.

Trilobites at Black Cat Mountain...but I do not know if they let people in or not. It may be private property.

Tripoli mineral just west of Seneca, MO on the Oklahoma side of the border.

Lots of black shale areas in NE Oklahoma where you can find pyrite / marcasite crystals.

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