St. Lawrence County
posted in Collecting Locations, Filming, Family & Friends |Upon returning to the States, we immediately headed for Potsdam, New York. There we would be staying with our buddy Scott Wallace (Majestic Minerals) for a couple of days while filming our St. Lawrence County video.
Scott is an avid upstate New York collector, and had quite a few classic locations that wanted to show us. So we planned to check out a couple nearby localities after a good nights sleep.
The first spot that we planned to film was the Uvite deposit on Powers farm. This location is a classic St. Lawrence County collecting spot. Before heading to the collecting sights, we needed to first stop and pay the farmer $5 each to collect for the day.
Powers farm is open to the public, after talking to Mr. Powers of course, however Scott has his very own claim there. He has been working it by hand for a few years, and has pulled out quite a few nice pieces. After parking the car it was only a short walk back through the woods to area.
The trench he dug is right beside the brook, and is quite deep. As you can see from the pictures, he has moved quite a lot of material from the sight.
Here is are a few Uvites that were laying around the tailings piles.
There are also pseudomorphs & quartz too be found.
After walking to the public collecting spot, it was time move on to the Saranak Rd. Tremolite location. So we got in the car and headed down the road.
We walked back into the woods a little way untill we came to the digging location.
The tremolite here was of an excellant quality. We found many terminated single crystals, and really nice medium sized clusters. Back in the day, when this location was first discovered, these crystals were thought to be green tourmaline, but no… they turned out to be Tremolite instead. Sad for them, but happy for us, Justin loves asbestosform minerals!
