Scott...pic size fix please, i seem to have had my editing privileges on posts scrubbed, i cant edit it.

Thanks for the resize Mark.
Yes, Joe, it would be awesome to have one of the bolos. Sounds like some of the cabs might be somewhere, I have a few small specimens from my great grandfather i believe. I know my grandfather has a huge chunk of Illinois Fluorite and a nice trunk cross-section slab of Arizona wood, other than that I hope to track down some other older stuff.

-Dave

Joe, sometime in the near-ish future Rebecca and I will visit our son Patrick in Ohio.  Up until about a year ago he lived in Pataskala east of Columbus, then bought a nice place further in the country, but I didn't know where.  Well, Patrick skyped us, and his place is all of one mile west of the western end of Flint Ridge.  (Nethers Farm is on the eastern side of the ridge.)  He has a creek on the property and some flint in it.   

Great map, Tim! Thanks for posting it.

Good luck when you get out to your new hunting grounds!

Looks like Ohio produces some pretty magnificent things huh! I love flint/chert/novaculite (I’m just going to keep them all lumped together for now) but when it has some druzy crystals  so how common is the... I don’t know what the terminology is but the druzy cavity bits! In flint etc?

Looks like I’m too late to check the link out though

And those pics are super cool!

Thanks Joe.

I have seen plenty of vugs in agate etc, just never flint (or flint that’s chert! ) makes sense that there would be though now I think about it. Maybe it’s just because there is a bigger market for agate that I haven’t seen any before now.

Vugs are defo a good thing!

The 4th picture!!! That’s art!!

These are very pretty. In Ohio, for the days when people don't feel like digging in the dirt (I know, perish the thought) a good source of chert or any other minerals: absolute auctions, like Dutton and Kiko. I don't mean to be unkind, but these guys are not gemologists, lol. I've gotten buckets full of chert for free because they were going to throw it away. I once got a box of glorious smokies for $5. Another time, I got around 40 Apache Tears for a buck. Another time, I got a ten pound chunk of fossilized wood for free. They were using it to block the front  wheel of a Allis Chalmers wd45. Another time, I got a whole crate of geodes for about ten bucks because they sold as "garden rocks". Or my favorite time was a few years ago, in northeastern Ohio. It wasn't a Kiko auction; I remember that name because of the soy sauce and the food wagon they have, it was one of the other guys, Dutton or something like that. They had an estate sale for an actual gemologist. It was late in the day, sweltering, and skeeters were playing Pac Man fever all over the place. The auctioneer was losing patience, and I bought the entire contents of a room for $100. Dude, there were uncut rubies and sapphires and stuff in there! I found an amethyst skull in there about the size of a grapefruit that I just sold a few weeks ago for around $700. Word to the wise: when in Ohio, look for estate sales with household contents. Now these boys ain't dumb; you're not going to be buying a flat of diamonds for the price of a six pack. But gemology doesn't appear to be in their wheelhouse. They sometimes overlook some of the more common minerals. Ya'll know how it goes: when one man sees a beat up field rock, another man sees an unbroken geode. Where one person sees some weird glob if glass that must have been smelted with some type of iron needles, another person sees rutilated smoky quartz.