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Chalcedony filled vugs seen in a Minneapolis park
Aug 7th, 2015 at 6:33pm
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Visited Minneapolis to see my younger son, and we went to a popular recreation spot in the city: Harriet Lake.  Adjacent and just north of the lake is a park with flower gardens.  In one of these gardens - Peace Garden - there were blocks of limestone and dolostone used as decorative borders.  Their size ranged from about the size of a bowling ball to a 5-gallon bucket, and some had vugs in them filled with botryoidal chalcedony with a variety of colors.  The only collecting I could do was by photograph.  When I got back home, I did a little online research and found that this is Prairie du Chien dolostone.  While I only saw chalcedony, this dolostone can also have vugs with quartz, calcite, and hematite.
  

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Re: Chalcedony filled vugs seen in a Minneapolis park
Reply #1 - Aug 10th, 2015 at 5:15pm
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Interesting
  
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Re: Chalcedony filled vugs seen in a Minneapolis park
Reply #2 - Aug 21st, 2015 at 11:27am
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Looks almost like a brain in some pictures.  Do you have any specimens after being soaked in acid?
  

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