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Earthen Paradise, Prospect, VA for Blue Kyanite
Apr 20th, 2016 at 8:30am
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Early April Trip to Earthen Paradise.
https://www.facebook.com/EarthenParadiseInc/

A must visit place to collect gemmy Blue Blades of Kyanite.

Remove topsoil and dig down to orange layer, remove the orange soil, sift and clean the dirt to find blue blades and matrix with blades. Also gold panning in the creek, surface collect quartz and other rocks.

Blue Blades of Glory


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Re: Earthen Paradise, Prospect, VA for Blue Kyanite
Reply #1 - Apr 20th, 2016 at 10:26pm
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And that's the way you do it! Smiley
Looks great, bammer. Thanks for the pics.
  
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Re: Earthen Paradise, Prospect, VA for Blue Kyanite
Reply #2 - Apr 21st, 2016 at 7:32am
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Thanks for the report Bammer. Looks like you made out well. Makes me want to go find  some blue.
  

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Reply #3 - Jan 15th, 2018 at 4:03pm
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does anyone know if this place is still open?
  
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Re: Earthen Paradise, Prospect, VA for Blue Kyanite
Reply #4 - Jan 22nd, 2018 at 9:30am
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They're open.  Look them up on Facebook.
  
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Reply #5 - Jan 23rd, 2018 at 9:28am
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Thanks.
I wish I had gone when Bammer told me about it. Think I am going to head here first this year.
  
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Re: Earthen Paradise, Prospect, VA for Blue Kyanite
Reply #6 - Mar 20th, 2018 at 12:33pm
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My family visited Earthen Paradise this past Saturday and had a good time.  Kyanite is plentiful there.  We found many loose little blue blades, both in the cleared area and in the creek.  I was hoping to find a big chunk of rock with kyanite all over it, but I only picked up small chunks of kyanite-matrix rock.  Didn't see any large pieces with enough blue to make it worthwhile bringing home.  (picky, picky)

So Bammer already posted pics of the cleared area, and it still looks pretty much the same. 

Here are my little blue blades:


Here's a picture of part of the creek (they roped off this part as no-digging-zone, which keeps it nice and scenic).


  
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Re: Earthen Paradise, Prospect, VA for Blue Kyanite
Reply #7 - Mar 21st, 2018 at 7:04pm
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That's a lot of nice blue there Lizziebird.  You did well! Thanks for the pictures.
  

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