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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Aug 26^th, 2018 at 11:13pm	Print Post
	http://www.clementmineralmuseum.org/ I pulled this rock out for the first time in a few years yesterday to show Scott and took a few quick pics after giving it a bath. This should be a destination for all rockhounds atleast once and I'm surprised there wasn't all ready a thread on here for it. ROAD TRIP!! Pulled from the creek at the Eureka Mine, Marion, Kentucky. Third pic is close-up of little dark to gray crystals that are almost coating the fluorite in areas. I have been calling it Cerrusite but need to look at it closer.

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Rebecca God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 653 Joined: Nov 11^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Reply #1 - Aug 27^th, 2018 at 9:13am	Print Post
	Really nice. I would love to go back there - it has been at least 8 years or so. I have some beautiful pieces from there, but none with those small grey crystals, but I should check again. There was sphalerite and galena with the fluorite on my specimens.


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lizziebird Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 143 Joined: Mar 28^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Reply #2 - Aug 27^th, 2018 at 2:47pm	Print Post
	That's a really nice one, Joe. I don't think the Clement museum had any open rock collecting dates this year.


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Reply #3 - Aug 27^th, 2018 at 6:38pm	Print Post
	yes, I don't know what's up with that. I think you may be able to contact them and set up your own private fieldtrips, but I have not tried.


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Reply #4 - Aug 28^th, 2018 at 12:12pm	Print Post
	I think I figured out what I want for my birthday!


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Reply #5 - Nov 3^rd, 2018 at 10:29pm	Print Post
	Took some quick pics of another piece from the Eureka today. The fluorite on this piece is also liberally coated with the small brownish Cerrussite crystals, but this piece is small enough for me to get under my longwave ultraviolet light so you can see the fluorescent quality of the Cerrussite. The last pic is an action shot.

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Doug YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 12 Joined: Feb 12^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Reply #6 - Nov 5^th, 2018 at 2:12pm	Print Post
	Great specimens and photos, Joe.


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Reply #7 - Nov 5^th, 2018 at 6:52pm	Print Post
	Thanks, Doug.


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Reply #8 - Sep 8^th, 2019 at 9:06pm	Print Post
	Just want to add pics of both sides of one more from the Eureka. Cool little bed of drusy on this piece, but not sure what it is? Half of it is fluorescent? Sorry, not a very good picture.

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