As the club history is developed for posting, text and photos will be posted here.
Field Trips of 2025
Jan. 18–19 at Burro Creek, Arizona
Searching for Pastelite, 16 came to Arizona (over 360 miles from Cedar City). Some had attended the Quartzite, AZ rock shows a few days prior.
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS: Some of the topology and flora there are not like those we find in Southern Nevada.
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Field Trips of 2024
Date | Location | Material | Notes (miles from CC) |
March 23–24 | Delta, UT | Trilobites | BLM fee site 170+ |
April 20 | Orderville, UT | Septarian Nodules | 60+ |
May 18–19 | Thomas Range, UT | Bixbyite, Pink Topaz, Pseudobrookite, Amethyst | 190+ |
June 15 | Panguitch, UT | Chalcedony | 56+ |
July 20 | Fossil Lake Safari NW of Kemmerer, WY (paid site) | Fish fossils | In the Green River Formation. 390+ |
Augus 17 | Enterprise, UT | Chalcedony | 36+ |
September 21-22 | Tikaboo, UT | Copralite | 150+ |
October 19 | Wah Wah Mountains, UT | Garnets and UV minerals | Bring UV light 90+ |
November 16 | Caliente, NV | Trilobite and UV agate | Bring UV light 95+ |
Previous trips included the following:
- Roosevelt Springs (onyx)
- Cooper-Zinc mine tailings
- Parowan Gap 23
- 007—Frisco Mine 74
- 001—Mineral Mountains 60+
- 002—Holt Canyon 30+
- 003—Table Butte
- 004—Fremont Trail Panquitch
- 005a—Valley of Fire 140+
- 005b—Wonderstone
- 009—Orderville (Septarian nodules) 60+
- 010—Apple Valley 50+
- 019—Hurricane Mesa Chinle Formation—(petrified wood) 45+
- 012—Topaz Mountain 190+
- 013—Dugway (Geodes) 200+
- 014—Topaz Mountain 190+
- Glitter Pit (Glitter Mountain, Littlefield, AZ?) 60+
- Chinle Formation—(petrified wood)
- Cedar Pocket 70+
- Cato Canyon
- Gold Springs
- Holt Canyon 36+
- Burro Creek (3/2019) 600+
- Fiddlers Canyon (fossils) 5+
- Moenkopi Formation—San Rafael Swell or Henry Mountains? (ripple sandstone)