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Coon Creek, AR, Day 3, Buckeye Mountain
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Buckeye is a short hike off the road and deep in the heart of the national forest, so we weren't too worried about the muzzle loaders unloading in our direction. I started the day by hammering on a outcrop where I'd found some rockbridgeite and dufrenite in previous years. I wasn't getting much material out of the rock so I set out across the ridge to do some surveying. My dad found some nice radiating circles of dufrenite about an inch in diameter while I was wandering. I walked out onto another outcrop about 300 yards northeast of the road. I found some micro spheres of dufrenite in the outcrop and then moved to a boulder on the ridge above. The boulder had a large opening where some really nice dufrenite balls had once been. When I broke off a chunk of the boulder, about twenty-five balls fell out of the opening. We took in several pieces of extremely weathered dufrenite spheres to see if they will clean up.

While my dad talked to two road graders who had stopped to see what we were finding, I walked down the road to a small seam of iron ore that I'd seen on the way up the mountain. I pulled out two small pieces of kidwellite before I returned to the van. I feel that it will take a significant amount of work to excavate any rewarding material from Buckeye. It was reward enough to be out on such a beautifully crisp and cool day. ~~~Adam.

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