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Jacksonville Road Cut, Alabama, USA
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Locality Data

Name: Jacksonville Road Cut
Location: near Jacksonville, Calhoun county, Alabama, United States
GPS:
Locality Type: Road Cut
Prodominent Host Rock: Fort Payne Chert
Prodominent Mineralization Host: Fort Payne Chert
Mineral Species Count: ~10
Accessibility: Very Easy
Collectibility: Moderate
Explanations

Description

The road cut at Jacksonville exposes a phosphate rich section of the Fort Payne chert. A large, thick vien of iron ore runs vertically down the face of the cut and produces a variety of minerals.

Locality Pictures

Collecting

The Jacksonville road cut is highway right-of-way. In the past permission has not been required to collect, however, do be polite and courteous when the occasional police officer stops to see what you're doing to his or her highway. Mineralization occurs in the iron ore seams that have invaded the Fort Payne chert. Collecting may be easier when a rope is tied to a tree above the cut. In the absence of rope, it is possible to climb through the pine trees to the yeilding zones. Much of the rock and rubble is loose and will give way so please execute caution. Above all, please take great care to watch for cars when rolling rocks. Use good judgement!

Minerals

Local minerals may include, but are not restricted to, beraunite, cacoxenite, dufrenite, kidwellite, planerite, rockbridgeite, strengite, wavellite. View the available specimens in the pictures listed below:

Tools

Always remember safety glasses, steel toe shoes, and hard hat. Recommended tools include the following in order of importance: rock hammer, crack hammer, crow bar or pry bar, buckets or bags or flats, rope, pick, shovel, optivisor or loupe or magnifying glass, hammer holsters

Suggested supplies include bug repellant, water, snacks, wrapping material.

Driving Directions

Area Maps

Weather Conditions

Area Businesses

Closest Campgrounds

Cheaha State Park
19644 Hwy. 281
Delta, AL 36258
1-256-488-5111

Lake Guntersville State Park
7966 AL Hwy. 227
Guntersville, AL 35976-9126
1-256-571-5444

Noccalula Falls Park & Campground
P.O. Box 267
Gadsden, AL 35999
256-543-7412

Other Points of Interest

Lake Guntersville State Park
7966 AL Hwy. 227
Guntersville, AL 35976-9126
1-256-571-5444

U S Space & Rocket Center
1 Tranquility Base
Huntsville, AL 35805
1-256-837-3400

Weinman Mineral Museum
51 Mineral Museum Dr
White, GA 30184-3102
1-770-386-0576
http://www.weinmanmuseum.org/

Six Flags Over Georgia
275 Riverside Parkway
Austell, GA 30168
1-770-948-9290
http://www.sixflags.com/parks/overgeorgia/

Visionland
Visionland Pkwy
Bessemer, AL 35022
1-205-481-4750
http://www.visionland.com/

Other Collecting in the Area

Indian Mountain
Augusta Ridge
Rock Run
Mosquito Pit
Cedartown

Area Rock Shops

Weinman Mineral Museum
51 Mineral Museum Dr
White, GA 30184-3102
1-770-386-0576
http://www.weinmanmuseum.org/

Jendon Minerals
P.O. Box 6214
Rome, GA 30162
1-706-291-4618
http://www.jendonminerals.com/

Literature

Alabama Literature Listings

Phosphate Minerals of Alabama (1983) H. L. Barwood, Rocks and Minerals, 58, 5663.

Occurence of turquoise group minerals in the Eastern United States, (1997) H.L. Barwood, The Mineralogical Record. 28;1, p.53

Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area, (1989) Gordon, Jennings B.; Hollabaugh, Curtis L., The Mineralogical Record. 20;5, p.355-362

New Minerals from Indian Mountain, Alabama and Cedartown, Georgia (1982) H. L. Barwood & L. W. Zelazny, Rocks and Minerals, 58, 152154.

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Mindat.org Locality Reference
Brief Article and Photographs from Augusta Ridge

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Jacksonville is highway right-of-way. As far as I know, permission is not needed to collect, however, do be polite and courteous when the occasional police officer stops to see what you're doing to his or her highway. Rope will be very useful at this site. It's not entirely necessary if you don't mind collecting where everyone else has already looked. And above all, please watch for cars when rolling rocks.
Local minerals may include but are not restricted to the following: beraunite, cacoxenite, dufrenite, kidwellite, planerite, rockbridgeite, strengite, wavellite.

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