Feb
18
Is there a good place to find geodes in Tennessee?
ByNot with a bulldozer and backhoe. Basic rock hunting.
Or anyplace nearby?
I guess I should be more specific. We would like to go rock hunting and find our own geodes. I know they can be found in streams and riverbeds near limestone deposits but we don’t know where that would be. Has anyone out there found some of their own and know a good place to look?
8 Comments
February 18th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
February 18th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Lorretto, Dale Hollow, Woodbury
February 18th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
anywhere near a volcano
February 18th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
I know that in NC there is tons of gems and gold in the Mt area the worlds biggest gem was found there in NC
February 18th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
This is a list of where geodes can be found in the U.S.A. it may not be all inclusive but its all I can find.
USA
Indiana, Harrodsburg
quartz, calcite, barite
Indiana, Washington Co. near Salem Indiana
clear calcite crystals on pink-orange dolomite
thin walled
clear calcite crystals on white quartz
Iowa, Keokuk – Warsaw Strata
Keokuk geodes are from a 45 mile radius
borders Iowa, Illinois & Missouri
botryoidal chalcedony with calcite cubes
blue & green chalcedony
pink calcite crystals
sphalerite
quartz iron – cheery orange, quartz oxide – cherry red
dew drop diamond
pink dog-tooth
iridescent brown calcite
industrial (garden bed) geodes – usually solid all the way through
interior filled with milky coloured quartz
found in people’s garden’s
Kentucky, Dannville
banded agate lining with crystals
Kentucky, Hall’s Gap
world-famous locality noted for its millerite in small geodes
light pink amethyst
Kentucky, South Fork Creek
bumpy, brown round geodes in river bed
stepped calcite, spaghetti, smoky quartz, botryoidal chalcedony
orange-yellow solids, clear, white
Missouri, Alexandria
Sheffler Geode Mine – Keokuk Geodes
gray, smoth skinned round
clear quartz crystals
Mississippi River Valley
in limestone
Ohio River Valley
in limestone
Middle Tennessee – Dale Hollow Lake area
February 18th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
well if you are looking for limestone go to Limestone, Tennessee. Trust me there is a real place. i live about 50 mins from there. it is near greeneville tennessee. if you are going to look up greeneville make sure you put in the extra e after greene
anyway there are huge limestone caves there. some of them are so nice! however limestone, tennessee is in the far east so if you live more west than knoxville then i suggest you fly.
plus if you cae for more than rocks some history is found in limestone and greeneville. limestone is david crocket’s birthplace and greeneville is the home of nathaniel greene and president andrew johnson
seriously this area is beautiful so you should come and visit
now i feel like i am advertising! LOL
March 26th, 2010 at 6:47 am
Dekalb and Cannon counties are well known for geodes.In Dekalb county Dry Creek just outside of Dowelltown is filled with them as well as Smithfork River on the opposite side of town.The Stones River in Cannon county just outside of Woodbury is also a great place to look. There are also many to be found in Gassaway near the Dekalb and Cannon county line! Good luck!
July 12th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Woodbury has geodes by the mound in a stream that goes up to short mount through woodbury and left on 431 right by the stream first house on right is dairy farm and across is the stream by pump house
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