Geodes around Loveland Options

[moog24]

Good day everyone! i am hoping to find a few spots i can take my kid to find geodes near loveland. Any locations would be great! she is 5 and just loves to find geodes. We went about twice a month when i lived in the Black Hills. Thank you!

[Woody]

A long time ago I had an extended "Stay & Play" in Kentucky. I haven't found a 30 lbs. Geode since those days! I was stationed there for about 7 years.

Here is what I would do on the big ones. I went to Harbor Freight and bout several of these 4" Diamond Blades for cutting Stone, Tile, and Marble. They are actually made for a 4" table saw, but they work with a hand drill if you use the correct size
Arbor, "1/2 inch". The blade is fairly cheap.... I think this one was 5 bucks.

Now you are not going to be able to cut through the geode, but you can "scribe" it all the way around. If I thought it was a real good geode, I'd scribe it to a depth of about 1/2. After I scribed it I used a chisel & hammer with the break following the
scribe line more often than not.

These blades are marked as a "Dry" blade so there is going to be a lot of dust. Don't forget breathing protecting especially for the kids.

Now days I use this same method to split Septerian Nodules, except I also carry a set of expanding wedges, "stone Splitting wedges".


Good luck, Woody.

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