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Good luck to everyone going into the mine this weekend. I'll be out there on March 30th. Since this is my first trip into the mine, I've got a few questions:
1. Is it better to stay in Washington or New Bern and what would be the best lodging for either town?
2. What is the process to get dirt out of the mine to bring back home? I want to fill up some buckets and leave them near the ramp. If I do this, what is the best way to mark the buckets so no one will mess with them?
3. Do they have port-a-john in the mine or is it dig a hole behind the Yorktown hill?
4. Most importantly, I need directions. I have a feeling if I get on 306 I should run into it. But since I would lose my head if it weren't attached to my shoulders, can someone send me directions with landmarks to look for?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Jack
Hi Paul
Thanks for the advice. I'm a little confused about what you meant concerning the buckets:
"Ideally you get back to the pickup in time to put them in there, if not you will have to bring them on the bus, but that is NOT recommended as it takes up too much room on an already cramped ride."
Do you there is a storage area on the bus to transport our buckets in and we need to allocate time to load the buckets up?
Jack,
The most important thing to remember is--DO NOT forget your steel toed shoes!! I dont think anyone in his/her right mind will take your buckets full of dirt. Dont leave a large whale vertebra on top of it though. Your name will never protect a large fossil item. Last year we actually had a backpack with two whale verts taken (read-stolen) by someone who didnt collect them.You should put your name on your rake, shovel, backpack, etc. People often forget and leave them on the truck--we have no way of knowing who they belong to.
Since this is your first time collecting Aurora, you might want to focus more on filling your buckets with fossils instead of dirt. Those micro-fossils in dirt are a fairly specialized study (hard to find ID for) until you learn a bit about the various layers in the mine.The fossil dirt at the museum or other piles around Aurora will be much more productive for shark/ray teeth anyway.
Pat Y