COMPILED BY ANTOINETTE RAHN

In the event you are craving a club-sponsored rockhounding field trip, you are not alone. With that being the case, we thought we could at least live vicariously through a report detailing club-hosted field trips that took place just before the formation of restrictions in response to COVID-19, and news of field trip planning underway.

Sophie Gunther, president of the Rockheads junior group of the North Mississippi Gem & Mineral Society, sits a top one of the various humongous pink granite rocks at Elephant Rocks State Park, located in southeastern Missouri.

NANCY ROBERTS

First up is the North Mississippi Gem & Mineral Society’s (NMGMS) report of its spring break trip to the Park Hills area of southeastern Missouri. Joining the NMGMS were members of the Ozark Earth Science Club, to form a group of about 20 rockhounds. The two-day field trip included visits to multiple locations to satisfy a rockhounds’ desire to dig and to learn.