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Midwest, Kentucky

Estill County KY

Red Lick agate creeks

Agate beach or gravel Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Agates and jasperAgates and jasper
GeodesGeodes

Also reported: black and yellow banding.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain), W.carter (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: Kentucky agate, the state rock, weathers from the Borden Formation into creek gravels of the Estill-Jackson-Powell county belt

Well-documented locality: state geological survey literature and collector guides describe red and black banded agate from these drainages

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Flash-prone creeksCopperheads in rock piles, posted land

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