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Midwest, Michigan
Muskallonge Lake SP MI
Yooperlite beach
Mineral locality Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Agates and jasperAlso reported: basalt and granite beach stones.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Teerui (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: fluorescent sodalite-bearing syenite cobbles (Yooperlites, found 2017) on the Lake Superior shore of the eastern Upper Peninsula
Yooperlite discovery is published and this state-park beach is the standard legally collectable stretch; note Whitefish Point itself is closed to collecting
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Cold Superior waterNight hunting on uneven cobble, sudden weather
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