Me Johnny and Jay decided to go to Keokuk Iowa to hunt for geodes. This was a last minute trip, and it was only 2 days long. It was about a 4 1/2 hour drive and we stayed at the holiday inn. This was a great place to stay because they had a small geode exhibit with some exceptional specimens. The chamber of commerce was located in the same building, and they have a ton of info about geodes and where to hunt for them.....he even told me the mayor runs a barber shop in town and to go talk to him. It was a dreary day, rain on and off so we were forced to wear rain gear. We decided to start on a creek bed that was very shallow, some online research led us here. Unfortunately the national geode fest was the weekend before we were there, so the river bed was pretty sparce as far as geodes. Although, we did find a few there. After a few hours of hunting we decided to go to Jacobs geode mine in Hamilton, IL. There was only one other person there looking for geodes, and he gave us alot of pointers. We were there for about 4-5 hrs digging in the mud and we each had about 2/3 of a 5 gallon bucket filled with geodes. He charges 16$ per bucket filled and 40$ for buckets that he filled. We decided to split a bucket to make it so we each had a full bucket. We found alot of cool quarts geodes, some multi-chambered and large single crystal geodes. I also found a great citrine quarts geode with beautiful orange colors, which i gave to my neighbor. This was a fun trip and i actually have a few geodes on display in my front room. We are planning another weekend trip in april to check the other mines out in the area.
The best part of that trip was figuring out that Johnny was DR. Mott.
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