Badlands & Black Hills Fossil & Mineral Collecting Fieldtrip

Name: Badlands & Black Hills Fossil & Mineral Collecting Fieldtrip
Start: 2025-09-27T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-28T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 3018 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55408

Schedule

Sat, 27 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 am to Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 pm

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Location

3018 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55408 | Minneapolis, MN

THE BADLANDS ARE BACK! So many have been asking WHEN we will provide an opportunity to return to our amazing privately owned badlands collecting areas, so we are thrilled to once again be able offer this exciting portion of our SD Fieldtrip. This adventure is quite likely to fill to capacity this year, so get your registrations in SOON if you want to get back to beautiful South Dakota with us this September.
Day one will include guided opportunities to collect fossil mammal bones, skulls and teeth on privately owned badlands near Hot Springs, South Dakota. This area also produces superb fossil turtles. The fossils are found in the Brule Formation of the Oligocene Epoch - 25 to 40 million-years-old. At that time this portion of South Dakota was a subtropical flood plain for several major rivers. We will spend the day collecting surface finds and specimens still in the soft rock matrix. Our groups have collected multiple turtles, along with various mammal skulls from this site and numerous teeth, jaws, shell and misc. bones.
The second day you will travel through the scenic Black Hills back country areas to explore some of our favorite abandoned mines. You will likely discover and collect a variety of crystals, minerals and rocks - specimens of rose quartz, tourmalines, feldspar, apatite, muscovite, tantalum, mica and spodumene crystals and more. You can keep all of your finds on this fieldtrip!
ZRS will provide sample specimens, informational handouts for each family, and age appropriate details for everyone on this collecting adventure -- along with collecting assistance and specimen identification. A great fossil identification manual is included with this fieldtrip. Itinerary will be provided after registration is completed.
FIELDTRIP REGISTRATION FEE:
$275 Adults & 17/18 years / $95 Ages 12 - 16
Under 12 years with ZRS special permission only - call to inquire. Advance Registration is Required!
REGISTER by sending an email to: [email protected]
OR by calling 612.824.1068 / leave a message and we will return your call ASAP.