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Pat B:
Thats the stuff!!! :'( ...but once a blade or point is made they are as indestructalbe as any stone blade or point! ;) Pat
Marc St Louis:
Dick
That green piece is a chunk of old glass I picked up, sorry :).
All this chert was picked up along the edge of the Mattawa river where it flows into the Ottawa river. I can see a lot more of it under water but the water is really cold right now so I'm not going in for it. The water is much higher than it used to be because of power dams downstream that were built many years ago. There may be some interesting stuff that has been submerged and cannot be seen from shore. I will bring a mask when the water warms up and go take a look. Most of what I have here is peices of no more than 2" long but the larger chunks are about 3" long. There's a lot more there but it's all to small to be of any use
mullet:
Marc,If you don't want to stick your head in the water.Man that's got to be cold.You can take a 5 gallon plastic bucket and put a clear piece of flat plexi-glass on the bottom.Seal it with clear silicone and you can just walk along and look through the bottom.This is what we use down here when artifact and fossil hunting in the shallows.
Marc St Louis:
Eddie
I don't need to go for a swim now. I went for a walk with my girlfriend further down stream and found the motherlode. Brought back some very large chunks
Marc St Louis:
Well I found a spot that has many large pieces some as large as 20#. I lugged out about 200# of the stuff. This is what I got
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