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Megalodon Teeth – Where and How to Find


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Thank you to our friends at New York Paleontological Society, where we are very happy members for the following information that we updated with new details from our 2014 visit to these sites.

Megalodon Teeth can be found at the following locales in Maryland along the Chesapeake Coast.

SITE — BROWNIE’S BEACH, near Chesapeake Beach, Maryland

– Also called Bayfront Park

There is no charge to enter and collect here. Open year round & daily.
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Orange Garnets in West Redding, Connecticut

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So hunting for orange garnets we were following the varied instructions from the web about an outcrop, located about half-mile from the West Redding, Connecticut train station.  Easy enough to set your GPS to “West Redding Train Station.” First thing we noticed was a cop car idling in the train station parking lot. We had not even begun excavating and they were after us already.
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Quartz and Pyrite Abandoned Mine Site in Ellenville, New York

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Joe and I had a great drive to the park that contains this quartz and pyrite abandoned mine, which is open to the public even though it is on park lands.  We got really lucky because a woman and 3 kids were coming down the path as we started and had come to a fork in the path.  So we asked them if they knew of the quartz and pyrite, and they pointed to take the path to the right, climb up of you adventurous on to the rocks, and see what you find.
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