Gardner Quarry

📍Lillington, North Carolina

The Gardner Quarry looks like just another granite quarry used for sourcing rock to be crushed and placed on the shoulders of local highways. Surprisingly, the quarry is also home to vibrantly colored fluorite along with pyrite. Local rock and mineral clubs have occasionally taken trips here allowing for rare rockhounding trips when the quarry isn’t active.

GPS coordinates:
35.35638, -78.83806

Land type:
Private, only accessible via club.

The Tar Heel Gem & Mineral Club has organized occasional field trips here for their members in the past.

Digging fee:
Unknown

What can you find?

This site is an outlier when it comes to the surrounding geology and other quarries. This is a granite quarry, where rock doesn’t typically have any extraordinary mineralization or collectability. There are veins in the quarry that produce fluorite, pyrite, and even molybdenite specimens. Some of the more staggering pieces have multiple minerals on the same stone, allowing for cool combinations of pyrite and fluorite.

Seasonality:
Subject to club scheduling.

Weather by month (using the nearest town):

Road condition notes:
Unknown

Public bathrooms: Unknown

Showers: No

RV hookups: No

Additional information:
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