Hematite Hike, 20 December | Event in Fairdealing | AllEvents

Hematite Hike

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Sat, 20 Dec, 2025 at 09:15 am

7 hours

Woodlands Nature Station

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Date & Location

Sat, 20 Dec, 2025 at 09:15 am to 04:15 pm (CST)

Woodlands Nature Station

3146 Silver Trail Rd., Fairdealing, Kentucky, United States

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About the event

Hematite Hike
We will meet at the picnic pavilion at the nature station. I expect people with attend either the morning walk or after lunch walk. After a short discussion we will head across the field and stop at the approximate location of where the slaves that worked the mines and furnace, lived. We will proceed to several of the mines to collect data (GPS, shape, trend, size) and discuss how they operated. we will return to the picnic table for lunch (bring your own), we will have a campfire and cooking sticks. There will be a demonstration on converting hematite to magnetite and (more important) on how to properly cook marshmallows. Hike is moderate difficulty and should be dry. Any warm footwear should be fine. After lunch there will be a second hike to different mines to collect more information. There will be subsequent events to collect information on what I suspect are 50 ish small iron ore mines in this area. Until the ticks come out of dormancy, I will keep going.


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Woodlands Nature Station, 3146 Silver Trail Rd.,Fairdealing, Kentucky, United States
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Hematite Hike, 20 December | Event in Fairdealing | AllEvents
Hematite Hike
Sat, 20 Dec, 2025 at 09:15 am