[Rockhounds] Court Rules Fossils are Minerals

[Tim Fisher]

Yup the BLM specifically withdrew petrified wood (and strangely obsidian)
from the definition of locatable minerals. There's a debate about where
agate jasper quartz etc. fit but they've never denied a claim on those as
invalid because they weren't locatable. 

Tim Fisher
Orerockon.com
Email nospam at orerockon.com

> I would assume by making it a mineral, that more fossils would be 
> recovered to be sold to museums and collectors?

Other searching around indicates to me that prior law and custom is that
fossils, especially petrified wood, is not considered "locatable" as a
mineral.

I'd appreciate corrections or refinements on the above from people who know
better than me.

Thanks,
Alan Silverstein

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