11 Oct 03 - Film crew at U-DIG for a Travel Channel feature. Free digging day for U-DIG customers!
16-18 Oct 03 - Good crowds at U-DIG during fall school vacation.
26 Mar 04 - Excavations begin for commercial quarries and fresh rock dug out for U-DIG customers.
1 Apr 04 - U-DIG Trilobite Quarry open for 2004 season.
15 Apr 04 - Heavy spring rains have freshened the rock. Surface collecting has been great!!!
30 Apr 04 - Rare Altiocullus trilobite and rare soft-bodied phyllocarid Pseudoarctolepis sharpi found on the west side of the quarry this week.
15 May04 - U-DIG hosts the Tucson Gem & Mineral Club. Among the good finds was a 2 1/2 inch Asaphiscus wheeleri on a plate with three nice Elrathia kingii.
30 May 04 - This week the best find was two nice Blaspidella housensis plates with more than 60 trilobites on each.
10 Jun 04 - The northwest part of the quarry has been producing many fine specimans of large Asaphiscus trilobites.
25 Jun 04 - The quality of trilobites off the east side of the quarry has been outstanding. One of the best was a 2 inch Asiphiscus out of the matrix. Asaphiscus are usually too thin shelled to be collected like that. the quarry also produced a Gogia spirilas [an encrinoid]
5 Jul 04 - Shayne completed the mid-summer backhoe work to cleanout the commercial quarries and turn over new rock throughout the quarries.
2 Apr 06 - Quarry guide Gene Boardman says "Opening day Saturday April 1 was a nice success in spite of the weather, which was cool with snow blusters. Shane had the quarry in good shape with fresh dug rock and new shelves to work on. Trilobites were plentiful with lots of larger asaphicus wheeleri being found. Also, a rare soft bodied fossil was found on opening day."
2 Apr 06 - Guide Gene Boardman reports "People coming to the U-Dig quarry continue to have success finding good trilobite specimens. The find of the week was an asaphiscus double, both trilobites about 1 long and sprinkled with pyrite (fools gold). It went to Minnesota with a very happy customer. Also one of our younger diggers found a nice choia sponge. Spring break, and Easter weekend brought out lots of diggers in spite of cool weather."
U-DIG Fossils
P.O. Box 1113
350 East 300 South
Delta, Utah 84624
(435) 864-3638
(435) 864-4294 FAX udig@xmission.com
