Parke County

Parke County, in west-central Indiana, is best known for its covered bridges, but the county's Pennsylvanian-age coal-measure rock also carries a recognized mineral suite — pyrite and marcasite nodules, selenite crystals, sphalerite, and goethite, the kind of iron-sulfide concretion minerals that turn up widely in Indiana's coal country. What we could not find is a specific named site — mine, quarry, creek bed, or road cut — tied to these Parke County coordinates. This reads as a county-level entry rather than a single collecting spot, and the honest version of this page is that there's a real regional mineral suite here but no confirmed place to go dig for it.

Parke County is centered on Rockville, Indiana, roughly 60 miles west of Indianapolis. No specific site or access road could be verified for these coordinates.

UNVERIFIED for any specific method or location. General inference: where coal-measure selenite and marcasite/pyrite nodules do turn up in Indiana, it's typically as loose float in stream gravel or exposed in road cuts and old strip-mine spoil — not confirmed for this coordinate.

Land status at these coordinates is unverified — confirm ownership and permission before visiting. Indiana's own state parks, nature preserves, and state forests prohibit rock and mineral collecting outright, so if this pin sits inside a park boundary, collecting would not be permitted there regardless of what's exposed.