Steelville

Steelville sits in Crawford County, Missouri, in the Ozark Plateau — a region with a genuine 19th- and early-20th-century lead-zinc mining history whose old workings and weathered dolomite/limestone terrain commonly expose secondary silica minerals like quartz and chalcedony.[1] The DB's specimen list (amethyst, azurite, dolomite, galena, malachite, quartz, pyrite, and others) fits that general Ozark lead-zinc-and-chert geology. Beyond that general regional match, though, sourcing gets thin: the coordinate resolves to Scotia, a small Crawford County hamlet, and no source found ties a specific mine, quarry, or public collecting site to this exact point. This reads as a real but under-documented Ozark rockhounding area rather than a site with a confirmed specific history.

Scotia, a hamlet in Crawford County, Missouri, near Steelville. No trailhead, parking area, or public access point is documented for this exact coordinate.

UNVERIFIED at this specific point. General Ozark collecting method for this mineral suite is creek-gravel screening and surface picking on weathered outcrop and old mine spoil, where accessible.

Land status at this coordinate is unverified. Crawford County has a mix of private farmland, Mark Twain National Forest tracts, and Ozark Trail corridor land in the broader area, but nothing found confirms which applies here. Confirm land ownership before visiting; don't assume any specific parcel is open.