Hey all. Hoping some of you guys who are experienced with quarry mud can weigh in here.
As I'm waiting for the warmer weather, I'm scouting a potential spot relatively close to me and spotted this wide, fairly smooth gray area to the north. Is this a settling basin? How do you rate my chances of finding thick, creamy mud in there?
I would say you hit the jackpot!! It definitely looks like a settling pond ......I'm sure you're going to have a great time at that place!!! Hopefully you get to submerge and maybe post some pics or vids for us mud lovers!!!
If the local geology has clay in it, your odds are good. The thing is, when using Google satellite view and similar, even when a site looks favorable, you really have to visit there to be sure. I'm good at spotting mud but even then, far less than half the places turn out to have deep creamy mud. Sometimes it is shallow, sometimes too sandy, or there are access issues.
Have you tried looking back at the historical satellite data to see what it looks like in different photos? You may get a better idea looking back at previous images
Is it somewhere you can visit easily? May be worth popping over there before the summer to check if its worth your time when the weather gets better. I think you are in NI somewhere? There are a few good quarry spots in NI, but the best ones I've found are in the south east of the UK
Wow, you're fortunate to have a place like that !!! Quarry's where I live don't exist, if they did, they'ed be fenced off, with big 'no-tress-passing' signs.... Hope you have some 'fun'.......
Love you, too
