At the beginning of this project, there were approximately 130 known cave sites in the region and around twenty fossil deposits.
In the hope that he would have better control of the fossil deposits he tried to stake them out as a mining claim.
In some spots you might even see science at work, as paleontologists quietly continue to mine the rich fossil deposits.
It will now be clear why you can sometimes find so many different fossil gastropod shells together in a single fossil deposit.
The Aptian event is most readily detected among marine rather than terrestrial fossil deposits.
The great quarries in their cutaways sometimes reveal amazing fossil deposits.
Excavation continues every summer, moreover, and extensive fossil deposits remain to be mined.
The fossil deposits were the most notable feature in the entire geographical region.
There was a rumour in the 1970s that some Americans were seeking to purchase the land containing the fossil deposits.
Phosphate mining operations at Langebaanweg uncovered these rich fossil deposits.