Trucked-in spoil from the world-famous Lee Creek phosphate mine. A hill of Miocene & Pliocene treasure, free and open to the public - and it gets refreshed.
Prime conditions today. Moderate NE winds (10 mph).
Next 3 days: Next few days look steady — all prime-range. Pick whatever fits your schedule.
This site does not depend on a tidal low. Hunt during the coolest, brightest part of the day and use the wind and conditions notes below.
Impact on visibility and stir-up over the next 5 days.
The Hunt Score blends tide range, lunar phase, daylight timing, recent stir, wind setup, and surf.
Exceptional. Don't sit on this one.
We are deliberate about which factors to include. These are not currently in the model:
If you think we should add one of these, log a hunt with notes — every rated outcome helps us decide which signals actually predict tooth count.
The annual Aurora Fossil Festival (Aurora, NC) coincides with a fresh spoil-pile dump from the PCS Phosphate / Nutrien mine into the public collecting pit. This is the single best opportunity each year to hunt unsorted Pungo River Formation material with thousands of teeth, mako, meg, and Carcharocles fragments.
Bring a screen sifter, kneeling pad, spray bottle. Pick a fresh-dumped pile, scrape the top inch, sift, repeat.
Free. Bring tools. Museum across the street is excellent. No on-site restrooms.
Open public collecting on the spoil pile only. The mine itself is closed.
Trophy = headline find · Rare = real score · Uncommon = some trips · Common = most trips.
The beachcomber's bonus round — what else the geology gives up.
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