Posted in Admin on April 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Greetings bloggers. Why did I not make the connection between what sits in my flickr account and what appears on my blog? It is my understanding that I can upload a whole lot more pictures at the stroke of midnight on May the first. The account allows me to do this every month. I have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Greetings Bloggers, Just thought you might like to hear that I am still alive and had a good day at the Hell Holes. I will provide details tomorrow night. There are a couple of really good pictures to show you and as my flickr account is renewed this Sunday night that is when you will [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Greetings bloggers, Some exciting cave related news has just come my way. I immediatly thought to share it with you. Doug, Greg Warchol and I have been communicating back and forth over the last few days trying to throw together some sort of reconnisance to the Hell Holes. It is a promising area of karst [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2006 | No Comments »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This last summer my father and I had visited the old Bessamer Iron Mine near Bancroft. We had been looking for magnetite specimens. Apparently rare black octahedrons of that mineral can occasionally be found there.
Just as the sun was setting we noticed an indistinct path [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2006 | No Comments »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is the entrance to the Croft Mine. It was a wet wade into the tunnels which had been carved from within a garnet bearing pegmatite fissure. There was plenty of the pegmatite debris lying out in the forest dumps, strewn betweeen the trees and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2006 | No Comments »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
The area around Bancroft is one of my favorite places for rock-related explorations.
This sodden swamp is a road if you can believe it. It once led to the Croft Mine. Pink zircons are said to be found in the mine dumps and I had [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2006 | No Comments »
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IMG_1873, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is it, the town of Cobalt as you look over the trench that was the Nippising Mine. Millions of ounces of silver had been dredged from the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Greetings bloggers, rockwatchers, rockhounds, cavers, historians and anyone with an interest in geology. You might like to know about an important event taking place in the northern bush this summer. No, it is not me doing a reading from my book “Rockwatching”. It is a bonafide mining town rock and mineral show. The event [...]
Posted in Adventures, Canada, Caves, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, caving, environment, exploration, geography, geology, mystery, nature, ontario, photos on April 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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IMG_2693, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This particular picture is of an airy cavern below a sizeable skylight. From above the window looms as an ominous blackhole just to the side of a well travelled path. The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2006 | 3 Comments »
A study at Rutgers University has revealed that there is an increasingly high number of violent human/chimpanzee interactions. The chimp often ambles away as the victor. This is not surprising as despite his diminutive stature, the chimp is thought to have an upper body strength of between 5 and 10 times that of a human [...]
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