Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2006 | 2 Comments »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is a lump of high grade silver ore found on the mine dumps around Cobalt. The silver here is invariably mixed to a greater or lesser extent with the element cobalt. It is the paucity of this material that dictates the silver yield. The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2006 | 3 Comments »
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IMG_3020, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
At the edge of a sunny marsh, in amongst the lavender blooms of the everpresent purple loosestrife Chris spotted a shiny black tail peeking out from amongst the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2006 | No Comments »
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IMG_3033, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This last weekend Maggie’s sister and her family came to visit us in Guelph. We went up to the Rockwood Conservation Area on Sunday afternoon; it was warm and sunny and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2006 | No Comments »
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P0000231, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This waterfall is for “Gringa”, she has a really beautiful site that discusses many Costa Rican things and as it is my favorite place away from home, I reccomend that you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2006 | No Comments »
Last night while sitting at the picnic table outside my workplace, eating my enforced salad diet, I had an eyeopening experience. Reading the Toronto Sun, there was an anonomous article (April 19th 2006) called “Climate Secrets in Ancient Ice”. Peeking over a frozen cylinder was a Japanese scientist. He held this ice core bored from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I sat right down in this pool to cool off. It was a beautiful natural marble whirlpool massage.
This exploration takes place in a remote section of northern Ontario. Travelling up here is like a time warp; all sorts of old decaying barns and abandoned [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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IMG_0610, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is a picture looking out of the natural Marble Bridge. I am thankfully sheltered within the rock as the temperature out in the forest that day was totally scorching. The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2006 | No Comments »
Here are a couple of pictures that I had taken in a sandstone mine near Niagara Falls. I had long been interested in finding tunels of this nature as sandstone mining was once quite big around here. Today very little is left to indicate the existance of such an enterprise. Jeff Mirza and I had [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2006 | No Comments »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
As you can see, my book is called “Rockwatching ; Adventures Above and Below Ontario. That is me up in the top right corner in a pothole in the Warsaw Caves Conservation Area. I would be interested to know if anyone recognizes those other four [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2006 | No Comments »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
In this picture Doug wades through asparagus ferns during our examination of a local creekbed. We suspect that there might be caves in this area. The valley is totally dry until it rains and then water comes welling up through cracks in the ground. In [...]
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