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originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Check this out, a warm, milky green ocean in a sheltered bay. It is the dream of any winter battered North American. At a time when the slush on the Toronto streets is a black scum of salt and oil, a few hundred dollars can put you here.
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IMG_0643, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here is my wife Maggie on another one of my rockhounding trips. This particular spot is at the mouth of an adit at the bottom of a mountain of almost solid corundum. The crystals are hexagonal in shape and the deposit was first discovered in the late 1800's when a farmer [...]

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