Ontario Fluorspar Mines - A rockhound Paradise
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IMG_1221, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
In an abandoned barn at the edge of a road overgrown by thorns and discernable only by its row of greying telephone poles we found this exciting piece of equipment. It had somehow been used in the operation of a nearby fluorospar mine. The land owner told me that the shafts [...]
