Posted in Bancroft gemboree, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, bizzare, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crystals, environment, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, industrial archeology, looking for gems, mine, mines in northern Ontario, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, strange places, tagged abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, geology of Ontario, rock collecting, rock collecting in Ontario, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks and minerals on September 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I thought I had made a new discovery
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I noticed this blocked up mine and an interesting scar above it when I was travelling along Old Mumford Road after an unsucessful attempt to find the Tripp Nu-age mine. I thought that I had found a new area for collecting rocks as there [...]
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Abandoned Mine in Northern Ontario
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I had one heck of a time finding the Harcourt Graphite Mine, following directions from an old guide book only to discover that the directions were wrong. Simply put, the mine is only about 150 meters off highway 648 – just outside Harcourt. Being densely wooded, I [...]
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Just scattered in the woods so densely you can hardly walk without standing on a crystal
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Check out these orthoclase feldspar crystals – or at least my guide told me they were orthoclase crystals. I have not had the chance to verify this.
I met an interesting gent who runs ecotours for mineral [...]
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A calculation of risk and reward. Why do I obsess over stuff like this?
IMG_8240, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here is a tunnel – a crawling tunnel that had once been half filled with water. It is possible to wriggle through here without touching the roof but my concern would be, how safe is it?
Three things wrong [...]
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This is caving in Ontario
IMG_7676, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
It is what you might call a rather challenging mental problem – an exercise in self control – sensory deprivation.
Physically – oh theres no problem there. I will fit. I figured it out the first time I tried it; Asked my partner to pull me out by [...]
Posted in Adventures, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Education, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, accident, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, cave digging, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, health, hiking, my life, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged adventure in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, caving sickness, extreme sports, medical, sport on September 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Be careful – Ontario caves
IMG_8233, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Just a word (2) to would-be cavers – “airborne pathogens!”
I suppose I suspected the worst at my very first breath. I think I wrote something about 6 weeks ago about exploring an underground shelf that was heaped with animal feces to either side of my crawlway. I [...]
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