Posted in Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Education, Eramosa Karst, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, adventure in Ontario, books, cave digging, cave formation, caves in Ontario, caving, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, history, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario, Discovery in Ontario, Exploration in Ontario, geography of Ontario, geology of Ontario on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the scalloping
An Ontario cave near Lake Erie
Notice the scalloping – wear features shaped like spoon scoops, they are indicative of the water speed and direction of flow. The roof above is grey and hard and worn smooth – no sign of the ceiling joint that governs passage direction in many Ontario caves (e.g. [...]
Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, books, cave digging, cave formation, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, hiking, history, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged cave exploration, caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario, discovery on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Penance in suffering
Exploring a newly found Ontario Cave
I am crawling along on sharp edged cobbles, a lot of the time with my flashlight in my mouth. For the dead mouse that we found, we decided to call this cave “Dead Mouse” – as in, “Wear kneepadswhen you are visiting “Dead Mouse”, and be prepared to get [...]
Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Hamilton, Caving in Ontario, Education, Eramosa Karst, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, News, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, books, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, hiking, history, my life, mystery, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, people, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario, exploring, geography of Ontario, geology of Ontario, rock of Ontario on June 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A cave like Nexus, but way south of there
Caving in Ontario
We realized that we were inadequately prepared to explore this new cave, we had only one flashlight and crawling on the cobbles without knee pads was painful to say the least. We resolved to poke our heads in a short distance and see what lay ahead [...]
Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Education, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, adventure in Ontario, books, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, hiking, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, people, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario, Ontario Cave on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We speculate as to the distance that the cave goes in
No sucking air
Immediate impressions at the entrance - the tunnel sloped down into water, a wide trench had been worn into the floor and though the water was not flowing at the time, it certainly flowed some times as the debris out front suggests a significant [...]
Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Education, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, books, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Real cave down around Lake Erie
Caving in Ontario
Pushing our way through hawthornes and various bushes we approached a low escarpment, it broke the edge of a farmer’s field and then disappeared under a mound of rich, brown soil.
Mid-way up the escarpment I could just see the darkened shadow of an opening and Jeff’’s remark from [...]
Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, Travel, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, books, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, fossils, geography, geology, hiking, history, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, tagged caves in Canada, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who says there are no caves in Ontario?
Where the water flows from the mouth of the cave
A chance encounter on a bridge over a shallow ravine led us here to this swath of pebbles and rock that cut through a wheat field. We had been looking through the area as the air photos suggested the [...]
Posted in Adventures, Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, Canada, Caves, Education, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, collecting rocks near Bancroft, environment, exploration, geography, geology, gold, gold mining, history, industrial archeology, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, nature, ontario, panning for gold, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, vacation, tagged exploring in Ontario, looking for gold, mines in Ontario, Ontario geology, Ontario Gold Mine, prospecting in Ontario, rockhounding in Ontario on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quartz seam in which the gold was found is pushed up against the rock face.
Abandoned Ontario Gold Mine
Looking in from the entrance of the mine, this tunnel leads on for a short distance. The granite headwall against which the quartz seam seems pushed appears on the right. Further back in the valley outside the mine, [...]
Posted in Adventures, Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Interesting, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, gold, gold mining, industrial archeology, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, panning for gold, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, tagged finding gold, geology of Ontario, gold in Ontario, rock collecting, rock in ontario, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gold Bearing Quartz vein
Finding gold in Ontario
There are supposedly over 9000 abandoned mines known to exist in Ontario – shafts, caverns and tunnels, many collapsing, unstable or traps within which poisonous gases settle.
At this mine the granite hillside is undercut. Here a fallen boulder, streaking in oxidizing mineral residue, partially blocks a downward leading cavity. [...]
Posted in Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, Canada, Cobalt, Interesting, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, bizzare, collecting rocks near Bancroft, environment, exploration, gemstones, geography, geology, gold, gold mining, industrial archeology, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, ontario, panning for gold, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, strange places on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The gold was in a quartz vein, but it seems to have disappeared
Algoma Region
The vein in which the gold was found was obviously one of quartz. There is a fair bit of massive quartz scattered through the bush near by – some of the rock is translucent white and other pieces tend toward a waxy [...]
Posted in Adventures, Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, Canada, Caves, Education, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Photography, Rocks & Gems, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, collecting rocks near Bancroft, exploration, gemology, gemstones, geography, geology, gold, gold mining, history, industrial archeology, mines in northern Ontario, mystery, nature, ontario, panning for gold, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, tagged abandoned gold mines, Algoma, gold, gold in Ontario, looking for gold, rock and mineral, sault ste Marie on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hempfest near the Mine
Abandoned Gold Mine in Ontario
There are a couple of interesting rumors floating around about this mine, one, like the rumour of the chicken in El Dorado suggests that a local cow was found to have a nugget in its belly when slaughtered. Another rumor was that the fatality that contributed to the mine’s [...]
|
 | Lee on Abandoned Gold Mine North of t… |
| Lee on Abandoned Gold Mine North of t… |
 | Brad on The Cave – Ontario |
 | Christopher Fulke Gr… on The Abandoned Harcourt Graphit… |
 | Michal on The Abandoned Harcourt Graphit… |
