Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Cobalt, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, animals, bigfoot, bizzare, books, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, creepy places, cryptozoology, culture, environment, exploration, geography, geology, haunted places, hiking, industrial archeology, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, mystery, nature, occult, ontario, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, sasquatch, silver, silver mines, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, wierd on July 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Locals call him “old yellow mane”.
IMG_1821, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Though Doug Shier tells me that all roads in the area lead back to Cobalt, I am warned by an older gent in the Silver Load Hotel’s restaurant to be careful out there if I am exploring the ore piles. It was a little cryptic; you might [...]
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Posted in Canada, Cobalt, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, backpacking, bizzare, collecting rocks near Bancroft, creepy places, crystals, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, geography, geology, haunted places, hiking, mines in northern Ontario, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, rock collecting, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, silver, silver mines, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, wierd on June 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What on earth is a glory hole?
IMG_1813, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
At the edge of Cobalt there is a deep open pit that is said to drop down 250 feet. The bottom is filled with cold, black water. A cable cuts across the top right of the picture. At one time there was a spider web [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Cobalt, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, backpacking, bizzare, collecting rocks near Bancroft, culture, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, hiking, industrial archeology, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, nature, ontario, photos, rock collecting, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, silver, silver mines, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, wierd on June 2, 2007 | No Comments »
IMG_1905, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Miro, a former Polish Mine worker got quite excited when he saw my photo. “We used to call those “gornicza tadowarka” (mine dumpers)”. They were powered from compressed air that fed from the surface. Apparently the pressure could vary quite considerably depending on how far you were from the main line [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Canada, Cobalt, Interesting, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, backpacking, bizzare, culture, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, hiking, industrial archeology, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, nature, ontario, photos, rock collecting, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, silver, silver mines, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration on June 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Me getting info for my article in Rock and Gem - Cobalt and the Tardis
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About two years ago I went up to the town of Cobalt in Northern Ontario - what a fantastic place, I keep meaning to return - it has a kind of time warp quality - a bit [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Canada, Cobalt, Interesting, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned, collecting rocks near Bancroft, economics, environment, exploration, gemology, geography, geology, lapidary, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, ontario, photos, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, silver, silver mines, wierd on May 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Rockhounding in Ontario
IMG_2027, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Howard pointed out that one of my previous posts had popped up on the internet indicating that it contained a photo of raw silver - it appears that the photo had gone so .. here it is - the post again with the picture.
“This is a lump of high [...]
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