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 Bancroft gemboree, Buy The Book, Canada, Education, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, bizzare, books, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, crystal ball, crystals, culture, environment, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, haunted places, lapidary, looking for gems, magical, mystery, nature, occult, ontario, people, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, strange places, wierd on July 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Flittering images in a crystal ball.
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From the time of the Indian Raj’s, the Egyptian Queens or the Siamese Princes there had always been an irresistable draw to gem stones. What is it about these rarities that we so value? In my opinion, it is the beauty that is the attraction. [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Bancroft gemboree, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, backpacking, bizzare, caves in Ontario, caving, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, creepy places, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, nature, photos, picture of, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on June 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A tunnel that I am yet to explore.
IMG_1243, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is a great spot near Bancroft. An abandoned road runs northwards - an old settlers road - and though you can drive part of the way in your car, it soon degenerates to supposedly become impassable.
Just before an old cemetary there is a [...]
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Posted in Bancroft gemboree, Education, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, articles, bizzare, collecting rocks near Bancroft, environment, fossils, gemology, gems, gemstones, geology, looking for gems, my life, nature, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, science, wierd on June 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Natural treasure
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This ancient creature is immortalized in pyrite - a guy at the Bancroft Gemboree was selling several such relics.
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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?
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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 »
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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, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned, adventure in Ontario, animals, bizzare, books, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crystals, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, looking for gems, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, nature, ontario, photos, rock collecting, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching on May 31, 2007 | No Comments »
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The Sarnac Zircon mine was undoubtably one of my stranger “rockhounding experiences in the Bancroft area. The approach was through the bear-ravaged Monmouth County Dump. Tripping down a stinking wave of torn blue garbage bags we wandered along what could only be describesd as a “bear’s highway”, all scat-strewn and gouged [...]
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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
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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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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, crystals, culture, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, industrial archeology, looking for gems, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, science, strange places, trade, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, wierd on May 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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