Abandoned Mine near Niagara Falls – Ontario mine, originally uploaded by Mic2006. As you might guess by my post I did not go to P-Lake today. I woke up At around 03:30 with a terrible headache (I always get one when the clouds are moving in and I hear we are in for a severe [...]
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Abandoned Mine near Niagara Falls – Ontario mine
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, crazy things, creepy places, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, hiking, history, industrial archeology, Interesting, Life, mine, My Book, my life, Nature/Outdoors, niagara escarpment, ontario, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, tagged Abandoned Mine, abandoned mines in Ontario, exploring abandoned mines, Ontario rock, Ontario sandstone, urb ex, urban exploration, Urban exploration in Ontario on October 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The near-abandoned Bristol Mine
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, Adventures, Bancroft gemboree, books, Buy The Book, Canada, collecting rocks near Bancroft, environment, exploration, geography, geology, gold, gold mining, hiking, industrial archeology, Interesting, Life, looking for gems, mine, my life, nature, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, Rocks & Gems, rocks and minerals, rockwatching, strange places, Travel, tagged Abandoned Mine, collecting minerals, gold, outdoors, Quebec, rock and mineral, rockhound, rockhounding, Travel on December 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Abandoned mine in Quebec – Bristol Mine P1020339, originally uploaded by Mic2006. Had an interesting time last weekend. I went to see the old abandoned Bristol Mine along the banks of the Ottawa River. The “town” of bristol mines still exists and the old mine property is still obvious for its enormous heaps tailings. Bristol [...]
The Abandoned Harcourt Graphite Mine near Bancroft
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, accident, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft gemboree, bizzare, books, Buy The Book, Canada, caves in Ontario, Caving in Ontario, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, creepy places, culture, economics, Education, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, history, industrial archeology, Interesting, Life, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, rocks in Ontario, strange places, Travel, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, wierd, tagged abandoned, Abandoned Mine, abandoned mines in Ontario, collecting minerals, exploring, mineral, mines in northern Ontario, Northern Ontario, rock and mineral, rockhounding, underground, urban exploration on September 27, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Abandoned Mine in Northern Ontario P1010856, originally uploaded by Mic2006. 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 [...]
Abandoned Rare Earth Mine near Bancroft Ontario
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft gemboree, bizzare, books, Canada, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, creepy places, crystals, Education, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, industrial archeology, Interesting, Life, looking for gems, mines in northern Ontario, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, strange places, Travel, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged abandoned, Abandoned Mine, Abandoned mine in ontario, abandoned mine near Bancroft, Bancroft, caped mine, capped mine, closed up mine, Ontario Mine, rare earth, sealed up mine, underground on July 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »
looking down the abandoned shaft deep into the earth IMG_1286, originally uploaded by Mic2006. On my hunt for zircon in the Bancroft area I managed to find this old mine that had reputedly unearthed some pretty interesting mineral specimens – many of which were said to be radioactive – some of which are reported [...]







