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 [...]
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The Gold Mine – rumors and the Hempfest
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, Canada, Caves, collecting rocks near Bancroft, Education, exploration, gemology, gemstones, geography, geology, gold, gold mining, history, industrial archeology, Life, mines in northern Ontario, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, panning for gold, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, 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 | 6 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 [...]
Big Chunk of Natural Silver
Posted in abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, books, Buy The Book, Canada, Cobalt, collecting rocks near Bancroft, Education, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, industrial archeology, Interesting, looking for gems, My Book, 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, science, silver, silver mines, strange places, Travel, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged Add new tag, Cobalt, mineral collecting, museum, raw silver, rock and mineral, rockhound, rockhounding, silver, silver mines, Travel on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Raw Silver in Cobalt Mining Museum dad 043, originally uploaded by Mic2006. Here is my dad in the Cobalt mining museum. Sitting on top of a safe they have a chunk of silver that they dug out of the earth nearby worth around $14,000. I doubt that must be the value by weight – maybe [...]
Tourmaline at Coe Hill Gold Mine
Posted in abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft gemboree, books, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, Cobalt, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crystals, Education, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, gold, gold mining, hiking, industrial archeology, Interesting, Life, looking for gems, mine, mines in northern Ontario, My Book, 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, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, strange places, Travel, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged book, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, geology, gold, gold in Ontario, My Book, photos, rock and gems, rock and mineral, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, tourmaline on October 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Rocks Minerals and Caves in Ontario – the north IMG_1620, originally uploaded by Mic2006. This is Ralph holding a slab of “tourmaline in quartz” at the Coe Hill gold mine. There is an intrusion or pocket at the top oif a hill on that property that consists almost exclusively of quartz impregnated tourmaline. One interesting [...]
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 [...]
fluor – richterite; its pretty rare and amazing orthoclase
Posted in adventure in Ontario, articles, Bancroft gemboree, bizzare, books, Canada, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, crystals, Education, environment, exploration, feldspar, fluor-richterite, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, hiking, Interesting, looking for gems, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario's geology, pegmatite, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, strange places, Travel, wierd, tagged crystals, feldspar, fluor-richterite, gem, minerals, orthoclase, rock and mineral, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario on September 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just scattered in the woods so densely you can hardly walk without standing on a crystal P1020064, originally uploaded by Mic2006. 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 [...]
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