Fluor-richterite – Rockhound in Bancroft Ontario At first glance the Essonville Road Cut looked much like many others in the area – gnawed upon by rockhounds and strewn with shards of calcite and sand. Most immediately obvious were the huge black crystals that protruded from the calcite – a dyke that is theorized to [...]
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Fluor-richterite – Rockhound in Bancroft, Ontario
Posted in abandoned mines, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, books, collecting rocks near Bancroft, culture, cultures, Education, environment, exploration, feldspar, fluor-richterite, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, history, Interesting, lapidary, Life, looking for gems, mine, mines in northern Ontario, My Book, my life, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario geography, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, people, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, Travel, Uncategorized, wierd, tagged apatite mine, Bancroft, collecting crystals, crystals in Ontario, fluor-richterite, fluor-richtertite, Fluorichterite, gem mine, gem mine in Ontario, minerals, ontario, rare minerals, rare minerals in Ontario, Rochound in Bancroft, rock and gem, rock collecting, rock crystals, rock hound, rock Hounding, rockhounding, Silver mine, sodalite on January 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Shaft to down Below
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, gold, gold mining, industrial archeology, Interesting, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, panning for gold, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, 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 [...]
Abandoned Mine Tour – Colonial Mine – Cobalt
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft gemboree, bizzare, books, Buy The Book, Canada, Cobalt, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, history, 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, silver, silver mines, strange places, Travel, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, vacation, wierd, tagged abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, industrial archeology, rock collecting, rock collecting in Ontario, rockhound, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks and gems, rocks in Ontario, silver, silver mines, underground, urban exploration on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Whats under Cobalt P1020263, originally uploaded by Mic2006. I just got back from Cobalt last night, it was a long drive – 6 hours. While in Cobalt I took an abandoned mine tour. Its a service offered by the local museum – well worth doing if you like that kind of thing. This here is [...]
Abandoned Dwyer Fluorite Mine
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, Bancroft gemboree, bizzare, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crystals, environment, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, industrial archeology, Interesting, Life, looking for gems, mine, mines in northern Ontario, My Book, 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, tagged abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, geology of Ontario, rock collecting, rock collecting in Ontario, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks and minerals on September 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I thought I had made a new discovery P1010863, originally uploaded by Mic2006. I noticed this blocked up mine and an interesting scar above it when I was travelling along Old Mumford Road after an unsucessful attempt to find the Tripp Nu-age mine. I thought that I had found a new area for collecting rocks [...]
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