Silver Crater Mine – Bancroft, originally uploaded by Mic2006. I paid my $2 at the house of the landowner whose property I had to cross and then headed off into the woods. I’d heard that the path to the mine was about 4 miles long (it was not), but possibly longer, and the route was [...]
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Silver Crater Mine – Bancroft
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, collecting rocks near Bancroft, Education, environment, exploration, geography, geology, industrial archeology, Interesting, My Book, my life, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, strange places, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, wierd, tagged abandoned mines, Bancroft, betafite, minerals in Ontario, radioactive rocks and minerals, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks and minerals on August 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Caving in Ontario – A tube up which I crawled
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, backpacking, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, caves in Ontario, Caving in Ontario, Eramosa Karst, exploration, extreme sports, geography, guelph, hiking, history, Interesting, Life, My Book, my life, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Photography, photos, picture of, sinkholes in Ontario, sports, Toronto Cave Group, underground, underground Ontario, tagged caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario, geography of Ontario, karst in Ontario, Ontario caves, rocks and minerals on August 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Here are 2 links to video that I took this weekend. Both these short clips are of Pilgrim’s Crawl, an Ontario cave that is yet to be followed to it’s end. I’d say the biggest problem are the tunnel’s scallops, it’s like crawling against a cheese grater and my cave suit shows it after doing [...]
I explore the Old Mine Beneath Robillard Mountain – Corundum in Ontario
Posted in abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, bizzare, Buy The Book, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, history, industrial archeology, Interesting, Life, mine, mines in northern Ontario, My Book, my life, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, sapphires, strange places, Travel, tunnels, Uncategorized, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, tagged abandoned mines in Northern Ontario, Boulter road near Bancroft, collecting minerals near Bancroft, collecting minerals near Craigmont, corundum, corundum in Northern Ontario, Corundum in Ontario, corundum near bancroft, Craigmont, nepheline syenites, old mine tunnels, Ontario rockhound, rock Hounding, rockhound, rockhounding, Rocks & Gems, rocks and minerals, sapphires in Ontario, Syenite, syenite in Ontario, Syenite under Robillard Mountain on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Beneath Robillard Mountain Craigmont is about as distant from the reach of the modern world as you are likely to get in the “near north”. Indeed it appears on the map as a substantial settlement but as you cruise up Boulter road you become aware of how far you really are, both geographically and culturally [...]
cabbed and rough corundum crystal
Posted in abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, books, Buy The Book, Canada, collecting rocks near Bancroft, corundum, crystals, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, Interesting, lapidary, Life, looking for gems, mine, My Book, my life, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, sapphires, strange places, Travel, tagged Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, corundum, crystal zoning, crystals, gems, minerals, ontario, rock and gems, rockhounding, rocks and minerals, rough sapphire on November 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
finding sapphires in Ontario Faceted and rough corundum crystal, originally uploaded by Mic2006. This is what ruby and sapphire looks like in their rougher forms. They are hexagonal crystals, generally displaying a six sided shape and in the case of the cabbed ruby in the fore-ground, also showing some pretty obvious hexagonal zoning. Zoning indicates the [...]
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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