We've moved! and let me tell you, eastern Ontario is AMAZING. The people are friendly, the driving is open and free, there is wild life galore, ( moose, bear, beaver, loon, woodpeckers, even wolves). The police are more relaxed THANK HEAVENS. The farm dogs wander the roads saying hello, and the barn kittens come and go as they please. If I had known it was this beautiful here, I would have moved a long time ago, it feels like what Canada is suppose to be like, a little bit country, and a little bit city. The opportunities for outdoor activities are endless here, and since We're now near the township of Stirling -Rawdon, its easy for us to commute to the Madoc/Bancroft area for the day and see what rocks and minerals We can find.
( I FOUND GOLD! another blog on this later.)
One of the perks of this move was the Mineral and stone wall greeting you at the front of an old 100 acre 1850's farmstead.
A ROCK HOUNDS DREAM WALL
The amount of gems/minerals/rocks in here was impressive, I'm no geologist/gemologist but it looks to be worth quite a few dollars.
( if someone out there has a clue, feel free to chime in on some of these specimens)
This looks to be a ruby that someone has hacked at,
This looks like azurite in quartz matrix?
Maybe azurite calcite?
From my tests I believe its pyrite, but the matrix its in I do not know, either quartz or calcite
(Im learning, bear with me).
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| Calcite? |
Calcite right?
Very metallic, non magnetic.
Its either pyrotite or magnetite but something is heavily magnetic. Right at the corner where the gold colour is, I can stick a magnet of any weakness.
( which I should have done for this picture but now its dark, maybe later)
Rose quartz?
Its hard to pick up but all those little flake like dots are all a metallic silver colour. Quartz?
Major iron rust in quartz.
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| Rock wall full of gems /minerals |
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| Rockhound dream wall |
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| Gemology |
Almost looks like that hooked X,
Azurite
Its amazing how spread out this group is, Im way in the country and all of a sudden I see this building driving down the road.
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