This section is going to be devoted to ROCKS. All kinds of rocks but mostly the rocks of this area since those are the ones we know best.We'll start with general descriptions for now but as we get them we will add pictures. Soon we will have a Points of Interest section that will give you locations to Rockhound. We have some nice country and more than a few geological excursions a person could take; either to the wild and wooley wilderness where only the hardy go or a few minutes drive down the road if your juust passing through.

This area is well known as being very geologically active over the past millennia.  This activity has resulted in a wide variety of mineralization and given rise to many unique formations of materials. I use to be a gem stone hunter and I still am on the lookout for a nice quartz crystal but until I came here I never gave metals much thought. Our first days around we spent a lot of time looking at the mine dumps, familiarizing ourselves with the local ores. We came home with some nice samples of pyrite, chalcopyrite, massive chunks of galena, cobaltite, skudderudite, niccolite, pink calcite and massive quartz as well as a host of other minerals. Many local mine dumps are still owned by companies that use to operate here and they don't take kindly to trespassing from what I hear, but there are plenty of spots to hound on crown or public land. We have our own dumps to pick around in anyway.

The ores of this camp are made up of complex assembledges of elements all in varying compositions. Economic material was derived  from sulphide, arsenide and sulpharsenide mineralization.This mineralization has also occurred in a variety of host rocks such as diabase as fracture filling mineralization to sedimentary rock hosted disseminated and vein deposits. Nature and luck have conspired through glacial erosion, to afford us a look at all of the various rock types and their respective contacts with each other. It certainly is easier to understand the geological structure of an area when you can see it on the surface.

Check out the Rocks and Minerals page to see what we've found.
 
 

WARNING:  If you find yourself up this way and head to the bush seeking out old mine workings Please Be Careful. Everyone wants to take a look down the hole but the edges around them are likely to be unstable and you could fall in. Never go into any open cuts or Adits. These sites have not been tended in many years and the rock overhead may be loose or unstable or there may be deep pits or shafts in the floor that are hard to see. Also many Adits can contain pockets of unbreathable air or gases and you could suffocate quickly without the aid of a Self Contained Breathing Apparatus. Don't take chances. A young lad took a chance up here this past year and it nearly cost him his life.