My new microscope and digial camera rig.
I bought myself nice starter AMScope stereo microscope with continuous zoom 20x to 90x. The digital camera is Celestron 5MP USB camera. I added a adjustable level LED light ring…
I bought myself nice starter AMScope stereo microscope with continuous zoom 20x to 90x. The digital camera is Celestron 5MP USB camera. I added a adjustable level LED light ring…
I have a chance to visit Oak Island in person in April 2019. Oak Island, NS.
Yooperlites from Pebble beach, Marathon, Ontario Yooperlites are an uncommon fine to coarse-grained gray igneous rock named syenite. It is composed mainly of alkali feldspar and ferromagnesian minerals such as hornblende. Yooperlites are…
Gemstone information is available for the following counties. Information comes from Gemstones of Idaho written by Alice Allebaugh. Reference: Idaho Lands website (I'm reposting here because data has a way of disppearring…
This information comes Department of Lands website. I'm reposting here because data has a way of disppearring off the internet. (Reference: Information comes from Gemstones of Idaho written by Alice Allebaugh.)…
Made another attempt to today find petrified wood in Ohio in Barnesville Belmont County area, using this article as a guide: The Aboriginal Use of Petrified Wood…
This last week, my family and I took a mineral collecting vacation to Thunder Bay, Ontario. The last stop on the trip was Pebble Beach in Marathon, Ontario in search…
Today, we visited our second amethyst mine in the Thunder Bay area: Panorama Amethyst Mine, in nearby Shuniah Ontario. Web site:http://www.amethystmine.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmethystMinePanorama/ Map: https://goo.gl/maps/zjFPFFsPakEt9dUo9 Things to know before you go... As of…
Yesterday, my family and I visited the Diamond Willow Amethyst Mine in Pearl Ontario which is about 40 km north of Thunder Bay. It is one of several mines in…