OVMC Kids Program
Location: Canadian Museum of Nature in the area past the restaurant on th ground floor. Book this youth event. More details to come.
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** NOTE: Mineral collecting field trips will begin again in the Spring. Click on Previous Events below to browse past field trips, meetings and other events. Come to our monthly meetings which are held every second Thursday each month. Bring your rocks and minerals to have experts identify or exchange for other minerals plus attend fascinating presentations. Presentations are in English but bilingual club members would be happy to translate questions.
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Canadian Museum of Nature 240 MacLeod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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OVMC Youth Program
Canadian Museum of Nature 240 MacLeod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada6:00 PM Youth Program Workshops Location: Canadian Museum of Nature in the large area past the restaurant Presenter: Inna Lykova, PhD, Research Scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature 1st Workshop: Symmetry in minerals: unveiling crystal patterns followed by 2nd Workshop: Starting your own mineral collection: tips, tricks, and a give away Suggested Age Levels:...
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Beryl Pit Field Trip
Quadeville - meet at Kauffeldt's Grocery Store Quadevilles, Ontario, CanadaThe Beryl Pit is an open pit with a large field of mine dump material that has been bulldozed for easier discovery. Originally, beryl was discovered in 1897 then the mine opened in the 1920s. There are a variety of minerals that can be found here including beryl, pyrite, columbite, euxenite, tourmaline, fluorite, various quartz,...
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Yates Mine Field Trip
Otter Lake Otter Lake, Quebec, CanadaThe Yates Mine was originally worked in 1906-07 for mica and fluorite and later in the 40’s and 50’s for fluorite and uranothorite. Possible minerals to be uncovered are: allanite, apatite, calcite, diopside, fluorite, microcline, molybdenite, phlogopite mica, pyroxene, scapolite thorianite, titanite, tremolite and zircon. Parking is at the gate to the property. Since the...
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