** 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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Meeting Location: Canadian Museum of Nature in the Theatre downstairs 5:30 PM Mineral Identification and Swap Shop “Rock Doctor” Clinic: Starts at 5:30, ends at 6:30 PM. Members are free to bring in a reasonable number of samples or specimens to be identified by the expert mineralogists in the club. This has been a very popular...
The OVMC will have a booth at the EY Centre Gem and Mineral Show. Explore an extraordinary collection of crystals, fossils, gemstones, and handcrafted jewelry—each a masterpiece shaped by the forces of nature and time. Show Hours Thursday to Saturday | 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM Sunday | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Details Admission:...
6:00 PM Youth Program Workshops Location: Canadian Museum of Nature in the large area past the restaurant Four workshop facilitators will hold two workshops. Much appreciation is extended to Inna Lykova, PhD, Research Scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature for organizing this Youth Program. 1st Workshop: Symmetry in minerals: unveiling crystal patterns followed by...
The 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,...
Join us and win door prizes! ZOOM For those who cannot make it to the Museum of Nature but would like to attend remotely, we will do a Zoom as well as record the meeting. To join the Zoom between 6:00 - 6:15 p.m use the following Zoom link: Topic: OVMC Meeting - Quintin Wight Award...
The 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...
The 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...
The Long Lake Zinc Mine (Sometimes called the Richardson Mine) started in 1897 with a number of mining operations in the early and mid 1900s focusing on zinc and lead ores. Minerals that can be found in the mine dumps (as shown above) are: aragonite, calcite, chondrodite, diopside, dolomite, hydrozincite, smithsonite, galena, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, quartz, sphalerite and ‘garnet group’ (Italics: fluorescent...
This trip has been cancelled. The owners of Burgess Mine no longer allow mineral collecting because of some past rockhounding people left garbage and did not respect the property. The Burgess Mine and Logan Cuts is part of the same mountainous area as the Craigmont Corundum Mine. We can drive to the Burgess workings (close...
The Miller Property includes the Smart Mine established around 1880. Apatite was the main target because of its phosphate used as fertilizer. The main minerals that can be found are apatite, fluorapatite, calcite, biotite, microcline felspar, amazonite, titanite and zircon. Parking is fairly close to the diggings although low cars may want to park a...
Amherst Island is located just south of Kingston. We will meet at the Ferry at 10:00 am. After a short ferry ride at 10:30 am, we plan to visit two fossil locations: 11:00 am at Topsy Farms and in the afternoon at the far south-east end of island near the bird sanctuary. Note: We did...
Members can choose to attend just one day or both days. Reserve a motel in Bancroft early if staying overnight. Please register at the bottom of this page for each day. Saturday: Schickler Fluorite Occurrence and Desmont Mine Near Wilberforce (about 30 minutes from Bancroft) are two mineral locations. We will meet at the Bancroft...
