** 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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5:30 PM Mineral Identification and Kids Corner “Rock Doctor” Clinic: Starts at 5:30, ends at 6 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 activity for the membership (at times exceeding our capacity to... |
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1 or 2 Day Titanite Hill and CN Rock Pile Field Trip
Note change in plans to allow those only interested in a 1-day trip to Titanite Hill. Many members have already visited the CN Rock Pile so we have now scheduled Titanite Hill on Monday. Located about 25 minutes from Bancroft, Titanite Hill is part of the same local geology as the famous, now closed to...
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DeWitts Corner, south of Perth, is known as one of the finest spinel crystal locations in Canada. It was originally a calcite mine for feeding a local kiln back in the 1840s. Note: View Doug Scott's Blog article about Dewitts Corner being lost and found again for a fascinating deep dive. Other minerals besides spinel...
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