This page contains an index of online electronic issues published by the Canadian Rockhound magazine since 1997. All magazine issues are available online for free viewing. You don't need to subscribe. To view an issue, just click on any link below.

2000 Issues

Summer / Fall 2000 – Volume 4, No. 2 – Now Online!

• The Jades
• Nephrite Jade, The Stone of Heaven
• The Jade Mines of B.C.
• Botryoidal Jade: Rarest of the Rare Jades
• Canadian Carvers of Nephrite Jade
• Collecting Spinels at the Parker Mine, near
  Notre-Dame du Laus, Québec
• Once upon a Drusy: A Quartz and Calcite Vug from
  Graham Island, British Columbia
• Rare "Pineapple" Quartz from Cummins Creek,
  northern British Columbia
• Precious Opal from the Northern Lights Claim,
  Whitesail Mountains, British Columbia
• Mineral Collecting in Santa Eulalia, Mapimi,
  and Cerro del Mercado, Mexico
• Rockhounding at Caland Lake, a Naturalized Abandoned
  Mine Site near Atikokan, Ontario
• Scenic Stone
• The HBO Meteorite

Winter / Spring 2000 – Volume 4, No. 1

• Amethyst: Ontario's Mineral Emblem
• The Spruce Claim Amethyst Sceptre Zone
• The Rock Candy Mine
• Mineral Collection Draws World of Visitors to Marion, Kentucky
• The Mystery of B.C.'s Rock Art Paintings
• The Thunder Bay Agate Mine
• Collecting at Black Lake Mine, Quebec
• Dorfmanite: A rare sodium phosphate mineral from the Tanco Mine, Manitoba
• Robert Carr, A Subarctic Mineral Collector
• Geology of the Fraser Valley
• Earthquake!
• Seeing Suchomimus
• Complete Faceters Project
• The Centennial Cut
• A Dogwood Bud - Faceting Style
• Roadside Geology of Ontario: North Shore of Lake Superior

1999 Issues

Summer / Fall 1999 – Volume 3, No. 2

• Secrets Under the Scope
• Top Ten Reasons to try Micromounting
• Zeolite Minerals from the Kamloops Region of
  British Columbia
• The Society Girl Mine
• Native Gold and Pegmatite Minerals from the Bird River-
  Bisset Region of Manitoba
• The 'Adelaide' Crocoite Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
• Blue Coloured Quartz from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec
• Collecting Fossils with Canadian Rockhounds at Mazon Creek near Ottawa
• Geo-Centre of British Columbia
• A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia, Volume II

Winter / Spring 1999 – Volume 3, No. 1

• Gemstone Occurrences in British Columbia.
• Canadian Tourmaline: A New Discovery.
• Precious Opal in Canada.
• Carving in Blue Chalcedony.
• Working with Jade.
• Producing your own Gemstones.
• Oncorhynchus nerka (Salmon) Fossil Find near
  Kamloops Lake, British Columbia.
• The Horne Lake Caves.
• B.C.'s Vanishing Land Access.
• Cubic Garnets Found in Maryland and Virginia Streams.
• Saskatchewan's Type Locality Minerals.
• Cobaltite.

1998 Issues

Summer / Fall 1998 – Volume 2, No. 1

• Mont Saint-Hilaire.
• How Mont Saint-Hilaire was Formed.
• Collecting at Mont Saint-Hilaire in 1997.
• Newly Described Minerals from Mont Saint-Hilaire.
• Gypsum Rossettes from the Red River Floodway.
• Weird and Wonderful Quartz from Alberta.
• Meteorites from Antarctica.
• New Canadian Website Features Handmade Jewellery
  by Saskatchewan Goldsmith.
• Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone, and Mineral Sites
  of British Columbia, Volume 1: Vancouver Island.
• Canada's Minerals: Almandine, Chlorite, Tancoite,
  and Tetrahedrite.
• Suggested books, magazines, and journal articles.

1997 Issues

Fall 1997 – Volume 1, No. 4

• Bancroft, Ontario: Canada's Mineral Capital.
• Gold Deposits in the Madoc Area of Eastern Ontario.
• The Madoc-Bancroft Geological Corridor of
  Eastern Ontario.
• Lapidary Materials of the Bancroft Area.
• A Lesson for all Rockhounds.
• Ontario's Spectrolite Mountain.
• The No. 22 Dyke.
• The Foothills Erratics Train.
• A Rocky Mountain Mystery.
• Mineral Collecting in Mexico.
• Resources for Rockhounds.
• Poems.
• Canada's Minerals: Andalusite, Hematite, Rubellite,
  Hackmanite, and Potash.

Summer 1997 - Volume 1, No. 3

• Fossils of Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Fossils of the Horton Bluff Assemblage, Nova Scotia.
• Trilofest '97 Conference.
• Death of a Fossil Site.
• Ammonite Jewellery.
• Archean Butterstone.
• Rockhounding in Nova Scotia.
• Rockhounding on Vancouver Island.
• Microbial Communities Deep Below the Surface.
• Canada's Minerals: Diamond and Cordierite (Part II).

Spring 1997 - Volume 1, No. 2

• How Gems are Classified.
• How Gems are Cut and Polished.
• Ozokerite.
• Murphy's Law and Mineral Collecting.
• Saskatchewan's Fossils.
• Rockhound Humor.
• Resources for Rockhounds.
• Canada's Minerals: Halite and Cordierite (Part I).

Winter 1997 - Volume 1, No. 1

• The Pegmatite Minerals of Bernic Lake.
• Mesabi, A tale of red jasper.
• Amber, Frozen Moments in Time.
• Canada's Minerals: Beryl, Clinozoisite, Cordierite, and Selenite.

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