Canadian Rockhound Summer / Fall 2003 : Volume 7, Number 2 Emerald Feature Contents: The Emerald – Colombia's Gem of Folklore, Aid, and Legend By Habeeb Salloum Emerald in Canada By Willow Wight A Mystery in the Mountains: What Really is the Howell Creek Structure? By Darren P. Maine Geology Streets By Chris MacKinnon My Favourite Rock Find: A Piece of Canadian History By Kathleen G. Beattie Canadian Rockhound Winter / Spring 2003 : Volume 7, Number 1 Red Lake Gold Mine Contents: Geology of the Red Lake Mine, Ontario, Canada: the Richest Grade Gold Mine in the World By Dr. Fuzail Siddiqui Outstanding Giant Quartz and Sphalerite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec By Daniel Comtois The Pine Point Mine By Robert Carr, Mike Beauregard, and Peter Hager Amber: The Dominican Republic's Gem Which Inspired Jurassic Park By Habeeb Salloum Canadian Rockhound Summer / Fall 2002 : Volume 6, Number 2 The Gargoti Mineral Museum, Nasik, India Contents: The Alluring Amethyst adds to Thunder Bay's Tourist Appeal By Habeeb Salloum The Gargoti Mineral Museum, Nasik, India By John Biczok How to Tumble and Polish your Stones By Ron Shannon Canadian Rockhound Winter / Spring 2002 : Volume 6, Number 1 Mineralogical Feature Contents: Occurrence and Origin of Diamonds By Edgar G. Pye The Minerals of Monte Bianco By Marco Macchieraldo Hessonite Garnets from the Jeffrey Mine, Québec By Sylvain Roy Borates and other Minerals from the Evaporates of Nova Scotia By Ronnie Van Dommelen Canada's Top Ten Minerals By Charles A. Gould, Tim Jokela Jr., David K. Joyce and Dirk F. Schmid Canadian Rockhound Summer / Fall 2001 : Volume 5, Number 2 The B.C. Jade Violin Contents: Collecting Minerals at Ste-Justine-de-Newton, Québec, Canada By Daniel Comtois The Ice River Complex, British Columbia By Rick Hudson Genesis of the B.C. Jade Violin By Randy Lord Encounters with a Prospector: George Swanson, discoverer of Blue Lace Agate By Rick Hudson Greenstone Belts of Canada By M.W. Downey Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History Book Review by Marilyn Fraser Canadian Rockhound Winter / Spring 2001 : Volume 5, Number 1 Nunavut Feature Contents: Rockhounding in Nunavut, Canada's Newest Territory By John Thomas An Overview of the Geology and Economic Minerals of Nunavut By David J. Scott Some Collectable Mineral Localities in Nunavut By Dirk Schmid and Doug Miller Cubanite, a rare copper-iron sulphide mineral from Thompson, Manitoba By David Joyce and Dirk Schmid The Craigmont Mine By John Ratcliffe Sodalite: A Rare Silicate Mineral By Marilyn Fraser Some Samples to Remember! By Edgar G. Pye Rockhounding along New Brunswick's North Shore by Campbellton By Mike Lavoie Manitoba Museum now home to World's Biggest Trilobite The Manitoba Museum of Man & Nature Some West Coast Crinoid Fossils By Peter Thorne Manitoba once home to Tusoteuthis, an extinct species of giant squid By Mike Waddell Between a rock and a hard place: teaching basic paleontology to children By Rick Hudson Sir William Logan, founder of the Geological Survey of Canada and innovative cartographer Marilyn Fraser Proposed National Park to Protect Manitoba's Lowlands By Canadian Nature Federation Ammolite 2: A Guide for Gemmologists, Jewellers and Lapidaries By Donna Barnson Canadian Rockhound Summer / Fall 2000 : Volume 4, Number 2 Canadian Jade Feature Contents: The Jades By Dean S.M. Field Nephrite Jade, The Stone of Heaven By Marilyn Fraser The Jade Mines of B.C. By Marilyn Fraser Botryoidal Jade: Rarest of the Rare Jades By Duke McIsaac Canadian Carvers of Nephrite Jade By Marilyn Fraser Collecting Spinels at the Parker Mine, near Notre-Dame du Laus, Québec By Daniel Comtois Once upon a Drusy: A Quartz and Calcite Vug from Graham Island, British Columbia By Dutes Dutheil Rare "Pineapple" Quartz from Cummins Creek, northern British Columbia By Randy Lord Precious Opal from the Northern Lights Claim, Whitesail Mountains, British Columbia By Randy Lord Mineral Collecting in Santa Eulalia, Mapimi, and Cerro del Mercado, Mexico By Walter Bowser Rockhounding at Caland Lake, a Naturalized Abandoned Mine Site near Atikokan, Ontario By Shawn J. Allaire Scenic Stone By Dutes Dutheil The HBO Meteorite By Otto Grathwohl Canadian Rockhound Winter / Spring 2000 : Volume 4, Number 1 Amethyst Contents: Amethyst: Ontario's Mineral Emblem By Edgar G. Pye The Spruce Claim Amethyst Sceptre Zone By Ron Zeilstra The Rock Candy Mine By Chris J.P. Rylands Mineral Collection Draws World of Visitors to Marion, Kentucky By Ron Stubblefield The Mystery of B.C.'s Rock Art Paintings By John Ratcliffe The Thunder Bay Agate Mine By Dennis Seargeant Collecting at Black Lake Mine, Quebec By Daniel Comtois Dorfmanite: A rare sodium phosphate mineral from the Tanco Mine, Manitoba By Richard Gunter Robert Carr, A Subarctic Mineral Collector By Mike Beauregard Geology of the Fraser Valley By Bruce MacLellan Earthquake! By Marilyn Fraser Seeing Suchomimus By Steve Brusatte Complete Faceters Project By Phyllis Richardson The Centennial Cut By W. "Bill" Moldown A Dogwood Bud - Faceting Style By Marion Wood Roadside Geology of Ontario: North Shore of Lake Superior Book Review by Dirk Schmid Canadian Rockhound Summer / Fall 1999 : Volume 3, Number 2 Micromounting Contents: Secrets Under the Scope By Quintin Wight Top Ten Reasons to try Micromounting By Tim Jokela Jr. Zeolite Minerals from the Kamloops Region of British Columbia By John Ratcliffe The Society Girl Mine By Tony Smith Native Gold and Pegmatite Minerals from the Bird River-Bisset Region of Manitoba By Richard Gunter The 'Adelaide' Crocoite Mine, Dundas, Tasmania By Tony Forsyth Blue Coloured Quartz from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec By Daniel Comtois Collecting Fossils with Canadian Rockhounds at Mazon Creek near Ottawa By Steve Brusatte Geo-Centre of British Columbia By Rick Hudson A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia, Volume II Book Review by Dirk Schmid Canadian Rockhound Winter / Spring 1999 : Volume 3, Number 1 Canadian Gemstones Feature Contents: Gemstone Occurrences in British Columbia By Brad S. Wilson Canadian Tourmaline: A New Discovery By Brad S. Wilson Precious Opal in Canada By Bob Yorke-Hardy Carving in Blue Chalcedony By Greg Fraser Working with Jade By Tod Leedham Producing your own Gemstones By Doug Frey Oncorhynchus nerka (Salmon) Fossil Find near Kamloops Lake, British Columbia By John Ratcliffe The Horne Lake Caves By Ron Zeilstra B.C.'s Vanishing Land Access By Rick Hudson Cubic Garnets Found in Maryland and Virginia Streams By Jack Nelson Saskatchewan's Type Locality Minerals By Doug Miller Cobaltite By Richard Gunter Canadian Rockhound Summer 1998 : Volume 2, Number 1 Mont Saint-Hilaire Feature Contents: Mont Saint-Hilaire By Marc Favre How Mont Saint-Hilaire was Formed By Martin van Kuilenburg Collecting at Mont Saint-Hilaire in 1997 By László and Elsa Horváth Horváthite-(Y) Abstracted by Robert Gault Kukharenkoite-(Ce) Abstracted by Malcolm Back Lukechangite-(Ce) Abstracted by Malcolm Back Normandite Abstracted by Robert Gault Sheldrickite Abstracted by Malcolm Back The UK 58 Group: Quintinite-3T, Charmarite-2H, Charmarite-3T and Caresite-3T Abstracted by Malcolm Back Gypsum Rossettes from the Red River Floodway By Ron Zeilstra Weird and Wonderful Quartz from Alberta By Mike Menzies Meteorites from Antarctica By Rick Hudson New Canadian Website Features Handmade Jewellery by Saskatchewan Goldsmith By Dirk Schmid A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone, & Mineral Sites of British Columbia, Volume I: Vancouver Island Book Review by Dirk Schmid Almandine Garnet By Richard Gunter Chromite By Richard Gunter Tancoite By Richard Gunter Tetrahedrite By Richard Gunter Canadian Rockhound Fall 1997 : Volume 1, Number 4 Bancroft, Canada's Mineral Capital Contents: Bancroft, Ontario: Canada's Mineral Capital By Sandra Downs Gold Deposits in the Madoc Area of Eastern Ontario By Bob Bredberg The Madoc-Bancroft Geological Corridor of Eastern Ontario By Bob Bredberg Lapidary Materials of the Bancroft Area By Tim Jokela Jr. A Lesson for all Rockhounds By Liz Askew Spectralite Mountain By Ben Hyman The No. 22 Dyke By Richard Gunter Mineral Collecting in Mexico By Walter Bowser The Foothills Erratics Train By Murray Nicholson A Rocky Mountain Mystery By Murray Nicholson British Columbia Fossil Bed Locations By John Ratcliffe Touchstone By Daniel Mahoney Rockhounds By Larry Rush Andalusite By Doug Miller Hematite By Richard Gunter Rubellite By Richard Gunter Hackmanite By Sandra Downs Potash By Doug Miller Canadian Rockhound Summer 1997 : Volume 1, Number 3 Paleontology Feature Contents: Fossils of Newfoundland and Labrador By W. Douglas Boyce Fossils of the Horton Bluff Assemblage, Nova Scotia By Ronnie Van Dommelen and Barry Cameron Trilofest '97 Conference By Stuart Milliken Death of a Fossil Site By Gary Morse Ammonite Jewellery By Chester Miller Archean Butterstone By Clive Knell Rockhounding in Nova Scotia By Doug Wilson Rockhounding on Vancouver Island By Rick Hudson Microbial Communities Deep Below the Surface By Dirk Schmid Diamond By Doug Miller Cordierite (Part II) By Richard Gunter Canadian Rockhound Spring 1997 : Volume 1, Number 2 Gemstones Contents: How Gems are Classified By John Miller How Gems are Cut and Polished By John Miller Ozokerite By Rick Hudson Murphy's Law and Mineral Collecting By Larry Rush Saskatchewan's Fossils By Doug Miller Halite By Doug Miller Cordierite (Part I) By Richard Gunter Canadian Rockhound Winter 1997 : Volume 1, Number 1 Premier Issue Contents: The Pegmatite Minerals of Bernic Lake By Dirk Schmid and Marjorie Reynolds Mesabi, A tale of red jasper By Rick Hudson Amber, Frozen Moments in Time By Garry Platt Beryl By Richard Gunter Clinozoisite By Richard Gunter Cordierite By Doug Miller Selenite By Doug Miller Top of Page

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