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Hi,

 

I live in Hamilton, ON, I was wondering if there are any rockhounds in my neighbourhood.

Could you let me know?

 

Thank you!

Melissa

My husband and I prowl logging roads.  We've pretty well driven all the back roads in our immediate area.  Recently we went to the Port Alberni area and bumped our way up and down spurs.  This is an area of basalt with few white quartz vugs, breccia (Dallasite) and banded chert that often is fractured.  This Saturday I whined that soon we'd be stuck indoors and so we drove the Bamfield road, taking side mains and spurs.  Not much was happening until we happened upon a black bear (watching us… Continue

hi,

so how does this work,

i guess we're all after the same thing.

rocks! of all form, shape, color or size;

and before you know it, you got more than you realize.

so go out and find some       peter

Terry and I headed north only after discovering that the usual places to stay were filled with engineers working on the Port Alice pulp mill.  We ended up in a "not suggested" older hotel in Port McNeil - the Dalewood which was clean and cool (windows opened) and had the best food in town.  We drove every day in a different direction, back roads map book in hand.    This book is both useful and not useful in equal parts.  The current logging companies have renamed (or unnamed) all the mains…

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