Links to Related Websites

• Sarnia's Stones 'N Bones Museum - insects, antlers, plus some minerals and fossils, great for the kids!

• A brief history of 200 years of mining in Ontario, excellent reading from Canada's Digital Collections

• fairly good information on 40 Bancroft mineral localities, though some of the information is out of date

• The Mineralogical Association of Canada, publisher of The Canadian Mineralogist magazine (technical mineralogy) and a series of superb Special Publications

• The Ontario Rocks mailing list - find out about upcoming events in SW Ontario; have your lapidary, mineral, rock, or fossil questions answered, etc., courtesy of the Brantford Lapidary & Mineral Society.

• Keep a close eye on Niagara Falls via this webcam (Pretty cool but it can't touch the MineCam.)

• Ontario Prospectors Association

• Dying to see a real lamprophyre dike? Misc. info and pix of Cobalt rocks & mins

• The Canadian Rockhound ezine - lots of good Canadian gem & mineral reading

• A superb site on Hemlo Gold Mines

• Some info from the mining company on the Werner Lake Cobalt Deposit

• Guide to Ontario Museums

• A great site on the iron mines of Atikokan

• Wat On Earth, a newsletter from the University of Waterloo's Earth Sciences Department

• What the Government of Ontario has to say about mineral collecting in Ontario

• The Eldorado Project - restoration of a frontier town at the site where Ontario's gold rush began

• Some interesting reading about the geology of the Madoc area

• Mineral Clubs in Ontario (London Gem & Mineral Society site here)

• Some info on collecting in Bancroft, from the Bancroft & District Chamber of Commerce

• Chillin wit da neutrinos 2070 meters underground at Sudbury's Creighton Mine

• Directions to, brief commentary upon, and photos of a half dozen localities near Bancroft

• Lots of mining & mineral stuff: Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines

• Ontario Geological Survey

• Field trip report - the Dundas Quarry, near Hamilton

• The story of the discovery of the first oil field in North America

• Some interesting stuff on meteorite impacts and the Sudbury crater

• Laurentian University's good Sudbury site

• The Ontario Mining Association site has lots of reading of a hard rock mining nature

• Some interesting Ontario mining stats provided by Prism Resources. Scroll down to the middle.

• Central Canadian Federation of Mineralogical Societies  - find a club near you

• www.trilobites.ca - The Museum of Orodovician Trilobites from the St-Lawrence & Great Lakes of Canada, his is a must-see site, a superb collection of photographs of trilobites, many from Ontario, by Frank Habets

• Collingwood Scenic Caves Nature Preserve (and gemstone panning!)

• The Royal Ontario Museum's Department of Palaeobiology has lots of good fossil stuff

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