What's New at Ontariominerals.com

Here you'll find a list of the latest additions and improvements made to the site.

09/2003

- new photographs of very fine Ontario fluorapatite, silver, gold, fluorite, goethite and hematite, kindly provided by Marty Lewadny

- new link to the website of Sarnia's Stones 'N Bones Museum

03/2003

- NEW BOOK: Mineral Species Described in Canada and Species Named after Canadians, by Laszlo Horvath, order online from the Mineralogical Association of Canada

- NEW BOOK: Ontario Rocks, Three Billion Years of Environmental Change, by Nick Eyles, superb and thorough coverage of the geology of Ontario, available at bookstores

- new links: the history of mining in Ontario, and info on forty Bancroft mineral localities

- made a couple of corrections, thanks to the sharp eyes of Matt Neuzil

01/2003 - more work done on the alphabetical list, up to annabergite so far

11/2002:

- Charlie and Florence Magovern provided a fine Isotelus trilobite photo

- Glenn Sloggett has provided a photo of a superb fossil Eurypterid

- Eight minerals new to the province: ishikawaite, tanteuxenite-(Y), hingganite-(Y), kobeite-(Y), pyrophanite, iimoriite-(Y), calciosamarskite, and yttrotantalite-(Y), all discovered by Scott Ercit and presented at the 2002 Rochester Mineralogical Symposium. Scott has also clarified other species and added to the list of localities.

- The mineral list has been split up alphabetically. This will make things quicker, as the entire list of all known Ontario minerals which I'll be inputting over the next few years is a massive amount of data.

03/2002:

- I've begun a complete (as possible) listing of Ontario minerals. This is a massive project, (e.g. 47 acanthite localities, 43 actinolite localities), and will be completed in a few years.

- crystal drawings of corundum, datolite, nickel-skutterudite, pyrargyrite, sperrylite, and zircon, from Goldschmidt's Atlas of Crystal Forms, have been added to the Photo Gallery

- the Literature section (24 pages of references!) has been cleaned up and alphabetized by author

- in the type localities section, I've listed all other localities the minerals have been discovered at

- a couple of maps are in the map section, so you can finally see where Ontario is

- A photo gallery with over 100 photos of Ontario minerals is now online

- A localities section has been started which will eventually have photos and articles on the top Ontario mineral localities. Photos and a list of minerals from the Beryl Pit, near Quadeville, have been posted, as well as photos of the York River Skarn Zone, Blue Point Mine, and the Dundas Quarry.

- A section on Ontario fossils has been started. Contributions are definitely needed.

07/2001:

- kamotoite-(Y) is the latest addition to the mineralogy of Ontario

- a section on basic field collecting safety has been added

- a list of Ontario meteorites is now up

- four  new links added, including one to a live webcam at Niagara Falls

- the gem section has been reorganized, and data from the ROM collection added