A lifetime supply of Blue and Green

Today my family visited the Royal Ontario Museum, and we had a wonderful time.  Between dinosaurs and bat caves and totem poles and paperweights, we also explored the new Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth’s Treasures!  Here we found rocks of all shapes and sizes (even a meteor from the moon!) but it was the above …

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Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia

  The site of the old Dunbrack Mine caught our interest because the minerals found at the site included two rarities of particular interest: Azurite and Malachite. A local man who we met at the Nova Scotia Gem & Mineral Show, Doug, was kind enough to give us some details of what to look for …

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