Last weekend we decided to give in to our urges of the rock hounds within us and headed north to Quadeville, Lyndoch Township, about an hour drive from Bancroft.
The weather was perfect for us: sunny but not too hot, with some breeze to keep bugs away for most of the day (they actually managed to launch one major campaign against us during the whole day).
The owners of the Rose Quartz Pit, Dick and Heather, stayed with us for most of the day, gave us a lot of background about the formation of this magnificent geological spectacle, and they were so generous, they even guided us to their other site the Beryl Pit to see if we could find some other interesting mineral specimens.
In the Rose Quartz Pit we found gorgeous rose quartz specimens. I ended up bringing a beautiful piece home that weighed almost 50 pounds. There were also some nice beryl (goshenite) and smoky quartz specimens that we were able to hammer-and-chisel out. Some of the rarer minerals found were: samarskite, magnetite
In the Beryl Pit we found some additional but not as intact beryl (goshenite), nice black tourmaline, albite (cleavelandite) and small purple fluorite specimens.
