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Prospecting, a couple of new mines, Cave Spiders, and a Calcite...
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Today, off west of Kaslo looking for rhodenite. I know there's a claim, have read a few mining reports that refer to other instances of it, I know it's up here. I just want a view of it in the field, to improve my finding ability (that's another post).
So:
Colorful mossy waterfall.
Pink, and sort of bulbous, in a tufa-sort of way. It proved to be a deep organic map of moss & vegetation. Cool, but not what I'm looking for...(you can see where I dug through it to the rock beneath, middle left)
Mine number #1, never would have seen this from the highway, but walking it becomes apparent. Note the Stalactites forming on the ceiling. And, note the trash in the back (it ends just out of site of the flash). Who does this? "Honey, I'm just running my trash 10 km out of town to a hole I found in a cliff...it'll save us a dollar on the collection!!"
Another mine, a few yards deeper - further up the road. Again, invisible from the highway at driving speed. This one has in the back formed some beautiful calcite terraces and "cave pearls". All this in probably a hundred short years..
In the cave it reflects a brilliant white by the flashlight. The flash doesn't do it justice.
Fine stalactites forming...look to the top left of the photo...
Yep. A shit-ton of cave spiders. Clusters, the edge of the crevasse is hairy with them. hundreds, huddled together for (?warmth? IDK WTF!?)
These are actually pretty common, at least in the first chambers of any mine/cave, but - well, I still brush my clothes a little anxiously and shake out my hair. You always spot them only after you've been brushing up against ceilings/walls, and then you discover (too late) that they're everywhere.
And, the end of this mine, an upturned ore cart, broken shovel, skull mask, and an ominous looking noose hanging from the ceiling. A little memorial to remind me that this isn't mine own private discovery (but the calcite - beautiful!)
Installation at Frog Peak Cafe
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Spotted this at Frog Peak Café, an art installation that works like a geocache - take a treasure, leave a treasure...
Hmmm. Another potential repository for Stormy Texas's abundant gifts...
Kootenay Landlords
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And, after the long day of waiting and the face to face facebook interview, she wanted me to drive up and look at the place again in morning.
Which I do.
Her son, he has no idea I'm coming, why I'm there, so I let him talk to her for a few minutes on the phone. I can hear his frustration, even to him she's a nightmare, finally he uses the "my phone is dead" excuse and bails on the call. Now she's calling me. I've brought the agreement? Yes...Now she just wants to add some caveats...that I won't smoke indoors (fine), that I'll mow the grass (it's coming into winter!!), sure, and so I'll shovel the snow as well, and I'll pay the utilities for the whole house just in case she can't find tenants for upstairs...
The price listed was $850, add in the utilities - , now $1300-$1400. Hmmmm.
But she's not done.
If she can't find upstairs tenants I can be her air b-n-b landlord, renting out the place upstairs, showing it, tidying it up afterwards...
...Oh, and did I want her to leave the furniture in the basement? And how much extra am I willing to pay for it?
I don't, furniture is cheap, I have my own.
....Oh, well, then, she'll need a deposit to pay the tradespeople to take it out of the suite, - and, of course, I'll have to pay storage on it as well...
It's fucking crazy, these Kootenay landlords, and somehow you're knowingly making a deal with the devil and they always find a way to make it worse...
I leave, I get a bunch of texts, a tear-felt apology left on my voicemail, she shouldn't have asked me not to smoke in the apartment...
Geodetic Benchmark
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Found while out prospecting, a Benchmark, of no value but curious...
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