So, around Nelson and waiting for snow to melt. Should have packed some books. The nights, especially between 8 pm -8 - am are long, dark, cold, but not tired, and no book to read. And up early, too early, too cold to go out, a book would be some small company. There's no radio, no wifi, no nothing up there, which is why it's so promising, a couple of long claims on Goldstream, Carnes Creek, and about 70 km in between.

Make use of my time to gather supplies and prepare...

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North of Revelstoke, still too much snow to reasonably explore. Next week again:

Bears, bears, everywhere. Fortunately looking sleek and well fed. 6 in one day!

The road North towards Mica Dam...

End of the road about 20 km past the Mica Dam

Staffs in the sand, resembling dragons, campsite.

 

Snowy river...

Promising vein of rotting, rusty quartz. West of Trout Lake, beside the road, I should have gathered some of the degraded rust and panned it, but as it was beside the road I told myself that it had doubtless been done before. That's piss-poor reasoning. 

Copper in the ore. Promising. Should have panned it...Next Week!!!

Spray of Black Tourmaline (Schorl) in pegmatite. Mighty fine, but no other gems, and the tourmaline was largely crumbly.

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Perfect place to try the Trump Cure and shoot up on Lysol and Bleach...

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So far, a nightmare of Ticks, hordes of other as yet unidentified biting insects, and very few finds. A new pegmatite, no gems...anyways, let the pictures tell the tale:

Striated & mineralized schist..

Green gob-spawn of some sort on quartz...

red crystal growths on pegmatite, looks like garnet, shaped like?

Garnets embedded in Schist.

 

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