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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...
Geodetic Benchmark
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Found while out prospecting, a Benchmark, of no value but curious...
Unboxing Stormy October 2020
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SO, having found at the abandoned mine the perfect spot to unbox and share the many treasures of Stormy Texas, I made a 40 minute video, sooo many treasures dug out from the corners of my jeep.
And, having filmed the video - "in the can", as they say, I promptly deleted it because my Google Account was full, and forgot that sync was on so it got deleted from my phone as well.
!@$%^(@*#$&!
Anyways. Here a brief recap of the countless treasures:
The doll that he and Marilyn made, a cloth doll that when you tipped it the skirt falls and reveals another doll underneath. No, they weren't twins, and the candlewax bazooms were something else. Really. I left it at the mine site to disturb some other explorer. Various containers, some food, 2 dozen books, on "drawing the ballet" to some vintage mystery book about a Dame from the 40's who needed a private eye. That was supposed to be for you, Nola. I read the back out loud. Marilyn's ring, which proved to be a gold signet ring (**gold** - looks just like gold) with an anchor and chain motif. Kinda what the old Italian guy might wear. And abundant art.
On free pile canvases, because you wouldn't want to use the nice new canvas that I bought for you.
Painting on the inside of a hardcover book.
Now, looking at this art I got to thinking, this landfill/mine, what a perfect spot for a Stormy Texas Art show, mark it with balloons on the highway, guide traffic up the roads to this "installation", 
Back of canvas, often far more interesting than the front...
The front of the canvas.
The canvases. A "self portrait" a-la Van Gogh on a plastic-wood serving tray, with explanatory note, that's where all my oil paint went...
Don't know if I have i right side up. Don't think that it matters. Some times I think he's trolling me...
Anyways, there was this, and easily a hundred plus scrolls, 3 hours of unwrapping and re-rolling, some masterpieces (really!), Roman Galleons of Caesar invading England (he liked that book), one of Merlin raising the standing stones (Stonehenge), and 90-odd others on the usual themes.
Unpacked, sorted, repacked, we have to get this guy a museum...
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