I acquired some local Island minerals the other day from an old rockhound up-Island.
As is typical, she couldn't tell me where each one is from other than "Vancouver Island", so I'm looking for that info (for some of them I have an idea). Also not sure what some of them are so am looking for that info as well.
Garnets, possibly from a mine in the mid-Island area. I was impressed when saw some of these when I did a fossil presentation for the Parksville Rockhounds (but didn't make a note of the mine they came out of), and then lo and behold, this lady had some! I will get ahold of someone from that club to see if they can tell me where they're from. Also I'd like to know if there is a surefire method of removing that iron oxide coating that covers a lot of our local minerals.