Bancroft Gemboree 2018 Canada's largest Rock and Gem Show

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Published 2018-08-06
The Bancroft Gemboree is Canada's largest rock and gem show, with the usual focus on emerging mineral deposits, 2018 seeming to focus heavily on yellow apatite from Durango Mexico and various aquamarine deposits.

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  • @cvx2dog549
    Thanks for panning to the poster This is your Life, we need to be reminded!
  • @thirstfast1025
    xD The guy with the Herkimers cracked me up! "I'm a miner, I don't know what sphalerite is!" You're obviously not a silver, lead or zinc miner! But that galena sphalerite specimen for $12 and the gemmy yellows at $5 apiece were fantastic scores! Thanks for posting!
  • My cottage is 15 minutes outside of Bancroft, gets pretty crazy in town during the Rockhound Gemboree. Unfortunately the Craftsman Restaurant closed a couple of years ago, I used to stop there all the time.
  • Thanks for sharing. Very interesting. Also nice to see the area and Maynooth. I used to live on Hwy #127 near Whitney. I miss my house.
  • I wanted to go to go the gemboree this year but I was sadly out of province! At least I got my rockhounding fix on a trip to Partridge Island, NS and came home with a big bucket of agates hahaha
  • @theod3172
    Woo I hope I can found minerals like that in France 🇫🇷 👍 Thanks for sharing those minerals are beautiful
  • @Raymond-Wu
    That tennantite is beautiful! If it's fluorescent I would love one for my collection!
  • Good vid. Missed u prolly by a day at the show. I seen that same garnet from 620 u looked at lol
  • @drakeedward5254
    Unrelated to the Gem show, however just a friendly fyi, they have started to dig up the Montorose occurrence, I was there today and found several nice crystals that the lovely bulldozers piled...
  • @wrxs1781
    My question, where would you find flint deposits in Ontario, not chert.
  • @wrxs1781
    I have a question you could possible help me with, where in Ontario would you find deposits of flint.