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1. WHERE TO GO & WHAT TO DO if you love rocks & live in the Greater Toronto Area & Southern Ontario
    
2. INFO & PHOTOS ~ ROCKS & MINERALS
   See pictures of many rocks, minerals & fossils. There are also some images of collecting locations that we have collected at. This page is a work in progress and shows many pictures of the kind of specimens rockhounds can collect.
    
3. BOOKS & MAGAZINES about Rocks & Minerals - Print Resources
    
4. GLOSSARY - what some of those special words mean
    
5. HOW ROCKS & MINERALS ARE FORMED
   • The Earth's Crust
   • Rocks
   • Minerals
     • Crystals
     • Gemstones
     • Birthstones
   • The Rock Cycle
     • Erosion
     • Soil
     • Fossils
     • Igneous Rocks
     • Sedimentary Rocks
     • Metamorphic Rocks
   • Volcano WebQuest
      
6. IDENTIFICATION OF MINERALS
   • Difference between rocks & minerals
   • Mineral Identification
   • Properties of Minerals
   • Cleavage
   • Colour
   • Crystal Form
   • Hardness
   • Luster
   • Specific Gravity
   • Streak
   • Tenacity
   • Transmitting Light
      
7. EXPERIMENTS
   • Freezing Bottles and The Freeze-Thaw Cycle
   • Grow Calcium Acetate Crystals aka “EGG”xperiments with Vinegar
      
8. USES OF ROCKS & MINERALS
   • Building Stones
   • Machines & Tools
   • Artifacts
   • Consumables & Processes
   • Decorations
   • Jewellery
      
9. LINKS TO ROCK & MINERAL WEB SITES
   • Rock & Mineral Photos
   • Minerals of Ontario & Canada
   • Museums
   • Professional Organizations
   • Online Rock & Mineral Stores
   • Other Great Web Sites
   • Web sites with lists of sites
   • Careers related to Rocks & Minerals
      
10. MACHINES & TOOLS
    • Mining Images
       
11. LITERATURE of Rocks & Minerals
    • Articles by Bert Ellison
    • Rockhounding poetry by Dick Stata
    • STONE SAYINGS Idioms about rocks & minerals.
    • Appalachians - A Poem
    • Print Resources - fiction, non-fiction
       
12. NATURAL DISASTERS
    • Avalanches
    • Earthquakes
    • Mud Slides
    • Plate Tectonics
    • Tsunamis
    • Volcanoes
    • Volcano WebQuest
       
13. ARTS & CRAFTS - How we use rocks & minerals to make our lives beautiful
    • Gem Trees
       
14. PLAYING WITH ROCKS - sphere making, tumbling, cutting, polishing
    • Treating Rocks & Minerals
       
15. COLLECTING ROCKS & MINERALS
    • Rockhounding Tools - What you need to collect rocks & Minerals
    • Joining a Club
    • Going on Field Trips
    • Where to buy rocks & minerals
    • Family Excursion Destinations in the GTA & surrounding area
       
16. DISPLAYING YOUR ROCKS & MINERALS
     
17. COLLECTING LOCATIONS
    • Quarries
      • Beamsville Quarry, Beamsville ON
      • Burlington Quarry, Burlington ON
      • Duff Quarry, Limehouse ON
      • Dundas Quarry, Dundas ON
      • Coldwater Quarry, Waubaushene, ON
      • Hilltop Quarry, Georgetown ON
      • Mara Quarry, Beaverton ON
      • Milton Quarry, Milton ON
         
18. SUPPLIERS - Rock Shops, suppliers & stores for hobbyists
     
19. TEACHERS' CORNER
    • GRADE 4  ROCKS AND MINERALS - UNDERSTANDING EARTH AND SPACE SYSTEMS
      THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 1–8 | Science and Technology ~ 2007
    • FIELD TRIPS TO QUARRIES for Southern Ontario Teachers