Bancroft Canada

For my mineralogy class I got to go on a field trip to Bancroft Canada. Wooohooo!. We went to many places around the bancroft area and collected many different minerals. My favorite that I collected was called Betafite. Yes, it emites beta radiation and I found the biggest chunk of it. It makes the gieger counter go crazy. But we also went to old inactive mines like a mine called fission mine, and McDonald mine. Saw some bats in the fission mine but the McDonald mine was much cooler I thought. There was a mine shaft in the McDonald mine that the teachers told us to not stay too long in the shaft because there was some crazy radioactive mineral in the shaft. If we stayed in the shaft too long it would be like getting a short burst of X-ray. Cooooool beans. All in all it was a awesome trip where we found some sweet crystaline minerals and went on some cool hikes to get to the places where we find the minerals. The crazy thing about this area was that we drove for miles and miles on random dirt roads and pass tons of lakes/swamps but no matter how secluded the dirt road, there would always be a random house at one point during the trip down the road. This area of canada was pretty awesome. The only problem for me was I did more exploring then collecting. whoops.