field trips
Field trips focus on collecting and history of Southeastern Ontario and the surrounding areas. Check out the bottom of our page to read about some of the materials we have collected, places we have been and the history about each area.
Field trips are usually held from April through October.
Field trips are usually held from April through October.
Please read the following file if you plan on attending any upcoming field trips.
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KLMC FIELD TRIPS
Please review the Field Trip Code of Ethics and Safety Rules on the CCFMS website http://www.ccfms.ca
Upcoming field trips will be posted as they are planned both locally and for other lapidary clubs. For our field trips, mark your calendars and be sure to contact the field trip leaders if you plan to attend. If you need a membership card, please email me and I will email one back.
All the best
Eileen
2025 FIELD TRIPS PLANNED
Weekend of June 14-15
The weekend of June 14-15 there will be a field trip to Tom’s Cache at 43 Sebastopol, Foymount, ON K0J 1W0 as Tom’s rock collecting business is closing. This will be a huge sale of rocks, minerals and equipment. Tom Kaddits is a long-term member of the KLMC and has volunteered as auctioneer at our annual meeting. He has had over 40 years of collecting rocks and minerals from quarries, mines, roadside rock cuts and purchases from other collectors. Tom is selling everything, including large specimens that will take two people to lift, as well as a yard and workshop full of smaller materials and many rockhounding tools.
The field trip will be June 14 and 15, from 9 am to 4 pm each day. If you wish to arrive earlier, Tom will be setting up on Friday June 13, but you take a chance that he may not be home so calling ahead to Tom at 613-754-2685 would be advisable. Payment accepted for collectibles and tools will be cash or cheque only.
This is a great chance for a lovely drive in the country, while also taking advantage of a chance to buy rockhounding tools, minerals and slices and thanking Tom for all the years of volunteering with the Club. Open to all and attend either day.
Saturday, July 12
There will be a field trip to the former Stoklosar II Pink Marble Quarries, located on the property of a working equine therapy farm called Innisfree Station, at 169 Barker Road, Eldorado. The date is Saturday July 12 with a meet time of 10am at the collecting site gate, which is past the farm house, on the right side of the road. Park on the limestone layer and walk down the edge of it to the Canadian Shield!
Larry Thomas, one of our club members and a site staff member, will be on site to welcome everyone and be field trip leader. He will check people in and offer a quick tour to familiarize everyone with the site. He will remain on site for the entire day. You can collect sugary Hematoid Quartz, Crystalline Marble, Cubic Pyrite, and Magnetite crystals, plus whatever else is yet to be discovered. Keep what you find, and can transport to your vehicle in one trip. Wagons permitted.
The owner has a waiver which he requires everyone to sign, and a collecting policy. Hiking boots or work boots and protective eye wear is required. Suggested equipment is collecting bucket, shovel, rock hammer and chisel. No power tools. It’s an easy site to get around on with hard packed level trails and lots of loose rock to pick through/dig out of tailings hill.
No dogs, no smoking and no washrooms. Use of the land for toileting is acceptable provided people take TP with them. Visitors can also explore the entire 125-acre property which features 5 distinct types of bedrock, along with an unconformity. NOTE: There is Poison Ivy in some areas, therefore wearing long pants and work gloves is recommended and being aware of what the plant looks like to avoid contact. Collecting areas are in the woods and therefore relatively shaded.
To register for this trip please email Eileen at [email protected]. Payment for the collecting fee will be at the site in cash only. Collecting fee is $25 per person. Open to directly supervised children, old enough to be interested vs tagging along. (e.g. no toddlers) You are limited to one 5-gallon pail. If more is desired, there will be an additional charge of $3 a pound.
Ongoing Opportunities
Beryl Pit (Quadeville, Ontario)
Minerals: key minerals are beryl, amazonite, peristerite, other feldspars and quartz. For a full list of minerals check out: https://www.mindat.org/loc-6641.html
Purchase Collecting Pass: MacEwen Gast Station in Quadeville (~$10)
Collecting Style: Breaking Rock / Digging in Rock
Collecting Equipment: 3/5lb sledgehammer, chisels and shovels.
Herkimer Diamonds (New York, U.S.A.)
Minerals: Herkimer Diamonds (double terminated quartz crystals)
Fossils: Cambrian aged stromatolites
Purchase Collecting Pass: several locations (~$10 day)
Herkimer Diamond Mines: http://www.herkimerdiamond.com/
Ace of Diamonds: https://www.herkimerdiamonds.com/
Crystal Gove: http://www.crystalgrove.com/ (working on website, check out Facebook)
Collecting Style: Breaking Rock / Scavenging
Collecting Equipment: 3/5/10/25lb sledgehammers, chisels, wedges, pry bars and shovels.
Schickler Fluorite Mine (Wilberforce, Ontario)
Minerals: Apatite, Fluorite, Scapolite and others.
Obtain Collecting Pass (free): Permission to collect can now be obatined through the following website: www.highlandseast.ca/en/explore-and-play/mineral-collecting.aspx?_mid_=17955
Collecting Style: Digging in Soil
Collecting Equipment: Shovels, Root Clippers, Small hand saw and other stuff you think is good.
Meeting: 9:00 a.m. Thursday to Sunday during the Gemboree, at the North Hastings community Centre (103 Newkirk Blvd). Participants must provide their own transportation to each site following a lead vehicle. Mineral Tours average 5 hours but you may leave earlier or stay longer.
Admission $15 Ages 17+, $10 ages 16 and under, $40 families (up to 5 people)/ Additional fees are required for specific sites.
Required Equipment: safety glasses, closed -in footwear are mandatory equipment for these tours. Rockhounding equipment such as rock hammers, shovels, chisels, buckets, garden claws etc. for collecting are necessary. Recommended equipped for the weather, includes hats, bug spray, raincoats. Bring snacks, lunch, drinks since the locations of sites will not have water or food available
Please review the Field Trip Code of Ethics and Safety Rules on the CCFMS website http://www.ccfms.ca
Upcoming field trips will be posted as they are planned both locally and for other lapidary clubs. For our field trips, mark your calendars and be sure to contact the field trip leaders if you plan to attend. If you need a membership card, please email me and I will email one back.
All the best
Eileen
2025 FIELD TRIPS PLANNED
Weekend of June 14-15
The weekend of June 14-15 there will be a field trip to Tom’s Cache at 43 Sebastopol, Foymount, ON K0J 1W0 as Tom’s rock collecting business is closing. This will be a huge sale of rocks, minerals and equipment. Tom Kaddits is a long-term member of the KLMC and has volunteered as auctioneer at our annual meeting. He has had over 40 years of collecting rocks and minerals from quarries, mines, roadside rock cuts and purchases from other collectors. Tom is selling everything, including large specimens that will take two people to lift, as well as a yard and workshop full of smaller materials and many rockhounding tools.
The field trip will be June 14 and 15, from 9 am to 4 pm each day. If you wish to arrive earlier, Tom will be setting up on Friday June 13, but you take a chance that he may not be home so calling ahead to Tom at 613-754-2685 would be advisable. Payment accepted for collectibles and tools will be cash or cheque only.
This is a great chance for a lovely drive in the country, while also taking advantage of a chance to buy rockhounding tools, minerals and slices and thanking Tom for all the years of volunteering with the Club. Open to all and attend either day.
Saturday, July 12
There will be a field trip to the former Stoklosar II Pink Marble Quarries, located on the property of a working equine therapy farm called Innisfree Station, at 169 Barker Road, Eldorado. The date is Saturday July 12 with a meet time of 10am at the collecting site gate, which is past the farm house, on the right side of the road. Park on the limestone layer and walk down the edge of it to the Canadian Shield!
Larry Thomas, one of our club members and a site staff member, will be on site to welcome everyone and be field trip leader. He will check people in and offer a quick tour to familiarize everyone with the site. He will remain on site for the entire day. You can collect sugary Hematoid Quartz, Crystalline Marble, Cubic Pyrite, and Magnetite crystals, plus whatever else is yet to be discovered. Keep what you find, and can transport to your vehicle in one trip. Wagons permitted.
The owner has a waiver which he requires everyone to sign, and a collecting policy. Hiking boots or work boots and protective eye wear is required. Suggested equipment is collecting bucket, shovel, rock hammer and chisel. No power tools. It’s an easy site to get around on with hard packed level trails and lots of loose rock to pick through/dig out of tailings hill.
No dogs, no smoking and no washrooms. Use of the land for toileting is acceptable provided people take TP with them. Visitors can also explore the entire 125-acre property which features 5 distinct types of bedrock, along with an unconformity. NOTE: There is Poison Ivy in some areas, therefore wearing long pants and work gloves is recommended and being aware of what the plant looks like to avoid contact. Collecting areas are in the woods and therefore relatively shaded.
To register for this trip please email Eileen at [email protected]. Payment for the collecting fee will be at the site in cash only. Collecting fee is $25 per person. Open to directly supervised children, old enough to be interested vs tagging along. (e.g. no toddlers) You are limited to one 5-gallon pail. If more is desired, there will be an additional charge of $3 a pound.
Ongoing Opportunities
Beryl Pit (Quadeville, Ontario)
Minerals: key minerals are beryl, amazonite, peristerite, other feldspars and quartz. For a full list of minerals check out: https://www.mindat.org/loc-6641.html
Purchase Collecting Pass: MacEwen Gast Station in Quadeville (~$10)
Collecting Style: Breaking Rock / Digging in Rock
Collecting Equipment: 3/5lb sledgehammer, chisels and shovels.
Herkimer Diamonds (New York, U.S.A.)
Minerals: Herkimer Diamonds (double terminated quartz crystals)
Fossils: Cambrian aged stromatolites
Purchase Collecting Pass: several locations (~$10 day)
Herkimer Diamond Mines: http://www.herkimerdiamond.com/
Ace of Diamonds: https://www.herkimerdiamonds.com/
Crystal Gove: http://www.crystalgrove.com/ (working on website, check out Facebook)
Collecting Style: Breaking Rock / Scavenging
Collecting Equipment: 3/5/10/25lb sledgehammers, chisels, wedges, pry bars and shovels.
Schickler Fluorite Mine (Wilberforce, Ontario)
Minerals: Apatite, Fluorite, Scapolite and others.
Obtain Collecting Pass (free): Permission to collect can now be obatined through the following website: www.highlandseast.ca/en/explore-and-play/mineral-collecting.aspx?_mid_=17955
Collecting Style: Digging in Soil
Collecting Equipment: Shovels, Root Clippers, Small hand saw and other stuff you think is good.
Meeting: 9:00 a.m. Thursday to Sunday during the Gemboree, at the North Hastings community Centre (103 Newkirk Blvd). Participants must provide their own transportation to each site following a lead vehicle. Mineral Tours average 5 hours but you may leave earlier or stay longer.
Admission $15 Ages 17+, $10 ages 16 and under, $40 families (up to 5 people)/ Additional fees are required for specific sites.
Required Equipment: safety glasses, closed -in footwear are mandatory equipment for these tours. Rockhounding equipment such as rock hammers, shovels, chisels, buckets, garden claws etc. for collecting are necessary. Recommended equipped for the weather, includes hats, bug spray, raincoats. Bring snacks, lunch, drinks since the locations of sites will not have water or food available
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