Yukon Dan's Visit

Wow!  What an amazing presentation by Yukon Dan today.  We learned so much about minerals!  We got to touch them, pan for gold, look at garnet and gold through magnifying lenses and choose two minerals to take home.  They may have amethyst (purple), fool's gold, iron pyrite (silver colour), Citrine (yellow), or Tiger's eye (orange/black).

Did you know that wherever you find Jade or Copper, you will find Gold nearby?  Have you ever considered visiting the Fraser River in Yale?  Its a wealth of garnet, which is a reddish coloured stone that has lots of gold underneath it!  If you do decide to go gold panning, be sure to keep your hands out of the pan because the oils from your hands will make the gold float and easy to wash away unnoticed.