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Check our online calendar for trip dates and openings.
 Rock Candy Safari:
An introduction to Rock Candy's colorful minerals and mining history. You will collect gemmy green fluorite, banded purple fluorite, sparkling quartz and (if
you're lucky!) barite crystals. Access to druzy quartz and fluorite zones.
Dates:
Trips are held every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday in July & August, and every Saturday & Sunday
in June and September.
Times:
Wed, Friday & Sunday: noon to 4pm.
Saturday: 10am to 2pm.
Advance booking is recommended.
Book through Grand Forks Visitor Info: 250 442 2833
- Price is $15/adult; $10/child/senior.
- Kids under 6 and adults over 75 are free.
- Group price is $200, for up to 30 people.
- Prices are in Canadian dollars.
Collect all you can carry in one load. We provide hammers only.
Colorful Crystals Tour:
Family-oriented collecting tour, where we will blast the locality while you watch (from
a safe distance, of course.) Fresh blasting ensures abundant crystals. Fluorite crystals are so abundant on these tours that you will be standing on specimens as you
collect others. Kids will love the abundance of sparkly quartz geodes in gemmy green fluorite. Depart Grand Forks at 9 a.m., return by 4 p.m. Access to all zones.
Scouts: after this trip you will qualify for Geology merit badges.
Book through Geology Adventures. Advance booking is required.
- Price is $60/adult; $45/child/senior.
- Group price is $900, for up to 30 people.
- Prices are in Canadian dollars. Deduct 1/3 for US dollars.
Collect all you can carry on a day-long trip. We provide hammers & chisels. Colorful Crystals tour available:
Dates:
Sunday, July 6; Sunday, August 10; 2003
Voluminous Vugs Tour:
Serious mineral collectors love this tour, with fresh vugs opened just for you. Includes use of our pressure washer, (vugs at Rock Candy are filled with dense clay), as well
as hammers, chisels, pry bars. Collect in the same areas which we mine to produce museum specimens. Meet us in Grand Forks at 8 a.m., for 10 hours of the best
collecting you've ever experienced. Access to all zones.
Book through Geology Adventures. Advance booking is required.
- $150/person Kids 14 and up are welcome, but will be charged full price.
- Group price is $900, for up to 8 people.
- Prices are in Canadian dollars. Deduct 1/3 for US prices.
- We may limit the amount you collect in museum quality vugs to the first $1000/worth.
We allow a maximum of 8 collectors on site during the 'vugs' tour.
Dates:
Saturday, June 14; Saturday, July 5; Saturday, August 9; 2003
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