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. Safari trips for 2008 start June 1.
Dates:
Trips are available every day, June through September. Advance booking is highly recommended.
Times: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Book through Grand Forks Visitor Info: 250 442 2833 rockcandy@grandforkschamber.com
- Price is $25/adult; $19/child/senior.
- Kids under 6 and adults over 75 are free.
- Group price is $350, for up to 30 people.
- Prices are in Canadian dollars.
Collect all you can carry in one load. Access to main pit only. We provide hammers, bring a chisel if you want one. Closed-toe footwear is required.
Moonlight Rocks: our newest tour!
In the cool of the evening, join us for a magical exploration of rocks which glow in the dark! We start with an hour of collecting pretty fluorite specimens in daylight, then have a campfile geology lesson at our creekside meadow, while waiting for darkness. Once dark, we'll take a short, easy walk to an area where the 1920's miners left behind piles of fluorescent fluorite pieces. Once illuminated with our 'black lights', its like standing on a pile of glowing blue diamonds! Fill your pockets with cool specimens!
Dates:
Trips are held every Wednesday Saturday evening in July & August. Meeting time changes with the season. Moonlight trips for 2008 start July 1.
Book through Grand Forks Visitor Info: 250 442 2833 rockcandy@grandforkschamber.com
- Price is $26/adult, $20/child/senior.
- Bring a light jacket and/or long pants, as evenings can get cool.
- Bring a small flashlight, as you will be walking in the dark. Closed-toe footwear is required.
Colorful Crystals Tour:
Family-oriented collecting tour, where you will have access to freshly mined areas, which ensures abundant collecting opportunities. 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 3 p.m. Access to at least 3 zones.
Scouts: This trip will qualify you for Geology merit badges.
Book through Geology Adventures. Advance booking is required.
- Price is $70/adult; $48/child/senior.
- Group price is $900, for up to 30 people.
- Prices are in Canadian dollars, add 5% for U.S. dollars.
Collect all you can carry on a day-long trip. We provide hammers & chisels. Colorful Crystals tour available:
2008 date: July 13
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 9 a.m., for 8 hours of the best collecting you've ever experienced. Access to all zones.
Book through Geology Adventures. Advance booking is required.
- $300/person Kids 14 and up are welcome, but will be charged full price.
- Group price is $1900, for up to 8 people.
- Prices are in Canadian dollars. Add 5% if paying in US funds.
- 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.
2008 dates: July 5, July 12 Date in Sept. to be added later.
School Programs and private trips are available to Rock Candy during any snow-free month. For pricing and other info contact rockcandy@grandforkschamber.com
