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05/20/2026

Camouflage Art - Carving Stones to match local stones for Fireplace Vents - Final Stage - Installing

This is the final of a set showing process of creating slate/schist stone grates for a fireplace. These were cut, carved, filed, sanded, chiselled, polished, and anchors cut and epoxied in to replace the others camouflaging against the other stones in the fireplace. This will show the final the stones to match the surrounding stones to camouflage against the fireplace.

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05/07/2026

Sapphires, Rubies, Covellite and other Freeform Gemstones - Finished and for sale!

These are some of my most recent finished gemstones - which I also do! This shows the "flash", finish, and details of these fantastic stones with their specific stone or mineral names and rarity.

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05/06/2026

Sapphires, Rubies, Covellite and other Freeform Gemstones - Finished and for sale!

These are some of my most recent finished gemstones - which I also do! This shows the "flash", finish, and details of these fantastic stones with their specific stone or mineral names and rarity.

Personal message me if interested in any of these before they go to market or them made into wrapped, bailed or soldered jewellery.
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07/24/2025

Keep on tracking! Something in our backyard for dino fans. Bit technical but interesting.

The badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada) are renowned for the exceptional abundance and diversity of Campanian-aged vertebrate body fossils, especially dinosaurs. Due to the steep exposures and rapid erosion, dinosaur tracks and trackways are considered extremely rare but have been...

07/18/2025

Leave your fly rod at home - New ancient fish from Manitoba https://news.umanitoba.ca/new-ancient-fish-swims-into-the-ums-geological-sciences-museum/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLeVXFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEwNmt3RHdoZFRXdjA4M3I3AR6ohWgDnPhb5Hcbgu6VHnW37J4ROWMa55kVuY__HZaZsSdr1K_1v4iX-BDFvA_aem_j2j-FAMfQsAh41lmiRDHMg

Manitoba is well-known for its fossil record, including the fossil-filled world famous Ordovician-aged Tyndall Stone and the world’s largest mosasaurs, or marine reptiles, from the Cretaceous period

07/16/2025

What did Pterosaurs eat?

The Mesozoic pterosaur is considered to be the first vertebrate to achieve powered flight and new evidence, also the first of its kind, helps to pin down what exactly this flying reptile ate. Previously, scientists had trouble establishing a consensus on the pterosaur's diet. Some suggested meat-bas...