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...the acid rain also does a number on marble. Years and years ago, there was a marble quarry in my family, and there are headstones in cemetaries across southern ontario from there. My great-grandfather actually carved his own stone. Marble from his quarry was also used for the steps of the Canadian parliment buildings and Casa Loma, the castle built in Toronto.
It is very recognizable. Over the holidays, we had dinner in an old house here in London that has been converted into a restaurant. There in the grand room was a marble fire place that my great-grandfather had chiseled on. Kinda neat.
Sad part of it all, is all this marble that is exposed to the elements is slowly and surely turning into drywall gypsum and crumbling because of the acid rain... <img src="/metal/html/frown.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":(">
 
that the cleaning method wrongly used, is to blame for the coins condition.
Possibly:
1) A stainless steel anode was not used.
2) The coins were hooked to the anode end (wrong way).
3) Other (non silver) coins were cleaned prior to cleaning these in the same solution.
4) Anyone of the three above along with leaving the coin in to long would also accomplish this.
The evenness and uniformity of the deterioration leads me to think it was done during the cleaning.
 
In 1869 the mails were brought to Charlevoix twice a week carried by a crippled Indian by a strap over his forehead.
Found ya <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
Why is the Charlevoix Municipal well on the EPA's National Priorities List for toxic waste clean-up?
I also notice that there are a number of Great Lake shipwrecks that list sulpher as their cargo, a thriving trade at one time in the area... Was the railway depot there used at one time to unload sulpher?
Now I'm just plain curious. The tales a corroded silver dime can tell, eh?
 
Our little town is at the north end of Intermediate Lake, visible in the photo at the top.
 
All that work and history crumbling away. The world is quickly losing it's ancient monuments to acid rain.
We toured Casa Loma in Toronto. Hard to imagine that it took all that time and money to build using the best materials and workmanship from all over the world and then was only inhabited for a few years.
 
But improper use and disposal of solvents used in light manufacturing is usually the cause around here. It's very easy for those to enter the water table in our area. Depot beach does not have any physical clues as to what the cause may be. If anything, it might be some form of iron sulfides naturally occuring in the ground water. Just a guess.
 
...seems it's been a resort town since it was developed going back 100 years plus. Beautiful old restored railway station there!
Interesting mystery, thanks for posting!
 
even on the same lake.
The place use to be a train depot and there was a loading dock. This place has been a depot for a long time.
I always figured that there was a spill of some sort at one time and whatever was spilled is still there, making a mess out of metal.
I have found clad coins that looked like pullys, with the core eaten away, much more than the outside.
 
this is the only place that I have had that problem. I have found coins that when the crud is taken off nothing is left. I will post that slug that was a 1853 half if I can find it.
Like I said, a 16penny nail will be as big as a railroad spike. I could not believe it when I cracked one open. A 3/8 layer on a dang nail, that is 3/4 of an inch across!!
 
there is a lot of rocks on the left side of the beach.
Straight out from those rocks is a huge platform, in about 20 ft of water. This is a log frame, about 30 ft long by 15 wide (I am guessing). It is about 12 ft high. The logs are a good foot square each. Inside of this frame is bolders. It is full to the top of the framework.
This was a base for some sort of loading dock and I suspect that some chemical was lost off that thing in the distant past.
You can see it from the surface on a clear day. It is an awsome sight and usually covered with fish. Spooky as hell when you come up on it not expecting it <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
from Round Lake to Lake Charlevoix is not there any more.
Round Lake is a great place to dive in the late winter but too crowded in the summer. I have found some nice bottles in there.
 
yes I do but I like to hunt the old homesteads most of the time
 
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