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    Photo showing large X1's amethyst crystals.

    Photo of blasting (O2) in 1972 at the Amethyst Mine Panorama.

    A photo of an open pit mine at Amethyst Mine Panorama

    Photo of a sample of malachite. August 1985.

    Large amethyst crystals

    Large clay-covered amethyst crystals, August 3,1992.

    Photo showing the site of the main office of the Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine, 1970.

    Shown here is a 1977 photo of an open mining pit at the Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine.

    Shown here is rock being hosed down to clear off the overburden, in preparation for rock sampling.

    Shown in this photo is open pit benching. Benching of a steep work face consists of narrow horizontal steps across the slope. The rock is exposed and then inspected. Open pit benching is used where slopes are sufficiently steep, water supply is available, and there is room for the dump ...

    Shown here is one of the open pits of the Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine.

    An aerial view of Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine looking west.

    An aerial view of the Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine looking south, 1985.

    A photo showing the use of high pressure washing to expose can cut through overburden and clean bedrock.

    Early days of Amethyst Mine Panorama

    Photo showing a front-end loader in a pit at the Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine in the 1970's.

    Clearing the land for the future site of the Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine in the late 1960's.

    A photo of a fork lift with a pallet of sorted amethyst.

    Photo of an unidentified man preparing to blast rock at the Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine in the 1970's.

    Mucking in the open pit, 1970's. Muck is the name popularly applied to rock or ore broken from a pit, trench, or underground working. While it is being shoveled out, a portion may be set aside for sampling. Fractions commonly used are one shovelful in every five, ten, or twenty.