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By:Words and Music by Chris Rawlings
(c)Cooking Fat Music, 1995

I've been pounded ground down and smashed all around
in the cycle....rock cycle
I've been thrown up and blown up to the ozone
in the cycle..rock cycle
I've been eroded, corroded and motherloaded
Melted and pelted and ore smelted
I've been chipped and dipped and stripped and skipped
in the cycle...rock cycle

By: Alan Morgan

When we look at rocks exposed on the surface of the Earth we do not appreciate that nature is the ultimate recycler. Our present generation of rocks has, to use a cliché, "been through the mill" many times. What is this mill and how can rocks be recycled? The diagram above shows a simplified version of where rocks originate and how they move from one state to another.

By: P.F. Karrow

Figure 1. Short-term monthly water levels. This diagram is provided by the Canadian Hydrographic Service,Department of Fisheries and Oceans. 

By: Richard B. Wells, Consulting Geologist,
Reprinted with permission from the August 1999 issue of The National Drillers Buyers Guide

By: Ryan R. Lyle

Winter in the sub-arctic region of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (NWT) is not the average person's idea of a great time. One must really enjoy the cold and the snow in the vast north as the winter is relentless. However for me, a third year geological engineering student, it was a dream come true.

The richest collecting ground for meteorites on Earth is the Antarctic plateau. In most other parts of the world meteorites are camouflaged by other rocks and easily broken down by rain and temperature changes.

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By: Tara Bonin

James Barker, Tracy Smith, Tara Bonin, Angela MacDonald, Bill Lawlor, Peter Gray and Dave Innocente.

By: Graham C. Wilson, University of Toronto

The Canadian meteorite recovery rate is modest. Only a dozen have been recovered in the province of Ontario, which is five times as big as the state of Kansas where over 110 known meteorites have been collected. Low population density and inclement weather may conspire with terrain and land-use factors to hinder recovery of falls and finds alike.

Students all across the country are now learning hands-on about the importance of minerals and mineral exploration through an interactive CD-ROM produced as a collaborative effort between the Geological Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) and Science North in Sudbury.