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they quickly learned is that flat, 2-D images are “really just postcards”—useful for scientific purposes, yes, but not exactly scintillating viewing for the public. “In thinking about how we could make the catalogue more effective, we came up with the idea of using a rotating, 360 o camera system,” says Randell, and began to re-shoot the UBC specimens. Never one to think small, he also applied for a Geoscience BC grant in late 2018 that would allow Below BC to send out teams across the province to photograph other mineral, rock, and ore collections (plus a few fossils) in museums, storage facilities, garages, and living rooms, using the 3-D camera. The grant would also allow for the purchase of a GigaPan camera system to take a series of panoramic, high-resolution images of geological heritage sites. Below BC won the grant, helped by the enthusiastic support of groups like the East Kootenay Chamber of Mines. “Assembling this kind of information is invaluable,” says Chamber president, Jason Jacob. “Under the Health, Safety P revious page from top : Skarn with epidote crystal from the Queen Victoria Mine, west of Nelson, BC., located at the Chamber Of Mines Of Eastern BC. Yellow barite, green fluorite and white quartz from the Rock Candy Mine in Grand Forks, BC, located at the Greenwood Museum in Greenwood, BC. Amethyst, a variety of quartz and semiprecious stone, originally from an unknown location near Terrace, BC, currently located at Lakes District Museum in Burns Lake. A bove : Below BC's Jacob Moffat takes high-resolution photos of the mineral collection at the Chamber Of Mines Of Eastern BC, in Nelson.

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