Finally, to the experts with this seasons share of hopeful rocks.
1 - the lamproite/diamond - Geologist #1 a bit stumped, #2, the old timer, declares it to be slow-cooled basalt (possibly still lamproite) and what I took to be a diamond is in fact a ruby. This I would not have guessed, the crystal is dark against a dark background, but he seems certain, has several just like it, a jar full. Doing some research later at home later I find that the Montana Sapphires were hosted in lamproites, so it's not an impossibility. Definitely worth returning and breaking some more rocks. And there are enough lamproites around the Kootenays that I should at some point find a sapphire/ruby deposit...
2 - the blue kyanite (I thought). Pale blue, bladed texture, in pegmatic granite, some thin sections resembling aquamarine. I could get no consensus - Geo #1 thought it was beryl, #2 Slick & Slide (not).
3 - Serpentine - an attractive dark water worn rock picked up on Balfour beach. Dark green with black spots. Confirmed as serpentine.
4 - red/pink tourmaline crystals in host feldspar, again picked up on beach, lake tumbled. Identified as red/pink tourmaline crystals in host feldspar. Now, the hard part, figuring out where it came from, surely closer that Mt. Begby...
5 - dark black crystal, rusty setting, from pegmatite in Revelstoke. Remains unidentified.
6 - black slag looking piece, with vesicles and small crystals. Google lens identifies it as meteorite, but it's not (meteorites don't have vesicles), geologists agreed it wasn't slag...
And so here I am at the point where I have to figure things out for myself, because bloody hell I'm not getting a whole lot of help. That said, these old timers, if they're the competition it explains a lot...