They are so much better and beautiful than the tumble fractured stones I find and still display among the mulch and flower pots. Muratic acid is such a versatile product, I had a seized and rusted ball on an old truck hitch that would not come off even with a pipe extension. Muratic acid only took a couple minutes and it popped right off. (Rinsed and oiled immediately after)
Wow. I had the same problem on my truck. I tried penetrating oil and every tool in my garage (including a sledge). I only got it off with a chain around a tree. In hind sight, I was very lucky not to pull down the tree onto my truck or break the chain with the resulting whiplash. HCL would have been a really good idea.
I have found smaller chips of orange and some pink garnets some almost black the bigger ones I find tend to be almost black looking to rusty red brown. Exciting YOU KNOW I LOVE THESE VIDEOS. Happy hounding everyone!!
Just got back from a 10 hour rockhounding trip to llano TX where I dug out some llanite. Big chunks. Unusual rock for the rockhound. Pleased to see a video from you as a welcome back gift. Damn you find some cool shiz.
Just got back from a mapping project in the Outer Hebrides. The garnets there are insane, 6 or more centimetres in diameter and perfectly red. In places they make up more than half of the rock!
No wonder I've got so many "duds" myself, my standards are way too low...(and my knowledge of rocks is even lower) but I am soaking up every little piece of expertise you share. Thanks for sharing and being such a cool, mellow dude...Love your videos. Peace
Its OK to take marginal rocks if you have a place to toss them later. My garden is getting rather full of duds. Funny thing is sometimes after they have been there a while, I see something that I missed.
meMiner Thanks for the feedback, I think until I get more edumicated I must practice "moderation"... I am apparently reading more into some rocks because they are much heavier than they should be. Obviously I need to invest in proper equipment but every little breadcrumb/hint I hear does help and is always appreciated... Thanks BTW... In Ca. State rock is serpentine (as you know) funny that I get more/better info on that heavy rock from cool rockhound yt dudes like you that " official " sites... Lol...Again, thanks and peace.
I don't know any sites that are currently open to collecting by Temagami. You will notice new "no trespassing" signs at most of the historic mines in the area. For sure, some of the back roads with mine names are interesting drives and you don't have to be in the actual mine to find stuff along the roadways and ditches. I would suggest looking slightly north of Temagami. I have not found anything interesting (except quartz) to the south, all the way to Martin River.
meMiner yea. The only place I regularly explore up there is the Temagami mine. (My family congregates on lake Temagami every summer). Real neat chalcopyrite/quartz formations can be found as well as copper formations at the old mine. Don’t have a whole lot of time to process my finds so I sent one to a lapidary artist and he loved it. You can see one of the pieces I sent him on his UA-cam channel. ua-cam.com/video/XUX0BQQ9-3E/v-deo.html Forgive his pronunciation of Temagami.
That is a beautiful rock. I have one like it and forget where I found it. Might have been in the Temagami area. I have not been to the mine you mention, and have only gone to spots that I could access from the roads off the highway. Usually, I am going to or from Cobalt and out of time...
You can get round classifiers that will stack and fit into the top of a 5 gallon plastic pail from most online stores who sell gold panning equipment. I have a square one that I got a few years ago from Lee Valley.
Those tiny ones are pretty!...I wish you would find these red garnets like you found all those Apatites!!! Hey? God, they were just falling into your hands!!!! I'm waiting for you to find you motherloade!!!!
Some places are well known but it is a good idea to look around and explore rather than just go where everyone else has dug. You would be surprised how much info is available online. A good website is mindat.org and look at it maps. Otherwise some Google searches with key words such as your town or state/prov will get you started.
Teach the dog to dig your holes lol it's amazing how beautiful the Earth is when you know what your looking for. Some of the best discoverys have been found accidentally, all you gotta do is slow down.
I am just happy that she found a spot to lie down and did not wander onto the highway. When it is hot out, she sometimes decides to dig a bit if I have a deep hole, but then she will lie in it because of the cool ground. Kinda gets in the way. ;-)
meMiner well at least her intentions are good. Lol my dog does the same I have a kennel to put her up when strangers come around, she has a hole dug so deep it actually goes under the fence into the yard. Shhh she has no idea cause the opening too the hole is on the inside of the kennel. Lol
Pamela Corona. The sparkle you see in cement and alot of grout material is sand. Sand is small particles of quartz, the most abundant mineral. They have also used round balls of glass in asphalt.
Yvonne Sebastian any carbonates will dissolve. And some minerals as well, so double check your particular minerals before you use muriatic acid! Also wear gloves.. glasses, dont breathe the fumes etc.
Ty..Call me an idoit..lol..my sis(partner in crime) reminded me we HAVE used the acid..while she used vinegar. I used the acid..we got no results on either..getting old sucks lol..thanks hun
meMiner first I love your videos. They are very helpful for sure!! I was wondering how long you soak the rocks in the HCL? I did a few rocks last week and again tonight but this time it smelled so bad of sulphur I had to quit!! So what is your recommendation ?? We went to Port Hope today and just grabbed a few rocks to soak. One of them that looks like it is hardened clay has started to dissolve and we are finding tiny little crystals that I think are pyrite. So I decided to soak it in some cola. But the acid would be much faster. If you can help me that would be greatly appreciated.
I only had a little bit of HCL (heavily diluted), so put them in overnight. Please don't be close enough to any etching that you can smell good or bad scents. You do not want to get it into your lungs. That said, usually I look at the rocks after about an hour to make sure I am not removing too much because I like clusters. Cola will work but really slowly. I find that vinegar is faster than cola. Pyrite crystals are quite nice.
meMiner my friend Alicia used to make jewelery. Same girl that likes the apatites (and every other rock out there lol) she would check some stuff out for ya, Im sure. I've found sooooo much "smaller" (I guess average) stuff at Beaver lately it isnt even funny.. Im gonna have a 4 part, 30 minutes each video series just from there!
meMiner Ill try to speed through a bunch of them when I do it. But judging by my other videos.. itll be a series. Plus I still have to do a cut/polished rock video as well :)
@meMiner - the lazy Susan is a good addition... if I were filming rocks I’d want to get as close as possible with a fixed focus. As you’ve that lovely deck, I’d put the lazy Susan near the edge of a table in the sun. Next I’d set the tripod up next to the table so the camera was *_close_* to the lazy s, no zoom, so a single rock on the lazy s (an area similar to a single region of a dartboard twixt the double and triple score bands) is t’only thing in frame and focus. You’ll have to experiment to find the right distance and the size of the rocks will change things (not much, we’re working in cm now) and make sure the sun is _behind_ the camera (and that you’re not throwing shade). Once you have that setup, you can spin a sample into view and since the lazy s is in focus you’ll not have to move either the camera or rock (beyond rotating or flipping it in place). I was the lighting director for a band for a few decades and did a lot of live video projection with water/oil tables (among other things)... the amount of time (and mess) figuring out how to get that right...
Excellent suggestions! I think I may need to cut down a tree or two. Once the big ole oaks get leaves, the lighting situation gets funky (especially when there is a slight breeze causing the shadows to move). I really struggle with this. Thanks for your help.
@meMiner - you can achieve the same effect indoors with (ideally tungsten, that’s just my choice, use what you have on hand) HID floodlights... the kind they sell at home stores with the tripod base. Same principle, bright light behind the camera, maybe a smaller desk lamp and all the overhead lights to crush as much hard shadow as possible. I bet if you played with exposure settings on the camera you could do it with a couple of well placed flashlights. The R&D _”work”_ I did finding the right angles and exposures and lighting to bring on tour was a ton of fun, feel free to ask questions ;-)
I think I need to get more technical with my camera for sure. My main camera is a Canon M50 and I was hoping I could trust its auto features to think things for me, especially when using a tripod. Just like the metal detectors, you are better off learning how to use the machine properly. ;-)
There was no mine where I found these ones, but garnets are possible in many of the old mines. There is an asbestos mine in Northern Ontario that is on my bucket list for next year where I heard collecting is like being in a candy store.
Hey about 2 years ago I was with my family at a fesitaval walking and the area was kind of muddy. I step on a rock and thought it went through my boot. I looked to see what type of rock it was, turned out to be a large garnet the size of a gumball.😳
Nice. You never know when you are going to find something interesting. Makes you wonder if your garnet was dropped, in from some crush that was used there or natural to the area. Years ago, I had a gold nugget that I took to work to show off and lost it somewhere between the parking lot and the office. Whoever found it must still be scratching their head about it.
I have a special crystal that can't identify some say carnellia some say agate but I did more research and it's more like a giant pigeon blood ruby.let me know if you want to see the pictures of it thanks brother
They are so much better and beautiful than the tumble fractured stones I find and still display among the mulch and flower pots. Muratic acid is such a versatile product, I had a seized and rusted ball on an old truck hitch that would not come off even with a pipe extension. Muratic acid only took a couple minutes and it popped right off. (Rinsed and oiled immediately after)
Wow. I had the same problem on my truck. I tried penetrating oil and every tool in my garage (including a sledge). I only got it off with a chain around a tree. In hind sight, I was very lucky not to pull down the tree onto my truck or break the chain with the resulting whiplash. HCL would have been a really good idea.
Gee for a stop along the side of the road was well worth your time.Nice specimens interesting thanks for get another 👍 great Vid .....
For YET another Great Vid ... Oops
Thanks. I love road cuts because stuff is exposed and much of the work is done, especially if they blasted.
Thanks for sharing. Those were pretty cool looking when cleaned up. Take care and be safe.
thanks
I have found smaller chips of orange and some pink garnets some almost black the bigger ones I find tend to be almost black looking to rusty red brown. Exciting YOU KNOW I LOVE THESE VIDEOS. Happy hounding everyone!!
Just got back from a 10 hour rockhounding trip to llano TX where I dug out some llanite. Big chunks. Unusual rock for the rockhound. Pleased to see a video from you as a welcome back gift. Damn you find some cool shiz.
Congrats on the llanite.
You like? I like!
You are always locating incredible finds! I love watching your videos and can't understand why more people haven't subscribed.
I am surprised and pleased that I have so many subs. I never expected it. Thanks.
Just got back from a mapping project in the Outer Hebrides. The garnets there are insane, 6 or more centimetres in diameter and perfectly red. In places they make up more than half of the rock!
nice
Oh wow, I collect garnets!! Also starting a 13 year old her birth stone...the garnet!
I bet you have some nice ones.
Garnets are so underrated they always look so cool when you find some. New York City is studded with them
I didn't know that about NYC. Cool!
North River - Barton Garnet Mine. A couple hours from Herkimer.
They are beautiful man! Beautiful!
Thanks much!
Nice finds!!!
Thank you for your time....very much.
You are welcome. Anytime.
Good work and explanation of a good topic God bless you
thanks
No wonder I've got so many "duds" myself, my standards are way too low...(and my knowledge of rocks is even lower) but I am soaking up every little piece of expertise you share. Thanks for sharing and being such a cool, mellow dude...Love your videos. Peace
Its OK to take marginal rocks if you have a place to toss them later. My garden is getting rather full of duds. Funny thing is sometimes after they have been there a while, I see something that I missed.
meMiner
Thanks for the feedback, I think until I get more edumicated I must practice "moderation"... I am apparently reading more into some rocks because they are much heavier than they should be. Obviously I need to invest in proper equipment but every little breadcrumb/hint I hear does help and is always appreciated... Thanks
BTW... In Ca. State rock is serpentine (as you know) funny that I get more/better info on that heavy rock from cool rockhound yt dudes like you that " official " sites... Lol...Again, thanks and peace.
Check out YT channel BareNakedStones for CA. He just sent me some of his finds and they are excellent. He does rockhounding.
meMiner
Will do...Thanks
Definitely need to go back there.
really enjoyed this video
thanks
Nice Garnett bud cool find :)
thanks
The tiny druzy crystals would make pretty necklaces!!
I really should learn to make jewelry with the rocks. Maybe a winter project.
last one is very vibrant
Always enjoy your videos. I was told that the one i have that glows blue is a rare very clear moon stone. As 90% is milky or swirled.
Congrats!
He needs to go back to that spot. Very nice red rocks. I would go back, nice.
Very nice!
Thanks much!
meMiner
welcome😀
Thanks Muang Surin, Surin, Thailand!
Good stuff ...i would of brought back most all the screenings in hopes of a gem quality garnet.
I try to be a bit selective, but probably make mistakes and leave behind some good stuff.
Some nice gem'y pieces eh.
Heading up to temagami tomorrow morning with the fam. Long drive from Cincy. Wish I knew all your secret spots.🤐😉
I don't know any sites that are currently open to collecting by Temagami. You will notice new "no trespassing" signs at most of the historic mines in the area. For sure, some of the back roads with mine names are interesting drives and you don't have to be in the actual mine to find stuff along the roadways and ditches. I would suggest looking slightly north of Temagami. I have not found anything interesting (except quartz) to the south, all the way to Martin River.
meMiner yea. The only place I regularly explore up there is the Temagami mine. (My family congregates on lake Temagami every summer). Real neat chalcopyrite/quartz formations can be found as well as copper formations at the old mine. Don’t have a whole lot of time to process my finds so I sent one to a lapidary artist and he loved it. You can see one of the pieces I sent him on his UA-cam channel. ua-cam.com/video/XUX0BQQ9-3E/v-deo.html
Forgive his pronunciation of Temagami.
That is a beautiful rock. I have one like it and forget where I found it. Might have been in the Temagami area. I have not been to the mine you mention, and have only gone to spots that I could access from the roads off the highway. Usually, I am going to or from Cobalt and out of time...
You have very good luck finding the shiny pretties mother earth has to offer. You sure Daisy isn't a Gem hound?
A water dog for sure. She does like to be with me when rockhounding, but for her own purposes.
Great stuff, I still find it a shame they closed the York river Skarn zone. The crystals there were so nice.
Sure don't want to be caught collecting in there. I heard it is a good way to lose you vehicle and everything else you were there with.
meMiner . They could but highly doubtful they would. A fine would probably be in order for the first offence. Their are other areas for garnet though.
Sure wish I had some of the garnets and the green crystals.
Do you have a website where you sell your stuff?
No. I collect for fun.
Nice
Thanks!
Hey MeMiner! Just curious where I might find a strainer similar to the one you're using? I'm in Ontario as well.
You can get round classifiers that will stack and fit into the top of a 5 gallon plastic pail from most online stores who sell gold panning equipment. I have a square one that I got a few years ago from Lee Valley.
meMiner Great, thanks. I’ll check those places out
Those tiny ones are pretty!...I wish you would find these red garnets like you found all those Apatites!!! Hey? God, they were just falling into your hands!!!! I'm waiting for you to find you motherloade!!!!
Thanks Cathy. BTW - your package was mailed today. It got lost for a short while. It has a little variety that I hope you enjoy.
meMiner Love ya!!!! Thankyou very much!!!
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Love your videos! I'm a beginner at this, and I had a question for you: how do you find your sites?
Some places are well known but it is a good idea to look around and explore rather than just go where everyone else has dug. You would be surprised how much info is available online. A good website is mindat.org and look at it maps. Otherwise some Google searches with key words such as your town or state/prov will get you started.
meMiner thank you so much! I really appreciate the help and for providing me the resources!
Teach the dog to dig your holes lol it's amazing how beautiful the Earth is when you know what your looking for. Some of the best discoverys have been found accidentally, all you gotta do is slow down.
I am just happy that she found a spot to lie down and did not wander onto the highway. When it is hot out, she sometimes decides to dig a bit if I have a deep hole, but then she will lie in it because of the cool ground. Kinda gets in the way. ;-)
meMiner well at least her intentions are good. Lol my dog does the same I have a kennel to put her up when strangers come around, she has a hole dug so deep it actually goes under the fence into the yard. Shhh she has no idea cause the opening too the hole is on the inside of the kennel. Lol
nice good
lucky
thankes
So is Micah what they add to some cement for some sidewalks and walkways to make them sparkle ? 💎 💎 💎
I am not sure. Maybe someone else knows?
Pamela Corona. The sparkle you see in cement and alot of grout material is sand. Sand is small particles of quartz, the most abundant mineral. They have also used round balls of glass in asphalt.
CoinandRelicOntario , Thank You : )
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Pretty..do all rocks react to muratic acid?..I wanna try that method..looks cool..peace my friend
Yvonne Sebastian any carbonates will dissolve. And some minerals as well, so double check your particular minerals before you use muriatic acid! Also wear gloves.. glasses, dont breathe the fumes etc.
Ty..Call me an idoit..lol..my sis(partner in crime) reminded me we HAVE used the acid..while she used vinegar. I used the acid..we got no results on either..getting old sucks lol..thanks hun
Better. Than not getting old lol.
meMiner first I love your videos. They are very helpful for sure!! I was wondering how long you soak the rocks in the HCL? I did a few rocks last week and again tonight but this time it smelled so bad of sulphur I had to quit!!
So what is your recommendation ??
We went to Port Hope today and just grabbed a few rocks to soak. One of them that looks like it is hardened clay has started to dissolve and we are finding tiny little crystals that I think are pyrite. So I decided to soak it in some cola. But the acid would be much faster.
If you can help me that would be greatly appreciated.
I only had a little bit of HCL (heavily diluted), so put them in overnight. Please don't be close enough to any etching that you can smell good or bad scents. You do not want to get it into your lungs. That said, usually I look at the rocks after about an hour to make sure I am not removing too much because I like clusters. Cola will work but really slowly. I find that vinegar is faster than cola. Pyrite crystals are quite nice.
meMiner thank you for your info!! Again I love your videos. :)
More acid videos!!!
Very pretty!
What will you do with them now?
The larger crystals might be good for jewelry. I will have to ask someone who knows more than me.
meMiner my friend Alicia used to make jewelery. Same girl that likes the apatites (and every other rock out there lol) she would check some stuff out for ya, Im sure. I've found sooooo much "smaller" (I guess average) stuff at Beaver lately it isnt even funny.. Im gonna have a 4 part, 30 minutes each video series just from there!
2 hours of video. I am sure it will be interesting.
meMiner Ill try to speed through a bunch of them when I do it. But judging by my other videos.. itll be a series. Plus I still have to do a cut/polished rock video as well :)
@meMiner - the lazy Susan is a good addition... if I were filming rocks I’d want to get as close as possible with a fixed focus. As you’ve that lovely deck, I’d put the lazy Susan near the edge of a table in the sun. Next I’d set the tripod up next to the table so the camera was *_close_* to the lazy s, no zoom, so a single rock on the lazy s (an area similar to a single region of a dartboard twixt the double and triple score bands) is t’only thing in frame and focus. You’ll have to experiment to find the right distance and the size of the rocks will change things (not much, we’re working in cm now) and make sure the sun is _behind_ the camera (and that you’re not throwing shade). Once you have that setup, you can spin a sample into view and since the lazy s is in focus you’ll not have to move either the camera or rock (beyond rotating or flipping it in place). I was the lighting director for a band for a few decades and did a lot of live video projection with water/oil tables (among other things)... the amount of time (and mess) figuring out how to get that right...
Excellent suggestions! I think I may need to cut down a tree or two. Once the big ole oaks get leaves, the lighting situation gets funky (especially when there is a slight breeze causing the shadows to move). I really struggle with this. Thanks for your help.
@meMiner - you can achieve the same effect indoors with (ideally tungsten, that’s just my choice, use what you have on hand) HID floodlights... the kind they sell at home stores with the tripod base. Same principle, bright light behind the camera, maybe a smaller desk lamp and all the overhead lights to crush as much hard shadow as possible. I bet if you played with exposure settings on the camera you could do it with a couple of well placed flashlights. The R&D _”work”_ I did finding the right angles and exposures and lighting to bring on tour was a ton of fun, feel free to ask questions ;-)
I think I need to get more technical with my camera for sure. My main camera is a Canon M50 and I was hoping I could trust its auto features to think things for me, especially when using a tripod. Just like the metal detectors, you are better off learning how to use the machine properly. ;-)
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There are some garnets of those kind that come out of a asbestos mine up in your neck of the woods ... or am I mistaken.
There was no mine where I found these ones, but garnets are possible in many of the old mines. There is an asbestos mine in Northern Ontario that is on my bucket list for next year where I heard collecting is like being in a candy store.
The first garnet I found was a real luck. The garnet I found was in a piece of quartz. The garnet is black.
EDIT; thx man, you are a great lover.😄🤣😄
Hey about 2 years ago I was with my family at a fesitaval walking and the area was kind of muddy. I step on a rock and thought it went through my boot. I looked to see what type of rock it was, turned out to be a large garnet the size of a gumball.😳
Nice. You never know when you are going to find something interesting. Makes you wonder if your garnet was dropped, in from some crush that was used there or natural to the area. Years ago, I had a gold nugget that I took to work to show off and lost it somewhere between the parking lot and the office. Whoever found it must still be scratching their head about it.
Yes I've been wondering myself if it was just mixed in with the gravel or if there could possibly be more in that area???😳
Only one way to know for sure...
Is it painite
every nice
thanks
I have a special crystal that can't identify some say carnellia some say agate but I did more research and it's more like a giant pigeon blood ruby.let me know if you want to see the pictures of it thanks brother
Diopside? I honestly thought that just came from Siberia.. I wonder if that's just chrome diopside that does..?
We have pretty much all known minerals somewhere in Ontario. They may not be in economic quantity or museum grade quality, but there are here.
@@meMiner I'm seeing that!! Absolutely grand!!! 💚💜💚
I called my dog Garnet..
Great name for a dog.
Nice crystal hunting! Just dont let the word out on locations or you might be over run with Breaking Bad Fans................
I usually advise the location if the spot is public and it was found by me. In this case, I was directed there by a friend.
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