Ahh having coffee and watching.. makes for a nice morning.. love the sounds of walking thru the drill cores.. pretty silver too!.. have a great weekend!❤️☮️
Those drill cores were pretty cool!!! My daughter was wishing she had been there as she would've filled my car with them 🤦♀️ Beautiful pieces of silver! And those calcite crystals were huge!!!! Thanks for another great video Greig! Glad to see you back out on adventures!
I believe the county or the state would have records of Coring samples taken. Just go down to your local for permits and you should be able to find more information about it. I was a roughneck and used to drill for oil and gas. I also did some Coring for samples, when I was young. The hourly pay 27 years ago to start was $29, right around there? 7 years ago I was making $49 an hour. There's good money on the fourth day because we are all working time-and-a-half. I don't know why some people work the jobs they do and get paid so little. I see these young guys capable and able a being able to pick up a hundred pounds or more and they're not using what God gave them to Make a Better Living for their family. Oh well I guess I got off track there LOL🤣😂🤣
Hiya Greg, dude! That's a beautiful piece of silver and silver slabs, those crystals are very beautiful too. Awesome video, I hope you have a awesome blessed weekend. Cya! 😺🐟out!
Oh man silver ore slices are way cool! Enjoyed the hill of cores - very interesting. Liked your jacket, too. Good on you - David from the UK, really lovely calcite crystals. Enjoyed the video 😎
Thats awesome.. ive never seen cores like that!! And I think given o love silver and gold i should learn more about how it looks in natural form.. Thanks and as always great vid!
Wow that’s a lot of core samples. Score under the core samples cool, wow beautiful crystals he sent you, that sample you sent him will polish up beautifully awesome awesome great video of friendship out there thank you
Awesome find, that piece is packed with silver!! Most of our silver is mixed in with galena around here so you don't get to see it in native form very often. those would make some very cool cabs by the way!!
@@DigiDuit I think it is because it is just a sulfide and contains impurities. It doesn't become lead metal until it is processed by the smelters. Just a guess though🤔
Beautiful specimen and wondrous slabs. I have got to send you some of the stuff from my mine in Arizona. Keep improving and give my regards to the family and your furry children as well !!
Well, I hope they at least logged all that core before they scattered it. Imagine the effort and expense invested to gather that geological information. I have a paved pathway in my garden made from split discarded HQ sized core. There are a great many other uses for it. All the best.
Just came across your channel, VERY interesting to me as I worked in the mining industry 30+ years, with about 6 years as a core driller. The geologists got all the good stuff and dumped the rest.
Oh wow! What an exciting find! Even without silver, the core samples are cool! Maybe for edging of a flower bed if stood on end. But much cooler with silver!
So crazy. I have never seen anything like that. I would be lost for days without even owning a detector. Lol. Great video friend. You earned my subscription!!!
I used to work on a core rig a couple of decades ago, back then the drilling company used to charge $30 a foot for core samples. Obviously these are quite a bit older, but that is still alot of holes.
@@seagullvictim7563 The core samples are examined by geologists who use the information, depth of the hole, angle of hole, at what depth interesting minerals exist in order to map the deposits of ore underground. With enough holes, and samples they can accurately predict what the mineralization is, ore grades etc. long before any money has to be spent on sinking shafts or pit mining. Something in this area definately held their interest and the interest of the mining company long enough to drill this many holes, but given that this was most likely done quite awhile ago, they never found the ore grade they were looking for at that time to make it profitable to justify mining it. Times have changed though and what used to be a unprofitable venture then, might be profitable now, hard to say. Core samples, are usually laid out in wooden boxes, about 5 feet long, divided into 4 or 6 channels running the length of the box. Each box is numbered with the hole location and inside the box, records of the depth of the sample, usually written on little wooden blocks. This way a continuous record of the core sample from the top of the hole to the bottom can be kept for examination. After the rock lickers (geologist joke) are finished cataloging the samples, the boxes are stacked and stored in what is called a core shack, in case a geologist needs to examine a sample from a particular hole again. When the mining companies permits expired, it is common practice nowadays to perform reclamation, a process of returning the land to a more natural state. This likely involved destroying structures on the claim, including the core shacks. This pile of core, dumped out of the boxes, I would guess was an attempt at reclamation. However this was probably some time ago, nowadays they would probably have to cover this pile of rock with dirt, so vegetation could regrow. The other possibility was that for some unknown reason, the company lost their claim, they didn't file the necessary paperwork on time or some other reason and someone else claimed it. Rather than leaving a bunch of nicely ordered core samples, that they invested alot of money drilling, behind. They chose to dump the boxes out into a pile, disordering them and render them useless, so the new claim holder didn't inherit a freebie. The mining companies I was contracted to, had core shacks that stored hundreds of thousands of feet of core samples, all neatly stacked and ordered for future reference.
That's so cool..i raise 3 kids alone..and my 10yo daughter loves stones and jewels.. she would love something cool like that.. i wish i had a place here in Maine to take her to find a piece. She'd love it
Great video, I've just seen that rock with the silver in, dave is my neighbor, he's a legend, he showed me that rock, the crystals he sent you come from a quarry I used to manage, wick quarry in bristol. small world man, respect from the 🇬🇧
I know a place on lake Panache where there is a large quartz vein that was blasted out for the very white stuff for masonry work. I found all types of minerals ( pyrites and copper mixes ) and brown , grey and black onyx . I never had the chance to use a detector or map out the entire length but from satellite images and old aerial photos it looks huge . I only went through the waste piles but found tons more under the trees that grew over top . They stopped mining it out ( during winter and ice roads ) around 1972 -1973 . I am not sure but the area may now be reclaimed native territory. Awesome finds
This scenery looks like from another dimension of reality... these cylinders in the forest, just amazing. Also try to bring small garden sprayer full of water when you rockhound - it will help on mine dumbs.
Great to see you posting more. Thank you once again for sharing your passion! As a matter of fact, I am going to be going up this fall to the silver area in Ontario now that I have begun to recover from my surgeries. Wishing you and your family well. I hope I can come away with one rock as well .... at least. I'll be taking my Garrett at pro and my pointer and a portable stool for when I have to sit. Wish me luck and if you have any time I would truly love a discourse with you in regards to the Cobalt area or your recommendation as to a good set of videos to watch as to where to go. Sadly I am still quite slow at the moment I'm probably will be in the fall as well so I have to choose where I go carefully. Best regards and happy rockhounding
ive found so many piles of core samples its insanse and the funny thing is half of them dont even have metal in it and my guess is most are from when they were drilling to see whats there
Years ago, I hit a pile and found a number of samples that had silver. That place also had a ton of hot rocks which confused the detector. I'd love to find a pile to detect at a gold mine.
@@meMiner the mine I visited is reopening soon apparently but I did snag a huge piece of chalcopyrite mixed with some other minerals,it was a brute to carry out down the road in ahah
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing! So.. I guess old core piles CAN be like a box of chocolates eh? Lotta work for the final find, but cut up really sharp.
Wow what a great find. The last time I found cores was in South Dakota and they were 3 inch diameter rose quartz. I sliced a few and there was quartz for Christmas. I'm glad you show the raw silver. I wouldn't know silver from lead in the rock. Always a fun trip. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒😎
Thankfully, only a few mines in that area have lead. I was at a gold mine with my daughter Amy and we found some wonderful galena, but I was so disappointed every time I dug one up and it wasn't golden. Sounded so good on the detector
ever thought of modifying a tumbler roller setup using homemade grit stones as rollers and a water dripping system to polish those cores.... you might be blown away by the result.... polished rods :)
My mind just went nuts after seeing all those cores. Could build some cool walking paths or floors or walls with all that. The ideas are endless. Lol
Yeah would look amazing!!! Just after checking non toxicity and other safety checks and ideas would be endless
That would be so cool
Ahh having coffee and watching.. makes for a nice morning.. love the sounds of walking thru the drill cores.. pretty silver too!.. have a great weekend!❤️☮️
Those drill cores were pretty cool!!! My daughter was wishing she had been there as she would've filled my car with them 🤦♀️ Beautiful pieces of silver! And those calcite crystals were huge!!!! Thanks for another great video Greig! Glad to see you back out on adventures!
I believe the county or the state would have records of Coring samples taken. Just go down to your local for permits and you should be able to find more information about it.
I was a roughneck and used to drill for oil and gas. I also did some Coring for samples, when I was young. The hourly pay 27 years ago to start was $29, right around there? 7 years ago I was making $49 an hour. There's good money on the fourth day because we are all working time-and-a-half. I don't know why some people work the jobs they do and get paid so little. I see these young guys capable and able a being able to pick up a hundred pounds or more and they're not using what God gave them to Make a Better Living for their family. Oh well I guess I got off track there LOL🤣😂🤣
Look at all those Flintsone candles 😉
Enjoyed the episode ✌
Flintstone. LOL
I just have to say I truly enjoy your videos as well as the vibe you bring to your channel. Keep up the good work. Thank you for your goodness.
Awesome silver! Great calcite crystals! Nice gift exchange! Cute Shelby cameo!
If there's a speck of silver around you can guarantee Greg will find it 🤣🤣🤣
Hiya Greg, dude! That's a beautiful piece of silver and silver slabs, those crystals are very beautiful too. Awesome video, I hope you have a awesome blessed weekend. Cya!
😺🐟out!
Nice video to start the weekend with. Another nice find. I like your way of thinking and in the end it payed off 👍 have a great weekend.
Could you make wind chimes out of them?
I have heard people suggest that before. I think the long skinny ones would be great.
I commented the same thing and then saw you comment so I deleted it. I think it could be unique and Beautiful.
Nice I like !
Very nice of him to send those pieces to you. And what a gift in return! Very neat slabs. Thanks for sharing!
Oh man silver ore slices are way cool! Enjoyed the hill of cores - very interesting. Liked your jacket, too. Good on you - David from the UK, really lovely calcite crystals. Enjoyed the video 😎
Thanks 👍
Very cool pile of drill core samples and Awesome find. Nice mail call. Thanks for sharing and take care.
Beautiful slices and awesome calcite chunks!
Loved the sound of you walking on the drill cores..
Sweet, thanks for the show...keep on keeping on!😉😎
Great Find ! Glad To see Your out There Getting It Done ! Love Your Videos 👍
Man you have the most peaceful demeanor. Felt like I was hunting silver with Bob Ross lol. Thanks for the video 😉
Beautiful gifts! Amazing slices Greig!
Thank you for the video!! Awesome specimen.
From the sound of the cores while walking on them. One could make wind chimes out of them.
Funny you mention that. There is such a thing as "musical drill cores"
I have never seen so many in one place, amazing video as usual. Thanks
Many thanks!
Thats awesome.. ive never seen cores like that!! And I think given o love silver and gold i should learn more about how it looks in natural form.. Thanks and as always great vid!
Wow interesting a huge pile of core samples cool, awesome find 😊💙
This is one of the most bad ass rock/ore videos I've seen! Cool stuff!
that silver ridden rock was mind blowing. never seen anything like it! subscribed!!
What a great and informative video! I truly enjoyed watching it. Thank you.
Thanks for another great vid mate.
You're the man, great idea to hunt that area, nice reward to boot. All the best my friend, Lanny
Wow that’s a lot of core samples. Score under the core samples cool, wow beautiful crystals he sent you, that sample you sent him will polish up beautifully awesome awesome great video of friendship out there thank you
I just had a stroke reading this 🤣
Nice chunk of silver , you know how to find it. Very cool calcite,nice of david👍. Puppys growin good, have a goodin and thanks for the vid👊
Thanks 👍
I missed this one somehow. I'm glad I finally watched it. Those were some really cool slabs.
Awesome find, that piece is packed with silver!! Most of our silver is mixed in with galena around here so you don't get to see it in native form very often. those would make some very cool cabs by the way!!
Why can't you just call it "lead"? If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a darn duck. Call a "spade" a spade. Lead is LEAD
@@DigiDuit I think it is because it is just a sulfide and contains impurities. It doesn't become lead metal until it is processed by the smelters. Just a guess though🤔
Beautiful specimen and wondrous slabs. I have got to send you some of the stuff from my mine in Arizona. Keep improving and give my regards to the family and your furry children as well !!
I can hardly wait for Shelby to be old enough to go on a trip like this. It is a bit too dangerous for her yet.
I dig your aquachigger hat, that guy is pretty rad! From far away, those piles of cores look like rabbit food, haha.
He is a great guy and I am happy to call him my friend.
Well, I hope they at least logged all that core before they scattered it. Imagine the effort and expense invested to gather that geological information.
I have a paved pathway in my garden made from split discarded HQ sized core. There are a great many other uses for it. All the best.
That would be a cool looking path
Mancing garong
Very cool find, was worth looking!
Just came across your channel, VERY interesting to me as I worked in the mining industry 30+ years, with about 6 years as a core driller. The geologists got all the good stuff and dumped the rest.
I have found silver in other abandoned drill core. I guess mistakes were made
Wow what a find! Love the slices
Beautiful find, awesome.
Yeah that come out beautiful that sample that cut so beautifully and look at all that silver oh my goodness
never thought there would be silver at a drill pile 😮
Oh wow! What an exciting find! Even without silver, the core samples are cool! Maybe for edging of a flower bed if stood on end. But much cooler with silver!
Another good idea of what one could do
Cool Video! Thanks for sharing with us!! 😊
Wow!
Would love to get into one of those drill core piles.
The slices turned out pretty sweet 😃
That was just beautiful 🤩Thank you sir
So crazy. I have never seen anything like that. I would be lost for days without even owning a detector. Lol. Great video friend. You earned my subscription!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Looks like hamster food!
I used to work on a core rig a couple of decades ago, back then the drilling company used to charge $30 a foot for core samples. Obviously these are quite a bit older, but that is still alot of holes.
What reasons would they of drilled and left behind so many?
@@seagullvictim7563 The core samples are examined by geologists who use the information, depth of the hole, angle of hole, at what depth interesting minerals exist in order to map the deposits of ore underground. With enough holes, and samples they can accurately predict what the mineralization is, ore grades etc. long before any money has to be spent on sinking shafts or pit mining. Something in this area definately held their interest and the interest of the mining company long enough to drill this many holes, but given that this was most likely done quite awhile ago, they never found the ore grade they were looking for at that time to make it profitable to justify mining it. Times have changed though and what used to be a unprofitable venture then, might be profitable now, hard to say.
Core samples, are usually laid out in wooden boxes, about 5 feet long, divided into 4 or 6 channels running the length of the box. Each box is numbered with the hole location and inside the box, records of the depth of the sample, usually written on little wooden blocks. This way a continuous record of the core sample from the top of the hole to the bottom can be kept for examination. After the rock lickers (geologist joke) are finished cataloging the samples, the boxes are stacked and stored in what is called a core shack, in case a geologist needs to examine a sample from a particular hole again.
When the mining companies permits expired, it is common practice nowadays to perform reclamation, a process of returning the land to a more natural state. This likely involved destroying structures on the claim, including the core shacks. This pile of core, dumped out of the boxes, I would guess was an attempt at reclamation. However this was probably some time ago, nowadays they would probably have to cover this pile of rock with dirt, so vegetation could regrow.
The other possibility was that for some unknown reason, the company lost their claim, they didn't file the necessary paperwork on time or some other reason and someone else claimed it. Rather than leaving a bunch of nicely ordered core samples, that they invested alot of money drilling, behind. They chose to dump the boxes out into a pile, disordering them and render them useless, so the new claim holder didn't inherit a freebie. The mining companies I was contracted to, had core shacks that stored hundreds of thousands of feet of core samples, all neatly stacked and ordered for future reference.
That's so cool..i raise 3 kids alone..and my 10yo daughter loves stones and jewels.. she would love something cool like that.. i wish i had a place here in Maine to take her to find a piece. She'd love it
Man I would love to have any one of them core samples just for my personal collection
Awesome finds.
That many cores represents a lot of money in exploration...
Love the hat
I would love to have truck access to the drill cores and tailings!
Gravel is so expensive where I live.
Great video, I've just seen that rock with the silver in, dave is my neighbor, he's a legend, he showed me that rock, the crystals he sent you come from a quarry I used to manage, wick quarry in bristol. small world man, respect from the 🇬🇧
Very cool!
That is an insane number of drill cores.
The Master strikes again
I’ve never seen drill core before. Really cool!
I know a place on lake Panache where there is a large quartz vein that was blasted out for the very white stuff for masonry work. I found all types of minerals ( pyrites and copper mixes ) and brown , grey and black onyx . I never had the chance to use a detector or map out the entire length but from satellite images and old aerial photos it looks huge . I only went through the waste piles but found tons more under the trees that grew over top . They stopped mining it out ( during winter and ice roads ) around 1972 -1973 . I am not sure but the area may now be reclaimed native territory.
Awesome finds
Sounds like a wonderful spot
This scenery looks like from another dimension of reality... these cylinders in the forest, just amazing. Also try to bring small garden sprayer full of water when you rockhound - it will help on mine dumbs.
I can usually only carry so much stuff and usually water for the rocks is not on the list. It is a good idea, but I need more hands
@@meMiner Mine's has shoulder strap for carrying ;)
What a fascinating place!
Great to see you posting more. Thank you once again for sharing your passion!
As a matter of fact, I am going to be going up this fall to the silver area in Ontario now that I have begun to recover from my surgeries.
Wishing you and your family well.
I hope I can come away with one rock as well .... at least. I'll be taking my Garrett at pro and my pointer and a portable stool for when I have to sit.
Wish me luck and if you have any time I would truly love a discourse with you in regards to the Cobalt area or your recommendation as to a good set of videos to watch as to where to go. Sadly I am still quite slow at the moment I'm probably will be in the fall as well so I have to choose where I go carefully.
Best regards and happy rockhounding
You can drive right up the the Nova Scotia or Hudson Bay and both had silver.
I like those Rines I like them alot, it takes some steady hands to cut pieces that thin from a piece that small and oddly shaped .
Впервые вижу серебро в его первоначальном виде. Отличное видео! Спасибо!
In my rock collection, I also collected Drill Holes, and put my cores back into the holes
Cool idea. I find those all the time but don't think I kept any holes
I saw O of your rock hounds digging for ya .That's why you got one rock!
This is pretty neat.
Somebody drilled a lot of core samples. Wow, that’s crazy. Take care meMiner.
That's great especially when it's sliced😉👍👊💚💛❤
thats some sweet calcite, i have seen one double terminated that size 30k in a collection
ive found so many piles of core samples its insanse and the funny thing is half of them dont even have metal in it and my guess is most are from when they were drilling to see whats there
Years ago, I hit a pile and found a number of samples that had silver. That place also had a ton of hot rocks which confused the detector. I'd love to find a pile to detect at a gold mine.
@@meMiner the mine I visited is reopening soon apparently but I did snag a huge piece of chalcopyrite mixed with some other minerals,it was a brute to carry out down the road in ahah
Oh man I would love to own a small rock soiled like that I have never seen it in the raw like that amazing 💗
Cool Vlog !!!
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing! So.. I guess old core piles CAN be like a box of chocolates eh? Lotta work for the final find, but cut up really sharp.
My Mamma always told me ...
I would love to find that. Amazing.
It was like you were walking over a pile of large animal food pellets!
That used to be my job, drilling and logging drill cores. After being logged for mineral information they are stored awhile and then dumped.
I would love to see your rock collection:)
Another great video
I appreciate that
@@meMiner We could use some core like these for educational purposes with the younger folks
those look cool !!!!
I think running those cores through a crusher would produce an interesting result in a gold pan.
Super finds in the wild ✌🏻👍🏻🤘🏻
I would enjoy just hand fulls of cores
I'm positive they can make beautiful things with them
Sounds as though you could make something with that ring! Like a bell.
Right on with the chigg!!!!
Man, I would love to find some of that. The silver mines near where I Rockhound in the winter are played out.
Unquestionably, it is getting more difficult where I go too.
That was neat didn't even have to dig.
Very cool video
Wow what a great find. The last time I found cores was in South Dakota and they were 3 inch diameter rose quartz. I sliced a few and there was quartz for Christmas. I'm glad you show the raw silver. I wouldn't know silver from lead in the rock. Always a fun trip. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒😎
Thankfully, only a few mines in that area have lead. I was at a gold mine with my daughter Amy and we found some wonderful galena, but I was so disappointed every time I dug one up and it wasn't golden. Sounded so good on the detector
ever thought of modifying a tumbler roller setup using homemade grit stones as rollers and a water dripping system to polish those cores.... you might be blown away by the result.... polished rods :)
I thought about spinning one in a large drill
Our Daddy gave us some 6" cores, used them as doorsteps for years! I would use those pieces for a walk path or make a cement pond or cool waterfall...
Sounds great!
Wow the man hours put into that !!!
That looks great will display nice
cool never see this in Alaska. That is a pile of cores. KEEP ON LOOKIN KEEP ON FINDING
Wow! That's a big mine apparently
Very cool sawed silver rock
Nice calcite points! Hit em with the UV!
I should have thought about that for the video. Great idea
That ground must be like Swiss cheese lol
No i git. Myślałem że to łuski karabinowe .👍😃
Cool slice I see a lot of silver in it