Great video. Thanks for taking us along on this adventure. Looks like some amazing samples you found. Looking forward to your next video. Take care and be safe.
You living my brothers dream right now, being in a beautiful forest in Canada and just traipsing around looking for minerals with your puppers. Thanks for the video, sent it to him. Maybe someday =)
Hit that grey metal with a mapp gas torch... it could be galena (lead) it will melt pretty quick... platinum definitely won't... great videos series! I'm a big fan if the chig, good move on the colab😀
I worked at a mine where gold was seen microscopically within the pyrite cleavage planes. There was also free gold that was sometimes (but rarely) visible to the naked eye. I know they are expensive but assays will tell you what you are dealing with. You could make a composite of the best samples from an outcrop and send that for analysis to better cover the outcrop and save money. I would always turn the sample in the light. Pyrite would change in yellowness and brightness while gold would not and would stay yellow.
Just came across your video. Very cool! Which mine is this? I am a geologist working in Ontario. I used to work in several Ontario gold mines and exploration projects. I believe the purple/grey/metallic mineral is Molybdenite. It's often an indicator of metals such as gold, silver, and copper.
I always enjoy your videos. If you do a speegee (Specific Gravity) test, you will be able to figure outwhether that silvery metal consists of. Silver, lead, or platinum.
Hey Meminer I'm finally taking a drive up to cobalt Ontario this week. I have the map of all the abandoned mines, there's so many of them.. can you recommend one that I can get to in my 2004 Subaru forester haha. I just really wanna find one raw silver nugget
I've seen where they were looking for quartz and green when gold prospecting, maybe that they looked but not enough to mine for, either that or it was just a small amount and it's now gone. Daisy the path finder. Stay safe.
At the first gold mine in Ontario, the fellow was looking for copper and started a copper mine. He blasted about 30 yards from his original hole and fell into a cavern at the bottom and there he found gold. So copper and gold can certainly be associated. Iron too.
meMiner Just goes to show how it's just luck sometimes, you can search for the signs and follow the natural leads to your destination only to find nothing.
Or a bonanza. You never know until you try. One thing for sure, they days were finds are sparse help make one appreciate the days where the finds are great.
Before I saw the unidentified silvery lump in that one piece I was thinking "maybe the gold was in the country rock as hornfels or skarn type deposit". Know if there's any granite nearby? The host rock does look a little skarn-y.
Nice video! You could take some more hard rock samples from there and send them to an assay lab to get definitie answers on the exact minerals, if you wanted too!
Oh, i assumed it was a abandoned claim. I guess someone has a claim worth testing, all that pyrite is a good indicator of gold!! That place looks similar to some of the places in B.C. Good luck with your gold mining Venture's!!!
In some mines the gold can be attached to the pyrite and the copper viens the copper and ptrite is roasted down leaving gold in small traces its then purified to solid gold I would suggest keeping the specimens pyrite and copper species go for bucks lol
Hello meMiner, Like watching your videos and i am a gold rock hunter myself. May i suggest the best tool i use for the job you are doing, its called a Falcon MD20, way better than a pinpointer. Look into it and hope you pick one up.
i used to have one. I destroyed it using it as a a general purpose pinpointer. Since then, I have been using he coin pinpointers and actually they work pretty good. However, they are not as sensitive to really small gold
Is good more yellow you need to be near the mine in Val dor Quebec’s gold mine lookie lookie lol but would still be fun finding all them beautifull rocks
It’s a fair size mine or quarry I’m not sure if they mine it anymore but if there gold in one spot ther must be in another like in that region it’s all rock the laurentionsnand it seems to be at the end of the larentions from what I remember it’s a great little town friendly quebecors nothing like Quebec City were they all are snobs in my opinion
Need rock hounding helpers lol!! We have some of the best spots in the world here in S/N Ontario. There are pockets with Puddingstones, Quartz, silver and gold all over here!
@@AnnahSoul not on youtube no. Email or social media? What’s app Lol. I’m not crazy tech savv either. I just need some friends who aren’t lazy and will actually help 🤣
Very true. In the field, it worked fine on rice size gold nuggets. It is an indicator but not fully reliable on really small stuff. I used to have a Falcon and that was super sensitive to small stuff and sometimes I relied on it to tell me what material to pan.
I am in Port Perry (down south). I have not looked for gold by Timmins. I know someone with a metal detector that was given permission at a few mines and he was successful
I used to have one, but it broke from over use. Now, I just use my Garrett Carrot, which won't detect really small gold but works well on larger pieces
I stopped the video at the 1:40 point just to say I think the idea of the Lazy Susan as a great way to display your specimens must have been suggested by a genius. Lol. Ok now back to the rest of the video.
If I was in Montana, I would spend most of my time looking for gold. I was there when I was younger but was only interested in the real Coors and Sloe Gin with Wink. The older meMiner now recognizes this as wasted youth. LOL
I can't do it, but maybe there is someone out there that can splash down the $13,000. All right everyone lets get a crowdfund goin for meMiner. I don't know how to do it myself just know people are doing it, and successfully.
No license that I am aware. More important is what tools you use (hand tools are generally OK) and where you prospect. For example, cannot do it in parks, native land, existing claims, private property etc without prior permission.
a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acid ( often called aqua regia) is the best way to chemically purify gold, as judt one or the other results in low solubility
You had me fooled with the thumbnail! I thought u hit it big this time!!! drop a chunk of the metal in nitric and see hat hqppens, j thin nitric won't dissolve platinum
Wonderful and congrats! Daisy was the first dog that we took to puppy school. It was worthwhile. It also helped that we already had a good (older) lab who taught Daisy some things. Good luck with your pup
meMiner I had two yellow labs who have passed. The younger was my dog and would smile all the time. I miss her so much but I’m sure this one will have her own different personality. Right now she just wants to “help”! I had to box my rocks cuz I was afraid she’d eat them!
@meMiner I am not home much due to work so I have boxed up most. Some are in vinegar. Now that winter is upon us I can catch up with tumbling. I’m still learning by trial and error so many of these might go to the driveway. My daughter and her husband say the dog needs to be exorcised.. I haven’t looked for metals, just beauty.i should get my metal detector out next spring!
This mine is in south east Ontario. I have not been on any mines on the French. If you would care to share the location, email me at meminerrocks@gmail.com. I am in that area quite often.
Hey I'm from North Bay. I'm very interested in Geology. I know gold is VERY hard to find in this area, but I want to use that as my goal to starting my prospecting. If your ever in the area and want company. Let me know. Also, if you can give me a few tips and possible areas to start looking. I would highly appreciate it. Keep up the great work and the Amazing videos
I drive thru North Bay quite often. I love the area north of there. Something to think about is there is a rock and mineral club in town. I have met some of the members and they are all good people
Wow i an near tatlock mine one mile,I have a friend she was the geologist working it She has told me of gold and platinum found local,,My area is loaded with massive Pyrite i swear i found small vg i need a pin pointer Smiles
I was at Tatlock once on a club trip. Great place to explore. I got some nice pyrite in marble. It is know for a few other minerals, but I didn't know about PMs.
I did see that one smiles i helped get my local club in,,It might sound funny but covid and your vids got me looking into rocks,,I truly enjoy this..Paul
I'm getting sick of watching Metallica all the time ,I live where there is deep gold I mean way down I live in Dryden Ontario does any one know if there is too gold on the Canadian Shield ? There are some rivers close by yet I never panned or prospected them it would give me the desire to do that if someone knew of there is top gold in North West Ontario ?
There is 100% Gold and Silver up here! Massive Amts of Granite and Puddingstones also! I panned on the shoreline close to my cottage and got several pickers. Looking forward to going back out!
Great video. Thanks for taking us along on this adventure. Looks like some amazing samples you found. Looking forward to your next video. Take care and be safe.
It sure is a site that could use a detailed inspection. We were a bit rushed but it sure was interesting.
Always a fun adventure watching your videos. I wish to get out hounding like you one day.
I look forward to it.
Encyclopedia of rocks you have a great eye. Makes me slow down and look closer👍🏼
Just look for unusual colour and shape. Too often the good stuff is dirty, so shape and sometimes weight are the best indicators.
meMiner I appreciate your reply. Will do
I’m in Ontario going on my first gold panning trip here in a few days. Thank you so much for all these videos!!!
I am thinking of giving it a try as well! Where do you live? I'm from Toronto. It would be nice if we could go together. 😃
@@nando603 lol I’m going on a 14 day trip sorry. Traveling all over
Hi zakna0693, is a license required in Ontario for gold mining?
Where in Ontario?
Me too, I’m interested
jeeze if that is platinum that's a great find! well great finds none the less :D
Thanks very interesting nice gray metal !!
What a great tour and beautiful Pyrite specimens, they sell for a good buck these days.
The uknown silver metal , I know the feeling man lmao ! Great video :)
Ontario RockHound n
Yeah. Sometimes it is easy to know what is in hand. Other times, it is a big question mark until more testing is done.
Ahh shit lol
Testing. Seems so expensive :/
I won't pay for it unless I own the claim.
those were some nice chunks of pyrite. Congrats on 10k!
Thans Schteve!
Ore envy from the shadow of the continental divide. Great videos
It is a pretty interesting spot. I would like to go back when I have more time to explore and will take a good detector.
Awwww those first two small rocks were so pretty, boo hoo boo!
thanks for taking me along, Kayne says hi to your puppy....
Puppy says hi to Kayne. She loves everybody.
You living my brothers dream right now, being in a beautiful forest in Canada and just traipsing around looking for minerals with your puppers. Thanks for the video, sent it to him. Maybe someday =)
The best part of that is the pups. lol
I am your fourth Thumbs up!
Copper indicates igneous rocks.....and maybe gold? The pyrite is pretty too!
Exactly.
Hit that grey metal with a mapp gas torch... it could be galena (lead) it will melt pretty quick... platinum definitely won't... great videos series! I'm a big fan if the chig, good move on the colab😀
I was with the Chigg at this site but we got separated. It was our last adventure together. He did a video on it too (his was better). ;-)
I will do that. I was thinking galena as a possibility too.
Pretty Awesome Video!
I worked at a mine where gold was seen microscopically within the pyrite cleavage planes. There was also free gold that was sometimes (but rarely) visible to the naked eye. I know they are expensive but assays will tell you what you are dealing with. You could make a composite of the best samples from an outcrop and send that for analysis to better cover the outcrop and save money. I would always turn the sample in the light. Pyrite would change in yellowness and brightness while gold would not and would stay yellow.
I will try turning pyrite. Makes sense
If you find out whats the heavies are please let me know. I swear i saw a gold nugget in that pan. It dodnt have the crystilazation that pyrite does.
Let it be the good stuff and thanks for bringing us meMiner.............
It was an adventure, so I had fun. At the end of the day, while it is nice to find something, I mostly enjoy the hunt.
On the back of a 18 wheeler rock hauler a sign was painted " Whats mined is yours"......
Yep. I saw a t-shirt in support of mining that said "If you cannot grow it, you have to mine it"
i wonder if the gray isn't tetrahedrite, which is often a silver containing ore.
What metal was found?
Just came across your video. Very cool! Which mine is this? I am a geologist working in Ontario. I used to work in several Ontario gold mines and exploration projects. I believe the purple/grey/metallic mineral is Molybdenite. It's often an indicator of metals such as gold, silver, and copper.
Have a question for you what happens when you use acid on sandstone rocks it has a geodon side is a good idea or bad idea
Don't know until you try. It depends upon what the sand is in the sandstone. If it is quartz, nothing will happen with muriatic
I always enjoy your videos. If you do a speegee (Specific Gravity) test, you will be able to figure outwhether that silvery metal consists of. Silver, lead, or platinum.
Very true. Thanks
Can hear the chigg making his video in the background lol I could spend days at a site like this. It's all really beautiful.
Good hearing. ;-)
meMiner yeah he checked too make sure he wasn't talking too loud😎
Hey Meminer I'm finally taking a drive up to cobalt Ontario this week. I have the map of all the abandoned mines, there's so many of them.. can you recommend one that I can get to in my 2004 Subaru forester haha. I just really wanna find one raw silver nugget
You can get within walking distance of most of the mines in the area with a Forester. Avoid the places where they are currently working. Good luck!
I've seen where they were looking for quartz and green when gold prospecting, maybe that they looked but not enough to mine for, either that or it was just a small amount and it's now gone.
Daisy the path finder.
Stay safe.
At the first gold mine in Ontario, the fellow was looking for copper and started a copper mine. He blasted about 30 yards from his original hole and fell into a cavern at the bottom and there he found gold. So copper and gold can certainly be associated. Iron too.
meMiner
Just goes to show how it's just luck sometimes, you can search for the signs and follow the natural leads to your destination only to find nothing.
Or a bonanza. You never know until you try. One thing for sure, they days were finds are sparse help make one appreciate the days where the finds are great.
meMiner
Yep Bonanza, I used to watch that, didn't like the theme tune much but I appreciated the days when we had bonanza.
Before I saw the unidentified silvery lump in that one piece I was thinking "maybe the gold was in the country rock as hornfels or skarn type deposit". Know if there's any granite nearby? The host rock does look a little skarn-y.
I didn't see any obvious granite. Lots of quartz and calcite.
Nice good luck
Nice video! You could take some more hard rock samples from there and send them to an assay lab to get definitie answers on the exact minerals, if you wanted too!
I would certainly do that if I owned the claim
Oh, i assumed it was a abandoned claim. I guess someone has a claim worth testing, all that pyrite is a good indicator of gold!!
That place looks similar to some of the places in B.C.
Good luck with your gold mining Venture's!!!
Great video
Thanks Missy!
In some mines the gold can be attached to the pyrite and the copper viens the copper and ptrite is roasted down leaving gold in small traces its then purified to solid gold I would suggest keeping the specimens pyrite and copper species go for bucks lol
agreed.
Parabéns seus vídeos são show de bola, eu queria saber que produtos é esse que coloca nas pedras para dissolver? Teria como o amigo dizer?
So WHERE is this mine and/or what is the Name of the mine ?
Hi rock Dad!
What rock tumbler brand do you use?
Cool finds!
Have a pleasant weekend.
Rooooooofl rock dad, genius mate, thanks ~ from: the future! ^^
Much respect meMiner.
If you want to check for platinum, put a dry piece of the material in H2O2. It will fizz if it is platinum.
I just wanted to tell you I love watching your videos thank you for sharing your wide understanding of all minerals
Thanks much! I do it for fun.
Thumbs crossed for platinum
I would crush all those samples to under 200 mesh and pan them out using JetDry or some other product to break the surface tension.
I think that is an excellent plan. Thanks
Hello meMiner, Like watching your videos and i am a gold rock hunter myself. May i suggest the best tool i use for the job you are doing, its called a Falcon MD20, way better than a pinpointer. Look into it and hope you pick one up.
i used to have one. I destroyed it using it as a a general purpose pinpointer. Since then, I have been using he coin pinpointers and actually they work pretty good. However, they are not as sensitive to really small gold
Did you find out what the grey metal pieces were.?
galena
Could be gold is locked in with copper or the pyrite. Oi wonder if a falcon 20 detector would be a better choice on such a small amount of gold
A Falcon would have been ideal. I used to have one but broke it.
Nice channel and vids
Thanks much!
Is good more yellow you need to be near the mine in Val dor Quebec’s gold mine lookie lookie lol but would still be fun finding all them beautifull rocks
If you can believe it, I have never been to Val D'or. I heard you can find gold there.
It’s a fair size mine or quarry I’m not sure if they mine it anymore but if there gold in one spot ther must be in another like in that region it’s all rock the laurentionsnand it seems to be at the end of the larentions from what I remember it’s a great little town friendly quebecors nothing like Quebec City were they all are snobs in my opinion
i have been into rock hounding in ontario aswell.. i cannot find a place to find old mines like this. i so want to go and have gas haha
Quite a bit of info is available online for free if you search the name of the area and "mineral collecting" or other such searches.
Awesome video! Where exactly is this place located?
Northern Ontario Canada
Where was this
I live in S. Ontario. Take me rock hounding with you. Teach me your ways. Lol seriously though.
Need rock hounding helpers lol!! We have some of the best spots in the world here in S/N Ontario. There are pockets with Puddingstones, Quartz, silver and gold all over here!
@@bigbb416-5 sign me up
@@AnnahSoul I don’t want to just give everyone my location lol. Have an email?
@@bigbb416-5 of course I don't expect you to do that. :) can we PM here? I'm not even sure.. lol
@@AnnahSoul not on youtube no. Email or social media? What’s app Lol. I’m not crazy tech savv either. I just need some friends who aren’t lazy and will actually help 🤣
Did you ever find out what that metal was?
galena
Don't count on that pinpointer to sound off on low concentrations of gold.
Very true. In the field, it worked fine on rice size gold nuggets. It is an indicator but not fully reliable on really small stuff. I used to have a Falcon and that was super sensitive to small stuff and sometimes I relied on it to tell me what material to pan.
Tested my Garrett pinpointer. It will only register .3 of a gram AU and higher. Mostly I pick up ferris rocks and magnetite with it.
Did you increase sensitivity? I have found some really small flakes that were close to the pinpointer when checking crevices
checked it with weighed gold samples on every part of the probe.@@meMiner
Where at Greg...? I grew up in North Bay, went to Uni in TO though!
Temagami
Where in ontario are you.?.. I'm in Timmins
Have you ever gone gold hunting with a metal detector..have you had success? Subscribed.
I am in Port Perry (down south). I have not looked for gold by Timmins. I know someone with a metal detector that was given permission at a few mines and he was successful
Show,,,,👍👍,,
Falcon md20 would be the tool on-site
I used to have one, but it broke from over use. Now, I just use my Garrett Carrot, which won't detect really small gold but works well on larger pieces
Was it Pt?
no. galena
Muratic acid usually makes my pyrite silver
It must be pulling out the iron from it or getting a stain from some other part of the rock. Does it darken later?
Was this in Bancroft?
No, eastern Ontario
I stopped the video at the 1:40 point just to say I think the idea of the Lazy Susan as a great way to display your specimens must have been suggested by a genius. Lol. Ok now back to the rest of the video.
absolute genius. Thanks!
I find alot of metals in montana
If I was in Montana, I would spend most of my time looking for gold. I was there when I was younger but was only interested in the real Coors and Sloe Gin with Wink. The older meMiner now recognizes this as wasted youth. LOL
meMiner
That's the trouble with youth, it's wasted on the young.
MeMiner how it goes?
Be nice to have a mass spectrometer hangin around the home stead ah.
I would love to have a portable XRF.
I can't do it, but maybe there is someone out there that can splash down the $13,000.
All right everyone lets get a crowdfund goin for meMiner. I don't know how to do it myself just know people are doing it, and successfully.
Is any license required in Ontario to look for gold?
No license that I am aware. More important is what tools you use (hand tools are generally OK) and where you prospect. For example, cannot do it in parks, native land, existing claims, private property etc without prior permission.
@@meMiner Thanks a lot!
Id say its chunks of galena. Appears too tarnished to be platinum or palladium which I've found both in native form here in Montana.
It might actually be babbitt.
Thank you for enjoy Rocky
I want speak for you
2:43 there has jade potential... maybe?
What do you dissolve your bodies with? Lol. You're creepy bro but again massive knowledge level!
Breaking Bad?
meMiner Breaking Badder .
a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acid ( often called aqua regia) is the best way to chemically purify gold, as judt one or the other results in low solubility
You had me fooled with the thumbnail! I thought u hit it big this time!!! drop a chunk of the metal in nitric and see hat hqppens, j thin nitric won't dissolve platinum
Sorry. I really did not mean for the thumbnail to be click bait for anybody. It was nice looking pyrite and had me fooled for a little while.
This is a heavy metal video:)
What happened to the mexican olympic swim team?
Anyone, and they know who they are, should look at this video and admit pyrite can fool or cause hesitation in even the best eye.
look on tailings pile
I just got a chocolate lab puppy! Mean little stinker!
Wonderful and congrats! Daisy was the first dog that we took to puppy school. It was worthwhile. It also helped that we already had a good (older) lab who taught Daisy some things. Good luck with your pup
meMiner I had two yellow labs who have passed. The younger was my dog and would smile all the time. I miss her so much but I’m sure this one will have her own different personality. Right now she just wants to “help”! I had to box my rocks cuz I was afraid she’d eat them!
@@snort5203 My last lab chewed rocks as a pup. Later in life, she had to have some cracked teeth removed. Good idea to keep them away from the pup.
@meMiner I am not home much due to work so I have boxed up most. Some are in vinegar. Now that winter is upon us I can catch up with tumbling. I’m still learning by trial and error so many of these might go to the driveway. My daughter and her husband say the dog needs to be exorcised..
I haven’t looked for metals, just beauty.i should get my metal detector out next spring!
That kinda looks like a place we found on the french river years back
This mine is in south east Ontario. I have not been on any mines on the French. If you would care to share the location, email me at meminerrocks@gmail.com. I am in that area quite often.
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I'd sample that
Hey I'm from North Bay. I'm very interested in Geology. I know gold is VERY hard to find in this area, but I want to use that as my goal to starting my prospecting. If your ever in the area and want company. Let me know. Also, if you can give me a few tips and possible areas to start looking. I would highly appreciate it. Keep up the great work and the Amazing videos
I drive thru North Bay quite often. I love the area north of there. Something to think about is there is a rock and mineral club in town. I have met some of the members and they are all good people
Wow i an near tatlock mine one mile,I have a friend she was the geologist working it She has told me of gold and platinum found local,,My area is loaded with massive Pyrite i swear i found small vg i need a pin pointer Smiles
I was at Tatlock once on a club trip. Great place to explore. I got some nice pyrite in marble. It is know for a few other minerals, but I didn't know about PMs.
I did see that one smiles i helped get my local club in,,It might sound funny but covid and your vids got me looking into rocks,,I truly enjoy this..Paul
I'm getting sick of watching Metallica all the time ,I live where there is deep gold I mean way down I live in Dryden Ontario does any one know if there is too gold on the Canadian Shield ? There are some rivers close by yet I never panned or prospected them it would give me the desire to do that if someone knew of there is top gold in North West Ontario ?
There is 100% Gold and Silver up here! Massive Amts of Granite and Puddingstones also! I panned on the shoreline close to my cottage and got several pickers. Looking forward to going back out!
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