Easy CRYSTAL COLLECTING at Smart Mine
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2019
- Easy Crystal collecting at the Smart Mine for $10CDN/person, two hours for Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). Fun day with the Rock Nerds.
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I’m the guy with the mineral shirt, the twinned specimen is zircon, I had it identified by members of the local geology club
Zircon. Amazing. Thanks so much for letting me (us) know. I have pinned your comment to the top. Great to meet you and the others from your group. We will cross paths again.
Was a pleasure meeting you, daisy and mr. McQueen. Love your videos!
Awesome bro
Thanx for the titanite bro
That’s a really nice specimen, you must have been so pleased to find it, I would have been ecstatic! Thanks for sharing Sinclair 🙂. Hi Daisy! Hi Boyz 😏
I was never interested in minerals and gems and rock hounding until i started watching meMiner thanks buddy
Very cool. Thanks for the nice comment
Awesome adventure beautiful spot sweet crystals fantastic group big heart my friend teaching letting them use your sifter and daisy of course was happy awesome awesome
Daisy had a great time out there. When the day was done, she got to sleep with me in the little trailer which is something she just loves.
Your a good man working with the young fellas and gals. Teaching them bits and pieces of your hobby is how we keep the interest and adventure alive.
The young fellas taught me a few things too. ;-)
Doug Alexander
If you are a rock person you will need no help keeping your interest, through military and then contractual obligations I took a break for over twenty years, I'm just as interested now as I was aged eight, the only downside for me is being in England, almost no hounding areas, fossils yes and flint but that's about it.
@@symonsheppard5519 Symon - thank you for your service. I know I am in Canada and you are UK, but we are all on the same team. ;-)
meMiner
You bet.
@@symonsheppard5519 thank you for your service to allow us to be free to do stuff like this
Wow what awesome finds! Love that shirt lol i want it! Thank you for sharing✨🌹
man that twinned titanite buddy found was the winner I saw...
A nice find for sure.
wow...lots and lots of great finds!
Great video MeMiner. Those were some nice finds. The titanites were my favorites. Thanks for sharing. See ya in the next one.
Very cool place to dig around and find some beautiful specimens. I wish it was alot closer. Maybe I can talk my wife into taking a vacation up that way lol. Thanks for sharing, GL, HH and take care. Oh and give Daisy a extra scratch behind the ears.
Let me know if you make the trip. Maybe we can cross paths.
Beautiful crystals 💎💎💎💙💙💙😍😍😍
Beautiful crystals! Thank you Greg for sharing this.
Thanks for dropping by and the nice comment
@@meMiner 👍✌🖖🍻
Natures beauty above and below ground. An awesome Doggo with a rockhound side kick. Some other cool peeps and some cold beer. Perfect!
Someday, I'll find a postcard that says "Wish I was there!" instead of "Wish you were here" and send it to you. 😜
Thank you for taking us along.
hahaha classic. Thanks
As somebody never mined or realised the beauty of rock's can see the addiction joy of the hunt some beautiful looking specimens. Thank you 4 the tag along showing us what you found. Interesting wats to be found once knows were to look. Take care stay safe Godbless D1 Patriot. 👍🇮🇪☘🙏
Your rock searching videos are some of my favorites.
Awesome, thank you!
Yay! More gemstone collecting! Thanks, Meminer.
Thanks for dropping by. It is starting to get cold, so not sure how much more there will be this season. ;-)
Cool finds there crystals are fun digging ....!
It was fun. It will be a long winter waiting for things to thaw.
Have just completed my first barrel or rocks. Thank you for your information on line they turned out really well.
I am pleased. Thanks for letting me know. Now, you have an empty barrel and can start another project. ;-)
You seem like such a wonderful person to be around. Hope I bump into you out there one day!
I hope so too!
Nice Crystals !!!!!!
I have enjoyed this video, as I love looking for gems n crystals but I will never find them crystals here in Tasmania, so watching this is as close to owning one of them crystals as I will get. Thank you so much meMiner
I heard they are very restrictive there (maybe from you). Too bad. I am sure there is some great collecting to be had.
Nice to see Daisy! 👍
All that digging is giving me an appetite.
LOL
Great finds! Keep the videos coming!
It will get more difficult now until spring. ;-)
@@meMiner your videos are always cool, you may need to do like some of the other UA-camrs have done and hitch a flight to Australia! Just a thought...
A trip to Australia is on my bucket list, but will have to wait. I don't currently have enough vacation time
@@meMiner ahh.. I thought you were retired like me.
@@weasel6three597 I wish. No pension. 2008 was not good to me. ;-)
Nice digging the Crystal's nice finds bet the cleanup shows sparkle!!!; )
Some did clean up nicely. I want to go back. ;-)
Troy got me good that worm was in my pocket till I got home
Now, that is funny.
That was such an interesting spot to pick at! It was so cool to see the massive amount of work that people have put in over the years.
We have to go again I need to find one of those nice Zircons. It's gonna take another trip or two before I have the eye for it though. This site is a lot different than any of the others I've been to. I really felt like I was working for it.
These have been a couple of great videos Greig. That weekend was one of the highlights of my summer. Can't wait to get back out there Rock on buddy
Daisy and I are ready to go with you and Bill anytime. ;-)
What i love about your videos is the nature exploring aspect of it, and offcourse the rockhounding. You dont skip over to the good parts, you poke around in nature and thats a great feeling and i love myself to just be out and explore. I also bring my dog with me :) Always Ps: you should bring a water bottle with you, so that you can wet the stones and show us.
Some of the best surprises are not in the plan when out exploring. Taking water with me is a good idea. Even an empty container that I can fill up in a puddle. I have tried to show rocks later and it is a job (and a half) to match up clean rocks later with the ones found in a video. I have a great deal still to learn. Thanks for the tip.
So patient & so funny 🤣
Dude! That's sum beautiful (gemstones) awesome place to dig I hear. Awesome! I know you had a great gemmy day.
I had a blast that day and met some great people.
@@meMiner ya, your having more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Lol well I'm jealous, that's some beautiful stones, and worth some good coin. Great video, I don't know if I would climb inside that pocket. I would be scared of a cave in, it had to take a while to dig that.
Everything ends in ite. Enjoyed watching 👍
Nice stuff👍
Check any of the feldspar you brought back (I hope you brought back some feldspar!) for pinfire my friend! It's absolutely *gorgeous* all polished up!
Good advice. But not from this spot.
@@meMiner Yes, from that spot. That's where it comes from! Not 50m from where you were parked is where all the pinfire I have was collected! Check out the quick video I have of making my mom a necklace. ua-cam.com/video/I1tD5BFTQ0c/v-deo.html
@@meMiner Lots of Pinfire has come from the Miller property. Double check any Feldspar for sure.
Dang. I have to pay more attention. And now I have to go back as I didn't bring out any feldspar
@@meMiner :) That's the thing, no one ever does! It's a pretty much undiscovered treasure!
What a great day out. 💕
We had fun. Thanks for joining us
Hope to see the cleaned-up versions..nice specimens...Cold weather hit us hard yesterday..guess its time for tumbling here..have a good weekend!
I am looking over my shoulder for cold to show up here too. I am thinking I might get out one more time before the big freeze.
Yvonne Sebastian
Don't you have a tumble in the summer!
Symon Sheppard lmao.. yes. Yes I do... just won’t be much outdoor exploring .. lol..
Nice Video meMiner !
I have a bucket list Greig, and you're on it.
cool
Cool shirt !
Otimo trabalho uma equipe top lindo video parabens
Every thought about bringing out a portable vacuum when you go on these trips? could make it easier to expose bedrock and crystals. not sure if that would be allowed there tho.
Heck, in a place like this, I would love to use something that makes a water jet. Alas, probably not allowed and bad form.
Is this the same ten dollar per person place with parking across the road as in the other video (Quadeville)?
I am not sure which other video you are referring. This spot is known as Lost Mine, Smart Mine or Millar Property and you put $10 into a drop box at the site. Another place outside Quadville is the Beryl Pit which also costs $10, but you pay at the store in town. Both places have parking across the street from the path in.
@@meMiner Ok, yes, sounds like the Beryl Pit is the other place. Gosh I wished I lived closer... Any tips on mineral/gem collecting near Montreal? : )
Is that muscovite or is it biotite mica? Sure looks more like biotite. Nice apatite with some good terminations, looks like some gem quality ones there, too!
You could be correct. I should stop at "mica" when I talk. ;-)
What's this he thinks as he grubs through the dirt? I'll be switched, it's another red apatite !!! Daisy is looking good and having fun. I enjoyed the show !!
Amazing
With all the digging you gotta do YOU ARE SURE TO FIND AN APPETITE ! LOL! NEAT PLACE TO GO POKEN AROUND! DANG YOU GET AROUND! Saw another video you were in the Yukon! Its fun to get out and about aint it? I have that same flashlight! 👍
I love exploring and travel. I actually went to the Yukon twice last year. Next time, I would like to drive and hit some places in between here and there.
Isso é um chou muito maravilhoso esses mineral
Daisy, go find that patch of Weed, I mean Kush, I mean Orange Grape Herb, I mean Canada's Finest, Woof!
great video as usual. where do you buy those sifter boxes? thanks
Most of my classifiers are for placer gold prospecting and came from Keene Engineering in CA. However, the one in this video was designed for gardening and sold in Canada at Lee Valley
What day of the year did you visit? Seems (relatively) bug free!
If you hate bugs, avoid late May thru early Aug.
Yaa i like natural gemstone to
Are we going to see a clean up of the finds? I'd love to see what you dug out when it's shiny!
I didn't clean them (yet). When I got back, I took off for a trip out west. I will try to find them again and make a video
Woo! One of my favourite places too! I got a foot long apatite outta there!
Did it stay intact? I have seen some large ones there, but they never survived.
@@meMiner Indeed it did! ua-cam.com/video/5ZyCJM4GBj8/v-deo.html
Sweet
How do I get to this site? I only see Smart Mine on google maps but I can’t see the entrance. I live 3.5 hours away
The trail to the road is a straight run. You should see it on the sat. map thru the forest. If I recall the distance correctly, you can drive it about 300m
@@meMiner oh ok awesome, thank you!
From Earth pocket to me miner pocket. 😂
A little something for my pocket. LOL
I wish I knew how to make sense of a rock like u maybe one day as there can only be one
meMiner,
What is the reason for all the kool minerals and metals in your area?
Seams to be loaded with goodies.
Thanks for sharing.
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We are lucky to have a variety of geology and especially where different formations intersect are great places to collect. Glaciation helped expose some areas and burry other spots.
Good video
That mica is humongous! Will you be showing a clean up of your finds? Fun to see you back at some appatite. Hi Daisy!
Not this time regarding a cleanup. I had to pack after this trip to go on another. Next time.
@@meMiner More adventures I hope. 🐕
I like to know where yo got the rock screen thing
I bought mine years ago from Keene Engineering in CA. I have seen similar for sale at shops who provide gold panning equipment.
So cool. Got my husband watching some of your videos now and he wants to go back up north this summer with our son and our dog and do some digging. You are having a positive influence out there that you probably aren't even aware of.
Make sure he takes some bug spray and good shovel. Otherwise, the dog, son and husband are in for some great fun.
I thought of it all by myself right after watching a video of someone else using a spray bottle on a sieve full of rocks. I was so proud of myself. Hahahaha
great minds...
That twinned zircon and titanite were killer pieces.
Awesome how well you know your minerals
I am also still learning. ;-)
where is this located what city and state?
This is in Ontario Canada
Good
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Hi, great video. We were thinking of heading up next week, but google search said its permanently closed. Is that the case ?
Went to the beryl pit and rose quartz quarry last week which have recently opened.
I had not heard that. I haven't been up that way this year. Things were closed earlier in the year due to CoVid. I did a quick search and didn't see the closure notification, which doesn't mean much. Maybe Phone Bancroft Chamber of Commerce and ask them before driving all that way
We were just there today and was indeed open, found one spot where we got some red and green apetite . Seems like alot of trenches are filled back in, seems to be picked over... would you suggest to start digging in a new area ? We are digging fairly close to the mailbox... we are also amateurs and are trying to learn. Thanks meminer
Hi Bill! Haven't gotten out with you in a while. Good to see you around tho :)
I love rock hounding.. but unfortunately I have a job that requires me present and working mostly 7days a week.. so I rarely get to do such..
I kinda figure that maybe some day I will just invest in a small travel trailer and tour the North American Continent and visit all these type places and call it retirement..😁
Beautiful finds..
That is my retirement dream too.
you sure do make the most of the summer over there my friend..Is this your day job as well as our pleasure may I ask?
I have a job which pays the bills. I do this for fun.
How old are these formations? Or glacier deposit?
This was once an old mountain. Eroded away over the many years.
I believe it was part of the Grenville orogeny, 1.3Ga-950million years ago. I think!
That's amazing. The older the better!! It's amazing to find such old beautiful things.
Hey number one finally
Congrats!
Nice spot, cool rocks! Hey Greg, I noticed before but wasn't sure, now I'm wondering, Daisy looks like she's limping. Did she misstep on something? I love it when you have the Daisycam going, she's such a good puppy.
Love your channel and subbed long ago. Thanks for sharing your trips and hobby!
A couple of years ago, she jumped off a 3 story cliff to try to go for a swim. She hit the rocks. The injury now is arthritic. I have meds for her and they help a little bit.
@@meMiner What a tough doggy. Jeez. We pay for the fun of our youth.
@@ReclusiveMountainMan We sure do. I'm paying for all the fun I had in my misspent youth. Even so, there is very little i would change.
Have a great weekend and God bless!
And she didn't play football or ride motorcycles...
@@meMiner 😏 Well, I never played football but I had the sweetest midnite blue 750 Shadow w/backrested bitchseat. Loved that bike! Luckily I never had to lay it down. Lot of other sports tough on the body though. Such is life and I mostly liked mine.
God bless
and don't forget to turn your clocks back tonite. 😎🙋
I watched this with great interest, very curious how they are in the soil at the top.
If you took some teenage boys there you would be well sorted, everyone knows teenagers have huge appetites.
Hey, labs also have big appetites. Need meat snax. ;-)
meMiner
Damn why didn't I think of that, I will sulk all day now, so obvious.
Mind you if I went to Russia I sure would see millions of muscovites
and brokenoffs
Hey my mountain bike has lots of clearance for that road in.lol.
It's not the ride in for you. It's the journey to get there. I think it a long drive in the truck. I could not imagine on a bike. ;-)
@@meMiner I've got tons of energy but that's more than I'm willing to use up.
See, I've seen some little "mini caves" like this before, walking around the woods and such, and I just never knew to knock some dirt away and look at stuff lol. Never even thought there was anything cool to look at. Honestly, I would think they were cool little spots to hide while playing paintball and stuff like that as a teen. Silly boy....
My daughter just got fully outfitted for competitive paintball.
That's awesome! It's a great sport to get into. Advanced situational awareness and reaction time.
This is where pinfire feldspar comes from. You would like that stuff, mM it tumbles pretty well!
I should pay more attention. I love the look of pinfire
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What is the address of the smart mine?are you there today?
I have not yet been there this year. I don't have an address to share. GPS coordinates are available to if you Google the name of the mine and mindat
@@meMiner I found it!!
Thanks to shot where you showed the entrance from the road.
Found my first crystals ever!!! Basic, but I know there is more out there!! I definitely need more time next time.
I hope you are feeling better these days.
@@IamLyndsey You never forget your first. ;-). congrats!
I can see it , look like zircon, some black onix, and peridot
Red appetite is cool, dont have any yet tho.
Try using a bottle jack to open up some of the tight spaces
A bottle of Jack? I read your comment too fast. LOL
A hydraulic truck jack would be really helpful in this area. Thanks.
@@meMiner your welcome I'm always coming up with idea's.
I read your comment too fast a bottle of jack probably wouldn't help get the job done but it's funny
My favorite property!!! The Miller property.
Hey Bailey. Thanks for dropping by. Someday, I would like to check out the cave you told me about.
@@meMiner Ok! Well since winter is on our heels we will probably have to wait until it's nice again, but definitely 2020! Have you located the Meany Mine on the Miller property? I can find the Lost mine and the smart mine but I always get confused as to which is the Meany mine. Also, there is a part of that property that has amazonite and I only found it one year when someone else showed it to me and have since lost it.
@@baileyallard85 The Meany is off to the left, before you get to the Smart Mine diggings. There is a trail that takes you there. Not much to see (if I was in the right place). The way to find the amazonite is walk to the back of the Smart mine keeping the the right at the forks, until the very last turn and there take the left fork. At least that is how I remember it. ;-)
@@meMiner Awesome. I had an aerial map and I tried my hardest but you just never know if you're in the right spot. Maybe because there wasnt much there I assumed I was in the wrong spot. I love the smart mine. It's one of my favorite spots. I could dig there all day but the bugs are pretty bad when I end up going. I should plan it better.
@@baileyallard85 The fall is the best time to rockhound in Ontario if you hate bugs. There can be a few black flies as the air warms up, but they don't bite like they do in the spring. If they get really bad, go into the shade where it is cooler or into the wind. I don't let bugs stop me anytime of year, but sometimes they are too much for my dog Daisy. Keep well and remember me if you get bored sometime and want to go to that cave or meet up somewhere for some 'hounding.
I need to find some time to go there!!!
I wasn't kidding when I said it was my favorite mine. You will enjoy yourself.
Yasss
I live in Midcoast Maine and I love to dig with you guys. Would love to pick your brain
It isn't too bad a drive from Maine to here. ;-)
@@meMiner a road trip sounds cool and no it's not that far. I could bring specimen for identification from a volcanic flow on the coast
looks like a lotta fun. EH?
i hate you Me Miner (lol), you find so many good things. i wish i still lived in Oregon, i learn at least 50% of what i know about rockhounding from your videos, i live in SoCal where there is not much places to go for rockhounding, i live where they have 3 quarries that have a abundance of minerals in riverside CA. but they are all private land, i did find some blue calcite outside of 1 of the quarries. most of the places out here are paid sites, don't like the paid site it's not the same as finding gems on your own.
I also avoid the paid sites, except the ones where there is a token access fee. You should check out the maps on mindat.org to see if there is something in your area that you are unaware or join a local rock and mineral club that organizes field trips. You are a good guy not sneaking onto private land. The good news is asking the owner can sometimes give you permission. I have found that most appreciate being asked. The problem for me is they usually don't want any video of the site as the next 10 guys won't ask.
Love crystals would love to dig my own crystals I wrap crystals searching for places closer to me.😊✌🏻❤️ awww daisy love her recently lost my white boxer 14 yrs old give her hugs for me please
So sorry to hear about your dog.
Thank you
Yup....
Uma pedra dessa salva minha vida me mande uma 🙏
Good one Miner, an excavator is needed for this site.
Ah, that would be Troy. LOL
I search for crystal at my cottage but i never found one of these'-'
I was a spot today that there are no reports of any crystals and yet we found some after some hard searching. Another set of eyes sometimes helps. Good luck on your next outing.
check out the You Tube Crystal collected, he's been to Canada, and Wow Huge Crystals!
The mine he was at is a 17 hour drive for me. Maybe next year
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why you guys dig with your hands instead of using a garden hand tool of some kind is a mystery to me
I cannot operate the camera with gloves
You should bring an UV flash light...
Next time
Anatase 👍👍👍
Bug spray is recommended Spring and Summer.
@@meMiner they mean the crystal you thought was Titanite or Zircon looks like Anatase. I think it was zircon by the shape of the crystal.
Zircon or Titanite, lets start a fight! My 1 €-cent on a bet: at min 3.00 this is a very typical Zircon, because of
crystal form and color. I won. The twin-crystal at min 21.00 is Titanite or Sphen called in Europe. This minerals
develop in different environments. 0ne more €-cent. Because of color und the typical twin-appearance, called "envelope ". Proof from any mineralogical institute if you take my bet and not the meaning from an amateur club.
Anyhow, please keep this beautiful twin crystal, it is very uncommon, valuable.
You have a good eye for crystal identification. The first crystal was confirmed to be a zircon and we all agree that twin from Bill is a titanite. Glad I didn't bet. ;-)
W.O.W.
Is it just me, could be or us Daisy limping a bit?
She is arthritic in one leg
@@meMiner aww, I know how she feels, bless her.