Scouting the Turk Mine // Rockhounding NE Washington
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Sometimes when we go out exploring new areas we stumble upon something pretty good, and in this case, that thing was the Turk Mine which shows lots of promise as a location we will be going back to in the spring to explore more.
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I always love that you share the scenery. That you report road conditions. That you use reference materials and report on how good those materials are or are not. Be safe, I enjoy your videos so much. Very informative!!! Green minerals are a favorite of mine.
I found some pretty sweet finds in the local Taco B ell. Lol. I was just outside smoking, waiting for our order, and saw a great druzy piece. Pretty sure it's Quartzite, but decent points. I use the peice as a Crystal Sphere Stand. I was happy. Lol
That's some great luck!
Lol!!! I found some absolutely awesome rocks at our Taco Bell too. Must be a Taco Bell thing, not unless we live in the same town lol.
@@angiezacapala378 I live in PA, close to Ohio
@@WeazerNarnia I’m in Central Oregon so it must be the Taco Bell thing lol. Have a great day.
That was good for a rainy day thanks for the tag along.
Thanks for watching!
Rick and morty glowing green rock, cool.
Ok that's the colors I have been finding. You told me what I found. So I sifted through the pile of rocks and it is not that bright green as those you have. Some of my finds can be carved on, some does not scratch by the masonry hammer I am using. Road cuts unearthed harder rocks and it will not scratch. So many specimens to place them all to the place I collected them from.
That was an extremely cool scouting mission. The consideration of plan C and D are always a super good idea. It seems like we're relegated to those letters a fair amount of the time for a variety of reasons, soupy roads definitely one of them. The material was exciting, it would be great to explore the variety of potential finds there. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to the return trip!
Thank you. Having those back up plans are important as its always nice to be able to turn a bust into a good outing.
Cool plate of shale.
Great video Jared & Sara. Thank you for taking us along!
You guys cover the spectrum from identifying the the rock to making the who experience so interesting. I like the way you explain (the how and the why) of the surrounding rock structures. And to top it off... some very nice scenery.
Thank you both for all you do!
Thank you very much. I try to provide a lot of context in my videos for what is being seen.
A good handlens is helpful upon occasion!
Oh awesome researching mines and exploring the area , awesome spot to check out this spring, malachite is so pretty love it ,beautiful find that malachite 😊, awesome hope this will be on your web site ,thank you for sharing 😊💙
It's up on the site!
Awesome thank you want to check this out this spring 😊💙
I'm really digging the way you teach as you hound. I'll be telling people about your channel! I live in Easton Wa btw!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful
Those were some massive pieces. Exploring old mine sites is one of our favorites. Good call on not going in that adit until you know more. Looking forward to your return mission.
I plan on going back in the spring for sure. Some nice dry weather out there would be ideal.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding would you be willing to share this location? I would absolutely love to go check it out sometime!! So incredibly cool!!
@@meganpomerinke801 It up on the website, however you will need to wait until spring due to the snow
Thanks for showing the close up photos. I have a specimen of what I thought was malachite and yep… that’s what it seems to be. Huge crystals protruding from the host rock.
Awesome minerals, it's always cool to explore old mining areas.
It seems like there's always something new to find.
Its so much fun prospecting for new spots. Finding that Mine entrance was a great score. I'm anticipating the return trip upload of your finds after you've gone back.
We will for sure be going back in the spring.
Always a joy to join you three on your treks - thank you for doing what you all do for the online rockhounding community!!
Thank you!
Awesome video! Love the colors of the copper ore and malachite. Thanks for taking us along Jared, Sarah and Laika!✌🤠
Thank you for watching!
Hi Jared, another interesting video, I spend a lot of time searching locations as well, so far in the last couple of years I have scoped out many locations within about 2 hrs driving time from my home. I can certainly tell you where not to go as there is either nothing there that I recognise or the so called locations are now inaccessible, 🤣🤣. Nothing ventured / nothing gained. A few areas where good fossicking exists, just mostly on private land or State & national parks. Bugger.
I will have to go a bit further afield to some more open areas. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin
It can certainly be a process of elimination can't it.
Grate material man.
I am glad you were safe and you wore orange. You might be mistaken for the the dreaded rockeating deer by the hunters. Lots of colors everywhere! They all looked like a good place to pick. You and Sara be happy, safe and stay healthy!
Ha! Rockeating deer. Yeah we try to be safe about it, I know accidents are really rare but why not play it safe.
Thank you for taking us along on this scouting trip, I look forward to your re-visit in the spring or summer
I have high hopes for the area.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding so do I
Yep deer season kept me away from the rocks for most of November but it was worth it. The owner of Haunted Ridge gave me some deer sausage for Christmas 😋 awesome that you still found some good spots 👍🏼
Thank you for the info on the depression in the ground.
Thanks as always for sharing sir, very much appreciated!👍 If my memory serves me right I believe my grandfather mentioned back in 79 or 80 that he went to Roosevelt lake to collect chrysocolla??? 🤷♂ I could be crazy but thought that's what he said. Anyway, typical wet day for us for November and found some interesting sulfides along with quartz...hmmm? hahaha Have a great rest of your week~
There is chrysocolla in the area for sure.
Hi my friend another wonderful video,thanks for sharing it with us and many congratulations!!
I wish you a Happy New Year with health and happiness to your family, many successes and good excursions in 2022!!
Greetings from Greece!!
That green is awesome! Hey your puppers needs an orange vest too
Sometimes she has one on but she's always on a 6' leash so we generally think its fine since she's close all the time.
Cool adventure! Good call on playing it safe driving and walking in the adit. I watch some mine exploring videos. Wet weather and wood supports don't mix well. Although you can find very bizarre looking fungus underground.
Most of the mines that I have been in around here have no support, they just went into solid rock.
Now that was a great episode 🤩. I hear about the Turk mine all the time. I pictured it completely different. I love the look of malachite. I have a small thumbnail specimen I found. 😆. When will you be showing the finds under the microscope? SNS? That would be super cool.
Thanks so much for sharing, Jared & Sara!
Stay Crystal 💫
I think the Turk mine that you have heard about is the one located in Arizona that has turquoise coming out of it. I do have some microscope photo up on the listing for this location on the website.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I ask because I received some very similar pieces that I cannot verify which minerals are in them. I was told it was turquoise and chrysocolla. There is also what appears to be malachite. Same person sent me ruby and sapphire. Sapphire was clearly kyanite. I don’t trust the information given to me. I’m on an informational hunt now. Wish I had a microscope 😩. Lol. I was hoping you had something more for me to go on. I have to know what I have. I’m too nerdy to let it go. I’ll keep reading and looking! 👍
Nice minerals 👍
Thank you.
Very nice Malicite too bad no Azurite but definitely worth a bit of exploration for Malicite in the spring. Thank you and a Very Happy New Year to both of you.
Rather than a shale that piece appears to be a banded gneiss which can be micaceous sand breaks along weak bedding planes.
Oh yeah I think it would be really great to head back to this location in the spring and explore some.
It is a shale, its comes from a very well known location and its far to soft to be gneiss.
Instead of the microscope you could crush it up add a torch to it and "smelt" out the primary target of the mining material. Also I believe you've misclassified malachite when it's chrysocolla instead. A copper based mineral. Always be careful of "yellow" anything. Most yellow minerals are toxic if not radioactive.
What exactly are you basing that assessment off of me being wrong and this malachite being chrysocolla instead? Also you are very incorrect about being careful of anything yellow and yellow things are toxic and radioactive. Where you read that at, or who told you that?
I would highly recommend you read 'Here be Dragons : The Care and Feeding of Radioactive Mineral Species'
The MineDat data base can be helpful when looking at mineral names for a location
Need to make my way up there in 2022.
The area has lots to offer.
Very nice spot! Have a prosperous New Years you two🍻
Thank you and happy new years to you as well.
Nice ore specimen's! Ammonia and a brush should clean it up a bit. Good eye's on the adit pit! Awesome vid guys! Sent ya an Email.
I've never cleaned rocks with ammonia, is there something about it that would make it work well for these?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Ammonia is a main ingredient in cleaning (Cu) copper, its pure without add polishes!
I have been warned to take precautions when working with Malachite. check it out
Good morning Jarod Happy New Years to you both!
Happy New Years to you as well!
all that green, it just makes ones blood race, i have a question? do you and SARA ever carry a metal detector with you when you go to sites like this? just on the chance you might find over looked pieces of raw/natural copper / metal ore? thank you guys for taking us along
We do own a Garret metal detector but we really don't use it much but when we have we mostly find all kinds of trash and not much else.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding trash is a huge problem, on those rare occasions i do find raw copper,, mostly its trash from old mining/town sites that lead to other treasures than rocks or minerals
My brother lives at Seven Bays community on Lake Roosevelt
That's a really nice and quite area.
I love the channel! I got into stones and crystals when I started stretching my lobes and taking it seriously as a way to display stones and enjoy them. I see you had your lobes stretched. Did you decide to stop wearing plugs or do you choose not to wear them in your videos?
Thank you, I'm glad you have been enjoying the channel.
I stopped wearing plugs. I would really love to have my ears surgically closed at this point but it really costs a lot.
Would love to swing a metal detector over that ground. Would surely find neat copper samples.
That could be fun for sure. We have a really cheap metal detector and it hasn't been that great to use to be honest, what do you have?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding any detector should lead you to good bits of copper. I have hunted quite a bit in Michigans U.P. And have brought home many copper specimens. Many in matrix up to 100 lbs and more.
I usually run a Whites DFX.
@@DirtCleanerVideos Most of what we have found is tin cans and old metal.
Exotic terranes make for an interesting place. Interesting to see this. Is the area buried in CRB, or are these plutons sticking through? Those tailing piles look fun. Living in the SE US, I would occasionally run into hunters in the woods as I was hunting for plants ...we generally ruined each other's days, but thank goodness no shots fired.
This whole area north of Spokane is out of the reach of the CRBG. This area consists of argillite, quartzite, glacial drift, wackestone, granodiorite, dacite, and many different marine metasedimentary rocks.
Would have been nice if you guys found a nice chunk of azurite.
I know! Maybe in the spring we can get lucky.
Always enjoy your enthusiastic approach to geology and rockhounding.
Thank you!
The banded piece looks like a non deformed banded gneiss, metamorphic, the shiny part are likely micas which give you the cleavage planes.
I really like the uv flashlight you used. It's a little out of my price range at the moment. (I saved it to my Amazon list) Is there another one you can suggest for the Jr rockhouders just starting their tool collection? Thanks in advance. I look forward to all your videos, you guys Rock!
The same company that makes this one that I have, they also make one that is half the price but with less power to it. I don't personally own that one but it looks like it has promise.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding thank you, I may try one of those.
Great video guys! Ill tell ya your a lucky man Your wife shares your passion,! My wife could give a shit Im fanatic with 6 tumblers running 7 days a week I love the hobby! Do you guys carry personal locater beacons? They are inexpensive lifesavers
She was the one who started this ball rolling and help to keep it going in countless ways.
We do carry a beacon.
That tube was a bat grate to let the migrating bats use the mines still.
That's interesting, to hear. What makes you think that?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding One of my fiances was a forest biologist installing and maintaining them. Mines with no populations they seal totally.
@@ResortDog I don't think they do that here, we don't have many bats and there’s thousands of fully open mines.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding State of Nevada leads the nation in environmental protection whatever in mining. BLM was doing it to all the mines they could find.
Squizitzi 🤓😎
The malachite is pretty cool! Will it take a polish?
In theory yes but I have not tried it with any of the specimens collected.
Sweet video was any of that malachite thick or is it just a dusting
Good question, I'm not sure since I have not cut any of it.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding thank you for your reply looking forward to find out when you cut probably when it's warmer I'm guessing. My rock shop outside and in a gazebo sometimes I still cut but this time of the year it's a real challenge
@@lesteralexander789 After you left that comment I went out and broke a little bit off and it does continue all the way through but its not high quality but perhaps there is some nicer chunks to be found in the spring at this location.
It's far too cold to be spending much time in my shop right now. Currently the shop is 13 degrees.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding again thank very much you are very appreciated I love your channel and your videos whenever somebody comes up to my rockstand looking for a spot to go find rocks I always direct them to your site
@@lesteralexander789 Thank you!
What are tailings?
Tailings refers to the pile of waste rock left by the mining process.
hi i want to ask if maybe i could go with you sometime i have no friends & need to make some who like rocks im in Wapato on the Yakama rez im almost 55 & disabled & it is not safe for me to do stuff alone cause i will still go do brave things
Hello!
We do sometimes get down that way, but often it's last minute. However, you do have a local rock club called the Yakima Rock & Mineral Club which might be a good fit for you to meet some local like mined people.
You guys are seeming a lot of cooper ore. Now I have no clue what it takes to separate it from host rock. $4.43 per pound. It has seen over the year 68% drop. Could improve as things change. You could make some money off it if you cared to. Just found it interesting.
I'm not sure it would be profitable on a small scale to separate it but it would be fun to try for the fun of it.