The Loon Lake Copper Mine
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Join us on a sunny and cold winter day as we check out the Loon Lake Copper Mine in NE Washington.
You can find a lot of different minerals at this location, such as atacamite, azurite, baryte, bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, cuprite, hematite, malachite, pyrite, quartz, and tetrahedrite.
It is quite difficult in my experience to accurately identify which is copper ore and which is malachite coming from this exact mine location. In some of the others in the area, it is obvious which is which, but not here.
Any way you spin it, they are both pretty green rocks.
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Beautiful colors
We love your videos! Can't wait to get my family out in the Rocks, it's been a looonnnnggg winter
Thanks !
Love any green minerals👍great finds bro🍻
I agree and thank you!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding good finds keep on hounding🍻
I'm reallly enjoying all the locations your showing.
UPDATE: As of April 2021 the site of this mine has sold, been logged and is not longer publicly accessible.
Somehow I missed this one - beautiful malachite!
first of i do the same thing! i carry a box of trash bags in my truck so i can pick up other peoples trash! second, those extra small bits look like they might make/ turn into nice beads, third if i had the room i would adopt LIKA! fourth , i dont know if i could leave a spot like that with an empty bucket!
It's always good to clean up when you can!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding yup, if we dont clean up after others the land might be closed to the public!! i would hate to think that we( the public) lost the use of an area because i didnt pick up some trash some one else dumped, great videos!! thank you
I wish I could get enough time off of work to come out their it seems like your state has really nice rocks every where. Keep on showing us more. I love it.Your dog is so cute. I love it when he talks to you.
Time for a vacation! Let me know when you can make it out this way and Ill give you a list of amazing places to go. Our dog is super vocal and she lets out an almost constant stream of odd sounds.
Absolutely love rock hounding thank you 😊
I also enjoy it!
I’ve searched for stones by panning but only found sapphire and garnets in this state love your content ❤️😊✌🏻💙
So cool😎 I love that blue stuff. You guys are great, keep up the good work👍👍
Thank you! I also love it, give me a year and ill fill a little jar!
Like you said, bring a gravel rake and then hit it with a bucket or three of water to get the azurite and malachite to display. Thanks for taking us along!
Good advice that ill be taking next time we get out to this spot or a similar spot for that matter.
I like these kinds of videos.
Thanks, we love making them.
I live really close to there, in fact that creek Grouse Creek flows through my property. Shot a nice heavy 3x4 buck a couple hundred yards up stream from the talings piles. Unfortunately the place changed owners last year and got logged and no trespassing signs everywhere.
Thanks for the update on it, I will add a note and next time I'm out that way I will do a drive by on it as well.
The ever rare buttonite! :) 13:35 Nice technique!
Ha I like that, buttonite!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Maybe 1,000 years from now it will be very valuable. :0
I guess since it's private property now, is there another good place to find these minerals?
There are some areas but I haven't done a video on them yet.
"If it's garbage, we take it."
I carry at least 5 of those reusable bags in my back pack. My kids ask for them when we find trash, anywhere we go.
Sometimes it's not what we do, but the impression we leave on the next generation.
Rock on!
You would do real Good with a screen box to sift the tailings.
I might have to give that a try come spring.
Looks an awful lot like chrysocolla. I love it. Nice. Havagudun.
You're correct. Some of them sure do look like Chrysocolla.
That looks like mookite jasper. Reddish yellow you picked after hop scotching the river. Hope you took it.
It didn't make it home.
Very vibrant minerals, I like the mixed malachite and azarite. Are they heavy? They look almost porous. Thanks for taking us with you, I for sure would have fallen in a 3rd of the way across the river lol, great video 👍🏼🌟
They are not very heavy and they are somewhat weathered and porous. I have a feeling that late in the summer the creek will be almost dry.
We just came back from there and my husband found a big vein of the shiny green stuff back in the wooded area behind the piles. I wish I could post a pic so you could tell me what it is that we found.
You can always email currentlyrockhound(@)gmail . com it to me or send it to me on instagram.
Did you have cell service out there? Wondering if i can use my phone gps to get there.
You should be able to use GPS on your phone without cell service, also you can get the Gaia GPS app which allows you to download a map offline.
Ever find chrysocolla there? I'm not sure about the differences in how they all form, but my hunch is you might find some there. Lol! I had to laugh at the river-crossing! I understand you're out there for fun, and wet feet from cold water is no fun, but I couldn't tell you how many times I've ended up up to my waist in mucky swamp water or a chilly river to cut kilometers off prospecting traverses! Get to the LZ or spend the night! LOL!
I guess you can find chrysocolla there but I haven't, mostly due to only knowing about the spot since winter and the ground is still frozen and partly covered in snow. I agree man being wet and cold is no fun.
Thank you for this, it was very informative! I want to take my 7 year old son here, he's very into rockhounding. I looked up the coordinates, and is there a parking lot or obvious trailhead? I don't want to get lost!
You're very welcome. This location just has a turn out before the gate that prevents you from driving back into it. It's a good spot to find some colorful rocks for a kid.
Generally speaking from a gem quality concerns, the lighter in color generally means less quality or less stable. The dark nuggets should be heavier, and could be cut and shaped. But beautiful in a jar nonetheless. I'm jealous
Thanks for the tip!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding my pleasure. That's one of my favorite pastimes, cutting and polishing rocks
Cool place. How is the hike for someone with some walking disability
This time of year it would be really hard, lots snow and mud but in the summer the road is rather flat and dry.
Easily the best find...the button! Lol jk!
The button is not in my retirement fund.
Do ya think it would tumble well or too porous?
I would say that it wouldn't tumble up well.