Ice Clear Selenite | Sphalerite Crystals! Smashing Boulders, Quarry Trip, Ontario Rockhounding

I went on a club trip recently to a quarry in Southern Ontario. I got to collect some very nice clear selenite and rare green coloured sphalerite crystals.
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[@Ken_G.]

I will remember to comment on videos I watch the premier of!! Great hunt, those are amazingly clear. And that sphalerite was just marvelous. Love turning a boulder into a not a boulder.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks Ken, it definitely was a fun but muscle ache inducing experience 😅

[@marjoriegoodwin2993]

I love the sphalerite. Thanks for showing us.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thank Marjorie! The sphalerites are pretty cool eh!

[@anthonyleong8845]

WHoot WHoot 😀 Glad that large one survived. wow all so nice

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks Anthony!

[@mrimc]

Very cool specimens.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thank you!

[@RAM-Outdoor-Adventures]

This video is amazing, cool finds. I love how that looks just like glass!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks, for sure. It's been on my list to collect a really large chunk of clear selenite, I am glad I finally did!

[@Mike-br8vb]

Some awesome finds! 👍🏻👍🏻🙌

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thank you Mike!

[@leslyeschoenhuth1107]

The clear selenite at the 1:08 mark looks like blueprints.. Stunning.. Thanks for taking us with you..

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@brianrogerson8216]

Great pieces! Very well done.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks Brian!! 🙂

[@MinimaMensa]

Love selenite, I use chunks of it in lieu of acrylic bases for some of my favorite specimens, it’s so neat to see it in the host rock, thanks for sharing it with us!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Cool, thanks for watching!

[@agalitev]

Those are very nice selenites!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thank you, I was pretty happy to be able to extract the big one!

[@historylooker7]

Awesome specimens, and video, Aidan 😃👍!!!
They're all cool, but I do like the big one best ✌🍀

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks Chad, the big selenite is pretty awesome eh!

[@historylooker7]

@@Ontario_Rockhound
For a fact 👍

[@TheAdventureCloset]

So clear! That was a cool vid. Thank you.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks!! 🙂

[@CoinandRelicOntario]

Great Sphalerite crystals. I remember a decade or so ago I found a pocket of the green ones. If you backlight them with a bright light you can really see the color. 👍😁

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks, that's what I want to do with them.

[@JnVrockhounding]

Awesome day for you. Those selenites are cool. Love calcite. Sphaelerite is one I am not too familiar with. But those you showed looked pretty cool.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks!!

[@ontariorocksrelics]

Nice selenite. Like that stuff

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks! It is pretty.

[@connieg9423]

Nice finds! I unfortunately have not had time to get out on these quarry trips lately, maybe the next one. I really enjoyed seeing those sphalerites, one of my favourite local minerals. I have a few nice specimens from what I think may be the same quarry, but have never seen anything with that colour!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks Connie, next trip I believe is usually at the end of the summer/beginning of fall.

[@fossilking]

Great Vid!!!!!!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks

[@eastcoastlithics1398]

Nice crystals my man!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thank you! 😀

[@MadDogTor_]

Excellent samplage!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thank you 😀

[@meMiner]

"Turned a boulder into no a boulder". lol. Always a good day when you turn a large rock into smaller rocks and collect some crystals. Enjoyed your vid.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks 😂

[@noahk3794]

As far as I have heard, its Gymsum Var. Selenite, not just Selenite. Selenite would be the name for clear, window-like gypsum. Super cool find tho. Especially those sphalerite crystals

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Yes selenite is a variety of gypsum, it's not only clear there are opaque versions of selenite, mainly to do with imperfections in the crystal structure and or inclusions, hope that helps

[@normaferro8054]

To be truthful I have no favorites! Because I like them all. Take care.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks Norma!

[@thomastousant7178]

I am in south east on the border. Found a geode clear crystals some centimetre square. What might it have been. A woman stole and wondering where it might turn up.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

That's a shame 🥲

[@bc4190]

I made some nice finds 10 feet from you there

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Yeah, you posted your finds on FB right?

[@thomastousant7178]

What are the uses of these other than conventional pieces?

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Well in this part of Ontario these minerals have no other value, they would just get crushed up with the other rock to make aggregate.

[@thomastousant7178]

Where in southern Ontario are you?

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

I am situated near the Niagara peninsula, I can't disclose these exact local of this quarry do to policies which allow us to collect there in the 1st place.