Great video! I would like to suggest learning Dan Hurd's technique on finding garnets. I think you would double, maybe quadruple your total daily findings. You're finding beautiful stones! I can't wait for the next video!
Thanks, mate, and yes, I've watched Dan hurds videos on finding garnets. The only trouble is they have tons of them over there . In the uk, we're scratching around for the odd one👍
@@onemanandhispan Have you tried looking at night with a 365nm uv blacklight? I'm pretty sure gem garnets glow bright pink, might be like berry picking at night lol...
Thanks, Rob, and I didn't think it was that bad round there. I've worked away up there afew times before this visit, and I never had any trouble , saying that, tho Im used to the shitholes around birmingham 😂👍
@onemanandhispan I'm from Coventry originally. Fife is a largely poor area with serious drug problems. I'm born in Kirkcaldy and my brother lives in Kirkcaldy ( we were brought up in Coventry) it's therefore less violent by far, but never the less a deprived area through history and a lot of degenerates. ( I loved there 20 years)
I live in chemsley Wood, so coventry just down the road from me, and that's where I stayed in Kirkcaldy down by the harbour. It's nice round there. The worst place I've worked in has to be Alexandria, towards dumbarton again, big trouble with drugs there
Lovley video, was nice talking to you on the day, we spoke briefly about the garnets and the maar diatreme. Out of curiosity, how do you go about faceting your stones? Do you do it yourself or do you send them away somewhere? Kind regards
Thank you, and it was great speaking to a proper geologist too and no i dont facet the stones myself but there are a few places in the Birmingham jewellery quarter where you take your stones to be faceted.👍
Cheers, mate, and no, there not worth much, and I will get round to making a video of me making a ring from the Scottish gold I've found and some point 👍
Well done. Would a local jewellery shop know how to facet them? Think I've seen people get them off the big beach to the west as well.
Interesting - I didn't know the UK was so volcanic. Nice stones too! :o)
Thanks and yes over millions of years the uk has had everything from tropical seas to volcanic and desert lands
Very nice mate. Different take on prospecting.
Yeh, it was nice to try something different, and I didn't do too bad 👍
Another great vid mate keep um coming
I live in fife, i always assumed it was bits of red sea glass....
love the deep color of those, very nice ✌️😎
Thanks 👍
Great video! I would like to suggest learning Dan Hurd's technique on finding garnets. I think you would double, maybe quadruple your total daily findings. You're finding beautiful stones! I can't wait for the next video!
Thanks, mate, and yes, I've watched Dan hurds videos on finding garnets. The only trouble is they have tons of them over there . In the uk, we're scratching around for the odd one👍
@@onemanandhispan Have you tried looking at night with a 365nm uv blacklight? I'm pretty sure gem garnets glow bright pink, might be like berry picking at night lol...
Brilliant I stay Fife and have found a few over the years
Well done bro great intro 👌
Cheers mate👍
Well done!
I used to live near there.
Watch it's a rough area fife
Thanks, Rob, and I didn't think it was that bad round there. I've worked away up there afew times before this visit, and I never had any trouble , saying that, tho Im used to the shitholes around birmingham 😂👍
@onemanandhispan it's more methil and Leven where the big problem is
@onemanandhispan I'm from Coventry originally.
Fife is a largely poor area with serious drug problems. I'm born in Kirkcaldy and my brother lives in Kirkcaldy ( we were brought up in Coventry) it's therefore less violent by far, but never the less a deprived area through history and a lot of degenerates. ( I loved there 20 years)
I live in chemsley Wood, so coventry just down the road from me, and that's where I stayed in Kirkcaldy down by the harbour. It's nice round there. The worst place I've worked in has to be Alexandria, towards dumbarton again, big trouble with drugs there
It’s only rough if you’re an arse!
Lovley video, was nice talking to you on the day, we spoke briefly about the garnets and the maar diatreme. Out of curiosity, how do you go about faceting your stones? Do you do it yourself or do you send them away somewhere? Kind regards
Thank you, and it was great speaking to a proper geologist too and no i dont facet the stones myself but there are a few places in the Birmingham jewellery quarter where you take your stones to be faceted.👍
Really interesting, are they worth much money?
Did you manage to make a ring out Scottish gold, can we see it?
Cheers, mate, and no, there not worth much, and I will get round to making a video of me making a ring from the Scottish gold I've found and some point 👍
You can still see ancient volcanoes on the isle of Skye
Excuse the ignorance but do garnets glow under a UV light?
That thought went through my head too, but unfortunately, they don't. Otherwise, I would have gone on the night with uv lamp 👍
Any value in those Ruby's?
They are not worth a lot in thre raw form ,more valuable if faceted and in a piece of jewellery especially if the gold from Scotland too
@@onemanandhispan How much for the ring when its done? hehe
Too small for faceting, not worth much, though I’d pay small fee for a bag full! Just to have as specimen and for a little project I’m doing!
Time too pay the mortgage off.