If they were giving out awards for, “The Best Rock Hounding Video Personality,” you would surely win!!: “Best Opening,” “Best Smile," “Most Knowledgeable & Informative!”..and a honorable mention..a shout out, goes to that damn rooster!... With everything that’s going on in America right now, (and in other parts of the world)..all the rage, the frustration, and uncertainty, you are a shining beacon in the darkness!! Thank you Michael!!
one the key differences between silver -silver sulfides -acanthite , allargentum-silver and antimony versus the cobalt arsenides are the physical properties. The silver minerals and silver all have hardness on the mohs scale appox between 2-3 1/2. In the case of silver it is malleable. The cobalt arsenides such skutterudite are harder 5 1/2 -6 and display features such fracture and cleavage. Some tests for these properties should be helpful. distinguishing between the arsenides is more tricky.
one easy thing to do is take an exacto knife and scratch or even poke at a known piece of silver and then do the same to an arsenide. You will see very different responses. You will see when the arsenides break the fracture looks very different from silver or silver minerals
It is sooo heavy. I mailed a Christmas box today to a friend and the lady at the post office could not believe the weight of the package for its size. It was 11 kilo.
Sir, A couple questions here. When you say that you were going to have a professional look at it. Who would that be, and any suggestions on how to find that type of professional? Also, you put a note on the screen at around 4:55 saying “if no silver, then the rock might be worth $200.” Why do you feel it might be worth that? Thank you, and appreciate all the knowledge you have been sharing with us!
There are a few choices when it comes to professionals. Some have their own stores and know their minerals, others have access to XRF and other tools (eg. a refiner) and then there are also universities and museums. (I like reverse order). A large rock still has value as a specimen. It's not just melt value.
@@meMiner I've only had experience with cleaning engineering parts and used to use various grades of aluminium oxide, that work well on most stuff from rust to paint. Agree with you anout losing the grit, it needs to be a quality box otherwise 1, you lose grit. 2, you can't see a bloody thing!
I just finished 10 and a half hours of work and I didn't think that I was going to watch any UA-cam videos today , but as soon as I noticed that you had a new video I had to take the time to check it out. As usual I was not disappointed with my decision, I have two questions - number 1 is - what percentage is silver/ Galena as well as lead would you say that 40 lb rock contains ? Number 2 - What exactly is Acanthite and what are it's I'll effects on humans ? Oh wait ! That was 3 questions , well it's time for me to hit the hay , I have to get up at 3:30 am for work . Looking forward to hearing from you and thanks again for sharing your videos.
This rock baffles me as to the amount of silver. I am hoping for mostly silver (by weight), but if wishes were horses then beggars would ride. Some rocks in the Cobalt silver camp were 4000 oz/ton and this might be one of them. Galena was uncommon in the area and is mostly lead. Acanthite is a silver sulfide that looks black. It confused the original miners and was ignored. It is high grade. No affect on people, other than get some like me excited. LOL Good luck with work. Keep stacking up the dollars with good OT.
GPX5000, outside of Cobalt, ON. I got the detector for placer gold, but it is pretty good on silver. The nice thing is I can set it for avoiding cobalt. It is also not distracted by most hot rocks.
Using an air scribe on an ore sample is illogical. Hammer off a corner. If it breaks easily, you have found arsenides. If it doesn’t, you might have some silver mixed. Slabbing will reveal the mixture. Lots of silvery metallic rocks there. Hundreds and hundreds of pounds. Silver is hackly, it doesn’t crush, it flattens... like a soft metal. A hammer will reveal all in 30 seconds.
Silver, silver!! It sure does have nifty ways of disguising itself at times. Or not! Look forward to your follow up vid of your interesting piece. I am still waiting to get my 88lb piece cut from last fall.
You are going to cut that one? I am sure the slices would be excellent, but almost a shame to cut because it looks great as a whole rock. If you decide to go ahead, "I know a guy" who has cut for some other people.
Do you have any contact for people who can identify rocks or metal in the NCR? Got a 13.55 nugget that I would like to have check out. Left you a link on one of your newer videos. Maybe you would be able to look at it? thank you for all your videos
Sorry sir, the NCR is National Capital Region (Ottawa). Pardon my military jargon abbreviations. Regarding the nugget, it's a very dense and hard metal. I did not do any test regarding the streak. All the info I got so far is that nugget was smuggled illegally +20 years ago from a Alcan/Alcoa in a North mine of Quebec. I will probably get and do the mining test kit to maybe eliminate and help find out what it is. Hi took some hi-def and close-up pictures of the nugget, This evening, I will make a quick compilation and post it. Maybe that will help. Very curious on what I got. I do a lot of recycling including E-waste, silver, gold and indium are easy do identify, but this raw metal, no one seams to know what it is, but it looks to be able to handle high heat, more than titanium??? Thanks for showing interest in this, more to follow.
Do you think it was the Casa Beradi mine? Location helps quite a bit in mineral ID. Without other info, my guess is a form of arsenopyrite or Löllingite. If the hint is heat, then I would suspect high in cobalt.
I now miss the rooster a little bit. A fox got him. He didn't know to be quiet sometimes. In fact, he would walk around my house and look in the windows to try to find me. When he spotted me, he would crow for treats- - A loud dinner bell for a hungry female fox with pups to feed.
I was at a local flea market several years ago and a guy, vendor was picking up his stall,he left behind a box of rocks, even though the wife told me to not take any, one caught my attention,it was very heavy, fast forward a year ago I took it to a gem and mineral show where a expert looked at it and told me it's galena,2 lbs worth.
I don't know what pry**** ??? is. (Can't spell it either lol!) BUT that rock is pretty....I think I should.buy me a book about ok..."pyrrhotite" ...anyways, I better get a book about all your rocks, minerals, etc so I know what your talking about! Ha! Ha!
An easy thing to do is google the name of the mineral and "mindat", then look for the link that will take you to the mindat site. It is better than any book that I have found.
The dark flat grey is lead and molyb the silverish is silver ....try to melt it with a butane torch..tge calcite shoud liquify and turn glossy and of course the lead will melt leaving any silver or gold if there is any
Where is the interview or second part of this one? I would really like to see that.
If they were giving out awards for, “The Best Rock Hounding Video Personality,” you would surely win!!: “Best Opening,” “Best Smile," “Most Knowledgeable & Informative!”..and a honorable mention..a shout out, goes to that damn rooster!... With everything that’s going on in America right now, (and in other parts of the world)..all the rage, the frustration, and uncertainty, you are a shining beacon in the darkness!! Thank you Michael!!
Wow! Thanks so much. Ya wanna free rooster? LOL
tess99991 ...I’ll pass on the rooster! My neighbor has a dog that is just as loud & barks all the time! 🌸MJ
Ditto to MJ s remark! I love your calm yet excited self! Ps love the dog cam too!
That's a big chunk of silver, good luck.
I love your rooster. He makes me laugh also.
Joshua Adolfsen I find him rather relaxing.
Are you laughing because it isn't your next door neighbor's rooster ?
I sure am glad that you folks that have been doing this for so long are stumped. I have so many rocks that stump me all the time
Every day some new baffles me. I am getting used to it. ;-)
Awesome find!
The rooster sounds scary,,,awesome. Know on to the big rock. That looks like fun. I like the way it's silver is exposed.
It didn't scare the mother red fox. Her pups and her had a feast. I miss the old boy and his crowing.
Just label him the worst heckler.......
Then make soup
Merci...continue de nous informer.
GOTTA LOVE THAT ROOSTER!! CUTE!
A fox got him. He was sometimes annoying, but I kinda miss him now.
Brossard man!
one the key differences between silver -silver sulfides -acanthite , allargentum-silver and antimony versus the cobalt arsenides are the physical properties. The silver minerals and silver all have hardness on the mohs scale appox between 2-3 1/2. In the case of silver it is malleable. The cobalt arsenides such skutterudite are harder 5 1/2 -6 and display features such fracture and cleavage. Some tests for these properties should be helpful. distinguishing between the arsenides is more tricky.
Excellent info. I did not think about using hardness in this case. Makes a great deal of sense. Thanks much!
one easy thing to do is take an exacto knife and scratch or even poke at a known piece of silver and then do the same to an arsenide. You will see very different responses. You will see when the arsenides break the fracture looks very different from silver or silver minerals
Faraday1957 Great comment!
Thanks for positive feedback
Wait, did someone say "display cleavage"?
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Do you have a UV source for your minerals? We never seem to catch that bit of testing on video...
Cannot wait for the result Boss man
Man that chicken sandwich has something to prove. Lol
Oh my God its silver. Super cool, it's heavy too.
It is sooo heavy. I mailed a Christmas box today to a friend and the lady at the post office could not believe the weight of the package for its size. It was 11 kilo.
What is your roosters name , he is a persistent and loud bird , like how he seems to know when your shooting a scene, just to funny 😂👍
The birds know I am the one to bring them treats. They see me and get excited for food.
Sir,
A couple questions here. When you say that you were going to have a professional look at it. Who would that be, and any suggestions on how to find that type of professional?
Also, you put a note on the screen at around 4:55 saying “if no silver, then the rock might be worth $200.”
Why do you feel it might be worth that?
Thank you, and appreciate all the knowledge you have been sharing with us!
There are a few choices when it comes to professionals. Some have their own stores and know their minerals, others have access to XRF and other tools (eg. a refiner) and then there are also universities and museums. (I like reverse order).
A large rock still has value as a specimen. It's not just melt value.
Big fan of these sort of videos ! lol . should break a few more . think theres a suprise inside . like a kinder egg lmao
Time to make good use of that rooster
SOUP
Poor rooster was fox food. There was a female fox who was hungry.
Have you tried a small sand/bead blasting unit to clean rocks? Maybe easier than the mechanical etching tool? Just a thought. Thanks for the videos.
I have tried that, but maybe on the wrong rocks. I did not have a good case to work in and lost quite a bit of the sand or powder that I was using.
@@meMiner I've only had experience with cleaning engineering parts and used to use various grades of aluminium oxide, that work well on most stuff from rust to paint. Agree with you anout losing the grit, it needs to be a quality box otherwise 1, you lose grit. 2, you can't see a bloody thing!
Exactly. ;-)
I've blasted rocks with beach sand. It works fine but man you get more dirty than Greigs jeans digging in the waste piles haha
I just finished 10 and a half hours of work and I didn't think that I was going to watch any UA-cam videos today , but as soon as I noticed that you had a new video I had to take the time to check it out. As usual I was not disappointed with my decision, I have two questions - number 1 is - what percentage is silver/ Galena as well as lead would you say that 40 lb rock contains ? Number 2 - What exactly is Acanthite and what are it's I'll effects on humans ? Oh wait ! That was 3 questions , well it's time for me to hit the hay , I have to get up at 3:30 am for work . Looking forward to hearing from you and thanks again for sharing your videos.
This rock baffles me as to the amount of silver. I am hoping for mostly silver (by weight), but if wishes were horses then beggars would ride. Some rocks in the Cobalt silver camp were 4000 oz/ton and this might be one of them. Galena was uncommon in the area and is mostly lead. Acanthite is a silver sulfide that looks black. It confused the original miners and was ignored. It is high grade. No affect on people, other than get some like me excited. LOL Good luck with work. Keep stacking up the dollars with good OT.
what a find! ....up near cobalt?..... were you using the gpx 4500?....can't wait to see the results...ATB scott
GPX5000, outside of Cobalt, ON. I got the detector for placer gold, but it is pretty good on silver. The nice thing is I can set it for avoiding cobalt. It is also not distracted by most hot rocks.
Using an air scribe on an ore sample is illogical. Hammer off a corner. If it breaks easily, you have found arsenides. If it doesn’t, you might have some silver mixed. Slabbing will reveal the mixture. Lots of silvery metallic rocks there. Hundreds and hundreds of pounds. Silver is hackly, it doesn’t crush, it flattens... like a soft metal. A hammer will reveal all in 30 seconds.
Silver, silver!! It sure does have nifty ways of disguising itself at times. Or not! Look forward to your follow up vid of your interesting piece. I am still waiting to get my 88lb piece cut from last fall.
You are going to cut that one? I am sure the slices would be excellent, but almost a shame to cut because it looks great as a whole rock. If you decide to go ahead, "I know a guy" who has cut for some other people.
tess99991. I may cut it, just one end. I have someone to cut it here. A concrete contractor, have to wait until spring though.
Awesome
I want a metal detector that says silver… Gold… Platinum instead of numbers!🤣🤣
Be better to have one that screams bottle top, pull tab and nail. lol
@@meMiner I would buy either! 🎯
that was one loud rooster... kept upstaging ya
It was my fault. I gave him treats. He spent much of his day trying to find me, even looking into the windows. Funny bird.
Do you have any contact for people who can identify rocks or metal in the NCR? Got a 13.55 nugget that I would like to have check out. Left you a link on one of your newer videos. Maybe you would be able to look at it? thank you for all your videos
You have a heck of a nugget that is difficult to ID from just a video. Streak and hardness would help to narrow it down a bit.
What is the NCR? I only know it to be a river near Edmonton (that has gold)
Sorry sir, the NCR is National Capital Region (Ottawa). Pardon my military jargon abbreviations. Regarding the nugget, it's a very dense and hard metal. I did not do any test regarding the streak. All the info I got so far is that nugget was smuggled illegally +20 years ago from a Alcan/Alcoa in a North mine of Quebec. I will probably get and do the mining test kit to maybe eliminate and help find out what it is. Hi took some hi-def and close-up pictures of the nugget, This evening, I will make a quick compilation and post it. Maybe that will help. Very curious on what I got. I do a lot of recycling including E-waste, silver, gold and indium are easy do identify, but this raw metal, no one seams to know what it is, but it looks to be able to handle high heat, more than titanium??? Thanks for showing interest in this, more to follow.
Do you think it was the Casa Beradi mine? Location helps quite a bit in mineral ID. Without other info, my guess is a form of arsenopyrite or Löllingite. If the hint is heat, then I would suspect high in cobalt.
Very cool
Ahhh interesting..can't wait to see what the results are..so what's the temp up there now?..
Right now is really nice. I am sure there is still some winter left.
Can a magnet stick to iron pyrite ?
Not usually.
Serve up that damn rooster as dinner.
A fox had him for dinner.
Wowzers
Pyrits can have gold or other heavy metals ryte?
Pyrites can be an indicator for gold.
sounds like chicken soup coming up soon lol
I would be happy to hand them over to someone that wants them (for whatever purpose they want).
Hi just subbed my son said check it out. Thankyou for posting. Love the rooster.🐛
I now miss the rooster a little bit. A fox got him. He didn't know to be quiet sometimes. In fact, he would walk around my house and look in the windows to try to find me. When he spotted me, he would crow for treats- - A loud dinner bell for a hungry female fox with pups to feed.
@@meMiner The Circle of Life enjoy your Tuesday Hope your weather improves
Wow what a lucky find. Grads.
Thanks!
Could you do the removal with a small dremmel tool?
Yes. I know somebody who does that. It is time consuming but the results he gets are excellent.
I was at a local flea market several years ago and a guy, vendor was picking up his stall,he left behind a box of rocks, even though the wife told me to not take any, one caught my attention,it was very heavy, fast forward a year ago I took it to a gem and mineral show where a expert looked at it and told me it's galena,2 lbs worth.
Nice. Is it cubic?
@@meMiner not exactly sure what you mean, but it has a hammer forged appearance, or little like a meteorite.
I have found galena (smaller than yours) which was crystalized into stacked cubes.
@@salsalero1277 you have stilled it
Shame on you idiot !
@@user-qc1tx7pi7y the vendor left the box behind, intentionally and told me to help myself to any rock that I liked.
Who is it a (troy) 583 troy??
A regular ounce is 28.35 grams. A troy ounce is 31.1 grams. So you need more silver (or gold) for a troy ounce.
Chicken noodles soup
👍🌸🇩🇿👏
I don't know what pry**** ??? is. (Can't spell it either lol!) BUT that rock is pretty....I think I should.buy me a book about ok..."pyrrhotite" ...anyways, I better get a book about all your rocks, minerals, etc so I know what your talking about! Ha! Ha!
An easy thing to do is google the name of the mineral and "mindat", then look for the link that will take you to the mindat site. It is better than any book that I have found.
meMiner Wish I read that before I bought these two looks!! Ha! Ha#
Books, I meant!
Ha! Ha! Your rooster has good lungs!!!
The dark flat grey is lead and molyb the silverish is silver ....try to melt it with a butane torch..tge calcite shoud liquify and turn glossy and of course the lead will melt leaving any silver or gold if there is any
I have not hit any of my rocks with a torch (yet). It would be fun to try.
Patrick Galloway sorry, but you are completely wrong. No molybdenite in Cobalt. Almost no galena. No gold. A ton of arsenides per pound of silver.