Thanks for sharing. I’m one of those people that live through your videos. I can’t afford to go and do the prospecting for gemstones or specimens or precious metals. And I can have the opportunity to enjoy it because you are getting to do just that and you share your videos. I enjoyed the entire video and am amazed that the amount of effort it takes for you to get just a few and it makes me appreciate how small they are and it would be so much fun to be able to get out there in the bush. Thanks again and enjoy that you can go into the bush country and I’m stuck in a big city wishing i had studied Geology instead of computer programming and accounting. Rollin my eyes🙄😵. I’m retired now and disabled so go for it and I’ll be there in spirit 👍🏽♥️
Hey forgot to say I have made a good collection of hand scrapers and removal tools. Garage sale bought Stanley screw drivers You can carefully bend a 90° to handle about a 1/3 of total length. The other ones that cam be bent the same way but put a sharpen to a.point . So for something like $20you have a set of picking tools that will also last pretty well
Ive usually had great experiences being in the bush except that one time when i was young and dumb and caught something that antibiotics cleared up for me....😂
Do you realise Chris, that when you said that you could hear a Kangaroo, there was a Kangaroo nearby filming a what grass to eat video saying that i can hear a human! It doesn’t matter that you didn’t find a perfect Crystal, it was still an interesting video. Good work mate 👍🏼👍🏼
You need a cold chisel and 3# mallet to bust up those BIG boulders to expose the veins you pointed out on your walk-about. Or use a Dan Hurd favourite -- feather wedges.
The surface texture of weathered granite often doesn’t tell you much, plenty of weathering features have to do with the differential rate of weathering of the minerals constituting granite. Quartz weathers more slowly than feldspars and micas which weather to clays, the uneven surface texture often just tells you that larger anhedral (crystals without shape, that didn’t form in a vugh) feldspar crystals were present in the rock. Look for places where the texture departs from average granite texture, either very fine (aplitic) or very coarse (pegmatitic) usually where there’s one texture, you’ll find the other and there you’ll also find quartz veins and associated vughs. Places where two or more quartz veins intersect are worth looking for.
Love your videos. Could you do a video on what different sort of gems such as citrine and other gems what they look like out in the field. I have found some orange coloured stones that look like glass. Also clear stones that look like glass I found them in nsw near Tamworth at a place called Nundle
Thats a miners song "We're in a hole to no where.... dig on that side, hey.. come on inside Digging our way to paradise we'll take a side we'll make it wide Digging our hole to no where...."
That beanie looks like mine! I've never been there, and I still have my beanie. So it isn't mine. But this probably means the owner shops at Kmart like I do.
If you see a vugh exposed on the surface of a boulder try digging in the loose material downhill from the boulder, that’s the only way you might find a decent specimen, a crystal or cluster which came from the granite when the exposure was fresher
Never try and take crystals out of exposed vughs in unweathered granite, you’ll only damage them and destroy a landscape feature. That’s pretty much a hard and fast rule if your looking for quartz crystals in granite.
If a vugh is exposed it’s resistant to weathering (the nearby or enclosing rock has weathered away and it has not) so you know it will not be possible to remove crystals without damaging them. Leave it alone! Look for crystals in the soil and debris downhill from the exposed vugh which have naturally weathered from the rock or dig where there is evidence of quartz veins on the ground (or in nearby granite boulders) to discover vughs that have weathered out of granite underground, so that they haven’t travelled far from their source or been damaged by exposure or transport. Don’t damage exposed vughs for nothing!
Yes, dig at highest point of quartz float on a hillside, dig in debris below an exposed vugh dig where an exposed quartz vein in a boulder or cliff goes underground but don’t try digging quartz veins in granite unless it’s very decomposed and definitely don’t try and take crystals out of solid exposed rock - anything that’s left there will be well attached, that’s why it’s still there!
Never try and take crystals out of exposed vughs in unweathered granite, you’ll only damage them and destroy a landscape feature. That’s pretty much a hard and fast rule if your looking for quartz crystals in granite. K
The surface texture of weathered granite often doesn’t tell you much, plenty of weathering features have to do with the differential rate of weathering of the minerals constituting granite. Quartz weathers more slowly than feldspars and micas which weather to clays, the uneven surface texture often just tells you that larger anhedral (crystals without shape, that didn’t form in a vugh) feldspar crystals were present in the rock. Look for places where the texture departs from average granite texture, either very fine (aplitic) or very coarse (pegmatitic) usually where there’s one texture, you’ll find the other and there you’ll also find quartz veins and associated vughs. Places where two or more quartz veins intersect are worth looking for.
If you see a vugh exposed on the surface of a boulder try digging in the loose material downhill from the boulder, that’s the only way you might find a decent specimen, a crystal or cluster which came from the granite when the exposure was fresher
Love this perspective, just like being there. Cheers, Chris.
Lets go on an Adventure Charlie!
Man that brings back memories haha
Thanks for sharing good luck happy days
I found a good nugget in Reedy Creek last weekend, so happy
Great I myself have found this a good field I have to learn more about crystals of different types
Thanks for sharing. I’m one of those people that live through your videos. I can’t afford to go and do the prospecting for gemstones or specimens or precious metals. And I can have the opportunity to enjoy it because you are getting to do just that and you share your videos. I enjoyed the entire video and am amazed that the amount of effort it takes for you to get just a few and it makes me appreciate how small they are and it would be so much fun to be able to get out there in the bush. Thanks again and enjoy that you can go into the bush country and I’m stuck in a big city wishing i had studied Geology instead of computer programming and accounting. Rollin my eyes🙄😵. I’m retired now and disabled so go for it and I’ll be there in spirit 👍🏽♥️
Enjoyed it Criss😊
I agree with so many previous comments! This was a fascinating video, Chris. It gives me confidence to give it ago. Thank you for your sharing.
Love how you can be passionate about all your do.
Would a small wire brush to.help clean your bigger finds with out water
Hey forgot to say I have made a good collection of hand scrapers and removal tools.
Garage sale bought Stanley screw drivers
You can carefully bend a 90° to handle about a 1/3 of total length.
The other ones that cam be bent the same way but put a sharpen to a.point .
So for something like $20you have a set of picking tools that will also last pretty well
Awesome mate, loved it from the UK. Great to see more of the bush, if it wasn't a pain in the arse to walk through it would be a boring field 😂
Wonderful 👍, kinda hopen , it's buddies but Gadeez alone is very good 👍 2...!!!!
Its great to see you doing some crystals.....i have always been drawn to crystals and I need to go rock hounding at some point!!!
Not sure about any of you but I could watch this for Days!! You may be onto a new reality type channel Chris!😅❤
Unbelievable, I missed another one. WTF is wrong with me? 😢
BTW, someone keeps calling you. 😃
Me too
You're not alone 😢👍🏻⚒️🏴
The time difference is a lot for me. Im always sleeping when the videos are on. I still make sure to watch when i wake up.
Wahoo, it's adventure time, find them big clusters dude🤞
I literally woke up at 7:30am and caught the last 5 minutes of the stream 😢 I'm devastated 😫
Your phone kept buzzing, Gadzee must have been trying to get a hold of you to go gold prospecting LOL
Thanks for explaining Float rock. Hope you are doing ok.
Very cool 👍 never know what ya find
I got video coming soon for ya 🤟
you make me wanna move to Australia
Thanks for the adventure! Make sure to drink plenty of water!!
When you went on your walkabout, all I saw was the Australian Stonehenge, LOL
Ive usually had great experiences being in the bush except that one time when i was young and dumb and caught something that antibiotics cleared up for me....😂
That's why you leave the goats alone bro 😂😂😂
@@jacobkuykendall9325 Like I said. Lessons learned 😂
@@garrettmillsap 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 lmaorf nice sir nice
Loving your content for many years.
Maybe another gamming session soon?
Do you realise Chris, that when you said that you could hear a Kangaroo, there was a Kangaroo nearby filming a what grass to eat video saying that i can hear a human! It doesn’t matter that you didn’t find a perfect Crystal, it was still an interesting video. Good work mate 👍🏼👍🏼
A blast from the past with that Charlie the unicorn quote😅
You need a cold chisel and 3# mallet to bust up those BIG boulders to expose the veins you pointed out on your walk-about. Or use a Dan Hurd favourite -- feather wedges.
Sorry bro when you are awake I'm not lol. Nvr catch a live
That Spitfire hat is blast from the past
The surface texture of weathered granite often doesn’t tell you much, plenty of weathering features have to do with the differential rate of weathering of the minerals constituting granite. Quartz weathers more slowly than feldspars and micas which weather to clays, the uneven surface texture often just tells you that larger anhedral (crystals without shape, that didn’t form in a vugh) feldspar crystals were present in the rock. Look for places where the texture departs from average granite texture, either very fine (aplitic) or very coarse (pegmatitic) usually where there’s one texture, you’ll find the other and there you’ll also find quartz veins and associated vughs. Places where two or more quartz veins intersect are worth looking for.
Love your videos. Could you do a video on what different sort of gems such as citrine and other gems what they look like out in the field. I have found some orange coloured stones that look like glass. Also clear stones that look like glass I found them in nsw near Tamworth at a place called Nundle
Thats a miners song
"We're in a hole to no where....
dig on that side, hey.. come on inside
Digging our way to paradise
we'll take a side
we'll make it wide
Digging our hole to no where...."
That beanie looks like mine! I've never been there, and I still have my beanie. So it isn't mine. But this probably means the owner shops at Kmart like I do.
If you see float in the surface look and or dig uphill to find the source, always
You heard Captain Kangaroo? LOL
If you see a vugh exposed on the surface of a boulder try digging in the loose material downhill from the boulder, that’s the only way you might find a decent specimen, a crystal or cluster which came from the granite when the exposure was fresher
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Never try and take crystals out of exposed vughs in unweathered granite, you’ll only damage them and destroy a landscape feature. That’s pretty much a hard and fast rule if your looking for quartz crystals in granite.
Nice mate, get a few Dares on me👍👍👍
Thank you so much!
Lots of X sticks around the boulders ! Tar mate
Why don't you dig in the ground around the boulders that show crystals?
We forgive ya! ❤
If a vugh is exposed it’s resistant to weathering (the nearby or enclosing rock has weathered away and it has not) so you know it will not be possible to remove crystals without damaging them. Leave it alone! Look for crystals in the soil and debris downhill from the exposed vugh which have naturally weathered from the rock or dig where there is evidence of quartz veins on the ground (or in nearby granite boulders) to discover vughs that have weathered out of granite underground, so that they haven’t travelled far from their source or been damaged by exposure or transport. Don’t damage exposed vughs for nothing!
When digging a vein it’s better to use a pry bar and hammer and chisel you’ll damage less
^5!
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Seems like you chose a kinda "random" spot to dig, is there a better way to select a spot to dig 🤔⁉️👍
Yes, dig at highest point of quartz float on a hillside, dig in debris below an exposed vugh dig where an exposed quartz vein in a boulder or cliff goes underground but don’t try digging quartz veins in granite unless it’s very decomposed and definitely don’t try and take crystals out of solid exposed rock - anything that’s left there will be well attached, that’s why it’s still there!
Can I come out fossickong with you? I live you're videos. I live in Melbourne. I have a good quartz spot.. Near Warragul.
Never try and take crystals out of exposed vughs in unweathered granite, you’ll only damage them and destroy a landscape feature. That’s pretty much a hard and fast rule if your looking for quartz crystals in granite. K
NSW here as an opal miner 1 needs 2 move a S*** load of country rock 2 find the prize.
Have U tried feather and wedge M8
I wanted to ask, why people don't look for gold at night with flashlight. I assume the gold would reflect the light.
Want to see Chris the hulk… turn the playback speed up
You should metal detect since you're on quartz.
What about fluorite?
you need a brush i will see you get one
Where's the butler??..
Nothing spectacular!?! You have crystals in hand and not just looking at a picture or watching someone else dig them!
Never know when you’re gonna pop a vogus… how embarrassing.
I was expecting something better. You do try hard to entertain, I'll give you that. Next time, perhaps.
The surface texture of weathered granite often doesn’t tell you much, plenty of weathering features have to do with the differential rate of weathering of the minerals constituting granite. Quartz weathers more slowly than feldspars and micas which weather to clays, the uneven surface texture often just tells you that larger anhedral (crystals without shape, that didn’t form in a vugh) feldspar crystals were present in the rock. Look for places where the texture departs from average granite texture, either very fine (aplitic) or very coarse (pegmatitic) usually where there’s one texture, you’ll find the other and there you’ll also find quartz veins and associated vughs. Places where two or more quartz veins intersect are worth looking for.
If you see float in the surface look and or dig uphill to find the source, always
If you see a vugh exposed on the surface of a boulder try digging in the loose material downhill from the boulder, that’s the only way you might find a decent specimen, a crystal or cluster which came from the granite when the exposure was fresher