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@@CaboDaNau well sounds like my state is prime then for them all. I live in Vermont and it's made up nothing but all these minerals you mentioned. My father in-laws back yard sits a base of mountains and hills and they all drain into the river, and the bog. We have the largest and only protected wetlands for migratory birds.
Many of those jagged-looking stones shown in this video are not rubies, but are rhodolite garnets that occur sometimes in alluvial gravels alongside the corundum. Rubies and sapphires have a completely different cleavage and luster. I'm guessing a number of these were screened at the Mason Mountain mine in Franklin, NC, as the garnet looks identical to the ones found there. It is true that many gemstones can be found in granite pegmatites, but corundums are rarely one of them. And I think the rest of the inaccuracies were covered by Darknimbus3's comments below. With matters of science, accuracy is important.
@@denisweimer8791 I have some uncut garment. I live in Tennessee on North Carolina - Hot Springs side of the mountain. It didn't all come from the same location, or the same day. All did come from the same creek. The stone it was in looked odd and almost perfectly round. I took it to a shop. The lady called the one I took a biscuit. Never have I heard that term before 🤔. ✌️ From Tennessee
Ok there is a lot to correct here, particularly in terms of identifying signs for rubies/sapphires. 1) Quartz is not necessarily an indicator! Quartz is almost in every stream. As a matter of fact, in the primary deposit, quartz will not be found with corundum, as corundum forms in silica-poor rocks. This is because any silica will absorb the aluminum to create alumina-silicates like feldspar and mica. 2) Shale is NOT an associate with corundum. Shale is a sedimentary rock. Corundums do not form in sedimentary rock, and if they are found in sedimentary rock it would most likely be a conglomerate. Also that “mica schist” example in 3:20 is not actually schist- it’s a mica bearing pegmatite. Speaking of which…. 3) Most pegmatite is also NOT an indicator for corundum. There is sapphire-bearing pegmatite, however that is very VERY rare, and those pegmatites have no quartz. Also most pegmatites, being granitic in nature are silica rich, which goes back to my point #1 4) It’s spelled “gneiss” and “gneisses” respectively. Also it has to be the correct gneiss. Gneiss with quartz = no corundum. 5) 4:05 is spelled “zoisite” and pronounced “zow-uh-site”. Also that green ruby-zoisite is endemic to Tanzania- it’s not found anywhere else in the world. So unless you live in Tanzania, that tip is useless. Elsewhere, you’re more likely to find ruby with fuchsite. 6) 4:21 No (in the vast majority of cases), maybe, and definitely NO. There are very rare volcanics that have corundum xenocrysts, but that is extremely rare. For example, there is basalt bearing sapphire xenocrysts in Burma, and Montana sapphires come as xenocrysts from a lamprophyre. However, other than that, forget about it. Yes, certain marbles may have corundum. This will depend on the temperature and pressure conditions as well as other regional factors. As for granite, granite = quartz-rich, which goes back to point #1. Some syenites or diorites, however may bear corundum. Syenites and diorites look like granites, but are silica-poor and tend to be feldspar-rich.
Thank you for this. The statement at the beginning that rubies can be found in the rivers in a region near me...I guess if in region he means continent...then proceeds to list every classification of rock as an indicator...love it. Time to go find a ruby!
@@solverfix Well, if you’re in the USA, then North Carolina is probably your best bet for finding rubies. But even then, you have to look in the correct areas, namely Franklin area. Sapphires may also be found in North Carolina, as well as Montana. In North Carolina, the sapphire is more widespread than the rubies. In fact, remember I mentioned sapphire-bearing pegmatites? Well there happens to be one in Canton County from what is known as the “Old Pressley Mine”. It’s just as I described- lots of feldspar (albite) and muscovite, some other neat minerals like apatite and zircon- but no quartz!
@Darknimbus3 don't be too happy, he probably doesn't mean it. If you look at his other videos, you'll see it's a content spam channel (generic and clickbaity videos). If you look at the video, it all looks like stock footage and snippets from other creators. The text is bland, generic and contain inacuracies you'd expect from chatGPT. The voice-over is probably machine generated (notice how he pronounces Moh three different ways?)
No mention of heat treating sapphires. If X-amount of heat is applied to a sapphire the color usually changes. It also sets that color. A heated sapphire, in, for example, a ring, that has been taken in for repairs, can withstand the heat needed for the repair without changing the color of the sapphire. A non-heat treated sapphire must either be pulled or protected, from the heat needed for the repair or the sapphire will change color. And the owner will be very upset. When you find a sapphire that appears to show a certain color, after heat treating, can become a completely different color. If you choose to not heat treat your finds it is a good idea to tell any jeweler working on it that it is a non-heat treated stone so they know to protect it. There by avoiding an unwanted color change. Sapphires, like diamonds, can take the direct heat of a torch.
My brother was a goldsmith and a client gave him a large glass tube full of tiny rubies as a gift. They were worthless for jewellery but he spilled them out in his glass case and displayed his pieces on them.
@@Elizabeth912-v6oyes there are, all around the world, typically near long ago volcanic activity as is typical of gems in general. edit: just do a search on gemstone beaches.
Some rather large & very beautiful Garnets are often found on the River Thames in London. Mudlarkers find them there while searching for other treasures. Its believed these Garnets came from India & Asia possibly as simple Ballast in old ships.
that's what I try to explain in the video, it certainly can't be easy to find rubies and sapphires but it's certainly not impossible, thanks for sharing this information with us
loved rock hunting when I was a kid. my dad pointed out flint stones to me and I would collect some every time I went out. at some point I had so many I decided to go to the place I found a lot of them and scattered them around so that hopefully someone one day with find them
As a 73 yr old i have spent the last two summers in Montana Grizzly infested back country . Just now i realized the ones i threw back in the creek . Live and learn .
It's a shame my friend, but still I'm sure you have many good stories to tell, thank you for watching our video, and also God bless the people of Montana, a wonderful place.
Well, if you used the internet to your advantage, you would know that Montana is the only state in the US that produces Sapphires and there are fee digs near Helena. I plan to go there with my family next year and then take them back to Washington and cut them into gorgeous gemstones. I'll probably have a some heat treated, which brings out the iconic deep blue coloration, but that's another expense, so I'm only willing to do a handful.
You have to be careful with Mica, as it can be mixed with or along side of Asbestos. Sadly, where I live, most minerals are not common, as the glaciers ground up the land and left limestone and gypsum behind as well as tons and tons of sand and clay, with huge granite boulders mixed in.
Idk man I live in Minnesota, just west of the driftless area, where we are also covered with glacial till. I find some seriously cool stuff in the rivers and farm fields around here. Yeah it's all mixed in with the till, but think about this- we got stuff deposited here from all the way up high in canada! You never know what you might find. Fortunately I'm able to combine my rockhounding hobby with other hobbies, like fishing and playing in sand with my kids. We always come home with baggies of rocks we like. I doubt they are worth much money but I enjoy cleaning them up and studying them at home. Someday I hope to start my own quarry business because I love being around rocks and minerals so much haha.
I have been going to montana for over 10 yrs and mine /hunt the sapphires there..found and had jeweled over 100 cts of various colors purples pinks yellows greens blues its amazing how many colors there are. missouri river is magical
So… i have a question, i am unsure if you would even be able to help me too much, but here it goes: a few years back i found a beautiful stone in a river that glowed like tropical ocean water. I figured that it was an old piece of glass and brought it home. Well, a few years later i decided on a whim to do a few tests to see if it might be some kind of gem, not glass. In these test i used a few acids which refused to react, i did scratch tests (which proved it to be harder than chromium), and the skin (now that i look closely seems to have such a fine grain checker pattern like the ruby sample you showed. The gem is nearly eye-clear aside from the riverworn seeming (might actually be growth skin) outside, with only a couple clearer sections, and a couple teeny tiny dots floating (almost need a lens to see them) Now… here is the kicker… the gem is the size of the entirety of my thumb from the knuckle up… and about the same shape, including the strange dimple bump i have on the pad. And i have decently beefy hands. … very dirty tabblecloth math came out at *roughly 80 carats? (27mmX21mmX16mm) …the tropical blue seems to have angular diachromatism in some places that make the blue arc between deeper tropical ocean blue in the depths and a nearly platinum white at edges. Would you have any clue whatsoever as to what this might be worth, where i would go to safely deal with a company even if just for an appraisal, and possibly how i would find out about local staking/mining laws and such?
Thanks for your comment. You seem to have some knowledge about this, but it's not that simple, each area has its own mining laws, if you are in the USA, which I don't have any specific knowledge about the laws, but if you don't know, I recommend that you contact jewelers in your area, if possible talk to several jewelers, they will know how to guide you. another more accurate alternative is to contact a geologist or gemologist in your region. And of course, before you make a deal, make sure you're getting a fair deal. Now, if you're interested, we have an e-book on basic gemology at an extremely affordable price, which you can check out at the following link: hotm.art/GemologyJourney
@@CaboDaNau 1. thanks, sadly most of the jewelers around here are… not exactly trust worthy… or at least the ones you can look up easily (i know there are some smaller specialists, and some master cutters high up the chain, but both of those are Very hard to get in contact with sadly) 2. but the geologist route… i do have an ex college professor that i could try and reach out to. Never thought of that somehow. But thats a very good idea!! 3. Yeah, i didnt know if there was maybe some government site that was well known, or like… possibly some forum with curated links to localized laws and claim making resources haha. So figured i would ask. Thanks for the link, im always adding yet more books to my collection of physical and digital information archives. I shall take a look when im on pc, not mobile.
I've always enjoyed collecting small stones and minerals near river and creek beds. Now, thanks to this video, i know what to look out for when collecting.
I have found many types of iron ore, citrine, regular quartz and one or twice pink quartz in Michigan you can apparently also find garnets and amethyst to!
Its funny, I started out hunting for arrowheads, after 40 years I started finding facial effigies on not only flint points, but gemstone, limestone, basalt etc… almost to the piece, the gemstones that I find, have an ancient peoples effigy on it. You can hardly find one that hasnt already been used for an effigy stone… Primitive Rock Art. It opened up a whole new passion for me, and most of them I refrain to cut on.
In bc canada here... We got lots of indicators in streams, and ruby although rare is found, and saphires much more common but corundum in general is not known be an industry here, some creeks.. we have lots of garnets, they show up in gold pans and some creeks are named after ruby and garnets, and in a few creeks the garnets are so plenty that you see red sand in the creeks and they are piles of small garnets that collect in spots just like gold and magnetite... Be have lots of basalt ( with lots of peridotite and peridot ), granite and gniess are plenty, not exactly sure on marble though bit the indicators are plenty and on the mighty fraser home of the BC gold rush you will find alot of nephrite jade and it a major industry here.. thinking of looking for gold, jade, and corundum now especially since a place called ruby creek is also in that exact location
Mineralology student here. This is isnt helpful at all. A lot of the rocks youve mentioned are common rocks. Plus rubies do not form in igneous rocks like the rocks youve mentioned like granite, basalt, and pegmatite. Usually rubies form in high temperature, high pressure metamorphic rocks rich in aluminosilicates like mica, but mica decomposes easily, so you dont see it that often. Besides "White quartz" is NOT a good indicator mineral becuase it can be found everywhere. Plus, to conform if the ruby is actually a ruby, one would need to do some tests, most likely from a gemologist IF it even looks gem grade. Finding a tumbled shard of red glass isnt a ruby. Relying on the surrounding rocks in a riverbed isnt enough to determine if it is a ruby or not, since river and their tributaries carry material from all sorts of sources.
Lots of mica shist and milky quartz in my yard in Underhill, VT (valley close to Stowe) that comes up when I pull weeds. I have found 3 rocks that I haven't identified. 1 is solid black like an onyx. 2.The other is a half circle shaped opaque with white/ clearish color and areas that are pink to orange, and a pice broke off of it with strange fracture at the broken area. 3. Is a rusty rock with a smooth creamy pink almost like a corral growth on the rock. I have no clue what the 3 rocks are.😊
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I know that some videos are just for illustration, and the video editor is not a geologist and can make mistakes, but thanks for watching and commenting. god bless you
I have some shiny stones I got in Tennessee that are green with black swirls in the green and one that is light green with patches of darker green in spots and red dots with silver in it.
I actually found a pretty big raw ruby crystal in a rock some time ago. I didn't even know, I just liked the color and thought it was just quartz until my grandfather (who works in the gem business) told me.
I have found rubies, but still want to learn more. also how to better search it since right now I find them by just collecting all potentially good ones by using a sif to get rid of the to fine sands and such. or I use my gold pan and regularly when looking for gold find those rubies on the bottom at some stage, so tend to collect those. but could be better at recognising them all, and perhaps should take a dremmel with me to look inside of them.
There a crapton of jade, garnets, quartz in rivers i regularly camp at. Like so much jade that you could fill a wheel barrow in a few hours, the quality is too low for jewelry though but whould absolutely make nice decorations if one had expensive stone carving and cutting stuff. I bet even more precious stones too, but also low quality
My first time going to a mine in SC, I was walking toward the entrance with my son and all of sudden I see , this red stone . “Look at that” I said. So I pick up this red stone the size of a Vicks cough drop. . Yes, it was cherry flavor Vicks cough drop. 😂
I used to break rocks in my grandparents backyard and i remember breaking one and thinking i found some shiny peanut butter looking stuff. No idea what I found or where it went but i remember 😮
😀This day i found a emerald in my garden it 50%quart and 50% emerald because is grenn is normal to have some quart on it because i make test and im happy i found is a little bit damage but still a real emeral how rare is to find this gem stone?
Interesting, I think I will stick to buying my gemstones for my products. As they are graded and certified. But I did learn its something that takes up more time than I have.
I used to live up north. I wish i was into panning and stuff back then. I live south now where things can be found at just the north of the state. I would have went crazy in PA.
Bet that means you also passed up a couple of semi precious gemstone boulders that could go for a couple hundred if not 1k+ a piece. Make no mistake, that smooth dark green boulder sitting amongst a bunch of grey jagged rocks looks very different for a reason!
I have a question. So when you find a ruby, the only way to know it's high quality is when you polish it and it shines bright and nice? If not, then it's a low quality? So I really have to polish them to know?
I love picking preety rocks..inwish i could find gemstones. In a beach i went 2hrs from my hometown the beach/sand was actually gold. Would it be it has gold dust or what?????
So I live in East Saint Louis, which is in southern Illinois, I live like 30 minutes from the Mississippi. I was wondering what type of rock I could find around there. Would there be rubies or sapphires? Also could you identify this rock: it looks like metal and is cold like it, but it has no sign of oxidation but has signs of weathering.
I live near the Atlantic coast in Florida. What are the chances of finding any valuable stones (outside of pirate booty) on the shore, washed up by the waves, or by poking around in the surf? Thanks!
I use to find garnets in a particular creek in the northwest mountains of Colorado but they were very small and a rare find was a little bit of amathist near a mine and another rock that may have been quartz but it had an light icy green tint to it. The other interesting thing was a mica mine near the top of an old logging road.
What an incredible story, it's amazing to know that you had the opportunity to explore the beauties of nature, thank you for sharing your story with us.
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@CaboDaNau you did say in many river around the world but does this apply also to the Netherlands that not have mountains or other great different rock formations.
One time I went to a mountain type area there was a river flowing right between the mountains, I knew very little about geology then I started searching for gemstones I searched for about an hour but had no luck or rather my technique was off
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do you have a flashlight you preffer ? im from germany and stones and gems intresstest me my howl life but i didnt start with this hobby, but i really want start with it, would be nice if i can get some help what i need to find some gems or nice looking stones :)
Get out there and RockHound people! Keep it legal, keep it safe, respect the environment, and have FUN. There's treasure everywhere, and not all of it is worth something. My favorite specimen is a quartz crystal that became trapped in silver slag during blasting for a mine. Completely worthless as far as i know, but unbelievably neat.
OH MY GOD. I have crates and buckests full of all of these. I probably have 200 of each easily and large ones too. I just thought they were cool looking rocks. holy crap. So what to do now? So glad I saw this before I set up my new tile saw and started cutting the damn things in half.
I wish I would find a wild ruby lol. I own a real ruby thats cut, its a $300 ruby and its not even that big, I'd be happy to find something good outside
This was so confusing & I actually feel less likely to recognise precious gemstones if I find them now 🤔😳🤷♀️ Is it just me or does this video jump all over the place?
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@@CaboDaNau well sounds like my state is prime then for them all. I live in Vermont and it's made up nothing but all these minerals you mentioned. My father in-laws back yard sits a base of mountains and hills and they all drain into the river, and the bog. We have the largest and only protected wetlands for migratory birds.
Many of those jagged-looking stones shown in this video are not rubies, but are rhodolite garnets that occur sometimes in alluvial gravels alongside the corundum. Rubies and sapphires have a completely different cleavage and luster. I'm guessing a number of these were screened at the Mason Mountain mine in Franklin, NC, as the garnet looks identical to the ones found there. It is true that many gemstones can be found in granite pegmatites, but corundums are rarely one of them.
And I think the rest of the inaccuracies were covered by Darknimbus3's comments below. With matters of science, accuracy is important.
@@denisweimer8791 I have some uncut garment. I live in Tennessee on North Carolina - Hot Springs side of the mountain. It didn't all come from the same location, or the same day. All did come from the same creek. The stone it was in looked odd and almost perfectly round. I took it to a shop. The lady called the one I took a biscuit. Never have I heard that term before 🤔.
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Ok there is a lot to correct here, particularly in terms of identifying signs for rubies/sapphires.
1) Quartz is not necessarily an indicator! Quartz is almost in every stream. As a matter of fact, in the primary deposit, quartz will not be found with corundum, as corundum forms in silica-poor rocks. This is because any silica will absorb the aluminum to create alumina-silicates like feldspar and mica.
2) Shale is NOT an associate with corundum. Shale is a sedimentary rock. Corundums do not form in sedimentary rock, and if they are found in sedimentary rock it would most likely be a conglomerate. Also that “mica schist” example in 3:20 is not actually schist- it’s a mica bearing pegmatite. Speaking of which….
3) Most pegmatite is also NOT an indicator for corundum. There is sapphire-bearing pegmatite, however that is very VERY rare, and those pegmatites have no quartz. Also most pegmatites, being granitic in nature are silica rich, which goes back to my point #1
4) It’s spelled “gneiss” and “gneisses” respectively. Also it has to be the correct gneiss. Gneiss with quartz = no corundum.
5) 4:05 is spelled “zoisite” and pronounced “zow-uh-site”. Also that green ruby-zoisite is endemic to Tanzania- it’s not found anywhere else in the world. So unless you live in Tanzania, that tip is useless. Elsewhere, you’re more likely to find ruby with fuchsite.
6) 4:21 No (in the vast majority of cases), maybe, and definitely NO. There are very rare volcanics that have corundum xenocrysts, but that is extremely rare. For example, there is basalt bearing sapphire xenocrysts in Burma, and Montana sapphires come as xenocrysts from a lamprophyre. However, other than that, forget about it. Yes, certain marbles may have corundum. This will depend on the temperature and pressure conditions as well as other regional factors. As for granite, granite = quartz-rich, which goes back to point #1. Some syenites or diorites, however may bear corundum. Syenites and diorites look like granites, but are silica-poor and tend to be feldspar-rich.
Thank you for this. The statement at the beginning that rubies can be found in the rivers in a region near me...I guess if in region he means continent...then proceeds to list every classification of rock as an indicator...love it. Time to go find a ruby!
thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, it has helped a lot
@@solverfix Well, if you’re in the USA, then North Carolina is probably your best bet for finding rubies. But even then, you have to look in the correct areas, namely Franklin area. Sapphires may also be found in North Carolina, as well as Montana. In North Carolina, the sapphire is more widespread than the rubies. In fact, remember I mentioned sapphire-bearing pegmatites? Well there happens to be one in Canton County from what is known as the “Old Pressley Mine”. It’s just as I described- lots of feldspar (albite) and muscovite, some other neat minerals like apatite and zircon- but no quartz!
@@CaboDaNau I’m very happy that my knowledge has helped so much. Cheers and good luck with those corundums!
@Darknimbus3 don't be too happy, he probably doesn't mean it. If you look at his other videos, you'll see it's a content spam channel (generic and clickbaity videos). If you look at the video, it all looks like stock footage and snippets from other creators. The text is bland, generic and contain inacuracies you'd expect from chatGPT. The voice-over is probably machine generated (notice how he pronounces Moh three different ways?)
No mention of heat treating sapphires. If X-amount of heat is applied to a sapphire the color usually changes. It also sets that color. A heated sapphire, in, for example, a ring, that has been taken in for repairs, can withstand the heat needed for the repair without changing the color of the sapphire. A non-heat treated sapphire must either be pulled or protected, from the heat needed for the repair or the sapphire will change color. And the owner will be very upset. When you find a sapphire that appears to show a certain color, after heat treating, can become a completely different color. If you choose to not heat treat your finds it is a good idea to tell any jeweler working on it that it is a non-heat treated stone so they know to protect it. There by avoiding an unwanted color change. Sapphires, like diamonds, can take the direct heat of a torch.
I love being by the water. I love finding beautiful colored and shaped rocks. Heart rocks.
My brother was a goldsmith and a client gave him a large glass tube full of tiny rubies as a gift. They were worthless for jewellery but he spilled them out in his glass case and displayed his pieces on them.
Clearly not worthless
I love them under a uv light.
So basically, just find an odd looking beat up gummy bear in streams, rivers, and lakes. Beaches too
that's actually a great way of putting it
On beaches it's dangerous
On beaches its most likely sea glass. Still pretty doe! ✨
@@Elizabeth912-v6oyes there are, all around the world, typically near long ago volcanic activity as is typical of gems in general.
edit: just do a search on gemstone beaches.
@@Elizabeth912-v6oyes beaches. Got an entire one made of agates.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!! My wife and I are getting ready to hit the road and prospect for gold and gems throughout America.
Some rather large & very beautiful Garnets are often found on the River Thames in London. Mudlarkers find them there while searching for other treasures. Its believed these Garnets came from India & Asia possibly as simple Ballast in old ships.
that's what I try to explain in the video, it certainly can't be easy to find rubies and sapphires but it's certainly not impossible, thanks for sharing this information with us
As a kid I found amethysts and citrines in the streams flowing down from the mountain.
"keep an eye out for these 17 minerals in your area and you may find gems" 😵💫
@7:26 For those confused, when he says "hysterism effect", I believe he means asterism or chatoyancy
loved rock hunting when I was a kid. my dad pointed out flint stones to me and I would collect some every time I went out. at some point I had so many I decided to go to the place I found a lot of them and scattered them around so that hopefully someone one day with find them
As a 73 yr old i have spent the last two summers in Montana Grizzly infested back country . Just now i realized the ones i threw back in the creek . Live and learn .
It's a shame my friend, but still I'm sure you have many good stories to tell, thank you for watching our video, and also God bless the people of Montana, a wonderful place.
Well, if you used the internet to your advantage, you would know that Montana is the only state in the US that produces Sapphires and there are fee digs near Helena. I plan to go there with my family next year and then take them back to Washington and cut them into gorgeous gemstones. I'll probably have a some heat treated, which brings out the iconic deep blue coloration, but that's another expense, so I'm only willing to do a handful.
You have to be careful with Mica, as it can be mixed with or along side of Asbestos.
Sadly, where I live, most minerals are not common, as the glaciers ground up the land and left limestone and gypsum behind as well as tons and tons of sand and clay, with huge granite boulders mixed in.
it's pretty interesting know that
@@CaboDaNau Being able to spot one mineral, sometimes other minerals will be present as well. Like Quart and Gold, Lead and Silver, Etc.
You're from Minnesota then?
Idk man I live in Minnesota, just west of the driftless area, where we are also covered with glacial till. I find some seriously cool stuff in the rivers and farm fields around here. Yeah it's all mixed in with the till, but think about this- we got stuff deposited here from all the way up high in canada! You never know what you might find. Fortunately I'm able to combine my rockhounding hobby with other hobbies, like fishing and playing in sand with my kids. We always come home with baggies of rocks we like. I doubt they are worth much money but I enjoy cleaning them up and studying them at home. Someday I hope to start my own quarry business because I love being around rocks and minerals so much haha.
@@HappyWeirdoEmma Ya, same here, but I am in Michigan with everything ground to sand and clay. we have lime and gypsum with copper and gold in the UP.
I have been going to montana for over 10 yrs and mine /hunt the sapphires there..found and had jeweled over 100 cts of various colors purples pinks yellows greens blues its amazing how many colors there are. missouri river is magical
So… i have a question, i am unsure if you would even be able to help me too much, but here it goes: a few years back i found a beautiful stone in a river that glowed like tropical ocean water. I figured that it was an old piece of glass and brought it home. Well, a few years later i decided on a whim to do a few tests to see if it might be some kind of gem, not glass. In these test i used a few acids which refused to react, i did scratch tests (which proved it to be harder than chromium), and the skin (now that i look closely seems to have such a fine grain checker pattern like the ruby sample you showed. The gem is nearly eye-clear aside from the riverworn seeming (might actually be growth skin) outside, with only a couple clearer sections, and a couple teeny tiny dots floating (almost need a lens to see them) Now… here is the kicker… the gem is the size of the entirety of my thumb from the knuckle up… and about the same shape, including the strange dimple bump i have on the pad. And i have decently beefy hands. … very dirty tabblecloth math came out at *roughly 80 carats? (27mmX21mmX16mm) …the tropical blue seems to have angular diachromatism in some places that make the blue arc between deeper tropical ocean blue in the depths and a nearly platinum white at edges. Would you have any clue whatsoever as to what this might be worth, where i would go to safely deal with a company even if just for an appraisal, and possibly how i would find out about local staking/mining laws and such?
Thanks for your comment.
You seem to have some knowledge about this, but it's not that simple, each area has its own mining laws, if you are in the USA, which I don't have any specific knowledge about the laws, but if you don't know, I recommend that you contact jewelers in your area, if possible talk to several jewelers, they will know how to guide you.
another more accurate alternative is to contact a geologist or gemologist in your region.
And of course, before you make a deal, make sure you're getting a fair deal.
Now, if you're interested, we have an e-book on basic gemology at an extremely affordable price, which you can check out at the following link: hotm.art/GemologyJourney
One thought on finding a geologist, maybe start with the closest university?
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1. thanks, sadly most of the jewelers around here are… not exactly trust worthy… or at least the ones you can look up easily (i know there are some smaller specialists, and some master cutters high up the chain, but both of those are Very hard to get in contact with sadly)
2. but the geologist route… i do have an ex college professor that i could try and reach out to. Never thought of that somehow. But thats a very good idea!!
3. Yeah, i didnt know if there was maybe some government site that was well known, or like… possibly some forum with curated links to localized laws and claim making resources haha. So figured i would ask.
Thanks for the link, im always adding yet more books to my collection of physical and digital information archives. I shall take a look when im on pc, not mobile.
I've always enjoyed collecting small stones and minerals near river and creek beds. Now, thanks to this video, i know what to look out for when collecting.
that's cool my friend, glad to hear it, good luck gem hunter
"...including the rivers in the regions where you live" I'm in Florida, dude. Nothing here but limerock, shells and sharksteeth😂 no hard stones😭
Agates….
UV light also helps for opals!
yeah you're rigth
Shhh!!
I have found many types of iron ore, citrine, regular quartz and one or twice pink quartz in Michigan you can apparently also find garnets and amethyst to!
Its funny, I started out hunting for arrowheads, after 40 years I started finding facial effigies on not only flint points, but gemstone, limestone, basalt etc… almost to the piece, the gemstones that I find, have an ancient peoples effigy on it. You can hardly find one that hasnt already been used for an effigy stone… Primitive Rock Art. It opened up a whole new passion for me, and most of them I refrain to cut on.
I have found those in Idaho on the clearwater river
In bc canada here... We got lots of indicators in streams, and ruby although rare is found, and saphires much more common but corundum in general is not known be an industry here, some creeks.. we have lots of garnets, they show up in gold pans and some creeks are named after ruby and garnets, and in a few creeks the garnets are so plenty that you see red sand in the creeks and they are piles of small garnets that collect in spots just like gold and magnetite... Be have lots of basalt ( with lots of peridotite and peridot ), granite and gniess are plenty, not exactly sure on marble though bit the indicators are plenty and on the mighty fraser home of the BC gold rush you will find alot of nephrite jade and it a major industry here.. thinking of looking for gold, jade, and corundum now especially since a place called ruby creek is also in that exact location
If been called a human metal dectector, every time I'm in a new area of never been I'll always find eaither coins jewlery or even metal buttons
Dang, where u live I need to come there lol
Wow cool
I haven’t been that lucky, 1 out of 30 digs is garbage.
I found roman coin 2000 years old and turkie dager 600 years old
Mineralology student here.
This is isnt helpful at all. A lot of the rocks youve mentioned are common rocks. Plus rubies do not form in igneous rocks like the rocks youve mentioned like granite, basalt, and pegmatite.
Usually rubies form in high temperature, high pressure metamorphic rocks rich in aluminosilicates like mica, but mica decomposes easily, so you dont see it that often. Besides "White quartz" is NOT a good indicator mineral becuase it can be found everywhere. Plus, to conform if the ruby is actually a ruby, one would need to do some tests, most likely from a gemologist IF it even looks gem grade. Finding a tumbled shard of red glass isnt a ruby.
Relying on the surrounding rocks in a riverbed isnt enough to determine if it is a ruby or not, since river and their tributaries carry material from all sorts of sources.
if you know so much make your own videos
@@CaboDaNau Nah i would rather not spend time making youtube videos, it takes a lot to monetize one and even more to make a career off it
Lots of mica shist and milky quartz in my yard in Underhill, VT (valley close to Stowe) that comes up when I pull weeds. I have found 3 rocks that I haven't identified. 1 is solid black like an onyx. 2.The other is a half circle shaped opaque with white/ clearish color and areas that are pink to orange, and a pice broke off of it with strange fracture at the broken area. 3. Is a rusty rock with a smooth creamy pink almost like a corral growth on the rock. I have no clue what the 3 rocks are.😊
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I like the narration on this show. He sounds like a businessman or professor.
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Thank you for your work Sir .
In the beginning, when you said "diamonds," that was a Demantoid garnet, much rarer and valuable than diamond.
I know that some videos are just for illustration, and the video editor is not a geologist and can make mistakes, but thanks for watching and commenting. god bless you
Very Nice video!! Very good thank for the video
Garnets can form in regular old granite. They aren't as expensive as rubies or sapphires but, I still found it interesting.
Very informative, well explained, and concise..Great work!!
Im from Upstate NY. Is there more of a chance of me seeing them on the great lakes or a creek.
Yes, I can. Maintenance at my complex dumps piles of rocks to use for foundation, and I find a ton of precious stones. Good times.
I often wondered about this.
It starts at 03:11 😑
sadly
@@myrkwood4741 thank you! I got bored of hearing ‘rubies and saffires’
I have some shiny stones I got in Tennessee that are green with black swirls in the green and one that is light green with patches of darker green in spots and red dots with silver in it.
that's awesome
Thank you your video is educational
Sapphires can be UV reactive but not typically.
Quartz does not have a cleavage.
Garnet's can trick you sometimes too though. I have a rhodolite Garnet that has a bit of a pink hue which makes it much more closely resemble a ruby.
Wow, just wow!❤
❤ thanks ❤
I actually found a pretty big raw ruby crystal in a rock some time ago. I didn't even know, I just liked the color and thought it was just quartz until my grandfather (who works in the gem business) told me.
I have found rubies, but still want to learn more.
also how to better search it since right now I find them by just collecting all potentially good ones by using a sif to get rid of the to fine sands and such. or I use my gold pan and regularly when looking for gold find those rubies on the bottom at some stage, so tend to collect those.
but could be better at recognising them all, and perhaps should take a dremmel with me to look inside of them.
I learnt a lot ❤❤
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ oh how i love those! I use to have so many rocks that i collected
There a crapton of jade, garnets, quartz in rivers i regularly camp at. Like so much jade that you could fill a wheel barrow in a few hours, the quality is too low for jewelry though but whould absolutely make nice decorations if one had expensive stone carving and cutting stuff. I bet even more precious stones too, but also low quality
My first time going to a mine in SC, I was walking toward the entrance with my son and all of sudden I see , this red stone . “Look at that” I said. So I pick up this red stone the size of a Vicks cough drop. . Yes, it was cherry flavor Vicks cough drop. 😂
I used to break rocks in my grandparents backyard and i remember breaking one and thinking i found some shiny peanut butter looking stuff. No idea what I found or where it went but i remember 😮
😀This day i found a emerald in my garden it 50%quart and 50% emerald because is grenn is normal to have some quart on it because i make test and im happy i found is a little bit damage but still a real emeral how rare is to find this gem stone?
Interesting, I think I will stick to buying my gemstones for my products. As they are graded and certified. But I did learn its something that takes up more time than I have.
Near where I live you can easily find agates just walking along the beach.
I used to live up north. I wish i was into panning and stuff back then. I live south now where things can be found at just the north of the state. I would have went crazy in PA.
As a kid I used to find such stones but my family would laugh at me for saying its precious & would make me throw them back
Bet that means you also passed up a couple of semi precious gemstone boulders that could go for a couple hundred if not 1k+ a piece. Make no mistake, that smooth dark green boulder sitting amongst a bunch of grey jagged rocks looks very different for a reason!
I have a question. So when you find a ruby, the only way to know it's high quality is when you polish it and it shines bright and nice? If not, then it's a low quality? So I really have to polish them to know?
Cool stuff, dude!
appreciate buddy bless you
I love picking preety rocks..inwish i could find gemstones. In a beach i went 2hrs from my hometown the beach/sand was actually gold. Would it be it has gold dust or what?????
how can i easily differntciate between glass and gems?
So I live in East Saint Louis, which is in southern Illinois, I live like 30 minutes from the Mississippi. I was wondering what type of rock I could find around there. Would there be rubies or sapphires? Also could you identify this rock: it looks like metal and is cold like it, but it has no sign of oxidation but has signs of weathering.
Never knew this, thank you. I'll definitely be on the lookout now. God bless. Jesus loves you!
I live near the Atlantic coast in Florida. What are the chances of finding any valuable stones (outside of pirate booty) on the shore, washed up by the waves, or by poking around in the surf? Thanks!
I use to find garnets in a particular creek in the northwest mountains of Colorado but they were very small and a rare find was a little bit of amathist near a mine and another rock that may have been quartz but it had an light icy green tint to it. The other interesting thing was a mica mine near the top of an old logging road.
What an incredible story, it's amazing to know that you had the opportunity to explore the beauties of nature, thank you for sharing your story with us.
no i cant but im getting better...i habe some werid rocks...my favorite are sandstine with bone and crab claw fragments shell fragments
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Stones that are good for you; if big enough; they are good right through the computer screen.
Like quartz. Let's hear it for quartz....making screens....screen!
Thanks for the tips! We live in Arizona. We love to explore, camp and off-road. Any advice on what to look for in Arizona, Colorado or Utah?
Did I get a hint that Dan is in this video? He licks rocks! Love his channel.
I'm in central Utah bay-BEE!! We got the GOODS!
you're a lucky person
@@CaboDaNau one of the luckiest
Thank u brother for the information 👍
Great info.. thank you 🙏🏼🌹🌿
Thank you for this video.
Sapphires actually do fluoresc under a black UV light just like rubies
Very nice brother!
Awesome video ❤
Good info thanks for sharing this information with us
i appreciate buddy thanks
I find it seriously hard to believe these are a easy to find as you say they are.
@CaboDaNau
you did say in many river around the world but does this apply also to the Netherlands that not have mountains or other great different rock formations.
THANK YOU SIR VERY INFORMATIVE VIDEO
Thank you my bro! Subbed for sure😊
New Subscriber. Keep the videos coming
i'm glad you're here welcome
@@CaboDaNau glad to be here
Not quite the 2nd hardest gem material, moissanite takes that one pretty sure.
Still great video 😊
appreciate
I have found an opaque stone that when I put a light it changes color from white to yellow to red yellow. I wish to know what kind of stone it is..
Southern ontario canada ? Can these be found?
One time I went to a mountain type area there was a river flowing right between the mountains, I knew very little about geology then I started searching for gemstones I searched for about an hour but had no luck or rather my technique was off
Sometimes it's the location, it's harder at first, but if you look around you might find something interesting sooner or later.
Thank you!
All of these signs that are the perfect recipe for finding gems is where I live but we've only ever looked for gold...I know I'm doing this spring 🤑🤑🤑
I find lots of quartz and other milky stones, some are more transparent than others
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Do you have a message box to send photos to for examination
What gems grow near Smokey quartz and red shell
Too many gems in our river, but we haven't recognized them!! It's just a shiny stone twinkling in the light reflection.
Great video even for someone with a great knowledge of gems I learned something here
do you have a flashlight you preffer ? im from germany and stones and gems intresstest me my howl life but i didnt start with this hobby, but i really want start with it, would be nice if i can get some help what i need to find some gems or nice looking stones :)
How to send a picture I have 1 piece from Philippines
Amazing, thanks for sharing
I got this transparent white rock I found near the river. It looks cool so I wish to polish it.
Get out there and RockHound people! Keep it legal, keep it safe, respect the environment, and have FUN. There's treasure everywhere, and not all of it is worth something. My favorite specimen is a quartz crystal that became trapped in silver slag during blasting for a mine. Completely worthless as far as i know, but unbelievably neat.
Geology is a great class. I wish I would have paid more attention in school. The 70s was a crazy time to be in school. A huge waist of time.
it's pretty interesting know that
You think the 70s was a crazy time to be in school, wait till you get a load of today’s times 😂😂😂
Waste
OH MY GOD. I have crates and buckests full of all of these. I probably have 200 of each easily and large ones too. I just thought they were cool looking rocks. holy crap. So what to do now? So glad I saw this before I set up my new tile saw and started cutting the damn things in half.
Thank you. 😊
I wish I would find a wild ruby lol. I own a real ruby thats cut, its a $300 ruby and its not even that big, I'd be happy to find something good outside
This was so confusing & I actually feel less likely to recognise precious gemstones if I find them now 🤔😳🤷♀️ Is it just me or does this video jump all over the place?