Great job on this one Miner! I love it! You showcased the variety found in Norland, Shadow Lake area well! It has been much overlooked for sure and so close to the city, a day trip!
I was saving the footage to combine with my next visit, which of course didn't happen. Thanks for taking me out and showing Daisy and I around. Will do it again next year for sure.
We live in a highly metamorphosed area and there are several Mica mines in the area. Still find some large sheets of mica there. Very important in the early days of electric circuits. Cool finds!
Awesome adventure wow a beautiful area along the road fantastic samples and a fantastic variety some beautiful pieces you got awesome and daisy great to see her awesome thank u be safe
Dude! That's so pretty! Kinda like we say...... Dats so pruddy! 😂 I love amazonite, I have orange and green, dark green, and light green. The light green is high grade from Colorado, self collected. Dude you found some beautiful stuff. I hope you have a real gemmy day.
That was a fun side trip. I really like amazonite, I usually try to get worry stones made from amazonite and plan to try making my own some day. Daisy looked good and greetings to the family !!
Worth the wait! Man if I didn't love it here on the south shore so much, I'd have to head up Norther. Little streak of jealous here ☺. At least I have the glacier pushings scraped down and washed in!
Amazingite! No your own mineral hound, bless the Daisy dog, felt sorry for her panting away. Literally orgasmic area for exploration, would love seeing inside that vug and she was finding gem grade material , what a dream. Can you give her my address lol, sledge hammer and me , reluctantly done but justified, I would have hauled that rock out for you buddy, I'm not a big man but lifting and carrying has been a big part of my life, not so much now though. Looking forward for the etching project.
meMiner Cool, she is a great dog and you are a very good owner, you two have a great bond and it's nice seeing that you both care for each other, but you must not forget you have a wife. lol 😂
MeMiner, I sure wish I had your expertise to help identify a ton of specimens I have. I'm positive I have correctly identified numerous minerals but other minerals are difficult from pictures or even video in comparison to the specimens I have. Having hands on experience with someone with more knowledge would be fantastic.
DigDigDig it depends on its formation. If it is in crystal form it is fine. If it is broken up and fibrous yes. I say Tremolite is to asbestos like diamonds are to coal dust. Don’t snort it 🥴
The pegmatite extends into the forest on both sides of the road (private property). For sure there was some blasting for the highway. There was also blasting for exploratory pits. I suspect they were looking for either galena or gold.
In Ontario: You need permission on private land, native land or parks. On crown land, you can usually rockhound anywhere there isn't a valid mineral claim.
Thank you very much for the reply. I'm a us vet who moved up here to southern Ontario chasing my now wife lol. I'm still just unsure of different laws between the governments. I dont want to go out there and do anything wrong or trespass or give any other people hunting rocks and such a bad name. Thanks again
Nice finds, meMiner. Any not red Feldspar could be called Amazonite. Pegmatite and Feldspar fits, never Tremolite. Tremolite may develop in contact with Pegmatite, depends on older (mother rocks). These female expert should sell your Tremolite crystal to Smithsonian Institute and get the us $$$ or Cad $$. Or a LOL. A good replay is also from meterioriter 164
Hi Greig, that piece that you are holding at the 9:24 point of the video is identical to a few pieces I collected this summer while on my bike ride , could you tell me what mineral it is ? Another awesome video and I'm looking forward to your next one .
@@meMiner that's some nice quartz we have there , I found a few nice pieces in a road cut just west of Bancroft . I'm going to get them out and admire them a little more , Thsnks for the education my friend . Lloyd.
@@meMiner Thanks, it seems I have a deep-rooted complex towards tremolite, I can spend hours, I mean hours, looking for that transparent one, btw often described in rock-hound literature of the past (large and transparent...you probably read those accounts), the ones you dig under tree roots near Grace Lake, never found one though of the proportions described...it is perhaps how determined or persistent, depleted by previous rockhounds, or pure lucky one is! Don't know which! You might be able to answer which....It's not just asbestos, after all, in my opinion...little know fact, under further pressure and folding it literally is a precursor to jadeite..what I couldn't understand, is that, it appears that no digging was ever undertaken under most trees at the Grace Lake site that is, why over-digging under some and not others is quite mysterious to me...any explanation?
My pockets be full lol... We had fun with quartz and feildspar this summer on the Almaguin highlands area road cuts... Burks falls to North Bay has new blasting area for new highways that went threw... Are you still in British Columbia I loved all the mountains out there hiked up a few beautiful Canada
I am back home from BC. I was up a couple of times last month near North Bay, but it has been a while since I stopped along HWY 11. I never found much, but it looks so good in Burks Falls and Trout Creek.
@@meMiner it definitely does the rock folding is beautiful going into burks falls but it's not really safe to stop there... Lots of quartz we found some smoky quartz with red or pink colors in it?? Very pretty stuff nothing spectacular but we found some stone for gardens and fire place area not smooth but interesting rock...
@@meMiner did you drive out to British Columbia or fly? There's an interesting spot in Saskatchewan I guess it be the northern route... There's a huge valley that comes from nowhere in the prairies it looks like it used to be a huge river but there was nothing flowing at all... I was wondering what this was all about its huge and beautifuly different from the flat prairie... Do you know anything about this? I found it very interesting driving by it... Northern sask isn't very flat the more north you go the more rocky it gets
@@meMiner on July 24 2000 coming back from a trip to the coast when the engine in my newly acquired Volvo 240 I picked it up at the repair shop the day I left died (the mechanic cracked the fuel line) and I lost power steering and brakes on highway 1 at the tightest hairpin turn and my 240 Volvo tumbled over and over I woke up hanging by my seatbelt after a few minutes I had to squeeze and crawl my way out I didn't realize until over 24hrs later I had crawled through a hillside carpeted with a reddish poison oak the leaves were very shiny with oil (damn it) I had it BADDDD 😢😭😭😫😱 and I got a secondary infection to top everything off any embarrassment went out the window at the Dr's office. SUCH A NIGHTMARE!!!
Hey listen to me, watch Zing on you tube, watch her collect amazing shells n rocks. Check out her videos, somewhere in China ? The stones she walks past as she hunting real interesting items of shells to fish. I love it, not only like it, Wow
Thank you for taking us along on your roadside adventure. Your edutainment is much appreciated.
Ah, the wonders often held by the humble roadcut. Thank You.
Nice looking Crystals the colors are cool and taking that calcite off to expose the matrix of crystals really excellent Mr.MeMiner!!!; )
Awesome, you teach everywhere you go!
It is appreciated by those around you.
I do like that pink feldspar and blue amazonite together. So pretty!
Great job on this one Miner! I love it! You showcased the variety found in Norland, Shadow Lake area well! It has been much overlooked for sure and so close to the city, a day trip!
I was saving the footage to combine with my next visit, which of course didn't happen. Thanks for taking me out and showing Daisy and I around. Will do it again next year for sure.
I really enjoy your videos. I learn something every time I watch. 👍
What a fantastic place to visit..You guys are spoiled for variety of specimens over there..Thanks for taking us along once again..
Such pretty rocks! Just amazing! Thanks for sharing.
We live in a highly metamorphosed area and there are several Mica mines in the area. Still find some large sheets of mica there. Very important in the early days of electric circuits. Cool finds!
Sometimes, there is great collecting at those old mica mines for other crystals too.
@@meMiner lots of good mica schist, some quite spectacular and showy. Biotite and feldspar. Early colonial gold mining area too.
Awwwww ty for taking me along.
Thanks for joining us.
Had no idea the sorta finds that exist in my neck o' the woods! Very cool.
What a score! And so close by. Shaking my head here. Just amazing.
Lisa was the hero. She showed me around. ;-)
Cool roadside finds, thanks for the video, all the best.
Awesome adventure wow a beautiful area along the road fantastic samples and a fantastic variety some beautiful pieces you got awesome and daisy great to see her awesome thank u be safe
Thanks much
Dude! That's so pretty! Kinda like we say...... Dats so pruddy! 😂
I love amazonite, I have orange and green, dark green, and light green. The light green is high grade from Colorado, self collected. Dude you found some beautiful stuff. I hope you have a real gemmy day.
A gemmy day. LOL
You too, my friend
Thanks for taking us along. Davin
Another nice time minus the poison ivy. Good seeing miss Daisy again. Looked like she found some water at one point in the video. Thanks again sir.
Daisy can find water on a hot day. She puts her nose into the air to sniff it out and disappears for a short while.
Very nice video. Enjoyed it. Thank you.
That was a fun side trip. I really like amazonite, I usually try to get worry stones made from amazonite and plan to try making my own some day. Daisy looked good and greetings to the family !!
Worth the wait! Man if I didn't love it here on the south shore so much, I'd have to head up Norther. Little streak of jealous here ☺. At least I have the glacier pushings scraped down and washed in!
Nice rocks and spacey music. This must be your summer place.
Not my summer place. I was just visiting.
Lots of collectibles. Enjoyed watching 👍
Thanks for dropping by
Enjoyed watching and some nice finds. Good luck, happy hunting and take care.
OH MAN I thought you were going to grab that live poison ivy haha😆 scared me
Poison Ivy is not my friend.
Hi Daisy!!!
Hi meMi..........wow! Look at that one! (Off she goes for her Audubon book for rock identification!)
Yes please etch that out.. enjoyed the show !
Amazingite! No your own mineral hound, bless the Daisy dog, felt sorry for her panting away.
Literally orgasmic area for exploration, would love seeing inside that vug and she was finding gem grade material , what a dream.
Can you give her my address lol, sledge hammer and me , reluctantly done but justified, I would have hauled that rock out for you buddy, I'm not a big man but lifting and carrying has been a big part of my life, not so much now though.
Looking forward for the etching project.
Daisy had a good day. Later we went for a canoe ride and she got to explore without more running. ;-)
meMiner
Cool, she is a great dog and you are a very good owner, you two have a great bond and it's nice seeing that you both care for each other, but you must not forget you have a wife. lol 😂
Happy new jaar. 2021 A lot of blessing and happynis
Happy New Year
Nice rockhounding !!!!!
It was a good day lisa put together
Bill McQueen you guys made it though ❤️
beautiful job I'm super fa
Kiis my dear
You always leave such nice comments. Thanks for visiting again.
That 🕷 make me jump 🤣
Very nice, I really need to get my butt out crystal hunting again 😄
Yes. Do it. ;-)
Loved this! Thank you and happy new year!!
Thanks for the kind works and Happy New Year to you too
MeMiner, I sure wish I had your expertise to help identify a ton of specimens I have. I'm positive I have correctly identified numerous minerals but other minerals are difficult from pictures or even video in comparison to the specimens I have. Having hands on experience with someone with more knowledge would be fantastic.
I make mistakes all the time. Part of the fun.
Sounds real close to highway .
Ya. Like right in the ditch for some of it. ;-)
Wow lucky finds ❤️✌🏻😊
would love to see an update of before and after pictures when they are a finished product :)
That's the plan!
Hey how do you know where to look for this stuff? Have you ever gone close to the ring of fire near Hudson Bay? Great video btw
I have been up there to go fishing, but before I was into rocks. It would be a great trip sometime with rocks in mind.
I assume the tremolite is known at that location. I would have a hard time identifying the difference between it and a couple of other amphiboles.
Pretty piece o cake.
I find tremolite at a quarry down here but I rarely keep it, isn't it asbestos?
DigDigDig it depends on its formation. If it is in crystal form it is fine. If it is broken up and fibrous yes. I say Tremolite is to asbestos like diamonds are to coal dust. Don’t snort it 🥴
Greg, this was cool thank you, God's creation is awesome isn't it!
Nature is amazing.
We're covered in Snow, And it's horrible to wait wait wait wait till Spring
The snow has melted where I live. It will be back soon.
Are you ever tempted to buy the land/lot of rocks, like I am right now ?
I thought about it a couple of times. There was one property that I really wanted, but was out of reach (expensive). I still think about it.
Back for a victory lap. Hey from my clan to yours.
Nice finds. And on the side of the road. That must have been blasted at some point. Or brought in for fill?
The pegmatite extends into the forest on both sides of the road (private property). For sure there was some blasting for the highway. There was also blasting for exploratory pits. I suspect they were looking for either galena or gold.
@@meMiner Why would they be looking for galena?
@@rodwhite9737 Galena is a source of silver and lead.
so, we can just go out and look for cool stuff on general use crown land and stuff?
In Ontario: You need permission on private land, native land or parks. On crown land, you can usually rockhound anywhere there isn't a valid mineral claim.
Thank you very much for the reply. I'm a us vet who moved up here to southern Ontario chasing my now wife lol. I'm still just unsure of different laws between the governments. I dont want to go out there and do anything wrong or trespass or give any other people hunting rocks and such a bad name. Thanks again
“Ok I think I have enough.” .....Said no rockhound ever without picking up another one. 😉
LOL. Very true
real cool great vid
Thanks Kevin
That was amazing!
Nice finds, meMiner. Any not red Feldspar could be called Amazonite. Pegmatite and Feldspar fits, never
Tremolite. Tremolite may develop in contact with Pegmatite, depends on older (mother rocks). These
female expert should sell your Tremolite crystal to Smithsonian Institute and get the us $$$ or Cad $$.
Or a LOL. A good replay is also from meterioriter 164
0:06 - no, you're right beside a Staghorn Sumac LOL!
LOL
Love the video, but what's this scary theme song?
Scary?
Hi Greig, that piece that you are holding at the 9:24 point of the video is identical to a few pieces I collected this summer while on my bike ride , could you tell me what mineral it is ? Another awesome video and I'm looking forward to your next one .
quartz, almost smokey
@@meMiner that's some nice quartz we have there , I found a few nice pieces in a road cut just west of Bancroft . I'm going to get them out and admire them a little more , Thsnks for the education my friend . Lloyd.
highenergyog there is more at that location and some is very clear, as well some is very dark Smokey.
I'll definitely have to make my way up there next spring or summer to do a little more rockhounding
Very nice spot
A cool spot. You would not believe how often I drove by it going to other places. ;-)
There now everybody is famous.
Great name! And yes, we all want to go on a rock hounding trip with MeMiner!
We had a good day together.
I'm a little bit certain that the orange into the blue of the amazonite is called a perthitic exsolution. Like, %30 sure....
I will look it up. Thanks
Nice one, sir👍
thanks
👍🏼 💎
How does that Tremolite do in a rock polisher?
I don't think the fibrous bladed tremolite would tumble well.
@@meMiner I didn't think so, but I had to ask an expert. Thank you.
You found much better Amazonite
Ah, that elusive large transparent tremolite crystal, it seems it just won't happen! Was this taken in the days of summer? Cheers
This was from the summer. I had taken some video but wind and highway noise made it difficult to edit, so I saved it for when I had a bit more time.
@@meMiner Thanks, it seems I have a deep-rooted complex towards tremolite, I can spend hours, I mean hours, looking for that transparent one, btw often described in rock-hound literature of the past (large and transparent...you probably read those accounts), the ones you dig under tree roots near Grace Lake, never found one though of the proportions described...it is perhaps how determined or persistent, depleted by previous rockhounds, or pure lucky one is! Don't know which! You might be able to answer which....It's not just asbestos, after all, in my opinion...little know fact, under further pressure and folding it literally is a precursor to jadeite..what I couldn't understand, is that, it appears that no digging was ever undertaken under most trees at the Grace Lake site that is, why over-digging under some and not others is quite mysterious to me...any explanation?
Very beautiful...
My pockets be full lol... We had fun with quartz and feildspar this summer on the Almaguin highlands area road cuts... Burks falls to North Bay has new blasting area for new highways that went threw... Are you still in British Columbia I loved all the mountains out there hiked up a few beautiful Canada
I am back home from BC. I was up a couple of times last month near North Bay, but it has been a while since I stopped along HWY 11. I never found much, but it looks so good in Burks Falls and Trout Creek.
@@meMiner it definitely does the rock folding is beautiful going into burks falls but it's not really safe to stop there... Lots of quartz we found some smoky quartz with red or pink colors in it?? Very pretty stuff nothing spectacular but we found some stone for gardens and fire place area not smooth but interesting rock...
@@wildedibles819 Red stain on quartz is usually hematite. If it is in the crystal, it is tending towards rose quartz. Garden rock is always nice.
@@meMiner did you drive out to British Columbia or fly? There's an interesting spot in Saskatchewan I guess it be the northern route... There's a huge valley that comes from nowhere in the prairies it looks like it used to be a huge river but there was nothing flowing at all... I was wondering what this was all about its huge and beautifuly different from the flat prairie... Do you know anything about this? I found it very interesting driving by it... Northern sask isn't very flat the more north you go the more rocky it gets
Sir jest one request please make a video only rough daimand stons please
I learned a lot from watching your videos I also posted a video of something I found but I don't know how to tell you to find it I think it's gold
Love the video ... better without the music though, prefer to hear the natural noises of nature . 😀
I had to do something. Wind and highway noise were awful
meMiner , aw that’s ok, I understand. 👍
I saw that poison ivy!
Do you not believe in a rock hammer, screw drivers, picks, Geez your driving me nuts
Terri Ann Bluejacket 😆
Now that's pretty
Howdy!
Hey Leann. Thanks for dropping by
@@meMiner beautiful rocks. Hope you etch the one rock. It would interesting to see if it stayed together.
✌️👏👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌷
It looks like you're going to be itching for a while I had a very very bad experience with poison oak it SUCKED
I have had poison ivy head to toe and all parts you don't want it in-between. I hate the stuff. ;-)
@@meMiner on July 24 2000 coming back from a trip to the coast when the engine in my newly acquired Volvo 240 I picked it up at the repair shop the day I left died (the mechanic cracked the fuel line) and I lost power steering and brakes on highway 1 at the tightest hairpin turn and my 240 Volvo tumbled over and over I woke up hanging by my seatbelt after a few minutes I had to squeeze and crawl my way out I didn't realize until over 24hrs later I had crawled through a hillside carpeted with a reddish poison oak the leaves were very shiny with oil (damn it) I had it BADDDD 😢😭😭😫😱 and I got a secondary infection to top everything off any embarrassment went out the window at the Dr's office.
SUCH A NIGHTMARE!!!
Hey listen to me, watch Zing on you tube, watch her collect amazing shells n rocks. Check out her videos, somewhere in China ? The stones she walks past as she hunting real interesting items of shells to fish. I love it, not only like it, Wow
2 pot plants hahahaha