Rare Binghamite Find in Minnesota
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 พ.ค. 2023
- Thomas from 99 Rockhounding and I head to the Cuyuna Iron Range to search for Binghamite and other fun stuff.
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Welcome to MN! We're glad you're here!
I'm not there anymore, but I had fun when I was. Thanks for the welcome.
Isn’t it amazing how many different colors of rocks there is all over the United States! Good searching!
Even just in Michigan, the variety is amazing.
Very cool video! I love walking through new areas to explore and rockhound. It looked like a workout in places and well worth the view! Thanks Rob and Thomas for sharing!
Mostly we were going up and down the hills slowly, so it wasn't bad.
Cuyuna has some very interesting minerals, including some unique to that iron range. I have an idea what some of your "mystery" rocks were, but as always would have to see them in person to know for sure. If you go to our old friend Mindat, they have a pretty good explanation of Binghamite and the Cuyuna Range in general.
I'll go check that out and put a link in the description. Thanks, Paul.
www.mindat.org/min-7622.html
I dragged a bunch of quartz home from that area because I didn’t know what to look for. After tumbling even the white slabs of quartz have beautiful shiny patches of yellow binghamite and shiny black veins. I love this rock! I learned about it on your channel. I only live an hour away.
Excellent work. Good camera editing. Minnesota boy myself too. Good luck. "Don't disappoint me." "Look harder for them. "Brilliant comeback Thomas 👏
He's pretty quick with the zingers. I like that about him.
I love those birch forests.
Me too!
I love it when you and Thomas collaborate ❤
That was a huge contrast to Michigan rocks. So I take it the hills were generated from expelled or unusable iron ore similar rock. Glad you finally found some to bring back to tumble. Very interested to see those results. The slabs came out nice.
Yes. The Keweenaw Peninsula has a lot of mine tailings piles similar to this, but with copper related minerals.
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: That was an amazing experience! Binghamite is new to me....never heard of it before. Would love to see finished results of a worked piece of this stone. Beautiful scenery... interesting geology...good company! Another fascinating video! Thanks for taking me along!
Here's some that Thomas tumbled. th-cam.com/video/cm_6WdbPuFc/w-d-xo.html
That's right, it's a nocluelike. The the birch trees take me back to the 60s in the mitten. Happy Holiday Weekend Rob.
I love a whole woods of birches like that.
Interesting rocks 🪨
That's a beautiful spot.
Sure is.
What a great day! You guys both found some really cool rocks. The area was very beautiful. 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
It sure was beautiful, especially since it was an old mine.
Very cool. That's a new stone to me as a lifelong Minnesotan. "When arranged in parallel lines, its called silkstone". Another stone on my list to learn about and maybe find :)
What beautiful views there too.
I just put a link in the description about Binghamite. Silkstone and Minnesota Tiger's eye are closely related or possibly variations of the same thing.
I am loving all of these collaboration videos! I already subscribe to Thomas' channel and I very much enjoy it. I love exploring right along with you!
Thomas has some really great videos.
Very interesting and different
I love quartz! So many variations and beautiful bands all across the world.
Looking for specific agate is somehow nerve racking for me. 😂
Thank You & Thomas for showing the beautiful stones of Minnesota 💖
This video brought back many memories of picking both copper & iron mine rock piles in the U.P.
Yes, it's very similar. I've done that too.
So nice to see Thomas again!! You make a great team and I like how you are trying different areas very interesting thank you for sharing 😍
When I got to 100,000 subscribers, I asked people for suggestions for my videos. I think the most common one was to travel more. Since I asked, I figured I should listen. That's what prompted this trip.
Hell yeah Minnesota Rocks!!
I think the first rule for mine tailings is to not get your hopes too high. That hill must have been picked over countless times. But I'm glad you found something to put into the bucket.
That's true. I wonder if we would have been better off digging a hole. I didn't see much evidence of people doing that. The second place we went had much looser rocks, so every step we took rearranged them a bit.
Neat. I have never heard of it before. You needed the hand truck again for that big rock with the crystals.
And a Jeep that's not chock full of camping stuff.
Looks like the trip was well worth it!! Thanks for sharing Rob!! Neato!!! Have a Fun Memorial Weekend!! 🤗♥️🙏🏼
Yep, it was. There's much more of this trip to come, too.
@@MichiganRocks OK ! Cool !!!!! I'll watch for it!! I am still amazed how beautiful it was there and e color of the water was gorgeous!!! I hope you have Super Weather like MN is having this weekend!! Low humidity and around 80 degrees!!!! 👍🤗🤗
@@kimfrommn7162 I got back a week ago. It rained for four days after I left Minnesota, but I was still able to get videos every day. The rest of the trip after that I had good weather though.
Omg so steep!! Amazing scenery!!
Really enjoy Thomas's videos too
You guys have much a good time together!
I enjoy Thomas's company.
Great video ! I like that you travel to different states . So many amazing rocks. ❤
It's expensive to travel to other states just to make videos, but I'm trying to make it work. I just got back from a trip to some southern states and I hope to take at least one trip a year to add some variety to my videos. It's nice of you to let me know you appreciate it.
I've never found these. Intriguing. Thnx Rob & Thomas
So summertime 🎉
Learned a new rock today…Thanks…Can’t wait to see what you do with all the rocks you have collected on your travels. So much fun!
There will be videos, but it's going to take awhile.
@@MichiganRocks I get it, I have some of my finds that have been sitting in my garage for over a year waiting for me to get to them.
That stuff slices beautiful
Just learned something new.
Great!
11 wonderful slabs!!
Oh nice! I was wondering if we would see Thomas. His channel is where I first heard about this stone
He should have a couple new videos out soon. I was there when he recorded them.
Can’t wait to see these tumbled!!
Love when you join up with other rockhounds. Thomas's tumbling skills are awesome. Lol, some guy from Michigan taught him! 😅
Those Michigan guys know how to tumble!
Interesting rocks and minerals!👍👍Great bonus view from up top too.
Yes, it's beautiful from up there. The drone shots came out good too, I thought.
@@MichiganRocks The drone shots are cool too. Just wanted to give credit for billy goat'n up there👍👍
That’s a cool looking rock! Thomas has a great spot for that.
That is some very cool stuff
the way it crystallizes is interesting ......
Really cool place to hunt.
So many pretties.
Such a beautiful spot.
Oh and you also taught me how to tumble too 😊😊😊😊
And you learned well!
@@MichiganRocks I always tell people who want to learn to tumble, to go watch your videos.
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@@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976 Thanks, Nicola!
Would it polish on the cab machine?
You first!!!!!
Binghamite? Yes, I think it would. Thomas made a couple cabs from it when he visited my place a few years ago.
Good luck my friend😍😍😍
I have a couple of pieces of Binghamite. Thanks to Thomas I had to get some. It's pretty rock. That kinda reminds me of the Hibbing area. That area is neat. I enjoyed seeing the open pits. Can't wait to see you tumble some of that, Rob. The slabs are cool. Think that is the only place to find Binghamite in Minnesota.
The Cuyuna range is the only place in the world to find it. I stayed at my sister's house near Hibbing a couple nights before making this video. She lives near Nashwauk.
I’ve never heard of Binghamite before. Cool stuff !
Can't wait to see binghamite polished!
Thomas has tumbled some and probably better material since he lives close and can spend more time collecting higher quality pieces. th-cam.com/video/cm_6WdbPuFc/w-d-xo.html
That water was amazing! It looked so beautiful! There is so much rock to look at, i don't know how you can possibly find anything there! But great video! And good finds!
I was having a little trouble focusing to be honest.
Sweet! 🎉❤
We have a few pits that were previously rock quarries around here too. Some of them were dug out until they hit the water table. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case there as well.
I really don't know much more than what Thomas said on the video. Seems like it would have been a lot of water to pump out.
Good stuff. Somehow I ended up following you around. I was just on the north shore looking for agates. The day this video came out I rolled into Crosby to look for binghamite and ride my mountain bike until my legs fall off. I hope I can find a few goodies.
Are you headed to Montana next? That's where my next stop was.
@@MichiganRocks Sadly no. One more stop in Minnesota then we start working our way home to the Detroit area. Maybe Montana will be next year!
@@debs_wheels Hey, at least you got to Minnesota. Nothing wrong with that!
Great video! Quite an adventure...
That was a fun place. Something different than what I usually do.
Love birch trees. So beautiful. The view from the top of the hill is fantastic. Binghamite is something new to me. What do you do with this rock?
Thomas has tumbled it. He also made a couple cabs of it at my house a couple years ago.
'No clueite' :D I'm gonna start using that. Thanks for the video! I can't wait to see your pieces once you tumbled them!
I haven't trademarked that yet, so go right ahead.
Love your channel❤
Thanks!
If you love that boulder valley, you should visit New Hampshire - we have lots of those! Really pretty finds in this one.
Maybe I will. I do love big boulders.
Thanks
Thanks for this unique vid. Good to see a bit of the MN iron range. Had never heard of Binghamite. Slabs were interesting. Show us a polished piece if it’s convenient. Btw did you make it to the Beaver Bay Agate Shop and Museum? Some truly awesome finds there.
I'll be tumbling this stuff in the future, but I'm not sure when. I brought a lot of stuff back from my trip.
I did get to the museum/rock shop at Beaver Bay. The specimens in that museum were jaw dropping.
Great video. Can’t wait to see some of them tumbled or polished.
My daughter and I are headed out for another river hunt tomorrow. Gonna spend some more time in the river this time.
Good luck, you did well last time. You must live pretty close to the Cuyuna range since it's also in Central Minnesota.
@@MichiganRocks
Cuyuna would be about 90 minutes away from me. It would be about 45 min away from where I’m headed for agate hunting today.
Unfortunately I live in an area with nothing but powdery sand soil for about 45 minutes in every direction. I have to travel a min of 45 minutes to find any rocks in the soil. Even the rivers and creeks near me are mostly sandy beds.
@@10Agates Oh, that surprises me. I figured that all of Central Minnesota would be good agate hunting. Shows how much this Michigander knows!
I love rock hunting
I’m hoping to see some Binghamite when it is tambled, looks interesting rock.
I haven't tumbled those yet but I'll probably do a video when I have some done.
What’s that…?
“A Rock”…Lol
Nice video… 🪨🪨🪨 21:17
I love hunting mine dumps. The striped ones looks so much like Kona Dolomite that I pick up in Marquette. I tumble it but does wear down quickly since its its on the soft side.
Sure have some neat finds
I guess it looks a little like Kona dolomite. Kona is much more pink though if you get the good stuff.
@Michigan Rocks I was thinking more like Moose blood colored Kona. But yes, Kona comes in so many colors. I have from light pink and yellow to deep burgundy. I love going to the quarry and pick around there for Kona and to see what else might pop up.
@@velmamunoz3263 I've only been there once, but I came home with a lot of rock.
That's so cool! It's really close to my home! Beautiful agates! 😊
Oh, cool. We spent the next day on a river.
@@MichiganRocks The crow wing river, or Mississippi River?
@@lisamills-wv6nc I am not at liberty to say what river we were on. Thomas likes to keep his spots a little more secret. Maybe you'll be able to tell when you see the video.
@@MichiganRocks Completely understandable! 😊
It’s nice to see Thomas! Will he be posting a new video soon? He hasn’t posted in 3 months😢. Great video!
He recorded two while I was with him, so yes. I don't know exactly when, though.
It takes a while for me to see the colors. It's not just rock color😂 adjusted the brightness on this end. Happy Birches
Rob, can you show how any of these tumbled up? Curious to see how they look ❤
I will someday, but I came home from this trip with a LOT of rocks. It will take me at least a year to get them tumbled and I haven't even started yet. I just got home a week ago.
You are such a lurker! Tell me the truth, you love Minnesota, don't you?😂I'm glad you woke the Sleeping Thomas. Thanks for sharing your adventure. That was quite a hike.
Lurking around Minnesota?
@@MichiganRocks yes.
Oh joy! A twofer! Thomas, sadly hasn't posted much lately.
That's what he said. Maybe this will get him back into the swing of things.
Were all these spots on the way to/from Yellowstone?
Good to see Thomas and the goodies you found. Love dendrites. TFS ❤️🎸🏏
Yes. I left for Montana two days after making this video. I have a lot of videos from that trip and it'll take awhile to get them all edited and posted on TH-cam. I plan to do two a week until they're all out.
@@MichiganRocks Groovy
I might be around this area
I think the "Noclueite" lumpy guy... Was slag!
In search of Fordite…..really colorful cool.
Yep, that's fun stuff.
🙋♀️❤ Jeepers! So steep and Dangerous!
Not all that dangerous. We were careful.
Actually Depends on type , there Are Finds in Multiple River Systesm East , Moutain Ranges Mostly
I'm not sure what you're talking about. What depends on the type? The type of what?
@@MichiganRocks chatoyant / Chatoyant quartz known as 'tiger's eye' is the only chatoyant gem produced in abundance. It can be found in South Africa and Australia and is particularly popular for use in men's jewellery. = BUT Your The Expert , hmmmm , dont even know the structure of the stone composite ? and Now You probably want to say that is a different type of material , same this , large iron deposits that leave about certain material entwined in a fiery dance / but your Type is one of = silkstone and cyunite Which Also is chatoyant / Many species can exhibit chatoyancy including tourmaline, apatite, beryl, actinolite, demantoid garnet, scapolite, sillimanite and quartz among others but only chrysoberyl can be called simply 'cat's eye', the others must be prefixed by the species name , but you werent expecting No one to correct You , were you ?
Nor to Show Proof , tooo badddd
@@jamesfox2857 I am definitely not an expert, nor have I ever claimed to be. I'm just a guy who enjoys finding and polishing rocks.
The striped rock may undercut, so no good for tumbling, but couldn’t you cab them? I think they’d look awesome as cabs.
Possibly, but the ones I found were all pretty small. Besides, I tumble a lot more than I cab. I have so many cool slabs that I haven't even touched that I don't really need any more for awhile.
That banded stuff does polish. You just can't use a tumbler to do it.
Thanks. I do have a cab machine, so I should have tried that.
Pause vid at 11:09 you can see a fish (the eye in the lower 3rd) hiding in the rocks.
I think I see it. Is it a gray fish?
Hi Rob, a very nice stone, unknow in france !
This is the only place in the world that Binghamite can be found.
@@MichiganRocks you are so lucky !!
Bro I went to the Meldford mines yesterday and was looking for normal agates but did not know there was those.
Did you find some Lakers?
No I did not but I find a lot of them at my cabin
Nice video! Any chance you could share some tips with me on where to start in the Cuyuna range? I had a bunch of places marked that looked promising from aerial maps (think I had tips too) but when I got there there was no tailing pile, only sand, haha. Hour drive wasted to get there.
No, I'm sorry, I can't do that. Thomas asked me not to. Actually, I couldn't tell you even if I wanted to. I just drove where Thomas told me to.
Haha, well then, I’ll have to reach out to Thomas haha!
Could you cab that stripey undercutting material (instead of tumbling it)?
Maybe, but I didn't think of that and didn't bring it home. It wasn't really that cool that it would be worth spending the time doing that, though.
If the stripy ones undercut in a tumbler, couldn't the pieces be polished by means of a wheel? With the grit wheels even pressure would be applied to the surface, in theory... am I right?
It's very possible that they would fare better on wheels than in barrels. They were nice, but not worth the effort to take home to polish on wheels, so I left them behind.
Dudes, my dudes. Binghamite is not an agate BUT it is chalcedony. Not all chalcedony is agate material.
It didn't seem like agate to me either, but I was going with the local. He must have read that somewhere.
@@MichiganRocks Thanks for the reply! I don't make the videos BUT I have been writing articles for years for sites like Michigan Rockhounds. I used to live up in Houghton but now am back in Northern MN. Nice to meet you.
@@markjeranek627 Nice to meet you too!
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I wonder how the stripped rock would do on your cabbing machine. Cool place for a mine, compared to gold mines which produce a huge amount of waste. Nice adventure.
It was pretty small to make a cab out of and not cool enough to spend time doing it on a cabbing machine. Honestly I didn't even think of it at the time, and didn't bring it home with me.
@@MichiganRocks Just spent 5 hours on the flat lap, one of the stones was the Gambiri Agate I sent you a picture of.
@@kellyhollingsworth6100 Those are very cool.
I am heading to moose lake this summer. Can you tell me where this location is so I may hike it and do some looking
Thomas asked me not to share the exact location, but it's somewhere in the Cuyuna Iron Range state land. Honestly, I couldn't tell you exactly where if I tried.
@@MichiganRocks thanks Rob. Maybe I can talk Thomas into taking me out 😉
Have you ever tumbled field rocks (found in cropland)?
Where I live, the rocks in fields are the same kind of rocks that are found on the beaches. Both should tumble equally well.
@@MichiganRocks sweet, my sister loves to collect rocks around us and so I was curious if we could shine them up. We have some that are a pretty blue/green. Thanks for answering my question. I really enjoy watching your videos on how to tumble.
Very cool, but your shirt really should be green & white😂
I left all my dirty shirts at home.
@@MichiganRocks 😆
Where were you at in this video? I am in The Lakes area and would love to go check pills out
Thomas asked me not to share the exact location. It's in the Cuyuna Iron Range. That's all I can say.
Очень красивое место.
Да, это.
Ash, the bird eggs
When you find a round rock out of place, not near a river or stream start looking around for artifacts.
That seems like a good tip, but does it work in northern areas that were once covered by glaciers? Around where I live, almost all rocks are rounded and were deposited by glaciers. In this quarry, the only reason the rocks were not round was because they were mined. Obviously the mining took place long after native artifacts would have been left there, so any rounded rocks would have been left there by somebody in more modern times. Am I missing something, or is that advice better for places without glacial deposits all over?
@@MichiganRocks You are right in areas that had a lot of glacial activity.
the stone you showed 20;43 isn't feldspar?
because feldspar has the same shininess
There's not a single rock at 20:43, but this was a new area for me, so I couldn't be sure about the identity of every rock. I know what feldspar looks like on Michigan beaches and the rock right after 20:43 didn't look like that.
Maybe that thing can be polished on the cab machine..¿¿
I'll be polishing some on the cab machine.
I wonder what could be found with a U.V flashlight nighttime hunt?
I have no idea. Might have been fun to look. Or possibly very disappointing!
Maybe a fun experiment to see what your existing collection looks like. Future rough specimens might jump out at you.
@@ghostmanscores1666 I have looked through existing rocks. I did find one Yooperlite that way in a box of Michigan stuff.
Any of the rocks there will likely have zero glow since iron is a major quencher of fluorescence.
oops I just found your episode where you tried that two years ago. I'm learning new stuff from your channel. thanks.
I have found this stuff in Ishpeming, Mi.
Since I can't figure out how to add a pic I put it as my profile pic.
Great videos
That's in incredibly ingenious way to share a picture. I do see the resemblance, but it's not Binghamite. I know this because the Cuyuna Iron Range is the only place in the world that it can be found.
I find things where they don't belong. I've found mohawkite in ishpeming as well. It's only supposed to be found in Mohawk, Mi. The stone in my profile pic is very chatoyant. Like a street sign.
@@catd9r That's certainly interesting. Chatoyancy is a good sign.
Any possibility that there's gold in that material
Not according to the Mindat page on the Cuyuna Iron Range. www.mindat.org/feature-5023689.html
OK thanks. And thanks for the link,very helpful resource I didn't know existed
Those were the good sleds. You know something that you could go fast enough to possibly hurt yourself. Dangerous freedom over safe slavery...
It's surprising that people my age or older every survived childhood with no seatbelts, bike helmets or cell phones.
@@MichiganRocks exactly i remember riding in the back window of my mom's z-28.
Where are the best spots in northern Michigan for rock hunting.
I have been to a LOT of beaches and many of them are really good. Do you have a particular spot you're going to be near? What's your definition of "Northern Michigan"? That means different things to different people.
Mackinaw city in 3 weeks
At the sky center in machinaw city there is a lot of horn coral
@@johngoodrum6652 I have only looked right in town and there wasn't much of anything. Good to know there's something to find close by. Thanks!
@@johngoodrum6652 There's a good beach about ten miles south of Cheboygan. I found puddingstones and fossils there among other things. A little farther south is 40 Mile Point Lighthouse. That's not bad. I don't know of much in the UP around that area. To the west is Wilderness State Park. I can't say the rocks there are amazing, but I enjoyed my hunt there because it was so beautiful. I found a couple chain corals and some other nice rocks.