How would you like to trade a Southern Indiana geode hunt on private property for a hunt at Copper Valley Mine? Can you get us in? Were going to be in Missouri in a couple weeks
As awesome as that would be sadly, I don't have that kind of power 😕 . I wish I did because I would be down for it. You would have to contact them directly, I was just given the opportunity to check it out early.
My heart was racing watching this. Sometimes I'll have crazy rockhounding dreams that'll make since when I'm having them, but then realize the finds were crazy upon waking. This was like that. Definitely a dream rockhounding location. Hopefully I can hold my breath till June. 😂
As it gets closer, we should have more info on it ... I will make sure to put phone numbers and Facebook pages in the next video ... when I was told about it, I was like "Yeah yeah sure malachite everywhere." Then I got there, and there was a loud pop, and that was my head exploding 🤣🤣🤣
Wow. Now I have another place to go out there. I love malachite. My first, for me, major purchase was a big malachite slab. I love it. Thanks for sharing this place Jeff.
That place looked awesome! And surface collecting, you found yourself some really awesome pieces! Wow! There was just so much there! Thanks Jeff! That is definitely a place to visit when and if I ever head that way to go to haunted ridge! It's definitely a place to put on my bucket list! I hope they do well! That place rocks! ❤
It's no joke the craziest places I have been for finding material, I'm so excited to dig a little next time and see what below the surface of the tailings piles ... and to look at the old train again 🤣
It was my pleasure. Trains are one of my most favorite things in the world especially old ones like that, only way it could have been better is if it had been steam powered
Thank you, and I'm going to give it a go on the polishing. I just need it to warm up a little more. My flat lap is redneck engender and sprays water everywhere, another month. I'm hoping it will be warm enough
That color though. We'd lose our minds too. It's cool you can find fossils and other stuff out there too. Dolomite can be interesting sometimes too. Love finding old mining equipment. Sounded like you guys were having a great time exploring around there. Would love to see how this stuff tumbles up.
I might toss some in the tumbler, but I am for sure going to throw a little on the flatlap once it warms up a bit more. My homemade redneck engineered flat lap throws way to much water for this time of year 😆
That looks like a really awesome place, my friend! I will definitely try to make it out in June for the opening, and then maybe I can finally hit Haunted Ridge the following day...I'll need to see how plans go though, as I know we're traveling to visit family several states away over the 4th, so I may not be able to swing that June trip, but we'll see!
I don't know if they tested the tornado sirens this year here in Michigan yet but they did work for the two tornadoes that torched down two weeks ago. Grand Blanc got by an EF2 around 1:30 am the no one got hurt, amazingly. I wish I could come down to visit that mine. The specimens are awesome. Keep up the great videos and God bless you and your family.
Thank you so much, and thank God no one was hurt tornados are the one natural phenomenon that worries me the most. They come in quick and can just devastate. Enough sad talk though I hope you do get a chance to come down some time you would love it.
Thank you, that's the only other place I have found it is in Arizona mines, used to live out there as a kid. I knew we had it in Missouri just no clue it would be as good as it was here ... It reminded me of Arizona , just a lot cooler temps 🤣
Thank you , and yeah I want to get back and do some serious fossil hunting, the amount of gastropods in the one rock was the most I have ever seen in one place.
Yep this place is epic and we will definitely be back. Worth noting is that this location is close to the St. Genevieve natural history museum which is a MUST SEE if you're in the area and interested in anything geology or paleontology
“He wants you too, malachite. He wants you too.” Heh-sorry, couldn’t help a slightly modified Children of the Corn quote. Such a beautiful, vibrant colors. My favorite color is cerulean, which is more like the azurite…kind of in inbetween color.
I love all blue and green minerals, cerulean is one of my favorite colors too. But just something about greens and blues , especially blues, blues are actually fairly rare in nature... well true blues anywho
Do you have any suggestions for books or resources to help identify cool rocks that might be in locations like this? I’m going to a dig here this weekend and would love to know what to look for in particular! I’m so stoked, it’s only my second dig!
I am a huge fan of the national Audobon Society rocks and minerals book . For free look at the area I would recomend checking mindat.org it will also give you a really good idea of what can be found there. A lot of books like to show pristine museum quality pieces, which can be found but for most of us rockhounder types unless we are underground we probably won't find them (Due to weathering and the such) I also use an old book "The Golden Guide to rockhounding" It's not bad for a cross reference but for a new Rockhound the Audobon Society is very useful. Oh and also Mindat covers the entire world so any place you may look you can type in state name then look for the county you will be in. Good luck I hope you find some AMAZING pieces. 😃
Hey I have a question,since you travel all around Missouri hunting rocks have you ever noticed clay beds around and if so do you know off hand if you saw any red clay or just brown I’m wanting to source some of my own for ceramics
I haven't really looked but I will keep my eyes open, I have seen grey clay in Illinois before but not sure if it's still there I will check and see if it is for you and keep my eyes open for the others
@@huntingrocks TRUST ME!!! I'm very near that location, and, while most of the minerals I can mine are [sadly] NOT cuprous, I indeed DO keep an eye out for cupric deposits! (~_^)-b However, while some superb mineral formations of extreme beauty just might manage to survive, my plans are laid out in a manner which leans more toward mass mining, than gem hunting. Also, where I am now, not much exists to suggest that locally any types of 'gem quality' specimens exist... At this point.
@@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542 Mass mining is a good thing I wish you luck , this area was great back in the late 1800's early 1900's. A boom in mining especially if it is rare earth would be great for this area, bring in many jobs and make you very wealthy.
This is Copper Valley Mines Facebook page for those interested
facebook.com/CopperVM?notif_id=1709682874609462¬if_t=follow_profile&ref=notif
How would you like to trade a Southern Indiana geode hunt on private property for a hunt at Copper Valley Mine? Can you get us in? Were going to be in Missouri in a couple weeks
As awesome as that would be sadly, I don't have that kind of power 😕 . I wish I did because I would be down for it.
You would have to contact them directly, I was just given the opportunity to check it out early.
I want to go! $35 for a bucket of malachite and azurite?? Count me in! I would love a piece like the fossil covered in malachite ❤❤
It's crazy there, and that's just surface finds like legit. we did zero digging with tools.
My heart was racing watching this. Sometimes I'll have crazy rockhounding dreams that'll make since when I'm having them, but then realize the finds were crazy upon waking. This was like that. Definitely a dream rockhounding location. Hopefully I can hold my breath till June. 😂
As it gets closer, we should have more info on it ... I will make sure to put phone numbers and Facebook pages in the next video ... when I was told about it, I was like "Yeah yeah sure malachite everywhere." Then I got there, and there was a loud pop, and that was my head exploding 🤣🤣🤣
Wow. Now I have another place to go out there. I love malachite. My first, for me, major purchase was a big malachite slab. I love it. Thanks for sharing this place Jeff.
More than happy, too, I'm excited there is a place in my home state that I can go to and don't have to wait till I travel out west every year
That place looked awesome! And surface collecting, you found yourself some really awesome pieces! Wow! There was just so much there! Thanks Jeff! That is definitely a place to visit when and if I ever head that way to go to haunted ridge! It's definitely a place to put on my bucket list! I hope they do well! That place rocks! ❤
It's no joke the craziest places I have been for finding material, I'm so excited to dig a little next time and see what below the surface of the tailings piles ... and to look at the old train again 🤣
Thank You Jeff, always bringing it!!!! Hope to get there soon!
You're gonna love it, I can't speak highly enough after seeing what I did there.
That place is awesome !!!!
Its mind blowing for sure
Love that loco. Thanks for showing it properly.
It was my pleasure. Trains are one of my most favorite things in the world especially old ones like that, only way it could have been better is if it had been steam powered
Great job guys!! Can't wait 😊💎
Sadly I'm gonna miss the opening I'm out west right now
Love all the colors! Can’t wait to go!
Your gonna love it there, Mark.
There is so much to explore , I want to get back bad
Without a doubt
I've been waiting for this video to come out, and I can certainly say that you didn't disappoint at all!
Thank you, I will say, though, that the video does not do the place justice. There is only so much the camera lens can catch
What an awesome spot to go hunting 🤩🤩🤩 Would love to see how the Malachite polishes up 🧐🧐🧐 Thanks for sharing Jeff, this one was a ripper
Thank you, and I'm going to give it a go on the polishing. I just need it to warm up a little more. My flat lap is redneck engender and sprays water everywhere, another month. I'm hoping it will be warm enough
I"ll send you some of our warm weather hehehehehehe
@@huntingrocks
Send as much as you want brother .. I can send you some cool and we can both have comfortable weather 🤣🤣
🥶🥵🥶🥵🥶🤣🤣🤣@@huntingrocks
That color though. We'd lose our minds too. It's cool you can find fossils and other stuff out there too. Dolomite can be interesting sometimes too. Love finding old mining equipment. Sounded like you guys were having a great time exploring around there. Would love to see how this stuff tumbles up.
I might toss some in the tumbler, but I am for sure going to throw a little on the flatlap once it warms up a bit more. My homemade redneck engineered flat lap throws way to much water for this time of year 😆
That looks like a really awesome place, my friend! I will definitely try to make it out in June for the opening, and then maybe I can finally hit Haunted Ridge the following day...I'll need to see how plans go though, as I know we're traveling to visit family several states away over the 4th, so I may not be able to swing that June trip, but we'll see!
Just let me know which ever way it goes we will get in there and do a ..."Copper Colab" 😆
@@huntingrocks will do!!
@@huntingrocks ever here that old song “Copperline” from James Taylor? I kept thinking of that throughout this whole video.
Awesome place !
Thank you
I don't know if they tested the tornado sirens this year here in Michigan yet but they did work for the two tornadoes that torched down two weeks ago. Grand Blanc got by an EF2 around 1:30 am the no one got hurt, amazingly. I wish I could come down to visit that mine. The specimens are awesome. Keep up the great videos and God bless you and your family.
Thank you so much, and thank God no one was hurt tornados are the one natural phenomenon that worries me the most. They come in quick and can just devastate.
Enough sad talk though I hope you do get a chance to come down some time you would love it.
Added to my list of must visit! And it is only 6 hours away YeeeHaaaw!
It's a cool place. Everything I found was surface collected. I'm excited to go back and just dig a little.
Nice finds! I found a lot of similar stuff in arizona at abandoned copper mines. Love the botryoidal pieces 💚
Thank you, that's the only other place I have found it is in Arizona mines, used to live out there as a kid.
I knew we had it in Missouri just no clue it would be as good as it was here ... It reminded me of Arizona , just a lot cooler temps 🤣
Fossils? In the Cotter??? Curious to see more. Very cool video.
Thank you , and yeah I want to get back and do some serious fossil hunting, the amount of gastropods in the one rock was the most I have ever seen in one place.
Yep this place is epic and we will definitely be back. Worth noting is that this location is close to the St. Genevieve natural history museum which is a MUST SEE if you're in the area and interested in anything geology or paleontology
Very true I need to go there ... and any body reading this go check out Dustin's video of the museum it's super cool.
“He wants you too, malachite. He wants you too.” Heh-sorry, couldn’t help a slightly modified Children of the Corn quote.
Such a beautiful, vibrant colors. My favorite color is cerulean, which is more like the azurite…kind of in inbetween color.
I love all blue and green minerals, cerulean is one of my favorite colors too. But just something about greens and blues , especially blues, blues are actually fairly rare in nature... well true blues anywho
@@huntingrocks Some of those pieces look like miniature views of terrain around here. Reddish dirt hillsides with scattered green sagebrush. 😆
On my way
I hope you find some amazingly beautiful specimens
Come to Utah, ill bring you in a bunch of mines where you can find plenty of quality material!
I'm down for that. I usually make a western run once or twice a year and would love to get some of that sweet Utah Azurite
Do you have any suggestions for books or resources to help identify cool rocks that might be in locations like this? I’m going to a dig here this weekend and would love to know what to look for in particular! I’m so stoked, it’s only my second dig!
I am a huge fan of the national Audobon Society rocks and minerals book . For free look at the area I would recomend checking mindat.org it will also give you a really good idea of what can be found there.
A lot of books like to show pristine museum quality pieces, which can be found but for most of us rockhounder types unless we are underground we probably won't find them (Due to weathering and the such) I also use an old book "The Golden Guide to rockhounding" It's not bad for a cross reference but for a new Rockhound the Audobon Society is very useful.
Oh and also Mindat covers the entire world so any place you may look you can type in state name then look for the county you will be in.
Good luck I hope you find some AMAZING pieces. 😃
Hey I have a question,since you travel all around Missouri hunting rocks have you ever noticed clay beds around and if so do you know off hand if you saw any red clay or just brown I’m wanting to source some of my own for ceramics
I haven't really looked but I will keep my eyes open, I have seen grey clay in Illinois before but not sure if it's still there I will check and see if it is for you and keep my eyes open for the others
What state
My home state of Missouri
Meh...
I'd just mine it for its METAL value!
But it's not.. HEAVY METAL!!!
Well until it's processed 🤣
@@huntingrocks TRUST ME!!!
I'm very near that location, and, while most of the minerals I can mine are [sadly] NOT cuprous, I indeed DO keep an eye out for cupric deposits! (~_^)-b
However, while some superb mineral formations of extreme beauty just might manage to survive, my plans are laid out in a manner which leans more toward mass mining, than gem hunting.
Also, where I am now, not much exists to suggest that locally any types of 'gem quality' specimens exist...
At this point.
@@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542 Mass mining is a good thing I wish you luck , this area was great back in the late 1800's early 1900's. A boom in mining especially if it is rare earth would be great for this area, bring in many jobs and make you very wealthy.