Hi Mr. Gordon, I just wanna say thank you because since 2 years, your my teacher for my new passion of rockhounding and i just found my first real big shinning cristal of black tourmaline! I learn so much with your videos! I start my 3rd seasons like a real rockhounder 😂🤟✌ i'm from Mont-Laurier near Notre-Dame-du-Laus
@@Caver461 it's exactly what I'm experiencing as well. My favorite location at the moment is the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Qc. I've found Vesuvianites by the buckets... some even facet grade.
@@jameswelch1054 The mine is only open for the Asbestos Mineral Club members. Fee to be a member is 30$CAD for the year and they call you 2 weeks before each trip to see if you can attend. If you can't, you're still top of the list for the next trip. Per year, they call you at least 3 times... 4 if you're lucky. Each rockhounding trip costs 20$CAD and you keep everything you find.
@@Caver461 Ah, my friend...you are too modest and you short-change yourself. You two guys are a perfect team: Jeff, with field luck and determination, and you, with a terrific scientific curiosity and (thankfully) a strong willingness to share your discoveries with the rest of us with rocks in our dreams!
Love your vids. I'm about a thousand miles south, and stuck in sedimentary land. We've got caves, but I'd love to have igneous and metamorphic rock to play in too.
Not to mention fossils, calcite, fluorite and sphalerite that are found in sedimentary rocks. So don't despair. My favorite was finding sphalerite (zinc sulfide) in Hamilton, Ontario where it's all sedimentary rock. Do you know that sphalerite competes with diamond in sparkle due to its high refractive index? BTW, flint and chert are sedimentary too and they come in a lot of colors, green and blue being the best. Regards and best of luck.
Hey, awesome video. I was there not too long ago, it's a great spot. Most of my success was from breaking calcite open and getting lucky. Found lots of great Spinel up to 2 cm with very clean faces. I'm a geology student from U of Waterloo (originally from Niagara), so being in Ottawa for my co-op job has been great. It's a luxury to be so close to fantastic spots in beautiful country here. I visited Yates Mine the other day as well. That was a great location for Apatite and Diopside. Plus some Thorianite and a cool Allanite (Ce) coated Scapolite crystals. When were you at Parker Mine?
@@AL-lm7wg The Camp zone I believe was bulldozed when it changed ownership. I recently located the new owner. For a fee of $5 per person he will let you visit the Matte zone site. It has a decent amount of material left with exposed rock running along the entry road for several metres.
Great video Jeff. I ordered all 3 of your Rockhounding books, from Lulu. I should be receiving them sometime next week. I would love to see you make a video, on gem quality minerals from Ontario & Quebec.
Thanks on the video. A Quebec book was certainly discussed on this trip. Probably starting to mess with some ideas this weekend - draw up a list of potentially Rockhound accessible sites and most importantly - good mineral payback for the visit.
@@Caver461 No, I am from Quebec "Montreal". Sorry, I called you Jeff, in my earlier comment. I just realized my mistake. It was a dumb mistake because a week earlier I was googling "Michael Gordon" to find your books.
The forsterite-spinel-calcite formed at the same time and probably from metasomatism (fluid infiltration and chemical reactions) or at most local melting. But not from significant melting at depth. Most silicate and oxide minerals are idiomorphic at their contact with calcite, it has more to do with the physical/structural properties of the minerals and not order of crystallization. My video from the Parker mine in 2017: th-cam.com/video/DEPorYS-JnI/w-d-xo.html
Hi Mr. Gordon,
I just wanna say thank you because since 2 years, your my teacher for my new passion of rockhounding and i just found my first real big shinning cristal of black tourmaline! I learn so much with your videos! I start my 3rd seasons like a real rockhounder 😂🤟✌ i'm from Mont-Laurier near Notre-Dame-du-Laus
God I love these videos!! As a gemmologist in Montreal, I love to see what can be found around my hometown of Ottawa.
It seems the Quebec sites are less tapped and so more giving in my experience.
@@Caver461 it's exactly what I'm experiencing as well. My favorite location at the moment is the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Qc. I've found Vesuvianites by the buckets... some even facet grade.
@@robertd9137 the Jeffrey Mine is closed?
@@jameswelch1054 The mine is only open for the Asbestos Mineral Club members. Fee to be a member is 30$CAD for the year and they call you 2 weeks before each trip to see if you can attend. If you can't, you're still top of the list for the next trip. Per year, they call you at least 3 times... 4 if you're lucky. Each rockhounding trip costs 20$CAD and you keep everything you find.
Treasures for sure. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this with us! Always look forward to your videos.
Jeff is like some kind of mineral gopher. I think he can smell them before he digs in.
awesome video I was really blown away by this one your friend really pulled out a performance! Gorgeous crystals fun to see them in Quebec
Great video . Loved the close up pics. Now I know what a spinel is. Thanks.
Terrific Mick...the specimens are world-class, by any standard. Congratulations to both you and Jeff.
Joe Russell
Thanks Joe. Jeff has an eye for minerals that I will never possess. Just point him in the right direction and he'll find the best of what is there.
@@Caver461 Ah, my friend...you are too modest and you short-change yourself. You two guys are a perfect team: Jeff, with field luck and determination, and you, with a terrific scientific curiosity and (thankfully) a strong willingness to share your discoveries with the rest of us with rocks in our dreams!
Last time i was there i couldnt find the spot! I'm not giving up! :) Good video!
Love your vids. I'm about a thousand miles south, and stuck in sedimentary land. We've got caves, but I'd love to have igneous and metamorphic rock to play in too.
Caves are good as well.
Not to mention fossils, calcite, fluorite and sphalerite that are found in sedimentary rocks. So don't despair.
My favorite was finding sphalerite (zinc sulfide) in Hamilton, Ontario where it's all sedimentary rock. Do you know that sphalerite competes with diamond in sparkle due to its high refractive index? BTW, flint and chert are sedimentary too and they come in a lot of colors, green and blue being the best. Regards and best of luck.
Thanks for sharing. Hopefully I can make it up to Quebec to the locals.
Jeff is always so damn excited. Tell that man to calm down.
Cool! I have a camper at the campground right there!
*over and over again*
😂😂
Fantastic beautiful
Hey, awesome video. I was there not too long ago, it's a great spot. Most of my success was from breaking calcite open and getting lucky. Found lots of great Spinel up to 2 cm with very clean faces. I'm a geology student from U of Waterloo (originally from Niagara), so being in Ottawa for my co-op job has been great. It's a luxury to be so close to fantastic spots in beautiful country here. I visited Yates Mine the other day as well. That was a great location for Apatite and Diopside. Plus some Thorianite and a cool Allanite (Ce) coated Scapolite crystals.
When were you at Parker Mine?
dylan simmonds how was the Yates mine? I heard it was buried recently.
@@AL-lm7wg The Camp zone I believe was bulldozed when it changed ownership. I recently located the new owner. For a fee of $5 per person he will let you visit the Matte zone site. It has a decent amount of material left with exposed rock running along the entry road for several metres.
Great video Jeff. I ordered all 3 of your Rockhounding books, from Lulu. I should be receiving them sometime next week. I would love to see you make a video, on gem quality minerals from Ontario & Quebec.
Thanks on the video. A Quebec book was certainly discussed on this trip. Probably starting to mess with some ideas this weekend - draw up a list of potentially Rockhound accessible sites and most importantly - good mineral payback for the visit.
@@Caver461 I will look forward to buying your next book. A book on Quebec sounds great!
@@jameswelch1054 Thank you. are you from Ontario?
@@Caver461 No, I am from Quebec "Montreal". Sorry, I called you Jeff, in my earlier comment. I just realized my mistake. It was a dumb mistake because a week earlier I was googling "Michael Gordon" to find your books.
The forsterite-spinel-calcite formed at the same time and probably from metasomatism (fluid infiltration and chemical reactions) or at most local melting. But not from significant melting at depth. Most silicate and oxide minerals are idiomorphic at their contact with calcite, it has more to do with the physical/structural properties of the minerals and not order of crystallization. My video from the Parker mine in 2017: th-cam.com/video/DEPorYS-JnI/w-d-xo.html
Watched that video Good straight forward video no messing around 👍thanks for sharing looking forward to more .
Since magnesium is more active than iron or zinc I suspect magnesium is the replacement element.
Blue apatite is kind of common in Quebec
I have these on hematite
Great video. How's the wife is she over the vacation sick. Hope you both are doing well.
She's better thanks
now we wait till the su fans start rollin in
How would I arrange to go to that place?
Are they 6000 years old?
Aren't they supposed to be pink and heart shaped
Im in florida all i have is clams and shells lol
Lets not forget the Atocha and chests of gold bullion and emeralds.
It’s ok at least we have fort drum
😉 I have blue apatite from Ontario.
Nice - not a common thing here.
Lol, I thought that Keanu Reeves was the orator of this video until he said, "toor-maline"
BLACK SPINEL WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOWW
Facetable size just wish it was more gemmy!! 😎
Graben is German for "ditch" or "trench" or in a geological setting "rift". Coffin would be "Sarg", grave would be "Grab"
are they worth any money or not ?????