Colorful Montana Mine Tailings Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- This video was put together from a rockhounding trip I made to the Dillon, Montana area looking for piles of mine tailings that might have colorful rocks. This area is known for past mining operations of all different minerals and has many abandoned mines. Several of the abandoned mines are located on BLM land. The area where this video was filmed had piles and piles of tailings left behind. Most of the minerals mined in this area were copper, silver, gold, lead and nickel. Dillon, Montana is also known for a couple cool Ghost towns such as the old Bannock Mining town. This was a super fun area to go rockhounding and I had quite a nice time!
I found lots of colorful rocks on this trip. Rocks full of colorful minerals were scattered around! The patterns on some of my finds are so gorgeous and so different from many of my other rockhounding trips. This is Part 2 of my trip.
If you missed Part 1, here is the link:
• Colorful Montana Mine ...
If you have any guesses as to what some of these rocks may be, please comment and let me and others know!
Thanks for watching! #thefinders #montanaminerals #minetailings
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ELECTRIC INFUSED COLOR LIGHT ROCK find.....WOW! 🙆1 Billion Years Old🤗🤣🙃😍😘💖
You do a great job of displaying each stone, giving us enough time to observe, thanks again.
Agreed!
Some of that material is amazing. You are very lucky
I love all your videos. You take the time to show us each piece of your fabulous finds in a slow manner to where we can see every detail that you see! I thank you for that! 🤩❤️👍
You're so welcome. I'm so glad you enjoy them!
Superb spectacular gorgeous wonderfully awesome, thanks for sharing
Such amazing vibrant beautiful colour's. 🥰💎
The colors of the bands inside these rocks are just so beautiful….it is like natures artwork….just amazing! Thank you for showing all your beautiful finds up close!! 🥰
Wow, enough said!
That rock in the picture of your video is a copper based mineral known as chrysocolla. It is not Turquoise however. But if it is silicified with quartz it is hard enough to work. Some examples can be much more valuable than turquoise. Known as Parrot wing chrysocolla. Because it contains the colors you see in the McCaw parrot. Often the red color that contains iron will cause cracks in your efforts to polish it. You can stabilize it with Opticon a plastic based material used to seal cracks in eyeglasses. It's better if you find it with quartz already in it and avoid stabilizing it. I'd be going to that place over and over just to hunt chrysocolla. It's one of my favorite materials to cut and polish.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I have placed finding Parrot Wing Chrysocolla onto my bucket list!
This is truly one of my favorite Rockhounding videos ever...I love the specimens you show off in this video...I just want to be there going thru that fantastic colorful rock...The Reds the Blues The Yellows and The Oranges....Awestruck!!!
Have you ever been out here to Montana?
@@MontanaRockMom Unfortunately, No not yet...Once all this Covid stufff is over im gonna plan a trip...and hopefully get to mine out by Dillion..lol
I AM UPSET WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU THREW DOWN SOME ROCKS I WANTED. VERY ENJOYABLE OTHERWISE.
Sorry😔
Hi MRM, thank you for sharing another adventure out and about around Montana! Other than the wind looked like a really nice day out at the old mine dump. Don't know about you but when there's so much to explore and behold it's just infectious and pulling myself away from those situations is always a struggle for me. Thanks again for sharing the goodies, hope you and yours have a great rest of the week~
Yeah, its been super windy out here lately...our Fall season 🍁🍂🍁🍂
I live in central Montana. By that i mesn the exact geographical center of the state in a small town.
I love rock hunting it is so addicting. I dont necessarily look for or pick up only rocks that are worth something...i pick up what catches my eye with its beauty, shape or uniqueness. I have rocks all over my yard and in the house. Some displayed some in icecream buckets or any container that was empty. I have quite the collection of agates. All my rocks are in natural form. None sawn in half. One i dont have a saw and 2 i like them the way they are.
It is a beautiful way to connect with nature , history and so addicting!
So MRM have any ideas from my area i should go pick around?
Thankyou for all your wonderful videos!
Do you have the Rock'd app so you can see what rock formations you live by?
* The Lines are really Lovely in some of those stones.. Some of the stones look like they are covered in lichen.. ~ I gasped when you showed the Blue birds eye at the 9:10 mark. FABULOUS . . Then you found more.. Will that Slab & Polish?? Make a Cab. pendant??
Theo mentioned you on his channel. Thought I’d give you a subscribe
Thank you Jane!
If I had stuff like this here in NY Id probably levitate and just float on air... I hope you kept the best pieces.
Nice colors on all those. I really like the ones that have swirls colors on them, pretty
Thanks Leona!
Those are breathtaking finds. My family has only recently gotten into rockhounding, but your videos make me want to spend the next decade exploring everything Montana has to offer.
"Last Best Place."
Omigosh, BEAUTIFUL! Good tip about toxicity - it's not something I had considered until I had a message from a viewer. Loving these minerals!
Thank you Katy!
Dillon Montana beautiful specimens.yes chrysocola(sp) turquoise blues so many blue colors! Copper makes for beautiful specimens . The blues are outstanding. Green too! The reds are very vibrant! Thanks I want to rockhound in Montana!
I'm in love with Montana ❤❤❤
I was literally talking today of going out towards copper cove and looking into some old copper mines ! And you posted this !
Copper ore has my favorite colors in the world! That blue green...oh my lord. It's breath taking!
@@MontanaRockMom absolutely without a question ! The most beautiful combination of color
These stones are more beautiful than any stone I have ever found. I wish I would live in your area and maybe find something like this too. You are truly lucky.
Thank you! I can't wait to go back to this site in the spring when the snow melts!
Im going crazy over here loooking at all those beautiful rocks you have access too!...Those things are fantastic....and so colorful.
WOW! WOW! WOW!!! I want to go there and collect some of that!! I’m like speechless! The only word I know right now is WOW! Lol thank you for finding this place and sharing these beautiful specimens with us! Also thx for the education! Didn’t know much about those minerals! Another awesome Awesome video! 👍🙏
I have different emotions watching ALL OF YOUR videos. For one I’m addicted. Lol also I’m in love with all the amazing rocks and minerals that Montana has to offer. Then I get so sad because I don’t have access to rocks like that where I live. I know they are here, in Az. But WHERE! No one really shares locations. I want to go and explore but I’ve been to many places then find that the land has a claim on it and I can’t rockhound. Ugh!!! I love to see and hear the love and appreciation you have! It shows In every one of your videos! my ultimate dream is to rockhound Montana! I still have your email and plan on sending you a message when I’m coming out there in hopes of your knowledge and help 🤗🙏 can you tell me when it’s a good time to come in the spring!? Like when winter is over and the snow is gone? Lol I would be soooo grateful! Thx again for another amazing video! ❤️
Fabulous stuff much of it looked opalized,WOW!
Love the colors you showed us from this old mine!
Some of my favorite colors : )
Would love to see some of these after an acid bath and toothbrush scrub. Beautiful
Ooooo.. the greens and blues!!! And was the red rock Cinnabar? I could not quite tell on camera. I know you have it up there in Montana like we do in Wyoming. Great finds....love your videos. We watched you over coffee this morning. Fantastic way to start our day. Thanks Montana Rock Mom!!!!
Haha thank you for watching over coffee this morning! I will have to look up cinnabar...I am learning so much!
@@MontanaRockMom cinnabar is mercury in ore form
@@billywhitehorn6397 wow! I didn't know that.
Learning right along with you all!
Fantastic color! Would love to see if some of this could be surface polished. Really enjoy your videos
i worked with this stuff for a long time and never knew or heard of it being toxic! beautiful treasures you found
Copper ore does have some toxicity. You don’t have to glove up but use common sense and wash up afterwards.
If you work it mask up
Im sorry Rock Mom but I find myself coming back to this video..I simply love the material. Did you cut any.I want some..That stuff is just awesome...Hopefully your going back soon in another video.
Not till summer...it's all covered in snow now ❄☃️
That bright blue IS turquoise. Turquoise is a hydrated phosphate of copper AND aluminum.... the aluminum being what differentiates it from the other copper associated minerals. I figured out that the red from Part 1 is probably cuprite. I know that in Arizona "rainbow" petrified wood, the orange is derived from goethite, a hydrated iron oxide. The red could also be from hematite, a form of oxidized iron.
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What are your thoughts on polishing, slabbing or finishing these magnificent specimens?
Are these rocks fragile, easily broken. What is the level of hardness
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I hope what you found is not Cinnabar. if it is you should put it in a glass jar with a lid. I found this information on the Internet and believed one of the most deadliest toxins to man.
Cinnabar is visually stunning. It is bright scarlet to brick red in color and resembles quartz in its symmetry and optical characteristics. Overall, it's a gorgeous mineral to look at.
It’s also the deadliest.
Cinnabar (otherwise known as mercury sulphide) is the single most toxic mineral known to man. I hope it's just a Iron Jasper.
Love your videos, Hope that you find out exactly what the specimens are that you’re finding. They sure are beautiful.
Thank you Douglas. No, it wasn't cinnabar. And yes, thanks for all your info. I am now on the lookout for cinnabar and anything else toxic-- as I have learned a tremendous amount this year!!! Usually the mining area I was at does not have an abundance of jasper/agate--- but I found it, lol!