Ya know Dan every time you say, "I hope to earn your subscription today" make me wish I could subscribe more than once. It is by far the best way I have came across on youtube and by Dan do you earn it every single time
@@tylerkeeling3786 Abso bloody lutely. He's so much better at saying it now though, the ones 7 years ago didn't have the sane confidence behind it. His on screen presence has become fabulous.
I watched a video of yours recently addressing the negative comments towards you. I'm a serious person, and I'm pretty much the complete opposite of you in personality. With that being said, I enjoy watching your channel. Your channel is interesting, and it's cool to see you excited about what you do. Don't let the haters get to you. That's what they want, for whatever sick reason.
Oh, Dan, you made my day! This is just what my rockhounding heart needed. I used to live south of the Peace Arch in Blaine. The scenery makes me homesick! I used to hunt in B.C., Western Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. So much wondrous beauty! Thank you... sincerely! 🏞
When I tell people about you and your channel, I always describe you as the Bob Ross, Mr. Rogers, Steve Irwin of gold prospecting. You are a wholesome treasure that humanity does not deserve 💜
I just love your channel. I came here just because I love pretty rocks. I don't know a thing about petrology or minerology, but your enthusiasm and willingness to teach have made this one of my favorite channels to watch. ❤❤❤
Re: GLOTD: Ruby is a very specific corundum colored by Cr3+ ions, everything else technically is sapphire. In the US we can get pink sapphire which internationally is considered ruby.
I've cut a few dozen star sapphires; it's often possible to see the "silk" within a rough crystal and know whether a star is even possible. Also, most of that claim's corundum is deformed enough to preclude a star. (Shown by parting planes, as corundum has no cleavage.) Star stones must be fairly high domed to show a sharp star.
Dan, you demonstrated a principle every new rockhounder should observe. Walk and scan, walk and scan. Don't start by hammering on the first rock you see. Don't turn over every rock you see. There's plenty of broken rock to search and limited time. I improved my collecting success enormously by doing this.
Nice to see you again , i watched your video about the Chicoltin river ,because everyone was asking about the gold on the other footages out there lol here i am
Thank you for holding wholesome philosophy about LNT ethic at your prospecting sites.Your knowledge and skills are admirable,your enthusiasm unbounded.Take care always and be safe
@@carterjanssen265 LoL, not the first tine I've heard that but it made me giggle so cheers. However Dan has been an influence to my reasons of why I long to be in Canada, with his footage and discussions/conversations with people of Canada in general.
Star sapphire? Niiiiiiice..... I have a little bag full of regular mixed color ones I need to go get heat treated and see what to get cut by the pros and what to play with....... I have a 58.7 carat star garnet from Emerald Creek, ID that is cab'd out. Weak star but nice sized rock.
Congratulations 👏🎉 I love it.. the asterism is so magical ..I never get tired of searching for, so awesome ..I want to see !!.do u have a channel already?
I wanna see the process after you get the crystal? Maybe show the the process after the mining, from start to finish. I haven't seen that yet. I'm a new sub.. ⬇️ 👍🤙✌️
God damn, I love sapphires. That's the mineral I'm hunting for the most. Not diamonds or emeralds, but sapphires. There's just something about them that makes me love them. I got a great spot a couple hours away from my home where you can find both sapphire (almost ruby, they're quite purple) and prismatine, and I go there regularly. :] They're not big, definitely not - the biggest ones I've found so far are platelets of just over 1 cm in size, but they're abundant (up to 3 % of the host rock there is sapphire), and I'm more of a specimen hunter anyway rather than looking for actual facetable gems, so that doesn't bother me.
I absolutely love how you explain the geology of the area you're working in and why you expect to find this or that gemstone. I'm not even an amateur level geologist, but I am a fan of rocks and fossils. The algorithm will occasionally suggest shorts or videos that just didn't feel legit.
Sapphire is chemically very stable and is almost insoluble in acid and base solutions. It is also relatively resistant to plasma, so it is used for windows and parts of etching equipment. However, it is not completely insoluble, and is slightly affected by highly corrosive solutions such as hydrofluoric acid (HF).
Sapphire is also the second hardest naturally occurring mineral, right after diamond. Sapphire optics are already used in some places, personally I'm looking forward to the day when we can get glasses and phone screens made from synthetic sapphire.
Thanks for sharing!! Also, thanks for the GLOD. You have helped me understand more about the geology of minerals. Please don't stop teaching us about what you know. Love you and your family!!!😘😍💕💕💕💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹💐💐💐💐💐💐
Love the videos Dan! They bring me lots of joy as a geology student! Just wanted to mention about star sapphires (an effect called asterism) is caused by the alignment of rutile crystallites within the planes of weakness in the corundum. Corundum has a naturally hexagonal crystal structure (which you see all throughout the samples you found) and those little rutile needles align all along those weaker links of the molecular structure. You will only have a star looking on at that hexagonal face. Also, I dont know if its a regional difference but I've always pronounced gneiss as nice lol
Hello Dan! Long time subscriber and follower here. Just watched one of your old ocean picture stone videos, and you answer the question about Diamond saws and why you dont use them. I work as a full time operator of Diamond saws and drills, and i would like to add a few things to the discussion. First of all i am very glad you dont bring them with you. They are heavy, loud and vibrates like mad. Allso the blades are fairly expensive, and im guesstimating it would increase your expenses quite a bit. And since you're working so remotely, you would have to use a petrol powered one, and they are THE most dangerous handtool in my line of work. We use HF-saws, and usually rail-mounted ones for safety reasons (and the convenience). Petrol powered Diamond saws shouldnt be used unless there is no other possible way to execute the work. They are awfull machines that maim lots of people every year. So i am very grateful you dont use them Dan, i hope to continue watching your videos for many years to come 😊 //Full time stone/concrete cutter and driller.
Why not put down a tarp sheet under where you are working to catch all of the small bits that fall while you hammer, etc, so you don't lose any little specimens in the grass? You could use them for gem bags, practice and so on.
Hey Dan, if you're having trouble with new glasses, ask your optometrist if you have a minor astigmatism that hasn't been corrected for. I had the same problem, and it went away when they corrected a 5 deg astig in one eye. The doc didn't think it was big enough to make a difference, but it certainly was for me!
Cool finds. I look forward to you visiting your friend’s mine. I wonder if you have heard of trapiche emeralds? I think this happens with rubies and sapphires, also. It’s a cross-cut of some Chrystal’s that have “spokes” in them. Really fabulous! Thanks for the lesson.
I really like these videos where you go garnet/sapphire hard rock hunting. I got a lot of boulders around here, looking like surfaces you show. Usually full of garnets. But all dark crystals I assume to be black tourmaline or brown/black garnets. Maybe I should keep an eye out for sapphires too. Looking forward to the video where these are cut/cabbed !!!
This was such an amazing video. Thank you so much for sharing. I’ve always wanted to visit Canada just to fish the amazing lakes that are there but it would be so fun to do some gem hunting on your rivers. Maybe one day!
I honestly think I'm a dwarf at heart (Lord of the Rings Dwarf) I love meat, gold, gems, and ale and I don't mind being underground. I should look into mining, although it's not big here in England as we don't have anything worth mining.
Pegmatities cool more slowly, thus allowing the crystals to grow larger. There are a lot of the in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Not far from me in Tennessee.
I hope you manage to to get some that cut with a nice sharp star and without any plane line sparkles? Are the garnets also star stones? Garnets only produce a 4 ray star. Ruby is just a red sapphires.
when you pull the pieces out of the wall they drop smaller pieces onto the ground, possibly loose sapphires. consider putting a bag underneath to catch the small loose falling sapphires
Dan can you please do a video on how the sapphires are processed. I’m not sure what a cab is and I’d love to see what they look like cleaned and polished. Thanks for another great video!
Strangely satisfying Dan, very educational too 👍. Can it be said that a " keeper" star sapphire will never break first because it is harder than it's host rock the star sapphire is imbedded in? 🤔
Next time you pass thru Vancouver, stop at Crystalworks Designs to see some incredible samples. They'll have some incredible star sapphires in their collection. They may even want some of your specimens.
Nice video. I have been looking for how to get gemstones out of the rock chunks like you pulled off,not much luck. It my be I'm not using the proper terminology. That would be an interesting video of you processing those sapphire chunks you just collected.
There are green sapphire among the blue one but they are not common. And every once in a while you may find a ruby mixed in with the sapphire’s! I watch a channel who mines sapphire in Australia and his is underground. His TH-cam channel is tims adventures sapphire.
Your channel has been re-kindling my love of earth science from when I was a kid. What do you think those green pieces were in that fragment at the end? Olivine?
I picked up a bunch of Chris's stuff aswell a star garnet from Montana they had. I think the material you've got there Dan is black star sapphire, or black sapphire.
Hey, I just watched the crystal digging you did with Jake DALLMYD ❤ he said to say he sent me 😁 I absolutely LOVE your energy and attitude!! Stay FANTABULOUS 💎
Hi Dan, I live in va now but years ago I lived in olympia wa. Occasional visits to copalis Beach on the coast and found a creek running across the beach full of fine gold. I've often thought about what an 8 hour session with beach box would produce?.
Hard rock mining seems "hard" :-) regarding gems, I have just built a small sluice box that will certainly make prospecting pure pleasure ... or maybe I was just lucky that day.
Dan, will you be going through the process of how to remove the sapphire crystals from the base material? Ive always been curious how gemstones get removed from the raw rock.
Thank you so much for your hard work! 😊 I’ve got a question: 🤨 I have a set of words 🤷♂️. (behave today finger ski upon boy assault summer exhaust beauty stereo over). I don't know what they are. What should I do with them? 🤷♀️
How does one free sapphires from the host? Do you tumble them with an abrasive softer then sapphire but harder than host rock? Do you use chemistry to dissolve host? Or is it all work with a diamond saw?
Hey Dan, could you go into some detail about your method for removing the gems from their matrices? Do you use chemical solutions, or some other means?
I think you hit a load in that first spot. I would be interested to see if there is anything other than garnets farther up the cliffs if you do a video on that adventure.
Ya know Dan every time you say, "I hope to earn your subscription today" make me wish I could subscribe more than once. It is by far the best way I have came across on youtube and by Dan do you earn it every single time
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: Me too!
@@tylerkeeling3786
Abso bloody lutely.
He's so much better at saying it now though, the ones 7 years ago didn't have the sane confidence behind it.
His on screen presence has become fabulous.
Always click the share button. That helps, too!
Hear hear .a gent indeed .😊
Create multiple accounts and subscribe lol
"If you see sapphires, that's a good sign that there might be sapphires around."
- Pauly, probably
😂😂😂
I hope we get to see these polished up eventually! I LOVE star sapphires!
I got 2 6 star rubies while I was deployed in Afghanistan but don’t know how to tell if they are real.
The explanation on what a star saphire was made the video, thank you for taking a sec there.
I'm looking forward to seeing them cabbed when you get them back!
Great video, 💎Dan!
I don't know if I've ever seen one "cleaned up." Hoping you show a finished stone in the future. Thanks DH !
I watched a video of yours recently addressing the negative comments towards you. I'm a serious person, and I'm pretty much the complete opposite of you in personality. With that being said, I enjoy watching your channel. Your channel is interesting, and it's cool to see you excited about what you do. Don't let the haters get to you. That's what they want, for whatever sick reason.
Oh, Dan, you made my day! This is just what my rockhounding heart needed. I used to live south of the Peace Arch in Blaine. The scenery makes me homesick! I used to hunt in B.C., Western Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. So much wondrous beauty! Thank you... sincerely! 🏞
Dan would make the BEST Geography/Geology teacher in a school. It's such a pleasure learning from him! ❤👍
I did notice he was wearing a MBSS jacket, if you know what that stands for..
When I tell people about you and your channel, I always describe you as the Bob Ross, Mr. Rogers, Steve Irwin of gold prospecting. You are a wholesome treasure that humanity does not deserve 💜
I just love your channel. I came here just because I love pretty rocks. I don't know a thing about petrology or minerology, but your enthusiasm and willingness to teach have made this one of my favorite channels to watch. ❤❤❤
Re: GLOTD: Ruby is a very specific corundum colored by Cr3+ ions, everything else technically is sapphire. In the US we can get pink sapphire which internationally is considered ruby.
In North Carolina, you can get lavender star rubies. They have cutters in the towns where the mines are, too.
Yup, that's what I was thinking, too.
I've cut a few dozen star sapphires; it's often possible to see the "silk" within a rough crystal and know whether a star is even possible. Also, most of that claim's corundum is deformed enough to preclude a star. (Shown by parting planes, as corundum has no cleavage.) Star stones must be fairly high domed to show a sharp star.
I just spent 30 minutes watching a guy break rocks lol and I was excited about it, great video Dan.
Great SHOW Dan!!! ... I'd guess that big Sapphire is .... 25 carats!!
Dan, you demonstrated a principle every new rockhounder should observe. Walk and scan, walk and scan. Don't start by hammering on the first rock you see. Don't turn over every rock you see. There's plenty of broken rock to search and limited time. I improved my collecting success enormously by doing this.
Nice to see you again , i watched your video about the Chicoltin river ,because everyone was asking about the gold on the other footages out there lol here i am
Dan! Sapphires can collect in rivers just like garnets. IF you get the chance, the river behind you could yeild some amazing specimens.
Ya, that is why I said I want to go gem sieve it. I want to see if it shows any placer sapphires
Do not take a drink every time Dan says the word Sapphire. 😂 😵💫
Killjoy! 😋
@@B4cch4nte 🤣 you'll end up in the hospital 🏥.
😂😂😂😂
Dude! You'll be sober for years
I did and now I'm in the ER 🏥
Thank you for holding wholesome philosophy about LNT ethic at your prospecting sites.Your knowledge and skills are admirable,your enthusiasm unbounded.Take care always and be safe
Hey Dan,
Sapphire is my birthstone.
I have long thought all sapphires were blue.
Thanks to you, I now know different.
I was not into geology until I started watching Dan.
Now I long to live in Canada.
I got good news for ya pal, Canada was nice enough to share the geology with the entire Earth!
@@carterjanssen265
LoL, not the first tine I've heard that but it made me giggle so cheers.
However Dan has been an influence to my reasons of why I long to be in Canada, with his footage and discussions/conversations with people of Canada in general.
@@mrharry8466 please do yourself that favour and come, jokes aside! We have so much beautiful country to share!
Star sapphire? Niiiiiiice..... I have a little bag full of regular mixed color ones I need to go get heat treated and see what to get cut by the pros and what to play with....... I have a 58.7 carat star garnet from Emerald Creek, ID that is cab'd out. Weak star but nice sized rock.
My son Brad was digging in the back yard and found 3 really nice diamonds and 1
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@@sharolbangerter4057 seu filho é muito sortudo 😳
Congratulations 👏🎉 I love it.. the asterism is so magical ..I never get tired of searching for, so awesome ..I want to see !!.do u have a channel already?
I wanna see the process after you get the crystal? Maybe show the the process after the mining, from start to finish. I haven't seen that yet. I'm a new sub..
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God damn, I love sapphires. That's the mineral I'm hunting for the most. Not diamonds or emeralds, but sapphires. There's just something about them that makes me love them. I got a great spot a couple hours away from my home where you can find both sapphire (almost ruby, they're quite purple) and prismatine, and I go there regularly. :] They're not big, definitely not - the biggest ones I've found so far are platelets of just over 1 cm in size, but they're abundant (up to 3 % of the host rock there is sapphire), and I'm more of a specimen hunter anyway rather than looking for actual facetable gems, so that doesn't bother me.
Really nice rocks Dan.
I absolutely love how you explain the geology of the area you're working in and why you expect to find this or that gemstone. I'm not even an amateur level geologist, but I am a fan of rocks and fossils. The algorithm will occasionally suggest shorts or videos that just didn't feel legit.
Sapphire is chemically very stable and is almost insoluble in acid and base solutions. It is also relatively resistant to plasma, so it is used for windows and parts of etching equipment. However, it is not completely insoluble, and is slightly affected by highly corrosive solutions such as hydrofluoric acid (HF).
Sapphire is also the second hardest naturally occurring mineral, right after diamond. Sapphire optics are already used in some places, personally I'm looking forward to the day when we can get glasses and phone screens made from synthetic sapphire.
@@noob19087 then it would shatter as easily as those crystals. thats why current screens are "alloys" combining hardness with non-brittleness.
@@riverstun True. But an alloy with some of the hardness of sapphire would be great!
@@riverstun solid sapphire screens are already in use in some phones. They're not as brittle as you'd expect when they're part of the whole assembly.
If I seen you walking down the trail looking official and I was looking for rocks I would walk the other way.. lol
Thanks for sharing!! Also, thanks for the GLOD. You have helped me understand more about the geology of minerals. Please don't stop teaching us about what you know. Love you and your family!!!😘😍💕💕💕💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹💐💐💐💐💐💐
Sunday is,Dan day. Thank you
Love the videos Dan! They bring me lots of joy as a geology student!
Just wanted to mention about star sapphires (an effect called asterism) is caused by the alignment of rutile crystallites within the planes of weakness in the corundum. Corundum has a naturally hexagonal crystal structure (which you see all throughout the samples you found) and those little rutile needles align all along those weaker links of the molecular structure. You will only have a star looking on at that hexagonal face.
Also, I dont know if its a regional difference but I've always pronounced gneiss as nice lol
As much as I love the gold hunting videos, it was the gems that brought me to the channel and it's those I get the most excited for.
Hello Dan! Long time subscriber and follower here.
Just watched one of your old ocean picture stone videos, and you answer the question about Diamond saws and why you dont use them.
I work as a full time operator of Diamond saws and drills, and i would like to add a few things to the discussion.
First of all i am very glad you dont bring them with you. They are heavy, loud and vibrates like mad. Allso the blades are fairly expensive, and im guesstimating it would increase your expenses quite a bit.
And since you're working so remotely, you would have to use a petrol powered one, and they are THE most dangerous handtool in my line of work.
We use HF-saws, and usually rail-mounted ones for safety reasons (and the convenience).
Petrol powered Diamond saws shouldnt be used unless there is no other possible way to execute the work. They are awfull machines that maim lots of people every year.
So i am very grateful you dont use them Dan, i hope to continue watching your videos for many years to come 😊
//Full time stone/concrete cutter and driller.
Why not put down a tarp sheet under where you are working to catch all of the small bits that fall while you hammer, etc, so you don't lose any little specimens in the grass? You could use them for gem bags, practice and so on.
Hey Dan, if you're having trouble with new glasses, ask your optometrist if you have a minor astigmatism that hasn't been corrected for. I had the same problem, and it went away when they corrected a 5 deg astig in one eye. The doc didn't think it was big enough to make a difference, but it certainly was for me!
Cool finds. I look forward to you visiting your friend’s mine.
I wonder if you have heard of trapiche emeralds? I think this happens with rubies and sapphires, also. It’s a cross-cut of some Chrystal’s that have “spokes” in them. Really fabulous!
Thanks for the lesson.
Good one Dan... I didn't know hunting gemstones could be so cool
Expanding foam. 22:54 makes easy work.
I really like these videos where you go garnet/sapphire hard rock hunting.
I got a lot of boulders around here, looking like surfaces you show. Usually full of garnets. But all dark crystals I assume to be black tourmaline or brown/black garnets.
Maybe I should keep an eye out for sapphires too.
Looking forward to the video where these are cut/cabbed !!!
Cheer~~~a transparent precious stone, typically blue, that is a variety of corundum (aluminum oxide).😊
This was such an amazing video. Thank you so much for sharing. I’ve always wanted to visit Canada just to fish the amazing lakes that are there but it would be so fun to do some gem hunting on your rivers. Maybe one day!
Love Star sapphires! Have a couple pieces with them. Nature’s googly eye! Would love to forage/mine a sapphire one day!
Can you use acids to dissolve the material away from around the sapphires after you have mined them?
Always happy to hit the Like Button for Dan's Videos, even before I have watched!!😎👍👍
That hammering angle was amusing, actually had me moving back from the screen in fear of being hit in the face!
You are the ultimate in prospecting, Dan!
I honestly think I'm a dwarf at heart (Lord of the Rings Dwarf) I love meat, gold, gems, and ale and I don't mind being underground. I should look into mining, although it's not big here in England as we don't have anything worth mining.
You're videos are such a pleasure to watch Mike, extremely creative professional and entertaining.. I'm in! 👍
I enjoy your videos. People who do what they love are truely happy.
I'm watching you for a couple of years Uso animated I love watching you I hope like you're true to your craft that's all I wish
Pegmatities cool more slowly, thus allowing the crystals to grow larger. There are a lot of the in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Not far from me in Tennessee.
I've been watching you since your first cerro gordo trip you and Jason from mbmm I really enjoy them thank you Dan Hurd and my god bless you
Awesome Dan! Can't wait to see them cleaned up and polished into cabochons.🤩😁
Dan is wonderful 😊 so happy watching him!
I love the way that you explain things.
I hope you manage to to get some that cut with a nice sharp star and without any plane line sparkles? Are the garnets also star stones? Garnets only produce a 4 ray star. Ruby is just a red sapphires.
Excellent video Dan thanks for sharing this with us six stars
0:48 Good Luck Dan!!!
when you pull the pieces out of the wall they drop smaller pieces onto the ground, possibly loose sapphires. consider putting a bag underneath to catch the small loose falling sapphires
If I thought I was losing any that way, or found I was, I would have, and i was prepared for something like that, but did not need it.
Dan can you please do a video on how the sapphires are processed. I’m not sure what a cab is and I’d love to see what they look like cleaned and polished. Thanks for another great video!
I could literally watch you harvest sapphires all day
Good Luck Dan!
Strangely satisfying Dan, very educational too 👍. Can it be said that a " keeper" star sapphire will never break first because it is harder than it's host rock the star sapphire is imbedded in? 🤔
I just took up rockhounding a few weeks ago and I would kill to go on an adventure like that! Soo cool!
Stoked for the gargantuan blue six star episode!!!!❤️💪 Awesome 👍😎
Next time you pass thru Vancouver, stop at Crystalworks Designs to see some incredible samples. They'll have some incredible star sapphires in their collection. They may even want some of your specimens.
Nice video. I have been looking for how to get gemstones out of the rock chunks like you pulled off,not much luck. It my be I'm not using the proper terminology. That would be an interesting video of you processing those sapphire chunks you just collected.
Totally Incredible finds and you make it look so easy, wish I was with you but that overhang kinda looks scary.
Gorgeous. After we move I'm ordering some your stones for my new house .
There are green sapphire among the blue one but they are not common. And every once in a while you may find a ruby mixed in with the sapphire’s! I watch a channel who mines sapphire in Australia and his is underground. His TH-cam channel is tims adventures sapphire.
hi Dan enjoying the Sapphire hunting in BC !, Have you ever looked around Garnet Valley Road above Summerland?. All the best
Your channel has been re-kindling my love of earth science from when I was a kid. What do you think those green pieces were in that fragment at the end? Olivine?
I picked up a bunch of Chris's stuff aswell a star garnet from Montana they had. I think the material you've got there Dan is black star sapphire, or black sapphire.
It is the “Blu Starr” deposit. Named long before I got it, but it has silvery grey star sapphires
Hey, I just watched the crystal digging you did with Jake DALLMYD ❤ he said to say he sent me 😁 I absolutely LOVE your energy and attitude!! Stay FANTABULOUS 💎
Great video! I love the gemological content a lot more than the gold (I still watch the gold stuff though).
That is a very well used road running along your claim. I hope that won’t cause problems for you.
Hi Dan, I live in va now but years ago I lived in olympia wa. Occasional visits to copalis Beach on the coast and found a creek running across the beach full of fine gold. I've often thought about what an 8 hour session with beach box would produce?.
Thank you for all your hard work and sharing, always
Hard rock mining seems "hard" :-) regarding gems, I have just built a small sluice box that will certainly make prospecting pure pleasure ... or maybe I was just lucky that day.
Those little Honda gensets are awesome. Have one myself
Beautiful Blue Waters!
Always enjoy your videos, entertaining and informative. Keep on with the great content. Thanks.
Fantastic material 👍 great vid
Great video Dan!
Dan, will you be going through the process of how to remove the sapphire crystals from the base material? Ive always been curious how gemstones get removed from the raw rock.
Interesting video. How do you extract the gems sapphire from the host rock without damaging them any videos on that process?
Fantastic video Dan. your effort is always the Best. Take Care Safe Travels
I always learn something new, Dan. And BTW you always earn my subscription. You Rock!
amazing! I had no idea we had sapphires here in BC!
Hey will be heading off later this week to try our luck at the end result of your your hard work
Fingers crossed that the creeks don't keep raining😅
Do ruby make stars likes sapphire?
Yes, there are star rubies and many others like garnet, topaz, diopside...
Thank you so much for your hard work! 😊 I’ve got a question: 🤨 I have a set of words 🤷♂️. (behave today finger ski upon boy assault summer exhaust beauty stereo over). I don't know what they are. What should I do with them? 🤷♀️
How does one free sapphires from the host? Do you tumble them with an abrasive softer then sapphire but harder than host rock? Do you use chemistry to dissolve host? Or is it all work with a diamond saw?
@ 22:21 I thought you were gonna smack me in the face with your hammer. 3D action!! LOLOLOL
The rock, Dan wanted came. Dude got his rocks off. NICE!!!! Congrats man.
Hey Dan, could you go into some detail about your method for removing the gems from their matrices? Do you use chemical solutions, or some other means?
Learning so much. Thank you and great job.
I think you hit a load in that first spot. I would be interested to see if there is anything other than garnets farther up the cliffs if you do a video on that adventure.
I wonder if those could be heat treated?