Mineral identification Part 3 - Watch this video to learn the skills of mineral identification.
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- Learn to identify rocks and minerals, a valuable skill. For those who are interested in minerals, identification knowledge is important. There are a number of basic identifying characteristics of different minerals include: crystal shape, Hardness, luster, Chemistry, density, cleavage, magnetism, chemistry and color. Each one of these different characteristics is an important indicator to help you learn what the mineral is. If you know how to read these clues and put them together, you can determine the various characteristics and you need identify minerals. My prospecting book has a little of this, but there are mineral guides that focus on the topic. It’s not just about color: a lot of people focus too much on it because its so easy to see. But many minerals come in multiple shades and colors. Don't send me pictures, instead watch these videos and learn to identify minerals for yourself. This video is the final part 3 of a 3 part series.
You can find Part 1 of this series here:
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You can find Part 2 of this series here:
• Mineral identification...
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Thank You Very Much; for being so real & in tune with facts.
GOD BLESS YOU CHRIS.
Thanks you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
i know Im quite randomly asking but do anyone know a good site to watch new series online?
@Garrett Mateo i would suggest flixzone. Just search on google for it :)
@Raylan Keegan Yup, I have been using flixzone for years myself :)
@Raylan Keegan thank you, signed up and it seems like a nice service :) I really appreciate it !!
As a boy (7 to 10) I really was a rock hound, as I was called back then. I could identify the common and not so common rocks in my area, Cleveland, Ohio. My favorite was a pink colored gneiss.
If I had gone to college I would have had a great problem between studying geology or mechanical engineering. You have reawakened my interest in geology, thank you very much.
The area where I now live (northwest Georgia) has a lot of white quartz and a fine grain black schist, I have seen large pieces of the quartz lying around where you could clearly see small bits of gold shot through it. This is fun. I think I need your book and the others you mentioned too.
I had classes in both Geology and M. E. when I was at the University.
Thank you Chris for sharing this fantastic series on Mineralogy !! Will definitely keep on my favorites list. I think a course on Petrology would be extremely valuable for the prospector. So many folks out there have difficulty understanding rock formations and how it relates to minerals.
I will do that, it may be a bit before I get to it as I have some others in the process of getting done and want to do them first. Next out is a video on recovering fine gold.
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I second the petrology comment, yes please 🙂👌
Great knowledge!!!!!!
Thanks!
@RalphNChris Channel Spectacular👏great content.see yiu again
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@ChrisRalph yeah sir
God bless you Chris and thank you for all you do! Do you have a patronage link? I'm joining Jeff Williams later today and I wanted to donate to you aswell! You and Jeff are extremely instrumental with your TH-cam teachings of geology and I cant say thank you enough! I have been studying geology for the past 6 years and I learn something new everyday!
God bless you and may your days be golden!😊😊😊
Long ago I decided not to do patreon for a variety of reasons. Do you have my book? Otherwise, thanks for the kind words.
I guess I am pretty randomly asking but do anyone know a good site to stream new tv shows online?
My daughter is in University studying Geology and I sent her to your channel for her online study portion. Thanks for another great video, Chris.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks for the knowledge, It's not so easy to get someone to share knowledge especially if they see you coming up. Bless you and thank you..
I appreciate that - glad it was helpful.
@@ChrisRalph where do you send diamonds and trace elements for analysis?
Thank you Chris for the great lesson and review.
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thansk a lot Chris for the great lesson..You are the best
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Good day Chris just finish 3 very nice lessons video that you made! And i just bought your book and now member and a full year of the magazine ICMJ !!! I am from the north part of the Province of Québec Canada (in this video we saw different Nickel rocks form your many mines (Copper, Diamond, Gold etc...) Here with thousands and thousands Lakes, Rivers, Cricks and Forest it is a huge no humongous playing ground for prospecting and learning nature! Just retired as a Superior Officer in special and Rapid Emergencies and as a firefighter for 31 years. So beside buying my self a nice sport car as a gift to me for my retirement i decided to (like i said being in a paradise) Kayak Prospecting mainly for gold and gems. I bought the best military inflatable Kayak (Sea Eagle Explorer 380x) and equipped my self with the best equipment there is for prospecting from Panning, Suit, Beach, Rock and hydro prospecting and at the same time equipped my self with everything for camping and everything fits in my Special Kayak so in resume i will be able to go where ever i need, no need for Kayak rack and just around my city 150 km i cant count how many sites i can go! Now that i equipped my self without counting i am learning Geology minerology 101 cause like you say all the time if you know what your seing and finding saves you time and make every good possibility to find treasures. I dont do that to get rich and i am independent financially so all this for fun, exercise, nature and most of all new discoveries! Thanks for everything you did and do and anxious to read your boon and happy i am Bilingual sorry for my English writing mistakes! I subscribed at your site and keep the good work Chris you are now my Mentor you want it or not :) Sincerely And good Luck to everyone in your search of Treasures Frank
Je parle un petit peur de Francais.
Thank you for the 3 part series Chris. Thoroughly enjoyed it 😁
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great lecture and I enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Chris, you are a man of many talents. I am huge on the area of Prescott, AZ. I am also a member of R-R club down there. I think you deserve a vacation and spen a couple weeks we me don there.
Eventually I will make it to AZ. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Excellent video as always Chris...thanks again...!
Thanks again! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge to us. Awesome Book as well Chris 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Chris, Yes please, IDENTIFYING ROCKS, something anybody who is searching for the shiny metal should have a working knowledge of Rocks.
Yep. Be sure to check out parts one and two of this series on how to identify minerals.
Thanks, a lot of work went into thease 3 clips,Thank you.
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Very informative. Thank you for sharing this!
Glad you enjoyed it.
My new favorite you tuber . You literally giving us gold haha and I’m really looking forward to this video
Thanks for the kind words, Glad you enjoy the videos.
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Tungstan is natural.i have shelite sands which is tungstan ore sand , carbides are ceramics that normal are used in conjunction with a metal like tungstan or tungstan alloy, steel carbides are also a thing. Iwas watching a video about making "wootz" or a crucible steel that is used to make the lost true dimascus steel. Which is not pattern welded , that is the grain structure when forged correctly. The metalurgist mentioned true dimascus steel has nuturally occuring carbides in the cutting edge whena propperly forged blade is made . they mentioned also the ore from the orgonal mine in turkey has .05 percent naturally occuring vanadium . i want to know what is adding the ceramics(carbides) to that metal. Opal , agate, chalcedony amd some jaspers(the ones not micocrystaline quartz) are natural silicate glass right?
I have a few super cool mineral samples i need to complete identification of . I am as excited as a child right now thinking about how soon i will have my microscope and microscope camera (3 MP and 2.2μm pixel size. ) id like to see differant gabro rocks. I have what looks to be gabro made out of nephrite and magnitite and a few other things. It is lightly mineralized, and sort of looks like it has traces of nickel as that light brown and tan streaking it sometimes does. It also fizzes in peroxide and hardened steel leaves streaks. the other main samples i think may be amphibles ?are amphibles differant metamorphs of asbestos whoch is a metamorphosed serpantine and includes hornblend and both forms of jade ,nephrite and jadite? Is that correct on any level? These crystals are mostly a peridot green/yellow with hints of emerald green/blue crystal with some decent structure in two directions . it looks waxy but feels smooth like glass and yet it is also fibrous looking. The matrix it is in looks like k-spar granite capped with a hornblend sheet. The entire thing is dotted with tiny black garnets and some unknown to me additions and metalics.
Once identified i can make decisions on if i can sell some slices and crytal specimans ...or not if its worthless or dangerous in a way i can be held responcible for. Be well. As always thankyou for making these videos and writting your book(i am excited about that book too, i should be able to afford a copy out of this months check...Finally) ohhh crap i am looking at the mineral samples in the video and see the comstock ore. The 1921 Denver Morgan dollars are a single year variety and made out of comstock lode silver! So for you numismatists who want a historically cool coin, thats a good one. Its affordable too.
agate, chalcedony and jaspers are all of them micocrystaline quartz. Opal is a hydrated silicate gel. Amphiboles are a group of different minerals.
Another great video on learning about this.
Thanks again! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Good series with loads of info. Sure, rock identifiers would be helpful...thanks....
More to come! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Hi hi hi Chris OMGOODNESS I’m so excited to have found you and our paths are crossing yay! I believe we are in the same area. I would love to come visit with you and show you some of my beautiful findings??? I haven’t done my research yet but totally excited!!!!!🧚🤩
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Sorry. I get so many requests I cannot offer a service to ID rocks and minerals. Take a look at my other videos on how to identify minerals for yourself.
Thank you I got a few things from this.
The main reason I am try to learn about minerals is because I want to learn how to identify some of my rocks . I'm going to go watch your first two videos in this course. I'm sure I'll have a couple of questions when I am done. Thank You again.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for the class. Can't want for the next. Gold Squad Out!!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Gold is where you find it! Mine comes from old burn spot, could be a lot of them this close to Harper's ferry
Best of luck to you.
Great Job! Thanksm
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you Chris this is a great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Chris I've wondered could you do a minarals video on some minarals That are best left alone and some safety tips about them like with gold and murcury or murcuric sulfites for example and other toxic minarals couse I've seen some skechy stuff around sertan parts that could be harmful
Thank you Chris for sharing another excellent video on mineral identification. I would appreciate greatly if you could continue your series on petrology that you mention in your video, I appreciate you taking the time and sharing your knowledge for your 3 part series of mineral identification as well as your other videos that you have posted on TH-cam. I find myself always wondering what kind of rock or mineral I am looking at in the field, that is not the so called common types that a person happens to find out in the field, so any help in that area would be greatly appreciated if you could.
Thank you again for sharing with the rest of us out here. Respectfully, dd
I will do that - I have other stuff I need to get done first, but I will do that. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph No worries, I also got stuff to do now that the weather is starting to warm up. dd
You really help .
Thanks once more......
Always welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Hey Chris! Love the videos!
Hey, thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
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Thanks 🤗 I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I was wondering if you could do a series about identifying and collecting sulphides in the field and then perform a smelting process to gather precious metals from them? Nice video btw.
That is all coming very soon I will be starting with lead sulfide, galena. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you very much Sir this useful Video. 🌠
Most welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I love rock hounding, Im in new york city. I would love to find a video of raw rocks with accessory minerals how they look weathered in raw form by state almost like rocks for dummies, maybe u can do a live stream of rock hounding ramdom rocks/minerals and go live with the process of identifying? I appreciate how u dumbed down all of this as is however i still find it quite hard.
Did you also check out how to identify minerals parts 1 and 2? There is lots of more info there. Maybe purchase a rock and mineral guide - there are several available on Amazon.
@@ChrisRalph yes i did after my comment very helpful great tips & I love your videos. I Can definitely relate with colors being an absolute failure for identification. I Have a hard time figuring them out. Weathered especially! Thanks for replying. Do u ever go live? That would be awsome to see the process of you identifying random weathered specimens.
I've never done anything live. Many times out in the field, it is remote and the internet signal is poor, not good enough for a field transmission.
@@ChrisRalph your doing amazing! Love your vodeos sending you good vibrations. I learned alot binge watching! I had to follow up with an appreciation comment as i learned so much. Its sad that tic toc is the new foundation of learning.
I've shared some of your content with some friends of mine to help them
I hope it helped.
Many thanks ¡
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have a mic, a pinpointer, 3 books on min, and family support! Oh, and a long way to go...1000and1 ?s but saving it for now.
Interesting.
👍👍This was great info. I have a box of quartz/gold ore sent to me years ago and haven't crushed or processed it yet. I'm going to start breaking them up but I'm not sure if I should crush them all the way down to powder. Do you have any opinions about my wanting to find a specimen if possible?
In a lot of gold ore the gold is like dust - tiny particles. I dont know about your ore, so hard to say.
@@ChrisRalph that was my guess as well. I'll use a loupe and keep my eye out as I break it apart. Thank you.
Minelab equinox 800 vs aka mfd signum Which of the two is the best product
It is like asking which is better a hammer or a saw? it depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want to cut wood, you dont want a hammer.
Thanks.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I have a question Cris, do you have rattle snakes? I was metal detecting rocks in mtn and got a big surprise! A reminder for those taking your challenge
We have some in my area but not loads of them.
Hi Chris! I have a nice hunk of yellow quartz? I think that is what it is. How can I tell if it’s a Valuable mineral, or is yellow quartz just that? Also it has lines of black stuff on it. I tried taking it off with a dental pick but it’s soft and hard to get off. I noticed at the bottom of the rock it has little yellow crystals. Can you help me identify it with this description? Thank you!
I get many requests like this every day and I do not offer a mineral ID service. I simply do not have time to help every one who asks.
@@ChrisRalph Thank you! I understand. 😊
Hi Ralph, I just recently stumbled upon your videos here, you're quite informative. Just curious if you've ever done any prospecting in East Coast Canada? Specifically New Brunswick. Or if not have you prospecting in Maine? Maine and New Brunswick share borders so I assume the geology would be fairly similar.
Also I am new to prospecting (gold panning) and just received my prospecting license, so other then watching videos I know nothing lol
I've not prospected in the NE at all. I met some gents a while back who had done pretty well in Maine, finding nuggets over an ounce - which they showed to me. There is goof gold in New Brunswick too. Use Google to do some research on the gold deposits of your area.
Thanks for the quick response. I've been googling quite a bit lately on new brunswick gold but find some of it confusing. Most likely just me not knowing what to search for. 🙃 and as for goof gold, is that like fools gold? I've never heard of goof gold before. I do know that New Brunswick is known for its gold being quite fine with very few nuggets if any. New Brunswick is widely overlooked when it comes to gold. I read the other day that most of its larger deposits are found 100+ feet below the surface, which is out of my league and would need an actual miners license instead of my prospecting license. I have no interest in the deep stuff or the means to acquire it anyway
It is a typographic error. I meant good gold in New Brunswick.
I grew up around the Arroyo Seco in Los Angeles. The rocks here seem to be sedimentary or metamorphic.
There was one rock there that was speckled and I had thought it to be granite but their was a problem. It was relatively soft and it weathered.
Besides the unusual softness there was another problem. Some rocks weathered internally and broke open and contained rust. Many of these rocks were rounded so they had been in streams.
Then I noticed something else The.speckles rather than being totally random were in patterns like sedimentary rock. Looking at books I realised these rocks were gneiss. The San Gabriel mountains are composed of this rock.
Very true that there is a lot of Gneiss in the San Gabriel Mtns.
I looked at the rusty color item i spoke of. Ivtook a magnet to to it . Its indeed magnetic. I half to clen up the other parts that are not to get a better idea as to what this iron mineral is setting to.
You are getting closer to making an ID on that stuff.
@@ChrisRalph yes thanks whe i get some of the rust cleaned off and can see the makeup i can make a better assessment. It may be a fine grained conglomerate. There are so many different transitional rocks . The fact it was with ignious rocks is also a clue. This one doesn't have the heat or pressure characteristics. It does seem to have intermediate pressure and heat. It facinating to think about the ways rocks were formed. I have rock that appears to be basalt. One side has a glassy appearance but to inches away it has a basalt appearance. Looks like a turd. Again it was on the edge of heatsource. Which i assume was magma. I think about the way this earth was formed over billions of years. Plate tectonics and volcanos and other things like glaciers and sediment. Its picking up a piece of history. If that rock could talk .
Hi Chris, I live in Southern California in now. I have time for look for different minerals in my property.what is the name of a good detector I can buy, thank you
A detector to do what? There are many models designed for different purposes.
I live in East LA in a bunch of hills around me is there gold or any other minerals there or precious stones that I should be aware of
There is some gold in some streams of the San Gabriel mountains.
Can you use electrical current in identification, whether it is a conductor or not? I have a piece of quartz with a 1" line of a charcoal colored material on it and under 1200x magnification it looks like small crystals, I put a volt meter across it and it was a conductor, does that tell me anything.
Sort of. Many sulfides will conduct under the right conditions. There are a lot of possibilities.
database that you can input the hardness to eliminate all other minerals, then streak, then crystal shape, etc.???
That's what the mineral identification books are for.....
Could you help me properly identify some rocks, to the best of what I can find out about them is they might be something called fuchsite, and from watching your channel iv also found a heap more clues that could indicate gold. I will wait for a reply and I will send pictures and what other information iv gathered so far.
In video no. 1 of that series I explain how useless pictures normally are. Yet in spite of that I get many, many of these requests and I cannot offer a mineral ID service.
I have gem stone, I am not sure what it's is, and from what family of mineral? I guess it's diamond it look like, but the shape is confusing. How can I show it to you?
Sorry, I do not offer a mineral ID service. I explain why photos do not work very clearly in the video you commented on.
Well I'm here to tell you I'm so disappointed and I watched all your video. I think if I would have started at a really young age I would have had more time to discover more things. I only had the opportunity to do things like this for 25 years if you was to come to my house and just walk down the pathway you'll find all kinds of gemstones minerals and rocks and fossils that's on the pathway to my front door I've had so much fun only if I would have known when I was 10 how much fun this could be. So many kids get excited when I show up because I've always had something exciting to see. All your viewers no matter what you do in life take time out to experience the world around you don't limit yourself. The travels of taking me far and wide not to sit on a beach with a drink in my hand but to have my nose to the ground looking
Its never too late to learn something new.
Many years ago, my Dad found a BIG chunk of pink quartz, which I got after he passed in 2014. I would like to find out it’s’ value. Who would I take it to find out it’s’ value?
I'm not sure. Perhaps a rock shop in your area?
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Glad you enjoyed the video.
I have what appears to be a small nugget of melted gold, wish it came from creek or mtn. Alas it came from burn spot... darn it! I will take it though...
Gold is good to have, no matter where it came from.
I also have every rock in Blue ridge mountains on my bedroom floor
Best of luck to you.
Yes
glad you enjoyed it.
Can I send you a picture of a mineral I found in Colorado near a place named ruby mountain in central co .
Watch Part 1 of this series and I explain why I dont attempt photo ID - because its nearly impossible.
Thank you for your reply. Ya it is 6 sided very dark about 2 inches long and 3/4 inches wide almost terminated flat on both ends and scratch glass easily it looks like the ruby on your video. Thank you again.
Thank you
hey chris ralph you should check out mudfossil university........
Lots of good channels out there, I just don't have time to check them all out.
I have lost of piret Mix white big depo of mica and with corts
Best of luck to you in your prospecting.
So then gold is a mineral and not a rock, nest pa? see i've lernt something already. If you ever want a real challange finding gold, come to middle Tennessee.
Thanks Chris
There is gold in Coker Creek in Tenn. People mine gold there all the time.
How can I get my gems certified for free
I dont know - you tell me.
I would subscribe but can't afford it yet, but I know you will steer me right
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I gotta take an issue with part of your lecture Chris. You mention that no minerals are organic, to this I have to say bullpucky! There are literally thousands of miles of the earth's crust that are composed of organic or organically influenced compounds and elements. The fossils people have dug up give testament to entire stretches of geological periods where Calcium and calcites are a key mineral compound, same goes with coal. Imo if it was found in the Earth it's a mineral, or atleast it's likely surrounded by minerals. That being said, metals are not minerals, minerals are elemental compounds composed of sometimes multiple multiple elements where as metals are likely never more than 2 elements, as you alluded to ruling out Tungsten Carbide as a naturally occurring alloy (although possible it is literally astronomically unlikely.)
Look, geologists and scientists have made a specific definition for what a mineral is. You can look all over the internet to see what the definition of a mineral is, and I did not make it up myself. There is actually an international organization which decides what minerals are valid minerals and which things are not! Yes there is lots of organic stuff at the earth's surface, but bu definition, that is not a mineral. So I did my video to agree with the established definition of a mineral.
FlourIte is NOT the same as fluoride.
Look it up on the internet before you comment on stuff like this. The chemical name for the mineral Fluorite is Calcium Fluoride. Companies take the mineral Fluorite and treat it to extract the fluoride, and use that fluoride in all sorts of products, including the fluoride that goes into toothpaste, fluoridated drinking water, etc.
@@ChrisRalph What type of flouride do they put in drinking water. Isent it poisonous. Was it used in concentration camps. Does it come from production plants. Fluoridated toothpaste makes me feel really sick...
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mitchorahit is not a word in English - can you translate?
Allso i find some serpentine whit the vine
Best of luck to you in your prospecting.
I am pretty sure (Mineral streaking.)Takes place in mineral college, after one too many keg stands...one of the lesser knownminerals with questionable mineral associations..and strong single cleavage.decides to traverse the quad naked with their exposed facets and crystals flopping in the wind... I think that's tetrahede-rite....
Hmmmm....
Ok, I'm an idiot who can't work a phone, I'll get my nephew to help me send pic 4 challenge. Sorry Cris I'm new at this
OK.
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Thinking like a 7 year old? How smart.
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A silver button trinket.