Soloman!! Thank you for your ability to teach!!! I’m so thankful me and my wife stumbled upon your videos. Maybe sometime we could all get together and find something neat. You may like some specimens we have found. That green sheen rock, maybe it’s green garnet?
The fact that you made the effort to do a great geological explanation won you my instant subscription. Nice work. Looking forward to seeing some more. The green vitreous mineral may be fluorite...
This looks like a good adventure to spend a day exploring. Thanks for bringing us along. I particularly enjoy the pronunciation lessons on the minerals.
Very well done presentation!👍 Enjoyed all the history and facts about the mine. You dug up a lot more info than other videos I've seen. Good to see you're still making videos too. When I opened up TH-cam today and saw a recommendation for Solomon's Outdoor Adventures, I thought it was an older episode! Your channel (Solomon's Vegas Adventures) was one of the original inspirations for us to start rockhounding around Vegas 🤠
Did you ever find out what the lime green was in the copper ore? Also .. was the botryoidal specimen that you showed right after it Smithsonite? Another great video.
I was looking for geologic and paleologic information about Big Pine, CA. where I grew up when I came across your video. It would be interesting to get your input on this unique place.
Solomon why are so many deposits of Galena found in limestone? Is there a reason scientifically for this? Ive seen silver in quartz with gold but when its solo it usually is in limestone with zinc in smithsonite. Was the green mineral peridot?
Thanks for watching! I cannot definitively answer your question about Galena deposits in Limestone, but what I do know is this… Lead and Zinc are metals that have relatively low melting points- Lead’s is about 620 degrees C and Zinc’s is about 790 degrees C. Because of this, Lead and Zinc are common in lower temperature hydrothermal systems- because of their low melting points, they can freely move more easily in volcanically heated solutions, and often deposit distally (far) from magmatic source, due to their temperature properties (they can move further away from the magmatic body in aqueous solution). I think it’s more of a correlation and less causation that they deposit in Limestone, because across the western US, much of the sedimentary rock units neighboring igneous bodies is limestone, and due to the fact that Lead and Zinc deposit distally from magmatic source, you’ll find them more in these limestones rather than closer to the igneous plutons. I don’t definitively know the answer and it’s a great question, but my thought is because of the lower temperature preference of Lead and Zinc and the regional geology of areas where lead and zinc are found. I think another property of Limestone that makes it friendlier to metal deposits is its presence of Carbon- Carbon is an element that easily bonds with other metals. Sandstone, on the other hand, is mainly just tiny quartz and feldspar grains and isn’t as friendly to metal in terms of deposition. Hence, sandstone-hosted metal deposits are extremely rare as opposed to Limestone-hosted deposits. I know Lead was/is heavily mined in Missouri, the bedrock there being Limestone, and some papers will tell you that there is no igneous source of this lead, but my postulation is that those deposits probably have something to do with the Reelfoot Rift (New Madrid Fault Zone), and that there may be some igneous activity that went on there that distally deposited the lead in Missouri, but I’m not an expert in that area…
Nice, missed the Nevada mine/rockhounding videos! Classic like Solomon's Vegas Adventures.
Soloman!! Thank you for your ability to teach!!! I’m so thankful me and my wife stumbled upon your videos. Maybe sometime we could all get together and find something neat. You may like some specimens we have found.
That green sheen rock, maybe it’s green garnet?
The fact that you made the effort to do a great geological explanation won you my instant subscription. Nice work. Looking forward to seeing some more. The green vitreous mineral may be fluorite...
Great informative geologic overview. Thanks
My thoughts exactly....very knowledgeable.
This looks like a good adventure to spend a day exploring. Thanks for bringing us along. I particularly enjoy the pronunciation lessons on the minerals.
Thank you for another great video!
Very well done presentation!👍 Enjoyed all the history and facts about the mine. You dug up a lot more info than other videos I've seen. Good to see you're still making videos too. When I opened up TH-cam today and saw a recommendation for Solomon's Outdoor Adventures, I thought it was an older episode! Your channel (Solomon's Vegas Adventures) was one of the original inspirations for us to start rockhounding around Vegas 🤠
great video -Toronto Ontario
Great video! Not a rockhounder, but loved the geology and history. Beautiful song dog.
Thank you so much for your efforts to show us some really beautiful minerals and a coyote😊
Saw it many times. From the road. Always wanted to go up.
Solomon in Nevada 😃😃😃
Scary hanging wall and ceiling, at the entrance
Did you ever find out what the lime green was in the copper ore? Also .. was the botryoidal specimen that you showed right after it Smithsonite? Another great video.
I was looking for geologic and paleologic information about Big Pine, CA. where I grew up when I came across your video. It would be interesting to get your input on this unique place.
The BLM has locked away a lot of interesting public places behind bat bars. Nice mineral specimens, thanks for the video.
Fuel for the smelter was scarce. I guess the values produced exceeded the fuel costs
Peridot
Solomon why are so many deposits of Galena found in limestone? Is there a reason scientifically for this?
Ive seen silver in quartz with gold but when its solo it usually is in limestone with zinc in smithsonite.
Was the green mineral peridot?
Thanks for watching! I cannot definitively answer your question about Galena deposits in Limestone, but what I do know is this… Lead and Zinc are metals that have relatively low melting points- Lead’s is about 620 degrees C and Zinc’s is about 790 degrees C. Because of this, Lead and Zinc are common in lower temperature hydrothermal systems- because of their low melting points, they can freely move more easily in volcanically heated solutions, and often deposit distally (far) from magmatic source, due to their temperature properties (they can move further away from the magmatic body in aqueous solution). I think it’s more of a correlation and less causation that they deposit in Limestone, because across the western US, much of the sedimentary rock units neighboring igneous bodies is limestone, and due to the fact that Lead and Zinc deposit distally from magmatic source, you’ll find them more in these limestones rather than closer to the igneous plutons. I don’t definitively know the answer and it’s a great question, but my thought is because of the lower temperature preference of Lead and Zinc and the regional geology of areas where lead and zinc are found. I think another property of Limestone that makes it friendlier to metal deposits is its presence of Carbon- Carbon is an element that easily bonds with other metals. Sandstone, on the other hand, is mainly just tiny quartz and feldspar grains and isn’t as friendly to metal in terms of deposition. Hence, sandstone-hosted metal deposits are extremely rare as opposed to Limestone-hosted deposits.
I know Lead was/is heavily mined in Missouri, the bedrock there being Limestone, and some papers will tell you that there is no igneous source of this lead, but my postulation is that those deposits probably have something to do with the Reelfoot Rift (New Madrid Fault Zone), and that there may be some igneous activity that went on there that distally deposited the lead in Missouri, but I’m not an expert in that area…
Uranium?