This is next level you tube collaborations wow I’m impressed and I like all the people involved with this project. Thanks for the great content on a Sunday morning
I find Chads personality and general good attitude to be the right kind that you need to be a presenter. He speaks with confidence and authority that makes you not want to question him and his upbeat attitude keeps me engaged with what he's teaching.
It's really cool watching the connections be made - Dale being your childhood friend and now he not only helped you figure out your mine's geology a bit better but he's helping the guys who came to you to learn your methods, to figure out their geology too!
@scotttrujillo363 Generally people think it's safe when it's not, but the main concern is dust being breathed in or on the skin… Yes its dangerous and these are not safe readings… and you'd have to keep track of time of exposure and take breaks… “If I'm not dieing immediately, it's safe” is how most people treat it. As long as its locked in the rock you can get away from it. The further down they go, the air thins out and gets more concentrated... It would be very nice to have radon gas and various gas detectors with you. And drill air holes in areas you plan to spend time in. They don't think it's dangerous or know it is… the general population is not given free access to the military tests from the 1960 documenting the range of cpm vs physical damages to the body. The eyes and lungs being the most vulnerable areas. Just keep them in mind and wish them well… keep them in your prayers. Maybe they will get lucky. A lot of things go into if you suffer or don't even genetics. But the main factor is time and rate of the exposure.
Phenomenal sharing Jason, thanks for bringing us along. Loved watching your passion out with the team. 👊💪✌️😆⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️ Amazing how far we are in technology , Woa 😅
Jason this is one of your best videos. Absolutely fantastic! I had a claim with my dad for twenty years about 40 miles north of Kingman, AZ and it looks very similar to the desert ground you're covering here. A lot more of that banded gneiss at the surface in my area. Great work!
I LOOOVVVEEEE mining..... but prospecting as always been what really draws me. The bones of the earth hold so many secrets that few can tease out properly. Great video from everyone involved !!!
Outstanding video, an abundance of information on rock types, formations. Watching different gold prospecting videos led to MBMMLLC, led to Nick Zentner, then to Itchy Boots. All great views of the third rock from the sun.
Brilliant Jason. Thank you so much for your detail to the subtleties on your journey through a new geological discovery. I live in Washington State and have had the pleasure of exploring here. May I humblly say you are not only an explorer with so much couriosity you are a teacher of deep wisdoms of earth's story. Big hugs to Jason and thank you for all that you do. Love and light to you.
Always love watching yiurs Dan's and mime operators videos good stuff guys! If I were closer I'd bring some minerals I discovered were I live there isn't much for processing ore
What I’d like to know is how people find those pockets of crystallized gold like the specimens you see on the market from the Eagles Nest, Oriental, 16 to 1, and Round Mountain Nevada mines, those are what get me excited :) Interesting video, there use to be a rare earth mine in Nuevo, Calif. in the same area as the popular garnet/Schorl pegmatites, when I was a paying member of the MSSC back in the day we went to Nuevo a few times a year, most of us were breaking pegmatite looking for showy specimens, but their was a small sub group that was always picking through the rare earth dumps .. and they’d get fired up over specimens the rest of us would just chuck back on the pile lol. I realize this is a whole different gig for you guys .. and I wish you much success. Thanks for the interesting watch 👍
What fun, you guys have your fingers in many pies. I hope you find some good ones. Beats the hell out of big tech, big corporation activities This is something all us individuals like and cheer you on to success.
Love seeing the field geology mapping, exactly the same as what i did during a field course in field geology. Finding outcrops and measuring strike and dip
As always an awesome video ! Thanks ! Also thanks for using the XRF gun properly ! ( watched a video recently where a guy was holding gold jewelry in his hand and shot it with an XRF). Please don’t do this ! It will only fire at inorganic materials, don’t back it up with your hand 🤚. Great look at modern prospecting, very informative! Thanks again 👍
With the XRF you are measuring the fluorescence triggered by the x-rays. Certain elements give back certain combinations (think recipes) of wavelengths of radiation (think ingredients) back. Some elements share specific " ingredients" but of course have their own "recipes." If they overlap they may indicate a false answer. That's where the analyzer's computer comes in. If its obviously wrong you need to do a chemical assay. Gold and zinc share a near wavelength and it make measuring gold with XRF difficult.
I have done a lot of XRF work, mostly looking for lead and arsenic. When there is a high concentration of metals that fluoresce in the X-ray range the signal overwhelms many other elements due to spectral overlap. When we get a super high hit we ignore all of the other results. These samples went to the lab for ICP-MS analysis.
Here you are the geologist of the group with more geological understanding no wonder they bring you to their most exciting spot. Good job Jason, oh my. This is not necessarily this high on gold as the xrf might be spoofed by the radioactivity, but maybe not. The rare earths might be good enough to mine as thorium brings in the rare earth adds. What Jason needs to do is go to Lemhi pass with this xrf if these guys want to see some high numbers.
Awesome; this is what I want to see, all kinds of rare earth minerals Uranium; Silver; Copper; Gold and more will all be needed in the future and I think it's a perfect time for miners and companies to get into it.. US has a goal to be supply chain independent by 2030-2040 and miners are going to play a key role *cough* South West \ West Utah *cough*
Jason. You have never replied to anything I have ever said but you should buy one of those mass spectrometer analyser devices and bring it to your mine. Even if you don't reply BUY ONE.
Are you talking about inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer? ICP-MS? Super sensitive for inorganic analysis. Unfortunately they can be complicated to maintain and sample prep is more difficult
Those devices are expensive and cumbersome. He even says he is using an XRF!! That’s a “cheaper” (not really) version that is much more accurate. Not to mention much more accurate and helps with real time data. If you’ve ever looked as a mass spect log, you wouldn’t have a clue what you’re looking at. I’ve worked with them in the oil/gas sector for years and still don’t understand them. But the XRF is user friendly and tells you exactly what you’re looking at in mere minutes. Lol.
Well I'm watching it thinking I'm watching something with a foreign language because I have no idea what you're talking about😂 I do however know your prospecting for something😂 anyways it looks like you're all having fun doing whatever you're doing😂❤😅
I'm guessing the reason you're getting big numbers on the XRF gun for AU when you find U is because they're both big, heavy atoms and the X-Rays coming out of that gun aren't particularly high frequency. I think if you sent a sample off for an XRF scan in a lab with a more powerful beam, you'll get more accurate readings.
Jason, I learned a lot from this video. Although the terminology was hard to follow at times, I understood the basic meanings in the descriptions. This process is quite different when using the XRF (I hope that's right) machine. It will pay for itself ten times over! That is a valuable piece of equipment. At several points, like at 19:00 in the video, was that just another small vein of quartz over your right shoulder? It was so white and pristine looking. Thank you so much for taking us on this incredible adventure! Just wear gloves and masks when that close to radioactive rocks. Like I was told in the comment section before, it might be a different radiation that is not gamma. However, I think it is safer than being sorry to not inhale or touch dust particles. Blessings from Alabama ❤️
I work with systems that do similar XRF scans on Scanning electron microscopes. What ends up happening is different materials have very similar reactivity waveforms when hit by the beam. It requires a system with really high discrimination capabilities to positively identify the materials. That is how you can end up with high counts for materials that may not even be present. They just react very similarly to a neighboring element.
Very interesting Jason it's very good to listen to guys talking about stuff they understand I have some knowledge of Geology and prospecting in Australia but listening to you guys is a great learning curve about different countries .
The last mine with the ties, he had stops nailed under at each post. That is good to keep the tie from sliding left or right. The old time miners actually did tenons and mortises. I just wonder how one guy moved ties to support the roof???? About the chemistry: There was an abstract that I read the book was $200 out of my budget. They described how various intrusions of fluids in each geological event would deposit specific mineral. The next injection could either enhance the deposit, ad other common minerals, and injection of fluids that actually remove previous deposits. It had a list of processes that indicated a list of minerals that would be common together, minerals that would be excluded , and precursor minerals that were indicative of possible minerals to deposit in future intrusions that may have already occurred but in a different area of the vein. This discussion was about nickel deposits in eastern Canada.
Informative video, Jason! We have a Niton analyzer at work that we use to determine composition of metals used in our process. I'll have to take my chunk of Keweenaw copper ore in and shoot it for fun!
Holy crap! 10% U308? Those uranium numbers are Athabasca Basin numbers! Uranium is $85 dollars a pound right now and the price is only going up. That's some valuable rock you have there.
Jason, i think im gonna finally refine the gold today with lead. I'll probably lose the silver, but everyone told me its just a hobby and wont work. Im determined, but it's difficult because everyone is pessimistic. Ive finally learned how to do almost everything. You should get an electric kiln though.
You won't lose the silver it all finds its layers as it cools. The acid refining would remover lead. Just start and learn as you go, it's the best way to learn. Don't throw anything away cause it can all be reclaimed later with different methods as you learn them.
Love this! XRF is game changed. These videos are proof that you guys are bringing it to a new level, and I really appreciate that as a couch miner...Do you guys use Dosimetry? PEL's are probably good for the wife. Hope you strike it rich with experiences oh and cash...Great health to you and yours.
Geology can be an awesome science to major in college. There's a lot more to geology than meets the eye and not bcuz geologist spend a lot of time working under the surface of the earth either. 😊❤
You are very clever to use hammer drill cuttings shot though the plastic bag. It averages out the reading throughout the length of the hole. If you experience gravity separation, just add a little water to make it a paste.
My last story for this video. It comes from France in the early 1800’s. There was a young book store owner sitting in his store, when an elderly man came in and wished him to store a book for him. During those times most books were hand rewritten rare and if you owned a valuable one, it had a protective case to protect it. The owner took the book and the gentleman payed the storage fees in advance. The young man grew old and was ready to close his store and retire. As he went through his inventory he came across the old book case. Thinking it over he thought it ok to open the case and look at the book. There was no book inside the case, but a bag of off-white powder, with a page of hand written instructions. The instructions stated that an amount of the powder should be smelted with pure silver, and the silver would transform into gold. Also, the powder could be smelted with gold, and the gold would be transformed into silver, but the amount would double in size. He used his wealth to build hospitals across France.
Palladium is a fission product of uranium and thorium. Possible the xrf gets confused with the photon spectrum given off by certain minerals but also possible that vein is concentrated palladium from SF and fast fission. Au abundance is interesting. Most likely was deposited by whatever geological event deposited all the other heavy metals in the rock. It is possible it’s being produced from platinum 196 capturing neutrons. Pt196 has a very large cross section for neutron capture between 10ev and 1500ev. Still an appreciable cross section for fast neutrons
When using a pancake probe on a ginger counter, should try to avoid touching your probe to the surface of the sample or having the sample above the probe. You could contaminate the probe and then get false readings. Your not in a lab setting so contaminating the probe isn’t something you worried about but just something to keep in mind. Should also try and move the probe over samples slower to get a better reading. When the probe starts detecting large numbers of counts, thousands of counts+ its very likely your probe is missing a large number of counts from the detector being blinded by all the counts it is finding From a health safety standpoint, would recommend wearing a mask anytime you’re drilling a rock without water but especially when actinides elements are present. Getting dust in your lungs is bad but getting alpha and beta emitters in your lungs, cuts, GI tract, et c. Is asking for trouble
Excellent video on modern prospecting and field geology. Long ways from Frederic Henry Lahee’s book on Field Geology that provided some of the fundamentals. Thanks for putting together, interesting and enjoyable to watch.
23:15 Pegmatite is the differentiated that is residual as an intrusive is crystalizing, ground rupturing hydraulically injects this liquid and crystalizes. How hot and how slow the cooling creates zoning across the vein. SG of gold and uranium very nearly the same, so no surprise in this particular situation you find the 2 occurring together. Wonder if you dry wash placer material you can find concentrations with the XRF?
I am not surprised that they are all collaborating with you Jason, You have a fantastic channel developing here.
This is next level you tube collaborations wow I’m impressed and I like all the people involved with this project. Thanks for the great content on a Sunday morning
I find Chads personality and general good attitude to be the right kind that you need to be a presenter. He speaks with confidence and authority that makes you not want to question him and his upbeat attitude keeps me engaged with what he's teaching.
It's really cool watching the connections be made - Dale being your childhood friend and now he not only helped you figure out your mine's geology a bit better but he's helping the guys who came to you to learn your methods, to figure out their geology too!
I’ve been watching while eating breakfast, maybe I missed it, are you all not concerned about radiation exposure?
@@scotttrujillo363 commercial pilots are experiencing way more radiation daily. The low-level background stuff here is non-consequential
@scotttrujillo363
Generally people think it's safe when it's not, but the main concern is dust being breathed in or on the skin…
Yes its dangerous and these are not safe readings… and you'd have to keep track of time of exposure and take breaks…
“If I'm not dieing immediately, it's safe” is how most people treat it.
As long as its locked in the rock you can get away from it.
The further down they go, the air thins out and gets more concentrated...
It would be very nice to have radon gas and various gas detectors with you. And drill air holes in areas you plan to spend time in.
They don't think it's dangerous or know it is… the general population is not given free access to the military tests from the 1960 documenting the range of cpm vs physical damages to the body.
The eyes and lungs being the most vulnerable areas.
Just keep them in mind and wish them well… keep them in your prayers. Maybe they will get lucky.
A lot of things go into if you suffer or don't even genetics. But the main factor is time and rate of the exposure.
Phenomenal sharing Jason, thanks for bringing us along. Loved watching your passion out with the team. 👊💪✌️😆⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️
Amazing how far we are in technology , Woa 😅
This is Part 1! I am looking forward to the rest of the series. Thank you for including me on your journey.
Jason this is one of your best videos. Absolutely fantastic! I had a claim with my dad for twenty years about 40 miles north of Kingman, AZ and it looks very similar to the desert ground you're covering here. A lot more of that banded gneiss at the surface in my area. Great work!
I LOOOVVVEEEE mining..... but prospecting as always been what really draws me. The bones of the earth hold so many secrets that few can tease out properly.
Great video from everyone involved !!!
Outstanding video, an abundance of information on rock types, formations. Watching different gold prospecting videos led to MBMMLLC, led to Nick Zentner, then to Itchy Boots. All great views of the third rock from the sun.
Somebody's in Washington lol
Hopefully your not in buried in basalt like me ( Spokane)
Miss hiking in nor Cal for sure.
Dude you are living the life!
Uranium is climbing the charts again. Great time to mine
Brilliant Jason. Thank you so much for your detail to the subtleties on your journey through a new geological discovery. I live in Washington State and have had the pleasure of exploring here. May I humblly say you are not only an explorer with so much couriosity you are a teacher of deep wisdoms of earth's story. Big hugs to Jason and thank you for all that you do. Love and light to you.
This is my territory! Love to see all you guys out in these areas I've rockhounded before!
These collabs are so friggin' cool!!!
Fantastic work Jason. Your videos just keep getting better and better. So much fun watching all of these adventures.
Always love watching yiurs Dan's and mime operators videos good stuff guys! If I were closer I'd bring some minerals I discovered were I live there isn't much for processing ore
What I’d like to know is how people find those pockets of crystallized gold like the specimens you see on the market from the Eagles Nest, Oriental, 16 to 1, and Round Mountain Nevada mines, those are what get me excited :) Interesting video, there use to be a rare earth mine in Nuevo, Calif. in the same area as the popular garnet/Schorl pegmatites, when I was a paying member of the MSSC back in the day we went to Nuevo a few times a year, most of us were breaking pegmatite looking for showy specimens, but their was a small sub group that was always picking through the rare earth dumps .. and they’d get fired up over specimens the rest of us would just chuck back on the pile lol. I realize this is a whole different gig for you guys .. and I wish you much success. Thanks for the interesting watch 👍
Very informative video. I have a much better grasp of the relevant terminology now. Great work and lots of fun to watch!
Reminds me of field camp. Wish I were using those skills and taking these adventures in my career. You and Dale are living the dream!
Fascinating video! Such a great education on tools, rock types, mining, and so much more. Loved it!
Hi Jason, Incredible adventure! Looking forward to more parts of this series! Thumbs up! Stay safe. Jim
What fun, you guys have your fingers in many pies. I hope you find some good ones. Beats the hell out of big tech, big corporation activities This is something all us individuals like and cheer you on to success.
That was tons of fun! That XRFgun is a valuable place of equipment.
Thanks for sharing
🙏❤️🌲
Love seeing the field geology mapping, exactly the same as what i did during a field course in field geology. Finding outcrops and measuring strike and dip
Really enjoy the content you have been putting out great job very entertaining and educational
As always an awesome video ! Thanks ! Also thanks for using the XRF gun properly ! ( watched a video recently where a guy was holding gold jewelry in his hand and shot it with an XRF). Please don’t do this ! It will only fire at inorganic materials, don’t back it up with your hand 🤚. Great look at modern prospecting, very informative! Thanks again 👍
Thank you for sharing, the last few with the sun shining bright across the mountains,was so amazing.
Make little gold and or silver spikes. That would be cool. Keep doing what your are doing. I look forward to your and Dan Hurd's videos every week
Really fascinating, my geology class in college was the most interesting class I ever took.
With the XRF you are measuring the fluorescence triggered by the x-rays. Certain elements give back certain combinations (think recipes) of wavelengths of radiation (think ingredients) back. Some elements share specific " ingredients" but of course have their own "recipes." If they overlap they may indicate a false answer. That's where the analyzer's computer comes in. If its obviously wrong you need to do a chemical assay. Gold and zinc share a near wavelength and it make measuring gold with XRF difficult.
Excellent video!! Full of information!!
I have done a lot of XRF work, mostly looking for lead and arsenic. When there is a high concentration of metals that fluoresce in the X-ray range the signal overwhelms many other elements due to spectral overlap. When we get a super high hit we ignore all of the other results. These samples went to the lab for ICP-MS analysis.
We were advised the same by the manufacturer of the unit we’ve been using. Also, heavy iron results can interfere with the Au detection…
Here you are the geologist of the group with more geological understanding no wonder they bring you to their most exciting spot. Good job Jason, oh my. This is not necessarily this high on gold as the xrf might be spoofed by the radioactivity, but maybe not. The rare earths might be good enough to mine as thorium brings in the rare earth adds. What Jason needs to do is go to Lemhi pass with this xrf if these guys want to see some high numbers.
This episode is phenomenal.
Excellent video thanks for sharing this six stars
Awesome; this is what I want to see, all kinds of rare earth minerals
Uranium; Silver; Copper; Gold and more will all be needed in the future and I think it's a perfect time for miners and companies to get into it..
US has a goal to be supply chain independent by 2030-2040 and miners are going to play a key role
*cough* South West \ West Utah *cough*
Really interesting place, cheers for sharing a video and info on it.
Yes Jason - love the geology , geologists & geologic mapping,
Please do give us more of that!
Love you guys, so watch the Radon!
Jason. You have never replied to anything I have ever said but you should buy one of those mass spectrometer analyser devices and bring it to your mine. Even if you don't reply BUY ONE.
I have no idea what exactly that is but it sounds great! 😂👍🏻
Are you talking about inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer? ICP-MS? Super sensitive for inorganic analysis. Unfortunately they can be complicated to maintain and sample prep is more difficult
Don’t take it personally homey.
Hi the one shown is the The Vanta Series
Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyzer which is a good device. Well worth the cost.@@loberd09
Those devices are expensive and cumbersome. He even says he is using an XRF!! That’s a “cheaper” (not really) version that is much more accurate. Not to mention much more accurate and helps with real time data. If you’ve ever looked as a mass spect log, you wouldn’t have a clue what you’re looking at. I’ve worked with them in the oil/gas sector for years and still don’t understand them. But the XRF is user friendly and tells you exactly what you’re looking at in mere minutes. Lol.
Well I'm watching it thinking I'm watching something with a foreign language because I have no idea what you're talking about😂 I do however know your prospecting for something😂 anyways it looks like you're all having fun doing whatever you're doing😂❤😅
Merry Christmas and God Bless Y'all from the Beautiful Mountains of Pike County Kentucky ❤
Great vid. I live near this area and i love to see it and learn what's around here. ❤
uv black light looked awesome 25:40
Great times indeed fam. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠
I'm guessing the reason you're getting big numbers on the XRF gun for AU when you find U is because they're both big, heavy atoms and the X-Rays coming out of that gun aren't particularly high frequency. I think if you sent a sample off for an XRF scan in a lab with a more powerful beam, you'll get more accurate readings.
Cool!
Together you're invincible.
Avengers of geology!
Great information Jason. Thanks for the tag along video
Jason, I learned a lot from this video. Although the terminology was hard to follow at times, I understood the basic meanings in the descriptions. This process is quite different when using the XRF (I hope that's right) machine. It will pay for itself ten times over! That is a valuable piece of equipment.
At several points, like at 19:00 in the video, was that just another small vein of quartz over your right shoulder? It was so white and pristine looking.
Thank you so much for taking us on this incredible adventure! Just wear gloves and masks when that close to radioactive rocks. Like I was told in the comment section before, it might be a different radiation that is not gamma. However, I think it is safer than being sorry to not inhale or touch dust particles. Blessings from Alabama ❤️
I work with systems that do similar XRF scans on Scanning electron microscopes. What ends up happening is different materials have very similar reactivity waveforms when hit by the beam. It requires a system with really high discrimination capabilities to positively identify the materials. That is how you can end up with high counts for materials that may not even be present. They just react very similarly to a neighboring element.
do u also use a mass spec? would that help jason?
Very interesting Jason it's very good to listen to guys talking about stuff they understand I have some knowledge of Geology and prospecting in Australia but listening to you guys is a great learning curve about different countries .
AWESOME! CONGRATS!... MERRY XMAS!
Awesome video. Very interesting.
The last mine with the ties, he had stops nailed under at each post. That is good to keep the tie from sliding left or right. The old time miners actually did tenons and mortises. I just wonder how one guy moved ties to support the roof???? About the chemistry: There was an abstract that I read the book was $200 out of my budget. They described how various intrusions of fluids in each geological event would deposit specific mineral. The next injection could either enhance the deposit, ad other common minerals, and injection of fluids that actually remove previous deposits. It had a list of processes that indicated a list of minerals that would be common together, minerals that would be excluded , and precursor minerals that were indicative of possible minerals to deposit in future intrusions that may have already occurred but in a different area of the vein. This discussion was about nickel deposits in eastern Canada.
fascinating stuff, expensive machine , you know your gonna want one Jason 😂
Excellent video thank you 😊
That XRF gun is an amazing tool. The old miners wouldn’t have dreamed of such a thing. Next stop TriCorder 😂😂😂
Very Nice Jason!
Let's go!!
...jolly good show!...all of you!...big xmas gift of geo-metalogy!...thanks!...be well, all!...
Uranium, I still have my dads Geiger counter that he use to use in the 50’s and early 60’s out in the Southern California desert.
This one was awesome
Most excellent! ♥
Informative video, Jason! We have a Niton analyzer at work that we use to determine composition of metals used in our process. I'll have to take my chunk of Keweenaw copper ore in and shoot it for fun!
Most interesting video on geology and mineral I’ve seen. Thankyou. 👏🇦🇺😁
You are killing it Jason.
Great video guys👍🏻
Excellent and informative. Thanks 👍
Holy crap! 10% U308? Those uranium numbers are Athabasca Basin numbers!
Uranium is $85 dollars a pound right now and the price is only going up. That's some valuable rock you have there.
Woo hoo I get to have over an hour of kick ass entertainment!
Jason, i think im gonna finally refine the gold today with lead. I'll probably lose the silver, but everyone told me its just a hobby and wont work. Im determined, but it's difficult because everyone is pessimistic. Ive finally learned how to do almost everything. You should get an electric kiln though.
You won't lose the silver it all finds its layers as it cools.
The acid refining would remover lead.
Just start and learn as you go, it's the best way to learn.
Don't throw anything away cause it can all be reclaimed later with different methods as you learn them.
That was awesome jason thank you for your cool teaching videos. All the best from NZ
1 heure de vidéo 😍 je vais prendre un bière pour déguster la prospection 💪💪
Love this! XRF is game changed. These videos are proof that you guys are bringing it to a new level, and I really appreciate that as a couch miner...Do you guys use Dosimetry? PEL's are probably good for the wife. Hope you strike it rich with experiences oh and cash...Great health to you and yours.
Now Jason is going glow in his mine!
Look you found new help for your mine you can work them for a little bit till they get burned out and go home. Lol love the show
I see XRF and I'm there. This is what sci-fi looked like when I was a kid.
My Dad did uranium prospecting in south east Oregon in the early 1950’s.
That was a super fascinating video thanks!
Really Good video and i wanna buy that Olympus but it’s a lot of money too buy that. Very interessting video. Thanks from Helsinge mining group.
Geology can be an awesome science to major in college. There's a lot more to geology than meets the eye and not bcuz geologist spend a lot of time working under the surface of the earth either. 😊❤
Great information on rock types, formations.
Love the vids. Keep going. You'll see it on the likes...don't change a thing....beautiful. find more collaborator's
Thought the handheld tester was super cool 6:44 right up until I went and looked at the price. Hot damn!!
Dale needs to start a channel, mans a straight up fucking legend. Could listen to him talk rocks for hours
Hence the name yellow cake, high uranium level, Thanks 👍👍
That uranium area looks like the perfect area to store food and water. Pee glows in the dark. Impress your friends at parties!
You are very clever to use hammer drill cuttings shot though the plastic bag. It averages out the reading throughout the length of the hole. If you experience gravity separation, just add a little water to make it a paste.
My last story for this video. It comes from France in the early 1800’s. There was a young book store owner sitting in his store, when an elderly man came in and wished him to store a book for him. During those times most books were hand rewritten rare and if you owned a valuable one, it had a protective case to protect it. The owner took the book and the gentleman payed the storage fees in advance.
The young man grew old and was ready to close his store and retire. As he went through his inventory he came across the old book case. Thinking it over he thought it ok to open the case and look at the book. There was no book inside the case, but a bag of off-white powder, with a page of hand written instructions.
The instructions stated that an amount of the powder should be smelted with pure silver, and the silver would transform into gold.
Also, the powder could be smelted with gold, and the gold would be transformed into silver, but the amount would double in size.
He used his wealth to build hospitals across France.
Palladium is a fission product of uranium and thorium. Possible the xrf gets confused with the photon spectrum given off by certain minerals but also possible that vein is concentrated palladium from SF and fast fission. Au abundance is interesting. Most likely was deposited by whatever geological event deposited all the other heavy metals in the rock. It is possible it’s being produced from platinum 196 capturing neutrons. Pt196 has a very large cross section for neutron capture between 10ev and 1500ev. Still an appreciable cross section for fast neutrons
When using a pancake probe on a ginger counter, should try to avoid touching your probe to the surface of the sample or having the sample above the probe. You could contaminate the probe and then get false readings. Your not in a lab setting so contaminating the probe isn’t something you worried about but just something to keep in mind. Should also try and move the probe over samples slower to get a better reading. When the probe starts detecting large numbers of counts, thousands of counts+ its very likely your probe is missing a large number of counts from the detector being blinded by all the counts it is finding
From a health safety standpoint, would recommend wearing a mask anytime you’re drilling a rock without water but especially when actinides elements are present. Getting dust in your lungs is bad but getting alpha and beta emitters in your lungs, cuts, GI tract, et c. Is asking for trouble
Good morning from Southeast South Dakota
Good morning from somewhere nearby.
wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely Fabulous stuff!! 😉
Great presentation!
In 100 years XRF will be a standard feature in all cell phones!
You guys should be wearing Dosimeter badges for exposure readings.
Great geology lesson
Excellent video on modern prospecting and field geology. Long ways from Frederic Henry Lahee’s book on Field Geology that provided some of the fundamentals. Thanks for putting together, interesting and enjoyable to watch.
23:15 Pegmatite is the differentiated that is residual as an intrusive is crystalizing, ground rupturing hydraulically injects this liquid and crystalizes. How hot and how slow the cooling creates zoning across the vein. SG of gold and uranium very nearly the same, so no surprise in this particular situation you find the 2 occurring together. Wonder if you dry wash placer material you can find concentrations with the XRF?
Where you find lead, it's not just leached there. thats a in place mineralizerion and is probably a good spot to take a core sample.