Thanks for you're channel, as a 30 year just getting into the hobby I learn alot from you're videos and hope to do something soon with the information I glean from you're channel.
I like the Beryl Pit and have gone digging there several times. The trench and digging pile were not there when I was there last; over 10 years ago. There was a long trail through the woods to the site. The beryl chips I found were a deep royal blue. One 3-4 pound rock was lighter blue with some gemmy parts; more like aquamarine. There were a lot of tailing piles with lots of smoky quartz, tourmaline, amazonite, and other stones. My best finds were right after a heavy rainstorm. The rain also brought out the mosquitoes. My rarest find was a purple stone. I forget what it was called. I gave it away to a young rock hounder. Another time I caught a glimpse of a 1-2" smoky quartz crystal. As I cleaned the dirt it got bigger. It was the size of a dinner dish and nicely terminated on one side. The other side was fractured roughly. It weighed a few pounds. I left it there.
For a while my wife and Ikept running into hogs running loose, we could only surmise that waste land,( not useful for farming) was only good for free range pigs. So we got in the habit of looking for the pigs first as an indicator of mineralization, didn't really work but it did lighten the mood on trips that didn't pan out.
Beryllium was mined chiefly for electrical use, the supply of copper was limited(Peruvian and Chileandeposits weren't known then ). Beryllium mixed with 60% copper becomes beryllium copper , same melting point same conductivity. The copper supply was so short that when the Manhattan Project needed copper wire for magnetic separators not enough was available . So they went to the US Mint, borrowed 50 tons of fine silver to make the windings for the electro magnets. In 1970 the magnetic separators were dismantled the wire melted and made into ingots the mint only lost 5 ounces of silver from the original 50 tons. That's what I call recycling.
Love the videos... keep them coming!!! I appreciate your perspective on collecting in general... seems that down here if it isn't sparkling gemmy crystals and or easily monetized it's of no value. Not to say that I don't like gemmy crystals...I do... but the greedy nature of our culture diminishes the wonder and beauty of the hobby when people get proprietary about collecting. For me the thrill of hunting/finding is enough to keep me going and I typically give away a good 90% of what I find. Whereas, you seem to present the hobby from an educated point of view that leads to adventure and discovery. That may be the case in other parts of the US... certainly not the norm in the southeast... there are a few individuals that share similar qualities to you but few and far between. Thanks again from an extremely bored rockhound in central florida.
Great video once again - thanks for posting. The mineral in question at approx. 4 min mark is possibly fluorite. There are two colors found here one is purple and only found in small amounts, while the other is rasberry-colored and will completey loose it's color when exposed to natural sunlight in a day or so. You seem to have found some of this, so hold on to it;) The best way I can describe it for others searching is that it looks similar to calcite, but could be distinguished by a simple hardness test while collecting. Mosquito nets are a life-saver in spring! hahaha
Just checked the SW-UV on my fluorite and unfortunately no glow with color still present. This site is really great for anyone new or experienced in collecting - one of my favorites
I found some very nice micro Bertrandite in a cavity in Beryl. Very rare to find. It's Euxenite, not Zunite. No Z in that word! LOL! On the north wall you can find large Pyrites and Zircon as well, some psudomorphs of Geothite after Pyrite too! The Beryl pit is awesome. The best pegmatite around for sure.
If you want to get technical about the pronunciation because it's originally greek it should be pronounced with a z sound, just like xenophobe or xenolith. The Eu in greek also makes the 'you' sound so I say it should be you-ZEEN-ite
I'm just thankful for every civil youtube reply. If i'm being fair we don't use the greek pronunciation for all minerals. I wish it was pronounced pyro-zeen instead of pee-rox-een
Sweet video! Nice black tourmaline specimen, I like to call those thin ones pencils. There are three awesome mines near me in San Diego county, California that you can pay to dig at. Pala Chief mine, Himalaya Tourmaline Mine and the Oceanview mine that are known to produce some very nice gem quality tourmaline of many different colors including watermelon and rainbow, kunzite, morganite ,aquamarine, spodumene, garnets and more too. I'm pretty sure they still sell high grade ore bags and ship them as well (I've never bought one before but have seen youtube videos of people that have and they go through the whole bag on the video and get some great stuff out of them) just google those mines listed above if interested in the ore bags or the history of the mines.
What do you do with all of these specimens? Im so fascinated by the vast gifts nature provides! So again what is the market for these minerals, and other rarities? Honestly I'm imagining a wizard over his casting table!
Well, collectors collect to build collections for display or to learn from. Good crystals of euxenite-(Y) are valued by serious mineral collectors; good blue Beryl is valued by cutters.
Sadly the new owner isn't maintaining the info board and it's looking quite sad this year. The rates went up as well under the new owner, and they charge way too much for children.
Euxenite-(Y) is not a junk mineral. It is a “trash can” mineral. Big difference. Also; correct pronunciation of mineral names can get found on mindat.org.
Goshenite is colorless beryl (and not anything else). Colorless tourmaline is achroite. As for kunzite, if it’s colorless, I think one would just call that spodumene in general.
I am totally lost when it comes to remembering the names of the rocks. I look at shape and colour, I found a rock that looks like a moccasin foot and I have yet to show it to an essayist, I just noticed in our local paper that we now have the knowledge of an assayer who could take a look at my rocks which I found lying on the ground. I love nature, it is there that I find my peace and tranquillity, my place where I talk to my creator/God, a love I have had since childhood. To add further to information, we have to take into account the fact that there was an explosion from a volcano years ago, there is limited information, It is also part of rock finds that have been smoothed over when being ejected from a blast from a volcano, my friend had found a rock in a river bed and to me as I looked at it often, it came to me as being a projectile that landed in the river and he dug it out, my discussions with him, instilled in him the search for unique rocks too.
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Thanks for you're channel, as a 30 year just getting into the hobby I learn alot from you're videos and hope to do something soon with the information I glean from you're channel.
Might I recommend a trip to this location. What I find so interesting here is the variety of minerals and their industrial applications.
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I've got a mining claim just a few km from that spot. Found a few very large quartz seams but have yet to take any samples.
excellent finds like each one I think I have found the dissolved Beryl psudomorphs you spoke of thanks for the heads up on that
Fantastic video thank u
I like the Beryl Pit and have gone digging there several times. The trench and digging pile were not there when I was there last; over 10 years ago. There was a long trail through the woods to the site. The beryl chips I found were a deep royal blue. One 3-4 pound rock was lighter blue with some gemmy parts; more like aquamarine. There were a lot of tailing piles with lots of smoky quartz, tourmaline, amazonite, and other stones. My best finds were right after a heavy rainstorm. The rain also brought out the mosquitoes. My rarest find was a purple stone. I forget what it was called. I gave it away to a young rock hounder. Another time I caught a glimpse of a 1-2" smoky quartz crystal. As I cleaned the dirt it got bigger. It was the size of a dinner dish and nicely terminated on one side. The other side was fractured roughly. It weighed a few pounds. I left it there.
William could we discuss the 3-4 pound one? I would like to negotiate for it
@@DanA-dp6rs I sawed it up a few years ago.
@@williamogilvie6909 any lil bits left- interested in anything
For a while my wife and Ikept running into hogs running loose, we could only surmise that waste land,( not useful for farming) was only good for free range pigs. So we got in the habit of looking for the pigs first as an indicator of mineralization, didn't really work but it did lighten the mood on trips that didn't pan out.
Beryllium was mined chiefly for electrical use, the supply of copper was limited(Peruvian and Chileandeposits weren't known then ). Beryllium mixed with 60% copper becomes beryllium copper , same melting point same conductivity. The copper supply was so short that when the Manhattan Project needed copper wire for magnetic separators not enough was available . So they went to the US Mint, borrowed 50 tons of fine silver to make the windings for the electro magnets. In 1970 the magnetic separators were dismantled the wire melted and made into ingots the mint only lost 5 ounces of silver from the original 50 tons. That's what I call recycling.
Love the videos... keep them coming!!! I appreciate your perspective on collecting in general... seems that down here if it isn't sparkling gemmy crystals and or easily monetized it's of no value. Not to say that I don't like gemmy crystals...I do... but the greedy nature of our culture diminishes the wonder and beauty of the hobby when people get proprietary about collecting. For me the thrill of hunting/finding is enough to keep me going and I typically give away a good 90% of what I find. Whereas, you seem to present the hobby from an educated point of view that leads to adventure and discovery. That may be the case in other parts of the US... certainly not the norm in the southeast... there are a few individuals that share similar qualities to you but few and far between. Thanks again from an extremely bored rockhound in central florida.
Great video once again - thanks for posting. The mineral in question at approx. 4 min mark is possibly fluorite. There are two colors found here one is purple and only found in small amounts, while the other is rasberry-colored and will completey loose it's color when exposed to natural sunlight in a day or so. You seem to have found some of this, so hold on to it;) The best way I can describe it for others searching is that it looks similar to calcite, but could be distinguished by a simple hardness test while collecting. Mosquito nets are a life-saver in spring! hahaha
I would side with your opinion as the cleavages suggest that. I'll give it some UV light when I get a chance and see how that goes.
Just checked the SW-UV on my fluorite and unfortunately no glow with color still present. This site is really great for anyone new or experienced in collecting - one of my favorites
I found some very nice micro Bertrandite in a cavity in Beryl. Very rare to find. It's Euxenite, not Zunite. No Z in that word! LOL! On the north wall you can find large Pyrites and Zircon as well, some psudomorphs of Geothite after Pyrite too! The Beryl pit is awesome. The best pegmatite around for sure.
If you want to get technical about the pronunciation because it's originally greek it should be pronounced with a z sound, just like xenophobe or xenolith. The Eu in greek also makes the 'you' sound so I say it should be you-ZEEN-ite
sagetmaster4 . Sure makes perfect sense. Thanks for clearing that up.
I'm just thankful for every civil youtube reply. If i'm being fair we don't use the greek pronunciation for all minerals. I wish it was pronounced pyro-zeen instead of pee-rox-een
sagetmaster4 . Yeah the English language eh?? Pyrozeen, sounds like a drug a rockhounding would take! LOL!
I initially tended in that direction, but have been corrected so often I just folded to the pressure.
Great show what is the best way to clean aquamarine
'Bernit' - deep blue cristal. Występuje w dwóch postaciach. Info ?
Sweet video! Nice black tourmaline specimen, I like to call those thin ones pencils. There are three awesome mines near me in San Diego county, California that you can pay to dig at. Pala Chief mine, Himalaya Tourmaline Mine and the Oceanview mine that are known to produce some very nice gem quality tourmaline of many different colors including watermelon and rainbow, kunzite, morganite ,aquamarine, spodumene, garnets and more too. I'm pretty sure they still sell high grade ore bags and ship them as well (I've never bought one before but have seen youtube videos of people that have and they go through the whole bag on the video and get some great stuff out of them) just google those mines listed above if interested in the ore bags or the history of the mines.
Good video bud love it
seems like bugs are attracted to corrundum in California too I always wrap my face too or I might go nuts
Is that in fenlon falls
What do you do with all of these specimens? Im so fascinated by the vast gifts nature provides!
So again what is the market for these minerals, and other rarities? Honestly I'm imagining a wizard over his casting table!
Well, collectors collect to build collections for display or to learn from. Good crystals of euxenite-(Y) are valued by serious mineral collectors; good blue Beryl is valued by cutters.
My favorite stone is pink Quartz. Love you videos!
Oddly, I found a piece of that as I was leaving, but assumed that someone must have collected it at the site nearby and dropped it here.
Sadly the new owner isn't maintaining the info board and it's looking quite sad this year. The rates went up as well under the new owner, and they charge way too much for children.
I'm a rockhounding noob but my guess for the clear one is maybe gypsum or clear beryl??? Idk
6:53 you're standing with a gazebo structure behind you. What's standing on top of the roof? Please tell me it's just a decoration... huge arachnid.
That's Marco - my pet spider
@@Caver461 Good boy....😲
I have a quartz crystal with baryl melted on the point
Nice
Im tumbling feldspar right now. 1st stage. I'll post results in 4 weeks or so if you'd like.
Euxenite-(Y) is not a junk mineral. It is a “trash can” mineral. Big difference. Also; correct pronunciation of mineral names can get found on mindat.org.
If your around tourmalines good chance the clear one is goshenite which is clear tourmaline some also call clear kunzite goshenite, just who ya ask.
Yeah - that's a good possibility
Goshenite is colorless beryl (and not anything else). Colorless tourmaline is achroite. As for kunzite, if it’s colorless, I think one would just call that spodumene in general.
From snow to bugs
Ontario eh ;) lmao
Great video !!!! Can you upload an info video for platinum group metals ?! :)
Who said No Bugs!!
Sick joke!
I am totally lost when it comes to remembering the names of the rocks. I look at shape and colour, I found a rock that looks like a moccasin foot and I have yet to show it to an essayist, I just noticed in our local paper that we now have the knowledge of an assayer who could take a look at my rocks which I found lying on the ground. I love nature, it is there that I find my peace and tranquillity, my place where I talk to my creator/God, a love I have had since childhood. To add further to information, we have to take into account the fact that there was an explosion from a volcano years ago, there is limited information, It is also part of rock finds that have been smoothed over when being ejected from a blast from a volcano, my friend had found a rock in a river bed and to me as I looked at it often, it came to me as being a projectile that landed in the river and he dug it out, my discussions with him, instilled in him the search for unique rocks too.
at 3.54: Albite ? transparent and cleavage. Otherwise, calcite ?