Where Did I Get My Mercury?

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  • Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
  • In this video I show where my mercury came from.
    See me extracting mercury from the ore here: • Video
    I forgot to mention that I only recently got the mercury back from a family member who was keeping it so little kid me didn't play with it too much.
    Help me make videos by donating here: / codyslab

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  • @Youngbl33zy
    @Youngbl33zy 6 лет назад +3568

    If there’s ever an abandoned anything anywhere I swear there’s gonna be beer cans

  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder  7 лет назад +670

    At the end of this video I was using a UV lamp to test for the presence of mercury since mercury vapor is very good at stopping the light produced by the lamp; During that I discovered that Cinnabar is flammable! It burns almost like sulfur, which makes sense being that upon heating cinnabar releases mercury and sulfur vapor.

    • @Noob-rr6fx
      @Noob-rr6fx 7 лет назад +3

      burns*

    • @johnathonwaymire9483
      @johnathonwaymire9483 7 лет назад +1

      +Noob ?

    • @bensullivan420
      @bensullivan420 7 лет назад +2

      Hey cody, could you link me to a video with your audible discount or free trial code or whatever it was, if it's still valid? I have a book that im reading but would like to listen to, and I'm pretty sure Audible has it! Or if you cant remember a video, could you just give me the code its self?? and by the way, don't drink any more cyanide....

    • @thetraitor3852
      @thetraitor3852 7 лет назад +2

      they did a similar presentation of uv light and mercury vapor on periodic videos

    • @adobe825
      @adobe825 7 лет назад

      Cody'sLab Burns*

  • @cqwiii
    @cqwiii 7 лет назад +1945

    "What do you need hundreds of pounds of mercury for though?"
    "idk. suppose my grandson with flush a toilet with it some day."

    • @blowngasket299
      @blowngasket299 4 года назад +9

      lmao

    • @bioemiliano
      @bioemiliano 4 года назад +10

      @A friend Do you know that the roman empire dissolved before Colon discovered San Salvador and the Americas for the hispanics?

    • @Skorpychan
      @Skorpychan 4 года назад +21

      @A friend I did similar in Dwarf Fortress. Cinnabar mugs to trade to the elves!
      In the occasional years I traded with them, and didn't just wipe out their entire caravan with a flooding trade depot.

    • @Skorpychan
      @Skorpychan 4 года назад

      @Martin Conta Gets Banned True, red mercury is an important thing for blocking nuclear proliferation.

    • @zwattable
      @zwattable 3 года назад +10

      @@warvideos2108 first, im not saying other dude is right, but you must be confused. Roman CATHOLIC ships. 13-1600ish kind of time frame. Not Roman Romans. Dumbass

  • @peters7691
    @peters7691 6 лет назад +769

    I could listen to this dude talk about rocks all day

    • @GelidGanef
      @GelidGanef 5 лет назад +12

      Do whatever gets your rocks off

    • @JoaoChimay
      @JoaoChimay 4 года назад +26

      "They're not rocks, Marie, they're minerals"

    • @o11k
      @o11k 3 года назад +3

      yeah, he rocks

    • @christiandumo5905
      @christiandumo5905 3 года назад +2

      Same

    • @creo420
      @creo420 3 года назад

      BORING

  • @neilolif
    @neilolif 4 года назад +469

    "Where did I get my mercury?"
    Well that's an interesting story for me. I was metal detecting in the Sierras near an old hydraulic mine and I located a rusted "tank" that at first seemed like an old propane tank until I looked closer.
    It turns out that this "tank" was an Almaden Quicksilver Mines 76 pound mercury carboy. And it also turns out that it was the miners recovery flask! It contained three pounds of mercury and approximately 0.65 troy ounces of gold!
    I used the nitric acid process to recover it. Amazing find from my point of view!

    • @_tea_6502
      @_tea_6502 4 года назад +5

      Nice story.

    • @k3nz1e73
      @k3nz1e73 3 года назад +8

      Can I have ? I’m veru trust worthy?

    • @Systolic_Gaming
      @Systolic_Gaming 2 года назад +11

      1000 bucks in a random tank? Nice.

    • @neilolif
      @neilolif 2 года назад +3

      @@Systolic_Gaming I was metal detecting at an old Placer mine.., Miners left their cleanup in the 1880s.
      Cool cash.., Cool relic.

    • @jimsteen911
      @jimsteen911 2 года назад

      For the win! A $grand for your trouble, not bad dude

  • @jaridkeen123
    @jaridkeen123 5 лет назад +951

    All the trees are dead around that area, that's probably not a good sign

    • @TheDizzy101hrv
      @TheDizzy101hrv 3 года назад +420

      A good sign if you're looking for mercury

    • @86moosseboy75
      @86moosseboy75 3 года назад +148

      there not dead ist probably cold outside because he is wearing a long_sleeve

    • @hello-ji7qj
      @hello-ji7qj 3 года назад +111

      You can see they've been burned in a fire at 1:41. It only needs to burn the cambium to kill the tree.

    • @mactavishmods
      @mactavishmods 3 года назад +17

      *Stranger things intensifies*

    • @SirSpiro
      @SirSpiro 3 года назад +10

      @@86moosseboy75 they're burnt

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 7 лет назад +1876

    if you made a bracelet out of cinnabar would it be a heavy metal rock band?

  • @jegr3398
    @jegr3398 3 года назад +195

    No matter where you go, no matter how far out in the wilderness, no matter how remote a place it is, you can find beer cans there.

  • @lorddias
    @lorddias 7 лет назад +903

    Cody saying "I don't know how it works". I never thought I'd see the day lol.

    • @theCodyReeder
      @theCodyReeder  7 лет назад +234

      Oh I say that all the time, but its usually followed with "yet". :)

    • @erikpettersson91
      @erikpettersson91 7 лет назад +3

      cody where did you get your crucibles for your furnace and are they made from clay and would i be able to use a ceramic mug?
      And can you make a video about different acids and what they can be used for?

    • @crimsonmoon9404
      @crimsonmoon9404 7 лет назад +4

      hey cody could you get a load of sluphur, make sulphuric acid and try to mine with it?

    • @latexslimjim2241
      @latexslimjim2241 7 лет назад +2

      u should try to build one or get this one to work

    • @maomekat7969
      @maomekat7969 6 лет назад +1

      David Epler yes yet like most of us educated experienced science guys he could make an excellent & mostly correct explanation

  • @erik8467
    @erik8467 7 лет назад +463

    "where do I get my uranium from"
    "where do I get my Nukes from"
    "where do I get my guns from"
    "where did I get my robot army from"

    • @6sicSIX
      @6sicSIX 4 года назад +18

      A comment that Cody can't legally like 😅

    • @onlyfilmsfr
      @onlyfilmsfr 3 года назад

      😂😂😂

    • @Hi-uw5qy
      @Hi-uw5qy 3 года назад +1

      Or from where I get my weed from

    • @aerogfs
      @aerogfs 3 года назад +4

      Guns from the nearest walmart obviously... the others maybe from home depot...

    • @alexm7023
      @alexm7023 3 года назад

      vespene gas and mineral

  • @Cez305
    @Cez305 6 лет назад +1311

    Most RUclipsr's: "Where did I get my money?"
    Cody's Lab: "Where did I get my mercury" hahahah
    Love it 😂

  • @evilwarcow
    @evilwarcow 6 лет назад +903

    Those who bug you about getting yer Mercury. Tell e'm to mine their own business.

  • @kidgokuxl
    @kidgokuxl 7 лет назад +48

    I was moved while watching your video Cody. My family in the past were mercury miners. Pretty much 2 generations a long time ago died from mercury poisoning. I've been to a few sites where my ansetors lived, and the smelter you showed was a little primitive but still a lot was still the same. My family back then were used as slaves pretty much to dig the cinnabar and refine it. Everytime when we would go prosect for gold in the rivers in California sometimes we would get mercury in the sluice box it remind me my family might have produced it. I have saved a good portion just for personal reasons. Good video Cody.

  • @Vibinator
    @Vibinator 7 лет назад +3071

    hey cody, Did you hear about the chemist who froze himself to absolute zero? He's 0K now

  • @bibby4791
    @bibby4791 7 лет назад +947

    cinnibar sounds like a breakfast cereal

  • @TECHnoman753
    @TECHnoman753 5 лет назад +117

    I feel like as soon has he started talking about his collection of Mercury he got intensely serious like it was his pride and joy XD
    "my precious~"

    • @madmad8582
      @madmad8582 3 года назад +3

      one day it will be a very big thing it can be used to create Antigravity yeah with Mercury of all things

    • @blackwidows570
      @blackwidows570 3 года назад +1

      @@madmad8582 what do you know about mercury tech?

  • @drewphillips
    @drewphillips 7 лет назад +205

    Happy to see Cody finally getting all this well deserved success!!! ALMOST A MILLION!!!!!!

    • @lucantoine6776
      @lucantoine6776 2 года назад +2

      Drew what’s up

    • @lucantoine6776
      @lucantoine6776 2 года назад

      I love emergency intercum

    • @jeffmoncalieri7491
      @jeffmoncalieri7491 2 года назад

      @@lucantoine6776 what does that mean? Thanks.

    • @lucantoine6776
      @lucantoine6776 2 года назад +1

      @@jeffmoncalieri7491 sorry it’s a lil joke with drew phillips podcast Emergency Intercom (the real name)

    • @jamesb.9155
      @jamesb.9155 2 года назад

      My question is: How did he get 2?

  • @askhowiknow5527
    @askhowiknow5527 7 лет назад +265

    Kippers and canned tuna. That's where I get mine. :'(

    • @The5thorseman
      @The5thorseman 7 лет назад +19

      Why not?

    • @Birbucifer
      @Birbucifer 7 лет назад +4

      +Huh Huh What?

    • @FlatBroke612
      @FlatBroke612 7 лет назад +1

      Have you heard of fluoridation son?

    • @DialgoPrima
      @DialgoPrima 7 лет назад +42

      +FlatBroke612 THEY'RE PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT'RE TURNING THE FRICKEN FROGS GAY

    • @xcp4518
      @xcp4518 7 лет назад +3

      DialgoPrima I T S T H E G L O B A L I S T S

  • @forcivilizaton5021
    @forcivilizaton5021 2 года назад +4

    As an amateur hobby geologist and explorer of how humanity created our civilization, by far it was you who got me going down my path. Cody, thank you very much for loving rocks and loving the history of our modern civilization.

  • @agentbertram4769
    @agentbertram4769 3 года назад +16

    I have never failed to be infected by Cody's enthusiasm. Great stuff! Never stop.

  • @DusanFajler
    @DusanFajler 7 лет назад +75

    "I am someone who is experienced with working with mercury"
    -Dips hand in mercury
    Love it!

    • @Test7017
      @Test7017 5 лет назад +2

      Why what's it feel like?

    • @baph1612
      @baph1612 4 года назад +4

      I think it’s okay to stick your hand in mercury for a bit without any cuts

    • @Test7017
      @Test7017 4 года назад

      @@baph1612 be bold

    • @JEAthePrince
      @JEAthePrince 4 года назад +1

      @@baph1612 depends on the type. A woman dropped a drop of mercury on her glove and it slid off, but it was enough to completely paralyze her cause its molecular structure or something was like penetrable. Just one drop killed her
      I think the video is on chubbyemu or some channel similar to that title

    • @coldcoffeegaming2798
      @coldcoffeegaming2798 3 года назад +8

      @@JEAthePrince Elemental mercury is dangerous because of the vapors it produces. Organic mercury compounds are incredibly toxic, and I believe what you're referring to was the dimethyl mercury poisoning incident.

  • @KeystoneScience
    @KeystoneScience 7 лет назад +139

    Great job Cody!! I was wondering where you got your mercury just yesterday :D

    • @peterlean6631
      @peterlean6631 2 года назад +2

      You can get it from Hg wells..... takes a bit of pumping though.

    • @Tom_Bee_
      @Tom_Bee_ 2 года назад

      @@peterlean6631 oof!

  • @TechnoRaabe
    @TechnoRaabe 4 года назад +204

    This is obviously a modded version. There's no mercury ore in vanilla.

    • @jakecrowley6
      @jakecrowley6 4 года назад +9

      it's actually cinnabar ore

    • @peepeeeinmythroat2760
      @peepeeeinmythroat2760 4 года назад +4

      Jake Crowley r/whooooosh

    • @outv3rse
      @outv3rse 4 года назад +2

      @@peepeeeinmythroat2760 never said it was not mine craft so no r/woosh

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 4 года назад +1

      @@outv3rse what ?

    • @Gogglesofkrome
      @Gogglesofkrome 4 года назад +23

      @@peepeeeinmythroat2760 people who post reddit cancer outside of the reddit containment zone need to go r/wooosh out of a plane at terminal velocity without a parachute.

  • @LR11Gaming
    @LR11Gaming 7 лет назад +124

    dude you are extremely intelligent. keep it up. I could watch your videos for days. they are so interesting. even though I don't understand that much science, it keeps my interest.

  • @legionxiii8055
    @legionxiii8055 7 лет назад +39

    Thank you, Cody, for not recording vertically.

  • @1ch190
    @1ch190 7 лет назад +93

    Thank you for answering the curious people =P
    Great video!

  • @johnr.timmers2297
    @johnr.timmers2297 7 лет назад +10

    I love the geology talk. I'm currently a geology major and it's awesome to hear someone with the same understandings and interests as me! You just got a new subscriber

  • @ImplantedMemories
    @ImplantedMemories 4 года назад +21

    7:55 😀 Old machine is soo happy to meet you

    • @EdwardTriesToScience
      @EdwardTriesToScience 4 года назад

      For anyone who doesn't get it, pause the video and look closely, it's a smiley face

    • @earth2k66
      @earth2k66 3 года назад

      The human brain tries to detect facial patterns in everything possible!!
      This is a great enhancement we have thanks to evolution!!

    • @jemsurfer3905
      @jemsurfer3905 3 года назад

      @@earth2k66 pretty awful when you're trying to sleep and keep seeing faces in the room tho

    • @earth2k66
      @earth2k66 3 года назад

      @@jemsurfer3905 This so relatable, In my old house, the ceiling has flower-like carvings around the Lights and Fans.
      In my bedroom when the lights are dimmed the shadows are cast in such a way that makes the flower carving look like a "Sad old Lady". Whenever any strong light (street lights or lightning bolts) gets through the window the Sad shadow pattern changes into a Horrifying Grin.
      I had a very hard time as a kid to convince myself that it was just a trick of the light and nothing else.

  • @DestructoDot
    @DestructoDot 7 лет назад +9

    You are a tough man. the passed 2 years I did logging work, and i now work in a warehouse. The stuff you do for /FUN/ are more instense than all of that. You sir, are one tough cookie.

  • @yugene-lee
    @yugene-lee 7 лет назад +137

    10:50 SON OF A DENTIST!

    • @yugene-lee
      @yugene-lee 7 лет назад +11

      more like YOU LITTLE SON OF A DENTIST! actually

  • @yourneighbour5738
    @yourneighbour5738 6 лет назад +80

    Next Video: Making gold ingots from cat shit

  • @bruciebruce32
    @bruciebruce32 3 года назад +20

    I saw the title and saw the thumbnail and thought to myself “dang, this man found his car in a cave”

    • @jmccormick1490
      @jmccormick1490 3 года назад +2

      Gonna find me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road

  • @toorandomenvi
    @toorandomenvi 7 лет назад +55

    honestly i love you channel soo much ... bees videos brought me in and made me interested into everything around it (but really i sticked around bcos of mining and smelting videos its soo exciting to watch )

    • @argetlamzn
      @argetlamzn 7 лет назад

      Vojta Hamala same reason I started watching! Yay bees and science!

    • @ultrahevybeat
      @ultrahevybeat 7 лет назад +3

      Vojta Hamala this comment wins comment of the video. for your way of not making RUclips cancserus by thanking the creator of the video

    • @toorandomenvi
      @toorandomenvi 7 лет назад +1

      gary buttville if honesty is what it takes then idk why arent ppl doing it more often

  • @royjonesrampage6684
    @royjonesrampage6684 7 лет назад +131

    your videos are so interesting!

  • @brockfrreminz6659
    @brockfrreminz6659 2 года назад +11

    When I was in 7-8th grade there was a kid at my school who’s mom apparently worked at a drugstore or something and he just happened to be around when they were discarding a few hundred oldschool thermometers. He took the time to break all of them and pour the Mercury into a 20oz. Fruitopia bottle (dang, I miss fruitopia :( Anyways. We were old enough to know it was dangerous so we kept our distance. But it’s probably the most deceptive thing I’ve ever held. That bottle prolly weighed 10+ lb’s

  • @JLoganS13
    @JLoganS13 7 лет назад +6

    I almost fell out of my chair at 2:03 "...and I actually don't know how it works."

  • @adamrosenhamer3762
    @adamrosenhamer3762 7 лет назад +562

    cody you should try and make one of those for the mining series. that would be cool

    • @MemeArchiveAbyss
      @MemeArchiveAbyss 7 лет назад +5

      He stopped doing them for some reason

    • @shalormckee2784
      @shalormckee2784 7 лет назад +5

      Maybe cuz of school?

    • @FH_Forge
      @FH_Forge 7 лет назад +21

      they take a butload of work. That's why he doesn't upload them often

    • @zakutheferret8182
      @zakutheferret8182 7 лет назад +22

      he had to stop, the mine is severely haunted. he talks about it in one of the mining videos, one of the spirits actually pushed him and he came within about 3 inches of falling down a 100 ft, jagged rock-filled vertical mineshaft. watch the video it's interesting.

    • @anomalocarisgaming8205
      @anomalocarisgaming8205 7 лет назад +10

      Haanken Thorax troll lol

  • @USWaterRockets
    @USWaterRockets 7 лет назад +993

    Cody, are you going to hand out Cinnabars for Halloween? They sound like a delicious treat.

    • @squishlez
      @squishlez 7 лет назад +21

      they really do

    • @kchstudiophx9843
      @kchstudiophx9843 7 лет назад +22

      I would like to get a sample from his mine.

    • @USWaterRockets
      @USWaterRockets 7 лет назад +60

      Yukikaze Flyes If you weren't supposed to eat it then it would have been called something like "Mercurystone", "Poisonrock" or "Tofutti".

    • @dacasman
      @dacasman 7 лет назад +14

      thought that said cannabis at first.

    • @sc0tte1-416
      @sc0tte1-416 7 лет назад +15

      Yes but they are bad for the little kiddies teeth.

  • @globalcritics9076
    @globalcritics9076 7 лет назад +58

    Is this the new Elder Scroll?

  • @Smokie181
    @Smokie181 7 лет назад +23

    Came to see where you got your mercury but got a 11 min lecture on the formation of rocks and ores, mercury distilling machines, identifying ore in rocks. Must say it was pretty interesting though.

    • @louistournas120
      @louistournas120 5 лет назад

      Fuck yeah! We love to talk chemistry, geology here.

  • @aldoguzman97
    @aldoguzman97 7 лет назад +200

    Why did I just barely get the notification for this video?

    • @a7jsdp0z672nf
      @a7jsdp0z672nf 7 лет назад +14

      The new YT notification system. Click the bell next to his subscribe button if you want notifications from this channel.

    • @404killer
      @404killer 7 лет назад +4

      Explain, idiot.

    • @a7jsdp0z672nf
      @a7jsdp0z672nf 7 лет назад +1

      HeavenHammer Me?

    • @combedpubes
      @combedpubes 7 лет назад +2

      When you say notifications do you mean it not coming up in your subscription list or like a text message telling you there's a new video on this channel?

    • @aldoguzman97
      @aldoguzman97 7 лет назад

      ios notification.

  • @RevJR
    @RevJR 7 лет назад +17

    The next Fallout game is just gonna be Fallout: Cody's Back Yard...

  • @CRTukkerr
    @CRTukkerr 7 лет назад +911

    Those trees seems to be dead around that furnace

    • @abyssstrider2547
      @abyssstrider2547 7 лет назад +124

      CRTukker you live in tropical area? if you do that explains alot

    • @jamesflores9456
      @jamesflores9456 6 лет назад +28

      i live in a tropical area was confused for a second

    • @broedrooster
      @broedrooster 6 лет назад +50

      Nice profile picture lmao, thought it was my comment

    • @springbreeze2992
      @springbreeze2992 6 лет назад +106

      CRTukker he meant that in tropical area, trees seem lively and the leaves are vibrant, while you don't know that in cold countries like that in the video, the trees and plantations are like dead ones, but they are just like that during winter, leaves will bloom in spring

    • @DexiVisuals
      @DexiVisuals 6 лет назад +6

      Frost Huldra there's different types of pines than the one your thinking of

  • @cannaroe1213
    @cannaroe1213 5 лет назад +79

    People when Cody dips his hand in mercury: 😴
    People when Cody grabs rusty iron: 😱

  • @EstelonAgarwaen
    @EstelonAgarwaen 7 лет назад +304

    He is OffTheRanch xD

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 7 лет назад +32

    Amazing that the mercury still is actually still there, here in the UK if something like that was abandoned, you can bet that it'd be vandalised, destroyed and the metal stolen for scrap, shame it's so rusty though, could probably still have been serviceable, but the firebox would make a nice outdoor woodstove at least... :)

    • @theCodyReeder
      @theCodyReeder  7 лет назад +37

      It took me a day to find it even with instructions on how to find it from someone that had been there, thats why it hasn't been destroyed yet.

    • @randomrealistictone2231
      @randomrealistictone2231 7 лет назад +2

      Be careful !
      You will probably end up like that youtuber that went to area 51

    • @DrakenMusic
      @DrakenMusic 7 лет назад +1

      Will you build something like it, or was it just out of curiosity?

    • @ryanthood
      @ryanthood 7 лет назад +14

      Of course, the population density is much higher in the UK than in rural Utah. Few people have probably come across this site.

    • @NishantSarkar
      @NishantSarkar 7 лет назад

      Found the american

  • @OwensGarage
    @OwensGarage 2 года назад +2

    That’s cool! I’m an hvac tech and I replace a lot of old mercury thermostats. I always take them apart and keep the little glass mercury switch because I think they’re cool. My dad also has a few flasks of scientific grade mercury that they were getting rid of at a school he taught at. Cool stuff, just gotta take reasonable precautions with it.

  • @DFDuck55
    @DFDuck55 5 лет назад +2

    I once found a large cinnabar deposit here in Northern California, on the east side of Table Mountain, just north of the Oroville Dam (an earthfill dam, and the tallest dam in the U.S.) On the north side of Table Mountain is a working diamond mine. Friends asked me why I didn't stake a claim on it. I was a gold miner with no interest in mining cinnabar. -- In the mid to late 1800's miners would build mercury traps across rivers to catch the gold. You can still easily find pockets of mercury along the banks of the rivers. A lot of old miners died burning the quicksilver off their gold in their cabins. Smarter ones would put their amalgamated gold in a hollowed potato, set it on a shovel in their camp fire, and take a walk "up wind" for awhile.

  • @3ArtDigital
    @3ArtDigital 7 лет назад +40

    can you make a video about extracting mercury from those ores ?

    • @bensullivan420
      @bensullivan420 7 лет назад +2

      he already did.

    • @patbutchergodess
      @patbutchergodess 7 лет назад

      3ArtDigital great suggestion I'd love to see that

    • @theCodyReeder
      @theCodyReeder  7 лет назад +23

      check the description.

    • @thetraitor3852
      @thetraitor3852 7 лет назад +1

      He probably will.
      and since he can also already use cyanide to extract gold, he will probably make a large quantity of it from his mine.

    • @elatu
      @elatu 5 лет назад +1

      @@theCodyReeder the link isn't working. What hapenned??

  • @iPineapplePants
    @iPineapplePants 7 лет назад +4

    i have never really been interested in geology or chemistry, in fact chemistry is the toughest aspect of science in school for me. probably all of the arithmatic. but this video was really interesting for me as i am a huge fan of history. and the way you were dissecting that mercury distillation appuratus was very fascinating as it reminded me of the archeology involved in a lot of historical research. i love your videos even though these arent topics i spend a lot of time with. i hope to see you continue to show how these sciences are around us every day even when we arent aware of them personally.

  • @rc602
    @rc602 2 года назад +2

    Must be awesome to be so smart. Your content is both educational and entertaining. Thanks for making it Cody. God bless you and God bless your family.

  • @gBaldaconi
    @gBaldaconi 3 года назад +1

    there he goes again, tricking me into learning while loving it

  • @fredlllll
    @fredlllll 7 лет назад +152

    pleaaase make an exploration episode of that mine X3

  • @anonymouse7074
    @anonymouse7074 7 лет назад +23

    You guys do know that because of his RUclips channel, Cody can get nearly any job in his field.

    • @poptoe11
      @poptoe11 7 лет назад

      yess

    • @GouStoulos
      @GouStoulos 7 лет назад

      so? good for him :D

    • @AWSMcube
      @AWSMcube 7 лет назад +4

      f266101463 I don't know if they'd trust a guy who ingested cyanide on purpose. If Cody DIDN'T mention that he has ingested cyanide, he'd be set.

    • @XXscreams
      @XXscreams 7 лет назад +17

      Well, it also show that he know his shit so well that he is ready to ingest a dangerous poison, knowing he'll be fine.
      As a boss, i would be impressed..

    • @Afrofoodie
      @Afrofoodie 7 лет назад +1

      Sorry if this is an obvious answer but why does his youtube allow him to get any job in his field?

  • @sebastienlebatteux185
    @sebastienlebatteux185 4 года назад +1

    I love the first part of these videos, where you describe how you re going to extract an element from the environement. Cause yeah you know the exhaust pipe containes platinum so I'm gonna go brush the highway.

  • @scrappydoo7887
    @scrappydoo7887 3 года назад +1

    Ah Cody I do miss these kinds of videos 🙂 it's always good to see a bit of back story

  • @MrSupful
    @MrSupful 7 лет назад +81

    Really expected you'd try making a mercury still. Next video?

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 7 лет назад +6

      MrSupful Just build a whiskey still. You'll only get a hangover instead of dementia.

    • @Charlieswag9000
      @Charlieswag9000 7 лет назад

      i mean as long as you get rid of the heads from the distillery you aren't gonna get a hangover and you can even double or triple distill it until its so pure

    • @theCodyReeder
      @theCodyReeder  7 лет назад +30

      I wanted to have a look at an actual still before I built one.

    • @MrSupful
      @MrSupful 7 лет назад

      ***** Hi, crazy.

    • @yourneighbour5738
      @yourneighbour5738 6 лет назад +2

      Next video: How to get gold out of cat shit

  • @Verlisify
    @Verlisify 7 лет назад +261

    Interesting I thought the Mercury was for processing the gold from the mine, not a byproduct of it

    • @kevintejada3138
      @kevintejada3138 7 лет назад

      Verlisify hello

    • @randompanda876
      @randompanda876 7 лет назад +14

      Verlisify mercury is used in illegal mining operations to concentrate the gold, but usually it is sluiced out

    • @imchris5000
      @imchris5000 7 лет назад +6

      mercury is used in gold panning but this is mining

    • @joeKisonue
      @joeKisonue 6 лет назад +2

      Verlisify yeah they used it on a large slide after hammer mills.

    • @RichardsWorld
      @RichardsWorld 6 лет назад +1

      I think this would be to recycle the Mercury.

  • @scriptmonkeys123
    @scriptmonkeys123 6 лет назад +69

    Q: Where do you get your mercury?
    A: HG Wells

  • @6977warrior1
    @6977warrior1 6 лет назад +9

    I have about 8 lbs of pure liquid mercury in my possession. My father used to repair thermometers for huge furnaces and I took it all when we cleaned out his house after he passed away last year. A small bottle is very heavy.

    • @crustycobs2669
      @crustycobs2669 5 лет назад +5

      Mercury is extremely toxic, causes mental retardation and death even from a small exposure, be careful with it!

    • @squidwardDK
      @squidwardDK 5 лет назад +5

      It is toxic. If you inhale the vapours. Playing with metallic mercury (maybe thrilled by the myth that it "isn't harmful"), spilling some of it, or breaking a thermometer, then maybe trying to vacuum it up - these are classical ways of getting exposed to a lot of mercury. There are case stories of families who got mercury poisoning after living a few weeks in a house with rather small amounts of mercury spill. The fact that you misspell dimethylmercury hints that you know very little about it. Did you know that in your body, some of the metallic mercury will inevitably be turned into organic mercury (and also vice versa). Gut bacteria can do this. Once it is in your system, it does not remain metallic mercury.

    • @thedankside2552
      @thedankside2552 5 лет назад

      squidwardDK obviously it isn’t safe to play with mercury, but elemental mercury can be stored well relatively easily the only real danger are the vapors and as long as your container is air tight(I suggest putting your airtight mercury container inside another airtight container).

  • @T--xo2uq
    @T--xo2uq 7 лет назад +17

    i looked on amazon for cinnabar... what i found was candles.
    Candles make vapor that you breathe.

  • @bryanroberts
    @bryanroberts 7 лет назад +15

    Thanks Cody! Now build one so we can see it work! You know you want too! lol

  • @smpark12
    @smpark12 7 лет назад +8

    When you live in the middle of nowhere you can do things like this... xD

  • @BrettRobo
    @BrettRobo 5 лет назад +1

    “This would have been full of fire it would have gotten hot” favorite line so far

  • @electronicsNmore
    @electronicsNmore 7 лет назад +289

    Dental amalgams. I remember back in the 90's when I told my dentist to remove all my amalgams and replace them with composite fillings. The dentist thought I was crazy. Meanwhile, most dentists no longer use the mercury amalgam fillings. You should have asked if he had an amalgamator. Could be very useful for you.

    • @yvrelna
      @yvrelna 7 лет назад +114

      electronicsNmore Your dentist is right that you're crazy. As long as the amalgam filling isn't having any other issues (e.g. leaks, decay, cracks), there is really no medical reason to replace dental amalgams. Some people may have cosmetic reasons to replace fillings that are in frontal teeth with a less visible tooth-colored filling, but the drawbacks have to be considered carefully.
      It's actually been shown that replacing dental amalgam actually releases some mercury vapor (the dangerous type of mercury), so keeping the amalgam is actually safer than replacing them if you're concerned about mercury. In any case, unless you have mercury allergy, the amount of mercury released from amalgam during its lifetime and on replacement is much smaller than the dosage that you would need to be concerned about even if all your teeth are amalgam fillings.
      Additionally, every time dentists opens up a filling, they always have to drill down through parts of the healthy teeth as well. This is why it's bad to unnecessarily reopen a filling, as it weakens the healthy teeth structure every time they do it.
      If you have a dentist that told you to replace a well functioning amalgam fillings, they are not acting in your best interest.

    • @electronicsNmore
      @electronicsNmore 7 лет назад +17

      yvrelna
      I know all about dental work. I have 2 friends that are dentists. I even have dental related videos on my channel. The best thing you can do for your health, is to remove the fillings. The dentist was wrong. Mercury has no place in the human body. Chewing on food gives off mercury vapor. When drilling away the old amalgams, it is done with suction very close to the tooth to remove any vapors, and you also breathe through your nose while it's done. Look at my teeth and let me know if you still think I'm crazy. Plenty of composite fillings, but no amalgams, caps, crowns or veneers.
      i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t507/lookingfordbn/SNV31573_zpsszsc1qrc.jpg

    • @gabrielgallo513
      @gabrielgallo513 7 лет назад +2

      electronicsNmore
      I had that type of amalgam in 4 tooths. 3 or 4 years ago my dentist replace those for composite. I am fine.

    • @ianucci
      @ianucci 6 лет назад +15

      "most dentists no longer use the mercury amalgam fillings" this is news to me, maybe thats the case in the states.

    • @SgtLion
      @SgtLion 6 лет назад +23

      Mercury fillings are proven to have no adverse health effects. Mercury only presents a serious health risk in elemental form, which won't be happening unless you start pouring weird industrial chemicals into your mouth.

  • @easyhowtovids1082
    @easyhowtovids1082 7 лет назад +352

    Next up: Taking a bath in Mercury!

    • @easyhowtovids1082
      @easyhowtovids1082 7 лет назад +21

      Completely nude!

    • @Salensuss
      @Salensuss 7 лет назад +5

      Dive!

    • @easyhowtovids1082
      @easyhowtovids1082 7 лет назад

      Nice!

    • @IamGrimalkin
      @IamGrimalkin 7 лет назад +25

      Mercury is too dense for that, you'd just float on top. Remember, when he put his hand in mercury he had to put in quite a bit of effort to keep his hand down.

    • @easyhowtovids1082
      @easyhowtovids1082 7 лет назад +6

      IamGrimalkin I know. I'm joking.

  • @stevemiller6766
    @stevemiller6766 7 лет назад +40

    It is refreshing to see someone who takes a cool-headed approach to Hg instead of this panic over Hg most people take today.

    • @angolin9352
      @angolin9352 6 лет назад +8

      Humans have burned coal in their own homes for hundreds if not thousands of years. Why is this only now causing mercury toxicity, when people in the past had much more direct and frequent exposure to mercury than they do today?

    • @angolin9352
      @angolin9352 6 лет назад +16

      There are more sources of mercury exposure today, but more sources =/= more exposure. If you get exposed to, say, 10g/day of CO from one thing in you house, but get rid of it and replace it with 5 things that expose to you 1g/day each, you've had a net loss in CO exposure. These numbers are all purely hypothetical, but it illustrates a mathematical truth that sometimes (x*y) < z.
      If coal contains so much mercury, then people in the past (especially in cold areas) would have had stronger symptoms of mercury toxicity than people today, because modern coal power plants 1) have air scrubbers, and 2) are typically far away from your home ad opposed to, you now - INSIDE it. A 10m x 10m x 10m cube is not 10x the volume of a 1m cube, it's 1000x the volume of a 1m cube because you're expanding all 3 dimensions at once. That's a hell of a lot of dispersal.
      CFL bulbs do not release mercury, except when they leak (which destroys the bulb) or when they blow (which causes a leak). In either case, it is such a miniscule amount of Hg that, despite what people tell you, you can put in the trash without breaking US federal or state law. Most municipalities allow it too. I know from experience that these fuckers last awhile, I've gone a year without a single CFB inside my house blow, and I use them for all of my lights.
      Vaccines still have not been linked to mercury toxicity or autism.
      You also seem to misunderstand how bioaccumulation works. When one animal consumes another animal, it consumes more or less the entire chemical composition of the animal. Depending on the animal's diet, this can be minimal (cows, chicken) or relatively high (some sea fish). When one animal gives birth to another, only a small amount of mercury in blood is transferred, and it's not the blood mercury you need to concern yourself with - It's what's accumulated in the fatty tissues, which the baby doesn't need to worry about unless the mother somehow eats herself, but doesn't kill the baby and still allows it to be born as normal. This small amount might affect prenatal development (I'm not an expert on prenatal development, but you still haven't proven that people are exposed to more mercury than they have been in the past, so we'll call this even until more evidence is brought up), but after the baby is born it will grow rapidly and the small amount of mercury it has received will be such a minor amount in comparison to its body size and weight that, percentage-wise, it has less mercury in its body than the mother.
      In the future, before replying with "omg. Moron." to polite request to explain the verbal diarrhea you post, you should either explain your position politely or admit that you have no idea of what you're talking about. You just might look like less of an "omg. Moron." yourself if you take that route.
      Just before I posted this, I decided to look up the mercury content of coal. My first search result claimed that 80% of coal contained less than .25ppm of mercury, which is absolutely miniscule, and that the mercury emitted by coal plants is mostly elemental mercury, which isn't all that bad when compared to the things people think of when they think of mercury toxicity. Since it's past 6AM and you haven't been terribly effective at proving your point, I'll only bother digging up more sources if it seems necessary to continue this discussion.

    • @randoprior4130
      @randoprior4130 6 лет назад +5

      modutchable damn some people will say anything to avoid losing an argument...
      Next time you should lead with something much more suddle such as,
      "Your mom!" Or, "gay"

    • @angolin9352
      @angolin9352 6 лет назад

      *subtle

    • @angolin9352
      @angolin9352 6 лет назад

      modutchable Clearly, Jake Pryor should be more like you, someone who presents an argument with no supporting evidence and then say you "proved it."

  • @Archaeopteryx128
    @Archaeopteryx128 5 лет назад +1

    Mercury as a family heirloom.
    I have a bottle of mercury that belonged to my grandfather.
    The style of the bottle indicates it was made circa 1920.
    Family legend says it was used in the final stages of a sluice-box, extracting placer gold.

    • @stevenduff9586
      @stevenduff9586 5 лет назад

      Yes I also found one that belonged to g Grand paw sadly it got stolen

  • @krazykrispy21
    @krazykrispy21 7 лет назад +29

    In your mining mercury video, you said that you didn't have access to very much mercury, so that's why you had to crush and roast the cinnabar to get it yourself. How and when did you find or gain access to your grandfather's mercury?

    • @theCodyReeder
      @theCodyReeder  7 лет назад +117

      Ah yes not sure if I mentioned this in a video, but when I was a kid my dad caught me playing with it and freaked out so he sent it to my aunt for safe keeping. I only recently got it back.

  • @claycollins8973
    @claycollins8973 7 лет назад +503

    Hey can you do a bottle flipping video using mercury as your liquid? I commented on a video suggesting that, and with mercury being such a dense liquid, it would virtually be impossible to not land it, since mercury would serve as the ultimate ballast. I had so many people asking why i think mercury would change anything vs water and Gatorade. Then I also had other people try to say that it wouldn't work etc

    • @seifeseifeseife
      @seifeseifeseife 7 лет назад +4

      Wouldnt it actually be easier?

    • @goatosis8186
      @goatosis8186 7 лет назад +74

      C. Kyle That's what he just said 😶

    • @seifeseifeseife
      @seifeseifeseife 7 лет назад +11

      Dova Goat
      Whoops, i didnt see the "not"

    • @theCodyReeder
      @theCodyReeder  7 лет назад +150

      So my current plan is to get a halfway decent high speed camera and then do it in slowmo.

    • @claycollins8973
      @claycollins8973 7 лет назад +22

      Nice! Can't wait, can't wait to prove to everyone that mercury would make bottle flipping so much easier!

  • @bpf0078
    @bpf0078 7 лет назад +104

    You have to wait until the 10:30 mark, then it's a few seconds of explanation.

    • @972pa.
      @972pa. 6 лет назад +1

      thanks!

    • @wb6608
      @wb6608 6 лет назад +7

      10 minutes of playing with rocks before he reveals that he just bought liquid mercury from a dentist...

    • @cinquine1
      @cinquine1 6 лет назад +6

      I mean, he clearly says most of his mercury came from that still (or near it anyway).

  • @russellthorburn9297
    @russellthorburn9297 4 года назад

    5:12 Thank you for using the word "hypothesis" and not using the word "theory". One of my pet peeves is when people use those words incorrectly. Great channel!

  • @GrandNecro
    @GrandNecro 7 лет назад +185

    when are you going to show us some of those Cody'sAb?

    • @mellamoroberto4408
      @mellamoroberto4408 7 лет назад +4

      GrandNecro that is amazing

    • @jesses1589
      @jesses1589 7 лет назад +6

      +Skeleton You're creating lies, I'm not sure who is worse....you or Hillary.

    • @Gramercyconor
      @Gramercyconor 7 лет назад +1

      Who is worst ted Cruz or Obama or burnie sanders

    • @matbakarich9046
      @matbakarich9046 7 лет назад +1

      Are you volunteering to be his test subject? I'm sure we can find you someone to talk to if you have questions about how you got this way.

    • @yognut72
      @yognut72 7 лет назад +17

      how about you fuck off you homophobe.

  • @DeanLorman
    @DeanLorman 7 лет назад +49

    We have a huge old mercury mine up here that burned hot leaving pools of mercury right on the surface.Fort St. James,BC,Canada.

    • @robertgift
      @robertgift 7 лет назад +23

      Hope they harvest the mercury and clean it up. We don't want Hg vapor in the air.

    • @Pac0Master
      @Pac0Master 7 лет назад

      Id like to take some of it, but I'm living on the East side.

    • @DeanLorman
      @DeanLorman 7 лет назад +1

      Too bad I am in Canada.

    • @Pac0Master
      @Pac0Master 7 лет назад +1

      Dean Lorman yeah same, but from Quebec haha.
      BC is a bit far :3

    • @louistournas120
      @louistournas120 6 лет назад

      I am in Quebec. BC is too far. Would love to have 2 L of Hg.

  • @31SEANO
    @31SEANO Год назад

    I know this is late, but that Element intro, Co[Cobalt] Dy[Dysprosium] S[Sulfur] La[Lanthanum] B[Boron], put together to spell out, "CoDy'S LaB", was brilliant!

  • @VoidloniXaarii
    @VoidloniXaarii 7 лет назад +1

    lots of admiration for your knowledge of physics and for your independent mindedness. Great to see such free people out there, knowing so many things. I'm amazed the evil overlords aren't doing some things to try to censor or somehow regulate somebody so independently minded and resourceful. Just wanted to express my respect and admiration.

  • @madworldsmileyface
    @madworldsmileyface 7 лет назад +330

    I thought you got it from Flint, Michigan's water supply.

    • @BlareWolfgang
      @BlareWolfgang 7 лет назад +9

      Too soon...

    • @thrundawolf187
      @thrundawolf187 7 лет назад +55

      That's lead

    • @jennaorlowski9228
      @jennaorlowski9228 6 лет назад +16

      Underskor thats lead

    • @enixine1266
      @enixine1266 6 лет назад +4

      Underskor I don't know if I understood your comment correctly but it seems to be saying flint is Michigan's water supply or you could be saying flint Michigan's water supply but I live in Michigan and my water is just fine

    • @kelaya3418
      @kelaya3418 6 лет назад +5

      jason todd if you don't live under a rock then flint the city in Michigan has tainted water!

  • @ManyManyPandas
    @ManyManyPandas 7 лет назад +4

    Thank you for telling us in the form of a video!!!! I actually was wondering so much where you got that much Hg!

  • @domingoocho4374
    @domingoocho4374 21 день назад

    I actually live near a HUGE mercury mining district from around the times of the gold rush (it operated before and after), and I go there all the time to explore mineshafts and quarries for samples. Most of the spots are hidden, but I have a group where we locate and explore the mines with equipment together. I don't have any big mercury samples, but I am hoping to get a good-quality piece of cinnabar one day!

  • @Donnyf3841
    @Donnyf3841 6 лет назад

    The engineering blows my mind. Extremely intelligent people that go unnoticed.

  • @dougyanez1710
    @dougyanez1710 7 лет назад +3

    Cody, buy yourself a high quality LED penlight like a streamlight stylus pro. Slip it into your back pocket and you'll forget it's there until you need it. The batteries last and you'll find yourself using it more often than a pocket knife. It's one of the handiest things I carry.

  • @omermagen824
    @omermagen824 7 лет назад +41

    You are now off the ranch, you must be vlogging.

    • @omermagen824
      @omermagen824 7 лет назад +18

      like if you think he should collab with Matt!

    • @dennisminshew9283
      @dennisminshew9283 6 лет назад +5

      Mercury filled shotgun shells

    • @TreyBattles5150
      @TreyBattles5150 6 лет назад

      I knew I’d find this comment 😂

    • @wolfiptwolf4743
      @wolfiptwolf4743 6 лет назад

      Omer Magen off the ranch demolition ranch codys lab

  • @NuisanceMan
    @NuisanceMan 3 года назад +1

    Cody's the only chemist who gets his mercury from a backyard still. "Now, about a mile over this-a-way is where we get our hooch. We do try to keep 'em separate."

  • @cx4936
    @cx4936 3 года назад +2

    Based on that thumbnail I thought some shady creature was selling you mercury in an abandoned mineshaft.

  • @maxhammick948
    @maxhammick948 7 лет назад +10

    how were the burnt rocks removed from the roasting box? I can't see any obvious way to get them out, but there must have been some kind of door

    • @theCodyReeder
      @theCodyReeder  7 лет назад +19

      remember the rake thing? I think they had to pull it out by hand.

    • @69gaydogs
      @69gaydogs 7 лет назад

      nah dog, they blow it out

  • @shaunblunden294
    @shaunblunden294 7 лет назад +5

    Looks like im early. I love your videos Cody.

  • @rogerwilco2
    @rogerwilco2 6 лет назад

    I am amazed how people can live in places with all these ores.
    I live in the Netherlands, which is basically a flood plane, and we just have sand an mud. Bedrock is 200+ metres down and unreachable with all but the biggest mining equipment.

  • @rajanrao
    @rajanrao 4 года назад +1

    0:13 "Huh, look at this, this is an Aspen. You can tell it's an Aspen tree because of the way it is... pat pat wow!"

  • @tacticalultimatum
    @tacticalultimatum 7 лет назад +33

    Did you say... Off the ranch 😂

    • @kane2929
      @kane2929 7 лет назад +1

      Tactical Ultimatum yes yes he did😂😂😂

    • @Kilbot192
      @Kilbot192 7 лет назад +4

      Why is that so significant? His property only reaches so far...

    • @NeutralBananaMmm
      @NeutralBananaMmm 7 лет назад +1

      john papple off the ranch is a youtube channel

    • @derpytwerpgameryt4955
      @derpytwerpgameryt4955 7 лет назад +1

      Tactical Ultimatum no he said demo ranch

  • @overlean1
    @overlean1 7 лет назад +38

    "i was someone who was very experienced with mercuing with mercury" 10:59 lol

    • @overlean1
      @overlean1 7 лет назад +8

      cody's a lyrical genius

    • @erikpettersson91
      @erikpettersson91 7 лет назад +1

      i was going to say that

    • @sharanv9182
      @sharanv9182 7 лет назад

      not sure if he intended to say working with mercury but accidentally said merking

    • @toniyourcuzzin
      @toniyourcuzzin 7 лет назад

      Merking with wercury

  • @drinkwater7632
    @drinkwater7632 5 лет назад +2

    yeah i got my mercury at this one hole. the man in it was like "hey you want some mercury?"

  • @natertater4024
    @natertater4024 7 лет назад

    this is the first video I watched from your channel. it was my deal breaker. you had me at hello buddy ! just got done watching the latest video of you making steel from rock. big thumbs up Cody. I enjoy your series pal !

  • @Name-jn1su
    @Name-jn1su 7 лет назад +4

    why does anyone dislike your videos

  • @schelsullivan
    @schelsullivan 7 лет назад +34

    Would there have been any health risks associated with operating that mercury still?

    • @Dinckelburg
      @Dinckelburg 7 лет назад +1

      Sulphur inhalation?

    • @etuanno
      @etuanno 7 лет назад +4

      nope, he did a vid recently and showed that elemental mercury isn't really toxic bc it's not reactive.

    • @secondamendmentFTW
      @secondamendmentFTW 7 лет назад +18

      I would say, yes. Even when that still was constructed, I bet it released a LOT of mercury vapor to the atmosphere and would be breathed in by the operator.

    • @bcubed72
      @bcubed72 7 лет назад +13

      Yes. Earning a living has been hazardous to one's health since the day of the pyramids. Welcome to how the other half lives!

    • @fenriders7008
      @fenriders7008 7 лет назад +11

      +etuanno elemental Mercury is not readily absorbed by the skin... Preventing it from getting into your blood. Mercury vapour that you breath in however would be absorbed by your lungs rather well... Definitely dangerous to your health...

  • @danielballer1292
    @danielballer1292 7 лет назад

    I only understand half of what you say but still find it all interesting

  • @s16100
    @s16100 6 лет назад

    I got my mercury collection from old Bailey and Hagan boiler controls that were taken out of service. I love mercury! :)

  • @yvrelna
    @yvrelna 7 лет назад +26

    "only recently got the mercury back from family member who was keeping it so little kid me didn't play with it too much"
    That's wise. Cause now the adult you is playing with mercury way too much.

    • @wolffang489
      @wolffang489 6 лет назад

      His blood tests say he could get away with playing a bit more.

  • @floridaarmyvet3613
    @floridaarmyvet3613 7 лет назад +50

    get the hopper working so we can see you make mercury from scratch!

    • @sandramorrison99
      @sandramorrison99 5 лет назад

      Oh- HOT DAMN!
      My son is Stff Srgt 1st cls, FT Bragg! 19+
      I love YOUR MIND! My comment was pretty out THERE!
      Its bout 10 above yers!

  • @mansigupta7405
    @mansigupta7405 6 лет назад +3

    I was hoping that he'll raise the camera and there'll be standing an angry man right in front of him and he starts running like crazy behind Cody

  • @jakestein8588
    @jakestein8588 7 лет назад +10

    We didn't want to know where you got your mercury, we wanted to know where you got your liquid nitrogen!