Finding Garnets at the River Valley Garnet Mine Canada
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- We are finding Garnets in this video at the River Valley Garnet Mine in Ontario, Canada. These garnets are famed for their size and the video offers tips as to finding the mine and also extracting the garnets.
Such a knowledgeable commentator is hard to come by! It’s lovely you’re making new videos. I treasure them!
Good morning from Australia Michael, another great video with some great specimens and your inherent background knowledge makes it invaluable. The only way this could have been better is If you had taken me with you so I could dug a few of those out myself.😜. Your partner in hounding as usual has got some great pieces as well. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin
I would have preferred to have fewer blackflies
Absolutely jam packed full of useful information. Thank you for the knowledge you shed. Always a pleasure.
Tried finding this on Monday. My wife and I.
Then you do a video. awsome I'm definitely going back
Admittedly it was not easy - enter from the top end like we did. There is a clear path on your left as you follow up the track. it's about 20 minutes to a half hour past the outwash
Great video as always. Would love to have been there with you. Perhaps the next time you head out in the Bancroft area. give me call. I'll tag along....lol
I own property very very near here. Amazing area!
Very cool video, just checked the MLAS (Mining Lands Administration System) map and found this are is claimed.
The company New Age Metals has the whole area claimed. They found mutli-million ounces of Palladium on their claim CLM450 which covers a very large area of 4777 Hectares. Their Lease Term is for 21 Years starting in 2011 until 2032. The garnets in this area are on their claim so you'd have to contact them to get permission to be on the property as they have legal claim according to the Ontario Ministry of Mines, "all that land and land under water". They have an office in Ontario you can google New Age Metals Ontario Office and find their phone number if you wish to ask permission for access. I have no idea if they will give it but I am personally hoping they will.
So he was claim jumping? THATS illegal!
Woo hoo. Nice finding. Love your videos.
...25 years ago at a Rock Show, I was shown some really nice blocky snow-white feldspar encrusted with black tourmaline needles and perfect dodecahedral brown garnets. The guy told me roughly where they came from. Looked a couple of times in the 90's, found some rose quartz pegmatite, blue apatite, but no specimens. Bit I think I've now located the spot, with better satellite imagery. Worth taking another look.
there's a road cutting on highway 537 in sudbury that is loaded with feldspar, muscovite, fuchsite and loads of other minerals that is worth visiting
would you happen to know around where on the highway? making a list for this spring/ summer
Was there Tim's cup there, sorry I forgot to dispose of it. Is Raf your uranium mine coexplorer from three years ago
Great video thank you!
Love your videos
What a spot!
I recently got a book: introduction to mineralogy, so now i can appreciate all that crystallography and chemistry stuff
Thanks again
thank you sir for more knowledge..
Where's a exelent spot in AZ would u by chance know please do because I've been thinking and literally wanting to cry everyday I'm dying to go explore like you omg your so freaking awesome your the Crystal explorer in the world and the most knowledgeable person by far
I was also digging garnets in Switzerland ;-)
pretty sweet specimen
What is the value of a gem quality garnet like you found?
Rob Oakman - Not much, almandine is a common gem. However, a good one would be appreciated by Ontario gemstone collectors!
Love this!!! Anyone know how I can go about finding possible caves on my property?
If it's Winter...look for spots where air seems to be coming from the ground....that's what I've been told. Holes in the snow....
Do you know of anything in the north Frontenac or Lanark highlands? My kids love rockhounding and your videos
He is back everbody
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Great place to collect crystals, but facet grade almandine is small, and rare, under 1% I’d say. Stones under half a carat are possible if you’re lucky. The broken crystals will tumble nicely, decent cabs are possible, but more are brown than a nice red. The real find is staurolite! Use iron out to remove stains, and a spot cleaning gun or pressure washer, to remove the mica. All in all, collecting doesn’t get much easier than this place!
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Im currently working through some mica chist pieces but no garnets yet.
Do we need to get permission or is it abandoned?
Just out in the bush - it is commonly visited by rockhounds
@@Caver461 thank you!
I believe the property still has a claim on it. Its been abandoned since the late sixties as a working mine & nobody really enforces the claim. You can still get a potential fine for not having a prospectors license if an MNR officer wants to be a prick. The spots he was collecting from are just test pits on the rock ridge. The actual working mine was below the ridge which is a swamp now. I spent a good part of my childhood in the area & was taken there as young boy in the mid 70's to collect large rocks of garnet & mica for a rock garden my parents were building. I was back a couple years ago & picked up some specimens. Its is quite a bit different then what it was back in the 70's & the ridge was just the edge of the occurrence.
good.
Would you guys do Timmins area? 🥺
I would love to go garnet hunting, are there any clubs in Ontario that do that? This place looks off the beaten track.
Most of them that are willing to travel up to Muskoka do!
How did you find the path? Is there a map?
in australia mid 80s red garnets 10 for 1$ gemtree great location
Can you tumble these garnets or would they chip away?
Yes you can tumble them
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