Mining linarite crystals from the Blanchard Mine

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  • Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
  • Rick Seng explores and mines linarite crystals from the Sunshine number three adit, Blanchard Mine, New Mexico.

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  • @irischicklinda
    @irischicklinda 4 года назад

    Wow ! Beautiful color for being blue ... Very nice

  • @Aisha1133
    @Aisha1133 10 лет назад

    I am a spiritual writer and just did some writing on gems, because i don't know much about how gems are mined I had to go to youtube to understand, so thank you for posting this, what an amazing world with all the people and all it has to offer

  • @bryan120000
    @bryan120000 6 лет назад

    Thanks for thinking of us by making this video. Wish there was more stuff like this out there.

  • @todddaugherty110
    @todddaugherty110 3 года назад

    Spectacular specimens. I collected there twice about 20 years ago and got a bunch of the galena and blue fluorite. I looked desperately for the linarite, but to no avail.

  • @mctron22rd
    @mctron22rd 4 года назад

    All I can say is.....WOW! gorgeous stuff. Sounds like your walking on lava rocks.

  • @LoveRupee
    @LoveRupee 6 лет назад

    Angels & Airwaves is awesome, and your videos make me want to run and scream for the mountains.

  • @alexnutu1125
    @alexnutu1125 Год назад

    Wow, unbelievable stuff man! I just discovered some at an abandoned mine in yavapai county, not Azurite but legit Linarite. Not as exceptional as the stuff you have here but some nice stuff. What an under appreciated mineral/gem

  • @earthkeyper
    @earthkeyper 10 лет назад +2

    Nice haul, love the druzy.

  • @destravlr
    @destravlr 8 лет назад

    I've still got a picture of you collecting in that stope Rick. May actually send it to you now. Glad I stumbled across this nice video today. - Glen M

  • @rupturedaura
    @rupturedaura 12 лет назад

    Linarite crystals are stunning!

  • @arsenic-bearingvanadinite6812
    @arsenic-bearingvanadinite6812 2 года назад

    Man those are nice pieces, I hope it's still possible to find Linarite and the other minerals out there,

  • @cowboygeologist7772
    @cowboygeologist7772 5 лет назад

    Cool. Thanks for taking us along.

  • @donaldjordan5033
    @donaldjordan5033 5 лет назад

    Omg these gems are beautiful , we just started digging for gems at Diamond hill but I want to travel there .

  • @sarahrose0413
    @sarahrose0413 10 лет назад +4

    Just bought some linarite specimins from the Flagg show in Mesa.....apparently the Rowley mine in glia bend has a little of it there, but we mostly found mimitite, and wulfenite.

  • @mosessgoldenberg
    @mosessgoldenberg 7 лет назад

    sweet finds Rick ...really impressed Good Job !!! :)

  • @gabadco
    @gabadco 12 лет назад

    you are a genius!!! lovely gems

  • @tonyrocks8135
    @tonyrocks8135 5 лет назад

    I love the blue fluorite that comes from here

  • @actressqueen123
    @actressqueen123 11 лет назад

    This is so cool and interesting!!! I hope one day I get to go mining with you!!!

  • @sanpanchoculture1351
    @sanpanchoculture1351 5 лет назад

    wish you would of recorded that wonderful video with a UV-LIGHT ... nice video WOW

  • @ImaginationHobbies
    @ImaginationHobbies 6 лет назад

    i also got to dig there a couple years ago. fun!

  • @sjrjch
    @sjrjch 8 лет назад

    I love rock collections

  • @SolitaryWarfare2
    @SolitaryWarfare2 11 лет назад

    Wow, I wish I could collect like that, there are no public mines or collecting sites around here. Even if there is I have no idea where to start looking.

  • @crystalminer
    @crystalminer  10 лет назад

    sarahrose0413 I was selling at the Flagg show. I was in the Front row toward the north Selling Halite, cubic Pyrite from Spain, and Celestite. I still have some linarite from this find.

  • @husseinkhalil7297
    @husseinkhalil7297 10 лет назад +1

    Nature treasures...

  • @sagelost
    @sagelost 6 лет назад

    it would be great to retrive galena (and linarite?) from the mining period, spare material in mine, retrive more after hundered years and so on to study mineral (mine/mine-ral:) development!

  • @Badger2410
    @Badger2410 12 лет назад

    Awsome finds. Hard, dangerous work But it looks like it has great rewards. Might want to think about taking a partner along with you, safer that way. Good luck to you in the future, I will be watching this for updates. (I got a few videos of me digging for Amazonite in Colorado). Badger4life.

  • @Rockhounder285
    @Rockhounder285 4 года назад

    Gorgeous.I would love a sample!!

  • @billyproctor9714
    @billyproctor9714 8 лет назад +1

    Nice Video, what is the end use, crystal market or can it be worked? B.C. Canada

    • @bryan120000
      @bryan120000 6 лет назад

      Billy Proctor crystal market

  • @crystalminer
    @crystalminer  12 лет назад

    Yes, this is from the Blanchard Mines in Soccorro County.

  • @TheJellisonGirls
    @TheJellisonGirls 13 лет назад

    So Awesome!

  • @jeffreyp1855
    @jeffreyp1855 9 лет назад

    Does anyone know what the prospectors, hundreds of years ago, did with the crystals and such? Did they throw them out, or grind them up?

  • @theeeees
    @theeeees 10 лет назад

    wow that is so fucking awesome, what do you think i would find if i dug under my back yard that deep. i live right under neath lake michigan at the tip top of indiana. Blue is my favorite color, and those crystals look beautiful. Do you think if you tried really hard you could make a house down there? Or at least a room with a couch to hang out in.

  • @Mollysky1
    @Mollysky1 9 лет назад

    What a marvel this video is! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
    PS. You are CRAZY!!!!! (In the best sense of the word) ; D

  • @jdean1851
    @jdean1851 8 лет назад

    great vid! newbie thanx!

  • @donaldjordan5033
    @donaldjordan5033 5 лет назад

    I would like to travel here but is it safe there for Americans to even be in New Mexico?

  • @Aisha1133
    @Aisha1133 10 лет назад

    thank you!

  • @richardprather2900
    @richardprather2900 2 года назад

    I think you need better lights, making it hard to see... and your safety getting around.

  • @matthewsteva1917
    @matthewsteva1917 5 лет назад

    always have a survival kit and bee-ken for signal

  • @sandyhess9920
    @sandyhess9920 12 лет назад

    Beautiful... Is this from the Blanchard Mines in Soccorro County by Bingham or up in San Juan County by Shiprock?

  • @Sterlingk_
    @Sterlingk_ 10 лет назад

    I would do that but.... those hanging rocks are scary as hell

  • @user-vi2kl3nj5g
    @user-vi2kl3nj5g 10 лет назад +1

    beautifil...........

  • @I_am_Puma33_
    @I_am_Puma33_ 5 лет назад

    need more explore video sir

  • @happyharv1
    @happyharv1 8 лет назад

    Hello Rick: Do you have any of the Linarite in facet grade quality rough or Linerite already faceted or as cabochon.
    Let me know
    Cheers
    Harvey

    • @bryan120000
      @bryan120000 6 лет назад

      happyharv1 destroy beautiful linarite crystals that look millions of years to make by cutting/smashing/grinding them. Hopefully not.

  • @pawntucky
    @pawntucky 13 лет назад

    Beautiful. How do you know where to mine for this mineral?

  • @ricois3
    @ricois3 13 лет назад

    Wow!

  • @crystalminer
    @crystalminer  12 лет назад

    What do I say at 5:00 ? I mine specimens for a living. I have never entered a mine without a helmet.

  • @finpainter1
    @finpainter1 11 лет назад

    cool vid

  • @trptrungblogs
    @trptrungblogs Год назад

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️💎👍💎👍

  • @bilfrado
    @bilfrado 11 лет назад

    turn the volume up. He had one on.

  • @dauddera4873
    @dauddera4873 8 лет назад

    waooowww keren

  • @MsAbbydo
    @MsAbbydo 11 лет назад

    just a little curious, but how much money did you get (if you sold them) but otherwise great video. :)

  • @kevinrosas1908
    @kevinrosas1908 9 лет назад

    How much wold that sell for?

  • @noone-uy1ir
    @noone-uy1ir 4 года назад

    Too bad cut linarite gems are nonexistent, they'd be absolutely delightful collector's pieces.

  • @MrCJWarden
    @MrCJWarden 13 лет назад

    how do you make linarite?

  • @jekblom123
    @jekblom123 11 лет назад

    do the crystals have any practical use?

  •  5 лет назад

    👏👏👏👏🔨

  • @anthonysadowski5983
    @anthonysadowski5983 7 лет назад

    Were is the mine in Columbus,NM

    • @ImaginationHobbies
      @ImaginationHobbies 6 лет назад

      Anthony Sadowski socorro, nm

    • @todddaugherty110
      @todddaugherty110 3 года назад +1

      @@ImaginationHobbies Actually, it is about 30 miles east of San Antonio, New Mexico to the "town" of Bingham, and then 10 miles or so to the south on the western slopes of the Sierra Oscura Mountains.

  • @monkeydunkey1
    @monkeydunkey1 12 лет назад

    I bet when he goes home he plays minecraft

  • @snoosebaum995
    @snoosebaum995 2 года назад

    get a better flashlight !

  • @Deldenary
    @Deldenary 12 лет назад

    dangerous...he's not even wearing a hard hat. this guy is crazy you should never enter an abandoned mine no matter what is inside it.

  • @vacuumboy6.0
    @vacuumboy6.0 12 лет назад

    MINECRAFT :D

  • @megagaminglive2349
    @megagaminglive2349 8 лет назад

    nice dad!

  • @crystalminer
    @crystalminer  12 лет назад

    McLimiteds wins :)