Mason Mine Has Native Gems Including Rubies and Sapphires With Long History of Gemstone Mining
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- The Mason Mine has native gems including rubies and sapphires with long history of gemstone mining. There are now blacklight tours after dark to find rubies, which glow pink in black light.
the American Mining and Prospecting Company of New York originally prospected the mine somewhere in the 1895 period for gems. In 1897 James Raby bought the property and by 1905 the publication of Corundum and Peridotites of Western NC mentions the Raby Mine. The mine continued to operate till 1928 when a shaft collapsed. After that the mine was closed down for 14 years.
In 1942 the Mason family bought the property and soon started leasing the property to mineral collectors. By 1958 they started to operate the mine as a tourist mine. The current ownership by the Klatt family began in 2011.
Haha! Great idea to use your blacklite on other persons processed tailings!
Old Habits, are hard to break.
What was the blue fluorescent stones at 12:47 until 12:49, why did he skip over it? wasnt that a gemstone? did maybe the camera only pick up on the fluorescense but not his eyes?
It was a low quality chunk of corundum. But it didn't glow like a ruby. You ready to see a red spinel Blacklight hunt in Sri Lanka? Did your "rockhounding" club show you about that yet?
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Yogo Sapphires in Montana are the best thing in USA. Others are too small in Montana, But I will be making lots of videos out there this summer. The red Beryl is too small but I will get a few hundred to make earrings with as well. Both are $$$
I HAVE NOT POSTED ANY PICKS/VIDEOS ON RUclips, BUT I HAVE FACEBOOK-ME NOT TECHKY YOUNG SIR. WE HAVE SON-HE'S THE ELLON MUSK IN FAMILY AND IS ALSO DISABLED- HE IS A TETRAPLEGIC -48YEARS YOUNG-HEHEHE.
Yeah, well, he should um, get his facts straight sapphires. Do go underneath the black light I don't care if they're blue or whatever they're red under a black light, just like a Ruby. I really is a sapphire, in case you didn't know that either. Alright God I couldn't it blew me away as soon as he opened his mouth and said Chat fires don't grow.Go to dirt, get your facts straight
Actually its Corundum, the source of rubies and sapphires. Only ruby light up, not Sapphire. Google it.
I literally have purple sapphires from the Mason mine that I dug up last year. They glow bright red under uv.
@@clintoncollum838 Rubies glow under a blacklight because of the presence of chromium in their chemical makeup, which causes them to fluoresce when exposed to ultraviolet light, while sapphires typically lack this chromium element and therefore do not exhibit the same glow under UV light; instead, the color-producing elements in sapphires (like iron and titanium) do not react significantly to UV radiation in the same way. Could be mixed. I have seen some half and half, bi color.
@MinesAndMountains Well, not sure of the composition of the typical purple sapphires from the Mason mine, but what i am sure of is that they florescent a bright red under uv.
I've been going to this mine since I was a child. Not sure if they do it anymore, but they used to have uv hunts for the sapphires as a special event.
@@clintoncollum838 A employee there says they still do blacklight tours, just call them if interested. Also Rose Creek Mine does black light tours.
16 likes, shows that people like the wrong youtube videos
Nobody wants to see you and "Peaches" go on another rockhounding date. I think they want to see some real Sigma content in Colombia?
Nice using hotel ice buckets. Jerk
A little Corundum in your ice is the least of your concerns, it's good for you. How about that GMO food making everyone obese? Or those experimental shots they forced on you...? I didn't take either which makes me the last Sigma male.