Whoa you tossed a huge one! Haha just kidding. Amazing finds wow, some big enough for cabbing for sure. Even I was excited thinking the next one you grab could be gem grade, maybe you did just locked in one of those rocks. Thanks for taking us along!
Hello sire. I am very happy to watch your chanel. I would like to ask you that: I am in Somalia. I have some meteorite stone and at least one hudred different old coins those are my collectings. But I have missed someone to buy them from me in may country. Please send a letter to caziizi12@gmail.com as I send my pictures of collectings to youm thank you my teacher.
That is how I do it, too: Take a relaxing walk through the forest, look for fallen trees, and you do not have to shovel a hole by yourself.. Great video!Unfortunately I can only lift up one thumb..
I have been collecting these kind of rocks because they are so beautiful finally I know that they are not garnet its sapphires and I was told and further studies its opal as well
How do you find new areas with valuable gems? Does the types of rocks and minerals implemented in the bedrock have anything to say, or could you simply see signs of it being rich soil from above ground?
Just doing some research online I was amazed at the variety of gemstones found in Ontario/Lake Superior region. That area is (in my opinion) is the most interesting geologically in Canada.
Try making a roll-up sieve by using course plastic screening material which you can turn into a sort of hammock/envelope sieve with some large safety pins holding the folded ends together. You might also try looking around your local Michael's or similar crafts store, for suitable mesh.
Love to see crystal mining, please get a better camera, or just shoot the specimen at a wider angle. Most of your closeups are blurry most of the video. Just say'n. Most cellphones have better video capability than inexpensive cameras. I don't mean to be negative or putting you down. You have a wide audience, just imagine how much better your episodes would be in focus.
Nice, you found a Gabbro Type peg. it's mafiac but looks like some clevenite as well, I would say that's some solid cab grade corundum, gray not blue. Maybe it's the camera you did warn us.... Thanks for the vid.
Gray sapphires when polished have a sort of galaxy look... I live in statesville N.C., which is close to Hiddenite NC and gray sapphires are rare but common for this area...nice locale...
Those look like more Star Sapphires, cabochon them on the top and bottom ends of the crystals, see if there is any chatotancy or stars on them. They look like they have Rutile all through them, to me.
I actually thought recently what it would be like to get thumped with a corundum bullet. Can you imagine, the weight along with it shattering and ripping multiple wound channels when it hits bone. Also I am taking this idea, i have a huge (unfortunately 90% opacity, still beautiful though) black and green star sapphire that would go nicely in an emptied .50 shell, and a smaller .338 for the smaller one on the other side of the crystal
Started watching your channel last night while pawing through rocks I picked last summer. Should've been sleeping (now too lol), but... forgotten sparkly rocks! I'm kind of using your hounding videos to help me consider what to look for here at home on the South shore of Ontario. Mostly I limit myself to beach stones and loose rocks in the drumlins, which if I'm correct, all come from your area across the lake. I'm enjoying going along with you while we're away from the shore for the winter.
I do the same thing on the north shore of Lake Ontario sometimes. All glacier material. Once in a while something interesting shows up. I was down there last spring to do a video about it, but my Dog Daisy decided she wanted to go for a swim and jumped off a 20' bank onto the rocks below. $1K later in vet bills to find out she was OK (thank goodness). But I have not yet been back. Maybe next year.
+tess99991 I'm glad Daisy wasn't hurt. It certainly was a possibility with the boulders just below the surface. I'm fortunate to live close to Chimney Bluffs State Park with lots of cliff face to work. It's Wayne county Between Sodus Bay and Port Bay. Plus quaries in the Niagara escarpment, but I'm yet to get into that kind of hounding. C'mon back down, there's a very active club that would enjoy meeting, if you haven't already.
tess99991 Give a heads up ahead of time and perhaps some other locals would meet up for an outing too, if you wish. I have an experienced good friend helping me learn. He has a small gem and crystal business called Sonic Evolution (googlable if interested). Also there's tha Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club. I have yet to join, but know they have a grand time here and elsewhere.
Lol so I have 3 questions: Is this anywhere near Craigmount? What type of host rock are they in? Do you ever heat treat them (is it worth heat treating them)?
Feldspar and mica, which seems to be an indicator. I have not heat treated and prefer to keep them natural. Sorry, for this spot, I cannot verify the general location or engage in a process of elimination on the internet.
The Chinese in Africa take huge boulders of rocks to China. I heard they have gemstones in them and don't have the facilities in Africa. Would you what they could be?
it's really surface rock and surprisingly there is very little soil accumulated above them often I wonder about the millions of years that supposedly passed since the mineral formations
@@Ferda1964 actually the geology shows have scars (if you know what you're truly looking at) of Younger Dryas period cataclysm results massive melt water directly in correlation with Pulse 1B post impact. Truly mind boggling rapid destruction and shaping of the earth after an already drug out constant grinding, compaction, flow channeling, and "bulldozing" for lack of a better word throughout ice ages. If you want to see the absolute smoking gun and most extinction level scarring and unquantifiable assimilation of the earth geological features that happened at a rate to fast to fathom at a scale of global cataclysmic nature past conception. Then you need to study but more so to fully ground yourself in the impossible to turn away from reality and scale of it all, go there. By there I mean The Channel Scab Lands in Washington State USA. Will change your world brother!
How the hell do you get them out of there do you break the rock open do you cut it out how do you do it let me know I passed up a lot of beautiful rocks like that didn’t think anything of it let me know would you
It depends upon what you want to do with it afterwards. Sometimes the rock will break exactly where you want it with a hammer, but usually you shatter the crystal. If you intend to try to facet the stone, probably best to cut it out with a trim saw and flat lap. I still have my decent rocks from this trip stacked up trying to figure out what I am going to do with them.
@@meMiner Alot of publications that I have read states that the only sapphires in Canada are found in Baffin Island terretory, and some corrundum in Sudbury district. Do you happen to know if glacial deposits have brought corrundum to southern Ont? I am trying to locate somewhere to start picking, in search of small gem grade.
You wouldn't believe how often I see something during editing that I never saw when filming. Very frustrating because by that time, I am usually too far away to go back. ;-)
Thanks for the info. I bought a bag of supposed sapphires on eBay way back in eBay's early beginnings. I know nothing about these things, as I'm just a coin guy. I've fallen on hard times and I don't really know how to tell what these 'stones' are worth, if anything. They just look like ugly, dull bluish-grey Rocks to me. Lol. I wish I knew if these have any value, as I need some cash.
@@meMiner - Thanks, good idea. It's been probably been from back around 1997, but I'll see if I can find anything. I just remember he was selling bulk backs of these stones and scribbled the total karat weight on the clear zip lock bags. These aren't big stones, maybe 1" across on average.
Drill a hole in the brush, string it and hang it from belt. . .no forget, no loose. OH you have a dog. . cool. Teach her how to wear a pack, and she can carry out the samples. . .hehe
Are you really sure that you want to videotape yourself collecting at that particular spot? Have you looked into the fines? If you don't care, save yourself the hike and collect grossular...
You should just leave that camera back in the bush!😂 Then you’d only have the good one to take videos we could actually see what the rocks looked like.😉 Awesome anyways👍
I was thinking I should either shoot it with the 45/70 or run it through the tile saw. I will never ever use that camera again. Thanks for the feedback. I am on the same page.
me Miner, Daisy has a lot of patience and she must wonder why you keep on talking to yourself out there in the bush, probably thinking the old man is going a bit bananas lol, pun intended. I wish you were here in the city with the Heart of Gold we are a city with a treasure trove, they concentrate ONLY on finding the gold and they discarded all the other minerals they are all over the place but nobody to teach the children what they find. Thought I had hit a nail on the head when they advertised an assayer was in town (they say that a city is called a city if they have a population of more than 50,000 thousand people and we do not pass that grade yet, but they still use the term, cheaters uh?) disappointment galore, he can only crush rocks at the moment and has no knowledge of where the rocks came from, wasted time educating him. As I studied our area we once had a volcano erupt and the projectiles shot from that explosion sent morsels and big pieces all over the place, I found a rock, black and so shiny it made me think that perhaps it was a projectile from soapstone or lava, I have never held a lava rock before so perhaps I am wrong in my (ass)umptions and making an out of myself. lol. keep up the good work, love watching your vids.
Sounds like Timmins. I have been through many times, but have not rockhounded there. Here is something that I read a short while back. There were two brothers attracted to the silver rush in Cobalt and opened a hardware store. They used the money to fun exploration elsewhere in the province. Last name: Timmins. The rock that you found sounds like Obsidian (aka volcanic glass). Nice find!
If anyone told me in the past that I would enjoy watching rock digging, I would have said they were crazy. Thank you for opening my eyes.
LOL I'll tell you a secret, me too.
Lmaoo I just came back from digging the mountains .found nice quarts and pyrite ..this hobby is satisfying lol
I too would have not been interested nut have a son who is a geogolist. He helps me some.
I love rockhounding and always come home from my hikes with rocks.Your videos have helped me recognize what to look for .Thank You
Wonderful!
After watching the way the light interacts with those steel blue Sapphire crystals, I'm certain those are Star Sapphires.
I feel like a child again watching your videos. I picked up pretty rocks everywhere I went. ❤
I guess that I never grew up. ;-)
Holy rad sapphire! Love the adventures with daisy, workin my way through your vids. Just good watching man. Love it!
Thanks. Too bad I did not have a better camera for this adventure. I hope to get back there again someday.
meMiner, haha! oh man quality of the find and the adventure is what I love watching no matter the quality of the camera!
I really enjoy watching you go on your investigations. God bless you for cheering up my day.
Thanks Wendy for joining me on my adventures. ;-)
First time I zoom to the end to see if you washed them. Loving them anyway they come
Whoa you tossed a huge one! Haha just kidding. Amazing finds wow, some big enough for cabbing for sure. Even I was excited thinking the next one you grab could be gem grade, maybe you did just locked in one of those rocks. Thanks for taking us along!
Love the ontario vids, keep em coming!
Loading a new one now. ;-)
Hello sire. I am very happy to watch your chanel. I would like to ask you that: I am in Somalia. I have some meteorite stone and at least one hudred different old coins those are my collectings. But I have missed someone to buy them from me in may country. Please send a letter to caziizi12@gmail.com as I send my pictures of collectings to youm thank you my teacher.
How do you get the sapphire out of the matrix?
The best way I have found so far is using an air scribe to mechanically remove them
Cool, amazing to find such material just waiting to be picked up.
Colonizer mentality
❤Thunkyou very much sir
That is how I do it, too: Take a relaxing walk through the forest, look for fallen trees, and you do not have to shovel a hole by yourself..
Great video!Unfortunately I can only lift up one thumb..
Why? Where did you stick the other thumb? hahahaha. Thanks for the nice words.
tess99991 dark holes.... :D
Im so ready for the snow to be gone. I found blue agot with just beautiful quartz pockets. Going back when the snows gone
Sounds exciting! The anticipation makes it more-so. ;-)
How do they grow, let's find giant size
I have been collecting these kind of rocks because they are so beautiful finally I know that they are not garnet its sapphires and I was told and further studies its opal as well
How do you get the crystals out?
Nice stone🦋👍🏼
Thank you 🤗
Great find - thanks for sharing.
Hi Michael can we be friends do you have a Facebook or Instagram
A squirt bottle works nicely for field cleanup, if you dont have one a pinhole in the lid of a plastic waterbottle works too.
good advice
Beautiful! How will you extract the sapphires?
I think it will have to mechanical (cutting)
Are you able to extract them with hydrochloric acid ? And , Do you find gold as a byproduct of this ore ?
How do you find new areas with valuable gems? Does the types of rocks and minerals implemented in the bedrock have anything to say, or could you simply see signs of it being rich soil from above ground?
Go where they have been found before is the best advice.
thats the issue. there arent found anything in my area. doubt anyone has been looking
Just doing some research online I was amazed at the variety of gemstones found in Ontario/Lake Superior region. That area is (in my opinion) is the most interesting geologically in Canada.
There is great mineralization on both sides of Lake Superior. The other place in Ontario is around Bancroft
Have you thought about going back to this spot with a sieve and brush?
Nope, as it is not my claim. I would if ever invited back.
Try making a roll-up sieve by using course plastic screening material which you can turn into a sort of hammock/envelope sieve with some large safety pins holding the folded ends together. You might also try looking around your local Michael's or similar crafts store, for suitable mesh.
Great idea. Thanks!
Sir i have that one..
Do you buy??
I like to collect my own
I want to sell this.
If you interested...
Love to see crystal mining, please get a better camera, or just shoot the specimen at a wider angle. Most of your closeups are blurry most of the video. Just say'n. Most cellphones have better video capability than inexpensive cameras. I don't mean to be negative or putting you down. You have a wide audience, just imagine how much better your episodes would be in focus.
I have struggled with various cameras (audio and focus), but think the one I am using is good.
Nice, you found a Gabbro Type peg. it's mafiac but looks like some clevenite as well, I would say that's some solid cab grade corundum, gray not blue. Maybe it's the camera you did warn us.... Thanks for the vid.
I have not heard of clevenite. For sure, mafic as there was no quartz in the location.
Gray sapphires when polished have a sort of galaxy look... I live in statesville N.C., which is close to Hiddenite NC and gray sapphires are rare but common for this area...nice locale...
@@meMiner possibly they meant cleavelandite a variety of albite feldspar? I'm pretty certain I caught glimpses of it.
My dad worked in a gold mine in zacatecas Mexico and he has a rock collection.
I bet it is a good one. There are some nice rocks to be found around gold mines, including those with some visible gold in them
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
Those look like more Star Sapphires, cabochon them on the top and bottom ends of the crystals, see if there is any chatotancy or stars on them. They look like they have Rutile all through them, to me.
That sounds like a plan. I will give it a try this winter.
Easiest way to remove mica from the hard rock is to put it under a faucet and use a dental pick.
good advise.
I made my raw blue sapphire into a bullet jewelry . It’s set in a recycled .40 caliber bullet casing
I bet the result was excellent. What a great idea.
I actually thought recently what it would be like to get thumped with a corundum bullet. Can you imagine, the weight along with it shattering and ripping multiple wound channels when it hits bone. Also I am taking this idea, i have a huge (unfortunately 90% opacity, still beautiful though) black and green star sapphire that would go nicely in an emptied .50 shell, and a smaller .338 for the smaller one on the other side of the crystal
Just want to know, is this worth money like how much, just for fun is cool but if its worth something, how much ?
I don't sell so have no idea
Started watching your channel last night while pawing through rocks I picked last summer. Should've been sleeping (now too lol), but... forgotten sparkly rocks! I'm kind of using your hounding videos to help me consider what to look for here at home on the South shore of Ontario. Mostly I limit myself to beach stones and loose rocks in the drumlins, which if I'm correct, all come from your area across the lake. I'm enjoying going along with you while we're away from the shore for the winter.
I do the same thing on the north shore of Lake Ontario sometimes. All glacier material. Once in a while something interesting shows up. I was down there last spring to do a video about it, but my Dog Daisy decided she wanted to go for a swim and jumped off a 20' bank onto the rocks below. $1K later in vet bills to find out she was OK (thank goodness). But I have not yet been back. Maybe next year.
+tess99991 I'm glad Daisy wasn't hurt. It certainly was a possibility with the boulders just below the surface. I'm fortunate to live close to Chimney Bluffs State Park with lots of cliff face to work. It's Wayne county Between Sodus Bay and Port Bay. Plus quaries in the Niagara escarpment, but I'm yet to get into that kind of hounding. C'mon back down, there's a very active club that would enjoy meeting, if you haven't already.
I have not rock hounded in NY. MIght get down this summer for herkimer diamonds. That reminds me, I need to renew my passport soon.
tess99991 Give a heads up ahead of time and perhaps some other locals would meet up for an outing too, if you wish. I have an experienced good friend helping me learn. He has a small gem and crystal business called Sonic Evolution (googlable if interested). Also there's tha Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club. I have yet to join, but know they have a grand time here and elsewhere.
Lol so I have 3 questions: Is this anywhere near Craigmount? What type of host rock are they in? Do you ever heat treat them (is it worth heat treating them)?
Feldspar and mica, which seems to be an indicator. I have not heat treated and prefer to keep them natural. Sorry, for this spot, I cannot verify the general location or engage in a process of elimination on the internet.
How do you get those crystals out without breaking them? Or do you just leave them alone??? ....OR
have them in display???
I just left them alone (for now).
Great stuff..
Completely awesome. Share the location? I'll bring the beer!
The beer would be nice, but it is not my spot to share.
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The Chinese in Africa take huge boulders of rocks to China. I heard they have gemstones in them and don't have the facilities in Africa. Would you what they could be?
Could be anything. The Chinese have never been dumb about the value of minerals and gems
One of your best finds, good job, I've found grey and occasionally red but no blue, Davis Lake locale maybe?
thanks and "no comment".
The most beautiful stones, sapphire, sapphire, agate, crystal
NICE...
Pls. Sir make a video how to separate the rocks from sapphire
the black speckles looks like hornblende to me, but this is good to know as I find much of this rock here in BC
That is because this is common granite ALL of it.
Wow..
Change your camera settings to a panoramic view it helps a lot makes stones and land scape look way better
I threw that camera away. I now mostly use either a GoPro 7 or Canon M50.
it's really surface rock and surprisingly there is very little soil accumulated above them often I wonder about the millions of years that supposedly passed since the mineral formations
Many of these spots had a mile of ice (glacier) which scraped them clean
@@meMiner thank you , so we can exclude with 100% conviction there is absolutely no possibility of much later continental flood ?
@@Ferda1964 The geology doesn't suggest that here
@@Ferda1964 actually the geology shows have scars (if you know what you're truly looking at) of Younger Dryas period cataclysm results massive melt water directly in correlation with Pulse 1B post impact. Truly mind boggling rapid destruction and shaping of the earth after an already drug out constant grinding, compaction, flow channeling, and "bulldozing" for lack of a better word throughout ice ages. If you want to see the absolute smoking gun and most extinction level scarring and unquantifiable assimilation of the earth geological features that happened at a rate to fast to fathom at a scale of global cataclysmic nature past conception. Then you need to study but more so to fully ground yourself in the impossible to turn away from reality and scale of it all, go there. By there I mean The Channel Scab Lands in Washington State USA. Will change your world brother!
How would you extract the sapphire from that rock?
Only method I know is mechanically. ie. cut it out
How the hell do you get them out of there do you break the rock open do you cut it out how do you do it let me know I passed up a lot of beautiful rocks like that didn’t think anything of it let me know would you
It depends upon what you want to do with it afterwards. Sometimes the rock will break exactly where you want it with a hammer, but usually you shatter the crystal. If you intend to try to facet the stone, probably best to cut it out with a trim saw and flat lap. I still have my decent rocks from this trip stacked up trying to figure out what I am going to do with them.
I have the same type of rock how would you get this out of the rock if I may ask
Carefully. ;-)
The only way I know is to do it mechanically. If it is small, a Dremel with a carbide bit would probably be my go-to choice.
Namaste from grey county 🙏
How would you get the sapphires out of the matrix safely?
Only method I am aware for this type of host rock is mechanically.
@@meMiner Alot of publications that I have read states that the only sapphires in Canada are found in Baffin Island terretory, and some corrundum in Sudbury district.
Do you happen to know if glacial deposits have brought corrundum to southern Ont?
I am trying to locate somewhere to start picking, in search of small gem grade.
@@FISHUNTREECOUNTRY If I knew of such a place, I'd be there rather this typing this reply. ;-)
You need to bring a water spray bottle with you it helps a lot in identifying stones
Good idea. I was missing quite a bit of my kit on this trip and it was too far to walk back to the truck.
I kept my eyes on a blue rock in that hole and you kept missing it ,It must have been the big one you found
You wouldn't believe how often I see something during editing that I never saw when filming. Very frustrating because by that time, I am usually too far away to go back. ;-)
WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER TO BRING A CLASSIFIER ?
Definitely. Same with a good camera. I had them both back at my truck, but it was a long way away. I will know better for next time.
Ha! I don't feel so bad. I was just cussing at my camera cause I can't focus on rocks to save my life. Ugh!
Nice video sir thank you
Most welcome
If you had a pony with you instead of daisy, it could carry your load. 😁
"One more crystal Daisy" .. aaaaand 2 hours later still digging !!!! lol JK !!
If it didn't start to get dark, I'd still be there. LOL
Sounds like my wife when I go shopping with her.’just one more thing dear”
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Thanks for the info. I bought a bag of supposed sapphires on eBay way back in eBay's early beginnings. I know nothing about these things, as I'm just a coin guy. I've fallen on hard times and I don't really know how to tell what these 'stones' are worth, if anything. They just look like ugly, dull bluish-grey Rocks to me. Lol. I wish I knew if these have any value, as I need some cash.
Do you still know the seller? Perhaps, he could tell you if he is still on the platform
@@meMiner - Thanks, good idea. It's been probably been from back around 1997, but I'll see if I can find anything. I just remember he was selling bulk backs of these stones and scribbled the total karat weight on the clear zip lock bags. These aren't big stones, maybe 1" across on average.
Where is he at can anyone tell me
Eastern Ontario on a private claim
Drill a hole in the brush, string it and hang it from belt. . .no forget, no loose. OH you have a dog. . cool. Teach her how to wear a pack, and she can carry out the samples. . .hehe
U lucky duck! Good job!
You found one of Fred Flintstones beer bottles.
LOL
Like how u explain it
sir I like ur personality.
ur so Moody man.
Thanks
Where is the rooster?
Female fox got them all one by one.
Are you willing to share this location?
The whole area is currently under claim, so you would have to know somebody to get access.
Please take care of that owie on your hand.
Daisy is a Good Doggo.
She is definitely my best buddy. ;-)
Good
Are you really sure that you want to videotape yourself collecting at that particular spot? Have you looked into the fines? If you don't care, save yourself the hike and collect grossular...
It was on a private claim.
No lab created there!
I have the same rock and it’s Huge!!!!!!
Nice! What are our plans for it?
You should just leave that camera back in the bush!😂 Then you’d only have the good one to take videos we could actually see what the rocks looked like.😉 Awesome anyways👍
I was thinking I should either shoot it with the 45/70 or run it through the tile saw. I will never ever use that camera again. Thanks for the feedback. I am on the same page.
Looks like blue calcite...
Calcite is much softer
You need a four wheeler to haul your fines
I have 2 ATVs. I don't often take them because Daisy doesn't like riding. She was fine sitting in the back when she was a pup.
Oh ok
Hey anyone else think that meminer looks a little like Liam Neeson sitting there in his truck
NOW YOU MENTION IT, YES HE DOES
think seen some blue rocks two you are a luck man
Hey I'm from sudbury adhave may rocky out would love
I usually drive up highway 11 when going north. I really should do some exploring on 69 up to Sudbury.
@@meMiner lots of awsome minerals out this way
You look alot like Liam Neeson...
Others have left similar comments. If I could be so lucky. He is one of my favorite actors.
I will find you and I will keep you
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Aí amigo use uma peneira
Lol whhhaaaaaaaaaatttttt
Shrad of bottile🤣🤣🤣🤣 yeh buddy might be cristopher colombus came this far remote
Lol. Christopher Columbus never made it to North America. He landed in the southern islands and thought he was in India. LMAO.
me Miner, Daisy has a lot of patience and she must wonder why you keep on talking to yourself out there in the bush, probably thinking the old man is going a bit bananas lol, pun intended. I wish you were here in the city with the Heart of Gold we are a city with a treasure trove, they concentrate ONLY on finding the gold and they discarded all the other minerals they are all over the place but nobody to teach the children what they find. Thought I had hit a nail on the head when they advertised an assayer was in town (they say that a city is called a city if they have a population of more than 50,000 thousand people and we do not pass that grade yet, but they still use the term, cheaters uh?) disappointment galore, he can only crush rocks at the moment and has no knowledge of where the rocks came from, wasted time educating him. As I studied our area we once had a volcano erupt and the projectiles shot from that explosion sent morsels and big pieces all over the place, I found a rock, black and so shiny it made me think that perhaps it was a projectile from soapstone or lava, I have never held a lava rock before so perhaps I am wrong in my (ass)umptions and making an out of myself. lol. keep up the good work, love watching your vids.
Sounds like Timmins. I have been through many times, but have not rockhounded there. Here is something that I read a short while back. There were two brothers attracted to the silver rush in Cobalt and opened a hardware store. They used the money to fun exploration elsewhere in the province. Last name: Timmins. The rock that you found sounds like Obsidian (aka volcanic glass). Nice find!