Wow amazing sphalerite and fluorite crystals! Im envious! Very cool. Thank you for taking us along on your adventures. See ya in the next one.

Wow good to see & good knowledge⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍😍😍😍

Love your videos keep it up.

you make finding crystals look easy!

That is such an amazing crystal😍

That's unbelievable. Just as good as the specimens found on the Weather Channels Prospectors show.

awesome nice found

It is so cool how they form. I have heard people say, "God does not build in 90 degree angles." Meaning mountains and the ground. But this proves otherwise. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

@meteoriter1647

19 күн бұрын

I agree

I live in middle tennessee and we have a huge zinc mine just down the road from where i live and the main color of the sphalerite from there is the dark brown, along with fluorite, barite, clacite, galene and etched galena, all with large crystals except for the sphalerite which mainly have small crystal sizes a little smaller that what one of the fused crystals size was that you had, tha last time i was in there taking a tour with my mineralogy and petrology class we hit into a vug and i was able to get a few samples of sphalerite out of it that was at least twice the size as the whole specimen you had was, they said it was the largest crystal size for sphalerite vug that had been found in the whole mine.....however the sphalerite that comes out of east tennessee mines about 100-150 miles away from the middle tennessee mine (and close to 800 feet in elevation gain from the middle tn mine) has sphalerite that comes out of it that is really yellow, even a lil lighter yellow than what you had, kinda crazy

Giggles, I love it when you come around here. I look forward to their development over that way. I will be over there rooting around :) You found some of the nice ones. I have some pretty awesome spharlites from around here some as big as a quarter. Lovely colors, and lots of specimens.

Amazing stones .. thanks for sharing

Love your videos !!

awesome finds!

Absolutely an intriguing and great video, Your book is on my must get list!!!

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+john bivins Thanks for your kind words John

Thanks so much for doing all of these fabulous films! Although I don't get out much, learning and living vicariously through these shares has been absolutely wonderful!

I'm drooling....I live in Manhattan and I understand that at the least developed northern end ,tourmalines and various quartzes can be found. I dream of digging a nice crystal out. I love 'em !

Thanks for sharing the experience. Amazing Fluorite you found, I wish it was more cubical like that up north. Excited volume 2 is out, almost finished the first one! I know you're busy but keep the videos coming, and please make then longer! haha

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+Rough Market I'm hoping to do some fluorite looking up north tomorrow. I have an interesting mine that I've not been to yet and lots of optimism. A video will be following within the week. I'm told there are some lovely water-brown, cube shape fluorites to be found.

@RoughMarket

8 жыл бұрын

+Caver461 Very nice, looking forward to the video adventure. Fluorite is one of my favourites and can produce some stunning pieces, but I have yet to come across cubic specimens. We took several trips to Haliburton last summer and have some really deep purple, violet, green, and clear Fluorite, but so far none of it is cubical. I'm sure you know the place : ) More exploring this spring and summer and I'll have volume 1 and 2 with me so I can get you to autograph them if we run into you!

I have to go to that exact area this week, thanks! I'd love to find some nice crystals.

So here I am in Niagara Falls and will soon go to this spot to see what's what. I hope I can find at least one nice crystal, even if it's just quartz. Wish me luck as I came a long way for this!

@shesACE

7 жыл бұрын

Did you come across any good finds?

@catcorleone455

7 жыл бұрын

Sort of...nothing like what I had hoped for, but a few scraps of crystallized material. I found a bit of a green, opaque specimen right on the surface in the dirt, coming down hill. Not sure what it is, but it's interesting as I saw no green anywhere else. Must have been a chip off something someone else dug out. Seems to me a person would need a whole crew or a tractor to get some of the boulders turned over that haven't been picked over already. Too hot and humid to work that hard during the summer heat.

Very nice )))

wow! I got a little excited when I saw the fluorite ,as you know It's one of my favorites . I did locate a nice large deep purple fluorite crystal last week near Hamilton ,it's a beauty .I will do a quick video to show my latest finds later today ,I'm meeting one of my son's at the spot this afternoon .

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+highenergyog I will certainly check your site after lunch to see what you found.

Awesome channel. Do you know if you can find any interesting rocks in Cochrane Ontario?

LOL!! Grew up right off Kalar road Mike.. You should have seen the boulders there 30 years ago, the size of small cars!! That hill behind Lowe's is actually not all rock, was a city dump for 20 yrs back in the 50's and 60's. I got some nice purple ones out of there years ago!! Still lots to find there, like you say if you want to work!! Glad you got some good specimens!! Andrew..

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+CoinandRelicOntario How thick is the rock covering over the dump?

@CoinandRelicOntario

8 жыл бұрын

They took most of it out for fill around Martindale pond when they had the rowing championships there years ago! They covered the dump with 3 meters of clay.

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

CoinandRelicOntario Yeah, i'd wondered about the feasibility of mining out some fluorite, but with a covering that thick its not exactly accessible.

@CoinandRelicOntario

8 жыл бұрын

+Caver461 Yes, not unless they decide to build on the dump. The YMCA side has some rock as well, more underground I presume. Think I have my large fluorite on Mindat. username Andrew Johns.

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

CoinandRelicOntario ill check it out

Not seeing my previous comment, so redoing. What do you consider to be over the hill at the Montrose occurrence by Lowe's? Straight over the hill that is by the store's driveway or is it the higher hill off to the left of that area? I went yesterday over the lower hill and found a very steep area with reeds taller than me and got ticks on me. A few large rocks along the road at the bottom. Wasn't sure where you meant.

cant wait for the new book Michael!!

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+MrAnthrocite Excellent. hope its to your liking. www.lulu.com/shop/michael-gordon/rockhound-opening-the-treasure-chest/paperback/product-22633092.html

You are right behind Lowe’s by the ymca off Montrose road

Okay, went there today with digging gear but unfortunately didn't really find anything. Managed to dig up and turn over some heavy rocks and cracked some open but still no luck. I think I would need a lot more equipment brought in and more muscle. Other than that white rock (forgot name) didn't see any crystals. Not sure if I should go back or where to try next. Darn!

Wow, I really thought your thumbnail was going to be click bait. Those are some amazing Fluorite crystals! That must have made you insanely happy.

@Caver461

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was good to find that stuff and its not too uncommon.

@KonichiWawa

7 жыл бұрын

I live on the outskirts of Saint Louis in Saint Peters and have wanted to go rock hounding but really it seems like the most exciting it gets here without going deep south into the state is hitting the road cuts where they had to take out sides of hills. Of course all of these sites have been heavily hunted so It's almost like having to plan a trip for the purpose of hunting.

@Caver461

7 жыл бұрын

Konichi Wawa Yes, no great success without sacrifice. The better rockhound destinations for me are about 5 hour's drive so I am up at 4 in the morning and driving for several hours to reach a good spot.

Hey I just recently came across you channel. Love the videos you've put up. I have a cottage in the Bancroft area on a lake called Jamison lake. My great grandmother says there is an old mine called the macdonald mine. It was a uranium mine. I was wondering if you have ver been there and if you have I would love to see a video of it.

@aung3627

Жыл бұрын

ဗီဒီယိုဟုပ်အရင်နေလိုက်ရှာကြည်တာတွေတယ်ဒါပေမယ်အထက်လူကြီးများတိုက်ရိုက်ပြသခွင်မရလိုပါကျနော်လဲပြန်ကြည်မလိုလိုက်ရှာတာဖွင်ကြည်လိုက်တာမပွင်တာနဲပယ်လိုက်ပီကိနော်ပြန်ကြည့်တာကကျောက်ဖြူတောင်မှတွင်ထွက်ရတနာရှိနိုင်မယ်ထင်လိုပါစိတ်မကောင်ပါအကိုဂျာမနီတောင်တန်းပေါ်ဖြစ်နိုင်သည်

again it blows my mind that all this is found where I grew up. If only I knew as a teenager the hikes would be so much different

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+Kavens World That's a cool site you've got. I too share a love of roller coasters. Loved the Mine Buster at Wonderland. Used to take my kids there often to enjoy the rides (me that is).

@KavensWorld

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) Its my sons high light of the summer. We go about 20 times a year.

Really nice stuff :) (Oh and since you last commented on one of my quarry finds videos I have uploaded another one about analcime finds :) )

Thank you very much for waching !

how do you extract the crystals that are embedded in the rock?

Hi, please, can you tell me the type of rock, wich contains the crystals? good job.

@davidrahimidavidafghanrahi2873

7 жыл бұрын

Renato Goیط

@Caver461

6 жыл бұрын

It's the Lockport dolostone

@PrakashKumar-lv2sv

6 жыл бұрын

Hello

@sheilabonato1699

5 жыл бұрын

você pode me ajudar??

about to take a trip out to bancroft this year.. I am a amateur rock hound but love collecting all specimens.. could you tell me some of the specific spots in the Bancroft area that have a good variety of minerals to be found?

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+torontosorewristhex Grace lake is one of my favorites.

...a geologist named Wayne D. showed me some UNIQUE lumps composed of petrified bird eggs and bones from a dangerous spot somewhere on the Niagara Escarpment near Hamilton......

can i ask a question???? are going to get rich with this? 😊😊😊😊

Wow i wish to go with you finding crystal

good.

What's the host material? Dolostone?

Sent you a twitter comment about this video, with two pics of what I managed to find. Not sure what the crystals are. Calcite? But pinkish and greenish as well as clear.

So those boulders, I see them everywhere. Usually parking lots, parks and such. Are those similar to the boulder you extracted from or are they just cut from somewhere? They look very similar to the ones in the video. Also, is there some sort of group I could join to learn more? I'm from the GTA, so I imagine I could travel to some of the places you've mined from.

@Caver461

7 жыл бұрын

The boulders may look similar, but they need to come from a very specific layer to yield crystals. Depending where you live would define what mineral club you should join.

@nnmacameraman92

7 жыл бұрын

Caver461 interesting, do you mean layer of earth or exposed layer of the boulder? I live in Mississauga/Oakville border.

@krishnakantekar9040

7 жыл бұрын

IntrospectiveGalaxy h

Just curious,do you know a Vickers?

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+Natasha Valcourt No - sorry, doesn't ring a bell

@muhammadsuhel1508

7 жыл бұрын

Ray Revolta

do you need to get a permit to do this?

That sphalerite looked facetable and that stuff is worth good money.

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

It certainly is, but kind of soft for a gem that would be worn - still a beautiful display stone.

@kertbert1

8 жыл бұрын

At the Munich Gem show last year there was a guy with a bunch faceted and the stones around 4 or 5 carats were over 1000 euros each.

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

Murray Donovan Would love to have seen that

Are these worth money?

Coooooooool

good

How can i define the type of stone and price of it

I need to know where this is🥺

that's a nice sun stone.

Awesome fluorite Mick! I have a cottage in Bancroft what is a good place to go rockhounding, would love to know.

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+Canada Rockhound if you're just starting and are willing to spend the day digging i'd say Bear Lake is a great spot. Once you get down deep it's amazing.

@canadarockhound5012

8 жыл бұрын

+Caver461 Thanks ill look into it

@xaviergamer254

8 жыл бұрын

+Caver461 The commerce chamber of Bancroft SOLD bear lake digging. so no more digging is allowed unless you contact the new Owner... hope this help sebastien

@CoinandRelicOntario

8 жыл бұрын

+sebastien lebeau Did some digging, and have found no truth about the Chamber selling Bear Lake??

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

CoinandRelicOntario Thats a relief

I wish we had places like that in Scotland.

@Caver461

7 жыл бұрын

Im sure you do - check the mindat.org site

@BulletmanDoom

7 жыл бұрын

There are a few places in Scotland as you point out but nothing like this, where you can just walk up to stones at the side of the road and break them open to find amazing crystals. If the sites aren't private they're protected.

@Caver461

7 жыл бұрын

Big Ian Builds very unfortunate

@real_wakawaka

7 жыл бұрын

hay don't complain atleast you have them in Scotland and you have gold. in England these is nothing.... its depressing :( I don't get why on earth uk has nothing compared to other countries its beyond me :(

@wkbassett

7 жыл бұрын

good places in central PA? i hear we have garnets

I found some nice gullibleite with bullshite inclusions the other day 😜 .. nice video, keep it up

how much price for 1g

finders keepers

Are all Fluorite in that shape as mine looks like a thick chunk of Clear glass with the lines like a raw Diamond does , it looks sharp along edges but is not. P.S. My best finds to date has been 7 Plummet stones in 5 inches of water 3 ft. from shore last year and I found another Native Artifact today while Rock Hounding.

I am from this area, where would you recommend a beginner to start? I am located more towards Toronto but I am willing to drive. If anyone can help me

@Caver461

3 жыл бұрын

I would suggest somewhere like the Gibson property near Bancroft.

Hi there Michael , I've posted the video of my Fluorite find from the other day , there's a few other specimens in the video as well, I'm unsure of what they may be . I'm hoping that you with your vast knowledge of this topic ,that you may identify them for me . Best regards from Lloyd .

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+highenergyog Hey Llyod. amazing color on your fluorite. Some extra minerals that I saw on your video are sphalerite and Gypsum (Calcium sulfate)

@highenergyog

8 жыл бұрын

+Caver461 Thank you Micheal , its nice to know what some of my collection are . I went out yesterday and picked up a few more pieces of Flourite as well as a few Amber coloured crystals . another fun day in the dirt . I also discovered what I believe to be a cave , I will post a video later today after work and you can hopefully give me your thoughs on it . once again thanks .

this type of rock are spontaneously found in our area and the cyrstel are also but we don't know the name and value of this Crystals

Jeff doesn't say much but he can certainty find nice crystal

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+OpalMiner He has a gift, but as you say, very introspective.

@sheilabonato1699

5 жыл бұрын

por favor pode me ajudar

Laten we met zijn allen gaan zoeken en dan doen wr over de hele wereld alle rotsen kappt slaaan zodat in elke huishouden een mooi steentje staat.

ဝါးသင်ယရှိထားသောရတနာများအဝါရောင်သည်သွေးပီးလေ့လာကြည်ပါ‌ရှာပါသောလေးဒေါက်ပုံစံအခဲလေ့လာကြည်ပါအာမရှောနဲသင်ရှာဖွေတာလေ့ဒေါင့်ပုံစံအခဲထွက်ပေါ်လာသည်အောက်ခံကလက်ပါသယ်သွားကြည်ပါဈေးကောင်ရနိုင်သည်ရှာပါတွင်ထွက်များ

where in Niagara Falls is that location please ?

@crusader7616

6 жыл бұрын

T1ckleMebabe niagra falls in Canada no?

@rickb4806

5 жыл бұрын

Montrose Road behind Lowe's

do yo make money off them or just collect?

@Caver461

7 жыл бұрын

I just collect

I sit up and take notice around construction sites when they're digging.

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+michael therrien Always. Do you live in Ontario?

@therrienmichael08

8 жыл бұрын

I'm in Manchester N.H.

I live in Niagara Falls I’m going here

you sure own a lot of mining claims

sana sk

I am in the falls, do you need a permit or permission to go there? I would love it, did you leave anything for me? LOL

@jasonbeansguitars

5 жыл бұрын

Don't need any permission if you're still interested. From that area as well. I'ts classified as a park so..

@rickb4806

5 жыл бұрын

I live in Niagara Falls and work in engineering. Montrose will be reconstructed in near future and those empty lots will be developed.

I need me some red crystals to enchant my sword with flames

Dollar Stone, Stellar-ite, minerals seem like crypto currencies! makes me wanna go look for crystals to go sell! Like those traveling gypsy crystal dealers at music festivals, who had lasers and crystals (and dmt) lol and lsd, seriously though it would be cool to have a bunch of big crystals to sell on Instagram etc

@Caver461

7 жыл бұрын

I got a feeling that the selling is not the real interest for you, its the crystal. you obviously have a good imagination - you paint a cool picture with your words about the gypsy crystal dealers.

I do have gold specimens with copper and silver in them I would be able to trade with you

I want to come rock hounding with guys ?

@med8615

7 жыл бұрын

Sure we could use another person, even if it's your first time it shouldn't matter. : )

"2 crystals fused to gether"

great specimens,thanks for sharing them with us.

@Caver461

8 жыл бұрын

+Stan Rayborn My pleasure

@patohsswangpan2415

6 жыл бұрын

I have 50 grm crystal maybe diamonds,I can't know defarence between crystal & diamonds.plse tell me dfrnce btwn.....

I Really like to This kind of Jobs I mean go to the River mountains desert to find the Diamond crystal Gold I want to do something

Whats the point of this is there value in these rocks do you or jim sell at shows or store them like nutts for the company

hi am hav crstal big you take it

Would've been good if at least half the video was in focus

Mailk Rizwan

Testing 123

give that one please

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Laky parana

Batu akik ini mah kalau di Indonesia hahah

can you male it to me plz I live in Texas's

@PBurst

5 жыл бұрын

l1xxy27 , no

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tht look like nt a stone,

في اليمن كثير زي هاذا

@viperandattab4523

6 жыл бұрын

احب الورد الحمر هاذ ماس 😍

😭😭😭😭😭

cool worth like 10-15 $ nice

@jayflyindigopower6587

7 жыл бұрын

patman0250

what'd

Is this theft? Or don't they care that you're breaking up rocks they just dropped???

@Caver461

5 жыл бұрын

They don't care

Dear, you need to work on your camera skills.

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