It would be really neat to hang out with you and learn more about what to look for when your around rock formations 😅

That's some nice crystallization! Very kind of the highway department to blast that road cut for you. 😄

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Yes it was!

Sorry you were rained out. It's nice to see you out and collecting.

Whatever those rocks are, they are beautiful.

Love road cuts. Have found some awesome rocks in many I’ve searched. I try to always stop and search. You found a few interesting ones. Love it.

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

😊 👋 have a great day.

Never know what you will find in a road cut. I stop at a few in my area when construction has affected the road cut.

I find a lot of inteesting rocks , crystal, metallics around railroad tracks

You call that rain "kinda heavy" ??? Another interesting video. I too love it when you tell us what all the rocks and minerals ARE. Keep up the good work !

Seeing you put on roads that I travel occasionally is my favourite part of your channel. They blasted the dolomite vein on 118 and county road 7 last week. It’s neat to see the bullion year old coal in that stone

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Some nice stuff sometimes on the 118. Check it closely. ;-)

@thirstfast1025

11 ай бұрын

I don't think there's such a thing as billion year old coal. Coal formation requires huge swathes of swamp-like conditions vegetated by terrestrial plants rich in lignen, which don't appear until ~400million years ago. Over %90 of coal was deposited during the Carboniferous, which spanned ~360 - ~300 million years ago. You can get minerals like graphite or anthraxolite, but those aren't considered coal.

@marka9292

11 ай бұрын

@@thirstfast1025 I don’t have much knowledge of rocks and minerals personally. That said it was a geologist I know who pointed it out to me.

@thirstfast1025

11 ай бұрын

@@marka9292 The geologist may have just been speaking hyperbolically, with no intent to misinform. Many times I've heard "it's like a billion years old" thrown around. Though, I live on the Superior craton, with many units that do indeed date into the billions of years, so I'm sure I hear it more commonly. But yeah, most coal is from about 350-495Ma, with none I've heard of prior to 500Ma. I'd gladly read a paper on older deposits if you can point me to it.

Fun adventure. Thanks for sharing it 😊✌️

Sweet adventure for sure nice finds have to say beautiful pieces you cut out kinda looks like a view from google earth looking down I’m sure the out come will be great thank you

I too have stopped for road cuts throu NH’s white mountains and throu Vermont when traveling to New York.

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

I don't often stop for coffee, but an interesting road cut ...

Love the road cuts!!

That really is a nice rock there with the pyrite, like a faux meteorite pattern

Thank you meMiner!

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Hiya Greg, awesome video and beautiful stones you cut, and I agree with you on it would make some beautiful cabs. I have cut some stones with pyrite and made cabs, it's very beautiful when it shines like gold. I hope you have safe trails and have a awesome blessed day. Cya! 😺🐟 out!

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Right on!

A less funny, but equally Canadian, geology-focused Norm Macdonald. Love your vids man, stay healthy!

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Norm! LOL

Big slabby slabs of Mica in rose quarts a little further South on the nuther side of the road...I wanna be there when they blast that !

Your perpetual curiosity is so FUN. Great inspiration. Thanks for including the session with the saw.

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wowsers, I miss growing up in the wilderness north of Hornepay Ont.

@meMiner

10 ай бұрын

I used to moose hunt south of Hornpayne

@AllProspecting

10 ай бұрын

My dad moved onto a trapline at the FOCH or mileage 27 train tracks west of Hornepayne two years after the second world war. 44 years he stayed there. Then the gov deforested, clearcut his whole trapline@@meMiner

@meMiner

10 ай бұрын

@@AllProspecting I was shocked at the cutting up there. I was interested in buying a remote hunt camp and the owner flew me in his floatplane to check it out. The only trees I saw were near roads or lakes. Everything else had been taken.

@AllProspecting

10 ай бұрын

Yes, they could only cut up to a quarter mile of the water's edge. Destroyed trapping hunting and lives for the sake of sending wood to China. Anyways, The FOCH (we called it big stoney river) goes from the train tracks to Lake Nagogami, and we lived 6 miles down that river. Our trapline ran 15 square miles, all sliced away from the 80's to the 90's.@@meMiner

Nice cut. You just never know what you will find. Happy hunting. 😊 😷⚒

106 here enjoy that rain !!!!!

@m8s4lif

11 ай бұрын

What are you doing here viewing videos? You should be out there watching Two Toes collecting most of the gold. I enjoy watching both your guy's channels. Stay cool.

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

The temp dropped 10 degrees in about 5 minutes. Made my dogs happy

@Smithsgold

11 ай бұрын

@@meMiner I bet !!!!! 😎

@Smithsgold

11 ай бұрын

@@m8s4lif to Hot !!!! Plus it’s prep time for our trip to the coast !!!!

Great video MeMiner! I love the Marten River area, very vast and beautiful. Nice finds! Looks like a nice cut!

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

It sure is a beautiful area

The rock structure was amazing .

I love wet rocks in the rain or under the saw. Thanks for explaining what the minerals are .

It is quite a different patent on that stone. I’ve never seen it before but keep it up. Keep up the adventures love everything you put out Gregg thank you very much.❤❤

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Interesting hunt!

Anytime I’m on a job site where we’re digging up undisturbed material, I always go thru it with a fine comb😁

Meminer FTW 👍

Very nice🤜 sir greetings from India🇮🇳

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Very cool that these videos get watched in places like India. ;-)

Had a great weekend fishing there once

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

I was supposed to go ice fishing near there last winter. I heard some good walleye are there

bless the rain***❤❤❤😊😊😊

You Have To Look It's Your Job. 😎👍✌.

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

You got that right!

I like 👍

3:50 TO 3:56 WAS THAT G?

Hey there, you miner, you. : ) Loved the cut rock with the epidote in it. The slabs reminded me of miniature paintings of scenes one can't quite identify. Too bad this adventure got cut short. Part 2?

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

It is 4-5 hour drive for me to there. Not sure when I will be back, but would like to spend a bit more time there and also figure out where they took the blasted rock

That's where are silver comes from here in Utah.

they had to redo the road when the blast shut the road down...pretty sure that blast rock is being used just north of Dymond shoring up a creek along the hwy

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

I wondered where they took it. Be worth a look over.

Your find makes me question.. how effective would reflective night hunting be? Not on that stretch of road of course, but mind.. I wonder for some hunt sites wouldnt it be fast in identifying certain targets? There is a "cooler" idea eh? Thank you for sharing your journey!! Love it.

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Sometimes it works great. Especially, for fluorescents.

@AndrexT

11 ай бұрын

I watched a guest on a live stream last week by a guy who was a beach detectorist, but at night he uses a Black Light and Polaroid sunglasses to find garnets. The said they show as a different grey colour. Might be worth a try just for fun.

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

@@AndrexT I have never tired polaroids with a UV lamp. Interesting

Could the very fine black crystal sprays be actinolite?

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Yes

I think we’d get chased by the local police if we did this along a highway here in NJ. They don’t like us to have fun curbside. We have so many road cuts. What is the shiny line index your left thumb at 04:16?

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Not sure, but I saw the shine just now that you are referring. It was probably the edge of a crystal flashing in the sun. I will look tomorrow in daylight and update this comment if it turns out to be something interesting

@FSCHW

11 ай бұрын

@@meMiner can’t tell you how much I enjoy your videos. I feel so peaceful and motivated to rock hound afterwards. Thank you.

Is the black shiny mineral magnetic? Can you roast sulfur dioxide out of it? Galena would roast to molten lead.You could apply the same tests to the yellow shiny mineral. If it is magnetic it is pyrrhotite.

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Good advice. I should have tested with a magnet.

5:29 Is that olivine on the slab at the very bottom of the frame?

@meMiner

21 күн бұрын

Could be. ;-)

How heavy is the rock you broke? Smell? Scratch (hardness). Etc..

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

No smell. Hardness was less than 5 (knife) and I think it tested less than 3 (calcite)

who names these lakes ? there are at least 5 or 6 Hornet lakes in Ontario

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

I had the same issue trying to find "Pine Lake".

any gold?

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Not there that I could confidently ID

Hey sir m following you time m a new protector in ontario looking for gold can u give in hints

@meMiner

11 ай бұрын

Do some research. Gold is usually found close to where it was found before

@amanrajput5015

11 ай бұрын

@@meMiner thnq v much