I always learn something from your videos. "Don't lick rocks" is good life advice.

@jamesdavis5096

Жыл бұрын

See I’m really glad he said something because I do that every day I go around licking rocks everywhere I go

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Lol! - Don't be a rock licker!

As an avid rockhound I came across most of those minerals, including arsenic ores. One mine in Nevada had literal boulders of orpiment and realgar....tons and tons of it! I had to sign a liability release to visit the place, and the classic way to obtain gold there back in the day was to roast the arsenic out, smoking out entire valleys with arsenic smoke! Ah, the good old days of mining! :*0 Cool you have an example of Mtn Pass ore - always wanted to visit there....

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked the video.

@Just.A.T-Rex

Жыл бұрын

Isn’t malachite also dangerous?

@Just.A.T-Rex

Жыл бұрын

CFL are no longer available in most stores where I live

@Linguae_Music

Жыл бұрын

I inhaled arsine gas! I almost died! :D 1/10 experience, I do not recommend.

@lonniecaravello9728

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this info with all of us, kind sir.

When I first started painting in watercolour Winsor & Newton still sold cinnabar as Vermillion. Some companies still use it in their oil paints. Beautiful colour. Lots of warning labels.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Interesting!

Chris, thanks for another great video, I have your book, love it.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you for doing this! I love to learn and prospect!!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I've got more like that to come!

Excellent video Chris!👍 Much appreciated information!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Always enjoy and learn from your videos, thank you!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Excellent video thanks for putting this together. Have a great week👍

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Great refresher. When metal detecting for gold our most common exposure is lead in the form of bullets. When enjoying a detecting adventure it is hard to remember to eat your lunch carefully after handling bullets dug out of the ground. Good reminder.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

and the white coating on old lead is oxidized lead minerals. Good idea to wash one's hands before lunch (mine are often super dirty just from the dirt anyway).

@s.d.iprospecting4359

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Oxidised lead "the white powder" also is used in the manufacture of Picric Acid a voletile chemical and highly explosive. Its on the forbidden list of hazardous material that cannot be transported in bulk.

Thanks Chris! God Bless and Good Luck!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

Thanks a lot, now I'm afraid to touch any rocks or stroll on a mineral laden beach. Like we don't have enough to worry about these days. You know what else is toxic to humans at high levels ? STRESS !

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Don't lick the rocks, wash your hands before you eat, all stuff my mom taught me when I was 5. And don't stress out.

@oscarmedina1303

Жыл бұрын

It's always wise to wash your hands after handling rocks you've collected.

Love the energy and excitement mate keep it up!!!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

So glad I watched this video. I think I may have some dangerous minerals that I have been handling and crushing. frequently. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

@ChrisRalph

6 ай бұрын

Crushing and breathing the dust could be a big problem.

Thanks Ralph great prospecting info. I want that book!

@area46241

Жыл бұрын

I mean Chris

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Its OK - Chris Ralph is my name - The book is available on Amazon - I think you will like it.

very helpful, thank you.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

glad you enjoyed it.

Very very educational video I love to learn and this was very informative Thanks for sharing

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video. I like collecting Rare Earth Minerals in my area SW Montana have some great places to collect. Thanks for the great information.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Some of the rare earth minerals do have associated Thorium or Uranium.

I was told they used asbestos as a road bed material near Copperopolis, . I used to drive through there traveling from San Francisco to Sonora. There is a road between highway 4 and 120 that runs along Turlock Lake.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

They didn't use pure asbestos, but used serpentine, a rock that contains a few percent asbestos. So long as it is underneath the asphalt, it's not a problem. But for dirt roads, that's another story.

Man, I've watched quite a lot of these most dangerous minerals videos, but just 30 seconds in and this is already my favorite one :D

@ChrisRalph

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

NICE! VERY INFORMATIVE!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

👍 Another great video packed with great information👍! Thank you, Chris. Speaking of things that can kill you, I searched your channel, but haven't come across any mention of snakes. You must have encountered some of the world's deadliest in Australia. I hope you will post a video on how to protect yourself from dangerous wildlife, weather it's reptile, mammal, insect - or human.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I saw one snake in Australia and it was the most pitiful snake I've ever seen (it was near 0 degrees C). The Aussie guy I was with said in decades of prospecting he'd only seen a few browns. He said to worry if you were in a area with a lot of rodent burrows.

Here in Nova Scotia we cleard a large area for our international airport. The Meguma shales they removed were full of arsenopyrite, which we knew. We just didn''t realize we would be killing 30 lakes around the site in the next couple years as rain had a giant fresh surface to work.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Interesting - always there are some unexpected consequences.

Very educational 👊🏾👍🏾.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed the extra facts you added in to this video like the region the minerals are most common: "this mineral is primarily mined in South Africa". Thanks for the information.

@ChrisRalph

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

thank you sir Chris for the advice 🥰🙏

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Glad it was helpful.

this video is very informative wow now i know 😊 thank you

@ChrisRalph

11 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank for this video. I am often out prospecting and come across some very interesting specimens. In the UP of Michigan many of the minerals you mention can be found.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Yep, its true.

Wow ! Great presentation Chris. What a tremendous wealth of information for prospectors. Quite an eye opener too ! Many years ago, a group of us worked a gold mine that contained cinnabar and anglesite. We used mercury to amalgamate gold. Interestingly, we recovered more mercury than what was applied to the process. We think the cinnabar broke down in the impact mill because of the heat created by pulverization. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it - I hope all is going well with the rattler.

cool info !!!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I collect so many rocks but have moved them outside cause i was paranoid and had some funky looking rocks! THANKS!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Better safe than sorry.

THANK YOU! I APPRECIATE YOUR BEAUTIFUL Gems Of info that is very helpful to know. I worry around my old mines having minerals of different colors. I just want to know the important dangerous chemicals and gasses that were used before the 50s where they stopped mining but still active gold mines.

@ChrisRalph

8 ай бұрын

Maybe learn how to identify minerals so you can know what is there at the mines. Please watch my videos on how to Identify minerals for yourself. Part 1 can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/f6SfuZdxisi3nMY.html and Part 2 can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rIOL0ZZyiJyWl6Q.html and Part 3 can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kZWWl7Cnl7XShto.html - Those videos should answer a lot of your questions.

Thank you for shedding light on some of the things which were placed into human bodies over the last few years

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Hi Chris, Are all of these rocks and minerals found in Australia…particularly on the mid north coast of a.u Thankyou for your interesting and valuable presentation.I am now a new subscriber and look forward to more videos.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Hi Caryn - When I was in Australia, I was in WA and I did come across a bunch of arsenopyrite in an old mullock heap. Parts of Australia were asbestos mining hubs and loads of it were mined. Uranium minerals were mined in a number of places in in Australia and thorium rich beach sands occur as well. Are all of these minerals present in your specific part of the north coast? I just don't know.

@caryndouch5759

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris for your prompt reply.. I will investigate further! I will look forward to more of your videos. Stay frosty! 😊

Thank you. I didn't know about stibnite and I needed to know that.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad it was helpful.

Great video. That's a crazy story about the asbestos factory.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

It really is! I was shocked when I heard it.

thanks man !

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help

Really appreciate your knowledge. Have a friend who is a rockhound. He will find this invaluable.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Its good stuff to know.

nice presentation Chris! almost reminds me of being 12 again! my Grandpah was a Geologist Engineer from GA Tech. he took me to so many mines before I was even 13!! fun days'! good luck! it's super good 2 know this info! mine splunkers should also wear dust masks!! very kind of U'r time Chris!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Kind of crazy to think about all the environmental harm we’ve done by shooting off lead bullets all over the place. And that’s just one tiny facet of our impact. Great video!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Yep, very true.

Very nice stuff. Would love to see more of these. I'm always touching rocks, I don't know what they are. The more you know eh.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Be careful with rocks from around old metal mines and it doesn't mater what metal they were mining.

Thank you profesor!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

Thank You for Thi$ podcast. - I live in NV. & have seen mercury on mine sites. Most Valuable INFO will review it B4 I go prospecting . .

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Man I was excited to go out gold prospecting...not so sure anymore since you can find some of these along with gold

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Just be careful and wash your hands before you eat.

Chris that was fascinating. A friend & i went gold & mineral hunting in old gold, copper & lead fields recently in central QLD. Soon after our exploration of an old mine & smelter my friend has become quite sick & broken out with random welts across his body. I am wondering if he has somehow become contaminated while we were scratching around in endless minerals, some of which look like the minerals you described. We found lots of what we thought was pyrite but much is fine & silver colored & ive realized these might be other minerals & not pyrite.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Of course I am not a doctor, but what you say seems like a real possibility.

Can you do a video specifically on Serpentine rock formations & their associated mineral content? We recently had our long driveway re graveled & it’s all serpentine stone. I thought the rocks were beautiful so I looked them up and discovered that it actually was. Wouldn’t driving up & down the driveway cause asbestos dust particles? I’m not sure how they could be allowed to use this as gravel stone.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure where you are but Its banned for driveways and gravel roads in California, and locally in some other places. Yes, most serpentine has some asbestos but the amounts vary. I'm not really planning a video on serpentine, but I am planning a video on Asbestos minerals (and their health effects) in the coming weeks.

Awesome video

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

I remember in geomorphology lab in college playing with samples of chrysotile. The litlle needle-like fibers would come off it and get all in your arms and they would itch and sting for days. We thought nothing of sniffing it to see what it smelled like and we handled it with abandon.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised the professor didn't give at least some warning.

@IllyaLeonovMorganFreepony

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Well it was in 1973 so to be fair, no one was getting too bent out of shape about it back then.

Back in my boilermaking days being a contractor hired to keep a lead smelter plant running I saw the plant guys use huge amounts of arsinc in the refining of the lead that came out of the blast furnaces. It was so heavily used that there would be dozens of empty 5 gallon bucket size steel cans it came shipped in laying around any week. The steel cans were great for rod stub buckets or to catch steel slag when torching thick iron plate. The refined arsinc that came in the cans had a multi color metallic look to it very interesting metal. Terrible to try to weld through possibly worse than welding through lead

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Interesting .

Great video Chris! So much to learn! The Creator did it all! Thank you for sharing this knowledge, My wife gets Jasper in Rwc coast range, Burned out on the rain and months of clean up on the Sierra property. Dan Brent

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! - I am also so very tired of the rain and snow - it never seems to end!

Cool to hear to talk about asbestos in California. You’re talking about CAM. Crazy place is the asbestos storage room where the high grade is kept. I helped close that and last uranium mine

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Interesting.

As a child, I found a heavy black stone about the size of a fist, it was somehow different and very fascinating. I couldn't identify it properly as a child, so I stored it with the other minerals in a box under my bed. Later I found out - it was uranitite. *No worries, nothing happened to me, no radiation sickness, no cancer

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear the stone did not affect you.

In California there is an 35,000 acre part of the Diablo range that is closed to any activity due to the high natural occurrence of asbestos. It's called the New Idria mine and ghost town. (Also the Clear Creek Area of Critical Environmental Concern). It's near San Benito Mt. which looks like it has snow capped peaks in Google Earth, but which are just powdered serpentine and chrysotile asbestos.

@JackWMatrix

Жыл бұрын

To give you an idea of it's size, San Francisco CA is only 30,000 acres.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

New Idria was a mercury mine. Check it with google and confirm - it was a mercury mine and cinnabar was the main ore.

Will this winters weather expose minerals that I didn't find this year

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

In some places I am sure it will.

Thank you

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

This guy watched some Dan Hurd videos, seen him licking his rocks haha :) Good information for those who are just getting into rock hounding and prospecting.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Chris, What's the deal with Malachite, I see it in some Gold mines on the walls and in the dumps along with other carbonates and sulfides it likes to travel with. Is breaking your way through Malachite deposits safe to breath because it's Copper ?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

A little copper is necessary for your body but its easy to get too much and too much is toxic. I would dig, but if I were making loads of malachite dust, I'd have a mask.

This is a cool find. I used to dig for tons of rocks. Good to know which to stay away from.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Very true - good knowledge to have.

I know of a lake in Asia that has a high concentration of cinnabar, people used to eat the carp in there & get horrible stomach ailments overtime, idk how they didn’t notice when the fish themselves looked anything but healthy & anatomically correct.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

It sometimes takes years to show effect and the fish don't live that long.

@Lemurai

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph indeed, I’m a biochemist by trade and I’m familiar with a lot of those minerals, more specifically the ailments/morbidities they cause. I used to do studies on miners as well as military personnel, mainly people exposed to industrial waste & environmental pollutants, looking at their medical records you can see a common transition point depending on the pollutant they were exposed to, from beginning symptoms, to end stage and the ailments they cause are almost universal in the time & way they manifest. The minerals certainly are beautiful but so are Amazonian tree frogs, it doesn’t mean we should touch them, I only wish people would quit knowingly fooling with those minerals. Cinnabar can cause some pretty brutal renal injuries in people who have a bad reaction to it.

I love your channel. Just wanted to point out the only use of thorium i know of that you didnt mention. 2% thoriated tungsten electrodes used in gas tungsten arc welding atainless steel.

@ChrisRalph

6 ай бұрын

I didn't know about that one. Thanks.

super nice 🙏

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Very good video... BUT I need to see the mineral more longer than the speaker...

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I'll remember that.

Thorium was and is still used in electronic tubes as an electron emitter on the tubes filament cathode. Vacuum tubes are still popular in guitar and musical instrument amplifiers, “hi-fi” equipment and in some high power radio transmitter tubes.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

True, and thorium is also used in lantern mantles as well. But all of these uses combined together are a tiny, tiny amount as compared to the amount of thorium produced as a by product from rare earth extraction, and so there is a surplus of it on the market.

@rexoliver7780

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph oh yes-forgot about the lamp mantles. Thought other materials are now used in those. Thorium still being used in the electronic tubes. Since it’s enclosed-not a real hazard. Only if the tube is broken and the small amount gets to where it can be inhaled. This is rare.

Thanks

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

No problem. Glad you enjoyed it!

I uses my "Simon & Schuster's guild to Rocks and Minerals" to help identify rocks. I have another one that is a little better but I think my friend borrowed that one.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

That is a good book to help identify rocks and minerals.

all good information to know

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Stay dry! The high country hydro pits are going to be snowed in until July.

@Smithsgold

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph I know makes me sad 😞 but we need the water 💦

I bought a house on 5 acres. I've been finding variations of Leaverite on the surface. Theres so much of it I'm building a driveway with it!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

interesting.

Great video, always thought that cinnabar was edible since it shares it's root with cinnamon but oh well...

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

You definitely dont want to eat cinnabar.

Already have your book.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and glad you like the video.

THANK YOU I never knew any of this but I loved to walk out side and often pick up pretty stones . I have a beautiful red small horse sculpture from china now I wonder if it is poison. O have found small stones that appear the same colors as what you show here .

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Don't ID minerals by just by color - there are hundreds of minerals that can be found in the color red. Lots of red rocks and minerals are colored by iron. I did some mineral Identification videos - take a look at them for more info.

I always wondered what kind of catalytic reactions happen on minerals in nature we haven't discovered yet.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps - study of chemical reactions continues.

The Crystal shop at my mall is selling raw tigers eye, raw blue tigers eye and even galena. Kinda scary if people buy those and have no idea.

@ChrisRalph

Ай бұрын

So.long as the buyers don't saw or grind up the rocks and make dust, it should be OK.

Asbestos, like Paraquat (pesticide) is far deadlier as an inhalant. Years ago (1992), in Mexico, I was working with a group of students I on a mission's trip doing various construction projects; on dropped a large glass jar in a house we were prepping for to paint. A large vapor cloud rose up from the concrete floor and I evacuated everyone from the house. Following the fumes dispersal, one of the adult leaders enter the house and investigated the contents by TASTING IT by applying a swipe on his finger. His suspicions were confirmed; it was Paraquat, a pesticide that had been banned in the US. He'd grown up around agriculture and said it wasn't particularly harmful if ingested in small quantities and way safer than smelling it. He's still alive and healthy today, at 61. It's important to know your poisons. Thanks for a fantastic and informative video.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Asbestos isn't dangerous until you take it into your body, either by breathing or swallowing dust.

@fraa888grindr6

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph ok, so ingested dust as well as an inhalant is poisonous. Good to know.

Great video,it reminded me of gem fossicking with my brother we were digging very large smokey quartz,with this other mineral attached to them turns of we were digging in an old tin mulloc site deep in the bush were we live in NSW Australia,the mineral attached to the smokey quartz was radioactive orthoclase ha ha an we always wondered why the ground was green when we got about 6feet down turns out it was arsenic but it was worth it the smokey crystals are half as long as your fore arm and jet black,one crystal we got was longer than my fore arm ha ha, didn't realise it was toxic but found some of the best jasper,agate,morganite an quartz I'll probably ever find ha ha

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

You know that all orthoclase is slightly radioactive because orthoclase is potassium feldspar and all potassium is slightly radioactive.

@keza3250

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph had my smokey quartz and orthoclase specimen looked at it contained radon or radium I won't dig there anymore ha ha dont want lung cancer ha ha

Do you know any good prospecting spots in Mississippi?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Mississippi isn't a very good state to prospect for gold. It lies a few hundred miles west of the Carolina Slate Belt, a rich gold-bearing area which is responsible for most gold deposits in the South. Still, there is still a small amount of gold in Mississippi - but just tiny amounts.

I was just wondering what kind of clay like green sand is irritating to your skin it's super Cold 🥶 if you have any ideas I think it's a sulfur of some sort??? thanks again

@ChrisRalph

5 ай бұрын

From your description, I have no idea whatsoever.

Your story about the asbestos mine is a good reminder that safety regulations are written in blood.

@ChrisRalph

11 ай бұрын

Yep - it takes years to understand the hazards involved.

Is proustite similar to Realgar? I got a sample recently but I can’t tell the precautions I should take when displaying/handling

@ChrisRalph

5 ай бұрын

They are not the same, but both have arsenic in them, both can be toxic. Lots of minerals are red in color. Wash your hands carefully if you handle proustite. Don't breathe any dust if you crush it. However it will not evaporate into the air if it is just sitting there.

@sojh17

5 ай бұрын

Awesome @@ChrisRalph , thank you for the reply! I was wondering if I needed to get some sealed glass chamber for it or something there. I may still get some kind of glass case, but in the meantime will handle with gloves and wash my hands thoroughly if I handle it.

I haul copper concentrate from a mine to the smelter. I am told there is arsenic lead, sulfuric acid, and of course copper. I am curious how dangerous it really is? They tell us when we have to work directly with it to wear gloves, mask, but I wonder if this is a band aid not sufficient to protect us?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

What makes a difference is how much of these things are in the cons. If you don't breathe it, eat it or take in on your skin, it should not be a problem - its like poisons still in a bottle as long as they stay where they are, they are fine.

I live on an old coal mining island. What causes the brooks to have a reddish-brown color that are on near mining sites from the early day of coal miming?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

iron minerals.

How can i communicate you sir im from Philippines and we have this prospect platinum

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I don't offer private consulting or advisement services.

What about getting silicosis from crystalline silica dust? Like from quartz.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

It takes a lot of exposure to a lot of quartz dust to get silicosis. So yes, in extreme cases quartz can be dangerous, but it takes years of exposure to high levels.

Mate thank you super star for thee lesson and come to australia my friend and find gold sir wen your notto busy sir much respect have a wonder full day

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

No worries - I want to come to Australia again - I was there 10 years ago in WA for 6 weeks.

@harrymorant666breaker4

Жыл бұрын

Awesome im in victoria in thee golden triangle and would have so much fun looking for gold with you my friend wen you make your next visit sir have a wonerfull day sir

Have you seen Paul Cook’s channel? He always finds deep red sandstone in his videos. I wonder if cinebar explains much of it.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

There are many elements which can color something red. You will note in watching this video that both cinnabar (mercury) and realgar (arsenic) are pretty much the same color. Rubies are also similar - they are colored by chromium. Most things that are red - including sandstone - are colored by iron. There are hundreds of minerals that can be found in the color red.

WHAT IS bright YELLOW BUT HAS NO SMELL? Found outside of gold mines, I burned it and it turned rusty red. Is that mercury or what is that mineral?

@ChrisRalph

8 ай бұрын

There are maybe 300 or more minerals that are yellow and have no inherent odor. I have no idea which one yours is. Take a look at my videos on how to identify minerals.

I was told that Colman lanterns glow very bright due to thorium made into the combustion mantle and was wondering if it was true. Could you please clarify this for me as true or false ?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Its true that old style lantern mantles contain thorium. I use an LED lantern with rechargeable batteries now.

I've found a deposit of what looks like iron pyrite but it has a different structure and cleavage. Has an red hue to it when exposed to peroxide. Any tips on identifying paladium?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Please watch my video on how to identify platinum group minerals - see: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4imlseciNbXfrw.html

Mercury was used in the filling material for teeth. I had it in my teeth in the 40s & 50s.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Very true about teeth fillings.

Question is red poppy jasper a type of realgar?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Totally and completely different. You cant judge a mineral buy its color - there are probably 500 minerals that can potentially be some shade of red. Please watch my videos on how to Identify minerals for yourself. Part 1 can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/f6SfuZdxisi3nMY.html and Part 2 can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rIOL0ZZyiJyWl6Q.html and Part 3 can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kZWWl7Cnl7XShto.html

I now believe I have a piece of some kind of uranium. It sure looks very similar to the example you showed. Living on the outer banks of North Carolina, I do most of my rock hounding in driveways and flower beds.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@freelancerider100

Жыл бұрын

I have an odd piece that looks the part for uranium, and it certainly has something in it as my pin pointer is excited by it quite easily!

Hey Doc, I like your style and thank you for sharing your wisdom. At Fukushima, they have been having a lot of problems since 2011. I came up with some ideas to help, I think I had around 5 ideas that I bundled and sent it out to tepco, the Japanese gov/press, the us gov/press, the can press as well as each party minister , all at the same time. and guess how many replies I got, y, 0 Anyway the ideas were good including one that you might find interesting. At Chernobyl, ‘China syndromes’ we’re averted by the design of the reactor chambers being above 3 levels each filled in with sand. By the time the reactor cores burned through 2 of the layers the fuel was diluted by the molten sand enough to cause it’s conversion back to a solid. One of my suggestions was to mimic that process by feeding the nuke fires a steady diet of sand/quartz. Maybe a supercooled hunk of quartz? LoveIsTheLight MuchPeacefulWarm4GivingHugsLoveNStrength2YouALL

@Medicinnov8r

Жыл бұрын

With a supercooled chunk of quartz, you could probably do the math to figure out the amount of quartz necessary per fuel mass…?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I don't think they have a China syndrome problem at Fukushima.

Antimony is a additive to some energy compounds

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Ok.

Arsenopyrite is what I'm going to label *"Fools Silver"* Thanks you for showing this

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

It is silvery - you just can't judge a mineral by its color.

Can the rocks shown in pictures be picked up with bare hands? I always wear gloves but was curious! I have found that yellow sand! I thought it was gold. I went back to that spot and got more material. I melted it down thinking I was going to get a tiny piece of gold. After melting it looked silver but more gray oxidation look to it. I tested it for silver and it was negative. Out of curiosity I put my volt meter to it and started checking it on various settings. It changed the numbers by a tiny bit on each setting. It was at that moment I realized I think I made some kind of craziness. I gave the chunk to a friend and never went back to that place. I want to get a radiation detector or something!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I guess they can be picked up with bare hands so long as you wash your hands thoroughly afterwards - I'd rather have gloves on especially for the arsenic minerals.

@BullProspecting

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Thank you so much Chris! I will always wear gloves from here on out! This is a MUST SEE video for all prospectors out there!

Professor Chris I like to buy the book you introduce How much Malaysia Rm ?? Including shipping to west m’sia my daughter buy for as a Christmas gift Thanks wait for you reply’s ❤

@ChrisRalph

7 ай бұрын

Buy the book through Amazon.

I was just talking about cinnabar! Lol maybe you could give some tips on its relation to gold? Can it be naturally soaker with gold? And if so how can you tell without amalgamation?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I have no idea what you mean by "naturally soaker"

@freelancerider100

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph gold dissolves in mercury and compounds with it, would cinnabar when in contact with gold dissolve it? And if it happens then can cinnabar have a high gold content?

@llllajnalll

Жыл бұрын

Noup, cinnabar is just one of many minerals, some are rare earth ones, that were used since ancient times (not greek nor roman or whatever fake mainstream "science and history" tells us) as a source that mercury can be extracted from. When that's done, you have Hg and thats metal, not mineral anymore. Gold is a rare earth metal, and in ancient mining and metallurgy mercury was used with copper to get gold outa sand like ore mix, mercury would keep the gold and bond with it on a copper surface, and separate it from the rest. Heating it up would make mercury evaporate leaving only gold with high level of purity. Mercury is most toxic in that state if u inhale it, it was used in medicine too. Banning mercury like in EU just coz it's toxic is way too stupid, like people who lick stuff that they find on the floor, and chance to find it and lick it are whatever, way too small, there's a bigger chance to get killed by thunder strike while on mountains that are volcanic type, since those have other metals like iron and thunders hit those a lot and randomly. Picking up and eating shrooms or making alcohol drinks killed bunch of people comparing to mercury poisoning, if u drink home chems for dish washing ect. u can die too, and no one bans em right? ;)

I don't remember which one it is, but I read about one that caused baldness.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Not sure about that.

Who the hell is licking rocks?? 😂😂 Awesome video though!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

More people than you think do it.

What about mimetite, wulfenite and vanadinite?

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

There are a number of oxidized lead minerals - the ones you noted, pyromorphite, and many others - it was not intended as a complete list of all dangerous minerals.

What would Cinnebar look like if it was found along the ocean shoreline? All worn and rounded .

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Yes rounded but do not identify things by color alone - there are hundreds of minerals that can occur in the color red.

I used to do asbestos abatement 20 years ago and did some mercury cleanup too. You have the potential to find asbestos in any home built before 1977 maybe pushing the 80s. Most commonly in floor tiles, drywall, drywall seam tape, and over old lead piping. It's safe enough untouched but often a water leak will degrade it and cause it to break up to become airborne. We had a bid on the trade towers which were full of asbestos but the cost for abatement was twice the value of the buildings themselves they got a big insurance payout after 911 nothing to see here🤔

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

I used to do asbestos regulatory stuff - they banned it in new building products in 1979. However any materials contractors had in stock after the ban could still be used. So we got some stuff in buildings built into the early 1980s as the contractors were using stock created before the 1979 ban.

@Rockerrobin

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph yeah figured the stock they still had was in use for years after it was banned from production. Glad I only did it for a year a lot of the old guys said they were screwed and got asbestosis.

@allangibson8494

Жыл бұрын

And now the asbestos in the Twin Towers is spread all over New York City. They were progressively removing the asbestos starting in 1999 because it didn’t meet the original design fire proofing requirements (because the original contractor didn’t apply enough to protect the steel structure) and they were trying to upgrade the coatings so it did.

@Rockerrobin

Жыл бұрын

@@allangibson8494 did cigarette filters use asbestos?

@allangibson8494

Жыл бұрын

@@Rockerrobin The short answer is yes some brands did - specifically Kent from 1952 to 1956. 165 Mesothelioma cases have resulted in payouts from that company and its successor R. J. Renolds. WW1 & 2 gas masks also used asbestos in the filter elements.