I got to dig in the Morenci Arizona mine back in 96. For 20 dollars they'd give you hard hat and take you down in the mine. I filled up an 8 gallon bucket with Azurite, Malacite and Chrysocolla . My friend found a copper hair sticking out of a chunk of Chrysocolla.Thank you for making this video Dan.

@jonasgeez2140

5 ай бұрын

That's awesome I'd love to do something like that

@cgbach

5 ай бұрын

Great story

The copper stuff is always beautiful.

@Danhurd

5 ай бұрын

Copper makes the best minerals

Hi Dan, glad you could come and visit Arizona, I am taking my mom and some relatives to visit the old family claim, Gleeson Az, in March when all the wildflowers will be out.

@Danhurd

5 ай бұрын

Sounds great!

@luvadventuresandart

5 ай бұрын

That sounds fun. My husband and I would love to do that. We are in Mesa

Beautiful landscapes annd rocks

ahhh, just got back from my morning walk, now can relax with Coffee and Dan, Good morning Hurd Herd

Thanks 4 video

Great job Dan great video

DAN HURD it's a damn fine video. Lovevthe colors of the azurite and malachite. Soo blue and an excellent green

Beautiful ore, love the color combinations. Thanks Dan ! till the next ⛏⚒⛏

Reminds me of when I was younger and looking through TIME/LIFE books on minerals, I love it.

The only copper mine I was never by 45 minutes north of Phoenix, Az. My uncle work there before closing.😊

Love the copper minerals, thank you Dan

@Danhurd

5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it

Nice specimens!

Have properties on the Fraser,and off grid near Yucca

I love my AZ roads.

Another great video. Keep up the great work.

Man, I really want to go rockhounding with yall. You always find such cool rockhounding spots!

Great closeups Dan. The colors are awesome... thanks for the video

I never get tired of admiring nature's amazing colors and color combinations. Truly beautiful 💙💚

I always love your positive

Amazing!

Fascinating stuff! Thanks for taking us along. Excellent video!

@bobsch-gd6ze

5 ай бұрын

Yes, can not agree more !

Love that color

This reminds me of when i was younger, my grandfarther, father, and i used to be part of the Gold Prospectors Association of America, and we used to go to plenty of areas that looked just like this but there was one specific area and it was outside of Orogrande Nm. There are some mountains right behind the town that have tons of mines and deep vent shafts scattered around. One of the mines went completely through a mountain. was fun just to walk through it and see the mineral deposits and what not.

Thanks, I've been wanting to do that at a copper mine since I was in 5th grade. Gorgeous stuff!~ make some money on it Dan!

The blue in the stones seem so unnatural, beautiful!

Beautiful

Very beautiful stuff! I appreciate you sharing 🙏❤️🌲

My favourite minerals. Just love them. Have a specimen of velvet Malachite from the DRC.

That stone is amazing Dan just incredible. Wow. I wish I could afford to buy that big one. Stunning Rocks.

Thank you for the videos! I love learning about this stuff! I have a question. I saw a show about toxic minerals. Do you ever have to worry about such a thing while you're out prospecting?

Wow wow❤

The difference between malachite and azurite is the unit cell structure, meaning the way the atoms are arranged. The formula of malachite is Cu2CO3(OH)2 while azurite is Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2. Since azurite is essentially the same but with less OH (hydroxide), the atoms have to arrange in a different way which makes the structure interact differently with light, leading to the color difference.

Thank you Dan and Company.

Beautiful rocks Dan

Beautiful colors!

Stunning !!!!!!

Welcome to AZ Dan! The blue mineral at 8:30 looks more like a weathered chrysocolla, and the samples at 13:00 look like Shattuckite. Old mine dumps are excellent hunting grounds for mineral samples as many of the old time miners wouldn't keep anything lower than 1% grade. But there are still plenty of great samples that are less than 1% grade.

@TheLeanoni

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I was thinking chrysocolla or maybe chalcanthite as well.

I was just telling my wife today that I hoped for some TGMS content and this is exactly the kind of look at the Old Pueblo I miss most. Thanks, Dan!!

@Danhurd

5 ай бұрын

The Tucson show was great

Beautiful samples! The other weekend I was walking on an old dirt road in some mountains, and stumbled upon a quartz vain that had malachite and what I believe is copper silcate.

I love the look of copper ore. I have a nice sized chunk that I got from a friend of mine.

So colourful!! :)

Sure wish Arizona was here in Canada!

Can't wait! I love your work Dan! Thanks!

Hey! It’s almost Spring, I know because it’s almost Fall here! Best of luck moving forward!

Copper mines are great!

Nice looking blue & greens for sure Dan! Wish I wasn't so decrepit myself I'd be putting my Prospectors Beatd to work! Keep it happening! ⚒️⚖️👍🤠

Glad to see you’re in my home state! We have some amazing rocks to explore, fun video!

@Danhurd

5 ай бұрын

Yes you do!

Man I live in Arizona and need friends to go out and do things like this

Heeeeyyyy azurite and malachite

@JamesSullivanCandiEyeStudio

5 ай бұрын

What's the difference??

nice finds thank you for sharing the adventure and information.

Dan....you need a donkey with all the rocks you end up picking up! LOL!

@JoeRogansForehead

4 ай бұрын

Or he’s got to bring his kids 😂

I love how you edgumucate us, ty

Go Dan!!!

@Danhurd

5 ай бұрын

Thanks

Those are some beautiful minerals..,.

YAY another Dan Hurd premiere, can't wait

Many use four wheelers like side by side or dune buggy types or motorcycles instead of even jeeps or SUVs or pickups with 4 wheel on the steep bad narrow dirt rock roads. You sure found pretty stuff!

Gorgeous stuff ! Funny how it resembles moldy bread at a glance tho ...

@Danhurd

5 ай бұрын

yes

2 of my Favs. Awesome vid Dan!! ❤

Beautiful ❤

Beautiful! ♥

I wish i could go visit mines like you do. there is nothing here under 4-5 hours drive.

Great to see you Dan

Slice the Azurite and Malachite rocks. they make great cabs.

I love the blue colour it's so rich

I really enjoyed this video of rock hondin I like the way you explain the kinds of minerals thank you for making this video I try to see your videos every day

The classic Dan Hurd intro music. Gotta love it

Beautiful are they going in the tumbler

...and just as I wrote that former comment, you said so yourself in the video... 👍👍👍

5:10 Little addition to the GLOTD: As Chris said, azurite and malachite are in fact not sulfides of copper - they are basic carbonates, which means it's a mixed hydroxide and carbonate. All of the sulfur has been oxidized at this point to form SO2, sulfate and other oxidation products. During the oxidation process, there also has to be a source of CO2 or carbonate ions present. What determines if it's azurite or malachite from a chemical point of view is the carbonate to hydroxide ratio, azurite has the same number of carbonate and hydroxide ions, malachite has two hydroxides per carbonate. When in contact with water, azurite can degrade over time forming malachite, releasing CO2, sometimes creating beautiful pseudomorphs

azurite 😍

I know a spot in Western Australia where there are boulders of solid metallic copper. One of them is the size of a large car sticking out of the ground.

No one can say your wrong... seeing Az-u-rite! Nice finds!

I love rockhounding….. I just don’t get to go often, and I live in AZ!

Beautiful!!. My cousin's grandfather had a copper mine in Arizona in the 50's and 60's. I have a piece of slag from it. My cousin had some azurite and malachite specimens that were epic!

😁👋👍👍👏👏💕🙏🏻 Thank you for sharing another great episode. Has anybody been to the Caledonia copper mine in the UP of Michigan besides me ? There are so many things to find there. Besides copper, just a tad bit is silver. datelite, Epidote Stone and crystal, Dolomite, and on and on the list goes. Whatever you're find in the allotted time. Is yours to keep.

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

Great brother!

I wonder how many understood your Friendly Giant reference!

I am camping near several CA/AZ abandoned mines right now.

I compliment you on your presentation style. It seems obvious that it’s just your personality sincerely shining through, but still, it’s very appealing. You definitely earned my subscription many videos ago.

Dan, how about a video sometime about turquoise?

I grew up in san diego California in the 70s and 80s. During that time me and my fiends explored alot of canyons and other places. Well there was this canyon behind my friends house we used to walk through as a short cut to get to another friends house plus we would use the canyon as a hang out spot. I always used to find these powdery green in hues rocks. Never knew what they were ? Always found em in the gully at th3 botto of the canyon. Or day me and a friend were walking up the Sid of the canyon and my friends food went through Thu ground. We were curious and dug up the dirt. Turn out there was a cave that had been covered over with wood and buried. wasn't a big long or deep cAve just went in about 70 feet.it had wooden piling holding up Thu ceiling and I being a hot humid area the wood was very stable.But we noticed alot of that green dusty rock I The walls. One day i took a piece to a teacher. Turns out it was an old copper cave. There used to be alot of em around the area back in the 20s and 30s. We did find old bottles that were broken and old broken wood boxes but nothing else. We started using it as a hangout spot until homeless junkies took it over.I'm glad we didn't stay using it. An earthquake caved it in a few years later.

Six stars brother

What beautifull minerals . . So vibrant . . Also enjoy your GLOTD . . Always intersting . . Was wondering Dan if you had ever been or thought of going to Australia for a bit of a fosic ?? . . Do some detecting and paning . . Mine for Opal etc . . . ? Till the next time . . Bye from New Zealand . .🍻👍🙏🇳🇿

When you first buy a 4wd vehicle it's a good idea to take it out and find some juniper branches and the like to scrape it against. Get some good scrapes and scratches. Then, when you are on hairy roads, you can concentrate on the footing and not worry about the extraneous stuff! 🙂

Pretty cool stuff!

Pictures clear

You should make a vid showing off your collection!

Do you have a rock and mineral display case at home? I would bet you do and it would be FULL of magnificent pieces.

I was very surprised to see the pointy sharp malachite crystals. I have only see malachite sliced to reveal the botryoidal (sp) bubbles with eyes all over the place.

I feel like the fine crystals would be great for insetting into rings like you would with crushed stones.

Azurite is Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 while malachite is Cu2CO3(OH)2. The difference being that one has double the copper and one extra molecule of carbon trioxide... basically you can think of malachite as being the more weathered version of azurite.

That "peacock ore" copper is always pretty to look at. And them roads look like fun if you have a good 4x4, or my mountain bike 😂

Hey Dan, my husband and I watch. Welcome to our native state, Arizona. We were both born here, I am second gen. It would be so fun to prospect with you. We are in Mesa. Which Cooper mine is this? You guys got some awesome copper minerals.

Nice video¡¡Thank you¡¡

Cool rock

This is why scratches are called "Arizona Pinstriping". 😁

wow....wasn't expecting to see the carbon copy of my mothers recently passed dog roaming around a coppermine....RIP Schotzie.

I was thinking about going there a few weeks back. I didn't go because things got in the way. Now I am glad I didn't because while the stuff looks real nice, it is not what I was hoping for. Nothing cabable.