Hi, love the finds, that mine is one of my favorites for collecting. Just wanted to give my take because some of your pieces look like other minerals to me. The zircons in your video look more like a feldspar to me, I have found bluish and greenish pieces from there, similar material from the nearby madawaska mine was marketed as oligoclase. In my experience massive zircons are very very radioactive, one 4cm chunk I have from near Barry's Bay is over 3000 cpm, the ones from this mine are usually smaller and range in colour from brown to orange-yellow. The mystery mineral you showed at 10:13 looks like pyrrhotite to me, very similar to pyrite but it usually much rustier because of its crystal structure, to confirm this you can check if it smells like iron/sulfur, I have found specimens at that mine. Your solid black crystals (not the mica) are part of the hornblende family, could be fluoro-richterite or something else, hard to tell. Great video.

@rafsrocks306

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your input. Dark feldspar makes sense, I wonder if polished would look similar to labradorite. There's a little bit of iridescence to it