Could you make a video on the process of copper mining? That sounds really cool

Did I hear you correctly? You did some mining in college?

@GeologyHub

Жыл бұрын

Correct. For fun I staked a few mining claims. One of them was for a fairly large chrysocolla vein I found which had some desirable material embedded in quartz

@LeonaPrime

Жыл бұрын

​​@@GeologyHub dang, that's cool. I'd love to do that. Could you make a video about how you did that? My geology program has ore bodies really late in the pathway, but I would absolutely love to do something like that. Further more, something I get way too analysis paralysis about is how to find a good vein of mineable, processable mineral, because some part of my anxiety tells me I wouldn't be able to find anything good because all of the good ones would already be claimed. It is a very immature mindset, but I haven't managed to break out of it.

@GemstonePhilosophy

Жыл бұрын

@@LeonaPrime when you spend enough time in the field, you realize how untrue that idea is. There is more metal in the earth's crust than even most geologists realize. It is important to note that mineral deposits may have widely differing characteristics from one region to another, and processing ores can be very simple or can be as complex as the ore body itself. It all depends on what you are trying to extract and what metallurgical processes are needed to seperate the desired values from its impurities. Copper is generally not going to be of interest to the small-scale miner, whereas much of the bonanza deposits are likely discovered, but smaller copper porphyry deposits may be found untouched. Nonetheless, copper is likely a secondary value to the gold and other noble metals that may occur with it, and copper generally involves a few complex processes to refine it, so wouldn't really be worth your while in most cases. The modern Era of mineral prospecting is in locating rare earth elements, motherlode gold deposits, and a few others such as beryllium. They are out there, and there is so much that has yet to be recognized.

What a beautiful piece. Wow.

I bet the windowsills in your house are show-stopping! Because that's where I put my bigger rocks, lol. Loving this series GH😊

Another short, yet very informative video!

I have an ashtray made of a boulder of malachite. Deep green (almost black) to medium-deep green. Beautiful.

I always love hearing the mineral names said out loud because I always have an “oh that makes sense” response to it.

You should do something about Native American mining of copper in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. They were mining as early as 5000 BC.

Ohhhh so thats why monster hunter's "machalite" is blue

Wow. I didn't know this. Thank you.

Good stuffs. Watching this for my FCX interview lol

Ive always wanted to find this

So pretty

I like your mineral shorts.🤩 Thanks in advance to please mention when a mineral is toxic.

I worked underground in Flin Flon when i was a kid. HBM&S produced mostly copper and zinc there for almost 100 years at the local and adjacent ore bodies. The town was basically built right on top of the Canadian Shield. Lots of stories in that place.

@firewoman13merica65

8 ай бұрын

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

Shattuckamachollachite

I have a mining claim I located and staked myself in Yavapai County… tons of malachite, chrysocolla, shattuckite and more some Chalcopyrite, galena, bornite but also some Insane very Coarse Chunky Gold and also, believe it or not, a good bit of Gem Silica/chrysocolla stained Chalcedony! It’s a dream claim very proud of it you’d prolly have a field day with all the stuff there! Oh! And dude! One of my favorite I have there also os “Turgite”!! Beautiful rainbow colored iridescent goethite/iron oxides! Wish I could post pics here to show

@GemstonePhilosophy

Жыл бұрын

Sounds awesome. Sounds like good conditions for gold too. Yavapai County has some of the most productive gold districts in the state, as I'm sure you know. I find a lot of copper minerals here in Mohave County. We're pretty much neighbors.

@alexnutu1125

Жыл бұрын

@@GemstonePhilosophy Mohave county has some of the best gold in the state Too though For Sure.. and some real spectacular minerals I have some friends who’ve been finding a ton of unbelievably beautiful Chalcanthite out there recently… so much cool stuff in this state!

@GemstonePhilosophy

Жыл бұрын

@@alexnutu1125 I read at one time that Mohave County alone has over 10,000 abandoned mining claims, most of which were primary gold deposits, and the nature by which most of these claims closed was a matter of gold values plummeting during WWII and again in the 70's. My house sits within a couple miles of dozens of historical gold/silver mines and prospects dating back to the late 1800's, one such prospect just beyond my property border has tons of ore rolling into my yard from a road cut at my fence line, and a very old digging above the road which was likely part of the Wheeler Expedition of 1871. Full of manganese oxides and oxidized sulfides. Plenty of quartz crystals nearby, and at the base of the mountain is an interesting rhyolite flow with snakeskin opal (common opal of just about every color and pattern imaginable inside an odd nodule-shaped rock with a scaly exterior or skin), which I believe may actually be fossilized coral or potentially dino bone (I kinda hope not). I've mined quite a bit of high grade chrysocolla/gem silica, malachite, rosasite, and cuprite specimens in La Paz County as well. Kind of insane what Arizona has to offer for sure.

Dude was born to narrate SCIENCE

Wait so you could put malachite in a furnace and it will melt and have a copper layer??? Put simply of course.

Nice Malachite!!! 🤤

Malachite

Mmmmmmm malachite

Are they heated or dyed to enhance the blue color? Or is that blue color completely natural?

@thisisaugusto

Ай бұрын

It is natural

Awesome

Hey where did you mine at I was in bagdad az

I guess the ore in Minecraft is the pyrite one 😅

@ Family Island

Ud dreaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

❤❤nice

I want to find a copper rock so bad🤤

2nd what a gem

Need copper for china

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Testiculy speaking

@PilferBucks

7 ай бұрын

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TOPIC REQUEST. Hello, its the Black Canyon in Western Colorado at Blue Mesa. It is basalt and deeper than the Grand Canyon. Fascinating, large and little known. -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canyon_of_the_Gunnison_National_Park?wprov=sfti1

@shadow tindall

I didn't know most of this🙀thank you !!!!! (I can still learn!! 👍🌚🏜️🐈‍⬛☑️