This channel is showing off some of the mineralized area that I find on my mountain climbing and kayaking adventures all over British Columbia.
I kayak remote inlets and access remote valleys and mountains on foot. My main hobby is mountain climbing but I do have a passion for what nature has to offer and rocks are one of them. I have no training when it comes to mineral identification and prospecting in general. This is just a passion that I'm sharing with people.
I'm new to all of this rock and mineral stuff . There is so much going on with those rocks I do not blame you even a little for filling your backpack to to heavy. So many different cool rocks!
I find it curious that! the old timers find these veins on mountain sides in the middle of nowhere ! And build the trusses by hand and rail and ore shuts as well,with only hand tools!
Sorry Russell I missed your comment. It is pretty crazy what those guys did back in the day. This mine was built before the road was even in there which would of made things even more complicated. Would of been an interesting life roaming those wild places.
I really wonder too though, before TNT, how it was done, mining itself that is.. I've read about building a fire on top an outcrop, pouring fuel etc.. cracking the rock by fire, other methods, feather wedge etc.. but.. to find the veins, you can either follow float up to the vein, or loam for gold, pan section by section up the hill, until you find which direction/the source of the gold.
is that possibly boulder opal? it's hard to tell but did it have a florescence/rainbow like reflection? or was it just snow/white quart? you have some really nice pieces there.
Tell you the truth i'm not 100% sure, i'm fairly new to this. I didn't notice any florescence/rainbow reflection. If you go to about 7:30 in the video you can see what a broken one looks like. I think it's quartz
There’s pretty good logging roads on the backside of Callaghan park up in the Squamish Valley. There’s about 2 hours of bushwacking and then it’s pretty open terrain. Not too many people go there!
Back in 07 and later,I studied what ores ,gold comes in. Back then, there were a lot of comments and questions as to where gold comes from. I noticed many of the old mines had a purple tint in the nearby rock, or it had lots of rusty mineralization,where the quartz vein had been. Ppl hadn't figured out,back then that where there's rusty iron, there's gold! Now,it's out there! Thanks to my observation, I put this info online back then. I forgot to mention,Amethyst is often squeezed up along with gold in volcanic pipes.If you look at abandoned gold mines up here in eastern Ontario,Canada you will see grey granite but where the rock turns a bit purple,would have been Amethyst,had it completely formed at the footwall where the gold vein( quartz) had been.
Back in 07 and later,I studied what ores ,gold comes in. Back then there were a lot of comments and questions as to where gold comes from. I noticed any of the old mines had a purple tint in the nearby rock or it had lots of rusty mineralization. Ppl hadn't figured out Back then that where there's rusty iron, there's gold! Now,it's out there!
I love watching your videos here in British Columbia! I wish I knew the first thing about rockhounding. Living here gives me so much inspiration to get out and see if I can't find some rocks too.
Glad you like the videos! I’m gonna make an effort to make better more detailed videos this year. You should get out and explore, BC has so much to offer! I find cool rocks on most of my hikes.
Good video. Your close ups showing the rock mineralogy conveys a lot of info......sure looks like volcanics linked to subduction...bimodal volcanism with granite and basaltic magma mixing. The epidote shows hydrothermal activity on joints/fractures...the copper shows are interesting...thanks for the field trip
Purple quartz,is or has Amethyst or parts of it.and is part of a vein complex shooting up besides gold in the volcano. We acquired some from an Amethyst mine in Thunder Bay ontario yrs ago,some was deep purple,whike others specimens were faded into a hazy purple white quartz.
Thanks Johnny. I'm pretty new to this and still learning so I always appreciate when someone points out something like this. I'll go back and pick it up.
