Exploring Rocks and Minerals 

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been playin minecraft bro watchin dis just trynna be *steve* in real life

I have been trying to really understand this for decades. I’ve read many things including textbooks, websites, books, etc, I have watched many documentaries or shows or videos and no matter what I just couldn’t get the whole picture or any picture really. I watch this video with very little hope and I can’t believe it. I understand it perfectly. Why couldn’t anyone else make it this simple. You are the absolute best! You have no idea what this means to me. Thank you so much! It’s not complicated but yet nobody on Earth seems to be able to explain. Except you. You have made more than just my day. Thank you again.

Only legends search this for one reason……. “Jesus Christ Marie, they’re minerals!”-Hank Schrader

These are very well done, thorough videos. They have been a tremendous help during isolation and really enhanced my understanding of rocks and minerals. Thank you much. Keep up the quality work.

Rocks and Minerals. Clicks on video, first line spoken by narrator: "Minerals and Rocks." MY LIFE IS A LIE

This is great! I will be watching this a few times to really wrap my head around it, and eventually it’ll sink in enough for me to identify my rock/mineral collection. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

I'm a geologist, and this was just fun to watch. You do a great job teaching this. Seeing examples is always great, but people don't realize how different samples of the same minerals can be. Can't wait for a polarized microscope video.

Just started getting into Minerals & Rocks and this intro is just AMAZING. Professional, entertaining and to the point. Keep up the great work!

this is so helpful for me and my sister because we are cracking and studying rocks and minerals.

Really finally get it now. You have the best understanding and explanation of all. Thank you for laying it out so simply. I can say that I have been exposed to years of people babbling on about various rocks, gone to look them up and just found things getting more difficult and mysterious. I knew what conglomerate was but breccia was a secret. I knew shale and slate, never heard of phyllite but often wondered what schist and gneiss were. Even if I had that chart I would not be able to connect it so clearly. Really I think this video is brilliant.

Amazing teacher! The intonation and speed-of-explanation are slow enough to be understood, yet fast enough to keep one awake and highly interested. This is teaching at its finest.

You're awesome! You make it so easy to understand, follow and structure the whole picture in one's head. Damn, I wish I saw your videos early :) Thank you, much appreciation!

Omg you helped me so much . I am taking earth science and your videos are so much better then how my teacher teaches !!! Please continue making them!!!

This has to be one of the best videos I have ever seen on this subject, and I really appreciate your taking the time to make and share it. Shale yeah!

Just discovered this channel and love it! Not in any type of geology class but studying my own rock collection 💗

This is very well explained making it quite educational. Enjoyed this.

Your videos are brilliant. Such complex matters have been explained in plain english. Keep up the great work!

It's a pretty good video, which illustrates minerals and rocks very clearly. Appreciate your good work.

Hank likes this video

This video has made me feel content. I love, love, love Rocks.

well done explaining all these classification of rock and minerals. It's very simple and easy to understand!!

Excellent Video !!! I learned a massive amount of information !!! Thank you !

kudos to you, you make a topic I would usually consider boring, interesting. I'm genuinely interested in this topic thanks to your to the point interesting way of explaining things. It's not boring like my irl science teachers throughout my boring school life years.

I am at college in the geology course and you have no idea how much you help me in my crystallography and mineralogy class. I have an exam tomorrow and i was really nervous until I decided to re watch your videos. They me much peace because of the simple way that you explain, i wish you were my college teacher. Can you please make some crystallography videos? I am finding a hard time trying to understand all of this. Please at least consider the idea if you read this. Thank you for all the help. *the pdf that you made available are wonderful.

You made everything 100 times easier to understand thank you!

Best video on the subject I've come across so far, thanks!

THANKS FOR THE VIDEO!!! It was super useful!

Oh my god!!!! That was amazing such a detailed description I had a hobby of collecting Rock from the street and river but couldn't understand them well enough I got amazed when I was finally able to recognise them from your classification Thank you very much for such an amazing video !!!!

I am studying for the CSET in Science and these videos have been extremely helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to make them

thank you for the info sir this will really help me on my upcoming regents exam!

I'm new into rockhounding. I've been trying to find a site to learn about rocks, crystals, minerals! This is a great place!!! I'm slowly learning! Enjoy!

Thank you!! Haha I know I'm three years late but I'm very interested in rocks, minerals, and gems, so this was really cool!

Thank you for this wonderful video! Very informative and gives clear understanding of this topic. Thanks a lot ❤️❤️❤️

You made something simple that many folks make complicated. Great video....thanks Mike..!

You deserve a gold medal

I really learnt a lot from this video being someone who is not even close to being in the area of work but that needed this knowledge.

this is really well edited

clear, concise and readily comprehensible. thanks.

Hi, I looked on your web page but I don't see any corresponding worksheets. Do you have them in a folder on there?

Thanks for teaching me, I bet my teacher would recommend this

A really great overview. Thank you.

Excellent Video !!!

I love learning from your channel. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH

Another awesome vid! Thanks man :D

This was nice! Thank you for posting.

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This is one of the best education videos i've ever watched! implementing this into my MS science classes!

Thank You that was very helpful it straightened out a number of things I had taken in but really didn't understand it makes a lot more sense to me now! Thank You again!

Hello new subscriber here I love your channel. I have been collecting rocks for 33 years

As a geology student I really appreciate your videos ! Keep up the good work ☺

Great video! Shows and tells you just about everything you need to know about rocks and minerals for the NYS Earth Science Regents Exam.

this is very helpful video thankyou!!!!

Such an informative and easy-to-follow video. Thank you!

Thanks sir, you helped me a lot

I graduated high school last year and I still enjoy watching this kind of video

Super explanation... Thank you!

thank you so much for these videos!! Im taking physical geology and this is helping me remember the information much better. The demonstrations and your flow charts are awesome!

I like all your mineral and rocks videos. Learned so much . So well done

Thank you ..that makes it vary clear.. great video!

Watching from Laguna, Philippines. Nice content, full support done

Love, love, love this video great info!

I really enjoy watching these videos I find them so interesting and informative, Thank You

This will help me with my project

Thank you! Very helpful.

This was really interesting. And since I'm appreciating rocks sans any exam coming up, it's certified that I'm a grown un now.

superb sir, thank you very much

Thank you for making these

Great video! i'm going to pass my Midterm exam now! i will keep you updated

Thanks for helping me for my project, but a couple of things didn't make sense and try to make a shorter video.

This was an AWESOME video. Thank you! I only wish I had access to the sheets that you were using to explain things with!

Thank you|! Mindat is offline so frequently, so one always needs good resources for learning and identifying different species of mineral specimens

Nicely done ~

Thank you, that was very helpful.

Excellent video, Mike. You rock.

You are very good at explaining this! Thanks! Love your videos!

U literally saved my life This is so great for my assessment

If I'm just getting into Rock Hounding and am a beginner at identifying things, which of your videos is best to start with?

Fantastic, thank you.

Thank you~~~ I can understand completely~~~

Amazing, thank you sir.

Absolutely fantastic

Best teacher ever!!!!

*ASAC Schrader approves!*

Thank you for making this. I found this to be very helpful

Thank you so much I understand very nicely...this video is very interesting I love it...learning it is very fun and enjoyable I love science thank you so muc

best educational video

Thank you Mike, very interesting.

this helped me alot thanks micheal sammartano

Thank you for this video because I'm learning this at school

Great video. Very well explained.

Informative... Thank you so much..🙏

Great video, super easy to understand!

I worked in the quarry industry.Watching this video help me to identify the type of rocks that we extract and process to form a DCR stone..Love from Malaysia!!

thank you so much. this is a really good vid for studying bc I have my unit quiz tomorrow so this makes me feel much more confident!

Top information here!, very well explained. Thanks for uploading this video.

What a great video! I learned a lot from this. It just made me wanna learn geology and mineralogy no matter how difficult they are. Learning them is fun and enjoyable. Science is fun to learn indeed!

thanks.. this video is really helpful.

Fantastic video! What editing program did you use? Your style of teaching is fabulous!! Thank you!!

These videos are great!