Hi Mr. Gordon, I just wanna say thank you because since 2 years, your my teacher for my new passion of rockhounding and i just found my first real big shinning cristal of black tourmaline! I learn so much with your videos! I start my 3rd seasons like a real rockhounder 😂🤟✌ i'm from Mont-Laurier near Notre-Dame-du-Laus
@@Caver461 it's exactly what I'm experiencing as well. My favorite location at the moment is the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Qc. I've found Vesuvianites by the buckets... some even facet grade.
@@jameswelch1054 The mine is only open for the Asbestos Mineral Club members. Fee to be a member is 30$CAD for the year and they call you 2 weeks before each trip to see if you can attend. If you can't, you're still top of the list for the next trip. Per year, they call you at least 3 times... 4 if you're lucky. Each rockhounding trip costs 20$CAD and you keep everything you find.
@@Caver461 Ah, my friend...you are too modest and you short-change yourself. You two guys are a perfect team: Jeff, with field luck and determination, and you, with a terrific scientific curiosity and (thankfully) a strong willingness to share your discoveries with the rest of us with rocks in our dreams!
Love your vids. I'm about a thousand miles south, and stuck in sedimentary land. We've got caves, but I'd love to have igneous and metamorphic rock to play in too.
Not to mention fossils, calcite, fluorite and sphalerite that are found in sedimentary rocks. So don't despair. My favorite was finding sphalerite (zinc sulfide) in Hamilton, Ontario where it's all sedimentary rock. Do you know that sphalerite competes with diamond in sparkle due to its high refractive index? BTW, flint and chert are sedimentary too and they come in a lot of colors, green and blue being the best. Regards and best of luck.
Great video Jeff. I ordered all 3 of your Rockhounding books, from Lulu. I should be receiving them sometime next week. I would love to see you make a video, on gem quality minerals from Ontario & Quebec.
Thanks on the video. A Quebec book was certainly discussed on this trip. Probably starting to mess with some ideas this weekend - draw up a list of potentially Rockhound accessible sites and most importantly - good mineral payback for the visit.
@@Caver461 No, I am from Quebec "Montreal". Sorry, I called you Jeff, in my earlier comment. I just realized my mistake. It was a dumb mistake because a week earlier I was googling "Michael Gordon" to find your books.
Hey, awesome video. I was there not too long ago, it's a great spot. Most of my success was from breaking calcite open and getting lucky. Found lots of great Spinel up to 2 cm with very clean faces. I'm a geology student from U of Waterloo (originally from Niagara), so being in Ottawa for my co-op job has been great. It's a luxury to be so close to fantastic spots in beautiful country here. I visited Yates Mine the other day as well. That was a great location for Apatite and Diopside. Plus some Thorianite and a cool Allanite (Ce) coated Scapolite crystals. When were you at Parker Mine?
@@AL-lm7wg The Camp zone I believe was bulldozed when it changed ownership. I recently located the new owner. For a fee of $5 per person he will let you visit the Matte zone site. It has a decent amount of material left with exposed rock running along the entry road for several metres.
The forsterite-spinel-calcite formed at the same time and probably from metasomatism (fluid infiltration and chemical reactions) or at most local melting. But not from significant melting at depth. Most silicate and oxide minerals are idiomorphic at their contact with calcite, it has more to do with the physical/structural properties of the minerals and not order of crystallization. My video from the Parker mine in 2017: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DEPorYS-JnI.html
