Fool’s Gold Might Be Better Than the Real Thing

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This month's Rocks Box is pyrite, also called fool's gold. But this fool's gold might not be so foolish, since we can use it to get all kinds of other minerals we really need, and it may be a key to getting real gold after all.
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@Queenhideyxo 21 день назад

In the pyrite community we refer to gold as "fools pyrite"

@conlon4332 20 дней назад

There's really a community for everything huh?

@coinisinorbit 20 дней назад

@@conlon4332 you're part of the youtube/google community the moment you made your account, so yeah

@TheModdedwarfare3 20 дней назад

@@conlon4332as someone in the community community, yep.

@growinglifeorganic940 20 дней назад

@@conlon4332 yeah , even a community for community.

@br.m 20 дней назад

@@conlon4332 Yes, as a member of the everything community I can confirm

@timbrwolf1121 18 дней назад

My great great grandfather grew up poor. One day he was walking through an alley or back road or something and practically tripped over a rock that he though for sure was gold. He thought he had saved the whole family from poverty. Had a real life willy wonka run home. Turns out it was a 10+ lb chunk of Pyrite. We still have it. It is gorgeous.

@tobiwonkanogy2975 16 дней назад

thats a good story.

@alexcholagh8330 16 дней назад

Some fools good contain 5% or less gold but in trace mineral form

@DeandreSteven 16 дней назад

Lol willy wonka tun home

@naaat 12 дней назад

how does one find a random chunk of pyrite on the road?

@timbrwolf1121 12 дней назад

@@naaat beats me

@charlesartificer2158 18 дней назад

Fun fact. Usually in the same areas you find pyrite you find flint. Striking the 2 together gives you sparks as well. Otzi the iceman had a fire making kit on him with flint and pyrite. His corpse and belongings are dated between 3350 to 3105 BC. Making it one of the oldest primitive fire kits ever found.

@laughingassfarms5520 18 дней назад

He also had cannabis seeds!!

@Splode_ 16 дней назад

I was surprised they didn't mention this. Possibly being half of humanities' first fire making tool seems pretty important!

@delresearch5416 16 дней назад

He had cannabis also, the Egyptian mummies had coca leaf in there tombs???? They had boats, they had to be in south america.

@jogglenoggle9579 16 дней назад

@@delresearch5416 source?

@MountainsAreCool 16 дней назад

@@delresearch5416 Lmao cap

@davep5788 21 день назад

"Hand me that lighter. Ok, get back under the desk."

@allelopath 20 дней назад

What the hell was that? Is there a running joke here?

@6Jas6devi6 20 дней назад

@@allelopath 1:51

@elainebelzDetroit 19 дней назад

That was so bizarre! It took me out of the video's topic for a while.

@user-ie1tz5rm8x 19 дней назад

To hi to find the root of all fires...

@earthisdoomed8811 19 дней назад

oh ho ho ho😂

@537zun4 21 день назад

Fun fact: in germany we call it "Katzengold" meaning Catgold. Don't ask me why. [edit: since now 6 persons asked "why?": its a bastardization of an old german word "Kazzūngold" meaning golden yellow cherry resin. Now stop it please... Also one source says it comes from the Word "Ketzer" meaning heretic, but thats a money blog so I don't trust that source, but google says "here, first result, thats what you searched for right?" I should start using the search function of wikipedia, way easier...]

@SimuLord 21 день назад

You look for a gold seam and find a Fe line.

@tonysirmixalot3546 21 день назад

But, why?

@537zun4 21 день назад

@@tonysirmixalot3546 Its a mutation of language, originally it was "Kazzūngold" an old german word for "golendyellow cherry resin", you are welcome.

@StaticCollapse 21 день назад

Maybe it catfishes people by looking like gold? 😂

@Maunory 21 день назад

Finnish languge loaned the Germanic word and we have kissankulta

@outlawbillionairez9780 21 день назад

Fools are a much bigger customer base. That's my business model.

@nate9221 21 день назад

Very clever

@NotSoMuchFrankly 21 день назад

I'm looking for investment opportunities. Have your people call mine.

@TimeSurfer206 21 день назад

"Pleathe buy my bible and thneakerth." AmeriKKKa. Biggest Fool's Market there is.

@Pim3211 21 день назад

And only fools comment such things.

@outlawbillionairez9780 21 день назад

@@Pim3211 It's A Joke.

@RicoLen1 21 день назад

I live not too far from a town called Coarsegold California, that was once a mining town in the 1800s. On my property I have 2 seasonal streams. Pyrite is everywhere in my streams. If I try to work in them while the streams are running it gets all over me like glitter. I've found plenty of quartz rocks on my property, I have a granite boulder as big as my house in the middle of the property, and up against it I've found a few hunks of raw iron. No gold though! haha

@ElectricProductions2 20 дней назад

Bet theres gold somewhere around you

@1TakoyakiStore 20 дней назад

Probably have already done this, but have you ruled out mica flakes?

@Dellvmnyam 20 дней назад

Cool story

@rivitraven 20 дней назад

Hey if there was pyrite in your streams at that level, your water would be quite acidic and brown and ugly. Are you sure that is not mica?

@surreygoldprospector576 20 дней назад

@@1TakoyakiStore Yes. Mica flakes used to be used in gold paint. Pyrite is heavier.

@Jayjay-dt4fg 21 день назад

I've heard people say "nature does not do (creates) right angles". Well Spanish Pyrite crystals grow as a cube. You can't get anymore natural right angles than a cube.

@CodyL95 20 дней назад

Pure salt crystals are cubes also

@TheModdedwarfare3 20 дней назад

Whoever said that is an idiot

@thundersheild926 20 дней назад

Whoever said that is dead wrong. As Cody pointed out, salt is cubic, but there are so many more minerals beyond that as well. Galena, fluorite, hematite, and many more. Heck, gold itself does a reasonably good impression of a right angle in it's natural form.

@Falcodrin 19 дней назад

@@thundersheild926bismuth is the coolest thing that makes right angles

@avisian8063 19 дней назад

Usually when I have heard people say that they are talking about biological nature rather than geological. There are definitely edge cases even then, though (pun intended)

@panelvixen 21 день назад

Platonic Solids, very good friends that will never get romantic.

@weaksause6878 21 день назад

1:27

@gabbonoo 20 дней назад

@@weaksause6878 >_> phallic specimen is especially phallic

@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789 20 дней назад

Unless the bard wants to try anything with that dragon _eeeoughf_

@user-vq8yk1wc1u 20 дней назад

Hence the phrase: doing a solid.

@Dellvmnyam 20 дней назад

They are just romantic but will never get physical.

@matthewburdick6177 19 дней назад

Hey! You got the pyrite firestarter wrong! Pyrite was the first material that you could strike with flint (or any of many other easily found rocks) to make fire, not a replacement for flint! Pyrite was likely extremely important to prehistoric people because it could be used to make a fire well before iron smelting was invented.

@TheYear-dm9op 18 дней назад

That's not the only thing they got wrong -.- .

@ivanrusnak5327 20 дней назад

3:10 first you burn sulfur with oxygen to make SO2, then you burn that with even more oxygen to make SO3 and THEN you mix it with water to make sulfuric acid. You don't go from SO2 straight to H2SO4

@thekinginyellow1744 20 дней назад

This channel always over simplifies. I think their target is US high school (a very low bar)

@francislutz8027 20 дней назад

It's more of a turnstile than a bar

@mernokallat645 20 дней назад

Great that I'm not the only one who noticed.

@DrSpooglemon 18 дней назад

@@thekinginyellow1744 It's not an oversimplification to conflate sulfuric acid with sulfurous acid. It's just wrong.

@TheYear-dm9op 18 дней назад

I commented on that too. I think back in the day they did something different, because you can't just burn SO2 into SO3. It needs heat, pressure and a catalyst for that in modern plants. I don't know it from the top of my head, but I think they must have used a strong oxidizer back then. [EDIT:] 3 Wikipedia articles later: They roasted iron(II)sulfate into iron(III)sulfate, which at sufficiently high temperatures decomposes to iron(III)oxide and SO3 . Later they used a better method, using HNO3 (even later just NO2) to oxidize SO2 (that's apparently what I remembered in my original post).

@tlynne816 20 дней назад

We used to search for it on our walk home from school when I lived in Quebec. The dirt they spread on the roads in the winter months contained it. It made for very fun walks!

@jensphiliphohmann1876 20 дней назад

03:13 _Then you just add water and you've got sulfuric acid._ Not quite. You get _sulfurous_ acid, H₂SO₃. Sulfuric acid is H₂SO₄.

@piotrgraczyk786 14 дней назад

how did it make its way through proof-reading ? going from oversimplification to being plain incorrect... such a quality drop, shame ....

@michaellavery4899 4 дня назад

Shameful. How could a scientist make such a basic error?

@raphaelgarcia9576 21 день назад

Like in the gold rush days, the big winners sold the shovels. If you want a popular item to sell, use the bioleaching bacteria.

@nerdjournal 21 день назад

That is such a stupid saying. A FEW people made it rich selling shovels. Just like with any other market. There wasn't an unlimited amount of opportunity to just sell the tools. Just like now days, back then, the people with the best chances to make money were the people who already had money to buy supplies and surplus. No, making it rich selling the tools was just as luck based as finding the gold. Otherwise, everyone would be rich.

@Krypto137 21 день назад

@@nerdjournal You're missing the point so hard I can't even begin to understand how. Seriously, it takes effort to have the point go over your head like that

@ronstevenson4211 21 день назад

I sold computers to google. Ergo, I rich.

@GeoffryGifari 20 дней назад

but the unlucky ones would get fool's shovel instead

@diox8tony 20 дней назад

@@Krypto137 Nvidia is getting rich selling GPU to AI'ers...but those AI'ers were already rich AND nvidia was already rich(thats his point, and its correct). Maybe OpenAI got rich, but they are just Microsoft now. Aint many poor people making AI in their home labs striking it rich. Aint many gold miners traveling across the country, staking a claim, and making it rich without some startup cash(which most people don't have).

@nunya___ 21 день назад

It's good to see that Thing is still getting parts after the Adams Family movies.

@nicholaswjamrock 21 день назад

Suplhur dioxide reacts with water to form sulphurous acid (H2SO3) not sulphuric acid H2SO4

@Asmodis4 18 дней назад

and nobody uses flint to struck sparks anymore, today we use ferrocerium. Sadly, thats the Norm on SciShow, they are going down hill fast. for gods sake, DO YOUR RESEARCH SCISHOW. Its infuriating.

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 21 день назад

Love pyrite, its got super cool geometry, and a unique silvery gold color, also found a lot in Lapis Lazuli ore

@mikehorrocks2909 18 дней назад

And in quartz crystals.🤪

@MyPlaylistWillSaveAmerica 17 дней назад

And they have a ship and get treasure.

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 17 дней назад

@@MyPlaylistWillSaveAmerica I was gonna google "pyrite ship" then I got it lol

@anyascelticcreations 10 дней назад

Interesting. I didn't realize that the gold streaks are pyrite. But I mean I guess it would kind of have to be. Considering it's not gold. Cool!

@n8howl 20 дней назад

Arrr... I'm a pyrite. ☠️ 🏴‍☠️

@brians1793 5 дней назад

If I share your joke without crediting you, will you file a chalcopyrite claim?

@c.jishnu378 3 дня назад

Underrated.

@c.jishnu378 3 дня назад

@@brians1793 more Underrated.

@the_green_gorilla День назад

😂. And I read it in a pirates voice.

@collin4555 20 дней назад

"Despite what video games may suggest, there's not just one ore for each material" Laughs in Dwarf Fortress

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 20 дней назад

I was thinking minecraft but now even that has multiple

@rohansampat1995 18 дней назад

that one statement made gregtech make a LOT more sense.

@rohansampat1995 18 дней назад

@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 lol gregtech always had multiple . Play modded, dont stay a vanilla normie.

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 18 дней назад

@@rohansampat1995 I assure you there is little normal about me lol, however I really enjoy vanilla, its like lego, you dont want every piece possible to exist, the restrictions are what inspire creativity

@rohansampat1995 18 дней назад

@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 That is only true for like garbo visual / decorative mods. Also custom lego pieces have always existed and are pretty popular so that was a poor choice in analogy. Its like moving from legos to PCB design. A lot more tools, but a lot more outcome. I dont get to manage a whole factory, defend my base, grow food to eat, and create and fight more in vanilla. Vanilla is not creative, its just yawn. Modded when done properly transforms minecraft into a beast game that blends magic, tech, and ofcourse concepts from vanilla to enhance crafting, survival, building and everything. Its basically like adding more lego sets, and mixing them up and creating something brand new. Again, reallll bad analogy.

@Dirk_Mcgurk 21 день назад

you know what they say, "If ain't pyrite it is pywrong"

@MaekarManastorm 21 день назад

0/10 try again

@Dirk_Mcgurk 21 день назад

@MaekarManastorm i get a 1/10, i have 7 likes

@colonagray2454 21 день назад

Well its 14 now so 2/10. Just fallowing the math

@marlenegura1161 20 дней назад

That was flippin hilarious!!!😂😂😂

@nottelling7438 20 дней назад

@@MaekarManastormI could compute another pun since you asked for another. Let me just pywrite some python code. Is that better or do you need more puns?

@SimuLord 21 день назад

Time to straighten up and pyrite.

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 21 день назад

hehehe

@drbachimanchi 21 день назад

We call it Crows gold in andhrapradesh india

@JesseKeegan 19 дней назад

Fascinating, in light of ancestral veneration, with respect to inter-traditional iron & fire associations. Are they used as gastroliths, like Ravens use stones for digestion? Thank you, for adding this to the discussion!

@chrixthegreat 20 дней назад

fun fact, Pyrite is also a semiconductor which means it could be use to make computer processors. It is inferior to silicone but if there is ever a shortage, we have other options.

@thekinginyellow1744 20 дней назад

Silicone? You're making wafers out of breast implants?

@chrixthegreat 20 дней назад

@@thekinginyellow1744 No. Though the main backbone atom of the molecule they use to make breast implants is the same element as the backbone atoms of a computer chip. That does not imply one is made from the other or that its molecular composition is in anyway compatible.

@jenbanim 20 дней назад

Silicone is the polymer, silicon is the metal. They were making a joke about the misspelling

@chrixthegreat 20 дней назад

@@jenbanim Right. Dyslexia took my ability to spell long ago. Thank god for spell checker. Doesn't work though if you actually spell a word correctly but just use the wrong word.

@anyascelticcreations 10 дней назад

Until it molds.

@TomPauls007 19 дней назад

What do you call an old tall ship that holds fools gold? ... A pyrite ship!

@kasnitch 21 день назад

Jeff Williams often brings up the old adage of prospectors looking for a mine --- gold rides an iron horse -- in a lot of those desert mines the veins carried quartz, pyrite, gold and other things .

@PhaseSkater 20 дней назад

Jeff Williams is my buddy

@stormthrush37 19 дней назад

Unpopular opinion: I find so-called Fool's Gold prettier than the real thing.

@20SkyWatcher09 18 дней назад

I think so also😊

@Ozymandias001 16 дней назад

I’m gonna sound like the devil “I HATE YOU AO MUCH FOR TAKING OUR BANKING SYSTEM APART”

@ber2996 16 дней назад

No wonder your opinion is unpopular. Ornament wise, I'll pick gold any day

@ChazzleDazzleVideos 16 дней назад

I also love pyrite i have a ton of it in my rock collections and love the different geometric shapes it can take.

@hannahpeek414 16 дней назад

I agree

@gardnert1 19 дней назад

"Crystal Sisters" sounds like an educational version of the band Twisted Sister, specializing in STEM fields.

@matthewcox7985 2 дня назад

Crystal Sisters, opening for the heavy metal band Actinide Series. 🤘

@ZackRToler 21 день назад

1:27 that's a phallic looking rock

@Lutefisk445 21 день назад

Okay Freud .... you're not wrong tho

@mkogrady6078 21 день назад

No, it gold finger!

@tarmaque 21 день назад

@@mkogrady6078 No; Goldmember.

@Dellvmnyam 20 дней назад

And I like it, no homo.

@schildkroete 20 дней назад

it's a fossilized naughty-loid

@akhasshativeritsol1950 19 дней назад

Interestingly, the dodecahedron formed by pyrite isn't the regular platonic solid dodecahedron we're familiar with seeing for dice, it has slightly irregular pentagonal sides the create a shape called a pyritohedron. There are no regular dodecadedral crystals, but this is as close as they get

@verdantpulse5185 20 дней назад

Pyrite needs no metal to make sparks. Archaicly, pyrite was struck by flint to start fires. The 'flint' in cigarette lighters isn't flint, it's mischmetal, a mix of rare earth elements.

@rmconnelly5 16 дней назад

Or ferrocerium, which is the same thing as mischmetal just a bit softer

@zacthesecretweapon9931 20 дней назад

Fun fact , in french we call it "l'or des fous" meaning "the gold of the madmen"

@Eckster 19 дней назад

I feel like you're trying to make it sound cooler than it actually is since "fous" is clearly just a cognate of "fools".

@zacthesecretweapon9931 19 дней назад

@@Eckster no, fous is the plurial of fou, wich means crazy

@Eckster 19 дней назад

@@zacthesecretweapon9931 What do you think fool means? Seems like dingue or cinglé would be closer to "crazy" as it's used in English. Regardless, I just think translating it to "madmen" is silly when it's clearly essentially the exact same concept, and "fools" is a perfectly adequate translation. "Gold of fools"

@zacthesecretweapon9931 19 дней назад

@@Eckster cinglé is another word for fou yes, in that case fouls in your case in english yes

@MrAranton 18 дней назад

@@zacthesecretweapon9931 words are cognates if they have common ancestor, even if the meaning shifted and diverged over time. Since the Italian word for madness is „follia“ I suspect both „fou“ and „fool“ can be traced back to a Latin word meaning something along the lines of madness, madman, idiot…

@PandaPandakun 21 день назад

Wise men say "only fools rush in", but I can't help falling in love with pyrites.

@reviewatrandom 20 дней назад

And then there's the lithium in the stuff. Pyrite suddenly seems pretty awesome.

@MekazaBitrusty 20 дней назад

3:15 Sulfur dioxide and water make sulfurous acid. You need Sulfur trioxide to make sulfuric acid

@mountainmanxyz 18 дней назад

I've been a prospector/miner for 12 years, and I can tell you that sulphide ore is among the best types of deposits to find when looking for gold, but generally there is a small part of the ore body which is naturally oxidized and not leeched out, generally close to the surface. As you dig deeper into these deposits, the rock can be made of solid pyrite, but after being dug up, dumped in a waste pile, and left to oxidize in the sun for a number of years, it becomes much easier to work with. Oxidation liberates the gold and allows you to easily crush and separate the values with standard gravity separation. Otherwise, roasting the ore is required, and as the video mentions, this requires a lot of energy. Old timers use to avoid sulphide unless it was incredibly rich, but they sought after sulphide deposits to "high grade" the oxidized materials that were easily available. It's important to note that the presence of sulphide is not an absolute indicator of the presence of gold, but noble and base metals can be precipitated with sulphur and halogen elements such as fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, and are catalyzed by changes in pressure or pH in a hydrothermal solution.

@WildAlchemicalSpirit 14 дней назад

I was enjoying a day on the beach with a friend when we found a deposit of clay. We started playing with the clay then and suddenly my friend pulled out a cube of pyrite. It was a couple of inches wide and quite a surprise!

@shorty1815 21 день назад

3:14 Your chemistry isn't absolutely correct. H2SO4 is made by reacting SO3 with water, not SO2. While SO2 is produced by burning sulfur, the extremely caustic, dangerous SO3 is synthesized in a patented process using a V2O5 catalyst.

@l.mcmanus3983 20 дней назад

I found a crinoid fossil made of pyrite a few years ago. Very neat. In the rocks I have found containing that and many other crinoid fossils, I often see tiny (think less than half a mm) cubes of pyrite. Little sparkly inclusions.

@jackelewish1568 10 дней назад

"Pyrite is alright with me." - Rich Evans, the country westerm singer and Hollywood superstar.

@stephanieparker1250 19 дней назад

1:55 thank you for giving Thing a job

@aerospacenews 20 дней назад

Hey @SciShow this "chat at the desk" aesthetic is a nice look. The old-timey glowing bulb takes it up a notch too. Uh, here is a gold star. 😉🌟

@lIShattered_PerspectiveIl 18 дней назад

Silver and Gold won't save my rotting soul! Just break me down Can't bear no weight, Can't bear no Crown! I need a hand I can hold up I need the nickel and iron to outweigh desire By pulling me down, pulling me down Burn me to the ground! Burn me to the ground! (Burn me to the ground)

@victoriaeads6126 21 день назад

The Rocks Box series has been excellent so far, both the content and the mineral samples. I'm so glad you folks had this idea, and are executing the whole thing so well! I look forward to this every month!!

@JG-nm9zk 17 дней назад

This one buys fools gold. Go for a walk and find it

@adityamendiratta3664 12 дней назад

Fun fact: modern day strikers and lighters don’t use flint but rather ferrocerium and works adversely to flint and steel, in a flint and steel mechanism the flint knocks off pieces of steel while in a ferrocerium and steel mechanism pieces of ferrocerium are knocked off.

@ericlotze7724 20 дней назад

I wanted to do a comparison of all the “Gold Simulants” sometime. I don’t love the “opulent” aesthetic, but outside of that Gold can all sorts of aesthetic uses. Seeing how they all compare vs proper Gold would be neat. Iron and Cheap Sulfur being the core of some really cool art or architectural installations while leaving the Real Gold for important uses would be neat.

@FreakyRufus 21 день назад

Disappointed that there was no mention in the credits of the hand model providing the lighter.

@elgatto3133 16 дней назад

Pyrite is also used to make some jewelry, though it's usually referred to as marcasite. It's very popular in Thailand.

@rEdf196 17 дней назад

I made self running (unpowered) crystal AM band radios growing up and used 1/4 to 1/2 inch pyrite nuggets as a primitive semi conducting diode by carefully placing a thin wire on certain spots of the pyrite to get a louder radio sound on my earphone. These days, a tiny factory made 1n34a germanium diode is a more easy, convenient and effective means of crystal radio operation. but using old school pyrite or lead crystal based galena as a diode can be a fun experiment too.

@jeffreyspinner5437 19 дней назад

Wait a second, the little hand that gave you the lighter was uncredited! So, let me say great job, little hand, I've been where you were once, and I feel you.

@NotSoMuchFrankly 21 день назад

No one else gonna point out he has a person laying in front of his desk just waiting to hand him incendiary devices at 1:50?

@marcoasturias8520 21 день назад

That's normal. Are you telling me you don't have one? Weirdo.

@whathappened2230 18 дней назад

The clock radio on the desk.. best one ever!

@VPCh. 11 дней назад

As someone working in gold exploration as a geologist, pyrite is one of our biggest key signs of gold. If we see pyrite, quartz veins, low competency rocks, and deformation, that's a likely target for gold. I am working at a future mine site, and the rock core from drilling we are pulling up near the gold bearing zones is about 60% pyrite. The mechanics of why gold is found with pyrite are extremely complex and require a significant knowledge of geology to understand so I won't try to explain it here, but they are related.

@lShishkaBerryl 21 день назад

I live along the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, we have tooooons of pyrite and gold lol. You can see where they took core samples on the beach 10 mins away from me. I have lots of shiny rocks 😄

@3dguy839 18 дней назад

And bars of gold In your basement vault?

@JamesLeatherman 21 день назад

I love this set. Kudos to the art director/set designer. Also, I want that digital clock.

@christopherleubner6633 18 дней назад

Pyrite ball milled to powder can be reacted with acids to give hydrongen sulfide which is best made on demand.

@xpndblhero5170 21 день назад

1:50 - That's a weird place to keep your lighter.... 😂

@gentrelane 20 дней назад

Carlin trend gold in Nevada is microscopic gold inside of arsenic rich pyrite. It has made Nevada one of the most productive gold mining regions in the world

@SlayerbotTheslayer 21 день назад

Literally just started gold panning as a hobby this week.

@MaekarManastorm 21 день назад

I dont think anyone cares

@OrnateChain 21 день назад

@@MaekarManastormbe nice

@roncarney7445 21 день назад

I’ve always wanted to try it, looks relaxing.

@PhaseSkater 20 дней назад

@@roncarney7445relaxing but also a work out and will make your body sore

@danielregan1853 19 дней назад

I just started too! It's harder than I thought but I'm keen as! Also started fossicking

@nariu7times328 20 дней назад

Thank you for feeding my appetite for learning. I have so many things I can look up and learn more!

@luketesterman5425 20 дней назад

Loving the new format!!!

@nuuverse 21 день назад

Sounds like something a fool would say 🤔

@bmg50barrett74 21 день назад

1:30 uhhhh....

@StaticCollapse 21 день назад

Goldildo

@Noricavus 21 день назад

Glad I'm not the only one that thought that lol.

@bobvedder2451 17 дней назад

I found a piece of gold pyrite about the size of a medium potato. It was pretty with gold crystals showing over most of the outside. I kept it on my desk as a sort of paperweight, until some fool stole my fool's gold.

@theplasmatron3306 10 дней назад

I love it, I need as much of it as possible.

@jessicakoch2331 20 дней назад

i have so many memories going into the science stores as a kid and always wanting to buy pyrite. I love how I can stare at it and lose focus and it sparkles in the coolest way…I love pyrite, it’s truly a beautiful crystal

@p0lyf0nisk 21 день назад

"..Back in the 1840's, the California hills were crawling with minors." Wait what?

@danfurtado9158 21 день назад

Don't tell diddy

@Octa9on 21 день назад

and now, they play mining games all day. the children love the mines. do not deny them their birthright

@michaelpytel3280 21 день назад

" Miners not Minors " - Severus Snape probably .

@retaliationgaming8693 21 день назад

@@michaelpytel3280you can literally hear him saying this 😂😂😂

@PhaseSkater 20 дней назад

Technically it was the 1850s. People didn’t start arriving till 1849

@theodorgiosan2570 20 дней назад

Sulfur dioxide also was used as a refrigerant for a long time (and still is in old fridges). I have a GE monitor top that runs SO2 refrigerant. It might just come back as a refrigerant for heat pumps because it's capable of condensing temperatures of 240F+. A perfect refrigerant for the second stage of a cascading heat pump.

@jublywubly 16 дней назад

That was very interesting! Thanks for making this video.

@ItsJustJessOkay 21 день назад

Merry Beltane!

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 21 день назад

Oh, to you to!

@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 21 день назад

A man of culture I can see.

@ItsJustJessOkay 21 день назад

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 Blessed be ❤️🙏🏻

@Moonsong227 21 день назад

Heck yeah, happy Beltane! )O(

@CineSoar 20 дней назад

I remember learning about pyrite on an episode of a late 70's, or early 80's television series (Little House on the Prairie?). One of the children on the show was sneaking off to 'mine' the gold they had found, and eventually plunked down a bag at the local assayer's office, only to learn that it was "Fool's Gold". Does anyone else remember that episode, and what show it was from?

@surreygoldprospector576 20 дней назад

I have been told the same story, so can confirm it was Little House on the Prairie! :o)

@billwilson-es5yn 19 дней назад

The Rifleman had an episode about pyrite being found by Luke's son on their ranch and a shyster salesman paying Luke money for that land to mine gold.

@ruperterskin2117 21 день назад

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

@uncleal 20 дней назад

Sulfur dioxide and water form *sulfurous* acid. Oxidize to sulfur trioxide, dissolve in oleum, then dilute. EXOTHERMS! "Grind" pulverize. Flotation beneficiation requires heavily sulfuretted carbon compounds binding to then rendering the copper hydrophobic, floating to the surface with the bubble froth, then skimmed.

@care2guess 19 дней назад

Yeah, surprised they glossed over the thiol based collectors that make the process viable

@uncleal 19 дней назад

@@care2guess Everybody knows the destination, nobody knows the trip. Nothing in the world is simple. A chemical engineer can spend his career massaging a petroleum distillation tower. A new manager then comes along and saves a bundle on "routine maintenance" by replacing a really expensive, large radius high alloy elbow with above spec black iron...that is decarbonized by hot hydrogen in the process stream. Big meeting - "we want to maximize collisions in a fluidized bed. Make the stack elliptical for collisions at the foci. Manager, "we use ROUND pipe for fluidized beds. Civilization vs. sparrow farts.

@aryansingh7209 18 дней назад

misleading title.

@boogeritis 11 дней назад

Misleading comment

@HMoyn215 9 дней назад

Misleading reply

@bigdongled3077 9 дней назад

Misleading comment thread

@kabornat8340 9 дней назад

Misleading partecipation

@user-sd3ik9rt6d 21 день назад

Thats gold miners, not gold minors.

@MOSMASTERING 21 день назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YChWz_oow6g.html

@paulamcclure3402 21 день назад

Galaxy Quest (1999) Sir Alexander Dane : Could they be the miners? Fred Kwan : Sure, they're like three years old. Sir Alexander Dane : MINERS, not MINORS. Fred Kwan : You lost me. 🤣

@tomdixon7264 16 дней назад

My great grandfather used the presence of pyrite to map rock features while he was prospecting. It worked for him. He ended up operating a very successful mine from 1932-1945 before selling the claim. It was still being mined in 1989.

@bbbenj 20 дней назад

Thanks 👍

@chrislj2890 13 дней назад

Back in the days before video games when kids played outside and dug in the dirt we all had our eureka moments with pyrite. I can still vaguely remember mine from back in the '50s. I drove my mom crazy always having my pockets stuffed full of rocks, lol..

@ryanblystone5153 17 дней назад

Thank you

@lunarpurin8974 21 день назад

Certain forms of Pyrite can also be found on beaches in England, I started collecting it because it was pretty while fossil hunting, not sure what form of pyrite it is, but it sure is pretty!

@joanz4811 День назад

Me and my dad found a decent sized 40cm x40cm-ish boulder with a huge quartz crystal sticking out the top of it (failed breaking it off and most of it shattered into pieces and dust). It has a quartz seam all the way vertically, is well over 300kg- has pyrite in droves, definitely has a high iron-content and we've tried all the tools we got trying to break it so we could bring it back to the shop to check if it has anything interesting inside

@LuC-k777 20 дней назад

Yup I remember my father talking to me about this when gold planning

@Lardzor 16 дней назад

I would have thought water was the most widely used industrial chemical.

@Itsjustme-Justme 15 дней назад

When I saw fools gold crystals for the first time as a little boy, it was instant love. They are more shiny than real gold. The crystal structure with all these reflecting surfaces gives them a whole different quality.

@STaSHZILLA420 19 дней назад

Crystal Sisters sounds like a dope 80s band.

@agxryt 16 дней назад

And lithium! Some news came out recently about using it for extracting/finding/something lithium!

@user-xx4yl1hy7f 21 день назад

Thank you for your wonderful video. Sheila Mink in New Mexico

@rev.jonathanwint6038 16 дней назад

Fun fact pure copper its actually not economically feasible to mine. Gums up the equipment. So it's actually better to mine it in impure ores then melt it out rather than ruin equipment on pure deposits.

@TheEducat0r 16 дней назад

Who knew fool's gold could be such a gem? This video proves that sometimes what glitters really is gold, even if it's not the real deal!

@zeddybear257 16 дней назад

Cool offering. I love rocks, can’t get enough of them and have a few nice pieces of pyrite, but not likely ethically sourced.

@NicodemusT 9 дней назад

"Let's steal Technology Connections background, but change it enough so no one will know"

@youruberhasarrived2081 14 часов назад

"..it's not uncommon to find entire fossils amade of pyrite, which are stunningly cool to look at." *shows picture of golden p-nis *

@rlb3418 19 дней назад

I used to study iron pyrite! We were figuring out whether it could be used to make solar cells (it can!)

@AmyMcScience День назад

Oh wow, I had that old alarm radio. lol. Also, googly eye rock is MVP.

@HyrimBot 21 день назад

I have a piece of Auriferous pyrite that I collected from a mine that gave tours in Colorado.

@The_Hagseed 21 день назад

This episode rocks.

@DaveC2729 14 дней назад

You could also use pyrite as a source of sulfur from which you can actually _make_ gunpowder. I'm not sure it ever was used that way, but it wouldn't surprise me if it sometimes was when somebody didn't have a better source of sulfur.

@majorjohnson8001 21 день назад

Not the first I've run into chalcopyrite. I was working on some project and we were pushing out a "gold edition" except that the project wasn't even finished yet, so we were joking about it being the Pyrite Edition, except even that was too ostentatious, so I went looking for "fools silver" (doesn't exist) and ran into "fools copper" aka chalcopyrite.

@feeberizer 20 дней назад

I know of an old cinnabar mine where pyrite was discarded in large amounts around the site. Hmm....

@TwistSnakebyte 11 дней назад

I like this SciShow Bob guy!

@anyascelticcreations 10 дней назад

I thought for sure he'd mention that it can essentially mold. I was super curious so I scampered off to check the pyrite beads that I bought roughly 20 years ago. Sure enough. Pyrite mold.