Find and identify raw silver and silver ore: (What silver bearing rock looks like) 

Great video. This shows the complexity and rarity of how silver is mined. So the silver squeeze is on! This shows how rare and valuable silver is and how it is undervalued.

Thank you Chris, for taking the time to educate us, your passion for the theme is legendary!

Great video! Silver is overlooked by 95% of people!

As you may know, Eva is much more interested in silver than gold. She enjoyed it very much. Thank you.

very cool video, Chris. Nice lesson on silver Ores.

Thank you for this precious information I appreciate all the efforts you have made to better recognize the good stone rich in Silver mineral 

Very interesting video....thanks again Chris...!

That "ruby" silver sample was gorgeous looking ... would look great polished up as is ... thanks for your instructional videos.

Thank you for making this video. Wasn't looking for this but finding it was perfectly timed

Chris, Your book is everything you said it was and then some. Great book!

I learned something today watching this! I’ll be sure and watch more of your videos. You got another subscriber!!!

Thanks for posting this. Id love to find some Colorado Silver someday. Cheers

Very interesting lesson. Thank you

Superior video, Chris. Big thanks for putting it together.

Hey Chris🙂 Jus wanted to drop ya a hello and help push your rithm along, hopefully. I subscribe to several many gold, meteorite, geology related chanels and although ive seen this particular vid, along with scores of others for past several many yrs, I still love the archives. Youve amassed quite a library of free source info/knowledge and I truly appreciate your willing to do it. Your passion for this subject matter transcends any need for a self righteous deed. Thank you, Chris Ralph, Sir 🙏🇺🇸👈🏻MAGA

Oh cool, I have that book. Nice exAMPles of silver in the video.

Chris, I live in southern Arizona, which is very rich in silver ores along with lead, gold and copper. I have always ignored the silver and lead ores just because as a sole prospector I feel it isn’t economically extractable, I primarily concentrate on the gold values. The information you provided has been helpful. A lot of the mines around here are abandoned and known as silver or lead mines. I usually examine these looking for possible higher grade gold deposits. Maybe I need to assay some of the silver/ lead ores also.

Thank you for the video Chris. Decades ago I grew up in southern Arizona. My fathers side arriving in the Tucson area around 1780, and my mothers side in Santa Fe in 1626. My father would tell me about the various mines in the area and I would often go out adventuring. One day I was in my Chevy El Camino with my rifle, and miles from nowhere in the wilderness and I came across a blue-black rock laying on top of the dirt. It was crystaline, each "sand" crystal was about 1/32" on a side. I don't remember if it was cubic or other polygon. It was about the size of my fist and fairly round, very heavy for it's size, and very loosely held together. It held together a little better than a handful of blueblack wet sand formed it into a ball. If I were to strike it against a tree it would break apart into hundreds of pieces.There was a slight sparkle of the crystals in the sunlight, definitely not grey, but a dark blue/black color. When I picked it up it split about in half and I put the larger piece on the vinyl floor of the Camino cab. I basically forgot about for several weeks and motion of the car reduced it almost to a pile of sand. i.e. it made a mess and I tossed it out. Now I was thinking it was Galena, but the reference photo's of Galena had large crystals and a very hard appearance. This stuff would soil your hand as though pick up a piece of charcoal. What are the possible minerals that it could have been? Any guess is better than mine.

Very useful information, Thank you. Helps explain some very unimpressive looking ore I collected from a supposedly rich area earlier this summer.

Need to learn more about Silver, being in Arizona, hopefully I can locate some one of these day.....thanks again, Chris...!

The frog and birds in the backyard are a nice touch

Thanks for the fascination info. It takes a ton of effort to identify and refine Silver, and it makes me appreciate how easy it is to just buy a Silver bar or coin. I think I'll leave the rest to heartier folks. I spend most of my extra cash on Silver and collect Silver coins, and I think it's important to learn a little about how we get this from the ground. It's not just someone tripping over a 100 kilo lump of silver and yelling "Eureka". But this makes looking at the rocks you find on hikes in a different lens - you might have a piece of Silver ore in your hand!

Thank you for being generous in sharing your knowledge to us.The same are very useful on our adventure- prospecting someday.

Who else came here cause they may of found silver ore but is not a professional.. so needed to learn more ways to identify it

my left ear enjoyed the video

Very good teacher to a novice....Very interesting....great job.

Well done ! I'm excited to view the rest of your videos.

great video I live and work around Aspen Colorado which is known for Silver. I usually am looking for gold but I love silver too

I am a district of the country where silver has been found mingled with lead, zinc and copper, but now I think I might have some stuff that might be silver, only its so tiny I can not see it even with a digital microscope with enough clarity to be sure exactly what it is.

Very informative, I'm so happy to have found your channel.

Awesome cool information on silver! Not much talked about. Thanks!

Thanks Chris for sharing all your smarts with us

my left ear loved this video

Damn I did find silver in my backyard. Thanks from Arizona

Thanks for an informative video.

Thank you for the lesson.

How about a video on X-ray fluorescent (XRF) analyzers?

Love the video great job and I have to get the book

Great informative video. Im lucky enough to live 6 hours from the old Cobalt mining area up in Ontario. I've amassed quite the collection of native silver. Most is mixed metal with Cobalt, Nickeline and secondary arsenides. Im sure you have some. 😁

@chris ralph, professional prospector Thanks another great video. A masterclass

very nice thank you I come from the Selkirk mountains of BC the ores are very interesting

😊 makes me happy to think I might be right after chasing some kind of raw Ore for years trying to figure it out but maybe i can leave a photo if I can . My name is Michael

Something cataclysmic happened for the ancient inhabitants to just leave all that recycled wire behind.

I'd like to see a video on silver ore found in the eastern U.S. Thanks for this great video.

I know of a vein of metal ore which I always suspected was Silver. After watching your video I'm even more sure the vein is a silver sulfide. This vein is at least 20 feet long and one spot is visibly exposed, about the diameter of a soccer ball. This vein is also surrounded by mines dated back to the early 1800's. If I send you photos do you think you could give an opinion whether it might be Silver? I've known of this vein over 40 years and never shown it to anyone. The vein is in a pretty remote area, the majority of which is in solid bedrock. I found this vein by accident, walking on the bedrock with a metal detector turned on. This is in Arizona.

Good info, on silvers in different forms.

Great video kinda confusing but I'm less than a novice. Great video 👍👍👍

Definitely digging this topic 🪨

Great job very good video thank you much !!

...our silver mine in Canada had/has values up to 19,000 opt Ag...yes, we've found samples of it.

Thank you so much ..to teach how we can look around ..it was truly interesting..

I think I’ve seen some of these silver compound minerals up near an old mining town called Winfield, Co.! Perhaps the miners there , lacking a metal detector and geological ID skills, discarded some of these ores in waste piles! Many of the rocks there are superly heavy although I’m not sure they would sound the detector alarm.

16 to 1 mine is in Allegheny CA I believe. Sierra county. Not nV

One of the reasons The Romans conquered The British Isles, was for the high grade galena ore mining in the West Midlands. And for Tin from Cornwall.

Chris, thank you for your reply to my previous question. Regarding your story on the Comstock Lode. A story from an old timer that had lived in the Southwest as long as my family: Henry Comstock was perturbed at the blue-black sand that was clogging his rocker in search for gold. Henry was tossing the sand to the side of his dig as tailings trash. Until a Mexican miner, that actually had mining experience, walked past his trash heap and exclaimed "Mucho Plata" i.e. "lots of silver". And, that is why Comstock's next mining claim was named "the Mexican."

Thank you, overwhelming to be sure.

As a GPAA club member I have found a number of specimens of silver ore in Glacial Drift. It's somewhat common while doing recreational gold mining if you know what to watch for.

Thank you 🌹

Thank you sir.

Very interesting.

Thanks Chris, fantastic video...!

Found a nice chunk of galena in quartz this morning waking.

I have a Native silvers spinner blade hand pounded by Paiute Indians found on the shore of pyramid lake in the 1930's . They trolled for the Giant Cuthrout trout from canoes. It's very old how old not sure but many hundreds if not thousands of years old. It's big multiple ounces the holes drilled through ends of blade was done with a chipped awl as they are not smooth round and patina is calcified on it. A very unique artifact for sure its the size of my hand .

New subscriber. Very helpful! I will be purchasing your book. I do have many questions and will try to organize them first. Rock/silver hunting is my new found hobby! Thank you so much.

I realize that platinum is rare, but is silver easily confused with platinum when it's found ? How much heavier would platinum be than silver? Nice presentation! Thank you!

i found that this video contains a lot of great information,,,, i’m hoping to put this to good use soon! thanks! 👍

Thanks for the info! I live around a lot of gold and silver mines in kern county, CA and i find a lot of stuff out and about that ive always wondered about. This cleared up some things. How do you get specimens tested and extracted? Because trying to figure it out on my own has proven to be a mission! Lol. What you have said in your video about it, keeps getting past me.

Great job on the video !!!!

Fantastic video series! Loved it info packed

Very nice presentation on silver ore. I tried to refine a small chunk of silver chloride ore with no luck. Maybe it wasn't what they said it was. On another note in the ICMJ magazine you said you would try make a formula to strip gold from gold plated objects. Are you still going to do it?? Thanks for the silver video.

Very educational Thanks

CHRIS thanks for uploading the presentation on silver,and looking at your slides of different specimens you have concluded my theory on this metal and what it travels with in the geohydrothermal liquid mixes which it congregates with due entirely on temperature,i've concluded that gold, beings it liquefies at higher temp than silver and platinum it is just a smaller by product of movement in the rivers of superheated water mix that moves the metals and the other sauce,this explains gems and their congregation of other valuable stones all together,due to high temp leaching,thank you very much,you have found my missing link to my theory,i've seen strange samples out of the northern Arizona and southern tip areas around nev,coupled with the weird shaped sample of ribbon gold I found in el cajon area,its making sense now,thanks again

Great video Chris and thanks for posting! Once while detecting around an old mining camp in Az. I found a quarter-size raw silver nugget and a button of Ag. The button was found while raking/detecting the bottle dump...miner must have tossed it out accidently with the trash?

Hey, I am new to identifying different minerals... I seem to find a lot of good material, just not 100% sure what I have. Would you be able to help me figure out what I have, thanks.. love the videos, I've learned a great deal from you.

Hi my name is Lisa. I was at my dad's property and found rocks that I just thought were pretty. I thought it was petrified wood but watching your video about silver ore. I have lots of questions.

I’d like to find a piece of the ‘ruby siver’ Such eye Candy!

you do KNOW your Gold/Silver etc Thank you for your advice

Thank you for the video your real smart!

I found a silver “bean” with geometric stripes looks almost pure in appearance passes magnet and ice test

Great video. Question..can the specimens you showed..or can silver ore sound off a metal detector???

The picture at 21:19 is what I've seen quite a bit of, but never thought it to have anything to do with Silver. I'll be paying more attention in the future.

There’s a silver mine in Alaska called Greens Creek that in some spots yields 180oz per ton of silver! I remember reading about it and being totally blown away. Literally pounds of silver per ton of dirt. I still don’t know if I believe it even after reading several articles and keep thinking it must have been a misprint or something but apparently it’s true:)

Thank you Chris!

I really liked the video by the way.

I have found some really high grade silver ore in the sinks of Nevada! My gold monster detector picked it out... At first look I thought it was a mashed aluminum can-

Thank you buddy

Dont know how it is with dilver but with gold if you have fine gold in rock and cut with saw the gold is smeared by blade and pieces look alit bigger in cut slab.a piece the size of pin tip can look lik quarter oz nugget after cut

Did you know your audio on your videos is only coming out of the left channel? Meaning only the left speaker/headphone has sound. Try setting your video render settings to Mono Audio that should fix it. Love your videos! Your book Fists full of Gold has sat in my amazon wish list for a couple years. After stumbling across your great videos recently I finally was motivated to purchase it!

Hello Chris I would love to talk to you when you have a little free time. I think my sister and myself may have came across some oxidized silver/gold and possibly iron ore. I was wondering if you would have a spare moment to give me your expert opinion. We really enjoy your videos!!! Thank you!

I have a rock that looks like it has gold and silver chunks peaking through. How can I really determine/?

In silver rich areas, does the groundwater contain more silver than normal?

My daughters found this rock on the hill in our backyard. Is there any way you could tell me if it's silver? I have no idea where to go to find out. I could send you a picture of it

Hi Chris! Thank you for such a thorough and informative video. I live in Central NC. I have three creeks that run through my property. I find quartz crystals for days in those creeks. There is one that I can not identify though. It's a milky quartz with orange veining. I've found two nice points and several rocks. My property was part of an old trade path (which you can still see) and I have found so many native artifacts after plowing the garden or round pen. The creeks also have tons of a silver colored fleck (?) in them. I'm thinking this is pyrite. Would you happen to have any ideas about what the orange and white quartz could be? Thanks!

While I appreciate your video. I do have one question. Do all of these specimens sound off on a metal detector? I know iron sulfides do not, but now I'm wondering about silver sulfides.

There's so much to learn

Tried Buying the Book Last Year... Amazon Couldn't find it..

Thank you Chris for sharing your knowledge

Enjoyed.... thank you.

Funny I ran across this today. I have been hunting an intrusive in AZ for gold. Found some nuggets that were born right there but after extensive sleuthing I ran out of nuggets and bedrock came so near surface there's no way I missed a pocket. Argh! Frustrating! Anyway, while just detecting around yesterday I found a very peculiar object. Silverish, heavy, hard. About an oz. Not aluminum and don't scrape like lead so definitely niether. Has some material attached but looking through a loop I can't tell if its smelt glass or matrix. Question I have is there a simple chemical test for native silver?

So will the silver oar be picked up by a metal detectors