i only heard about finding metals in BLUE clay, i remember my grand ma and great aunts would have me cleaning clay during the summer days so they could use it to make pottery in the winter, thank you for sharing this with us
If I were you, I would take a sample of that "blue stuff" (as miners in the Comstock called it) and have it assayed. That "blue clay" could be near pure silver content.
We have a bunch (like, we made a 2 acre pond and there was tons of that stuff 6-12 inches thick everywhere!) of that blue clay, some of it has a silvery sheen to it. We also have purple clay and a teal-green clay. Very high sulphur smell. The colors are brilliant! I had never seen them, natural, before. But we have a lot of natural springs and a ton of different quartz as well. So, maybe I should investigate my cool looking clay a bit more LOL!! We also have a lot of iron content - it colors a lot of the rocks anywhere from a dark red to a medium orange color and the water from the springs, depending on the iron content, can be clear or can have a rust colored tint to it with a very strong metallic smell, and taste.
Blue clay is actually sought after for medical purposes and cosmetic as well as pottery. So you might want to consider collecting for those purposes as you might bring in some $$ for it. It appears to have some a antibacterial properties to it.
That looks so much like the blue clay at one claim I worked, I could have told you that you would find silver and lead, so about $13.00 USD per ton from silver - might take a while to make your rent with that. The Pd market however, is $2318 per oz or roughly $82 USD per ton. Thanks for the adventure and the video. Where is your snow ???
Finding a mineralized clay here ... in some places it acted as a placer gold stop a false bedrock and other places it had just the mineral that was part of it's make-up All interesting ... Gold to Ya !
I really appreciate the information in this video, but I wish he would have considered all of the other life forms in that lovely freshwater pool before polluting the pool with sediment. He could have avoided killing and hurting a lot of microorganisms with the small effort of simply discharging the clay slurry onto vegetated ground.
what state or country you in, I figure the US cause your American accents.....you need the diamond sluice box, it's not riffles but blades to chop up the clay and let the heavies dry into a little cup or container at the bottom you just remove it and run it through your sluice box, the diamond something or other, but the man who showed me how to work it right, f'n hit a really nice week working clay...f...! I found one for 65.99 but after the video hundred bucks is the cheapest I could find, blessings and good hunting
Contemporary art museum...Matisse?...you guys forgot to add yeast to the clay..you guys love clay biscuits and dinner rolls...not too shabby on the au and ag...those rv people might still have some on the undercarriage and fenders...
Some of this clay looks like fire clay with a good Alumina content. I need some fire clay with a decent Alumina content that has maybe a cone 14+ rating to make some smelting crucibles for my own use.
