Mineral identification Part 3 - Watch this video to learn the skills of mineral identification. 

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I Must Say - 👉(“ YOU Are A Treasure Of Knowledge “) ✌️🤠✌️ Thank You Very Much; for being so real & in tune with facts. GOD BLESS YOU CHRIS.

As a boy (7 to 10) I really was a rock hound, as I was called back then. I could identify the common and not so common rocks in my area, Cleveland, Ohio. My favorite was a pink colored gneiss. If I had gone to college I would have had a great problem between studying geology or mechanical engineering. You have reawakened my interest in geology, thank you very much. The area where I now live (northwest Georgia) has a lot of white quartz and a fine grain black schist, I have seen large pieces of the quartz lying around where you could clearly see small bits of gold shot through it. This is fun. I think I need your book and the others you mentioned too.

My daughter is in University studying Geology and I sent her to your channel for her online study portion. Thanks for another great video, Chris.

Thank you Chris for sharing this fantastic series on Mineralogy !! Will definitely keep on my favorites list. I think a course on Petrology would be extremely valuable for the prospector. So many folks out there have difficulty understanding rock formations and how it relates to minerals.

Good day Chris just finish 3 very nice lessons video that you made! And i just bought your book and now member and a full year of the magazine ICMJ !!! I am from the north part of the Province of Québec Canada (in this video we saw different Nickel rocks form your many mines (Copper, Diamond, Gold etc...) Here with thousands and thousands Lakes, Rivers, Cricks and Forest it is a huge no humongous playing ground for prospecting and learning nature! Just retired as a Superior Officer in special and Rapid Emergencies and as a firefighter for 31 years. So beside buying my self a nice sport car as a gift to me for my retirement i decided to (like i said being in a paradise) Kayak Prospecting mainly for gold and gems. I bought the best military inflatable Kayak (Sea Eagle Explorer 380x) and equipped my self with the best equipment there is for prospecting from Panning, Suit, Beach, Rock and hydro prospecting and at the same time equipped my self with everything for camping and everything fits in my Special Kayak so in resume i will be able to go where ever i need, no need for Kayak rack and just around my city 150 km i cant count how many sites i can go! Now that i equipped my self without counting i am learning Geology minerology 101 cause like you say all the time if you know what your seing and finding saves you time and make every good possibility to find treasures. I dont do that to get rich and i am independent financially so all this for fun, exercise, nature and most of all new discoveries! Thanks for everything you did and do and anxious to read your boon and happy i am Bilingual sorry for my English writing mistakes! I subscribed at your site and keep the good work Chris you are now my Mentor you want it or not :) Sincerely And good Luck to everyone in your search of Treasures Frank

Thank you Chris for the great lesson and review.

Excellent video as always Chris...thanks again...!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge to us. Awesome Book as well Chris 👍

God bless you Chris and thank you for all you do! Do you have a patronage link? I'm joining Jeff Williams later today and I wanted to donate to you aswell! You and Jeff are extremely instrumental with your RU-vid teachings of geology and I cant say thank you enough! I have been studying geology for the past 6 years and I learn something new everyday! God bless you and may your days be golden!😊😊😊

Thanks for the knowledge, It's not so easy to get someone to share knowledge especially if they see you coming up. Bless you and thank you..

Chris, you are a man of many talents. I am huge on the area of Prescott, AZ. I am also a member of R-R club down there. I think you deserve a vacation and spen a couple weeks we me don there.

Thansk a lot Chris for the great lesson..You are the best

@RalphNChris Channel Spectacular👏great content.see yiu again

Thanks for the class. Can't want for the next. Gold Squad Out!!

Good series with loads of info. Sure, rock identifiers would be helpful...thanks....

Chris, Yes please, IDENTIFYING ROCKS, something anybody who is searching for the shiny metal should have a working knowledge of Rocks.

Great knowledge!!!!!!

Another great video on learning about this.

Very informative. Thank you for sharing this!

Hi hi hi Chris OMGOODNESS I’m so excited to have found you and our paths are crossing yay! I believe we are in the same area. I would love to come visit with you and show you some of my beautiful findings??? I haven’t done my research yet but totally excited!!!!!🧚🤩 Love & light namaste

Thanks, a lot of work went into thease 3 clips,Thank you.

Thank you for the 3 part series Chris. Thoroughly enjoyed it 😁

My new favorite you tuber . You literally giving us gold haha and I’m really looking forward to this video

Wow I am identifying different grounds and rocks thank you Chris great shows keep up your videos 👍

Thank you I got a few things from this. The main reason I am try to learn about minerals is because I want to learn how to identify some of my rocks . I'm going to go watch your first two videos in this course. I'm sure I'll have a couple of questions when I am done. Thank You again.

Great lecture and I enjoyed it.

Great Job! Thanksm

Thank you very much Sir this useful Video. 🌠

You really help . Thanks once more......

Gold is where you find it! Mine comes from old burn spot, could be a lot of them this close to Harper's ferry

Hey Chris! Love the videos!

Thank you Chris this is a great video

I have a mic, a pinpointer, 3 books on min, and family support! Oh, and a long way to go...1000and1 ?s but saving it for now.

Thank you Chris for sharing another excellent video on mineral identification. I would appreciate greatly if you could continue your series on petrology that you mention in your video, I appreciate you taking the time and sharing your knowledge for your 3 part series of mineral identification as well as your other videos that you have posted on RU-vid. I find myself always wondering what kind of rock or mineral I am looking at in the field, that is not the so called common types that a person happens to find out in the field, so any help in that area would be greatly appreciated if you could. Thank you again for sharing with the rest of us out here. Respectfully, dd

Awesome👍

I've shared some of your content with some friends of mine to help them

Many thanks ¡

I was wondering if you could do a series about identifying and collecting sulphides in the field and then perform a smelting process to gather precious metals from them? Nice video btw.

Thank You for helping 😊

Tungstan is natural.i have shelite sands which is tungstan ore sand , carbides are ceramics that normal are used in conjunction with a metal like tungstan or tungstan alloy, steel carbides are also a thing. Iwas watching a video about making "wootz" or a crucible steel that is used to make the lost true dimascus steel. Which is not pattern welded , that is the grain structure when forged correctly. The metalurgist mentioned true dimascus steel has nuturally occuring carbides in the cutting edge whena propperly forged blade is made . they mentioned also the ore from the orgonal mine in turkey has .05 percent naturally occuring vanadium . i want to know what is adding the ceramics(carbides) to that metal. Opal , agate, chalcedony amd some jaspers(the ones not micocrystaline quartz) are natural silicate glass right? I have a few super cool mineral samples i need to complete identification of . I am as excited as a child right now thinking about how soon i will have my microscope and microscope camera (3 MP and 2.2μm pixel size. ) id like to see differant gabro rocks. I have what looks to be gabro made out of nephrite and magnitite and a few other things. It is lightly mineralized, and sort of looks like it has traces of nickel as that light brown and tan streaking it sometimes does. It also fizzes in peroxide and hardened steel leaves streaks. the other main samples i think may be amphibles ?are amphibles differant metamorphs of asbestos whoch is a metamorphosed serpantine and includes hornblend and both forms of jade ,nephrite and jadite? Is that correct on any level? These crystals are mostly a peridot green/yellow with hints of emerald green/blue crystal with some decent structure in two directions . it looks waxy but feels smooth like glass and yet it is also fibrous looking. The matrix it is in looks like k-spar granite capped with a hornblend sheet. The entire thing is dotted with tiny black garnets and some unknown to me additions and metalics. Once identified i can make decisions on if i can sell some slices and crytal specimans ...or not if its worthless or dangerous in a way i can be held responcible for. Be well. As always thankyou for making these videos and writting your book(i am excited about that book too, i should be able to afford a copy out of this months check...Finally) ohhh crap i am looking at the mineral samples in the video and see the comstock ore. The 1921 Denver Morgan dollars are a single year variety and made out of comstock lode silver! So for you numismatists who want a historically cool coin, thats a good one. Its affordable too.

Thanks.

I have a question Cris, do you have rattle snakes? I was metal detecting rocks in mtn and got a big surprise! A reminder for those taking your challenge

👍👍This was great info. I have a box of quartz/gold ore sent to me years ago and haven't crushed or processed it yet. I'm going to start breaking them up but I'm not sure if I should crush them all the way down to powder. Do you have any opinions about my wanting to find a specimen if possible?

I love rock hounding, Im in new york city. I would love to find a video of raw rocks with accessory minerals how they look weathered in raw form by state almost like rocks for dummies, maybe u can do a live stream of rock hounding ramdom rocks/minerals and go live with the process of identifying? I appreciate how u dumbed down all of this as is however i still find it quite hard.

I grew up around the Arroyo Seco in Los Angeles. The rocks here seem to be sedimentary or metamorphic. There was one rock there that was speckled and I had thought it to be granite but their was a problem. It was relatively soft and it weathered. Besides the unusual softness there was another problem. Some rocks weathered internally and broke open and contained rust. Many of these rocks were rounded so they had been in streams. Then I noticed something else The.speckles rather than being totally random were in patterns like sedimentary rock. Looking at books I realised these rocks were gneiss. The San Gabriel mountains are composed of this rock.

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database that you can input the hardness to eliminate all other minerals, then streak, then crystal shape, etc.???

Can you use electrical current in identification, whether it is a conductor or not? I have a piece of quartz with a 1" line of a charcoal colored material on it and under 1200x magnification it looks like small crystals, I put a volt meter across it and it was a conductor, does that tell me anything.

Many years ago, my Dad found a BIG chunk of pink quartz, which I got after he passed in 2014. I would like to find out it’s’ value. Who would I take it to find out it’s’ value?

Well I'm here to tell you I'm so disappointed and I watched all your video. I think if I would have started at a really young age I would have had more time to discover more things. I only had the opportunity to do things like this for 25 years if you was to come to my house and just walk down the pathway you'll find all kinds of gemstones minerals and rocks and fossils that's on the pathway to my front door I've had so much fun only if I would have known when I was 10 how much fun this could be. So many kids get excited when I show up because I've always had something exciting to see. All your viewers no matter what you do in life take time out to experience the world around you don't limit yourself. The travels of taking me far and wide not to sit on a beach with a drink in my hand but to have my nose to the ground looking

Hi Chris! I have a nice hunk of yellow quartz? I think that is what it is. How can I tell if it’s a Valuable mineral, or is yellow quartz just that? Also it has lines of black stuff on it. I tried taking it off with a dental pick but it’s soft and hard to get off. I noticed at the bottom of the rock it has little yellow crystals. Can you help me identify it with this description? Thank you!

Hi Chris, I live in Southern California in now. I have time for look for different minerals in my property.what is the name of a good detector I can buy, thank you

I live in East LA in a bunch of hills around me is there gold or any other minerals there or precious stones that I should be aware of

I looked at the rusty color item i spoke of. Ivtook a magnet to to it . Its indeed magnetic. I half to clen up the other parts that are not to get a better idea as to what this iron mineral is setting to.

Hi Ralph, I just recently stumbled upon your videos here, you're quite informative. Just curious if you've ever done any prospecting in East Coast Canada? Specifically New Brunswick. Or if not have you prospecting in Maine? Maine and New Brunswick share borders so I assume the geology would be fairly similar. Also I am new to prospecting (gold panning) and just received my prospecting license, so other then watching videos I know nothing lol

I have gem stone, I am not sure what it's is, and from what family of mineral? I guess it's diamond it look like, but the shape is confusing. How can I show it to you?

I have what appears to be a small nugget of melted gold, wish it came from creek or mtn. Alas it came from burn spot... darn it! I will take it though...

Could you help me properly identify some rocks, to the best of what I can find out about them is they might be something called fuchsite, and from watching your channel iv also found a heap more clues that could indicate gold. I will wait for a reply and I will send pictures and what other information iv gathered so far.

I also have every rock in Blue ridge mountains on my bedroom floor

Yes

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Can I send you a picture of a mineral I found in Colorado near a place named ruby mountain in central co .

I have lost of piret Mix white big depo of mica and with corts

So then gold is a mineral and not a rock, nest pa? see i've lernt something already. If you ever want a real challange finding gold, come to middle Tennessee. Thanks Chris

Ok, I'm an idiot who can't work a phone, I'll get my nephew to help me send pic 4 challenge. Sorry Cris I'm new at this

I gotta take an issue with part of your lecture Chris. You mention that no minerals are organic, to this I have to say bullpucky! There are literally thousands of miles of the earth's crust that are composed of organic or organically influenced compounds and elements. The fossils people have dug up give testament to entire stretches of geological periods where Calcium and calcites are a key mineral compound, same goes with coal. Imo if it was found in the Earth it's a mineral, or atleast it's likely surrounded by minerals. That being said, metals are not minerals, minerals are elemental compounds composed of sometimes multiple multiple elements where as metals are likely never more than 2 elements, as you alluded to ruling out Tungsten Carbide as a naturally occurring alloy (although possible it is literally astronomically unlikely.)

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I am pretty sure (Mineral streaking.)Takes place in mineral college, after one too many keg stands...one of the lesser knownminerals with questionable mineral associations..and strong single cleavage.decides to traverse the quad naked with their exposed facets and crystals flopping in the wind... I think that's tetrahede-rite....

How can I get my gems certified for free

FlourIte is NOT the same as fluoride.

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