My kids love this channel. Especially my 6 and 8 year old boys. One has a cheap metal detector and we hope to get another one and go on adventures. Thanks for all of the educational videos and for being CLEAN which is rare for RU-vid. I appreciate having things to watch with my kids that get them loving the outdoors more. It also gets them asking questions about the civil war and history and learning more. They are always digging the yard. Hopefully we will get to bigger things. Haha. Thanks so much.
Digging silver, so he says, but hunting the elusive mithril in the Mines of Moria is what he is really seeking. We hope you found all that you hoped for Chigg and MOAR. Just don't go putting a permanent kink in your back, trying to haul out too much. Thanks for taking us along, this place is so awesome looking, it takes me away to magical realms every time I see it. Have a great day!
Ty is awesome. Thank you very much for sharing this with us. You two guys and meMiner are my three favorites. Sure do hope you are really going back to Colbalt Ontario to Autumn.. ♡
We love rocks here!! We do collect any cool ones we find when we come apon them!!🙆😌 But , Man! Just thinking all it takes to get the silver out of them to make solid silverware and rings and things!✨🙌✨Super Cool ,Chiggster!!!😉🙅💥✨
@Aquachigger I probably don't need to mention this, but be careful with the acid on the silver - it will react. 😌 I like Ty, and will check out his channel... Thanks for the great vids. GL, HH, and as always, travel safe! 😎
chig another awesome vid Please take hard hats next time y'all prospect that spot. The rock is so friable & you see how much falls from weathering. Looking forward to the next one.
I'm not sure why he wasnt wearing his helmet this day.. I wore mine on my explore over the hill, amd the walk in.. but I think I took it off when I got back to where he was. It was super hot that day, but I'm not making excuses.
There were some seriously amazing to anybody slabs and giant nuggets of silver that came out of Cobalt. 500,000,000+ oz total production. You can imagine!
Hey chig, I do concrete foundations for work in southern Ontario and the excavator dug up tons of old stone ware bottles and turn of the century glass medicine bottles I was able to keep them. I got permission to go back and detect the property. If your ever in Niagara I can get you permissions to detect our job sites if you're interested.
I'm gonna say none. I make a point to explain to everyone that comes here that silver ore as a specimen from Cobalt is worth a small fortune because of the history. Not worth it to smelt it!
To answer all the questions about refining it. The short answer is... you don't. Silver isnt worth much as a metal these days, but nice specimens from Cobalt can be worth a pretty penny; due to having a major historical significance for Canada with native silver. Over 500,000,000oz was taken out of here. Its even a Parks Canada National Historic site because of it and all the things that happened because of the silver boom! Back to refining for a sec.. the hard part about refining silver from here is there is arsenides and cobalt to deal with. Cobalt does not seperate from silver easily. It was a major problem back in the day, luckily.. lots of it was so pure, it could just be melted down and deal with normally. They used cyanide though in the refining process here. And one mill used mercury, ALL of them just dumped out the other end of the mill, so there is major pollution. That's why I tell everyone you don't wanna eat a fish you catch here lol
I am thinking of getting into hunting for stuff with my 7 year old son. I figure it would be something fun to do together. (Anything to get him off the couch , and off the video games!) And I am new to metal Detecting, What things should i know before buying new detectors? And does anyone have any Suggestions on what kind i should buy? I am going to be buying one for my Son (almost 7 years old), My Wife, and Myself. Any Help would be greatly appreciated! I dont want to buy a bunch of stuff and find out its all knockoff brand garbage or something lol
I recommend the Fisher F11 for the youngster and F22 for you and the wife. A are respectable for their price point. The F22 is actually a detwctor I'm adding to my arsenal for underground :) sorry it took so long for you to get s response! I currently run a Makro Racer
Ty mentioned people pay big bucks for a piece of bedrock with a 'lightning flash' of silver running through it. Worth way more than the weight of pure silver. So find a vein, cut, polish, sell, cash in. :)
@@ashmaybe9634 yepper, because it's from a historic town (it's a parks Canada National historic site -Cobalt. Certain mines are off limits for collecting)
How do they extract the silver from the stone? Do the crush it and them heat it to the silvers melting point or do it some other way? Can any one go up there and hunt for silver there or is it something you have to pay to do like hunting to diamonds in, Arkansas?
You can come collect silver and other minerals, just not from certain sites. (It is a Parks Canada National Historic site, so some are protected) and you don't refine silver from here! Its worth a ton more as a specimen, due to historical significance :)
@@CobaltOntarioadventures Thank you for the answer to my question. I enjoyed the Video and was wondering it just anyone could do the same as Chigger did or not. Thanks again
I am curious as how your going to refine the silver, do you pulverize the rock then heat up the metals?? Awesome video! Standing on those ledges has to be scary and thrilling!
Hold your breath it's silver? Look out for falling rock while I pray that big rock of silver down off the wall! Get a hard hat chigg later brocephus! 😎💨
Funny you should ask.. but every once in a while, you get to a spot you need to sit down for a sec and let your head catch up to your eyes and stomach. It happens!
Why is this not an active commercial mine if there is that much visible silver? As an amateur gold prospector, I have no doubt that there is more silver there than meets the eye.
It was active for about 60 years total. There was SOOOO much silver here, this was stuff they never cared about. They took out like 40,000,000oz from this mine alone.. over 500,000,000oz total from the Cobalt silver camp!
You wont find oxodized silver on dark grey/black rock, not often anyways. The way to find it here is look for erytherite or annabergite. Silver was associated with nickel and cobalt, in Cobalt.
That's a lot of work for only $16 an ounce. Stick to looking for those elusive gold coins you always mention, at $1,500 an ounce. I'm curious about the Canadian government letting you leave the country with that silver considering it came from somebody's claim.
Its crown land with no claims. Abandoned 40ish years ago last time around. This place was mined 3 different times. They dont seem to care much about taking some silver across. We don't have high grading laws for silver like we do gold.
Only if you take it to a refinery, if you have enough good raw ore and smelt it yourself you make good money. A friend of mine takes a box truck of old circuit boards a couple times a year to a refinery n he makes almost 150k a year just from that.
But you dont get the epic videos. And if you knew, silver specimens from here are worth a pretty penny. Way more than a standard silver coin with no real importance. I have a few chunks that if you can carry them, they're worth some bucks refined.. I was offered $3500 for my best find and turned it down. Probably around 2k worth of silver if it was refined. But smaller pieces with special features are where the cash is at.
