Thank you for sharing your trip with us. Loved the pieces you got as well as the muuuuseum ones. Thanks again for the one of us that can't go. Best wishes from Houston Texas.
We have a mine near Grand Forks BC Canada that has a fluorite mine called the Rock Candy mine. Fluorite was used as a flux in smelters a long time ago. About half of it is green and half purple. One of the most awesome collections of minerals I have ever seem is in the El Eden mine in Zacatecas Mexico, I shot a video of it while I was there.
I actually live in marion and have a membership to the museum and can tell you they only keep a third of the entire collection in the building to rotate and freshen up
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Nice deep purple Fluorite Crystals. The Montrose Dumps in Niagara Falls, Ontario had some awesome purple and clear Fluorite crystals but they are getting harder to find every year.
I love fluorspar and it's my birthstone. We had a very nice museum in Rosiclare, IL but it caught on fire twice and was robbed before someone took the remaining spar and mining memorabilia to a secret location. Our hearts are broken and just don't know what to do! I have a small collection and my favorite piece weighs 15 lbs.
This video is really kool! I wish you could still get into those mines because i would LOVE to mine some of it! Is there anywhere around still that you know of that you can pay or join a club to get in?
They have a new piece of clothing called 'waders' keeps your jeans from getting 'full of mudd' * rinses off with water. Sell 'em cheap at Walmart. But, available many stores...just a thought.
Steven perdue maybe you are 'naked' undeneath them.... I wear clothes underneath, extra protection from bears, snakes, & boars while digging for crystals...
Oh my.. where I live it's mostly gwarts and grey granite.. calcite, fluorite and other boring minerals that I can't remember the english name at that he moment.. it's saturday evening 20:00 and I've taken a few sauna beers.. :) But I'm a huge rock and mineral fan.. since 1982, when I learned to walk.. :D
@@code1555 Thanks I find a Ton of Quartz and geodes full of quartz at the farm at Glasgow & up at the house in Bullitt Co. I'm guessing it's like finding Ginseng it's hard till U find the first one then they just pop out at ya.
Why are they going through so much trouble. There are literally mountains of flourite crystal in New Mexico. At the surface. Green, purple, clear yellow. And on the east side of turtle top mtn, in the journey of death desert, you can find all the fire opal you want, as well as satin spar, and much more. Have a good one.
You have spots along the Potomac and James river as well as the Atlantic coast which have lots of marine fossils. Shark teeth, porpoise teeth, whale vertebrae, etc. They tend to fossilize black/dark gray/chocolate brown. They can be found in mostly miocene formations, typically at the foot of cliffs. However, also in the water. Beware, though, and look up local laws on fossil collecting. As I understand it, you can only collect in Virginia BELOW the low tide line. (Meaning out in the water.) A sifter helps, but I'd wear waders, since there are snakehead fish and lots of old fishing tackle and broken glass in the water.
Like anything, they are worth what someone will pay for them. However, most rock hounds are not doing this to get rich. We do it because we love it. We keep beautiful specimens of completely "worthless" rocks!
Any damn mineral now is expensive thanks to the healing crystal revolution. I swear I have a great time with some of these people. With all of the huge beautiful minerals specimens I have you would think I wouldn't have a problem in the world.
Given that the fluorite found in this video presentation as a most acceptable example of this crystal, a place in Tasmania has provided fluorite crystal as the host rock of a natural created thin layer of crystal Gold thereupon. I have only had the chance to observe a small number of these scarce specimens even so I have seen these specimens "in the flesh" then that are said to be more valuable than natural Gold.
When I worked with the U of Illinois Film Production Unit, we spent time in a big deep underground fluorite mine in Southern Illinois.Didn't see much fluorite, though.Filed the process of digging and processing.
Hardness test. Fluorite is a four and amethyst is a seven. If iron scratches it, it’s fluorite. Another way you can tell is to put it under an UV light, fluorite will glow.
Bryan, you need to visit the museum in Golden, Missouri. Best and biggest collection of gems and crystals ever! Free admission, and will take you hours to go through. Google it! :-)
I made a video about a interesting rock I found, I'm not advertising but I need someone to tell me what kind of rock is could be or if it is an Indian artifact. Thanks!
I’m not sure this place is still opening up, I need to look into it and if so I need to go back soon, it’s so much fun it’s been years since I went, thanks for watching
I have. EarthLink is. amethist I have never cut into it but I can shine a light and it's purple white,and 180 pounds I was seeing if you had any interest I found it in Kentucky while I was fishing. please contact me
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