Thanks... awesome to hear his story! It's been a dream of mine since childhood to find something like that... unfortunately I've lived in Louisiana most of my life and very few gemstones 15 minutes outside New Orleans 😂. So thanks for allowing me to live vicariously through you guys for a few moments....
Living on the Texas Gulf Coast, I know the feeling of having 50, 000 ft of sedimentary mud underfoot. Unless you can get to a salt dome, there is little chance of finding any interesting mineralization.
As a geologist and mineral collector I always enjoy your videos and great scientific explanations! Great job and keep up with the geologist death rays from the eyes when Natalie drops a specimen!🤣🤣
I am so so so happy that you made a video based on AZ minerals and crystals. I have become so fascinated in rockhounding and the education about it. I have hiked to the Four Peaks mine and found tons of Amethyst tailings there. Calcite, Payson Diamonds, tons of colorful agates, Chrysoprase, Chrysocolla, fossils and petrified wood all around north AZ myself on my hikes. Thank you
loved the petrified wood with groutite. apparently it's part of the diaspore group, but it has manganese instead of aluminum in its lattice. another mineral that grows on (coalified) wood is the newly-discovered fiemmeite, a copper oxalate hydroxide. i looove the combination of the blue-green blades of fiemmeite and the black of the charred wood. very aesthetically pleasing
This video was amazing. I live in Arizona by Cavecreek and never knew all the gems that come from here. Do you have a exhibit at the Tuscan gem show? Would love to meet and see all the beautiful gems in person. My love of this channel is the education..Thanks so much. Our planet is truly an amazing place that created all these Minerals and crystals
It is! We do usually have an exhibit at the gem show. But in the meantime, if you're in Tucson, be sure to check out the Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum. Elizabeth designed many of the displays.
I love Arizona a d am fortunate enough to have 4 brothers-in-law that worked the mines. Two work The deep rock mins of Superior. I am a inveterate rock lover and for almost 40 yrs I was gifted mineral and rock specimans. We went on many rock hunting jaunts. I'm not able to climb cliff or crawl into holes any longer and I miss it so, therefore I watch your present and remember TBE fine of yesterday and the lovely rocks I have in MT yard in my house in jewelry the joy is endless. Thank you so much, Mona M.
I live in Arizona! 🏜❤️ I have a large collection of chalcedony from taking walks/hikes through the desert lol. My favorite Arizona mineral is chrysocolla for sure 💙
Boy, one thing that I love about living in Arizona is the beautiful desert landscape it has. Geological masterpieces and wonderous mountain landscapes and forests. I love seeing the places, not a fan of the heat though. Also, you mispronounced Mohave and Ajo. Ajo is pronounced "ah-ho" and Mohave is pronounced "mo-hav- ay".
Very interesting and entertaining information on many Arizona mines and sites. There are also other turquoise mines not mentioned. Most all the turquoise mines and mining in AZ was just tailings from copper mining....not the main target for mining. Also there are the "Payson diamonds" near Payson, AZ, ie the double terminated quartz crystals similiar to "Herkemer diamonds"
I like this host, she’s not laughing non-stop, she doesn’t pretend to not know what the specimens are before talking about them, AND she says mineral specimens instead of calling them gems all the time like the other hosts! I’ve watched like half of all your videos today, good stuff don’t mean to be knit picky ! but this is the best host I’ve seen yet, talks more naturally, feels less like there’s a script.
Excellent video on all those AZ specimens. Super great pieces you have. We have some great stuff in this state. Thanks for sharing your gemstones collection
An interesting thing about the old mine in Bisbee. They eventually turned it into a giant open pit mine and yes, they took a LOT of gold and copper out of that mine. The funny part is that when you drive through Bisbee, on one side of the road there is the giant open pit mine and on the other side of the road is a rather large mountain. Anyway they did a lot of core sampling back in the 1980s and they found out that they dug on the wrong side of the road! Several companies have tried to go in and get the rights to mine it, but the city refuses to allow them to create another open pit mine to extract it, because the Copper Queen pit never got filled in the way the mining company promised it would. So now all of that gold and copper is just sitting there underground with no chance the city will ever issue permits for mining it. Not to mention the fact that whoever did it would have to buy out all of the people that have built houses on the side of the mountain.
Sweet! Love Arizona! It likens to Madagascar. I believe the Grand Canyon has uranium. There have been protests against mining it. Lots of info, love the rocks, and mapping the general areas. Loved it💗💎👍
@@somethinginthewalls388 Go north and and ask people what it is. I personally have had to explain and show so Many this unique gem. Even most of the locals who live here in AZ are unaware of it. Besides doesnt hurt to ask to do a video on a gem. Specially when you missed one while doing gem stones from a state. That would be doing a video of gems from New York and not talking about Herkimers.
What a interesting video about these gemstones in Arizona.🗺 All of them look very unique even some I never knew and the mines that they come from.😯💎 My favorite is the scepter amethyst, it's very pretty and cute.💜💎 Nice video😊👍 and how about talking about Canada🇨🇦💎next.
Awesome awesome sweet excitement you show for the minerals sweet fantastic knowledge fantastic samples awesome the history shown awesome fantastic video thank you
Like everyone, I *always* skip youtube ads ASAP; however, this video popped in as an ad and I watched it ALL! Promptly came here and subbed - how about that youtube, an ad actually worked. I am from Silver City NM and often went rockhounding in AZ with the family!
Wonderful video young lady. If you have liked this stuff like I do you will be thrilled buy it for the rest of your life, I am now 71 years old and I my still pickup a rock that my Dad called liva-right I would pick it up and he ask what is this he called them liva-right as leve it right there😉 You missed one look up mercury ore (cinnabar) in Arizona very interesting history.
Beautiful crystals! I personally love fluorescent pieces as much as crystals. I wish you did a quick check to see if any specimens showed any worth viewing, especially curious about the Aragonite and Cerussite, which sometimes glows yellow because of the lead.
1:30 I also love wulfenite from there; I have a nice very well formed fiery orange crystal cluster and man is the color something else! Only thing I own that comes close to that lava like orange is my oval cut spessartine but wulfenite still takes the crown for color 💎
I work in the morenci mine! So while we DO produce minerals outside of copper, they do not produce it for production. We actually "waste" chrysocolla and other minerals into dump sites or creating roads. For legal reasons I have a ton of chrysocolla specimens I found in my back yard! I also have a gem Silica specimen and chrysoprase I found in my back yard! As well as a piece of hematite with garnet
Please try to pick up silica gems from Indonesia or Chrysocolla in chalcedony from Bacan Island.. it's the best silica gem.. or pick up black opal or wood opal from Indonesia from Banten Island which has the best and most beautiful play of color formation
I remember i had a feild trip to the gold mines i was able to keep the gemstones from the mining activity and i dont know what gemstones they are(i live in a state near flordia and atlantic ocean)
I found a pocket of minerals and I have been searching for help identifying truly unique stones. You guys are excellent, thank you. Can anyone help me with my issue. Specific gravity indicates rare minerals and gems but I must know for sure. My local north museum, and college with meteorology are not interested; therefore are no help. I am concerned about natural asbestos also. I believe there is a lot interesting crystals of course, being in crystal territory in PA. I found what looks to be a very important and rare discovery of many incredible things. I so very much need help figuring out what exactly I have stumbled upon in my newly reanimated rock collecting hobby I started again two years ago. I found something wonderful and I am hopeful one of your team may possibly be willing to come and check the scene. Let me know. Thnx and take care
About 30 years ago I was visiting family in Arizona and I found a fingernail sized orange crystal out in the desert. I am trying to track down it's identity.
I lived n will being going back to a.z this spring. I found aquamarine crystals sticking out of a white quartz vain and I can't seem to find anyone who has found them there.
Unfortunately, we couldn't get to every cool stone Arizona has to offer. But we did make a video specifically about anthill garnet here:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MA6738VSD0c.html
It was unintentional, I promise. I think it was a compression/noise gate effect and she just said it softly enough that it cut it off and we missed fixing it.
The pronounciation of "Mazatzal," by the people who live there is not at all phonetic - there is no way to know how to pronounce it, unless someone tells you. It is pronounced, quite illogically, : "Mah - tah - zal." Also Ajo is pronounced in the Spanish fashion : Ah - ho (I know, I lived there.)
