TOO MANY GARNETS to carry !
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- čas přidán 7. 04. 2023
- Fall 2022 Rockhounding adventure at River Valley Garnet Mine, where you can collect more huge garnet then you can carry. Please note that permission to the site is now required.
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Literally every cell in my body is yearning to be anywhere I could just be pulling plum-sized garnets out of the schist. ❤
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: me too!
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I love your videos. I thought I would thank some of my favourite CZcamsrs. I'm an armchair rockhound. I can't actually go myself because a stroke has left me partially disabled and affected my balance, but I do enjoy it vicariously through you and others. From a fellow Canadian.
Thanks for the nice comment
Amazing garnets! I wish I had something like that near me! Shelby is a sweetheart by way! Love them puppies!
Your helper threatens to steal the show. What a collection of pretty stones. Good to see you
Fantastic adventure Shelby sure happy oh ya such a kid yet she is awesome wow what a score and huge I’m hanging by the edge to see what you are going to do with them. Can’t wait till this snow is gone and I can get out big hugs for daisy and Shelby
Northern Ontario and no flying insects yet, forget about the garnets...what a dream! 😂 Thx for another cool show!
There will be lots of bugs starting about mid-May. ;-)
I love those garnets. I have a bunch at home just like them that I got from the Little One Garnet Mine down in North Carolina including a 20 kilo slab of schist with huge garnets. running through it.
The big one must have been a monster to carry
@@meMiner little red wagon won the day.
Wow 😮 I can only dream of a spot like that! What a haul
Love your channel!!!
Glad to see you recovered from the tree incident!!
I was absolutely blown away by your finds!!! Can’t wait to see you clean/slab them etc
I love it!
We have been to Field and to River Valley Bluegrass Festival many times, but never knew there was a garnet mine. How cool!
One day maybe I’ll get there!
You sure have some beauties gathered up there. Pretty! 😃
I would bet that they’ll polish up beautifully! 😍. Some of them are like small boulders! Wow! 😳
Shelby sure loves being with her Daddy. Good doggy. All tuckered out. LOL!
Thank you for sharing sir! Much appreciated. That looked like such a fun day out plying through mica and am jealous of your dedicated "helper"! haha And mica schist with garnet sounds like an excellent specimen to add to the collection. The ones at 7:58 and 12:17 would definitely be great to add to any collection, especially once the facets are polished. Anyway, thanks again for the post. Hope you have a nice weekend!
Those are the biggest ones I’ve ever seen!
Awesome video my favorite rock hound Shelby has a lot of fun 👍👍🙏
I love garnets, I would no doubt hurt myself digging up there as I wouldn't be able to stop. Beautiful finds
Have to stop when it is getting dark outside, especially if you don't have lights. ;-)
I so wish I could be up there rockhounding too, but like some others, health issues keep me from actually doing it. I grew up in Northern New York, and loved finding small garnets when visiting family in the Adirondacks. Good memories!
I was up in River Valley last year, did not know there was garnets nearby. Awesome.
There is a massive area with garnet. Super fun
Pizza and Garnets sounds like a great time !!!!!
Always
Wow! Garnet heaven right there. I love your helper. She's so cute. Thanks for sharing MeMiner! ❤💎
Hope you are doing well. 😊
Some excellent finds!
Nice. Love Garnets
Living in southern AB, with heritage in Ont. I long to have such rich adventures as you share!!!
Those garnets are absolutely amazing! I’ve always wondered if Canada had rockhound era! I enjoyed your video immensely! Well done sir!
im so jealous ! I wana dig garnets all day ! super fun !!
Shelby loves her Papa...
And pizza😂
Amazing finds Greig. Never knew there was garnets in our area. Great video & nice to see you guys as well as Shelby. Take care & best regards always !
Glad you enjoyed it
Hasn't changed a lot over the years. We stopped there to grab a few samples in 1968, while still students at HSM.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing! Stay connected!
Absolutely beautiful finds. Thanks for sharing the hunt. Good luck, happy hunting and take care. ✌️
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Holy Smokes! Never seen anything like this in real life.
Can’t wait to see the garnets cleaned up!
I’m enviously watching Garnets of focal point sizes. I love Faceting garnets.💎⛏
Hey man I just went on my first rock hounding trip after stumbling on your videos. Thanks so much for the inspiration. We went up to Bancroft and I found tons of appetite and some other stuff I don’t know how to name. Very excited with my bucket of rocks. Thanks again
That is awesome!
love your adventures/videos! thank you
Oh boy I love Garnet's being they are my birth stone,yep I'm a stubborn Capricorn just ask my wife of 26 years could tell you a story or 2 lol,fun video Greig as always be safe out there
Great to see Jeff toooo.. Awesome finds!
Boulders! 👍
Wow all of a sudden you started pulling out garnets the size of cannon balls. So awesome. Thanks for sharing..
Very cool, thanks for sharing! No surprises on the rule changes wow pizza is the field! All the best!
I am glad they didn't just close it down because people were abusing the privilege. Garbage, fires, etc. It is a very special place to spend a few hours.
I wonder if Shelby brought Jeff 2 sticks, if he would of made the trade for a slice of pizza?
@@jameswelch1054 lol
Wow! Nice haul sir, those must be real heavy ❤
My favorite type of Greg video. Digging in the dirt for treasure
Me Miner..One of my very Favorite rockhounders!! I remember the tree and God let You live..Your walk is not Yet Over! Your videos bring me Joy and since I am not able to get out there and find giant beautiful Garnets this is so nice of You to let everyone experience finding these natural beatiful treasures. Garnet is my birth stone! These are so big! I love the dog retrieving a stick to exchange for pizza! Precious too! Much Love and stay safe out there guys. YOU ROCK!!! Sharing on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr. Thanks
Holly. Such a nice and thoughtful comment. Thanks
Excellent instruction and just plain fun digging in the dirt finding jewels. Thanks
Wonderful day in the woods and them thar hills 🙌😃
Have a happy peaceful Easter to you and your family 🙏🏻
This might be my all-time fav of your videos. ❤ Now I gotta see how long it would take to get there from Ohio!
It's not an awful drive from there. Lots of other spots to check out if you come this way.
Doggie is a big help! He's there for moral support🥰🥰🥰
Ok meMiner, now we want meMaker, new channel? Lets see what you do with those babies. Rhodolites? I have a few of those and some Tsavorites. Love the dog,
Impresionante el tamaño de esos granates. Excelente trabajo amigo.
Saludos desde Argentina.
Wow! Looks amazing.
wow those are some cool rocks I hope you polish them up
For sure I will play with them individually. They will take more time to clean/polish than dig. ;-)
Hope you show us cleaning them up, etc.
Beautiful day in the field, and always enjoy seeing Shelby!
@@davestelling Shelby had a great time there. I will clean a few soon
Beautiful finds thanks for sharing 😊
How did those garnet crystals form and then become part of the giant rocks?
Massive pressure and heat deep within the earth. Metamorphic rock just above the melt zone.
Nice Stuff meMiner.
You go to the coolest spots!!
Wow some real beautiful stuff
Wow. Awesome finds. I so want to find garnets in the rough!😊
Just found your channel! I like the calm style of your video and I was so fascinated by your finds! New subscriber! 😊
welcome!
Wow that's awesome good job 👍👍👍 good to know thanks 👍👍👍
They look like candies!!
Waw you live in a beautyful. Place nice green . Nice to go and find youre one. Garnith
love the video
I love them all beautiful.
Holy cow good spot! My biggest garnet is smaller than the smallest one I seen on your vid, lol All the best!
Very cool!
Amazing. Love to get some of those.
Incredible size on those Garnets🤩
Mooie karbonkels MeMiner!
Garnets, nice! Thanks for posting & let that puppy have FUN. P.S.: That'd be Shelby. P.P.S.: Are you secretly teaching Shelby how to locate garnets? ha ha
Shelby thinks her job is to pick up everything. I have to tell her to stop grabbing rocks. I don't want her to break her teeth. ;-)
@@meMiner , Yeah, that'd be painful. I think I read dogs may be colorblind. I read their sense of smell is 10 thousand times more acute than a human. They taught dogs to "smell" cancer in Japan. Thanks for ❤️ me. v
Those garnet are so big and beautiful tose are something else
OMG, I need you to read books on tape for me to go to sleep to at night. You have the most melodic, calming voice. I love your dog, too. Hell, I just loved the whole video! 😂❤
Do you find any geodes up there?
Put you to sleep. LOL. There are no geode spots near me
awesome...!!!
What I wouldn’t give for an experience like this!!
Garnet is my birthstone.
Nice!
In the center of some of those Garnets, apparently due to the way the crystal structure breaks apart, there is likely some flawless material under all that cracked material
I really enjoy your videos, I'd enjoy a video of what you do with the garnets you collected.
I gave them away
you should be able to dry tumble garnets with steel pellets to remove the mica, steel in harder than mica but softer than garnet, or is steel to soft, what kind of mica is it?
I would of totally traded a pizza for a stick! Great fun I'd love to hunt for those kind of garnets I want the 17:56 one haha. This year I come for silver too 😁
Pizza, sticks, garnet and silver are patiently waiting for your arrival. ;-)
Crazy bro like wow
nice garnets. Alaska garnets are dull and red not glassy i hope to find some like that some day. cool stuff
Thanks for sharing! You always find amazing things and your love of geology shows. Do you have a shop?
I do this for fun. No store
As stunning as they are in their natural form I would love to see once faceted or cabbed. Is that something you could do for a future video?
That would make a nice video, however I am still waiting to see @meMiner make his video, for cabbing his labradorite, hahaha.
Good stuff . Would they shine up in the tumbler ?
I tried it once and felt afterwards that it was a shame to round these stones. The good ones or portions that are gemmy shine up in a tumbler and the bad ones turn to clay.
Realmente preciosas Gemas
What kind of garnets are they? Grossulars? Are any of the garnets facet grade?
Almandine. A few are gem quality
Shelby needs a towel blankie to rest on!
Love it up there. Hope to go again this summer. How does one go about getting permission?
I understand the North Bay club will be handling it.
What a great haul of garnets! Really fantastic! What do you do with them?
For now, they are on a shelf. ;-)
@@meMiner I love garnets too! I would want them on display too!😀
insane spot
Do you have any plans to video how to clean them? I've always wondered how to check their gem quality.
Not for Ontario. My claims are in BC
Waw soooo nice
Send an invite next time! I'm down the valley and across the pond!
Deal!
Did your dog find all of those garnets?
WOW Id love to be there finding these beauties
Very Very Nice. Would there be any facet grade material at this mine?
Some. The majority no
Shelby is a hoot…trading sticks for pizza. Love it.
If the big garnets were slabbed, would they crumble? Thanks for the hunt.
I cut some before and they they stayed solid
@@meMiner cool!
Isnt there a green variation of garnet?
So you just soak them in water to loosen them up? What do you do with it after that? Do you tumble it?
I tried tumbling garnets from this site before and it didn't work out all that well. Got a few gemmy pieces out of the tumbler, but mostly it turned them into clay/mud
Wonder how they look if you cut one in half?
Is it possible to polish the various surface’s of garnet to improve their appearance?
Yes, but then they are not natural
freeze the schist for easier extraction is what ive been told
Cantik cantik 😍