Fool’s Gold Might Be Better Than the Real Thing
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- This month's Rocks Box is pyrite, also called fool's gold. But this fool's gold might not be so foolish, since we can use it to get all kinds of other minerals we really need, and it may be a key to getting real gold after all.
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In the pyrite community we refer to gold as "fools pyrite"
There's really a community for everything huh?
@@conlon4332 you're part of the youtube/google community the moment you made your account, so yeah
@@conlon4332as someone in the community community, yep.
@@conlon4332 yeah , even a community for community.
@@conlon4332 Yes, as a member of the everything community I can confirm
My great great grandfather grew up poor. One day he was walking through an alley or back road or something and practically tripped over a rock that he though for sure was gold. He thought he had saved the whole family from poverty. Had a real life willy wonka run home. Turns out it was a 10+ lb chunk of Pyrite. We still have it. It is gorgeous.
thats a good story.
Some fools good contain 5% or less gold but in trace mineral form
Lol willy wonka tun home
how does one find a random chunk of pyrite on the road?
@@naaat beats me
Fun fact. Usually in the same areas you find pyrite you find flint. Striking the 2 together gives you sparks as well. Otzi the iceman had a fire making kit on him with flint and pyrite. His corpse and belongings are dated between 3350 to 3105 BC. Making it one of the oldest primitive fire kits ever found.
He also had cannabis seeds!!
I was surprised they didn't mention this. Possibly being half of humanities' first fire making tool seems pretty important!
He had cannabis also, the Egyptian mummies had coca leaf in there tombs???? They had boats, they had to be in south america.
@@delresearch5416 source?
@@delresearch5416 Lmao cap
"Hand me that lighter. Ok, get back under the desk."
What the hell was that? Is there a running joke here?
@@allelopath 1:51
That was so bizarre! It took me out of the video's topic for a while.
To hi to find the root of all fires...
oh ho ho ho😂
Fun fact: in germany we call it "Katzengold" meaning Catgold. Don't ask me why. [edit: since now 6 persons asked "why?": its a bastardization of an old german word "Kazzūngold" meaning golden yellow cherry resin. Now stop it please... Also one source says it comes from the Word "Ketzer" meaning heretic, but thats a money blog so I don't trust that source, but google says "here, first result, thats what you searched for right?" I should start using the search function of wikipedia, way easier...]
You look for a gold seam and find a Fe line.
But, why?
@@tonysirmixalot3546 Its a mutation of language, originally it was "Kazzūngold" an old german word for "golendyellow cherry resin", you are welcome.
Maybe it catfishes people by looking like gold? 😂
Finnish languge loaned the Germanic word and we have kissankulta
I live not too far from a town called Coarsegold California, that was once a mining town in the 1800s. On my property I have 2 seasonal streams. Pyrite is everywhere in my streams. If I try to work in them while the streams are running it gets all over me like glitter. I've found plenty of quartz rocks on my property, I have a granite boulder as big as my house in the middle of the property, and up against it I've found a few hunks of raw iron. No gold though! haha
Bet theres gold somewhere around you
Probably have already done this, but have you ruled out mica flakes?
Cool story
Hey if there was pyrite in your streams at that level, your water would be quite acidic and brown and ugly. Are you sure that is not mica?
@@1TakoyakiStore Yes. Mica flakes used to be used in gold paint. Pyrite is heavier.
I've heard people say "nature does not do (creates) right angles". Well Spanish Pyrite crystals grow as a cube. You can't get anymore natural right angles than a cube.
Pure salt crystals are cubes also
Whoever said that is an idiot
Whoever said that is dead wrong. As Cody pointed out, salt is cubic, but there are so many more minerals beyond that as well. Galena, fluorite, hematite, and many more. Heck, gold itself does a reasonably good impression of a right angle in it's natural form.
@@thundersheild926bismuth is the coolest thing that makes right angles
Usually when I have heard people say that they are talking about biological nature rather than geological. There are definitely edge cases even then, though (pun intended)
Fools are a much bigger customer base.
That's my business model.
Very clever
I'm looking for investment opportunities. Have your people call mine.
"Pleathe buy my bible and thneakerth."
AmeriKKKa. Biggest Fool's Market there is.
And only fools comment such things.
@@Pim3211
It's
A
Joke.
Platonic Solids, very good friends that will never get romantic.
1:27
@@weaksause6878 >_> phallic specimen is especially phallic
Unless the bard wants to try anything with that dragon _eeeoughf_
Hence the phrase: doing a solid.
They are just romantic but will never get physical.
Hey! You got the pyrite firestarter wrong! Pyrite was the first material that you could strike with flint (or any of many other easily found rocks) to make fire, not a replacement for flint! Pyrite was likely extremely important to prehistoric people because it could be used to make a fire well before iron smelting was invented.
That's not the only thing they got wrong -.- .
3:10 first you burn sulfur with oxygen to make SO2, then you burn that with even more oxygen to make SO3 and THEN you mix it with water to make sulfuric acid. You don't go from SO2 straight to H2SO4
This channel always over simplifies. I think their target is US high school (a very low bar)
It's more of a turnstile than a bar
Great that I'm not the only one who noticed.
@@thekinginyellow1744 It's not an oversimplification to conflate sulfuric acid with sulfurous acid. It's just wrong.
I commented on that too. I think back in the day they did something different, because you can't just burn SO2 into SO3. It needs heat, pressure and a catalyst for that in modern plants. I don't know it from the top of my head, but I think they must have used a strong oxidizer back then.
[EDIT:] 3 Wikipedia articles later: They roasted iron(II)sulfate into iron(III)sulfate, which at sufficiently high temperatures decomposes to iron(III)oxide and SO3 . Later they used a better method, using HNO3 (even later just NO2) to oxidize SO2 (that's apparently what I remembered in my original post).
fun fact, Pyrite is also a semiconductor which means it could be use to make computer processors. It is inferior to silicone but if there is ever a shortage, we have other options.
Silicone? You're making wafers out of breast implants?
@@thekinginyellow1744 No. Though the main backbone atom of the molecule they use to make breast implants is the same element as the backbone atoms of a computer chip. That does not imply one is made from the other or that its molecular composition is in anyway compatible.
Silicone is the polymer, silicon is the metal. They were making a joke about the misspelling
@@jenbanim Right. Dyslexia took my ability to spell long ago. Thank god for spell checker. Doesn't work though if you actually spell a word correctly but just use the wrong word.
Until it molds.
Like in the gold rush days, the big winners sold the shovels. If you want a popular item to sell, use the bioleaching bacteria.
That is such a stupid saying. A FEW people made it rich selling shovels. Just like with any other market. There wasn't an unlimited amount of opportunity to just sell the tools. Just like now days, back then, the people with the best chances to make money were the people who already had money to buy supplies and surplus. No, making it rich selling the tools was just as luck based as finding the gold. Otherwise, everyone would be rich.
@@nerdjournal You're missing the point so hard I can't even begin to understand how. Seriously, it takes effort to have the point go over your head like that
I sold computers to google. Ergo, I rich.
but the unlucky ones would get fool's shovel instead
@@Krypto137 Nvidia is getting rich selling GPU to AI'ers...but those AI'ers were already rich AND nvidia was already rich(thats his point, and its correct). Maybe OpenAI got rich, but they are just Microsoft now.
Aint many poor people making AI in their home labs striking it rich. Aint many gold miners traveling across the country, staking a claim, and making it rich without some startup cash(which most people don't have).
We used to search for it on our walk home from school when I lived in Quebec. The dirt they spread on the roads in the winter months contained it. It made for very fun walks!
03:13
_Then you just add water and you've got sulfuric acid._
Not quite. You get _sulfurous_ acid, H₂SO₃. Sulfuric acid is H₂SO₄.
how did it make its way through proof-reading ? going from oversimplification to being plain incorrect... such a quality drop, shame ....
It's good to see that Thing is still getting parts after the Adams Family movies.
"Despite what video games may suggest, there's not just one ore for each material"
Laughs in Dwarf Fortress
I was thinking minecraft but now even that has multiple
that one statement made gregtech make a LOT more sense.
@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 lol gregtech always had multiple . Play modded, dont stay a vanilla normie.
@@rohansampat1995 I assure you there is little normal about me lol, however I really enjoy vanilla, its like lego, you dont want every piece possible to exist, the restrictions are what inspire creativity
@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 That is only true for like garbo visual / decorative mods. Also custom lego pieces have always existed and are pretty popular so that was a poor choice in analogy. Its like moving from legos to PCB design. A lot more tools, but a lot more outcome. I dont get to manage a whole factory, defend my base, grow food to eat, and create and fight more in vanilla. Vanilla is not creative, its just yawn. Modded when done properly transforms minecraft into a beast game that blends magic, tech, and ofcourse concepts from vanilla to enhance crafting, survival, building and everything. Its basically like adding more lego sets, and mixing them up and creating something brand new. Again, reallll bad analogy.
Suplhur dioxide reacts with water to form sulphurous acid (H2SO3) not sulphuric acid H2SO4
and nobody uses flint to struck sparks anymore, today we use ferrocerium. Sadly, thats the Norm on SciShow, they are going down hill fast.
for gods sake, DO YOUR RESEARCH SCISHOW.
Its infuriating.
you know what they say, "If ain't pyrite it is pywrong"
0/10 try again
@MaekarManastorm i get a 1/10, i have 7 likes
Well its 14 now so 2/10. Just fallowing the math
That was flippin hilarious!!!😂😂😂
@@MaekarManastormI could compute another pun since you asked for another. Let me just pywrite some python code.
Is that better or do you need more puns?
"Crystal Sisters" sounds like an educational version of the band Twisted Sister, specializing in STEM fields.
Love pyrite, its got super cool geometry, and a unique silvery gold color, also found a lot in Lapis Lazuli ore
And in quartz crystals.🤪
And they have a ship and get treasure.
@@MyPlaylistWillSaveAmerica I was gonna google "pyrite ship" then I got it lol
Interesting. I didn't realize that the gold streaks are pyrite. But I mean I guess it would kind of have to be. Considering it's not gold. Cool!
Pyrite needs no metal to make sparks. Archaicly, pyrite was struck by flint to start fires.
The 'flint' in cigarette lighters isn't flint, it's mischmetal, a mix of rare earth elements.
Or ferrocerium, which is the same thing as mischmetal just a bit softer
Unpopular opinion: I find so-called Fool's Gold prettier than the real thing.
I think so also😊
I’m gonna sound like the devil “I HATE YOU AO MUCH FOR TAKING OUR BANKING SYSTEM APART”
No wonder your opinion is unpopular. Ornament wise, I'll pick gold any day
I also love pyrite i have a ton of it in my rock collections and love the different geometric shapes it can take.
I agree
Jeff Williams often brings up the old adage of prospectors looking for a mine --- gold rides an iron horse -- in a lot of those desert mines the veins carried quartz, pyrite, gold and other things .
Jeff Williams is my buddy
Interestingly, the dodecahedron formed by pyrite isn't the regular platonic solid dodecahedron we're familiar with seeing for dice, it has slightly irregular pentagonal sides the create a shape called a pyritohedron. There are no regular dodecadedral crystals, but this is as close as they get
Time to straighten up and pyrite.
hehehe
We call it Crows gold in andhrapradesh india
Fascinating, in light of ancestral veneration, with respect to inter-traditional iron & fire associations. Are they used as gastroliths, like Ravens use stones for digestion? Thank you, for adding this to the discussion!
What do you call an old tall ship that holds fools gold? ... A pyrite ship!
Fun fact , in french we call it "l'or des fous" meaning "the gold of the madmen"
I feel like you're trying to make it sound cooler than it actually is since "fous" is clearly just a cognate of "fools".
@@Eckster no, fous is the plurial of fou, wich means crazy
@@zacthesecretweapon9931 What do you think fool means? Seems like dingue or cinglé would be closer to "crazy" as it's used in English.
Regardless, I just think translating it to "madmen" is silly when it's clearly essentially the exact same concept, and "fools" is a perfectly adequate translation. "Gold of fools"
@@Eckster cinglé is another word for fou yes, in that case fouls in your case in english yes
@@zacthesecretweapon9931 words are cognates if they have common ancestor, even if the meaning shifted and diverged over time. Since the Italian word for madness is „follia“ I suspect both „fou“ and „fool“ can be traced back to a Latin word meaning something along the lines of madness, madman, idiot…
1:27 that's a phallic looking rock
Okay Freud
.... you're not wrong tho
No, it gold finger!
@@mkogrady6078 No; Goldmember.
And I like it, no homo.
it's a fossilized naughty-loid
3:15 Sulfur dioxide and water make sulfurous acid. You need Sulfur trioxide to make sulfuric acid
And then there's the lithium in the stuff. Pyrite suddenly seems pretty awesome.
Silver and Gold won't save my rotting soul!
Just break me down
Can't bear no weight, Can't bear no Crown!
I need a hand I can hold up
I need the nickel and iron to outweigh desire
By pulling me down, pulling me down
Burn me to the ground!
Burn me to the ground!
(Burn me to the ground)
"Pyrite is alright with me."
- Rich Evans, the country westerm singer and Hollywood superstar.
As someone working in gold exploration as a geologist, pyrite is one of our biggest key signs of gold. If we see pyrite, quartz veins, low competency rocks, and deformation, that's a likely target for gold.
I am working at a future mine site, and the rock core from drilling we are pulling up near the gold bearing zones is about 60% pyrite.
The mechanics of why gold is found with pyrite are extremely complex and require a significant knowledge of geology to understand so I won't try to explain it here, but they are related.
I found a piece of gold pyrite about the size of a medium potato. It was pretty with gold crystals showing over most of the outside. I kept it on my desk as a sort of paperweight, until some fool stole my fool's gold.
3:14 Your chemistry isn't absolutely correct. H2SO4 is made by reacting SO3 with water, not SO2. While SO2 is produced by burning sulfur, the extremely caustic, dangerous SO3 is synthesized in a patented process using a V2O5 catalyst.
I found a crinoid fossil made of pyrite a few years ago. Very neat. In the rocks I have found containing that and many other crinoid fossils, I often see tiny (think less than half a mm) cubes of pyrite. Little sparkly inclusions.
The Rocks Box series has been excellent so far, both the content and the mineral samples. I'm so glad you folks had this idea, and are executing the whole thing so well! I look forward to this every month!!
This one buys fools gold. Go for a walk and find it
I wanted to do a comparison of all the “Gold Simulants” sometime.
I don’t love the “opulent” aesthetic, but outside of that Gold can all sorts of aesthetic uses. Seeing how they all compare vs proper Gold would be neat.
Iron and Cheap Sulfur being the core of some really cool art or architectural installations while leaving the Real Gold for important uses would be neat.
Wait a second, the little hand that gave you the lighter was uncredited! So, let me say great job, little hand, I've been where you were once, and I feel you.
I was enjoying a day on the beach with a friend when we found a deposit of clay. We started playing with the clay then and suddenly my friend pulled out a cube of pyrite. It was a couple of inches wide and quite a surprise!
Wise men say "only fools rush in", but I can't help falling in love with pyrites.
Hey @SciShow this "chat at the desk" aesthetic is a nice look. The old-timey glowing bulb takes it up a notch too. Uh, here is a gold star. 😉🌟
I made self running (unpowered) crystal AM band radios growing up and used 1/4 to 1/2 inch pyrite nuggets as a primitive semi conducting diode by carefully placing a thin wire on certain spots of the pyrite to get a louder radio sound on my earphone. These days, a tiny factory made 1n34a germanium diode is a more easy, convenient and effective means of crystal radio operation. but using old school pyrite or lead crystal based galena as a diode can be a fun experiment too.
I love this set. Kudos to the art director/set designer. Also, I want that digital clock.
The clock radio on the desk.. best one ever!
Thank you for feeding my appetite for learning. I have so many things I can look up and learn more!
Disappointed that there was no mention in the credits of the hand model providing the lighter.
1:55 thank you for giving Thing a job
Loving the new format!!!
Carlin trend gold in Nevada is microscopic gold inside of arsenic rich pyrite. It has made Nevada one of the most productive gold mining regions in the world
I live along the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, we have tooooons of pyrite and gold lol. You can see where they took core samples on the beach 10 mins away from me. I have lots of shiny rocks 😄
And bars of gold
In your basement vault?
I've been a prospector/miner for 12 years, and I can tell you that sulphide ore is among the best types of deposits to find when looking for gold, but generally there is a small part of the ore body which is naturally oxidized and not leeched out, generally close to the surface. As you dig deeper into these deposits, the rock can be made of solid pyrite, but after being dug up, dumped in a waste pile, and left to oxidize in the sun for a number of years, it becomes much easier to work with. Oxidation liberates the gold and allows you to easily crush and separate the values with standard gravity separation. Otherwise, roasting the ore is required, and as the video mentions, this requires a lot of energy. Old timers use to avoid sulphide unless it was incredibly rich, but they sought after sulphide deposits to "high grade" the oxidized materials that were easily available. It's important to note that the presence of sulphide is not an absolute indicator of the presence of gold, but noble and base metals can be precipitated with sulphur and halogen elements such as fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, and are catalyzed by changes in pressure or pH in a hydrothermal solution.
Sulfur dioxide also was used as a refrigerant for a long time (and still is in old fridges). I have a GE monitor top that runs SO2 refrigerant. It might just come back as a refrigerant for heat pumps because it's capable of condensing temperatures of 240F+. A perfect refrigerant for the second stage of a cascading heat pump.
No one else gonna point out he has a person laying in front of his desk just waiting to hand him incendiary devices at 1:50?
That's normal. Are you telling me you don't have one? Weirdo.
Arrr... I'm a pyrite. ☠️ 🏴☠️
Back in the days before video games when kids played outside and dug in the dirt we all had our eureka moments with pyrite. I can still vaguely remember mine from back in the '50s. I drove my mom crazy always having my pockets stuffed full of rocks, lol..
I love it, I need as much of it as possible.
My great grandfather used the presence of pyrite to map rock features while he was prospecting. It worked for him. He ended up operating a very successful mine from 1932-1945 before selling the claim. It was still being mined in 1989.
When I saw fools gold crystals for the first time as a little boy, it was instant love. They are more shiny than real gold. The crystal structure with all these reflecting surfaces gives them a whole different quality.
That was very interesting! Thanks for making this video.
Cool offering. I love rocks, can’t get enough of them and have a few nice pieces of pyrite, but not likely ethically sourced.
Certain forms of Pyrite can also be found on beaches in England, I started collecting it because it was pretty while fossil hunting, not sure what form of pyrite it is, but it sure is pretty!
Yup I remember my father talking to me about this when gold planning
I lived in Hershey Pa for a while when I was a kid. I found lots of milky quartz with veins of pyrite in them. I thought they were beautiful.
Pyrite is also used to make some jewelry, though it's usually referred to as marcasite. It's very popular in Thailand.
Along the southern British Columbia border, chalcopyrite is often gold bearing (and mined for that reason). Many copper pipes have accidentally been made with a high gold content.
Crystal Sisters sounds like a dope 80s band.
Who knew fool's gold could be such a gem? This video proves that sometimes what glitters really is gold, even if it's not the real deal!
My step-dad worked on the Channel Tunnel. He operated the Alimak. He has a lot of Iron Pyrite that was taken from the tunnel when it was being excavated. There wasn't any gold found in the tunnel. He has around 60kg of Fools Gold sat in a cupboard.
Thank you for your wonderful video. Sheila Mink in New Mexico
I have a piece of Auriferous pyrite that I collected from a mine that gave tours in Colorado.
I used to study iron pyrite! We were figuring out whether it could be used to make solar cells (it can!)
I live in an old goldmining district and there's a lot of pyrites in my stone too.
Found a bbig piece of pyrite in the Organ mountains of southern NM. It was right next to a big vein of silver. It's gone, now.
Reminds me of how the Spanish often disposed of this one worthless impure metal mistaken for silver, which was also sometimes used as an adulterant of gold.
That metal was Platinum.
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
1:50 - That's a weird place to keep your lighter.... 😂
I love pyrite. I'll often carry it in my pocket. Favorite crystal in the metaphysical shops. Lol.
I have a ton of Limonite after pyrite and quarz with schorl tourmaline in the heart of the Carolinas. I feel some of it has gold in it.
I know of an old cinnabar mine where pyrite was discarded in large amounts around the site. Hmm....
Fun fact: modern day strikers and lighters don’t use flint but rather ferrocerium and works adversely to flint and steel, in a flint and steel mechanism the flint knocks off pieces of steel while in a ferrocerium and steel mechanism pieces of ferrocerium are knocked off.
Thanks 👍
You could also use pyrite as a source of sulfur from which you can actually _make_ gunpowder. I'm not sure it ever was used that way, but it wouldn't surprise me if it sometimes was when somebody didn't have a better source of sulfur.
I learned about gold being fool's gold roughly 5-6 years ago as a geology student. The bacteria bit is new to me though.
My random cache of pyrite might come in handy one day
I like this SciShow Bob guy!
This episode rocks.
Usually pyrite and gold are both mixed into quartz veins. Traditionally you just crush it all and then pan out the gold as it's the heaviest element there.
i ve always been in the pyrete team
natural metal cubes are awesome
Pyrite ball milled to powder can be reacted with acids to give hydrongen sulfide which is best made on demand.
Not the first I've run into chalcopyrite. I was working on some project and we were pushing out a "gold edition" except that the project wasn't even finished yet, so we were joking about it being the Pyrite Edition, except even that was too ostentatious, so I went looking for "fools silver" (doesn't exist) and ran into "fools copper" aka chalcopyrite.
And lithium! Some news came out recently about using it for extracting/finding/something lithium!
“The California hills were crawling with MINORS” is what I thought he meant at first 😅
Literally just started gold panning as a hobby this week.
I dont think anyone cares
@@MaekarManastormbe nice
I’ve always wanted to try it, looks relaxing.
@@roncarney7445relaxing but also a work out and will make your body sore
I just started too! It's harder than I thought but I'm keen as! Also started fossicking
i have so many memories going into the science stores as a kid and always wanting to buy pyrite. I love how I can stare at it and lose focus and it sparkles in the coolest way…I love pyrite, it’s truly a beautiful crystal
Fun fact pure copper its actually not economically feasible to mine. Gums up the equipment. So it's actually better to mine it in impure ores then melt it out rather than ruin equipment on pure deposits.
I thought for sure he'd mention that it can essentially mold. I was super curious so I scampered off to check the pyrite beads that I bought roughly 20 years ago. Sure enough. Pyrite mold.