Collecting Rocks -Newly Blasted Hwy 11 Road Cut
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- A month ago, I had to sit for 2 hours on Highway 11 waiting for the crew to blast and cleanup this rock face, so I knew where they worked. Here's what's new.
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That's some nice crystallization! Very kind of the highway department to blast that road cut for you. 😄
Yes it was!
Sorry you were rained out. It's nice to see you out and collecting.
It would be really neat to hang out with you and learn more about what to look for when your around rock formations 😅
Love road cuts. Have found some awesome rocks in many I’ve searched. I try to always stop and search. You found a few interesting ones. Love it.
Thanks 👍
Never know what you will find in a road cut. I stop at a few in my area when construction has affected the road cut.
You call that rain "kinda heavy" ??? Another interesting video. I too love it when you tell us what all the rocks and minerals ARE. Keep up the good work !
Whatever those rocks are, they are beautiful.
Love the road cuts!!
Seeing you put on roads that I travel occasionally is my favourite part of your channel. They blasted the dolomite vein on 118 and county road 7 last week. It’s neat to see the bullion year old coal in that stone
Some nice stuff sometimes on the 118. Check it closely. ;-)
I don't think there's such a thing as billion year old coal. Coal formation requires huge swathes of swamp-like conditions vegetated by terrestrial plants rich in lignen, which don't appear until ~400million years ago. Over %90 of coal was deposited during the Carboniferous, which spanned ~360 - ~300 million years ago. You can get minerals like graphite or anthraxolite, but those aren't considered coal.
@@thirstfast1025 I don’t have much knowledge of rocks and minerals personally. That said it was a geologist I know who pointed it out to me.
@@marka9292 The geologist may have just been speaking hyperbolically, with no intent to misinform. Many times I've heard "it's like a billion years old" thrown around. Though, I live on the Superior craton, with many units that do indeed date into the billions of years, so I'm sure I hear it more commonly. But yeah, most coal is from about 350-495Ma, with none I've heard of prior to 500Ma. I'd gladly read a paper on older deposits if you can point me to it.
Fun adventure. Thanks for sharing it 😊✌️
😊 👋 have a great day.
Sweet adventure for sure nice finds have to say beautiful pieces you cut out kinda looks like a view from google earth looking down I’m sure the out come will be great thank you
Your perpetual curiosity is so FUN. Great inspiration. Thanks for including the session with the saw.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hiya Greg, awesome video and beautiful stones you cut, and I agree with you on it would make some beautiful cabs. I have cut some stones with pyrite and made cabs, it's very beautiful when it shines like gold. I hope you have safe trails and have a awesome blessed day.
Cya! 😺🐟 out!
Right on!
Great video MeMiner! I love the Marten River area, very vast and beautiful. Nice finds! Looks like a nice cut!
It sure is a beautiful area
Thank you meMiner!
My pleasure!
A less funny, but equally Canadian, geology-focused Norm Macdonald. Love your vids man, stay healthy!
Norm! LOL
It is quite a different patent on that stone. I’ve never seen it before but keep it up. Keep up the adventures love everything you put out Gregg thank you very much.❤❤
Thanks 👍
Nice cut. You just never know what you will find. Happy hunting. 😊 😷⚒
I find a lot of inteesting rocks , crystal, metallics around railroad tracks
Great video, sliced rocks look great, truly as always you are a pioneer. Was there today on Hwy 11, July 12'24, so many roadcuts, water water everywhere, not a drop to drink though, highway very busy, I chanced a spot going northwards, next to an island of rock, it looks as though the islands have the light-colored rock that may contain metals, did not dare to cross the highway to the island! Grabbed large pieces of feldspar on the right side of the road, nothing too special. BTW, advice to people, expect a traffic jam just past Severn for a distance of 6 kilometers, took one hour to cross it, never saw such a traffic jam before.
Quite the adventure. No rock is worth crossing a busy highway.
@@meMiner life-saving advice to always keep in mind!
That really is a nice rock there with the pyrite, like a faux meteorite pattern
I too have stopped for road cuts throu NH’s white mountains and throu Vermont when traveling to New York.
I don't often stop for coffee, but an interesting road cut ...
I love wet rocks in the rain or under the saw. Thanks for explaining what the minerals are .
Interesting hunt!
The rock structure was amazing .
Big slabby slabs of Mica in rose quarts a little further South on the nuther side of the road...I wanna be there when they blast that !
Meminer FTW 👍
Wowsers, I miss growing up in the wilderness north of Hornepay Ont.
I used to moose hunt south of Hornpayne
My dad moved onto a trapline at the FOCH or mileage 27 train tracks west of Hornepayne two years after the second world war. 44 years he stayed there. Then the gov deforested, clearcut his whole trapline@@meMiner
@@AllProspecting I was shocked at the cutting up there. I was interested in buying a remote hunt camp and the owner flew me in his floatplane to check it out. The only trees I saw were near roads or lakes. Everything else had been taken.
Yes, they could only cut up to a quarter mile of the water's edge. Destroyed trapping hunting and lives for the sake of sending wood to China. Anyways, The FOCH (we called it big stoney river) goes from the train tracks to Lake Nagogami, and we lived 6 miles down that river. Our trapline ran 15 square miles, all sliced away from the 80's to the 90's.@@meMiner
Anytime I’m on a job site where we’re digging up undisturbed material, I always go thru it with a fine comb😁
Had a great weekend fishing there once
I was supposed to go ice fishing near there last winter. I heard some good walleye are there
Very nice🤜 sir greetings from India🇮🇳
Very cool that these videos get watched in places like India. ;-)
106 here enjoy that rain !!!!!
What are you doing here viewing videos? You should be out there watching Two Toes collecting most of the gold. I enjoy watching both your guy's channels. Stay cool.
The temp dropped 10 degrees in about 5 minutes. Made my dogs happy
@@meMiner I bet !!!!! 😎
@@m8s4lif to Hot !!!! Plus it’s prep time for our trip to the coast !!!!
bless the rain***❤❤❤😊😊😊
I like 👍
Hey there, you miner, you. : ) Loved the cut rock with the epidote in it. The slabs reminded me of miniature paintings of scenes one can't quite identify. Too bad this adventure got cut short. Part 2?
It is 4-5 hour drive for me to there. Not sure when I will be back, but would like to spend a bit more time there and also figure out where they took the blasted rock
You Have To Look It's Your Job. 😎👍✌.
You got that right!
Could the very fine black crystal sprays be actinolite?
Yes
Your find makes me question.. how effective would reflective night hunting be? Not on that stretch of road of course, but mind.. I wonder for some hunt sites wouldnt it be fast in identifying certain targets? There is a "cooler" idea eh?
Thank you for sharing your journey!! Love it.
Sometimes it works great. Especially, for fluorescents.
I watched a guest on a live stream last week by a guy who was a beach detectorist, but at night he uses a Black Light and Polaroid sunglasses to find garnets. The said they show as a different grey colour. Might be worth a try just for fun.
@@AndrexT I have never tired polaroids with a UV lamp. Interesting
Is the black shiny mineral magnetic? Can you roast sulfur dioxide out of it? Galena would roast to molten lead.You could apply the same tests to the yellow shiny mineral. If it is magnetic it is pyrrhotite.
Good advice. I should have tested with a magnet.
3:50 TO 3:56 WAS THAT G?
they had to redo the road when the blast shut the road down...pretty sure that blast rock is being used just north of Dymond shoring up a creek along the hwy
I wondered where they took it. Be worth a look over.
5:29 Is that olivine on the slab at the very bottom of the frame?
Could be. ;-)
That's where are silver comes from here in Utah.
who names these lakes ? there are at least 5 or 6 Hornet lakes in Ontario
I had the same issue trying to find "Pine Lake".
How heavy is the rock you broke? Smell? Scratch (hardness). Etc..
No smell. Hardness was less than 5 (knife) and I think it tested less than 3 (calcite)
I think we’d get chased by the local police if we did this along a highway here in NJ. They don’t like us to have fun curbside. We have so many road cuts. What is the shiny line index your left thumb at 04:16?
Not sure, but I saw the shine just now that you are referring. It was probably the edge of a crystal flashing in the sun. I will look tomorrow in daylight and update this comment if it turns out to be something interesting
@@meMiner can’t tell you how much I enjoy your videos. I feel so peaceful and motivated to rock hound afterwards. Thank you.
any gold?
Not there that I could confidently ID
Hey sir m following you time m a new protector in ontario looking for gold can u give in hints
Do some research. Gold is usually found close to where it was found before
@@meMiner thnq v much