Prospector finds a NEW GEMSTONE deposit behind locked gate!

Very nice

That's a huge pile of shist

i have gernat in top quality and i have one gernat mountain near china and pakistain boder

Are these gemstone quality or just industrial quality?

My pawpaw is a logger of many years. He said people have no idea how hard it is to get thise trucks to stop when fully loaded. NEVER try to pull out in front one. Be patient, dont die a final destination death yall. Be smart.

Just pick the lock if you get stuck, takes a few seconds

Earth is so beautiful. Wish I was there Dan. Thx.

You don't have to have a claim to get the garnets from the rock like that?

I love in Brighton UK, one of the things we're known for are lots of antiques shops. There is one place that sells beautiful antique jewellery. A few years back they were selling an entire suite of necklace, ring, bracelets and ear rings, of beautiful little tangerine garners set in gold. It was Edwardian, and on sale for £3,000.

Dan, I worked for many years as a locksmith, within an hour, I can show you how you'll Never be locked out or in as the case may be!

Amazing journey!

Why are garnets and Rubies usually so small?

Is there a way to dissolve the shift and leave the garnets undamaged???

some of these schist pieces would be amazing as thinsections under microscope. great sheath micas and banding. We have entire mountains of this garnet schist in the alps here in europe, they are definitely not rare.

aren't those black crystals actinolite? or at least an amphibole

Dan,
Thanks for teaching me about minng and claims. In this video you ended with a pile of rocks. Is tha a claim marker or are you just having some fun?

Really like to see these beautiful sites and stones.


I am afraid to say, but these black stones are not Kyanite or Staurolite and NOT Tourmalin. It is Hornblene, maybe Glaucophane a variety of it. It makes the most sense since you see a lot of it and Hornblende only need basic Elements to grow, NOT Bor for example like Tourmalin. It is most definitely NOT Tourmalin. Can it be, you guys just say Tourmlain, if it is an elongated dark or colourful crystal?


Biotite is flat, not elongated, like Muskovite, which you can see ike a blanket all over the other minerals.


Spoiler: Yes i had metamorphic rocks in university a while a ago and actually went on expedition to the typelocation of Hornblende in the Harz mountain.

I love watching your awesome videos, Bryan Majori,got me into looking for crystals, and I also find fossils,I found thousands of world class horn corals and crinoid fossils,I sent you a video of them n message

They look like hornblende me but I can't tell without a closer look but they commonly occur at this temperature of formation that's associated with garnets and schist.

I'm going with black tourmaline.
Or black hornblende?

I'm blown away. I've seen you gather garnets in gravel and sand by the hundreds. But this matrix that the garments are in reminds me of apache-tears and how you have to dig 'em out of, ...is it what they make vermiculite out of?
This is so cool, I love garnets.
Thx, Dan.

It's considered to be black garnet of the word u said

Ur right

The 1 that starts with k or c I can't say it because mouth hurts

Because of you I started hunting for gold gemstones in my small state of mass there's several gem formations there's an area of Massachusetts to have garnets that are like 2in round on private I think that's called the Littleton schist there's like five or six schists so am Iook geology maps of Massachusetts what would the garnet Bering material be considered as I know it's Mica schist what is it exactly I understand happens to turn into a fluid under pressure and heat but then what is the host rock called and do those areas I host garnets is it true or false that that area would be highly likely to carry gold and if there's Garnets would they continue all the through the area ? I'm having trouble talking because of an infection or Canadian smoke in the air

Schist-eating grin.

If you see him out looking for Garnets don't give him no Shist

Their is no e in holy 😂😂😭 shout-out Dan Hurd tho

Black crystal is tourmaline imo

Have you ever dug down into "garnet beach" to see if larger garnets have sifted down out of sight? Great show sir!

Holy Schist! Those are some great specimens 😜🙃

Very nice. Cheers from the East in The Maritimes

Black tourmaline grain is straight, whereas black kyanite is fan shaped. Hope that helps.

Greetings from the BIG SKY. That's a nice deposit.

After looking a little more into the black crystals. I am leaning way more towards tourmaline so far.🤔🤔

That's so wild all the way over here in Connecticut and have that same mica schist. Garnets and the blackis crystals which I thought was tourmaline but I am still investigating.👍👍😁 The only difference is the color of the garnets, here they are dark burgundy.

Bolt cutters🤭🤭

Well, HELLO!

There is a grotto in rural Iowa built by a Catholic priest who travelled, containing rocks and gemstones from around the world.

It included garnets almost the size of your fist.

The black mineral is Hornblende!

That rock was sure hard to work free! I guess the moral of the story is that if at first you don’t succeed, pry, pry again,

Dan,
I'm a bit jealous, that you have that truck and little 4x4 tracker, so ya not doing to hard as an old teacher......
Hoping to get on ya claim,,,things must be good for you

you have tourmeline

My guess on the black mineral would be a type of scheelite, common to form in schists

I used to patronize this small lapidary shop in my hometown, & I got a bunch of these schist specimens with the garnets in it. They'd been gently tumbled to smooth any edges & made great pendant wire-wrap jewellery. The stuff looks BRILLIANT in silver wire, which I also bought there. Sadly, the owner passed away in the late 90's & his family closed his shop.

Great show Dan. Wow that river looks amazing today.

The black mineral in the Shist looks like hornblende to me.

That was something different good 👍 show 👏 👌

I'm not expert but that black in the white is black tourmaline with quartz. I have one I got from a rock show and it looks exactly like that.