Anything interesting found lately? Still being mined?

The yellow gem willemite... omfg. Awesome talk.

Great talk on a wild locality!

In Chapter 20, Steve Phillips says Van King introduced him to viewing minerals under a microscope. I am interested in doing that. Which type is the best to buy?

I love this piece 😍🥰 thank you 🙂

Lived in franklin for 15 years, just started to explore their history, thank you for sharing some history with us!

Dear Dr. King, or anyone else out there: How can I purchase this set of books? The museum is closed for the season. Thanks so much.

I dont know why I looked this video up I just wanted to see what life was like 10 years ago i miss the early 2010s

If GLaDOS was real all i would focus on is hugging heatly and her😭

Price

can i order a few kilograms of crysocolla gems silica from arizona to you can you help me and how much does the stone cost for 1 kilogram?

🇵🇷🤲🇨🇺

The beer might be the shittiest uve ever tasted but it gives you no right to joke about the genocide that happened in Kosovo and be goofy about it? I said again fuck the beer, but respect other countries that totally didn't do shit to you. Joking about the beer is totally fine it sucks and Kosovo is one of the most corrupted countries so it literally might not be clean because no one checks up on them. Coming directly from an kosovar, rock and metal fan too.

this looks more like Ray Mine material to me

Why is it closed? Who owns it? I want rocks. They are sitting there on the ground. I can’t even pay to pick them up. FRUSTRATING!!!

I picked up the books at the Franklin Museum today. The photography is Unbelievable! I can't imagine the time and effort it took to produce these 3 books. Definitely a value for the money spent. A must have for the Franklin and Sterling collector. Great job by all involved!

As someone who suffered through the frustrations and horrors of film photography for many years before the advent of digital stuff (guys, you don't know how lucky you are!😁), I find it especially pleasing that these 'obsolete' lenses have found a new role in modern macro photography. One other thing worth mentioning is that these lenses work brilliantly when reversed with either bellows or extension tubes. With a little ingenuity and patience (and some £3 adaptor rings from eBay) it's possible to create an extremely powerful 1.5x, 2x or even 3x macro setup for under £50. Amazing! Of course, a dedicated macro lens will give you far greater flexibility - especially in terms of working distance if you're stalking little creepy dudes out in the field - but I can't afford such nice things. Although I'm a complete novice at macro photography, I've got some very pleasing results with reversed enlarger lenses. I'm currently experimenting with image stacking. This is a great hobby! 🐜

Thanks for your work, Mr King.

very nice book, well done

A little advise: if you wanna make it really seem like GLaDOS is in this scene, you can do this thing where you use something to block the light, then you take that footage of the big shadow and draw a mask underneath GLaDOS, then it'll look like GLaDOS is casting a shadow.

We went there 20+ yrs ago with the kids. One of our best family memories. I’d love to go back digging here if it was possible.

Wh-

I just started rock collecting last year in my beautiful home state of Arizona. It's unfortunate to hear that my favorite rock, gem chrysocolla, had been all mined out and impossible to find, and I'll probably never even see some in real life. Very cool rocks sir.

I hate to see people dislike something like this. Mr King was generous enough to share his knowledge, which appeals to both collectors and geologists alike. I am very thankful for his work both here and as an author. We are the next generation of collectors that must continue the work of these great people.

Interaction with the ore body sounds interesting. I'll have to take some close-up pics where the vein meets the marble.

It is not Schneider Kreuznach. It is Schneider. Do you drive a Ford Detroit ? Just a Ford.

Do you still have any of this for sale? Thank you

I have 2 dreams in life. One is to earn my place as a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment and also earn my Green Beret, and Two is to travel the world and find gemstones straight out of the Earth.

Cool

I have watched just about all of his videos. I found it very informative, sometimes even difficult to comprehend for a beginner like me. Despite of it, keep on trucking.

At the end you can tell its clickbait ITS LITTERALLY GOING UP BY ITSELF

'This cluster of zincites...' - does this refer to the 'stepped-zincite,' under discussion, central? The [relatively] large 'stepped-zincite,' could you explain in layman's terms how that formed? Please don't go too deep on the explanation, I should not wish to waste your time. Is it a cluster, or a single crystal with fractures? Is it damaged, or did it grow in this fashion?

This is the most beautiful stone I have ever seen 😍🤯🤩🤤

I believe that I have found some Gem Silica 💎. But I'm having a lot to learn to properly and positively identify it. Is this expensive?

Thank you very much. I hope next time you have a scripts or notes before you recording. You don't have to include and repeats so many unrelated knowledge. Still, thank you sir, god bless you!

How much the stone cost

No answers after 4 years?

Mine cracked when I polished it

I don't want to use them for macro I want to use them for landscapes and maybe some portraits so how's that going to work out more extension tubes

You are making it very difficult to find used enlarged lenses.

in Indonesia the most chrysocolla stone In Indonesia, the name is (Bacan doko)

Which enlarger lens are you using that is giving you such a huge working distance from lens to specimen?

The Songo Popnd is closed to collectong at the moment and there is no plan to re-open. Nonetheless, we appreciate people viewing the video and there are many nearby locations which are open, especially those located in the National Forest. Please visit the White Mountain National Forest station for information.

It was very new to know about these minerals. beautiful video. Thank you.

The distance of the lens from the sensor controls degree of magnification NOT focus. Focus is controlled by moving the assembly closer/further from the subject or moving the subject closer/further from the camera. Don't adjust focus with bellows extension or amount of extension tubes. They are only for adjustments to the amount of magnification.

Unless I missed it, you never mentioned that the amount of lens extension correlates directly to the amount of image magnification. The further away from the sensor the lens is the greater the magnification and the shallower the depth of field is at a given f-stop. Also, as the extension increases the problem with diffraction becomes severe - especially at smaller apertures.

Frankly, I'm quite surprised that you never made mention of the use of lens reversing rings/adapters! In order to preserve the distance relationships that enlarging lenses were designed for the distance from the lens to the subject should be less than the distance from the lens to the sensor. That will also increase the magnification for a given focal length and extension. This is an important point and shouldn't have been omitted.

Do you sale it??

Had to dislike this, it pure adapter talk! Over and over and over and over again. Waste of time!

How can I do this with a Sony a6000