Quick Mineral Identification

Quick identifying properties of several minerals.

[@farhatjaved3874]

Indeed you have done your job. You are one of the best instructors I have ever come across.

[@clairebeane3455]

Farhat Javed Agreed!! Thanks for the tutorial!!

[@valhu43]

I love the way you described the garnet as little footballs!

[@C4FishingTeam]

Finally a scientifically literate video!!!!! I was getting tired of those "secret energy" crystal videos from mount juju...

[@normaastx.9359]

Thank you, for sharing your knowledge with us. From Houston Texas.

[@loststudent1]

I thought that your presentation was very helpful. I am an on-line college student in the Atlanta Georgia area who is preparing for my first GEOL mineral lab. I appreciate your video as it gives me a pretty good idea of what to expect when I walk into the room this week. Thank you.

[@shwnshts9469]

"It looks like horse meat"!? Dang, we really gotta start paying these teachers more...

[@blunosr]

Hi, I travel across Canada a couple of times a year, and I like stopping at mine sites, and dimensional stone (tomb stones, counter tops) places. They usually let me look around their scrap piles. I also purchased some at science shops, rock shops, scientific supply places.

[@Michael-mn2og]

"it looks like horse meat" uhhhh what?

[@selenabaozi]

same. but other people have said it in their vids so i assume it must be a real thing

[@qraee]

Flippy _ you have??!?

[@julietjackson2918]

Lol yeah it's very "fleshy" as I would put it.

[@stephenshaleigh6936]

Very nice guide, thanks!!! I have a collection arranged in Multi Collector that i am trying to identify now.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

A few corrections: 1) Your apatite is actually grossular from Lake Jaco, Mexico. 2) Bauxite is a rock, not a mineral. 3) Cinnabar is mercury sulfide, not oxide. 4) The second copper is natural, not a smelter product, from Michigan. 5) Your hematite ring is most likely a manmade material. 6) Malachite is copper carbonate, not oxide. 7) Quartz is not glass. 8) Your smoky quartz crystal is an irradiated crystal of formerly colourless quartz, from Arkansas.

[@abcdude8784]

yep i agree ^^ nice one

[@chloehopewell1225]

Glass and quartz are both SiO2, but glass doesn’t form the same hexagonal crystal structure because it cools much faster. Glass typically has other things added to it (such as potassium) to lower its melting point. So in a sense, quartz is glass, because they have the same chemical makeup.

[@upendrablissfulkumar6465]

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[@Gems-of-Hope-Rocks]

Incredible Presentation! Is this really HS Geology in British Columbia, Canada? WOW American schools are so far behind! Even if there are some inaccuracies, it's still better than most things I have seen online.

[@Gems-of-Hope-Rocks]

2:58 Cinnabar ... Mercury toxic? 4:02 Who looks at horse meat? 4:06 Fluorite and 5:34 Malachite, Formation shape are helpful here!

[@nickibulicek2998]

That’s one of my favorite rocks I love gemstone

[@deegraphics2]

This was very useful to show my son during our homeschool Geology lesson today. He's very interested in Geology and can't wait to have a nice collection like yours.Thank you for taking the time to make this video and for sharing it with us :)

[@rogeralanrodriguezortiz4554]

Just remember people touching an unknown rock or rare metals could be deadly... Take precautions when MINING or using chemicals... Always use safety equipment first... Breathing in hard concentrations of metals in a rock alloys... Rocks with toxins could be deadly and unhealthy for you... Please take precautions while exploring precious metals and mostly rare metals and rare unknown rocks... Still new rocks with no name could appear and might be deadly or not... But new identifications or using GEOLOGY books rocks identifyers comes in handy... When searching for what you want in MINING precious metals...

[@trippingonrocks1165]

I'll be watching this a few times, thank you for explaining these so clearly.

[@trippingonrocks1165]

@@op5814 bro you have no idea what I did or didn't learn from this video. I leave a positive comment and you want to trash it for no apparent reason says alot about you though...

[@blunosr]

Well, there's only so much you can say in an 8 minute video. Maybe one day I'll do a separate video for each mineral. There's a lot to know about each mineral. Someone else asked about uses of each mineral, and yes, most of these do have uses in industry, but again that would be a very long video.

[@troypellerin9070]

Can i email you pic to help me identify

[@kristinroney7591]

Please do more videos. On the minerals. I want to study minerals and rocks and prospect for gold on my free time . Its intruiging. I love it. Please ....make more

[@yousifhassan2098]

hi guys i have some different kind of rocks really I don't have ideas what's the that my brother live in north Africa they found it in the desert and I bring it to USA to know about it plz if someone has idea I can show the pc for it to help out our direct me where I can take it thank.

[@vuntuchtoudeforz3026]

My discord is DolnoKotori1 send me a photo ill help

[@anthonydiaz9927]

I am new to all this, but have a growing interest in mineral identification and found your video very interesting. I live on a tropical island and would like to know what types of minerals can be found on tropical islands.

[@blunosr]

Hi, If you're on a coral atoll, there might be no minerals other than shells and coral. The rocks made entirely of shells are called coquina. Volcanic islands might have zeolites, which come in many varieties, and contain rare earth elements. Maybe olivine, which in large clear crystals is commonly known as peridote.

[@starinthesky1520]

Hi, I have a big piece let say of rock/glass, heavy, color green emerald like with one rough white side, not sharp at all, it has many uneven cuts. It look like Tzavorite Garnet or Emerald, I bought it from an estate auction as a gemstone with other stones and I really want to know what it is exactly. Thanks for your help

[@SoulDevoured]

Hi star, there are message boards and forums (I believe there is also a sub-forum on reddit) where you can share pictures and give exacting description to find the the most accurate identification. It is more difficult to identify when not in person but there is specific criteria for identification of any stone. Check out a gemstone or mineral forum and they can help guide you.

[@starinthesky1520]

Thanks SoulDevoured, I will try that

[@SoulDevoured]

Not a problem. The internet is a treasure trove of information but, just like when finding gemstones, it helps to know where to dig XD Let me know how it goes.

[@saifnul6475]

Hi guys..! who can help me to identify this crystal, meneral or stone,,, in my acct!

[@blunosr]

Hi, I think you mean "glass". Yes, it is largely made of quartz sand, although in many cases, other minerals, or elements are added to give glass different properties. For instance, boron is added to make glass heat resistant (Pyrex glass). KMnO4 (chameleon mineral) is added to make purple glass. Addition of gold III oxide, makes red glass.

[@freddymello3227]

How do I identify a rough diamond from other types of quarts crystals?

[@Melthornal]

Walking through the woods (in New York), I came across a large amount of very, very shiny, glasslike rocks. I picked one up, and hit it with another rock and it fractured very easily into a little shard. They are all deep black, and working with them leaves a black residue. I took some of it home with me. Any idea what it could be?

[@equanimity160395]

Very informative and helps me a lot. Thanks!!

[@My-Say]

I have a collection of strange rocks and some of them don't look like any of these.

[@jaswantdhayal5482]

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[@wickdeed7434]

Stephen Wolfe these aren't all the gems and rocks

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[@finpainter1]

the copper samples were both from under ground mines or ore piles. not from a smelter. copper in upper peninsula of michigan is almost pure form.some pieces can go many tons.

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[@denneyandthejets7833]

Feels like I'm watching a video from Breaking Bad's Hank Schrader

[@Caver461]

Native copper - reminds me of the natural silver wire found in Cobalt

[@shunriely2922]

Was listen ,,but did see no meteorite ,do you have any ,if so please video it ,,,I love the way you teach a person is sure to learn,,,good job thanks for sharin ,,,

[@STONES624]

Fantastic these beautiful gems come to leave my LIKE

[@blunosr]

Yes, this is just out for this video. It is kept in a sealed container normally. When not abraided or played with, the fibres usually remain intact and don't enter the air.

[@blunosr]

Hi, I would guess that it is an igneous rock type called Gabbro. The black residue would just be the oxidation product from weathering. New York is in the Appalachian or Laurentian mountain chains and there are many mafic igneous rocks. Gabbro is kinda like granite, except black.

[@jimjaeger8968]

Very informative. I found myself wishing the words were there too so I could see the spelling and hear the pronounciation.

[@eorm4776]

Excellent video for providing a brief overview of common minerals. It was a great aid for our kid's home school science lesson.

[@blunosr]

Oh yeah, thanks! I didn't realize I had said it was an oxide.

[@SaModa-ru6wx]

Hi, any Idea how expensive is a chlorite stone?

[@kemosabe133]

Hey I have a white stone but I don't know what it is can you please help me in identifying the stone. I will send you it's pictures and videos

[@blunosr]

Conglomerate is a rock type, usually composed of many types of previously existing rocks and minerals. So, yes it does fracture in an irregular pattern, but that is not the context used here to describe mineral properties.

[@جعفرالمهداوي-ل7ن]

Hello I need help I have many rock can help me sir

[@DrawingTechnical]

Very cool. I really like the green and blue coloured rocks, imagine building a house with them! I wish the camera focused a bit better though, it did the video injustice.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

These minerals are the reason why aliens visit our planet , to rob us of our minerals .

[@janirossouw9578]

how do you know how horse meat looks like?

[@gorencvid264]

Jani Rossouw you check it out in a butchary

[@tireballastserviceofflorid7771]

Jani Rossouw He is from Canada. They like all of Europe and most of the rest of the world eat horse. There are many horse buyers in the states that buy up old broke down or mean horses and sell them to Canada for meat and by products like horse hide glue. America is about the only place on earth horse is not a food stuff. THANK GOD!

[@jamesm8515]

+Naked Acres That's funny... I've not met one Canadian or heard of any Canadians eating horse meat. Horses would freeze to death outside of our igloos.We eat many different types of Beaver and lots of it! In fact I'm eating one right now. I'm sure your just another lonely American trying to make friends by making up stupid shit. Kinda like saying there are many roadkill buyers in Canada that pack up the retarded diseased animals and ship them south cause Americans love their roadkill sausages...or highway caviar depending on what state your in. Maybe you should get yourself a beaver so you don't have so much time...or anything else on your hands.

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[@blunosr]

Most are just good examples of minerals, not gemstones. Many I picked up as I used to work as a mining Geologist, now I teach Geology. Some I bought at rock shops, and a few are from educational supply houses. I also like to visit mines, and always ask for a sample or two.

[@tinker6670]

Just a suggestion.. on basic identification you should begin with a hardness test. This basic test will rule out what the material won't be and put it in a category more close to what it really is.

[@davidolaniran4275]

I enjoy watching it.

[@timbagzey1465]

thanks to this video i have just found out ive got asbestos in my rock collection , ive now put it in a airtight bag.

[@ClashGardener]

👏 You still around?

[@blunosr]

Hard to say without seeing them, but small smokey quartz would appear to be transparent. The larger they are, the darker grey or black they would appear.

[@stinkycatz]

What a nice collection of minerals you have .

[@darrengillesdarrengilles8336]

Whats the point of having an entire video out of focus.

[@gal304]

You're great! thanks!

[@Cenepk101]

Thank you for this video- I just ID ed the 2 stones I found in my yard. They are copper !!!! So pretty!!! I live about 10 miles as the crow flies from Stone Mountain Ga. Always finding beautiful stones. Lots of quartz

[@thecrazymind2010]

I have come across some Molybdenite where I come from. And f it wasn't for this guise deal I wouldn't have known what it was. But I was just wondering if it could possibly worth anything at all. Or if it's one of those common deals. If any one can post back to me and let me know that would be greatly appreciate.

[@vuntuchtoudeforz3026]

Expensive 40 dollars to 300 dollars.

[@mainoralfaro7303]

yo poseo una roca extraña y quisiera me ayudaran a identificar proximamente les emviare la fotografia

[@adibbida9861]

the new gem in steven universe fluoriteeee

[@netyote]

Thank you for this video. It helped me review for my geology mineral identification test. I liked how you just did brief descriptions of some of the most easily identifiable characteristics of each.

[@lunageologist]

Not to argue too fine a point, but Cinnabar is HgS, not HgO. Nice collection, as a geologist myself, I love my mineral collection and wish I had some cabinet samples as large as yours although with all the rocks and minerals I do have, I think I would have no place to sit. Cheers.

[@wheelchairjimmys]

Cool: I like the crystals and and the rocks it's pretty and interesting I even have a book about minerals and rocks.I have minerals too LikeAmethyst, Crystal Quartz, Carelian, Lemon Jade That's all

[@NickSapphire3045]

theese rocks and stuff are really cool i like to look at em

[@napolio_]

Jesus Manny there Minerals! Not rocks

[@christianruiz8670]

nathaniel Adams They're*

[@Proctor1986]

nathaniel Adams well actually there were rocks up there. but yeah this is a mineral ID vid lol

[@michealwintz852]

Thank you for your video. I'm not a school room student but, I'm a prospecter of Hematite for jewelry. I'm suddenly acquiring many rocks that I can't identify including fossils. So these identification videos are great learning tools. Thank you again for a great informative video. 💗 Ms Michal

[@Gems-of-Hope-Rocks]

Your comment made me curious if you had any good rock hounding, lapidary or other useful videos in your playlists. So I clicked on your thumbnail and and looked for myself. I've created my own playlist of your public playlists, I'll remove the black/white movies later, lol, since that's not my cup of tea. So thanks for your variety of rock hounding, lapidary and OTHER videos for me to explore. Great taste!

[@blunosr]

I do, but I've never made a video of them. Conglomerate is just a type of clastic sedimentary rock, like sandstone, but bigger bits (clasts).

[@therrienmichael08]

I like being able to identify rock and minerals.

[@blunosr]

@KurtCaro13 Hi, I do have a video about easily confused minerals. I think that's what I called it too, "Easily Confused Minerals".

[@adirtyrat]

3"55...looks like horse meat....you know what horse meat looks like....ha

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Lol

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3:55

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[@blunosr]

Further processing is usually required to get metals out of their ore minerals. Commonly reduction reactions are used for that.

[@BacGold]

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[@blunosr]

Well, you may not like the analogy, but you're not likely to forget it either.

[@missanna208802]

You're so awesome for getting back to me. It's clear that you know waaaay more than I do about this kind of thing, and maybe it is ok to say that glass is quartz, but quartz is not glass (super simplified). I'm afraid you will have to dumb down your explanation to me because I am not well educated in this subject. Thanks for this video. I'm trying to decide whether I want to get into the rock side of jewelry. I've had some metals classes at univeristy, but I like rocks too.

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[@blunosr]

Really? Are you talking about the sand used in casting metal? That's very interesting! Thanks,

[@DANGJOS]

Limonite or rust is not necessarily iron oxide, nor is it a mineral, it is a mixture of iron oxides, hydroxides, and oxide-hydroxides. Great video though!

[@laurencelance586]

Be nice to see the difference between serpentine and nephrite, both of which are local.

[@TheRevelegendEMG]

Oh right, thank's for the reply. How common is it in the environment? Hows does it form? Seems like quite an unusual mineral given it's fibrous composition.

[@cjjuddaustralianartist]

looks like horse meat, tastes like chicken

[@red_ice5660]

I had this rock anddd i just figured out its an Emerald :/

[@rezajavid1680]

thanks can you do it again with better quality please?

[@TheRevelegendEMG]

Isn't it dangerous to handle the asbestos because of the harmful dust?

[@DeliciousDeBlair]

I hope to find some of those minerals on my land, especially galena and sphalerite! Possibly some malachite and a few minerals you did not list.

[@trevorzzealley2670]

Thankyou for making & sharing this video . I learned from it , please keep them coming .

[@emmepombar3328]

*holds.up.yellow.stone* "green, glossy colour" wtf?

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[@Geologist_Mike]

Virtually all minerals that exist in nature have a hidden mix of other elements and minerals within them. Test any mineral using x-ray powder diffraction and you’ll see a pigs lunch of hundreds and hundreds of other crystalline molecules mixed in there. Perfectly pure minerals of any large size are almost impossible in nature. So one might argue that in that sense they actually kinda are rocks Hank.

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[@andrewssoccerchannel3776]

Watch my rock and mineral identification videos part 1and 2 on my channel

[@sarathgunasekara4565]

+Andrew Rodas very good vedos pt 1& 2it is very hepful to learn thanks

[@StevenSchoolAlchemy]

I like those minerals! sharing video to basic crystal growing on facebook.

[@erikkasalns26ify]

I have some stones, just don't know what there are. Can you help me?

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[@johnkosheluk1041]

that was cool I have a question maby u can ancer it for me I do sprinklers and I had to get a sprinkler system going that wasn't doing for a year it is a well sys the well head was open 4 a year I put a new pump in and got it going now the next door nabor called me to tell me that the water is killing the ficus tree I went over there and it looks like the tree was burnt from the ground up and the customer had already sprayed 4 white fly I think it is salt can u tell me I can send u pictures if u need thank u

[@crazysam871]

I really like your video. I've had a geology class last session(in Québec) and saw some mineral and I wanted to get a list of the most commons and their English names and you gave me a nice video perfect for what I was looking for! Ty

[@biddyboo8]

Clearly I need to up my game as I only identified the malachite and the quartz.

[@emmepombar3328]

"Cinnabar, that's mercury oxide" No, it's mercury sulfide.

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[@mangoverde125]

who here is 7 grade teacher

[@dalebronniman7302]

That second to last one is exactly like the moonrocks in 69

[@mcilwraith001]

Why is Nephrite our Provincial Stone not included?

[@jackiebolden197]

Where is the nephrite

[@yukimisaki2592]

I'm super late but what stone is it at minute 4:20? The one that has garnet in it

[@charlesclements4350]

bluenose: Pardon me for being so picky but I wanted to use the subtitles so I could see how the names were spelled. I would need for you to say the names very clearly so the stupid thing can get the spelling right. Hope that you do not mind.

[@pullingthestrings5233]

Yay I recognized most of them from my geology class. I also mentioned that k-feldspar looks like meat with the striations of potassium running thru it. Nice job.

[@Gems-of-Hope-Rocks]

Actually, he said k-spar looked like horse meat. I actually was taken aback by that because we do not eat horse meat in the United States. Is it/Was it common in Canada?

[@tinadarnell9511]

I couldn't watch because if I had to listen to him smacking his lips every other word. Sooooo very irritating!

[@elonmusk6541]

Not as bad as you make it sound

[@coherantbliss3483]

Thanks for your vid. I have a question and don't know if you can answer it. Of which mineral/stone family gives off the most spark/energy when striking each other? And which one mostly absorbs energy? If you don't know what would be your guess? I have seen a video that if a certain stone is used with copper it can create energy.

[@SoulDevoured]

I'm not entirely sure I understand all your questions but I do know that flint stone and steel (or any iron based metal/mineral) is what is used to make sparks and ignite fire. As far as stones that absorb energy, nonmetallic ceramic like stones, like talc in this video, are probably the best bet there. I believe asbestos is also very insulating but I wouldn't recommend it for any science experiment you're gonna try at home. Or if you mean absorb energy as in carry/conduct it, any common metal mineral will work. With zinc, gold, and copper being among the top. Sorry I can't help much more. I suggest searching google for "the least conductive minerals" or "conductive properties of common minerals" for a better shot at finding the MOST conductive and insulating minerals.

[@coherantbliss3483]

Thank you very much for your answers. I did mean carry/hold energy but of course with the appropriate one-way shielding

[@chrisjoseph1486]

Why did you get it

[@blunosr]

Well, I've never looked at commercial glass under a microscope so I not sure what it's structure is. I've seen glass made, using quartz sand. And I have looked at volcanic glass (obsidian) and hydrothermal chalcedony under petrographic microscopes, and they are microcrystalline. Their crystals are so small, they are hard to see even under high power, and you have to use cross polarization. I'll have to look into that...

[@blunosr]

Asbestos is an alteration product (hydrothermal alteration) of olivine. It is related to talc, and amphibole. It is quite common. Caused by metamorphism of mafic igneous rocks, which cover most of the Earth's surface (oceanic crust is made of mafic igneous rocks).

[@blunosr]

Hi, well, with very small grain (crystal size), it now sounds like Basalt. That's a mafic volcanic rock that when weathered might leave the black residue you describe. I'm afraid you're going to have to show it to one of your local geologists for better identification. Good luck with it,

[@12oc6h]

thank you so much,this is what was looking for.