Copper Exploration EXPERT Shares Hidden Secrets

[@stevo728822]

Very interesting. This week I'm visiting Parys Mountain on the isle of Angelsey in north west Wales, UK. I'll have a hunt to see if I can find any of these minerals. Back in 1780 this was apparently the world's biggest copper ore mine. The copper was used to sheath the ships of the Royal Navy to prevent marine damage to the hull.

[@ChrisRalph]

Best of luck to you in your search.

[@oldminer5387]

Thank you Chris for taking the time and making the effort to present this information.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@JsStack]

Great video. Lots of good information. Really like the part where you talk about the different minerals and stuff. Thank you for sharing.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@danbosch-]

i went out this morning and found some malachite and azurite in some kind of white calcite-carbonatite? vein. The vein was sandwiched in a serpentine- "green"stone sheer. It might have some cuprite crystals as well. no visible gold, but it was an exciting thing to find a nice shear zone with the mineralization. you are a very good teacher, thank you for the tutelage.

[@ChrisRalph]

Sounds exciting.

[@loyalkuhn5778]

I am really enjoying the copper series. I have three adjacent claims at the old Scott mine in Maricopa County, Arizona. I have a bit of chrysocolla, Cuprite, Silver, manganese and amethyst on the claims. Unfortunately, there isn't much gold. Last Christmas I surveyed and staked a separate claim for the better half that has lots of copper deposits. If I'm back in Arizona in the Spring, you are welcome to visit and collect a few specimens. Now, all I have to do is get your book and have even more fun and adventure. Thanks for the great video showing the awesome specimens.

[@ChrisRalph]

Sounds like some good claims. As for me, I've got lots of stuff already on my plate.

[@enadcmecommerce]

Thank you for this video. I learned so much. I particularly enjoyed the part about the gemstones.

[@enadcmecommerce]

Could you please do more re gemstones?

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ChrisRalph]

I have a video on diamonds and one on Sapphires and rubies.

[@rodneydumenu4329]

I feel like there a lot I can learn from your, first hand. Thanks for the video.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you found the video helpful.

[@allansgoldmining]

Hi Chris.. Thank you for sharing a huge variety of copper ores. Some specimens I've never recognized before. I have slight traces of Malachite mixed in quartz on my placer gold deposit. It's extremely faint, however, when it's more visible, the higher gold content occurs. So, I'm always on the lookout for copper. Thanks again. On to the next part of this series !

[@ChrisRalph]

No doubt that copper and gold are associated in a number of locations.

[@nweasels]

The reason I stumbled on this video was specifically because I tripped over a small nodule of rock that has azurite and malachite crystals in it and was looking for a resource on what to look for to hopefully find some larger examples of the same. I think Part 2 will assist more in this endeavor.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful.

[@kindergartenminds907]

Power packed video. I found a lot of copper Very pretty. Am in Elko County Nevada. Sparkles and vibrant colors. Heavy black rocks also.

[@ChrisRalph]

Copper minerals come in a lot of beautiful colors.

[@michellerusso7510]

Love the information! Thanks for your knowledge and experience

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@erok268]

I found native copper in what I think was a nasty looking Chrysocolla chunk along some railroad tracks it was really cool. I'd soak it hot water then let if dry and then soak it in hot water let it dry and it started to have thr copper show itself beautifully after a couple well of that.

[@ChrisRalph]

Interesting!

[@bjornhalstrom9933]

Copper refining involves a number of elements and they aren't cheap. Elements commonly associated with copper include iron, nickel cobalt, silver, gold, lead and others. Copper is used largely for electrical wires because of it's excellent electrical conductivity. However the copper must be very pure to conduct well. After copper is extensively refined it is then electrolytically refined. The copper is cast into huge electrodes and these are put into a solution of copper sulfate. The current is turned on. The copper is converted in ions and these cross the solution and deposit ad very pure copper on the cathode. Iron, cobalt and nickel are converted to ions but do not deposit on cathode. They stay in solution. Gold and silver do not ionize. They fall off the anode as a sludge that is processed for silver and gold. The necessity of electro refining gives us more valuable products.

[@ChrisRalph]

Lots of copper goes into brass an other alloys with non-electrical uses.

[@bjornhalstrom9933]

@@ChrisRalph Even so the copper is electro refined to get st the gold and silver.

[@mountaetnablacksmithing1693]

You can simply just leech copper out of the rock with acid, namely sulphuric, and then that solution can either be immediately put through electrolysis, or the copper can be reduced out of solution with an electron replacement using a metal such as iron, zinc or silver. Needs almost zero equipment, and almost zero effort.

[@nikraven1562]

Thanks Chris! That was great

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@HALIYALBETAGERIVLOGKANNADA]

Very helpful information sir 🙏

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks and glad you enjoyed it.

[@limbudharmendra1202]

thank you for this informative video, sir. How about the second part?

[@ChrisRalph]

Its there. Do you know how to search for videos on someone's channel? Its at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJiykoCBYq-FrqM

[@getzvalerevich6565]

Thanks you. Love your work

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks for watching!

[@kevinkestler4375]

Chris your videos are super informative! Thank you! Is there any valuable minerals found with Gypsum crystals or Selenite?

[@ChrisRalph]

Gypsum and Selenite crystals themselves can have a nice specimen value.

[@kevinkestler4375]

Found an interesting fissure with nice, clear large (8-12") but very fragile crystals. Wonder if they ever pair with gold ores. You really deliver a wealth of knowledge in the vids.

[@domainengineering8841]

Thanks Chris for your video, I just running my small scale copper ore mine in East , 300 to 500 tons of ore crushing. Exploration ,sorting, crushing up to 0.5mm and selling to buyers. I would like to make make pure copper because of values, when I sell as ore values are very low, Can you give me an idea how much gonna cost put up small copper purification plant and required of electricity. I started this job as excavator operator, thank god I have now excavator, wheel loader, air compressor, trucks, small mobile crusher 30 tons per hour. I want to jump to next level at least production of small quantity of copper cathode. Expecting your good advice.

[@ChrisRalph]

I appreciate your interest, but mining companies pay engineering companies hundreds of thousands to answer the questions you ask. No friend, I am not interested in doing hundreds of hours of consulting.

[@lil-warning]

Amazed!☺️

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@stacyjv_4982]

Very educational, thanks!

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jimcurtis569]

Have you been to our Copper Country on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan? Literally millions of tons of native copper. I'm watching your videos so I can better identify these copper minerals that we have here too.

[@ChrisRalph]

Lots of natural copper in that region for sure. Glad you like the videos.

[@fritzschwanserhauser2266]

Man the tetrahedrite ore is wondrous! I'm wanting to observe some silver mine waste piles I know of., A mostly private area known as silver plume, in hopes that perhaps the silver miners simply discarded some copper ores into the silver spoils piles! I might be able to get a hot signal if the ores are rich?

[@ChrisRalph]

No way I could tell you, no knowing anything about the deposit. If there is metallic silver (not silver minerals) that would sound off.

[@coreymerrill3257]

It is crazy to think , that huge betroidal malechite that was faced off and polished at 15:30 all started with some indistict green "fuzz" on rocks or flecks of metalic copper in the ground...the gem and crystal stuff is just as cool as the gold stuff is too me.

[@ChrisRalph]

Sometimes its best to make specimens the focus of your prospecting.

[@coreymerrill3257]

@@ChrisRalph actually i am doing exactly that while i am stuck in newyork. I have found out where we have grandiderite and serendibite . occasially true gem quality material is found for both mineral types making it only one of two places in the world to produce that level of quality. Madigascar being the other as far as i remember.they have two spots , one was super recent. They are in the same predominantly garnet mine and all form in the same pockets. Its just normally just garnet. I also have a speciman of common unakite with a semi-translucent feldspar crystal. I never have seen that before. I have put many( literally hundreds of) feldspars on bright lights and this is the only one that carries light at all! Im psyched to have it and feel it deserves a display or holder of some sort. Its super nice for what it is. It even has a bit of little black taurmaline druzy around its cap. There are little blades of some crystaline idk what. Its not mica or garnet and is a series of almost beer bottle brown, totally transparent (at 20x magnification) inclusionless hexagonal plates of about 1.25mm.

[@mutalem.mulonda2727]

Hello Chris is a copper oxide ore grade of 2.9% considered High/Low grade. the ore is surface level(

[@ChrisRalph]

It also depends on how much you have - not just the grade. If you have 200 million tons of 2.9% copper ore, you have a great mine. If you 200 tons of ore at 2.9% copper you have nothing worth pursuing.

[@dianghamalcom7714]

Hello, please what will you advice me to do if I go to a "virgin" field for my first time where I suspect the presence of copper .

[@ChrisRalph]

I get many, many requests from all over the world for mineral ID, help, assistance, training, advice, etc. I have many projects, obligations and commitments of my own, so my answer to you will be the same as everyone else - I wish you the best of luck with your own project, but I cannot be of assistance.

[@dougmate2378]

Thank you for your time spend making these videos. I enjoy them and am learning more every time. I do have a question to ask about can you find gold, or other metals (copper, silver) panning in the rivers in Tx around San Antonio? thank you again for the great content you put out.

[@ChrisRalph]

You can pan for gold and find some in the Llano river in Llano, TX, NW of San Antonio. Check for info on Google.

[@dougmate2378]

@@ChrisRalph Excellent sir. I appreciate the help. Thank you.

[@rawdawgpendants5490]

I have some electric blue material, its conductive, not magnetic and sets off my metal detector. I cant figure out what it is and im finding alot of it.

[@ChrisRalph]

I get so many, many requests for personal help, advice, training, review, mineral ID, etc. - every day - I simply cannot get involved with all the requests. I have plenty of my own projects to work on. Watch my videos on how to identify minerals for yourself. Start with - kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6HOiGhuj8qEosU Best of luck to you.

[@rawdawgpendants5490]

@@ChrisRalph im already planning on crushing it and putting it in aqua regia and stannous testing it. Love your videos. Rock on.

[@flightcandy]

I don't understand English. Now I use google translate. What I say may be difficult for you to understand. I apologize to you for that. Copper sulfide ore is smelted. Add copper ore and ferrosilicon/limestone to the crucible. The temperature is around 1200. Melting copper is inconvenient. The molten copper does not aggregate. A mixture of slag and copper. Why? Do you need to add more borax/soda ash? Or do you need something?

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes more borax / soda ash to make the mix more fluid. If the mix is chunky and thick, the copper will not be able to sink down through it and aggregate at the bottom of the crucible.

[@bradleychesworth5622]

Hey Chris, would you consider doing a limited colour run of your book/my future bible ?? I personally would happily pay your asking price

[@ChrisRalph]

No worries, mate. Just send me a bank draft for USD $10,000 - that's my price. Seriously, many of the illustrations are drawings and other illustrations that never were in color - so in a color version they will still be B&W. Had my book been originally printed in color, it would have been about USD $150 per copy. I long ago decided that more people would be willing to pay USD $30 for a black and white version. Since the book is highly rated, I doubt you will be disappointed with it.

[@bradleychesworth5622]

@@ChrisRalph No i completely get it and appreciate your answering of the comments. I only ask because it would sell like crazy here in Australia, thanks for the reply

[@ChrisRalph]

It has sold well in Australia - and until I totally ran out of stock recently it was in stock there. The problem is shipping it across the pond. You can get it through Amazon - that is probably the best way. Amazon will be back in stock here shortly. (its taken almost 3 months to get a reprint that used to take a month - the delay is due to Covid problems).

[@Smithsgold]

Cool !!!!!!!

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks. Hope you and your family are doing well.

[@bhanuyaswanthreddyduddu1542]

Investing money in Chile for copper mines make Billionaires right 👍 What machinaries are used for copper mining and $3million dollar enough for finding and digging copper at beginning

[@ChrisRalph]

good luck at small scale copper mining. Costs depend on what the characteristics of the deposit are.

[@jamesdavis5096]

You should have at east mentioned the Grasberg

[@ChrisRalph]

I was saving it so you could mention it in one of your videos.

[@jamesdavis5096]

​@@ChrisRalph If I made a video about extractive metallurgy(my study) then I would be sure to mention that. all the chalcopyrite deserved a mention

[@CreationsByWill]

Hey Chris. Thank you for the valuable information on prospecting cooper and everything else you share with us. I found an old mine nearby that was primarily a copper deposit with gold, silver, lead and zinc as tertiary. I have collected some nice samples with lots of color. There is also a zone running through the vein that is very red and iron rich. Lots of sulfides and small pyrite cubes. In a few samples I looked at under the glass where the malachite meets the iron there are very fine sharp fibers splintering between the two. And fuzzy iron colored crystals. Again this is under the jewelers loupe. I’m wondering if this could be possible an asbestos fiber? I have been wearing Ppe and am being very cautious with my sampling. Wondering if you could provide some insight to it.

[@ChrisRalph]

It's difficult to ID minerals from photos, let alone vague descriptions. There is no way I could know what it might be. There are many possibilities. Take a look at my video on how you can ID minerals for yourself. See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6HOiGhuj8qEosU

[@secrettreasure1388]

'''' THANKS YOU ,,,,,

[@ChrisRalph]

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@AnnaMarieStarling]

Wish you could come see me I think I've found plenty of copper, gold ect. 98% certain but nobody knows much about it where I am. Could I message you to send pics possibly?

[@ChrisRalph]

My apologies, but I get many requests every day for personal assistance, advice, evaluations, etc. I have many projects of my own. I wish you the best of luck, but cannot help. Chris

[@loyalkuhn5778]

The layers resemble fractals.

[@ChrisRalph]

Sort of - fractals do appear in nature.

[@SherriP]

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[@ChrisRalph]

How many times will you post the same thing and ignore the responses to your post? Because you throw out the gospel but are not responsible enough to engage respondents, I will eventually start deleting these posts because you are NOT witnessing by NOT responding.

[@Korir_Brian]

Most of the copper right now come from Congo mostly mining from 1st world countries

[@ChrisRalph]

The Congo produces a lot of copper, but the greatest producer on earth is Chile.

[@okboomer6201]

Too bad the unions destroyed all of Michigan's copper mines.

[@ChrisRalph]

They destroy a lot of things.