How rare are 'Sky Islands'?

I took a trip out to the wilderness over labor day weekend after scouring google earth to see if I could find another of what ‪@the_pov_channel‬ calls a 'Sky Island'.
First time using a drone and most of the other recording equipment. Really need to figure out how to color correct and maybe use ND filters to fix some of my issues. Most of the day was right bright which made it hard to edit the image afterwards to get a closer to nature coloration.
Let me know what you think. I have some other destination ideas in mind of relatively obscure landmarks.
Have a good one.

[@crazygamerbp]

Thank you for sharing the adventure 😁

[@dastschutschu]

Great video, would love to see more of these

[@TheAsianSh0w]

Great video and I enjoyed hearing your perspective and comments as a naturalist. Keep it up!

[@gmdesert3810]

7:51 / 7:52 during the drone drifting , the 'sky iland' dose have a Shark look to it (head , dorsal fin , tail )

[@christopherklocke8918]

brings back nostalgia from my time in afrika, great vid (: but dont go that close to the edges im scared

[@zipzapbonk9649]

had the impression when clicking on this and watching this that this was a big channel, very good video keep it up man

[@Not_So_Bored]

Thanks, I hope I can make my next video significantly better. Its been quite fun learning to play around with camera, drone and video editting.

[@tarynkottelenberg2732]

Lichen thrives in all kinds of inhospitable places! It’s a symbiotic relationship between fungus and (often photosynthetic) algae, so it doesn’t need much to survive! We see it in the tundra here in Canada even. Think reindeer lichen!

[@Not_So_Bored]

Lovely. Do you know how that symbiotic relationship works, exactly? Like how does the lichen thrive in those combinations? I imagine it has to do with the waste products of the fungus or algae. Always glad to hear more about how the world operates. Beautiful place we are allowed to experience.

[@tarynkottelenberg2732]

@@Not_So_Bored the fungus provides most of the solid structure and allows the algae a place to safely live in places it would otherwise wither and die, and the algae in return produces carbohydrates through photosynthesis which it shares with the fungus, allowing them both to survive even on solid rock or in highly toxic/extreme environments where neither would survive on their own.

[@jamesMwebber]

Green is usually copper oxidation. it's probably copper ore, or coprolite, possibly?

[@Not_So_Bored]

I had to google coprolite and I really hope that is what it is. Unfortunately, I think it is probably oxidized copper ore.

[@luciferrshi]

the green is oxidized copper i think, usually, raw ore is much more blue so it probably has a lot of impurities and other things in the rock.

[@Not_So_Bored]

Thank you for the details. It's probably not much of a surprise that the mines there have shut down, than, if it is pretty impure.

[@luciferrshi]

@@Not_So_Bored They could still get some decent amounts of mineralized copper, but theyd have to extract it using chemistry so it is pretty time-consuming, i don't know how long ago that mine was in operation, so i don't know if they would even have that knowledge

[@Not_So_Bored]

The main mine I showed was last operated in the late 1970s. The auxiliary shafts I showed had identification markings from 1995 to 2012. This part of the country is a relatively highly regulated area, so that may add to the costs.

[@luciferrshi]

@@Not_So_Bored i did some more research, turns out copper oxidizes with a more blue patina, is actually due to ammonia being present during the oxidation process.

[@Not_So_Bored]

@@luciferrshi that's pretty fascinating. I wonder if the ammonia is a processing agent post an acid wash of some sort.

[@christopherklocke8918]

there is a chance that the green stone is amazonit but maybe not