MINERAL EXPLORERS | S2 | Ep4 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

[@RudyZaragozaMusic]

This is my favorite episode since it’s in my home state and tourmaline is my favorite mineral. Thank you for making this series because I have really enjoyed it and learned a lot about mineral localities around the world. Hopefully someday you can release a new season.

[@xshannabanana8343]

LOOOOVE THE HISTORY IN THIS VIDEO! Love love love to watch this.

[@RAsphalt]

No wonder Torrey Pines Beach is so cool.. so many colorful rocks traveling down to the sea after storms

[@iShockGamers]

Man I've spent alotta time peeling rock off the pala chief mountain. Someday... Someday... Amazing video! Great job telling the story!

[@chrisstrobel3439]

Yeah me too, Riverside pegmatites as well, ya gotta blast man, it’s the domain of hardcore mine engineering to get at those specimens that grace the big shows and Min Record magazine. Bet you got a lot of Schorl laying around your garden out back .. I know I do 😬

[@AndrewJ951]

Living about 35 miles north of these mines I've had great success in finding a wide variety of quartz in my area. From citrine to smokey and many with beautiful petroleum inclusions. This episode makes me want to check out the creeks in Pala.

[@boerboel313]

Where do you live in SOCAL? I'M IN 92672

[@Kerplakistandan]

It was awesome to see those supremely historic specimens!

[@jackiechan5941]

amazing video. I grew up next to the mines and am blown away by their riches

[@partyrockhater]

Born and Raised in La Jolla Still here. Yeeewwww good vibes glad you enjoyed your visit to my beautiful home.

[@SequoiaElisabeth]

Loads of fun. My favorite is the Morganite he unveiled at the end.

[@mxracks]

I'm a miner for years, those walls and ceilings are very unsafe, layered faults

[@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO]

Yep. And if there just happened to be an Earthquake..... (which happen all the time).

[@phillipgraves4721]

I thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you so much.

[@hunt4redoctober628]

A fantastic film!....I'd love to get some blue topped pink Tourmaline for my collection in the UK.

[@hippiecowgirl4231]

I live close to a now abandonded mine in San Bernardino County which is the only other place in California where its found. Ive found some nice small blue crystals , several large smoky quartz points and lepidiolite . Just yesterday i found one with dark red crystals ( very tiny singles and larger granular ( but still small) that i havent been able to identify yet. My dream is to be the discoverer of something new .......ya just never know !!! Also. Going to the Pala mine for my 60 th birthday next week and i am SO EXCITED !!!!

[@shatangatang]

I live in so cal, is there anywhere I can take my boys to go look for crystals or something like that? Any help would be super appreciated!

[@NJBond]

They didnt mention green beryl or red beryl. Its more valuable then diamond in weight.I read about this.

[@whapaso]

I've met Jeff. He's a prince of guy. We love going to the Oceanview Mine pay dig! It costs about $2K for every blast!

[@Aaronbtc4]

When it comes to crystals , im absolutely spoiled. I'm from central ARKANSAS, i can close my eyes throw a rock and hit a WORLD CLASS QUARTZ CRYSTAL MINE. But believe it or not there are still some secret spots that knowbody knows of ...IV got a spot ..where the last 10 years I know for sure I'm the only one digging out there ..and it's literally 380 acres of land ...all to my self ..it's crazy !!! But I love it!!!

[@courtleewright]

Your point is?

[@Riverfrog124]

Fallbrook is my hometown!

[@EriBarr]

Wait you can find these in fallbrook?! Where exactly do you know?!

[@Riverfrog124]

@@EriBarr I dont think they are any tourmaline mines in Fallbrook

[@chrisstrobel3439]

Wow I didn’t know that San Diego County Mine was the only producer of pink Spodumene in the USA, pink Spodumene is all over the internet these days from Pakistan/Afghanistan .. some quite showy material .. especially the etched specimens.

[@adrovicresad1639]

excuse me esque the gentleman at the end of the report esque he sells the minerals u these just a private collection museum !?I would love to buy specimens from the United States so much

[@toomanyjstoomanyrs1705]

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I never knew. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle

[@clintonmorris8222]

Gem mining with explosives destroys about 60% of what the location COULD yield. Most of the time it actually destroys more. I've seen instances where up to 80% gets destroyed or broken. Hand tools the old fashioned way is still king. Slow is how you go...

[@frankbush8368]

One can also drill small diameter test holes and feel the rock as you drill.. to relatively shallow depths if need be, and use small amounts of powder. 💥 is an art, and you can go very small to huge and everything in between. It's a great tool to use imo to make good progression into a deposit, and to see what only your grandchildren would have seen if you had only been using hand tools

[@mn4592]

Where is that dig and sift mine?

[@jonluci5893]

Season 3 please!!!

[@khushallgems]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@likelyblue1967]

This reminds me of a tv show

[@MeikoSakerune16]

The dogs deserve hard hats too

[@reginasmith5698]

i, love the kunzite

[@garygrinkevich6971]

its crazy that those old miners just burned the entire valley down for the mineral deposits.

[@alldayeveryday6464]

This guy might get live

[@alexiarodriguez5974]

I want to go :]

[@Janchaimo1966]

Wow !

[@boerboel313]

How are you so jumpy? You must jump when you sneeze.

[@collectgemsosrs6298]

Thats insane

[@joeybez5464]

i still cant find my crystaltype shape like a brick dark color rhomus rectangular heavy as a brick diamond tester activated but it activates on a l;ot of things i found it following a ribbon that l;ead to it duig deep in my yard in riverside calif next to diamond lakemy house ios 120 yrs old could of been from previous owner that i found out he cut gems

[@shermdeazy]

Opal is the best

[@goutamrakshit0777]

Suprrr

[@Nationalistbae]

sad to see them just blow up huge Quartz Crystals.... Divinity in nature

[@aung3627]

တွင်ထွက်ရတနာမျာလှပတောက်ပနေသောသင်၏ရှာပါရတနာအရိုင်ကလက်များဝါးအံအောရအောင်ပြသသွားသည်ဗီဒီယို

[@BakuretsuKoinu]

The mine owner got super weird after everyone started picking up the quartz, his idea to spread out the debris with a bob cat to find nicer crystals and comment that he would throw a perfect one away because this method was going to uncover much nicer ones; he's shitting his pants over the idea that he might kick crumbs down to people he should be breaking bread with. Not a fan of this character.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Nothing weird there. Quartz crystals don’t pay the bills, when you’re putting seven figures into the ground.

[@fuhq1607]

The dude is greedy

[@lizzycoco11]

I live in San Diego this was beautiful to see. I learned so much thank you I will definitely look into this.

[@donkeyrokman]

Love the video, but I kept waiting for the whole thing to come down on their heads. So dangerous! And why isn't anybody wearing respirators? You breath enough of that rock dust, you've got a world of hurt coming later in life. Can you say, COPD?

[@VijayGoswami-dl9vp]

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[@BinhNguyen-jt9wq]

👍🇺🇸

[@literallyh3093]

pog

[@Faith-lp7ry]

Forgive me if I'm naive, but due to natural erosion, wouldn't it serve mankind better to rely on natural process to bring those beautiful crystals to the surface? I don't understand why you need to blast a hole and make a safe place to dig. Humans being greedy destroy what was meant for all of us to prosper later, together.

[@lindadechiazza2924]

TIME. time

[@musicmanmatt87]

They're all going to die young not wearing masks in all that dust.

[@johnnynephrite6147]

no jade? im only interested in jade. this is boring, Im outta here.