Rockhounding Wanlockhead Scotland

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Surrey Gold Prospector

Күн бұрын

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@1000000trs 2 ай бұрын

👍🙂 Enjoyable video, thanks for posting.

@surreygoldprospector576 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@danieleprospector Ай бұрын

Fantastic Stone and Mineral. 😊

@surreygoldprospector576 Ай бұрын

Thank you! Grazie! :o)

@danieleprospector Ай бұрын

@surreygoldprospector576 Thanks to you, always a pleasure to meet another enthusiast. 👍

@GoldPanDann 2 ай бұрын

Love the video! Cool rocks you've found!

@surreygoldprospector576 2 ай бұрын

Thanks mate! Lots of interesting stuff around mine dumps.

@phildavis4878 Ай бұрын

You did really excellent you got some nice specimens of rocks good job my friend

@surreygoldprospector576 Ай бұрын

Thanks Phil! Yes, mine dumps are a great place to find stuff. And the geology of Scotland is very interesting. Lots more going on than here in England.

@chambochambers8906 2 ай бұрын

NICE ONE BRO THANKS FOR SHARING 👍👍

@surreygoldprospector576 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Chambo.

@danielhancocks3940 Ай бұрын

Great specimens at the end!

@surreygoldprospector576 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ashleyhobbs7407 2 ай бұрын

Great vid, Checkout Mindat for that location, it may help identify the other minerals. And checkout a book called Minerals of Scotland by Livingstone. The green mineral is likely to be pyromorphite, a lead secondary.

@surreygoldprospector576 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment and the information. I took a look at Mindat and it was very interesting. There is a lot of mining history in that location. It listed 56 minerals found there (of which 25 copper-based ones) so didn't help narrow down much, but a great place to have a rummage in the rock piles! I didn't mention it in the video, but I now suspect a lot of the rocks I found had been through the smelter (or at least the crusher) so may have been altered from their natural state.

@spiritualpathseeker 9 күн бұрын

Awesome, thank you. As for green copper, often the layer on the outside is malachite, which is, I believe, an oxidation. Also, the patina on bronze statues is technically malachite. (It is not, however, the same as rust on iron. The patina actually protects the bronze, whereas rust of course does not protect iron based material.) As for calcite, I have become cautious because it looks very similar to dolomite. A hardness test can distinguish between them.

@surreygoldprospector576 9 күн бұрын

Yes, it is malachite for sure. As for the calcite, it might be dolomite as you say. It seems pretty equal in scratch tests to some calcite I had before (but that might be dolomite too!). No glass scratch so definitely not quartz. Not much fizz from weak acid either, which suggests maybe dolomite. It could be not naturally from the area, brought in with limestone as a reducing agent in the furnace.

@spiritualpathseeker 9 күн бұрын

@surreygoldprospector576 Here is a video I made recently on dolomite vs. calcite. Your acid test is also useful, but I don't have any relevant acids myself. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5nGc4WMacdsj5I

@surreygoldprospector576 8 күн бұрын

@@spiritualpathseeker Thanks, that was useful. They are pretty similar, so difficult to tell apart. I have a box of calcite that is probably a mixture of both.