Rockhounding Wanlockhead Scotland

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Surrey Gold Prospector

Күн бұрын

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@TheUraniumHunter 7 күн бұрын

Those specimens are amazing! The lead mining museum is on my 2025 list.

@surreygoldprospector576 7 күн бұрын

Thanks! The museum and mine tour are really good - I hope you enjoy your visit. And yes, the surrounding area is pretty cool too for rocks and gold. :o)

@TheUraniumHunter 7 күн бұрын

@surreygoldprospector576 I mindat-ed the area after watching your video and I was so impressed with the minerals found in the area. I thought it was just lead. Off with the GM and the pickaxe!

@1000000trs 3 ай бұрын

👍🙂 Enjoyable video, thanks for posting.

@surreygoldprospector576 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@phildavis4878 3 ай бұрын

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

@surreygoldprospector576 3 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.

@GoldPanDann 3 ай бұрын

Love the video! Cool rocks you've found!

@surreygoldprospector576 3 ай бұрын

Thanks mate! Lots of interesting stuff around mine dumps.

@danieleprospector 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic Stone and Mineral. 😊

@surreygoldprospector576 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Grazie! :o)

@danieleprospector 2 ай бұрын

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

@danielhancocks3940 2 ай бұрын

Great specimens at the end!

@surreygoldprospector576 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@chambochambers8906 3 ай бұрын

NICE ONE BRO THANKS FOR SHARING 👍👍

@surreygoldprospector576 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Chambo.

@grumpyghoulash 5 күн бұрын

There’s also fossils up there too.

@surreygoldprospector576 5 күн бұрын

Didn't know that - thanks!

@grumpyghoulash 5 күн бұрын

With Leon no doubt

@grumpyghoulash 5 күн бұрын

At 1:05 that piece of lead is about 16% silver, if you’re brave enough to extract it

@surreygoldprospector576 5 күн бұрын

I didn't know there was silver around there, but just checked Mindat and there is! I did wonder if I could get any metals off the slag by crushing and panning. Thanks. :o)

@grumpyghoulash 5 күн бұрын

There is some nice peacock ore up that way too if you’re lucky enough to find it

@surreygoldprospector576 5 күн бұрын

Yes, that is the Bornite (different names for the same thing). The bits I found were mixed with quartz (like in the thumbnail picture). Great stuff and some pretty colours! :o)

@ashleyhobbs7407 3 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 3 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 Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай 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.