TOO MANY GARNETS to carry !

foreign so Jeff wants to show us something that's two inches long with a red head I'm not sure what we're gonna see here [Music] me minor here I'm at the river valley Garnet mine outside of field Ontario and this place is just loaded with Garnet we'll do a walkabout and then start digging come join me I think we'll have some fun there's the Micah schist that they were mining you can see the garnets in there guards in these ones as well see the garnet in the rock [Music] it's all over [Music] this one you can see where the garnets used to be and then like a Garnet in this rock big weathered with the garnets now the path into the mine is fairly obvious and easy to walk and most important because when you go back you'll probably have quite a few rocks it's not that far maybe a five minute walk right across bedrock and then through the trees I understand as of spring 2023 that everyone will need permission prior to entering this site to collect Pizza Pizza look at this Shelby's going to try to take a branch off a tree to trade for a taste of pizza [Music] [Music] if you knew Jeff better she would have tried to find him a garden [Music] so these garnets tend to form in this mica sheast is it just peels off and if there's a swelling in the mica probably a garnet in there that one probably not be too bad it might be another one behind it in my pocket this is what else is [Music] waste but you never know like there's one oh I think it looks jammy before you see how thin it is that's a rough Garden right there [Applause] so something like that inside might contain Garden I don't see any on the outside actually no I do right right there but it's weathered thank you so here's the hole I'm digging I'll take it down there there's a seam of mica and I'm hoping that the garnets will be in that it's fresh rock so no one's gotten this far before here's the garnet there's a garnet oh yeah sweet so I'll take that home and split it I'll be able to do it right now here we go ah broken inside well heck a lot less to carry there foreign that we just took out nothing [Music] [Music] hey you what's that it's got a nice face on there we go it's classic for this place [Music] here's a nice one has to be extracted so what'd you find [Music] Mr Timbit oh goodness what are you doing [Music] so here's how I'm trying to dig here's my helper [Music] [Music] hey what do you think about all this [Music] oh [Music] that should be nice thank you [Music] as well it's broken [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] piece of green [Music] oh heck that's a nice rock one to play with at home see the shine okay foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I can't even filled in that's a bit good huh big and ugly just like me [Music] thank you good [Music] here's the biggest one of the day that could be a murderer but it's so heavy [Music] [Music] oh nice nice nice goes in my bag I'm starting to fall out of the wall here [Music] nice foreign [Music] yeah I feel the same way about some tree time to clock quits I've got quite the collection that's gonna weigh about 30 pounds maybe 40 to carry out plus the ones already put my bag in my pocket that was a good day so here are the gnarly stones that I helped out but I wanted to show you one more time is how they seem to form in this sheast you can see the black Mica the garnet inside so when you get a swelling of the mica like a round bump there's likely a garnet in there all right more important here's the somewhat better ones got to be a bucket trying to swell formica so it flakes off look at this let's dump them out see how they look [Applause] foreign so Jeff wants to show us something that's two inches long with a red head I'm not sure what we're going to see here and translucent look at them entry it's lucid kind of creepy looking there's a caterpillar of some kind oh so I didn't want to squish him so we'll just do it again thank you so much for watching bye for now

Channel: meMiner

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Id: FOBm7_wKFfI

Length: 19min 16sec (1156 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 08 2023