let's take a peek at do you see that oh it's all over it look it hey what's up folks welcome back
to the channel today i am really excited because we are going to be cutting open
and slabbing prehnite or pre night i'm not exactly sure which one it is i've heard it both ways
i've said it prenite for the longest time and i've recently heard some people say it's pre-night so
let me know in the comments section whether you call it prenite or pre-knight but
anyways yeah we're going to be cutting it open on my lapidary saw i have a 10 inch saw and it is
gonna do some serious damage to this stuff i have a few of them when you shake them they rattle that
means there's open cavities on the inside and i've never cut it open before so this is a first for us
i'm really excited to show you what's going on the inside and to see it myself let me show you what
we're going to be cutting today so here's one of the smallest pieces that we're going to be
cutting open today as you can see right here it's got open cavities
i am so excited to see what's going on with this it's got this really beautiful green botryoidal
or botryorital again let me know in the comment section botryorital or botryorital how do you
say it but really excited to cut it open slab it up got some really cool pieces some druzy so neat
i like that one a lot look at that if we can get to it which i'm sure we will this guy
it's my biggest piece right here and this is the one that rattles when we shake it
so now that i've shown you all the prenite pre night that
we're going to be cutting in today's video let me get a few things set up and then we'll get going
so i got my 10-inch high-tech diamond saw filled up with water
the prehnites ready to get sliced and slabbed got everything ready to go so let's grab one
of the smaller pieces and we'll cut it open to see what's going on inside
we'll see what's going on inside this i know a lot of these had little rattlers going on
oh sweet oh that is cool look at that botryorital
formation that is so cool this one we probably won't slab just because
as that is that's pretty cool we might we'll probably slap this one right there so we're going
to cut all these in half and then we're going to come back and slab them so i just want to be
able to see what's going on on the inside but i'll put this over here for the to be slapped and then
this is a keeper i like that that is so pretty next up we're going to cut this guy right here
really love this piece again we're going to go right down the middle
and see what's going on the inside and uh i really like this piece this is one of the first
pieces of prana that i found when i knew it was actually prehnite and it was on a frozen beach
up on the north shore so yeah pretty excited about this one
so we got that one cut let's take a look at this one this is probably one of the ones i'm most
excited to see how this uh will look inside oh wow that is so cool let's take a peek at
do you see that right there hold on i'm just peeking around the camera here oh my gosh
oh it's all over it look at hold on hold on look right there right there
right there right there there there
it's all over in it obviously because we just cut it
it is the first native copper i've ever found and it's chalked in all of this get out of here
that's the last thing i expected oh we'll get some close-ups of that with the macro lens at the end
i know it's just you know copper looking but we'll take a closer peek at it because it's
embedded into it you can even see some of that right there that's copper as well that green
it's just that uh this stuff we hit with the saw so we cut the internals of it oh that is so cool
i did not expect that at all yeah we'll be slapping this one much more so we'll uh
we'll cut a couple more here and then we'll take a peek hopefully there's more copper
we got those cut and i took a peek while i was waiting for my heater to do more heating and
in there see it
that's copper in there as well we got copper in the first cut oh i'm so excited i haven't looked
at the first or second piece here neither of these so let's see what's going on in here oh my gosh
that is so pretty let me oh i just want to make sure that we're checking
this up to see if we can find more copper it's just so cool
i don't see any right now
maybe a little bit right there i see a little dark green spot
anyway that is so pretty look at the betrothal going on in there that is so pretty i'm
i might i may take just a little bit off here but i might leave this a thicker chunk we'll see how
we feel at the end just because there's so many cavities and stuff i feel like it might start
breaking away and this is a really good piece so yeah i don't see any copper in this one though
put this one over here for now i'll take a peek at this i know it's gonna be dirty
oh that is really really compact here that is so pretty
i'm trying to see if i find any copper i don't see any in this one either this would be a good
one to slap so we're going to be you know trying to get at least maybe two more cuts into that one
same with this one i don't see any copper but we'll be we'll be taking two or three more slabs
out of this one next up is this guy i am very very excited to see what's going on with this
it is so interesting and i actually recently found this up on the north shore and it was a
pretty cold and windy day that day and this is the really the only thing that i found so trying to
think about as far as slabbing we'll probably get the most out of it going this way let's do that
so before we show you that next piece if you guys could do me a huge favor leave a thumbs up on this
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and i love sharing it with you all but let's take a look inside this brown night pre-night
prehnite whatever it is all right i haven't looked yet i'm pretty excited about this one because it's
so unique it's got a lot of these heavy greens in it part of me even thought it might have like
epidote i don't even know if that's possible but um it looks pretty cool so let's take a peek here
oh my gosh i i really think that's epidote running through the prehnite
how pretty is that
oh my gosh do you see it watch watch as i kind of turn it into the light
i'm trying to catch it like all through here copper
more copper all the way through we'll get some good macro shots when we get inside a better light
oh that is so exciting yeah a whole bunch right there you know i don't really get too much into
like the value of stones i just don't really care about that stuff but you know if you want to look
at stone having value this stuff as we're cutting it literally is going up in price
a little bit because of the price of copper but how cool is that i that that really looks like
some of the epidote i found on the north shore yeah we'll be slabbing this one for sure as well
so we have this big guy this is probably the biggest piece of prehnite i've brought home
look at this right here it's very very pretty but as it sits on my saw it's too tall
so i might just leave this one for another time i know i could run it through and turn it
and all that but we'll try to take ends off it this way we might be able to work our way up
that way we'll do that we'll just start i don't know do i slap it do we leave it now i'm torn
what i know you're probably yelling at the tv or the screen or whatever to do something
we'll leave this one for another video let me know in the comment section what you would do
with the big chunk of prehnite do we cut it do we leave it we'll slap the rest though
so i just got done slapping all the pieces and i'm going to show the rest of the stuff to you
when we get inside i'm going to get it all cleaned off in some better light but i took
a peek at this one and i just have to show you because it is so beautiful check this out
and in the glare of the light i can see copper little bits all over it how pretty is that it's
like epidote and prehnite or maybe oh gosh i just i know there's printed on there but maybe
there's just more epidote running through it but either way that's so cool but we'll get all this
stuff cleaned up i got to get my saw cleaned up and everything so we'll meet you inside
now so we got all these cleaned up and i gotta say that this big guy right here
as i looked closer didn't have to my knowledge to my eyes any copper in there i'm sure there is some
but i just didn't see any kind of do the flashing on the lights
still a really beautiful piece really loved cutting that up and then same with this guy
didn't see any in there but that was fun to cut and a really really beautiful piece of prehnite
great betrothal cavities going on in there that is so cool these guys all had copper
and i'm so excited about that it's just so cool and let's see this one right here you can see it
right in there but besides the copper being in there i really love this piece and the betrayal
cavity going on i'm not too sure how to clean that do you think we should soak it a vinegar
what do you think and i'm gonna save this one for last even though this one's details are they're
both just so different so unique but it is just so cool and again this one has copper all over in
it so i'll show you all the slabs and then we'll show you the copper in there with a macro lens
that is so beautiful such a unique formation look at that
that is so cool
i don't know if you'll be able to see you can kind of see it right there and up in here
oh that is too cool all the copper running in there
oh i love this i absolutely love that
oh i wish i knew more about this stuff to tell you why it does what it does
lots to learn that is so cool but let me pop the macro lens on and we'll look at some of the copper
pieces that are in here alrighty you can see some right there i put an arrow pointing at that piece
as we move over here big formation of it right there
there's a good piece right there
that is cool here's another slab that has a lot of it kind of running through this epidote
look at that it's just all over in there you can see it
and this is too cool here's another slab that has it all over in there
it's from the same piece it's just chock full of it
look at that that is pretty cool
and lastly we have my favorite piece this is kind of where my love for prehnite night started this
one it's kind of all slapped up here you can see i know the the light is glaring at it pretty bad but
right there right there right there pretty big chunks right in there of copper running through
there there's a pretty big chunk some right there and some up here as well so let me pop my macro
lens on again and we'll take a peek at some of these bigger pieces of copper so right there you
can see some coming through and the blade just barely hit it same with up here by my finger
kind of flashing there these pieces right here
seriously too cool and it's all over in it this is probably the one right there
probably the longest piece of copper that we found in the
group it looks like there's some right there above it as well it is really cool
being able to find my first native copper native to minnesota
through cutting otherwise i wouldn't have seen it wouldn't have even known it was in there and
it brings me so much joy being able to have found it with all of you it's so crazy
that is so cool
so when i was outside cutting all that prehnite i was absolutely freezing cold even though i
had the heater on pretty much the whole time during that cutting session and now that i'm
inside i still got my hoodie on and i'm absolutely roasting so let's fix that ah that's much better
but i had a lot of fun cutting all that i hope you enjoyed it thank you for watching and do me
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