hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker Mining and metals and on today's video I'm back in this
Creek a couple weeks ago I posted a video where I found some list one night or list the night
which is a green mineral it's a it's a nickel bearing mineral and it's really really pretty
it's it's uh it's the green is the nickel and it's got white and gray in it so today I'm on
the hunt for more lists tonight so let's go see what we can find that's what we're looking for
so the green is nickel the white is either a carbonate or quartz
and then there's a little bit of dark gray in there as well and what this is is this is
a metamorphosed ultramafic rock that's why it has the nickel in it probably in a fault Zone
hydrothermally altered and it just turns out really really pretty check it out look it up
on on Wikipedia or something list of the night I think is what it's called but there's a there's
a really nice specimen and they're just they look kind of orangey not not much going on on
the surface the green on the bottom tipped me off to it here's another one I spotted the green on
that's a good looking piece I'm not gonna break that one open I'm going
to take that one home put it in the saw see what it looks like on the inside but
that's what you're looking for there's a pretty little piece right right there
see how green that is
that's a nice piece too bad it's not bigger
I'm not sure about this one here it's got some green Speckles on it let's see what happens here
yeah that's the stuff oh look that one has some pyrite in it
oh that's pretty cool what does this look like
yeah that's pretty neat with the pyrite in it that's a keeper there's another one right there
and get it out of there it's got green on the surface oh yeah look at those nice green pieces
we'll put him in the saw too well here's a piece I found and I broke open it just had a little bit
of green showing at the top and then it was this white on top and black on the bottom but look at
when I broke it open it's got that green in the middle white and black it's almost like
Dan heard's ocean picture Stone both sides there you got the land the water in the sky
that's pretty cool what do you think Dan is that worth keeping well I think I got one right here
I can't tell if that green is just like moss from the or algae from the river
oh no that's good
oh yeah look at all that green that's gonna slab up real nice I'm just looking for the
the orange ones and there's a lot of orange rocks in the creek here but you got to find
the ones with a little bit of green on them and sometimes they're hard to spot but if you
can find the ones with green like ooh what's that one right there let's go look at that one
oh that one doesn't look very good but that one looks um not good either
now that's just some volcanic about that one nope so you gotta find the ones with the green on them
but I'm looking back up under the brush and the Creek's real high right now so I can't get across
so I'm kind of having to work this little bar and uh it's hard because I don't have a lot of space
that might be interesting it's kind of slimy let's break that one open
Hammer cam
oh that's cool it's it doesn't have any green in it
but it's definitely iron rich see how orange it is on the outside
I wonder if that's list when I without any Nickel in it we're back in the shop set up and ready
start with this one that has that puritite stuff on it because I'm really curious about that
and I need your help here what's the best way to cut these up what's the the most
interesting thing I can I can do with these things should I make them into a quarter inch
half inch slabs so people can make cabochons out of them should I cut a couple smooth faces
on them so they're stand ups uh let me know leave me a comment below we're all set up and
clamped in I'm just going to take a little slab off that face hopefully we still have
some of that puritite or pyrite in there so we can take a look at what's going on there
and our big diamond blade is just going to slice right through there let's see what we got here
now I'm going to turn it so this flat faces down cut off this top part so we can have a little
stand up looking thing oh I cut the bottom off it see what she looks like now that's a pretty
cool little stand up piece nice green there on that face there's a pretty one look at that
oh yeah see what this house looks like
beautiful
whoa check that out
that's wild
look at that on this one too oh yeah wow that's pretty cool huh
that's a neat one here's a real nice one
look at that one this one's cool because I cut uh parallel with the grain
and you get that a lot more green if you hit it just right and then if you pull this guy out
this is a cool one so you've got parallel and perpendicular with the grain so you can see the
different characteristics there that's pretty cool here's a look at everything I got cut a bunch of
stand-ups there's two in particular I want to look at a Little Closer this one and this big tall one
so let me go get my microscope I'll take a look we'll take a look at this one here first I'm
gonna use this little microscope Clips right on my phone it's really cool I've used a lot of my other
videos I got a link in the description if you want to check it out now here's what I wanted to look
at there's a bunch of sulfides in this one all those little gray bands and what I wanted to see
is if there's any gold in here because I've also heard this called I think it's called mariposite
and this is what they used to look for in the mother lode California area and this would be
real indicative of gold so when I saw these sulfides I got pretty excited but I don't see
any yellow gold
it's just sulfides it might be worth getting some of this stuff acid
but it's really pretty look at the broken up quartz and the green looks like the
green filled in once the courts broke up I think there's a really good you can see
I don't know I'm making this up can you see the quartz growth into the green
or vice versa I don't know
it almost looks like the green is clear and the quartz like like a fluid and the
quartz grew into it I've got this one washed and cleaned up a little bit and look at the
structure going on in that rock holy moly it was folded two or three times and then faulted
that's a really neat little specimen there this was the last one I cut and it's more
green throughout but there's something right up here I want to look at with the microscope
there's something right there there's a little Dusty I don't know if you can
see it on the camera but there's a little Dusty yellow right along there we'll have
to take a look at that one with the microscope let's see if we can find that yellow stuff oh
hey what's all that yellow stuff
man that sure looks like gold
holy cow is that all gold oh look at that
wow is that is that gold
look at that it's all the way along that streak
wow
wow I don't know guys what do you think that sure looks like gold to me I think that's gold
I think that's all really really fine gold
with some bigger pieces holy smokes here's the other half and the gold continues
right along the other half right down those bands
wow I've never seen anything like that in this District
it's always been in the quartz veins but that looks like some really really rich gold or
whoa look at that whoa look at that
jeez there's Gold Everywhere on this I wonder what this one would assay
oh man it's in the it's in the green and everywhere
wow that is a rich one so now I've got these home and I'm just finding gold all over them
I want to show you right in this green band right here there's a bunch of gold
so we're right in the border with the gray white and the green on top As you move over here you
just start seeing little flecks of gold it's it's pretty much all in the green it seems like
so this is that other tall one that had the mineralization in it it doesn't have as much
gold as that other one but I think that's a piece of gold right there
right in the left of the screen there but I don't see
gold in the Bands like we did in that previous one
but there's a lot of mineralization in this one a lot of sulfides not much gold this one's cool this
is the one actually both of these that I broke in the creek there and it's kind of like that ocean
picture Stone so those would make some really cool cabochons for somebody I didn't cut those I
just left those as as natural and then these ones have the vibrant green those ones those ones back
there these ones are a little more structurally interesting so a lot of cool stuff going on each
one of these rocks is is unique and different it's pretty neat well there you go guys very
cool adventure I like walking along and finding no gemstone quality minerals just laying in the
creek that's pretty cool so if you're interested in any of these samples I'll have a list on eBay
so you can check them out there otherwise thanks for watching and we'll see on the next video