Exploring Volcanoes: the Dangers, Characteristics, and Mineral Deposit Potential for different types

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Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector

Күн бұрын

Volcanoes are beautiful, but they can also be incredibly dangerous. They can cause massive destruction, including lava flows, ash clouds, and pyroclastic flows. Did you know there are different types of volcanoes and some are far more dangerous than others? Some explode, some just ooze out liquid lava that runs all over, some shoot out red hot cinders with toxic gasses and ash. Some can form gold deposits and others can make gemstones. Let’s explore the fascinating world of volcanoes, their dangers, resources and characteristics.
My video on volcanoes forming gemstone deposits can be found here: • Do gemstones come from...
My video on volcanoes leading to gold deposits can be found Here: • Geology of Gold deposi...
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@videonauta333 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris!

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@toddeftsadams5909 Жыл бұрын

Thak you Chris, You have become my favorite contest provider on KZfaq.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@catherinematlock4271 4 ай бұрын

I learned things I didn't know. Thank you. I do love exploring volcanoes.

@ChrisRalph 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@simpleautosolutions5147 Жыл бұрын

In a world plauged with bad news and rancor, your videos are a blessing. Thanks for the informative and positive videos!

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@eamonncoady9823 Жыл бұрын

As interesting and informative as always Ralph. Always a pleasure.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@johnramirez5032 Жыл бұрын

There isnt enough time to learn all that stuff. Geology and mineral deposits and usgs surveys all are useful tools in the hunt for gold and other minerals. To read the land and see it in the mountains is really humbling. What a beautiful world we live in.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

It is a beautiful and well designed universe.

@SamtheIrishexan Жыл бұрын

I love your energy. One can tell you love what you do, and as a layman I appreciate the lesson! This is a topic that has always made me curious.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

@anthonyrstrawbridge Жыл бұрын

I listened too and lent attention to this entire episode. No questions - none. Thanks for the share Chris

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@anthonyrstrawbridge Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Mr Ralph you're my Christmas Ham ♥️ Hopefully buy you a cup of .......just before we locate the Sumo wrestling baby nug - it's out there. Remember God is gold; gold is not! ✌️♥️👍🏿

@Smithsgold Жыл бұрын

Great Information !!!!

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@Smithsgold Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph your up late !!!! must be working on a new video

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

i'll have one this Saturday, but I was working on other things having just gotten back home on Sunday.

@guidokuhn1275 Жыл бұрын

Greetings ◇ Thanks for the great informative post ☆@☆ This on the type's of volcano's,(great stuff ☆) My interest is in those vulcanising muddy pools?@? You can see the different mineral colours @ Can please have a introduction on those types Of vulcanising processes. Love your blog ☆top quality ☆☆☆

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Vulcanizing is a process to make rubber hard for auto tires.

@HALIYALBETAGERIVLOG2024 Жыл бұрын

very nice video sir❤️

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@John-ir2zf Жыл бұрын

Good information. Though i would have added the large igneous province type eruption to the fissure eruption section. LIPs are the most environmentally damaging type and deserved a mention.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Ok.

@johnramirez5032 Жыл бұрын

Hello Sir! The processes that make mountainous region's have almost always fascinated me. In one area i found chocolate color stained quarts. So much of that quarts was cocered with the chocolate staining was ontop of quarts that u wouldnt know it was quarts except by its shape. I often wonder what caused that. Another great video!

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@richardbeee Жыл бұрын

Popocatepel, north of Mexico city. Rincon De La Veiga, Costa Rico. Nevada del Ruiz, Columbia. Another on the Alutions island. One in Russia, all strato volcanoes erupting now that are having an influence on our weather. The ash particles are ejected into the atmosphere and the dust is like a piece of sand in a oyster. producing large hail like they had in FL and TX. From the southern volcanoes the ash and gas drifted NE from the northern ones SW. I had a friend check his air current maps and sure enough came right over AZ . Producing some spectacular sunsets without a cloud in the sky. I also smelled it when i awoke that morning, that's why he ran the maps for me. Thanks for shareing Chris.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Volcanic ash can affect the weather.

@richardbeee Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph So also can the SO2 gas. Beautiful red skies at night when they are normally blue/grey without clouds or moisture in the atmosphere. Incredible.

@EM-ig7ib Жыл бұрын

Smh. . . I love this Sh^t Chris... The way you frame the intros makes it impossible for me to not watch it. Love this video

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@mikevick707 Жыл бұрын

Hi I have a question. I saw your Gold Bug Pro Video and was wondering how far down the gold bug pro 5 inch coil can detect large gold nuggets. I am looking for a baseball size nugget in California :)

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

A baseball sized nugget is going to be more than 50 ounces and the number of 50+ ounce nuggets found in CA in the last century is I think exactly 2. So your chances are about 1 in 10 million. You'd be better off buying a lotto ticket. I strongly recommend learning to find smaller gold successfully before you try to find the 1 in 10 million whale. How deep will a metal detector can see is a complex question that depends on many factors like how big the target is, the size of the coil you are using, the mineralization of the soil, etc. To learn more, check out this video I did on the exact question of how deep your detector will go - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iapjlracys_PpKM.html

@mikevick707 Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Thanks so much for answering my question I will watch that video! I am sorta joking about the baseball sized nugget but I do want to find gold nuggets! I have been watching your videos for the past few days and they are amazing. You are a great informative gold hunting enthusiast. I am getting a Gold Bug Pro soon and hope to have a lot of fun with it.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

There are like a million small nuggets for every large one, and the weights of the smaller ones add up. The GBPro is not a deep seeking metal detector - its great for the smaller ones that are so much more common. Stick with that smaller coil until you've found a hundreds small nuggets - then you can at least think about larger coils and deeper targets.

@guywhoisaguy67676 Жыл бұрын

Chris, Is there any way to tell the direction of flow in a Sill or Dyke ? It would help me to know wheather I have Basalt Dykes or Sills that have fauilted and now face up. I ask because I found a volcano in Boston Ma (over the Middlesex Volcanic Complex) when a developer made a road cut through a small Granite hill for acess. There is six Dykes or faulted Sills 8 to 10 feet wide, 30 to 80 feet apart and don't appear to be the same age, So by the sheer volume of flow, there should be Basalt all over the place and there's none to be found. That's why I think they were pushed up from below. If I could find out direction of flow, it would help me figure out things because if they were sills, there's faults nearby.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Both dikes and sills are injected as liquid lava into faults.

@djmvremix2964 Жыл бұрын

very informative videos by the way can i ask what type of volcano is TAAL,MAYON,CANLAON VOLCANO here in philippines 😊

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Mount Kanlaon and Kanlaon Volcano is an active stratovolcano - you can find out more using google to search about them.

@djmvremix2964 Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph thank you sir

@djmvremix2964 Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph taal volcano,mayon volcano,canlaon volcano are those type of volcano can produce minerals when erupted sir or has mineral deposit?

@shineyrocks390 Жыл бұрын

I do have a question for you. So I've been out playing in the dirt. I found what looks to be an old river bed with all types of round smooth stones and below it is a hard packed layer under those round smooth stones. I have taken many samples from under those stones near that contact point of hard pack and smooth rounded stones. So far I'm sluicing and panning out millions of red garnets and black magnetic sands. I have gotten a few specks of gold. You and Jeff Williams are always saying to get the gold I have to go where it's been found before and so I did. My question is am I digging and sampling in the correct area between those stones and hard pack of do I need to go deep even farther below this area of contact point? The indicators are there. Gold not much.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Based on your description it's hard to say. Is there a solid bedrock underneath?

@sardarqayum22 Жыл бұрын

❤

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@greedygringoprospecting6941 Жыл бұрын

i think the yellow aster mine was a volcano. theres extrusive mafic rock all over the place. miles away. most likely its why gold was do abundant. around there.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

No, the yellow aster is not a volcano. There may be sources of volcanic rocks nearby but the yellow aster is not a volcano.

@paulbegley1464 Жыл бұрын

I still wouldn't want to live next to one. My luck it would become active.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Maybe it would!

@foop8888 Жыл бұрын

Saint Helens exploded May 18th 1980 not in March.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Please look these things up before you comment like that. The big eruption that killed many was March 27, 1980. Smaller eruptions continued afterwards including in May. Check a dozen sources to see what is right.

@foop8888 Жыл бұрын

Wrong again. The major eruption was May 18th 1980. I know because I have lived here all my life.

@baneverything5580 Жыл бұрын

The only reason our current civilization was able to form was a highly unusual period of climate stability that has no chance of continuing. We could be preparing for what`s coming but absolutely no effort is being made to do so besides some seed vaults. About 5000 years ago there was the Burckle Crater impacts, then the 536 A.D. catastrophe, The Year Without A Summer and other events being discovered including massive solar outbursts 100,000 times more intense than the Carrington Event. These things are deadly to modern humans. They will happen again. But we`re obsessing over a slight rise in temperature when the data reveals many very rapid temperature changes in the past of up to 15 C in under 100 years plus the info above. We`re all sitting ducks and nobody is talking about reality. This is all temporary. Enjoy it while it lasts.

@ChrisRalph Жыл бұрын

Krakatoa, when it erupted, affected the weather for a couple years.

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