See I’m really glad he said something because I do that every day I go around licking rocks everywhere I go

Lol! - Don't be a rock licker!

Glad you liked the video.

Isn’t malachite also dangerous?

CFL are no longer available in most stores where I live

I inhaled arsine gas! I almost died! :D 1/10 experience, I do not recommend.

Thank you for sharing this info with all of us, kind sir.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Glad to hear it!

Glad it was helpful!

Interesting!

Awesome, thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it! I've got more like that to come!

Thanks, you too!

Don't lick the rocks, wash your hands before you eat, all stuff my mom taught me when I was 5. And don't stress out.

It's always wise to wash your hands after handling rocks you've collected.

glad you enjoyed it.

and the white coating on old lead is oxidized lead minerals. Good idea to wash one's hands before lunch (mine are often super dirty just from the dirt anyway).

@@ChrisRalph Oxidised lead "the white powder" also is used in the manufacture of Picric Acid a voletile chemical and highly explosive. Its on the forbidden list of hazardous material that cannot be transported in bulk.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks! Will do!

Glad you enjoyed it!

I mean Chris

Its OK - Chris Ralph is my name - The book is available on Amazon - I think you will like it.

Glad it was helpful!

My pleasure! Glad it was helpful.

Some of the rare earth minerals do have associated Thorium or Uranium.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Crushing and breathing the dust could be a big problem.

I saw one snake in Australia and it was the most pitiful snake I've ever seen (it was near 0 degrees C). The Aussie guy I was with said in decades of prospecting he'd only seen a few browns. He said to worry if you were in a area with a lot of rodent burrows.

Happy to help

Glad to hear the stone did not affect you.

You are welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

I'm surprised the professor didn't give at least some warning.

@@ChrisRalph Well it was in 1973 so to be fair, no one was getting too bent out of shape about it back then.

Glad you enjoyed it - I hope all is going well with the rattler.

I'm glad it was helpful.

Yep, its true.

It really is! I was shocked when I heard it.

They didn't use pure asbestos, but used serpentine, a rock that contains a few percent asbestos. So long as it is underneath the asphalt, it's not a problem. But for dirt roads, that's another story.

Glad you enjoyed it.

You're welcome

Glad it was helpful!

Maybe learn how to identify minerals so you can know what is there at the mines. Please watch my videos on how to Identify minerals for yourself. Part 1 can be found here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9abiphpv8u1nJc.html and Part 2 can be found here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLWHopdqvZ-Ul3U.html and Part 3 can be found here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lceSaLGfzLjQhqs.html - Those videos should answer a lot of your questions.

Better safe than sorry.

Antimony has been used in many alloys.

Interesting - always there are some unexpected consequences.

Hi Caryn - When I was in Australia, I was in WA and I did come across a bunch of arsenopyrite in an old mullock heap. Parts of Australia were asbestos mining hubs and loads of it were mined. Uranium minerals were mined in a number of places in in Australia and thorium rich beach sands occur as well. Are all of these minerals present in your specific part of the north coast? I just don't know.

Thanks Chris for your prompt reply.. I will investigate further! I will look forward to more of your videos. Stay frosty! 😊

Its good stuff to know.

Glad it was helpful!

Glad you enjoyed it!

No problem.

Thank you! Cheers!

Thanks for commenting and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Glad it was helpful! - I am also so very tired of the rain and snow - it never seems to end!

Be careful with rocks from around old metal mines and it doesn't mater what metal they were mining.

interesting.

Just be careful and wash your hands before you eat.

Glad it was helpful! Stay dry! The high country hydro pits are going to be snowed in until July.

@@ChrisRalph I know makes me sad 😞 but we need the water 💦

Yep, very true.

Thanks and glad you like the video.

Very true - good knowledge to have.

It is silvery - you just can't judge a mineral by its color.

Interesting.

Of course I am not a doctor, but what you say seems like a real possibility.

Interesting .

I didn't know about that one. Thanks.

I'm not sure where you are but Its banned for driveways and gravel roads in California, and locally in some other places. Yes, most serpentine has some asbestos but the amounts vary. I'm not really planning a video on serpentine, but I am planning a video on Asbestos minerals (and their health effects) in the coming weeks.

To give you an idea of it's size, San Francisco CA is only 30,000 acres.

New Idria was a mercury mine. Check it with google and confirm - it was a mercury mine and cinnabar was the main ore.

True, and thorium is also used in lantern mantles as well. But all of these uses combined together are a tiny, tiny amount as compared to the amount of thorium produced as a by product from rare earth extraction, and so there is a surplus of it on the market.

@@ChrisRalph oh yes-forgot about the lamp mantles. Thought other materials are now used in those. Thorium still being used in the electronic tubes. Since it’s enclosed-not a real hazard. Only if the tube is broken and the small amount gets to where it can be inhaled. This is rare.

You definitely dont want to eat cinnabar.

I'll remember that.

Don't ID minerals by just by color - there are hundreds of minerals that can be found in the color red. Lots of red rocks and minerals are colored by iron. I did some mineral Identification videos - take a look at them for more info.

A little copper is necessary for your body but its easy to get too much and too much is toxic. I would dig, but if I were making loads of malachite dust, I'd have a mask.

It sometimes takes years to show effect and the fish don't live that long.

@@ChrisRalph indeed, I’m a biochemist by trade and I’m familiar with a lot of those minerals, more specifically the ailments/morbidities they cause. I used to do studies on miners as well as military personnel, mainly people exposed to industrial waste & environmental pollutants, looking at their medical records you can see a common transition point depending on the pollutant they were exposed to, from beginning symptoms, to end stage and the ailments they cause are almost universal in the time & way they manifest. The minerals certainly are beautiful but so are Amazonian tree frogs, it doesn’t mean we should touch them, I only wish people would quit knowingly fooling with those minerals. Cinnabar can cause some pretty brutal renal injuries in people who have a bad reaction to it.

In some places I am sure it will.

That is a good book to help identify rocks and minerals.

Yep - it takes years to understand the hazards involved.

No worries - I want to come to Australia again - I was there 10 years ago in WA for 6 weeks.

Awesome im in victoria in thee golden triangle and would have so much fun looking for gold with you my friend wen you make your next visit sir have a wonerfull day sir

Mississippi isn't a very good state to prospect for gold. It lies a few hundred miles west of the Carolina Slate Belt, a rich gold-bearing area which is responsible for most gold deposits in the South. Still, there is still a small amount of gold in Mississippi - but just tiny amounts.

No, its nothing special, just a piece of quartz.

Ok.

Totally and completely different. You cant judge a mineral buy its color - there are probably 500 minerals that can potentially be some shade of red. Please watch my videos on how to Identify minerals for yourself. Part 1 can be found here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9abiphpv8u1nJc.html and Part 2 can be found here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLWHopdqvZ-Ul3U.html and Part 3 can be found here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lceSaLGfzLjQhqs.html

Thanks! 😃 I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

So.long as the buyers don't saw or grind up the rocks and make dust, it should be OK.

Perhaps - study of chemical reactions continues.

What makes a difference is how much of these things are in the cons. If you don't breathe it, eat it or take in on your skin, it should not be a problem - its like poisons still in a bottle as long as they stay where they are, they are fine.

Asbestos isn't dangerous until you take it into your body, either by breathing or swallowing dust.

@@ChrisRalph ok, so ingested dust as well as an inhalant is poisonous. Good to know.

You know that all orthoclase is slightly radioactive because orthoclase is potassium feldspar and all potassium is slightly radioactive.

@@ChrisRalph had my smokey quartz and orthoclase specimen looked at it contained radon or radium I won't dig there anymore ha ha dont want lung cancer ha ha

Very true about teeth fillings.

It takes a lot of exposure to a lot of quartz dust to get silicosis. So yes, in extreme cases quartz can be dangerous, but it takes years of exposure to high levels.

They are not the same, but both have arsenic in them, both can be toxic. Lots of minerals are red in color. Wash your hands carefully if you handle proustite. Don't breathe any dust if you crush it. However it will not evaporate into the air if it is just sitting there.

Awesome @@ChrisRalph , thank you for the reply! I was wondering if I needed to get some sealed glass chamber for it or something there. I may still get some kind of glass case, but in the meantime will handle with gloves and wash my hands thoroughly if I handle it.

Interesting.

I have an odd piece that looks the part for uranium, and it certainly has something in it as my pin pointer is excited by it quite easily!

From your description, I have no idea whatsoever.

I don't offer private consulting or advisement services.

There are many elements which can color something red. You will note in watching this video that both cinnabar (mercury) and realgar (arsenic) are pretty much the same color. Rubies are also similar - they are colored by chromium. Most things that are red - including sandstone - are colored by iron. There are hundreds of minerals that can be found in the color red.

With a supercooled chunk of quartz, you could probably do the math to figure out the amount of quartz necessary per fuel mass…?

I don't think they have a China syndrome problem at Fukushima.

More people than you think do it.

iron minerals.

There are a number of oxidized lead minerals - the ones you noted, pyromorphite, and many others - it was not intended as a complete list of all dangerous minerals.

I have no idea what you mean by "naturally soaker"

@@ChrisRalph gold dissolves in mercury and compounds with it, would cinnabar when in contact with gold dissolve it? And if it happens then can cinnabar have a high gold content?

Noup, cinnabar is just one of many minerals, some are rare earth ones, that were used since ancient times (not greek nor roman or whatever fake mainstream "science and history" tells us) as a source that mercury can be extracted from. When that's done, you have Hg and thats metal, not mineral anymore. Gold is a rare earth metal, and in ancient mining and metallurgy mercury was used with copper to get gold outa sand like ore mix, mercury would keep the gold and bond with it on a copper surface, and separate it from the rest. Heating it up would make mercury evaporate leaving only gold with high level of purity. Mercury is most toxic in that state if u inhale it, it was used in medicine too. Banning mercury like in EU just coz it's toxic is way too stupid, like people who lick stuff that they find on the floor, and chance to find it and lick it are whatever, way too small, there's a bigger chance to get killed by thunder strike while on mountains that are volcanic type, since those have other metals like iron and thunders hit those a lot and randomly. Picking up and eating shrooms or making alcohol drinks killed bunch of people comparing to mercury poisoning, if u drink home chems for dish washing ect. u can die too, and no one bans em right? ;)

Its true that old style lantern mantles contain thorium. I use an LED lantern with rechargeable batteries now.

Please watch my video on how to identify platinum group minerals - see: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7qiZ8iUvdnVfo0.html

I guess they can be picked up with bare hands so long as you wash your hands thoroughly afterwards - I'd rather have gloves on especially for the arsenic minerals.

@@ChrisRalph Thank you so much Chris! I will always wear gloves from here on out! This is a MUST SEE video for all prospectors out there!

There are maybe 300 or more minerals that are yellow and have no inherent odor. I have no idea which one yours is. Take a look at my videos on how to identify minerals.

And exactly what species are you?