 Welcome to the rugged rockhound today. I'm in Eureka, and I'm here with a good friend Owen right there And we are gonna check out some of the old mines here in your Eureka a lot of gold copper silver out here And we're gonna go ahead and check out this hill right over here I've been here before a while back and there were some nice minerals. I'm trying to remember exactly what they were there was bearite and Malachite and azureite and things like that. So we're gonna go see what we can find and just have some fun At the base of the mine tailings looked around a little bit took a little while to find some stuff, but I found this Nice little piece right here. I don't know if you can tell in there, but right on the top right here We've got some botched old malachite Pretty cool looking so wash that up Well after digging a little bit in here didn't find a whole lot Just a few pieces of malachite and some bearite here and there We're gonna go ahead and move on to the next location We went to two other mine tailings after this and found basically nothing By now we were both pretty desperate for something to pan out After a brief discussion about our options Owen suggested that we try a spot he knew of where we could find some limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite. I Said sure it can't be any worse than where we have been so far and so we went there I've only been looking a few minutes and here we got already. Look at that nice big cube I found this one and Right there Cube right there Another one I've got my pocket here So we're here up on the hill at a private location looking for these limonite cubes Pseudomorphs after pyrite. So in this area, we're supposed to find cubes further up There's supposed to be dodecahedrons or something like that Pyrite of hedrons Also have to see how many sides they have There's a piece here I'm not cubes on them. They've been damaged a bit. It's been sitting on the way I was up the hill a little way looking at some of the other interesting shaped Limonite cubes. So instead of cubes they form. I don't know what you call that a 10-sided gone or an 8 Yeah, like a 10-sided gone or something You know that that shape you see with some of the pyrite crystals, so Yeah, just picked all those up off the surface Digging you're looking for these brown spots. Oh, that's a crystal So there's a crystal usually covered in dirt, but you're looking for these brown spots where there's a lot of iron We go through these layers. They kind of have a yellow to white color As soon as you get to where it looks all rusted And you know you're in the spot Just kind of a recap of where we're at right now He's going very well Yeah, we've got some nice bigger ones Films were digging just to see if you can pop that Because I was just picking and this popped out. Look at that tiny bit about its hollow on the inside Beautiful Also Oh Oh Look at that pretty thing all that right there too. It's several right up there. I Broke that one dang it. You can see that one's still pyrite right there. Oh man Dang, that's beautiful. Oh There's a really big one right here. Nice. Yeah, look over there over here this side Yes, look at this thing. Oh Wow That's heavy. That's probably the find today. Let's see that one side, isn't it? Oh, there's another one right there Yeah, that's gonna work. Okay That is probably the find of the day right there I don't know Let's get another closer look at that Monster pretty clean. Oh, yeah, it's pretty. Oh right there You get oh, yeah, you got another one Pretty stuck in there There's a whole bunch there waiting. That's not it. Nice Still there it's still right there again, so if you can get this off. Yeah, if you can get that thing off There's some big ones in the matrix right there There it comes. It's still in the matrix. Yeah There it is. It's like it broke a little at a time. Oh Nice The one in that matrix right there We need to go through all this matrix right here On the bigger than most of the stuff that one right there. I think that's one right there. Yeah. Oh, that's a nice one right there in the back. Oh Pull it right out I think so. There's one right below it too. Oh Look at that. It's clean. That's a beautiful one Those over here Yeah, just keep following this Found a few more Gonna film and see what else comes out. So we've got a nice little spot right there with Yeah, that's a cluster. There you go Keep that one. Keep this one over here. Oh, there's a little piece. Oh, that's cool. Oh, it's got two crystals together. Yeah You know these washed off They'll look a lot better that one right there So easy to miss them Add that Brown if you wonder. Oh, that's one Look at that one nice big one And That's an orange. Yeah, this has a few little ones. Oh, some more things coming out Oh, it's broken. Oh, that's another I think that's the other half to that thing Maybe oh, oh, oh, yeah, look at that one cool nice This one oh Oh nice, it's a bit of so fractured on the part I don't know what you do with that one. Oh, it's like a big one. Oh That is huge. You're gonna keep that one. Oh, thanks You can take a turn digger. Oh Look, it's got a nice crystal there Okay, you found a nice cluster right here a nice big one So he's gonna extract that Document it on this side. It's like rustic. It's pretty good. Yeah Got a nice area poking out right here look at that. Oh It's gonna be a nice cluster right here, and then we got a nice area right here. We're still Going to extract this Oh, that's very nice That's my find of the day so far Well, I'm back at home now and let's take a look at what I found. Oh It was a good dig Look at that. I've never found limonite sumors this large. Oh Can you imagine if they were still pyrite? That was one of the highlights of the dig right there nice big cluster At that cube right there is what an inch to an inch an inch and a half across This huge thing Yeah, that crystals over two inches across Tibet it's got so much stuff on it. So I washed these off What but that's all I've done with them so far a lot of these have this residue on them that could be calcite or quartz and I'm gonna try and see if I can get that stuff off If I do manage to get some of these cleaned off I'll show it in a future video Oh Boy, some of these though these some of these smaller ones though Look how beautiful those are these ones that are really dark like this are still mostly pyrite on the inside I've got one broken open right here and as you can see right there on the edge You can see inside how it's still pyrite so looks like This stuff has been altering Some of it for a long time like that But some of it didn't alter too much some of it is still pretty darn close to the original pirate and right here We've got a bunch of little ones that are kind of like ten-sided Things they're just kind of weird weird shape. I've seen pirate this shape in a lot of Samples, but yeah, I don't know what to call it a ten-sided gone Ten gone whatever that's called decagon. I'd say okay, so yeah Wonderful dig lots of cool finds definitely gonna go back out to this place again