Where Did I Get My Mercury?

In this video I show where my mercury came from.

I forgot to mention that I only recently got the mercury back from a family member who was keeping it so little kid me didn't play with it too much.

[theCodyReeder]

At the end of this video I was using a UV lamp to test for the presence of mercury since mercury vapor is very good at stopping the light produced by the lamp; During that I discovered that Cinnabar is flammable! It burns almost like sulfur, which makes sense being that upon heating cinnabar releases mercury and sulfur vapor.

[Youngblzy]

If there’s ever an abandoned anything anywhere I swear there’s gonna be beer cans

[peters]

I could listen to this dude talk about rocks all day

[neilolif]

"Where did I get my mercury?"

Well that's an interesting story for me. I was metal detecting in the Sierras near an old hydraulic mine and I located a rusted "tank" that at first seemed like an old propane tank until I looked closer.

It turns out that this "tank" was an Almaden Quicksilver Mines 76 pound mercury carboy. And it also turns out that it was the miners recovery flask! It contained three pounds of mercury and approximately 0.65 troy ounces of gold!

I used the nitric acid process to recover it. Amazing find from my point of view!

[FakeAndGamer]

"What do you need hundreds of pounds of mercury for though?"

"idk. suppose my grandson with flush a toilet with it some day."

[lorddias]

Cody saying "I don't know how it works". I never thought I'd see the day lol.

[erik]

"where do I get my uranium from"
"where do I get my Nukes from"
"where do I get my guns from"
"where did I get my robot army from"

[kidgokuxl]

I was moved while watching your video Cody. My family in the past were mercury miners. Pretty much 2 generations a long time ago died from mercury poisoning. I've been to a few sites where my ansetors lived, and the smelter you showed was a little primitive but still a lot was still the same. My family back then were used as slaves pretty much to dig the cinnabar and refine it. Everytime when we would go prosect for gold in the rivers in California sometimes we would get mercury in the sluice box it remind me my family might have produced it. I have saved a good portion just for personal reasons. Good video Cody.

[melody]

if you made a bracelet out of cinnabar would it be a heavy metal rock band?

[jegr]

No matter where you go, no matter how far out in the wilderness, no matter how remote a place it is, you can find beer cans there.

[jaridkeen]

All the trees are dead around that area, that's probably not a good sign

[drewphillips]

Happy to see Cody finally getting all this well deserved success!!! ALMOST A

[DusanFajler]

"I am someone who is experienced with working with mercury"
-Dips hand in mercury
Love it!

[TECHnoman]

I feel like as soon has he started talking about his collection of Mercury he got intensely serious like it was his pride and joy XD








"my precious~"

[forcivilizaton]

As an amateur hobby geologist and explorer of how humanity created our civilization, by far it was you who got me going down my path. Cody, thank you very much for loving rocks and loving the history of our modern civilization.

[Vibinator]

hey cody, Did you hear about the chemist who froze himself to absolute zero? He's 0K now

[legionxiii]

Thank you, Cody, for not recording vertically.

[DestructoDot]

You are a tough man. the passed 2 years I did logging work, and i now work in a warehouse. The stuff you do for /FUN/ are more instense than all of that. You sir, are one tough cookie.

[bibby]

cinnibar sounds like a breakfast cereal

[agentbertram]

I have never failed to be infected by Cody's enthusiasm. Great stuff! Never stop.