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it’s one of my favorites :)

thank you! :)

it is a nice red!!

thanks so much! glad you enjoyed them! i’m going to have to remember lumpy intrigue :)

it does a bit! i’d love to find some of that sometime! seems unlikely in nevada though…

it’s not impossible, bone can be replaced by minerals, forming a fossil, i’m going to need to get a microscope!

arteries is probably more accurate! i like the red too! a microscope is not a bad idea! me too, i’m a sucker for blues! i’m not 100%, but there are copper family rocks in the area!

well, i hadn’t considered that, mostly because the interior looked similar enough to other banded rhyolite i’ve found, but that doesn’t mean anything really! i know there are limb casts from rhyolite flows in nevada, the ones i’ve seen (never in person sadly) have looked more like the opalized limb casts found in virgin valley (though not the fire, etc of opal, just the overall look). there are both sedimentary fossils and volcanic activity in the area.

@GreatBasinProspecting Just because I think something doesn't make it so. The world would be a lot different otherwise. Maybe better, maybe not so much 🤔😂🤣. We wouldn't be worried about climate change, that's for sure!

thank you!

the surprising ones are always fun!

that’s only in my subscription content 🤣 sorry, couldn’t help it. in all seriousness, i super glued it back together and i don’t really remember. but, there’s still a little chunk missing, and the red that’s present in the interior appears to carry further back…but then hits the glue. if i find some acetone i’ll dissolve it and let you know more!

@GreatBasinProspecting LOLOL! Was just curious if the colors were present in the fracture or contributed due to their infiltrating. 😂🤣😂🤣

Hi Mona 👋 I’m glad you liked the rocks, and glad they made you think of something positive!

thank you!! they’re some of my favorites as well!

haha, i wondered that too! i said “no way” audibly when i found the first half, and then again about 4x as loud when i found the second half 😂

thank you! it does look like nice landscape

i posted the wrong one, without the voiceover

thank you! i learned of it a few years ago and have been searching for it since :)

not a bad idea!

not super often, in the primary area i search around, i’d say maybe around 1/200 wonderstone rocks (of any quality) will have any breccia, maybe not even that often. i love it, and yes, the healing in it can be really pretty, i love the way the banding came together in this one

thank you! yes, sunrise is a great descriptor, i think of the color palate as sunrise also :)

one of mine as well!!

6-7, I haven’t tested most of what I’ve found, I *think* as some of the material i find is mixed, the hardness varies a bit. i’m less knowledgeable about rock hardness in general though, so not guaranteed :)

thank you!

Thanks! Yes, rhyolite, i thought the white might be uv reactive, but it is not

🤞 someday i hope 🙂

thank you! i love the spots :)

thanks, the yellow b and gold are my favorite!

I love the blues and greens too! I’m not sure either, haha, there’s so much beauty to be found :) thank you, glad you’re enjoying!

yes! i now know this is a waterline agate, and that the solid white is common opal :)

@ really? I’m not sure how to identify common opal. I have many many rocks, and I don’t know if common opal exists around me (Saskatchewan Canada) but there’s some rocks I have in an “I have no idea” box. I’ve never found a waterline agate myself, the rocks here aren’t great, so it’s extra great to watch channels like yours.

where i am, i’ve only found a little outside of an agate like this. even though it’s “common” it’s not very common for me to find, haha. up where you are, i believe you have some fossils and glacial deposits of rocks, but i’ve never made it up that way myself! thank you, and glad you’re enjoying the rocks!

i will add it to the playlist! th-cam.com/play/PLlfCA-q112MkXV63D5eTppNz8VxqE9O13.html&si=J6Iz-Y5V75ph1boj

I have wondered if much more of what i’m finding contains fossil remains than i originally considered. it’s something i’d like to learn more about! the yellow and orange are always fun to find. On Chalcedony vs Quartz, yes, i look at crystal size first, so in this case, there’s some spots where the vein has small pockets and there are some small terminated crystals, and there is a little bit of druzy left on the exterior in small crevices. I use a jeweler’s loupe or zoom on my camera. I may be confidently incorrect, but my understanding is that chalcedony doesn’t do that. so if i can find evidence of that, that’s my first check. i also use a flashlight and laser pointer to text the translucency (although i’ve heard chalcedony can be pretty transparent also!)

@GreatBasinProspecting Thanks GBP. That's what I've read as well. I guess I was wondering can you have both in the same specimen? Is it a matter of how slowly the silica cools or if there's enough of a void for larger crystals to form? Or both? Or vice versa? 🙃🤪😄😂

you and me both! i’m not sure if they can co-occur like that, but i’m also not sure they can’t!

what an amazing way to form, the earth is spectacular!

thank you!

good question! i had to cut most of the review of the exterior for time, but as you noticed, there’s a bit on the exterior as well. having the rock in front of me, it looks like the same red (albeit much darker) that penetrates the “veins” in the lahontan jasper and other stones out here, which i believe is from iron. on this one it’s so dark it’s almost brown! this next part is pure speculation, but it almost looks like the red was replacing the white in that band, and then stopped.

oh and glad you saw the birds!

@GreatBasinProspecting Thanks GBP, that red is an unusual and awesome color. Not as good as the blue, but still awesome! Ca-caw!

well, can’t unsee that now 😂

yeah, i was surprised too. whatever caused those colors must not have carried through

thank you!