Lake County " Diamond " Hunt - Rockhounding For Rare Gems ! Q.4.T. # 548 By : Quest For Details
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- Are you Ready For An Epic hunt, after the fire and first rains, Hunting Lake County Diamonds ! a rare gemstone found only here on all of earth, this is part 1 of 2 , I very much hope you enjoy , this is a once in a lifetime chance to get huge stones from a secret site !
Because of confusion please be aware these are not " Real " diamonds , they are called moon tears by the natives, clear lake diamonds by locals, and California diamonds in many rock hounding books.
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Lake County Diamonds Properties
They're also known as Moon Tears, or Konocti Diamonds. They are a clear silicon dioxide that is almost pure, and they exhibit different colors, like yellow, pink, and lavender. Lake County Diamonds can only be found near Mt. Konocti in Lake County, California.
quartz specimens in Lake County, known as Lake County diamonds, formed in very specific, high temperatures, in lava flows which are thought to have reached about 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit. ... During this time of very high temperatures our particular quartz specimens formed
Lake County Diamonds are not actually what you can call real diamonds, although they do possess the sparkle to earn the name diamond. They're also known as Moon Tears, or Konocti Diamonds. ... Lake County Diamonds can only be found near Mt. Konocti in Lake County, California.
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LOL Nate.. "Oooohhh, Look at that!" What I wouldn't give to be able to get that excited again (thanks 2020). So until that time I'm living vicariously through your Quests.
Im lucky to live where I can get out all the time with no worries, so I figure im supposed to keep going, glad it helps somehow, hang in there , and Quest On !
I enjoy the mornings that I get to wake up to a notification of a fellow hounders video... today there are 3... ofcourse since the quest was my first almost 3 years ago it's my favorite.
One day I want to journey to see if I can find my own little specimens.
Happy to know Danielle is there, shes so adorable... the hunters and duck things...
Tell that Beautiful Lady I said hello!
Blessings my friend. So happy to see you excited. You are finding some amazing specimens. Petrified wood and common opal... oh my goodness that's why I searched out your channel to begin with!
Super envious over here....it will cost me a few hundred bucks to take a faceting class and thousands to get equipment. I'm hopeful to utilize at my lapidary shop.
I'd love the blue a opal bit I'm patiently waiting for the gentle 85 year old man to feel safe in teaching a class..
The common opal bits are amazing.
Hey Nate Tim here from worlds beneath our feet. please get back to me if you would thank you hope to hear from you soon
they will be waiting for you when you get here, and every day the gophers bring up more ; )
Thanks for taking me along on another awesome adventure and educating me with with your knowledge can't wait for part 2
You rock! My elderly mom is a major fan of you! Can't believe you leave artifacts as you found them! We love your adventures. Nice rocks you find. Keep makin rad videos!
WOW! The fires and rains exposed quite a bit on the surface! Some very awesome HUGE finds a day to remember for sure.
it was crazy, I think I have enough after this season , time for a bunch of give aways !
Ha, ha. That is the first time I have ever seen you be so excited. Love it. Once again so nice to see your lady enjoying herself as well. Those crystals are so amazing. So perfectly clear they almost look like ice. They are beautiful just the way they are. Do you make jewelry from your finds? If so please tell us where you sell them so we can help support your channel. Looks like Mother Nature is reviving herself. The bushes appear to be growing again from the roots. Thank you for sharing this epic hunt. I loved it.
A surreal landscape filled with surreal rocks! Your excitement is delightful! Thanks for a nice hunt.
Nate, love your description of the "active" farms, animals, regulators & guns. Being from Montana, I couldn't agree more about being respectful of the farms, animals, people, etc. I laughed when you ooohed & awed when seeing the first couple big California diamonds, only because I get that excited as well when spotting an amazing find. The clarity of the crystals is unreal! They really do look like shards and chunks of glass being so clear. I love how they were reflecting the blue sky so perfectly. I don't find much common opal around where I live and I think it's beautiful. The blue, green and white being my favorite. Awesome that you guys have it more readily in your area. Newly subscribed and catching up on your past, as well as present, videos. Going to find part 2 now. Thanks for sharing your quests and treasures! ✌🤠
My grandmother constantly told me out of destruction, there is always a silver lining. You just need to be patient for the silver lining to appear.
What a epic day rock hunting. Very nice finds!
PS I am looking forward to part 2. Also, my grandmother passed away over 25 years ago. When I watch rockhounding videos that are laid back like yours or rockhounding myself in a slow quiet manner I instantly think of her. She is out there with you/me in our adventures !
true ! very True, thank you for coming along !!
OMG!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! My very favorite thing to do with you. They are sooooo beautiful, and so are you two. What a beautiful hunt. 😊💖👍
Thank you for sharing the legend again of the moons tears!
The opalescent milk in a few of them is spectacular my friend.
I will daydream about that! The orange lichen is amazing. To hold them in your hands.
I appreciate the way you share respect of the artifacts and place a tear with a tip.
I can't say enough, and yet I've said so much.
Super envious women here, in awe of the blessings and respect.
I give those type of gifts to people.
My heart smiles upon your family's days.
there are give aways on the way !!
@@QuestForDetails there is a individual willing to teach me faceting.. I can cab, now to facet.
Can't wait for part two and the clean up. You called it, an epic hunt during excellent conditions. I imagine you will be back up there after a few rains it will be completely renewed with fresh finds.
I did make sure to take my mom up to find her fill before I put this one out, as for me I am feeling way to blessed with them and ill be waiting a bit now ; ) start to feel guilty.
@@QuestForDetails You are good to your mom and dad, also mother nature. You are a blessing too.
Thank goodness for the rain, please let there be more for California.
thank you !!
I agree. But not too much at once. The erosion would be nasty. A nice gentle rain and often please 💓
I love how very excited you get!! Thanks so much for sharing that excitement with us!! Keep shining!!
Epic day! Congrats and thanks for sharing!!!
thank you !
Thanks for sharing . I love rocks I love rock hounding
I just enjoy so much seeing the hunt for these specimen. If I was physically capable I’d not only walk fast but run as well to find me some beauties. Thanks for showing them to us.
as we speak the grass is re-growing and soon just a meadow it will seem : )
Lol nate said send food up.. Love that. Ohhhh.. And awèe..
WOW, JUST WOW!!!
Once again...THANK YOU!
👏👏👏 oh goody goody. So stoked for you to have gained access 💎💎💎
And again, thanks Nate ♥️
Thanks
Hiya Nathan, hey one of the first videos that I had ever watched of you finding these beautiful gemstones, you were finding them in a creek, I think the gophers were digging them up as well, and you showed where they were coming out of the boulders inside of clusters.
These are truly beautiful gemstones and I can't wait for the next video, and the clean up. I hope you and your family have a awesome blessed day. Cya!
Awesome I've lived in lake county for over twenty years you find the most beautiful specimens I'd love to take a walk with you someday peace and love ur family are you on peroni road hunting?
same creek just seen some rough days lately, but yes they are still trapped in all the volcanic rocks that compose the core of the hill.
@@QuestForDetails hiya Nathan, I hope your having a great day today, I wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year.
Thanks for all the awesome videos you brought us along this year.
All my favorite areas for the Lake County Diamonds went private property DECADES ago....Nice to see they are still out there....somewhere
Incredible visions!
Its crazy how ALL the topsoil burns off, this happened where I live in Oregon too. Worst fire year ever. But a lot of treasure uncovered from this after the rains wash the ashes off. Love your channel Nate!
sorry to hear about the destruction, but yes for sure seize the moment and find the silver lining, thanks for coming along !
Nate that is sad in one way and epic in another, such a loss of flora and fauna, which hopefully will regenerate in time and such a bounty of natures gems, truly awesome. Just from your reaction it is a special day something that might only happen once in a lifetime.
Keep Safe & Keep Rockin
the bright side is ; so much has burnt in Ca in the last few years that will take decades to begin looking the same again, deep tall tree areas, this area , as ravaged as it is , is more made fore the fire cycle, its a very arid area, mostly thick scrub brush, don't get me wrong, its my area and I love its beauty, but I also know it like an old friend , and these bushes don't die, they burn black to the ground and then regrow, the trees also, its that type of zone that comes back with five new sprouts from every stump and quickly reclaims its territory, the type of steep and dry they just cant tame and that just won't die , thats why I like it here : )
This is exciting; wow, are you sure there aren't any boulders? They are beautiful, and thank you, as usual, thank you for the walk.
im always looking for that 100 pound crystal, never say never : )
sad to see how much was burnt but wow great finds for sure. thanks for sharing.
the hounding in this area is going to be easy for a while for sure. treasure hunting can be bittersweet for sure, ....its all good ; )
This details are worth some oohs and aahhs!
It's suppose to rain at the end of the week, finding them will make it easier to find. I know where you are and I hate seeing it but this is exciting.
Oh, it rained already. Well done.
love your excitement.
the destruction is heavy, but the mourning for me ,is over , in regards to this area, and its time once again to await its flowering and celebrate the treasures !
I'm so jelly I only have a little bit of big ones and just a lot of little ones.
Very cool Nate, I live in your neighborhood. The keys on Clearlake Oaks. Been watching your hunting videos. Congratulations! Cheap fun.
I was looking at the scenery. The destruction was pretty intense, but I was seeing all kinds of new growth sprouting up already. I took a drive up into the Chetco Bar Fire scar not too long ago. There was tremendous growth well beyond the riparian edge. It's going to look pretty gutted for a few years, but it's going to do wonders for the deer and small game in the coming years. I'm always trying to find the bright side. It comes from a long history of being given crap circumstances to make the best of. ;) BTW Another great video. Keep being awesome. ;)
we have had a half decade of very local fires and ive bene able to watch the cycle, I agree this is a clean slate that has the chance to regrow into a fresh bright green new day, its good thoughts, thank you ! : )
Ok Nathan I found this video and save the directions hopefully I get out there soon, I messenged you on FB, In getting a Moon Tear cut for my wife's ring 😁 I'll send you photos when it's done
I need to go here.
Terrible fire damage, but a lucky break for rock hunting.
I use to go there as a kid. Those diamonds were all over the place.
Where is this at Dx I’m in lake county and wanna find some but never know a good spot Dx
the location is referred to as diamond flats and its in the North end of Napa County .
How are you getting rain? Novato didn’t get any. I gotta get up there.
Wow that's what I d like to do, get out in the burns ,cause of disabilities I can't fight the brush
easy wandering right now all over this part of CA, No Brush left. it will regrow within a few years, and grass this spring .
I want to go look for some of the larger ones...nobody in my family believes me! Or you!
.,.,it’s a challenge! I have only found small ones on Perrini rd. You can come search my creek any time! Yesterday was 2022 Memorial Day....I’ve never frozen my butt off on memorial weekend..,or seen it rain 🌧...until this yr! Keep your positivity and il will do more rain dances! ( or find a tribal member who can move better than me.
I still want some of the blue common opal.. missing the videos so I have been rewatching recent videos.
Further proof that when this great planet Earth 🌍 has had enough of the human experiment 🧪, she will come back even more beautiful. One day this area will be lush again. And for now these crystals are beautiful. ROCK ON!!
well said, Thank You For watching !
I would love to come visit, I’m in potter valley
Well as bleek as it might seem the mushrooms love burnt land so perhaps it'll be Morel heaven in the spring. I'd be doing exactly what you are and looking for ancient foundations.
It’s a bummer when your “ kids” are adults.. and nobody lives close enough to call up and do some rockhounding with...it was all day ...every day when we’d spend 2 weeks to a month in Anderson Springs at our old but wonderfully relaxing...never wanting to leave it behind for real life!
How do you get there? My kids love this stuff.
Hi love you videos ✌️we went hunting a few weekends ago , it seems really hard to find spots that are public land . Are you on private land in this video ? Thanks
most locations in books are roadside or on private land , in hopes of being semi discrete I will only say this land is in public hands but has yet to be developed as far as public access. most of the cinder cone rhyolite ( cone shaped hills) in the region have deposits.
@@QuestForDetails thanks ☺️😉👍
Have you ever had any of them faceted? They would look lovely!
yes we have some that her bene cut, and I have a friend who sell rings made with huge faceted stones , they are super bright and hard.
@@QuestForDetails they are so clear, just like Herkimer diamonds
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Do you see six side crystals or octahedron shapes when you find intact crystals? Do you find intact anything? Those stones can go as high as 9 on the mohs scale...the average being between 7.5 and 8...harder than average quartz at 7.
Between 7 and 8 on the mohs scale you've doubled the absolute hardness so it's not really quartz. Diamond is 10. Tough to call to anything but "lake county" diamond. The classification would be somewhat dependent on what it would happen if the material could be lab crystalized.
It probably would make good sandpaper.
This form of quartz is never terminated, I find them in complete form in host rock all the time. They are a random fracture shape naturally. Thanks for watching !
Around the 14 minute point is the spear point obsidian?
Can you tell me where to look? I live in Napa. I want to go rock and crystal hunting! I’ve heard you can go to Six Sigma ranch.
I want to go looking for my own moon tears. Where is the best place to go look? I’m over in lake county but I don’t know where to go.
Are you able to drill a hole through the diamond!
I Do you have jars of these games and when I was a kid at the Christmas tree farms I mean baby food jars full
Hello bro we’re I can go to rock hunter do you recommend a nice Spot
Where can I find some lake county diamonds what area area clearlake?
Apakah itu diamond..
no, .. Quartz : )
You do realize that these are not diamonds, they are quartz, and quartz is found all over the world, not just in Lake County.
thank you . here is an article on the diamonds :
Lake County News
KATHLEEN SCAVONE POSTED ON SUNDAY, 13 JULY 2014 @
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. - Our county's striking gems, the Lake County diamonds, however unique, are not true diamonds but semi-precious stones.
Lake County diamonds have a rating of 7.8 to 8 on the Moh's Scale of Hardness. Real diamonds rate a 10 on the scale.
Our “diamonds” are really a type of quartz, comprised of silicon dioxide, and some other trace elements.
Geologists state that quartz, a common mineral which occurs in nature, grows at its own particular rate.
This quartz-growth occurs according to the temperatures in the earth.
Our quartz specimens in Lake County, known as Lake County diamonds, formed in very specific, high temperatures, in lava flows which are thought to have reached about 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit.
The distinctive way in which our Lake County jewels formed make them one-of-a-kind, to be found only in Lake County.
Clear Lake's sentinel, the 4,305 foot Mount Konocti - actually a dormant volcano - was once a teeming, erupting and violent volcano.
The portion of Mount Konocti that we now see is thought to be what is left of 350,000 year-old - or older - pyroclastic flows.
During this time of very high temperatures our particular quartz specimens formed luxurious, lustrous crystals. (It's all in the location, location, location!)
Lake County diamonds' elegant crystals are so tempting to collect because of their distinctive light-transmitting property, or “refractive index.”
The lavas of long ago weathered, forming gravels and soils, leaving the Lake County diamonds behind.
These stunning sparklers are, hence, easier to find after a rain when the dirt and dust have washed them clean. The diamonds are usually clear, but lavender-hued stones also can be found.
Lake County diamonds are able to cut glass like a diamond, and have been used both industrially and commercially. They are used most often in distinctive, faceted jewelry.
Our Lake County museums and rock shops have some amazingly large Lake County diamond specimens. They are commonly found in Lake County in the Hidden Valley Lake and Perini Hill areas. (Obtain permission prior to hunting, however, as these are private properties, for the most part.)
The Lake County Museum says: “Lake County diamonds were called 'Moon Tears' because they are supposed to be the tears the Moon shed when she fell in love with a young Pomo Chieftain, and her brother, the Sun made her go back into the sky. Lake County Diamonds were placed on burial mounds by some tribes to protect the spirits of the newly departed from evil spirits or demons, who love the darkness and when they saw the ‘moon tears’ would think the moon was shining and go away.”
Kathleen Scavone, M.A., is an educator, potter, writer and author of “Anderson Marsh State Historic Park: A Walking History, Prehistory, Flora, and Fauna Tour of a California State Park” and “Native Americans of Lake County.” She also writes for NASA and JPL as one of their “Solar System Ambassadors.” She was selected “Lake County Teacher of the Year, 1998-99” by the Lake County Office of Education, and chosen as one of 10 state finalists the same year by the California Department of Education.
@@QuestForDetails I thought quartz was a 7? I wonder what makes them 8 on the MOH scale that's interesting