Rockhounding Old Rock Slides, Finding Garnets And My First Kyanite.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I do some exploring for Garnets and any interesting rocks I find along the way. Feel free to check out my Instagram "NWRockExplorer" I post all of my recent finds on there and a few projects that I make with the rocks I find. Thanks for watching!!
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fun videos! learning allot. Thanks!
Beautiful area to hunt. Lots of quartz formation and mineral oxides indicate possible arsenic or even asbestos amongst copper and iron related materials.
There is some arsenopyrite and tremolite in this area so I suppose you're right!! Nice catch!!😁
Nice finds, I have some garnets in schist, in my collection
I really hope to find some better ones around here. Gem grade is proving to be super hard to find!!
Great finds! My favorite colors are blue, green and white, so I absolutely love the kyanite! Such beautiful garnets and great size too. They were my grandma's favorite so I have a special place in my heart for them. What a gorgeous place, love the waterfall. Thanks for taking us along!✌🤠
I love this spot, the geology is just so interesting!! there's skarns, pegmatites, garnets, marble, tremolite, and kyanite, just all kinds of cool stuff going on!!
Loving the vibe of your videos! Glad to see videos of people rock hunting in northern BC
There's not too many people rockhounding and making videos up here so I thought, hey why not. I was gonna head back up there today but its crazy windy so its probably not the most safe idea haha. Thanks for the sub by the way!!
@@NWRockExplorer No problem, looking forward to more content! I'm just getting into rockhounding in north BC and it gives me some motivation and clues to get out and get looking.
@@NWRockExplorer Research to find a geological map of the area your in, target adjacent to intrusives that have cooked the country rock. Then hopefully find some weathered outcrop.
@@lotharschiese8559 This spot is a ways away from the nearest intrusives but I am planning a hike that way soon, It just seems to need a little bit of heat and pressure to produce some nicer garnets. I have a few areas where there is contact with granite that I've been meaning to check out but they're quite the hike, hopefully soon I'll get around to checking them out😁
Great video. It really is very interesting Geology. You did find some nice garnets too. Good job up that very steep and brambly climb.
Thanks for sharing the beauty and wonder of your place on the planet.
Thanks!! I'm going to do some more exploring in this area in the spring. I recently found out about a trail that leads to the top of the mountain and there should be lots of ground to search up there!!
whew quite a climb. great video
The more I watch the bigger fan I become
Love your vids and mineral identification. Love how you interact with nature... Great vid.
Thanks!! I'm still learning how to film and edit so with time these videos will hopefully get a lot better. I cant really meet up with any rockhounding buddies at the moment because of the virus so it's always fun to bring you all along with me.
Great job! Just make sure you stay safe
yes for sure, old rock slides can be really dangerous to explore, always take precautions before doing so. Thanks for watching!!
Just discovered your channel and subscribed. Excellent content, in 18 minutes I feel like I took a geology field trip, awesome!
Thanks!! Yea I have a lot to learn but whenever I learn something new it's nice to share it to make it more common knowledge🙂
Armchair 70 yr old geologist/miner. Reminded me of my younger days, days of discovery, field trips!
@@NWRockExplorer Healthy attitude to have! You WISH to learn, start with Nick's first video! He teaches Geology and he is good at it! th-cam.com/users/GeologyNickvideos
Due to an advancing disability I can't do this stuff any more. Love to watch it though. Don't miss devils club! Nasty stuff, a demon of the plant world.
I agree!! devils club can be the worst!! The good thing about it is that it keeps many prospectors from exploring some areas. if you know how to hike through it without getting covered in spikes, you can come across some pretty awesome spots!!🙂
Love it all! A couple good size garnets. Very pretty
Kyanite in the quartz. That slide & slabs were huge! Thanks 4 sharing
Thanks!! I really think there is a good chance for some amazing finds there, just need to explore the area a little better.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!!
The Kyanite definitely is a first good find. I’d love to find some of that. Those little garnets are perfect formed. Garnets are awesome and some of my favorite. That area is very beautiful. Thanks for sharing this adventure.
Garnets are one of my favorites too, there's so many shapes colors and varieties out there!!
@@NWRockExplorer oh I know. Super cool mineral. I had the pleasure of randomly finding half of one on a hike in the Sequoia Forest in Cali that’s the size of a golf ball on a hike, then a bunch of small ones like you found up in Vermont. Plan on doing a few show and tells this winter once I start to organize my rocks lol. But those you found are great ones.
Nice finds!
note-to-self>> bring ski poles or heavy/thick walking stick and crampons for walking/climbing, and machete for chopping.
Those are some of the largest garnets I’ve ever seen! I would wager a guess that green running through the quartz would be copper. Great Video 👍🏼
Hopefully the garnets will just keep getting bigger and better haha. There is a chance it was copper staining but the pyrite in that material wasn't the typical Chalcopyrite that I'm used to finding. I really like your vids and am trying to find my own little panning spot around here, those old timers really cleaned this area out though haha!!
@@NWRockExplorer If you’re ever down in PG or Quesnel lemme know, you’re more than welcome to hit up any of my claims to do some panning✨
@@CaribooGOLDHunter Thanks!! That sounds awesome!! I'm usually headed down that way in the summer checking out the Fraser lake and Francois lake area. I'll Get in contact for sure!!
Hello there,
I enjoyed watching your video. The combination of the water and the music was calming and makes me want to be there in that environment. Beautiful spot your searching. I would recommend searching up a geologic map of that location to get a better idea where stuff will be at. It might help you find the source of the garnet schist and gneiss. Nice job.
Thanks!! I've been watching your vids for a while now and i find them to be quite interesting and educational, This whole island i live on is a part of a big metamorphic belt that stretches up from bc to the alaskan pan handle, there has been a couple gem discoveries in Alaska in similar metamorphic rock so i thought there could be a possibility in my area as well, examples would be the Green Monster Epidote and Wrangell Garnets. I have been looking at geological maps and surveys to get an idea but there hasn't been a whole lot of exploration in my area.
I feel like this year is going to be my best year yet, I've got so many places in which i've done hours of research on and just need to explore. i've also got a couple trips planned with local prospectors which will be cool because there's not really anybody up north here to share my interest with haha.
@@NWRockExplorer Thanks, I saw recently that you subscribed to my channel which lead me to yours so, I returned the favor. We have a lot of metamorphic and intrusive rocks also. If you haven't done this yet, search up the publications for the geologic maps that you are using. It took me awhile to realize this but, some geologic maps have publications with far more detailed descriptions of the rock outcrops then what is shown in the legend of the map itself. Other publications can be useful too.
For example, I have one map I have been studying, and it showed a large pluton in the area which was marked in the legend as "Granite - Eocene". Well now I know there is granite from Eocene which is cool. But if I go to the PDF file for the publication, I get a paragraph of information just on that Eocene Granite. While reading it, I look at what minerals it says it contains and it mentions...
"contains equant to bipyramidal smoky quartz, white to pinkish feldspar, biotite, and sparse amphibole. Contains miarolitic cavities, which are more common in associated aplite dikes. Pegmatites are rare."
So now I know that I might be able to find Quartz Crystals associated with that Granite.
So sometimes geology maps leave information out and sometimes its intentional but not always. For example, in Montana, there is a deposit of lake bed sediments. The map does not mention, for obvious reasons, that fossils of tyrannosaurus have been found in that geologic unit. Though that information is not in the map itself, it is available in other publications.
@@NWRockExplorer I also feel this coming year will be our best year for finding things. Its always good to meet new people with similar interests and that can be a time to learn and share information and make new friends. I wish you luck on your search for what ever minerals and crystals you are in search of.
@@GeoForge Yes, for sure. I'm always looking for fieldwork documents or any others on the area, our geological maps don't seem have links or citations to more information aside from the general make up of the bedrock. Having fieldeork documents or if theres a minfile doc on the area would be the best case scenario.
1:50 I have seen rocks like that in my area where the green in the quartz is Epidote, well I can't really confirm cause its so small I need a microscope. Good finds buddy.
Thanks!! I have found lots of epidote in the area but this material is super bright green, its kinda hard to show in pictures. The crystals are also kinda blade shaped which is making me lean toward some kind of tremolite, I'll have to see if I can take some better pics of it. I'm still in the learning stages myself so it is awesome to have people try to help me out with identification. there's always something new to learn!! thanks for watching🙂
What an awesome site!!!! Roughly where abouts is this spot?!?!
Thanks!! I'm in BC Canada!!
I'm in North Carolina and I find lots of the garnet schist. So far all I find is the brown granets though.
Lots of our garnet is brown around here too, every once in a while you come across some nice red ones though🙂
I’m located in Greenwater Washington I find crazy stuff up here
Hey man, love your vids, I’m in BC and just learning about identification (although ive been a rockhound since I was a kid without knowing what it was!) Keep up your vids, super exciting! Maybe one day we can go on a rock and gem hunt:)
What part of bc are you from? There is an awesome group on Facebook called BCRockhunters, People from all over BC share their finds there and help each other Identify their finds. That group is where I started out and there is some very knowledgeable people in it to help you out🙂
@@NWRockExplorer Thats also what got me into it!! hahaha its a small world
Hi, Cool video! If you are anywhere around Mt St Helens, the bright green might be Helenite. You might want to show your breaks on camera, even if there isn't anything in it!
Thanks for the tip!! I'll try that next time. I'm way up in northern Canada and I found the green mineral in quartz with schist. My best guess is some form of tremolite.
Fun to watch. I wish you had someone along...it looks very remote. Did you have cell service?
Thanks!! This was quite a ways out but there is cell service. It'd be cool to go rockhounding with people but there isn't too much interest in this kind of stuff here.
@1:30 looks like olivine/peridot
Can you recommend a starter tool set?
When I first started I was using a claw hammer and a chisel, if you have a decent budget an Estwing rock hammer is a great investment along with a small chisel to carefully extract specimens!! Really it depends where you are rockhounding because if your rockhounding creeks, rivers, and beaches you don't need any tools🙂
@@NWRockExplorer thank you! I'm in New Mexico so not so much around water.
@@KotoriOnWheels I've seen some amazing finds come out of NM!! Your definitely in the right area, good luck out there😁
@@NWRockExplorer thank you! Got some mica schist with garnet and staurolites yesterday! Need tools. :)
My grandmother always tells me that areas where you can find kyanite are areas that you can find diamonds as well.
interesting, I know kyanite can be a indicator for corundum which is also known as sapphire!! I kinda hope to find my own sapphire deposit some day!!
@@NWRockExplorer I've found a few neat looking pieces of corundum in North Carolina. I also found a very tiny piece of metalic looking tourmaline. It has the striations of tourmaline at least, and it isn't metal. I have yet to take it to a place to get it looked at since the closest place to me is over two hours away.
@@thatmeanpersononlineoffend9376 Corundum is fairly hard to come by in my province but honestly there is so much land that is unexplored that you never know what's out there. Could your piece of tourmaline be black tourmaline or Schorl?
@@NWRockExplorer Very true. Plenty of treasures that can be found, and all sorts of strange ones at that. I enjoy watching your videos because it helps with identifying places to look. I'm still learning that. Most of what I have I found by chance and not because I was looking for it specifically. And I do believe it might be black tourmaline. It's completely opaque, and color wise it looks like polished hematite, but as far as its form it definitely looks like tourmaline. I could probably send you photos on Facebook. I found your channel through the Look What I Found! group there.
High agate, peanutbutter agate I think
Are garnetts magnetic
Some garnets can be depending on how much Iron they contain. These ones here are slightly magnetic but don't exactly stick to a magnet🙂
Wher is this.
Where are you? ..
I'm in BC Canada, this location is under wraps for now as i haven't completely explored it yet, I may release locations in the future once i find more but for now i've only got a few to go to.
Just a general area Vancover . Golden Nelson .Kitamat fort Nelson.
I figure you are north of kin basket lake in Vermont?
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