Rockhounding at Birdlings Flat Agate Hunt and Cut
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ย. 2019
- I needed an excuse to try out my secondhand tile saw I get last week so decided to head off to Birdlings Flat to find some smaller size agates and bits of chalcedony.
The sun wasn't out and the tides weren't ideal but managed to find a few agates in the time I was there and cut them that evening.
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Very lovely finds and cuts. Your wife is a professional rock hunter for sure. Family fun is the best. Thanks!
Love it. We have found a few small agate here.
Nice!!
Your child's voice so very sweet! ♥️
Thank you for sharing :) Gratz on your finds !
Thanks Larry! New videos coming soon 😄
The pretty red one looked like Amygdaloidal rhyolite with chalcedony or maybe feldspar. Love the smoky banded agate and banded chert!
Oooh thanks! I'll go do some googling using those terms!
Beautiful agate with the bands!
I see more gizzard stones mate 👍🏻👍🏻when the stones became too polished the moa regurgitated them because they were no longer able to grind food.(basically they were the moa’s teeth)they roamed the east coast for millions of years.they were able to recognise that agates were the hardest ,therefore last longest,so used them where they could.some get quite large.the heaviest in my collection of several hundred would weigh nearly a pound.the size of these birds is hard to imagine !so you weren’t the first big two legged thing to find some of your stones 😁👍🏻.to the trained eye there is an absolute difference between river and ocean polished and big bird polished!happy hunting mate
Thanks Mick! I've found some moa bone and you're right, they were big birds! I think I've found a few gizzard stones up in the hills of Canterbury. 😄
Found a Katipo spider there the other day. And some jasper when I was digging my car out.
Yeah, they are full-up over there!
If you run Super glue around fracture lines and lightly sprinkle silica dust (talc) over the glue, let it dry for 12 hrs it can be cut without fracturing!
Larger pieces will need to be done one each side. Let gravity do most of the work
Nice little agate and jasper! On that greenish one that you didn't finish cutting...possibility that it could be a type of jade? I know there's beaches here in America where people go jade hunting. Just guessing due to the nice soft greens involved.
There is some amazing Jade found on the West coast, about 3 hours from where I stay. I've only found really small pieces and nothing of gem quality 😊
They look great after being cut. Might look into one of those saws. My kids love going to Birdlings Flat.
Have you been up to Mt Somers yet??
I have a saw that I must set up properly and perhaps get a polisher 😄 I haven't been up to Mt Somers yet, I've been focussing on the fossils the past holiday. Planning another pet wood trip though!
Not sth Canty mate. Base of banks Peninsula just sth of CHCH. Nice finds x