Zeolites Along the John Day River // Rockhounding Oregon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- This location has been on my list of places to visit for a long time now, and it fully lived up to what I was hoping it would be, and I will very likely return to this location again someday.
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Any day out collecting rocks is a good day. Thanks for taking us along. Hi to Sara and the pup. 😷⚒
It's a great location.
The Gmelinite specimen was really cool. Excellent haul of zeolites. That looked like a really fun area to rockhound for some nice zeolites. Good job extracting the specimens and displaying them. I got excited when I saw you made a zeolite video. Didnt disappoint. Thoroughly enjoyed it, Jared. Thank you. Have a great day! 🙂
Thank you! It was a great location to visit.
Alligator lizard. Nice one. Thanks for all you do. I appreciate you.
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They have a very prehistoric look to them.
You hit the micromount jackpot. Yay! I'm glad that you made it there! ❤ the sound of steel on steel.
It was so nice to get out for one of the first real rockhounding trips of the year and do some collecting.
those specimens were amazing, it looked like you all had fun, and a great day out
Thank you very much!
The rocks are always gleamer on the other side of the river 😄. Thanks for sharing 👍
I need tube and some warm weather and ill get to the other side!
That last specimen is gorgeous…Glad you all had a great day!
It was a great time.
Great day out with some excellent specimens found.
Thank you!
So many zeolites, those fibrous ones were beautiful (even if unable to clean up).
Yeah they are so hard to clean when dirty, it's like trying to put the draw string back in the hood of a hoodie... Massively frustrating.
Starting to get hooked on zeolites😍😍😍 Some very cool specimens, i really liked that calcite one you found at the start🥰🥰🥰 Thanks for sharing
It is an amazing group of minerals to collect.
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Great specimens...beautiful scenery! Thanks to you, Sarah, and the pupper for another enjoyable video!
That was a bunch of zeolites! Lovely specimens. So much to chose from. I loved that first one with the calcite cubes, and the overgrowth. They dont get more perfect then that! Thanks jared!
Thank you! That one will forever live in my display case.
Great video! You got some very nice specimens. That first one with the calcite cubes was spectacular!
Thank you! It's a keeper for sure.
Oh wowser! This just hit my bucket list!
It's a great location to visit and there is endless places to camp.
Thanks as always for sharing. At the beginning of the video looked like some mesolite and gyrolite inside a couple of the vugs by the crystal sprays. I'd have a very hard time not getting in the water and pulling out agates and jaspers. 🤣 (chest waders) Anyway, thanks again for bringing us along on your adventure, have a nice weekend. (Doh, got to the end of the video and sure enough...mesolite and gyrolite) haha thanks again, have a great weened upcoming.
Oh man in this far upper stretch of the John Day we saw not even a crumb of an agate but we did further down stream.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Aha, that makes sense. From the town of John Day through Clarno is where I usually find the best material. This looked like a really fun day finding a plethora of zeolite varieties. Good stuff sir~
@@BackcountrywithShaughn This little area of Oregon is a place where I would love to spend lots of time at.
Alligator lizard on and in a penstemon (Acuminatus?). In the zeolite zone. Good stuff.
Some sweet finds there Jared. They are almost as good as cresent formation zeolites😉
I love all zeolites! :)
I have a 0% success rate at successfully transporting zeolites…
The tinfoil wrap you did was a great idea honestly, I would’ve never considered that. Great display pieces!
Dude that breaks my heart to hear. I promise if you start balling them up with foil you will never have a break again.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Will do going forward - Unfortunately most of the zeolites around the Great Lakes involve a choppy dirt road drive to get home with!
Nice video, enjoy your zeolite obsession! I've wanted to get to the North Fork for a while, found good zeolites on the Middle Fork, but a busier paved road.
Both are good but this is off the beaten path which makes me happy.
Thank you for documenting your experience and sharing it with us. Just amazing.
Thank you for being here watching!
That's a Northern Alligator Lizard. They get huge, I've seen them more than 18" long and 3" across. They're found across most of the PNW, even here in swampy western Oregon to my surprise.
Thank you I will have to look that up!
😮 I could not handle that. I don't know if I could rockhound knowing that HUGE guy is within feet from me. NO WAY!! 🖐️
That's a cool place. Very nice minerals. And that looks like a cool Forest Alligator Lizard. Maybe the Elgaria coerulea? Looks like it is found up in your area.
I guess it could be. I really don't know much at all about lizards.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Me either, but that one jumped out at me...
My cousins own the Mascall ranch just east of Picture Gorge as well as part of the Cant ranch north of the gorge. As kids, we would swim in the north fork at the dive rock.
That sounds amazing.
Thank you so much for this video. I've been patiently waiting for you to do a Zeolite video. I'm going to be honest..... Zeolites confuse the heck out of me. I just don't understand what to look for and I'm from Colorado. Zeolites are everywhere. I live very close to Table Mountain and both North and South Table Mountain have them. There's also Castle Rock, Colorado and from what I hear, they are everywhere. I've probably encountered them and had no idea. I've been hunting and collecting rocks since I was a child and more than likely have some in my collection somewhere. I went out scanning yesterday in Wheat Ridge and found some that look very similar to what you have shown here but I still just don't know what to look for. I get excited about any find cuz I just absolutely love rockhounding. I'm just beginning to educate myself on Geology and the different changes. You have brought up Zeolites in past videos and I'm so glad you made this one. Even though I may not be too familiar with my finds, I do know Colorado has lot's. You both should try to come visit. I can show you where exactly to go. That would be awesome to meet you. I'm lucky because where I live is close to the mountains and downtown Denver. We live next to Wheat Ridge Greenbelt and I'm going to be going night hounding with my UV backlight flashlights. I can't wait. One question I'm hoping you can answer before I go tonight or tomorrow. Do Zeolites glow under the UV? I have 365NM both 5 and 10 watt and I also have a 395NM however I use the flashlight more on that one. I also go Owling alot so now I can do both!! Again thanks so much for the Zeolite video and seriously think about coming to Colorado. My oldest son and I are going to visit Sweet Home Mine sometime this summer. Probably on the Low down. I just want to experience it. Have a fantastic day 🦉
You will also like the next video as well then!
I am going to start working on a Zeolites Explained video but it might be a bit before that comes out.
I don't really know much about the area's that you're talking about here but I would highly suggest you get the free PDF copy of Zeolites of the World which is a book on Mindat. If you can find it just shoot me an email.
As far as I know there are not any Zeolites that glow under a 365NM light but maybe shortwave but I don't have one of those to test it.
We would love to visit Colorado at some point!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Hey there. Thanks for getting back to me. Much appreciated 👍. The areas I'm talking about are here in Colorado. I don't anything about where you live. That video however was beautiful.
So, I've looked into the PDF book you are talking about. Not finding it on mindat. I'm going to look other websites and let you know.
Would you mind if I sent you some photos of my collection? I can email. Let me know.
Thanks again 🦉
@@melissacolman7977 yeah shoot me an email
I'm not sure what kind of lizard that was. Skink of some kind I think. It was pretty big! Some very nice finds too! I also really like the little display table. I need one of those!
Having a little table is very handy on these trips!
I think the lizard is a Western Whiptail. They're one of those that'll detach their tail if attacked.
Amazing both in quantity and quality. Seems like a better location than the Kimberley site. Safer too.
This is a great location and you can camp within a short walk to it if you like.
there's a few great spots on the river out there to just sit in the water on a hot day and look at one amazing rock after another and one spot has an eagle pair in their nest every summer...John Day area never lacking in coolness 😄
It really is an amazing area.
16:30 last time I seen that much foil was at a Sam Tripoli & Eddie Bravo Comedy Show
Nice job identifying your finds! Guessing there was a good bit of homework before making that trip. That cubic formation, was it a pseudomorph?
Yeah this was trip that I have been planning over the winter.
It was cubes of calcite with analcime over the top of them.
Now I need to go check out the Devil's backbone
It's a really good location to visit.
Damn, okay....gives me a totally different perspective on the JD. Never liked that part of Oregon, but if there's stuff like THAT out there then uhhhmmm....may have to make a strategic reassessment of the region lol.
So what I gathered is that the best time to visit is in April after the snows melt, is that correct? *taking notes*...if so, you might see me roaming the area come early next spring lol :-)
Thanks for the information and I really look forward to the next leg of the trip vlog! Take care and be safe you two!
The John Day is so pretty and just you wait and see what the coming handful of videos show, I think you would be very happy to reconsider the area and give it a visit.
Spring and fall are best, going out on a hot August day is something I never really enjoy but maybe you do.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Yeah, I'm excited to see whatcha got coming up indeed! :-)
Zeolites = See those lights
What I don't understand is why people don't do the fine work of trimming a specimen by using a water cooled trim saw. Don't you risk shattering the fine crystals with all the hammer work?
Myself, I think I'd get the specimens into softball sized chunks and do the rest of the cleanup with a saw.
I do both and you really need to judge the pros and cons of each, sometimes a few strikes with a hammer and chisel impart less damage and vibration in a specimen than cutting. Also some people don't really like the look of a small specimen with cut sides all the way around it.
One tool I don't have but would like is a specimen trimmer.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Ok, so it's more a matter of personal preference. I just wasn't sure whether it was an unwritten rule or not...
A good continuous rim trim saw blade doesn't impart that much vibration to the rock. But I can definitely see that you'd get damaging vibration if you've got a blade that's a little dinged up!
Can I ask, why is your dog always on a leash? Out in the middle of nowhere with no one around, it just seems odd.
I'm not sure why you find it to be odd to keep a dog safe vs letting them run around off leash and do things you perhaps wouldn't want them to do such as sticking their head into mystery holes, chasing a deer into the horizon or rolling on something like a dead fish next to the river and getting gross.
I find it odd that someone would be so careless as to let those things happen.
I'm with you on this one. Wildlife does not deserve to be chased in their own home.
maybe they'd rather not have their sweet dog get knarled in the jaws of a steel trap. Some trappers set them in places where any unsuspecting dog can get caught in them......also: rattle snakes
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