The Agate from Montana You've Never Heard of! Cutting Amazing Agates, Moss Agates, & Thundereggs!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ธ.ค. 2023
- In this one, we cut another heap of rocks! A friend allowed me to raid their rock pile over the summer, where we got some incredible Montana agates and Thundereggs! On top of that, our good friend Derek the Rock Master gave us some amazing agates from Montana that I had never heard of: White Earth Agates! They are an incredible red banded and botryoidal agate that is extremely rare and difficult to acquire! They truly are unlike any other agate I've ever seen from Montana! We select a few of each to cut and then feed them to slab saw! I hope you all enjoy this one, and I will have another one out very soon!
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Those are freaking amazing I still can't believe they are from Montana. I would have thought they were from Florida. That will be amazing polished and displayed.
That first iris agate looks so much like an aurora borealis!
Chert is chalcedony, just a different kind, it's like jasper or flint, all forms of chalcedony. That's probably black chalcedony, you know, like onyx
I found some of the White Earth agates this summer. Take and shine a UV light on them. Another level of awesomeness. Some look like rice or popcorn nodules inside.
All are stunning 🤩beautiful! Thank you for sharing their beauty with us.
Can't wait to see the rest of those rocks! 😮
I think the Irish agate look like the Aurora Borealis over a forest.
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Wow! That first White Earth Agate reveal is sick! So many interesting pockets 😮
That video reminds me of a similar project, exploring the depths of a rock collection I "inherited" when a local rockhound died. His wife gave me the entire collection, in exchange for clearing it out of her basement. The guy who built the collection worked for a sugar refining business, and he traveled all over the Great Plains and Rockies to visit the factories. While he was there, he would get permission to collect rocks from the local wheat fields that were fallow, exposing the rocks. He also collected the popular materials wherever he went. So I got a trove of lovely Youngite from his collection. And I got a thousand different varieties of jaspers and chalcedonies from all over the Great Plains and the foothills of the Rockies.
Good fun! There's some of it I still haven't cut after thirty years!
6:52 we get ones just like that in Utah. I just got some I’m sending out to a few people! Some great purples in some of them too.
7:24 that Iris is insane! WOW!
17:19 might be a favorite! That’s the type of cuts I have been collecting for a project! Lots of slabs and chunks with little caves or arches or bots or druzy I love that one! Great cuts Theo.
X2 watch speed club out 😅 short on time today.
The white earth agates are amazing!
Nice cab prospects. Can't wait to see some. Thank you 😊
Btful rocks! I’d really love to see more of what you do with all the slices you’ve cut.
Yes, please let us know where the White Earth gates are generally found. Thanks for great cutting video.
Wow. Those were all spectacular. That new Montana agate is beyond beautiful. So much going on in that.
I wonder if the earth agate would Knapp. Amazing stone. Derek the rock master does not disappoint!
Wow! Those white earth agates were all so different, and so unique from each other and so beautiful! They are definitely something I've never seen before! Absolutely gorgeous! Every one of them and yeah, they were my favorites. All three of them! And although the iris was very pretty, it definitely took a backseat to those beauties! Wow! A bunch of amazing cuts! Just gorgeous! They were all lovely! And a huge shout out to Derek the Rock Master, for the gorgeous new agate from Montana, that the native Montanan, has never even heard of before! You Rock Derek! Thanks Theo for sharing your beautiful treasures with us! They were awesome cuts! ❤ See you Monday!
The white earth agates are GORGEOUS! I just can't choose a favorite. I LOVE THEM ALL! Unfortunately, I'm working Monday. I gonna try to catch some of your live stream. The last one was so much fun!
Theo, those were amazing❣️
I watch a lot of cutting videos and
The thunder egg and the agates you cut wide were so unique!!!
Theo those are beautiful. Please show us your cutting videos when you do them. I can't get enough of them and I know its too cold to agate hunt or if you are like me you will go anyway lol. Love your videos.
Wow those bots are wild! This is going to be a great video! Watching now! 🤘
Wow Theo! One jaw- dropping beauty after another! That last white earth agate slab 17:8 was GORGEOUS! Close-up of a galaxy! Thanks Theo, and thank you Derek the Rockmaster!!👍👍👍
Amazing cuts! Montana agates are on my bucket list for sure! Thanks for sharing Theo! Love all the amazing botryoidal pieces. 🤩
Beautiful rocks, awesome cuts!
Heck ya that was the best cutting video i would never of guessed that was from Montana but that was awesome
The white earth agates are my favorites!
Timestamp 8:00 minutes in the red an white looks like Kentucky coral geode/agate that I've found , that's really cool.
Absolutely gorgeous! Love the iris!
Hey Rockmaster, the Derek, thank you! I agree with your favorite pick Theo. Just amazing.
The white earth agates definitely deserve a look under a microscope!
Man these were some gorgeous rocks!
Nice!! I did a Google search of White Earth Agate, sounds difficult to get to! Looking forward to live feed Monday!
Truly beautiful! Thank you for sharing
Wowza Theo so awesome. Thks for sharing❤
Can't pick but I need them in my life! I really liked the last 2 obviously but I have to say that perfect circle in the parallax one is so cool and it looks like it has quartz surrounding it. Really awesome stuff can't wait to find out more about the earth agate it's Def a new fav of mine
Those white earth agates look like our aussie rainforest jasper....very cool
Gorgeous material. Derek TRM is The Man. A lot of those odds and ends would make great, big and chunky cabs for rings and pendants. Love a big oversized stone and silver full finger ring.
Your mystery agate was beautiful inside. Looked like a little flower.
The iris agate is cool!
Another great cutting session, Theo! I'd bet you might find some of those white earth pieces to be reactive if you hit them with a UV light. Lots of old uranium mines down around the Pryor Mountains area. It would be interesting to know where it came from. I hope you can find out where it came from, even if you can't tell us. Such pretty material as well as all you showed!
Jared at Currently Rockhounding has a good video on cutting Thunder Eggs. If they have discernible pressure ridges you can tell which way to cut, if not, you cut and hope for the best.
Loved the orbicular agate. Are you going to be doing any cabbing videos? I'd love to see how you cab some of the stuff you cut today.
Can't wait to see the cabs! Beautiful!
Wow, those rocks are gorgeous! I don't know rock types, but I got some similar rocks to tumble from a local couple that were getting out of the rock business. They told me the rocks are from Montana, Oregon & Washington. I don't know what 'cabbing' is, but I love tumbling the slices of rocks, whatever they're called (cabbed?). I'm a Grandma, but I still love rocks. I let my young grandsons (6 & 8 yrs) pick what they want to keep. Absolutely love your channel💙
Nice Jeff HuntingRocks told me that Derek found a new agate in Montana. Yeah they’re cool! Also someone messaged me about some lace agate they found in southwest Missouri that seems to have a little bit of iris! It’s similar to but different than Haunted Ridge agate. If I can get ahold of some I’ll try and send you a piece
The one with the circle at the bottom is my absolute favorite. Looks like a sun rise
Ok Theo...
I need one of those iris slabs.
Gorgeous ❣️❣️❣️
Thank you Dereck!
Beautiful cuts ✌️🫶😃
Love them all
Wow amazing
I walk around a lot, sometimes I pick up rocks. The thing is I live and walk in Iowa. I found one piece this week that "oh, a two color sandstone" Yah, light and barely darker tan. Sometimes there's something exciting like a fossil looking worm or layers like a fossil plant.
Once in a while something that got moved here glacially maybe from Lake superior looks interesting, has some color.
Oh, sure you can go down to Makoketa and maybe find some geodes. But not in this town.
My brother in law said his farmer father called the rocks in his field "sex stones" When asked why he said "They're f__ing rocks." "Now go pick up some of those f__ing rocks for an hour and pile them at the edge of the field.
Lord but I do LOVE pretty rocks!!! 💜💜💜💜
Insanely beautiful!!🎉
Thank you for sharing🙏
Looks like black flint with some calcium carbonate & pockets of Calcedony .
That's just my opinion but I've been a rock hound since 94 so pretty much 30 years lol. I've encountered some pretty weird stuff over the years . We don't have any basalt or ryolite here but yet we have agate in our shale that used to be stuff like brackiopods ,clams, corals , amonites ect.ect. Kentucky agate all used to be some kind of sea life . A lot of times the hull/ husk outer rind will show remnants of what it used to be .
It’s my birthday tmr!! I’ll definitely make it to ur live!
Wow!!!!
Wowsa, white earth agates look like arizona agates or possibly cherry cheese danish 😂.
Nice ones I need iris 😂😂
gorgeous iris
the stone is really beautiful👍👍
Awsome rock cutting video. Will you cut the last thunder egg some more? The red undertone of that one looked amazing.
I haven't heard of white earth agates either. Are you just making up a name!?😅lots of good cabs coming your way.😊
Nice slices. Incredible rainbows. I think the obsidian-like rock might be obsidian. I got some at Glass Buttes ( I think it’s called that) Oregon, and some thin chips had stripes of nearly clear and black. It looks cool. I hope you cut it. Thanks.
Fantastic bunch ❤
Stunning!!!
Was wondering when one of you MT TH-camrs were gonna mention that seam agate.
4:50. Ok, I need cabs of this. Now. Immediately. Yesterday. Last week. .....WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??!??!?!?🤯🤯
Great video!
Nice information ❤❤❤
Do you have any insight into why Montana Rock Mom has not been posting any video's? Asking as I know you two are great friends.
Неймовірно гарні агати.
at 6.53, it looked like black marble, could it be that??A lot of beutiful stuff
Does the iris show without a light behind it? The stuff in mossy agate is not plant material, right? It's some mineral or rock inclusion? Everything was beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Are you able to let us know (approximately of course, can't give things away) what area the white earth agates come from? They really don't look like river rock. Chalky outside?
I would like to see some of your cabs
Black Onyx
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17:42 stunning
The gold color might be an ancient bug nest. Get a microscope look for that and also things like mercury!
You do see the woman’s closed eye in that agate, right?
Theo, how do I message you? I would love for you to come get some white earth agates with me.
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