How cool to find a flash of precious opal inside a thunder egg! What's really neat to see is all the green mineral inside. These eggs are so different from the ones here in Oregon, I really enjoyed seeing the variety in them. It seems like the smaller ones outdid the bigger ones! Thank you for this great video. Your editing was excellent and you gave us plenty of time to see each egg revealed. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks!! Yea i didn't know if people would want to watch a 20 minute vid of me opening rocks, tried to cut out all the empty spaces I could. I still think some different angles while i was cutting the rocks would've been good. I'm super happy with how the thundereggs turned out though, I think there'll be some great landscapes in some of them!! Quite a different variety to most places and the rhyolite itself is quite colorful too!!🙂
I'll take a thunder egg over a kinder egg any day lol! That green is so pretty. I love the ones that look like an aerial landscape photo of a green forest with a crystal clear agate lake! Stunning!! 😍
It's probably one of the most rare thundereggs you can find!! I've never seen anyone else post precious opal thundereggs before either, feel so lucky to have found one!!
@NWRockExplorer watercolor binder is the easiest and least messy to make. You probably already have a good collection of mineral pigments. Any iron oxides will be a super stable option for pigments as well.
I haven't been a huge fan in the past either, most thundereggs looked the same to me. There's so many varieties though!! Some can be filled with quartz crystals making them a geode, some can be brightly colored agate, fire opal, and like i showed in this vid some can hold precious opal!! There can be some pretty cool formations in these things if you're in the right spot🙂
It can be elusive but it's out there!! Most areas where I've found it have tons of common opal so if you see lots of common opal your on the right track. It just comes down to the luck of the draw if you'll find it but your odds increase the more your boots are on the ground😉
Some nice specimens, have you ever found a vein of agate, I suspect it was agate I found while building logging roads in BC, about 300 yards away it surfaced again,I have some samples 3/4 inch thick and 5inch long 2.5 inch wide. I’m no longer in BC.
Awesome!! I have seen some pretty big seams of chalcedony and chalcedonic quartz but the largest agate I've ever found is about 5 lbs, it was part of a giant thunderegg!! Still always on the search for better and better material though😉
Rock on 🤘🪨⚒️
How cool to find a flash of precious opal inside a thunder egg! What's really neat to see is all the green mineral inside. These eggs are so different from the ones here in Oregon, I really enjoyed seeing the variety in them. It seems like the smaller ones outdid the bigger ones!
Thank you for this great video. Your editing was excellent and you gave us plenty of time to see each egg revealed. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks!! Yea i didn't know if people would want to watch a 20 minute vid of me opening rocks, tried to cut out all the empty spaces I could. I still think some different angles while i was cutting the rocks would've been good.
I'm super happy with how the thundereggs turned out though, I think there'll be some great landscapes in some of them!! Quite a different variety to most places and the rhyolite itself is quite colorful too!!🙂
I'll take a thunder egg over a kinder egg any day lol!
That green is so pretty. I love the ones that look like an aerial landscape photo of a green forest with a crystal clear agate lake! Stunning!! 😍
I alway6s enjoy your videos especially into the mountains in search of large garnets.
Thanks!! There will be lots more garnet hunting done in the future, I already have a few new spots in mind!!
Precious opal in a thunder egg, That is so cool! Great find.
Thanks!!🙂
That was so fun to watch. I love the opal in the thunder eggs. Thanks for sharing with us😊
The flash in that thunderegg was awsome, i have never seen that before❤
It's probably one of the most rare thundereggs you can find!! I've never seen anyone else post precious opal thundereggs before either, feel so lucky to have found one!!
Fun video. What a variety! The common and fire opal mixes are my favorite.
Awesome!! I really like those opals too, I'll be sure to try and polish a couple of them up!!🙂
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching🙂
Wicked man!
I had no idea you could find precious opal in Thundereggs
Me neither haha, never thought I'd find something like that!!😅
That green mineral around 2:00 looks like it would make a great pigment!
Maybe, I'll have to give that a try🤔
@NWRockExplorer watercolor binder is the easiest and least messy to make. You probably already have a good collection of mineral pigments. Any iron oxides will be a super stable option for pigments as well.
Never was a fan of thunder eggs for some reason, but the fire opal ones are cool!
I haven't been a huge fan in the past either, most thundereggs looked the same to me. There's so many varieties though!! Some can be filled with quartz crystals making them a geode, some can be brightly colored agate, fire opal, and like i showed in this vid some can hold precious opal!! There can be some pretty cool formations in these things if you're in the right spot🙂
Cool!
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
What a great find, ive been searching for precious in BC myself for ages with no luck
It can be elusive but it's out there!! Most areas where I've found it have tons of common opal so if you see lots of common opal your on the right track. It just comes down to the luck of the draw if you'll find it but your odds increase the more your boots are on the ground😉
nice finds
Thanks!!🙂
Good!
Some nice specimens, have you ever found a vein of agate, I suspect it was agate I found while building logging roads in BC, about 300 yards away it surfaced again,I have some samples 3/4 inch thick and 5inch long 2.5 inch wide. I’m no longer in BC.
Awesome!! I have seen some pretty big seams of chalcedony and chalcedonic quartz but the largest agate I've ever found is about 5 lbs, it was part of a giant thunderegg!! Still always on the search for better and better material though😉
@@NWRockExplorer wow that’s a good one.
Kinda boring.
Got it, any constructive criticism?🤔