Rockhounding For Star Garnets
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- This trip was a fun rare chance to go rockhounding at a private location for Star Garnets. Like most gem material, it doesn't look that great in its raw form, and to really appreciate the gem it needs to be polished.
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Pretty far north for me. I have a spot much further south that I have been getting garnets and zeolite since I was a kid. Happy hunting
So cool! My birthstone!
Good haul. I found that with a dremel and wet sand paper you can get a great polish on them, takes a bit but, then you can roll them around in light to see where the star rolls while facing you directly mark it and slice in half and you have 2 good cabs for the lapidary machine.
Thanks for the tip, I got a lot of rock projects in the fire at the moment but I'll need to give that a shot at some point here.
make a video on it. I'm sure you'd get a ton of views!!!
Star garnets is definitely one of my bucket list places to rockhound! I will have to see if I can get to one of these private locations.
Those are some nice size garnets can’t wait to see them when you get them all cleaned up. Love that purple tone.
Yeah I think they will clean up really nice.
Never found a garnet. Awesome, thanks for sharing.
I wish I knew people that could show me around and people who own private mines. This is so cool!
It is nice but not really needed. It takes time to build these connections.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding would you have any good recommendations for finding a dig site. whenever i go i just end up getting dissapointed. too much misinformation. i've bought books, im subscribed to 2 groups, i look through feeds. im not sure. i think im just blind and missing it
@@LostButHere It sounds like you're doing things right. Why dont you send me an email and we chat about it. I'm sure I can help.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding thank you! I will set a reminder to do so after work! Again thank you!
Nice haul of garnets! I bet it was so fun digging them babies🐾
It most certainly was a good time.
Very cool to get access!! New finds! Congrats
Thanks, it was a lot of fun.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding i have some what i believe to be grossular garnett from snoqualmie area. Mixed with quartz and epidote. Fun
Those are so cool! Now I have to look up star garnets...
They look really nice all polished up.
Hope you had a good Christmas and I hope SANTA brought you lots of star garnets
wow nice hunt fam. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
You are such a good guy. Love your podcasts
Thank you!
Oh, my... Bucket list keeps expanding, thanks to Currently Rockhounding 😉
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When are you going to start working that list down?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Rock hammer to the heart! Lol, I won't take chances by myself, and, at this time, I'm the only one available. 2 years ago, a boulder rolled down the hill I was digging on, crushed my foot, fractured my ankle, and had to drive myself 5 hours to the nearest hospital. Living in SoCal, the nearby desert collecting areas are too hot. Seriously Jonesing here.. ⚒❤⚒
That sounds horrible, at least you're healed up now.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding, I made it to Northern California yesterday! Pet wood, Lake County Diamonds, poppy jasper (🤞), obsidian, and agates! Thank you for the motivation!🤣😂🤣😂⚒❤⚒
That was an interesting adventure. You certainly got a lot of good sized garnet out of there. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah it was well worth the drive.
I live here in Idaho and I use my king cab machine to reveal the star in my garnet it saves all the fractures and helps me center the star my pride garnet is 56 ct and is a six ray star happy hunting
Nice finds. Can't wait to see the cleaned up or cut. Thanks for sharing.
It's coming.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding are you going to have any made into jewelry?
I'm not much of a jewelry type.
That's pretty cool of them to invite you to their site! Interesting to see the type of ground they are being pulled out of there. Hope you'll share when you facet, cut, cabochon these. Thank you for sharing the video!
Yeah I'll be putting out some more cutting and polishing videos in the coming weeks I think. Its just prime collection season right now so I got collect stuff while I can.
That would be amazing. Garnets are freaking cool, even the freebies ones. Those are good sized. Nice haul.
Thanks it was a lot of work digging in the summer sun but it was worth it!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding helps with the tan lol
I wish maybe some day I will find one
Gotta take a trip to north Idaho!
Stars can appear in the pieces also, it's more important that the material is solid as possible.
Looks like you were a few miles away from the public garnet area. I can tell by the amount of iron left on the stones. There are 4 gulches the have historically produced jewelry grade star garnet. The farther away you get the quality starts dropping drastically. Still, its cool to get in touch with a guy to get you some stones when our public forests are closed. I live in spokane valley, and if you'd like to see really nice grade rough or cut stones I'll gladly show you our collection. Happy digging!
I would love to check out your collection! Drop me an email.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding 10-4
Thanks always exciting
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Yes you must keep this place hush hush. We've been there and am going back real soon. Huckleberry season is close. And this site is surrounded by huckleberry plants which means lots of bears. Did u camp there when u went?
We didn't camp but I could see that being really nice.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding i hear u see stuff in the sky.
What?
Oh dude I got pissed when I read the notification because I've been looking forward to going to the star garnet collection area for years, and just as I made the plans to go it ran out of garnets. This year the public place was set to reopen in may but is closed due to "the event" and I've been checking on it weekly to see if it'd reopen. Your finds look fantastic though, so if your guy ever opens up for digging give me a hollar so I can get on over there.
Yeah it's a bummer about the public location, this makes two or three years that it has been closed. Maybe next year it will be open again.
If you dont mind me asking..i hope its not rude..learning etiquette still..where is the public area that you go to find your garnets..I'm new..and ppl are super weird about locations..even when open to the public ..which doesnt seem to be very many... and on top of it..you can get friggen shot and killed for going somewhere your not supposed to go. With that said..i totally get why ppl are very private..ive already noticed that ppl are assholes ..come in herds tearing and demolishing the land like locusts leaving nothing left in the ground. So whatever info your willing to divulge is deeply appreciated.
@@heihat1224 if I were you I would Google Garnett public lands in which area where you are able to go.
@@heihat1224 Emerald creek id garnet area
How do you know they are garnets? The shape? They just look like rocks to me :). O you have a video on how to spot these? I’m in Idaho on 10 acres. Thx!
That's a rather complex thing to answer in a comment but mostly the shape.
Those are some really nice garnets. I have a really good garnet locality near me where you can get super clear spessartine garnets. I have also collected garnets in New York City.
Wow I have never heard of gartnets coming out of new york.
here is a good article about the minerals of New York City.
www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com/jhbnyc/articles/nycminerals2.htm
Thank you.
This is so awesome!
Yeah I'm excited to start grinding on them.
Disappointed in not sharing location, but I understand. I've been to Idaho's Emerald Creek Garnet Dig manymany times... brought back manymany buckets of dirt.... :D I'm still going thru these buckets and the last time I went was 2014-15....
On the positive side I have like 65 other trip videos up where I do share the locations which is something no one else has ever done. Sounds like you still have a fair amount of sorting to do.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I have seen many of your videos... totally enjoy every one of them and SO much appreciate your GPS tracking and review.. Thnx
Try hot oxalate acid solution to clean them up.
Thanks buddy!
Cool spot!
I was very happy with it.
Rad! Is this a private claim?
Yes it is.
Nice man
Thanks!
Do you have lapidary tools to help you with some facets?
My family has many January birthday and so Garnett is a gemstone we look for.
Thanks for sharing.
Not just yet but I hope to start changing that really soon.
These garnets are not very good for faceting because of the titanium inclusions. The titanium inclusions are what form the asterism or star. The best garnets for cabbing are garnets that have been broken naturally in half or thirds. When you begin to start cabbing, you'll want to dop the outside of the stone i like using a nail with super glue, and you work the broken side to see if the star is oriented in a fashion that will be desired after set.
@@nathanbrisson8515 thanks for sharing your experience with us all.
How do I get to go in? Find Star Garnet at that mine?
This is not a public location.
The garnet at 1:36 is huge!
Oh yeah that one will be nice!
I just wanna go someplace public I can find any kind of garnets.
I hear ya man, sorry I can't be more helpful.
I'm heading to the Twin Falls, ID/Castle Rock State Park area. Does anyone have suggestions for good rockhounding locations?
SW of Bruneau, off of Last Frontier Road you can collect Petrified Wood.
I would like this if you only said it was from earth.
Are you looking in Oregon?
In general or in this video? This video was taken in central Idaho.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding In the video. And thank you so much for the quick reply!! My son and I watch your videos all the time and cant get enough!! Its so fun to watch a 6 year old be completely enthralled with rockhounding.
Thank you so much for the nice comment. Reading things like this give me so much motivation to make more videos. Its just really good to hear that they're having a positive impact.