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Was at Glass Buttes late June for a day. Never found a single pit, and came home with a bucket full of amazingly beautiful Obsidian from walking the roads.
Not sure if you guys are planning on going back or not. But a pro tip is to bring a spray bottle so that you can see the specific type of obsidian. When it’s wet, that’s what it’ll look like when polished.
Just got back from there. Don't bother with the maps. Go to the gem shop in Burns before you go. The owner is amazing. He'll show you exactly what's out there. The place is amazing.
He loves to have the company . Elis has been in that shop more than he likes to be. He'd rather be in the dirt digging . Highland rock shop . He also has burns green around in a few piles
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I have a lot of these stones, there are even truckloads of them, but what are these stones for, please tell me, if you can help me, I would appreciate it, thanks in advance.
I was glad to have learned about a new possible destination. I have always enjoyed finding obsidian when in the granite mountains of the Sierra , and being among so much fancy stuff looks like fun. It's easy to see the historical importance of obsidian, it's as if by looking around one could find a natural arrow point suitable for small birds
We got a great map from a woman at the knappers camp the second time we went. Silver sheen actually looks silver. We found a bunch of tailings all around while the rest of the group was hunting for big pieces. There was a huge pile of discards from the aurora pit. Like giant pieces. You don’t have to hike far. The creek beds are good places to look too.
Hahah you know you're in a good spot when you're just chuckin a broad variety of material because you know what's comin is so much better... Just started watchin...
Glass Buttes was a great trip this week finding almost all the types listed spent the night found the purple the next day, weather they call it rainbow or aurora borealis I'm not sure the next morning spray bottle is a must
Was just there, thanks for the video. No street sign at the turn. BLM road was pretty rutted. Early April, snow was mostly gone, ground was still frozen at 4" deep but I was able to find some nice surface rocks. Hampton Buttes was hard frozen and snowy still.
me and my girlfriend were out there for the first time last weekend. I didn't even know about pits! I was using a USDA Central Oregon Rockhounding map on Avenza. The map only shows you the areas you are allowed to dig in (minus any mining claim sites). if anyone has decent geo coordinates for the various obsidian types out there I am definitely planning a return trip
43.5498,-119.9839 grey banded with some green tinted 43.5726,-119.9934 old commercial pit (perlite?) hunks of float silver sheen off both sides of road before and after 43.5417,-120.0155 aurora pits?, some blue and pink tints, silver and bit of gold sheen 43.5406,-120.0174 rainbow pits 43.5299,-120.0407 striped and swirled mahogany, super rough road uphill off 'main' road - search the draws to the west, found some mahog with gold sheen 43.5319,-119.9786 almost to totally red mahogany 43.5588,-119.9969 super swirled mahogany
The purple sheen obsidian is a sheen as it is reflected back at you. Sheen obsidian as I have observed, is a light reflective property. Lace will be observed as light is transmitted through the material. There is some amazing obsidian that comes out of that area. I enjoyed your vid!!! Nicely done!!!
Drove up to an old tailing site today that was supposed to have public access just to find it was private property with a no trespassing sign. Turned around and drove back down the road a short distance, stopped and picked up some interesting pieces near and in the road. It was so hard not to hit that tailing pile with so much to look at, but we obeyed and only looked through our windows. Still a beautiful day and drive. Your location was especially pretty and you two brought back some beauties. Sometimes just the drive and scenery are worth the trip. Thanks to you and Sarah for another great and informative video!
It's always a good idea not to trespass collect on peoples leanly marked claims. It is a lovely area with lots of other places to dig at. I hope you took home some good chunks.
Trust me bud. You will know a good piece of silver sheen when you pick it up and hold it in the sun. Totally stunning. Midnight lace is some of my favorite for making points. Good video man! Keep them coming.
When I was young I remember going to the obsidian fields of the Modoc Nat. Forest in California. At the time, there was far more obsidian than you were looking at in the video, but that was 40+ years ago. The Pink Lady and Rainbow obsidian sites are a marvel to behold, for the rich color bands that iridesce in the sunlight. Now you need a permit and are limited to 50 lbs per person per day. Which would only take minutes if it is still as plentiful as it was back then.
I live near here. We went and found so many colors. There is rainbow, gold sheen, silver sheen, banded, mahogany, leopard, brown, purple sheen, and midnight lace. Found a few gold sheen and never found the purple. A good hint another rock hound let us in on for certain colors is to bring a spray bottle otherwise will just look black. Most of the colors are hard to see unless polished plus Obsidian is extremely hard to polish but it is possible.
Love the Mahogany Obsidian, The colors are just gorgeous. It's especially nice when someone else has done all the hard work for you and just sets them out for you to pick up. lol Thanks for another great video.
I've been out there once but plan on going back at some point. I found some purple sheen in a surface flow. I learned more since that one trip too so I kind of know what to look for.
Hey, great video and those views are so good! We visited in the fall and found there was a real learning curve to the material. The colors mostly refer to a play of color with light as opposed to the body color of the obsidian caused by inclusions such as Magnetite and gas bubbles. At home as I was working with the material, the ah-hah moments kept on coming as I found that I did, in fact, have purple, gold, and rainbow as well. The trick is in the angle of cut. Sorry you didn't have the best of times, at least you can check it off the list.
I've got Green and Silver sheen Obsidian and it's obvious when you have it. The light when right will make the stone "Glow" with the color it is. I Live on the east coast and have buy my material but fortunately there are very nice seller on Esty and Ebay. Bless them for working hard and digging the stone as it's go to be hard work.
Great video! Sad to hear that people can't get their facts straight and publish garbage info. At least you set the record straight for anyone going in the future. 👍🏻
This a newly developing hobby for me. I’m going out for the first time in one week. Your Chanel has been wonderfully informative and inspiring. Thank you!
3 years later tip! A black plastic dish and water. It's much easier to see what you are looking at when you can roll it around trying to catch the light.
Why a black dish specifically? I did try to but I just cant fathom why, lol😄🤷♂️... I just spent a couple days camping & digging at Hampton Butte, my the 1st time & Im returning to the area to hit up Lil Glass this weekend😮...
I used to live in bend I'm on the Oregon coast now. I'm curious are you at the Glass Butte east of bend or are you at Glass Butte or Glass mountain in southern Oregon? Because I heard you mentioned Southern Oregon..... down by Lakeview? At Some of the dig sites on the Glass Butte site east of bend, I've had friends dig up veins much like the ones you saw earlier, with excellent material in it but they will fill it back in with dirt when they leave, so often others won't dig in the same place. Takes a lot of work, but that's what some of my friends do out there. I've seen boulders 3 ft wide, and I wished I could still find some stuff like that.
I loved the look of all the different types of obsidian you showed! I've not found any obsidian yet, but I've always wanted to. I'd be in heaven out there! Great video. I'd be a little frustrated and befuddled too, but at least you did some of your own thing exploring and found great specimens!
LGB (little glass butte) is the best place to go BGB (big glass butte) not so much you should go again but go to LGB and check out the main knapping area we got some great pieces from there and didn't go any where else this last time and we got rainbow, silver sheen, gold sheen with red and black ..... purple sheen that looks to have tons of tiny bubbles midnight lace
It would have been fun to find the purple and hopefully you will be able to at another time. But the rest of what you found was beautiful. I didn't know that obsidian came in different colors.
You're advertising my stomping grounds from the place I was born. I left BEND in about 1972 camp with my wife and my brother in The Buttes and ended up putting A crack in the pinion gear of my rear axle of my old 12 valve Cummins turbo diesel pulling a trailer with my motorcycle and we had a camper on the truck anyways it got louder and louder when we got back heading towards Arkansas ,😊😊 ended up down in Hagerman broke down on the Snake River in Idaho because it got so loud finally we found a place to camp for about a week and I tore the axle apart and got a ring and pinion and fixed it down on the Snake River
Enjoyed your work. I'm a rookie rockhounder and I found it very informative. I'm going to try and find some spots in Washington and see how we do. Thanks for passing along the information. Looking forward to your next video.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I live in Everett . I was going to do some research on where to go. I've been told around south west cascades. We plan on taking a trip down to glass bute next year.
I’ve found golden sheen obsidian at glass butte and you can clearly see gold material on top of the obsidian. It’s some kind of formation on the stone and clearly visible and you would know if you have gold sheen. I haven’t found rainbow there yet though.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I'm not sure - it depends on The Covid. I hope to travel to Oregon to visit my parents in early August, but all depends on how the virus containment progresses - travel becomes much more complicated when you have to think of health concerns. :(
The silver sheen is really pretty when it’s wet and you catch the light at the right angle. I want to find some rainbow obsidian. Once polished you can get some crazy play of color. I was told to cut along the grain just above the colored stripes.
You sure got into some beautiful country. I know what you mean about the maps. Various individuals probably experience the place differently depending on their goals and it's hard to sort out what's going on. Still, you found some nice looking obsidian and had a great adventure. Thanks for taking us from beginning to end on this one!
Hey I think you did alrite and understand the disappointment but it seems like yhe typical hype and knowledge os everything hope you enjoyed tour trip and do well with what ever your plan is with this matetial..
I found a nice golden sheen one right at knapper, otherwise most of what I found around there was strictly the brown or black obsidian. I imagine my golden sheen find was someone elses discard back at camp. Still a nice little outing as I was just driving through, but I can understand your disappointment if you drove the 8 1/2 hours just for that! Thanks for the video.
The sheen like gold or silver can be on black or mohogony typically and you usually only find it goes through the rock in one direction. Like rainbow, typically if you chip it in the direction of the lines through I but lines aren't there with gold sheen or silver, you just have to find the direction it shows up in, if you chipped the outside of the stone in 8: directions like the shape of a diamond then trust the stone in the light and you will only find it on one of y6 to 8 sides. If you aren't looking across the correct face of the stone or don't have the rough exterior chipped off that side or the stone you won't see the sheen. You lightly tap the edges to get the rough exterior chipped off to expose the colors or sheen
I just went here for the first time with a group of rock hounders, and got special access to a spot that most people dont get access too. Having had 70lbs of Obsidian at home already, i had no idea what i was getting into being here. 360 varieties of it, just in Glass Butte. I set up my tent behind that tree by the fire pit in the beginning of the video. The fire pit is more fortified now, but the same size. I literally stood in it to build my fire and soon added about 3x more wood than i normally do. It was great. Anyway, the thing i got from being there is i started out knocking off some spots to see inside, i couldn't. It was overcast/cloudy but even if the sun was out, you really cant see in it unless you break half of it and its thin. I got "mahogany" coloring, but with black and clear, and the two pieces i have that are leaf sized, are gold sheen. They sparkle when you move it, otherwise it looks exactly like mahogany. its nuts, its like shimmer/Schiller effect on fire agate. I really just filled my buckets and went home later and looked at them, broke them more with a flashlight. Great video, fun place to go! Highly recommend it. And by the way, the sheen is formed from water being in it when its cooling, and the more its flattened and compressed it gets, the better/higher the sheen it has.
I would like to know where to find the rainbow, fire and other rare colors there; or any intel for that matter. I live in NE Oregon about 3 hrs from there and plan to go. Researching at this point and plan to go in May.
We have been to Glass Butte a couple of times-both times the main road in-where the sign is-has been difficult, a couple of time impassable for a regular car. That said-we have found MANY different types of the obsidian-just walking around. Never even saw any pits back then. We came back with snowflake, silver sheen, mahigany and rainbow. We didn't even know we had the rainbow until years later when a pice chipped off a huge black chunk of obsidian and in the sun-voila! Major rainbow! So in the end-whcih road did you take in? By which mile marker? That would be helpful.
I was there just a couple of weeks before you and used the same crude maps which really didn't do much good. Also, most of the good spots had people camping around them so I didn't want to intrude. Mahogany was everywhere as you found out. I finally gave up trying to find the pits with different colors, and just walked out and dug around. Ended up with my own little pit 15' long and 2' deep made with a garden trowel for no good reason other than it was fun digging along and finding a basketball nodule of obsidian. I really like mahogany, however, it gets a little boring after seeing it constantly. I was going to take my dog and even bought the booties but didn't want to risk running into a rattlesnake. Also, an old Indian trick...trim your toenails way back. I ended up losing a toenail from pushing against the toe of my walking boots going up and down the steep hill to the SE. Fun trying to go down the glass-covered road at such a steep angle with your feet hurting and a loaded backpack. It was a 2900 mile round trip for me. I can't stop driving when I start so it took me 23 hrs non-stop to get there. Would like to go back but not sure it's worth it without knowing exactly where to find something other than mahognay.
I think its a great area with lots to offer but with all the other cool places to visit in the area I don't think I will be going back. Have you looked into any of the thunderegg beds in central Washington?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I’ve spent the day at Glass Buttes with my family. We are on day 2 of a two week vacation in Oregon and Washington. My eldest daughter would love to go hunting for thunder eggs. Any suggestions? We are amateur rock hounders from Georgia.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I have not. We can use all the help we can get. We are debating on heading back out here tomorrow to hopefully find some of the more unusual obsidian or going to dig for the green petrified wood, which I think is found at Hampton Butte.
Very interesting vid Jared. I cant wait to see what you do with it. I have a small piece of emerald green obsidian and I really don't know how to work if. You and Sarah havagudun.
Very interesting, cool obsidian colors, I hope people are learning how to Knapp as well. Definitely the overhang is scary, and maybe someone should watch for snakes.
Lol I was thinking about snakes too. I’m originally from Southern California and you know not to go crawling into any little cave like areas. It seems like it would be safer if people just dug out the overhang part but that takes a lot of effort.
The Sheen is a reflection of trapped gas bubbles. Most sheen obsidian is opaque, you can not see light thru it. The Sheen is at right angles to the flow lines in the obsidian. If you see lines in the rock like the pages of a book you will not see the sheen looking at the lines you need to look at the stone at a right angle to the lines.
7:20 lol I woulda been in there, but that's just me. 10:30 Woo! 4lb Engineer's! My favourite hammer too! Map and info issues aside, you got some nice stuff! Nice hunt!
No way I could have or would have stuck my fat behind in that pit! If a fella had about two days, you could pick and shovel that overburden off, but with so much else around it probably wouldn't be worth the effort.
Thanks for the video. You couldn’t pay me to crawl into that hole, either. Cool that most were pieces you could pick up. A shame about the maps but looks like you had a good time.
It needs to be cut in a certain way. Some of my lined mahogany had gold sheen. Some of the grey lined was silver sheen when I put my phone light to it and I wasn't even looking for silver sheen. Found some muddy green obsidian and I hope that if its cut right it'll have a sheen to it too. Check your spare tire before going up, take sturdy soled shoes.
Been there many times and it's always a great time. There are over 214 varieties of Obsidian out there.. Some pits aren't even on a map, you have to explore.. As said mind the claim markers they are in full view as you drive and or walk.. Great hounding and always worth the visit!! Good video.... Thumbs up That tri-flo you first showed on the board is great to cut, nothing better!!
Some of these will get tumbled, some will get cut, some get displayed in the house and most that are not perfect will get dumped outside in the backyard.
the chalky stuff is called cortex and that real white cortex is an indicator for rainbow too next year in march is the class buttes knap in some of those guys have been going there for decades theyll know every spot for every color
On some of these trips it pays to go with a group. I know Rock Rollers isn't going out with the Covid thing going on, but they are a good source for places like Glass Butte, Succor Creek, McDermitt, and other places that can get confusing. You may have some rainbow in the white coated obsidian. Imagine the gray lines in it are the edge of a flat plane and try to expose the flat of the plane. You could have a nice surprise. You were in the right place, but the tailings are usually discarded for a reason.
Sorry, but I'm going to some what disagree with you. Personally my experience with most rock clubs has been kinda meh, it's not really something that is needed to be into this and as far as the tailings go there's main reasons something gets left other than it being crappy, someone has too much, they found something bigger and better and they are limited on space...etc. I have personally left amazing finds behind at spots simply cause I had enough.
A friend and I are heading to glass butte this month. We have both searched high and low to get just a credible map of the area. Can you point us in the right direction of a credible map and are we required to obtain a permit and on the amount of obsidian we can collect. My friend wants his for landscaping. I on the other hand am a flintknapper and want what I collect to make arrow points. Thanks in advance for any help you can send my way. Love your videos. P.S. Glass buttes are a 10 hour drive for us, so we will only have one full day to collect out of a 3 day trip.
So a couple of things. I have one been there once, and there are many areas to search with different kinds and I don't have a map. As for collecting. You do not need a permit but there is a collection limit per person and per day on BLM land. You can google the details pretty easily.
that has always been an on going issue, you have take into account how old the maps/books are , if what your searching for is real/any value it may already been mined out! as i found the case to be. other wise the trips was perfect ..great video
I did shark teeth in much more unstable sand/compacted sand I would have shimmied under that ledge in a heartbeat for that large chunk. Yolo right? Really tho odds of it collapsing when you are not actively digging on it is low.
How was the dogs paws? I'm thinking of making a trip over there but I got 2 dogs and worried about their paws getting cut up or even getting a shard stuck in them.. Thats some sharp stuff.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding we are heading down to glide oregon this summer so i thought i'd scope out your oregon videos. we've already been to glass butte and came back with 3 milk crates full of material. i love that you have all your locations so well documented. i wish every rockhound was as generous to the community as you are but that's often not the case.
im a flintknapper who specializes in obsidian and the colored obsidian and the sheen obsidian have a kind of "grain" to them meaning the color runs direction-ally and you have to either cut or flake across that grain for the color or sheen to show up strong sunlight also helps rainbow that looks so so in overcast or low light will flare brilliantly in sunlight
Great Fines :) Next trip you should head out to the Oregon Sunstones. I wasn't able to go visit the Saddle Mountain area, trip was canceled. Hopefully sometime this year or next.
@@davergregory Just what's in the video. Bring lots of water, have good tires and if you have a dog be careful as the ground is pretty much just broken glass.
It is a cool but confusing place. I have been there twice with only about an hour to spend each time. It does help that anybody could just walk down or up the roads and find stuff. It is good your pooch is okay with booties!
google the different types of obsidian so youll get an idea of what your looking for my instagram has some @palouseknapper id be happy to put you guys in touch with people who know the buttes like the backs of their hand.
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Was at Glass Buttes late June for a day. Never found a single pit, and came home with a bucket full of amazingly beautiful Obsidian from walking the roads.
Not sure if you guys are planning on going back or not. But a pro tip is to bring a spray bottle so that you can see the specific type of obsidian. When it’s wet, that’s what it’ll look like when polished.
I found a large slab of silver sheen obsidian last month. Thanks for the heads up!
Just got back from there. Don't bother with the maps. Go to the gem shop in Burns before you go. The owner is amazing. He'll show you exactly what's out there. The place is amazing.
Solid advice.
He loves to have the company . Elis has been in that shop more than he likes to be. He'd rather be in the dirt digging . Highland rock shop . He also has burns green around in a few piles
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I have a lot of these stones, there are even truckloads of them, but what are these stones for, please tell me, if you can help me, I would appreciate it, thanks in advance.
We Loved hunnting OR. found alot of colored obsidian plus limb castings and petrfide wood
I was glad to have learned about a new possible destination. I have always enjoyed finding obsidian when in the granite mountains of the Sierra , and being among so much fancy stuff looks like fun. It's easy to see the historical importance of obsidian, it's as if by looking around one could find a natural arrow point suitable for small birds
We got a great map from a woman at the knappers camp the second time we went. Silver sheen actually looks silver. We found a bunch of tailings all around while the rest of the group was hunting for big pieces. There was a huge pile of discards from the aurora pit. Like giant pieces. You don’t have to hike far. The creek beds are good places to look too.
What they mean by sheen is a color flash. In order to see it the stone has to be oriented correctly.
Hahah you know you're in a good spot when you're just chuckin a broad variety of material because you know what's comin is so much better... Just started watchin...
Glass Buttes was a great trip this week finding almost all the types listed spent the night found the purple the next day, weather they call it rainbow or aurora borealis I'm not sure the next morning spray bottle is a must
Was just there, thanks for the video. No street sign at the turn. BLM road was pretty rutted. Early April, snow was mostly gone, ground was still frozen at 4" deep but I was able to find some nice surface rocks. Hampton Buttes was hard frozen and snowy still.
me and my girlfriend were out there for the first time last weekend. I didn't even know about pits! I was using a USDA Central Oregon Rockhounding map on Avenza. The map only shows you the areas you are allowed to dig in (minus any mining claim sites).
if anyone has decent geo coordinates for the various obsidian types out there I am definitely planning a return trip
43.5498,-119.9839 grey banded with some green tinted
43.5726,-119.9934 old commercial pit (perlite?) hunks of float silver sheen off both sides of road before and after
43.5417,-120.0155 aurora pits?, some blue and pink tints, silver and bit of gold sheen
43.5406,-120.0174 rainbow pits
43.5299,-120.0407 striped and swirled mahogany, super rough road uphill off 'main' road - search the draws to the west, found some mahog with gold sheen
43.5319,-119.9786 almost to totally red mahogany
43.5588,-119.9969 super swirled mahogany
The purple sheen obsidian is a sheen as it is reflected back at you. Sheen obsidian as I have observed, is a light reflective property. Lace will be observed as light is transmitted through the material. There is some amazing obsidian that comes out of that area. I enjoyed your vid!!! Nicely done!!!
Wow beautiful nateral glass love the brown and black.
Yeah it sure is pretty.
Drove up to an old tailing site today that was supposed to have public access just to find it was private property with a no trespassing sign. Turned around and drove back down the road a short distance, stopped and picked up some interesting pieces near and in the road. It was so hard not to hit that tailing pile with so much to look at, but we obeyed and only looked through our windows. Still a beautiful day and drive.
Your location was especially pretty and you two brought back some beauties. Sometimes just the drive and scenery are worth the trip. Thanks to you and Sarah for another great and informative video!
It's always a good idea not to trespass collect on peoples leanly marked claims. It is a lovely area with lots of other places to dig at. I hope you took home some good chunks.
Great place to hound .. Just look for the claims that are there.
Have fun. .
Great video....
Yeah its an interesting spot for sure.
Trust me bud. You will know a good piece of silver sheen when you pick it up and hold it in the sun. Totally stunning. Midnight lace is some of my favorite for making points. Good video man! Keep them coming.
Thanks dude!
yeah bro
When I was young I remember going to the obsidian fields of the Modoc Nat. Forest in California. At the time, there was far more obsidian than you were looking at in the video, but that was 40+ years ago. The Pink Lady and Rainbow obsidian sites are a marvel to behold, for the rich color bands that iridesce in the sunlight. Now you need a permit and are limited to 50 lbs per person per day. Which would only take minutes if it is still as plentiful as it was back then.
That sounds like it would be amazing to see.
I live near here. We went and found so many colors. There is rainbow, gold sheen, silver sheen, banded, mahogany, leopard, brown, purple sheen, and midnight lace. Found a few gold sheen and never found the purple. A good hint another rock hound let us in on for certain colors is to bring a spray bottle otherwise will just look black. Most of the colors are hard to see unless polished plus Obsidian is extremely hard to polish but it is possible.
Love the Mahogany Obsidian, The colors are just gorgeous. It's especially nice when someone else has done all the hard work for you and just sets them out for you to pick up. lol Thanks for another great video.
Hahaha I agree! This stuff is both beautiful and its nice to just find piles of it sitting around.
I found my first Arkansas rock crystal at the bottom of a road-rut walking up to Wegner's mountaintop mine. That was back in 1989. Still got it.
I've been out there once but plan on going back at some point.
I found some purple sheen in a surface flow.
I learned more since that one trip too so I kind of know what to look for.
I'm also learning more about it now that I have some and I'm back doing research but I don't think I'll be going back to this spot again.
Hey, great video and those views are so good! We visited in the fall and found there was a real learning curve to the material. The colors mostly refer to a play of color with light as opposed to the body color of the obsidian caused by inclusions such as Magnetite and gas bubbles. At home as I was working with the material, the ah-hah moments kept on coming as I found that I did, in fact, have purple, gold, and rainbow as well. The trick is in the angle of cut. Sorry you didn't have the best of times, at least you can check it off the list.
Yes and many times if not in full sunlight the colors aren't as pronounced, cloudy days aren't as good.
I've got Green and Silver sheen Obsidian and it's obvious when you have it. The light when right will make the stone "Glow" with the color it is. I Live on the east coast and have buy my material but fortunately there are very nice seller on Esty and Ebay. Bless them for working hard and digging the stone as it's go to be hard work.
Great video! Sad to hear that people can't get their facts straight and publish garbage info. At least you set the record straight for anyone going in the future. 👍🏻
This a newly developing hobby for me. I’m going out for the first time in one week. Your Chanel has been wonderfully informative and inspiring. Thank you!
Thank you! :)
3 years later tip! A black plastic dish and water. It's much easier to see what you are looking at when you can roll it around trying to catch the light.
Why a black dish specifically? I did try to but I just cant fathom why, lol😄🤷♂️...
I just spent a couple days camping & digging at Hampton Butte, my the 1st time & Im returning to the area to hit up Lil Glass this weekend😮...
I used to live in bend I'm on the Oregon coast now. I'm curious are you at the Glass Butte east of bend or are you at Glass Butte or Glass mountain in southern Oregon? Because I heard you mentioned Southern Oregon..... down by Lakeview?
At Some of the dig sites on the Glass Butte site east of bend, I've had friends dig up veins much like the ones you saw earlier, with excellent material in it but they will fill it back in with dirt when they leave, so often others won't dig in the same place. Takes a lot of work, but that's what some of my friends do out there. I've seen boulders 3 ft wide, and I wished I could still find some stuff like that.
Born and raised in Lakeview. I looked forward to always getting to go
The brown/black is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah man it's pretty wild to look at.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I've seen some pretty nice blades and arrow heads made from it.
I loved the look of all the different types of obsidian you showed! I've not found any obsidian yet, but I've always wanted to. I'd be in heaven out there! Great video. I'd be a little frustrated and befuddled too, but at least you did some of your own thing exploring and found great specimens!
LGB (little glass butte) is the best place to go BGB (big glass butte) not so much you should go again but go to LGB and check out the main knapping area we got some great pieces from there and didn't go any where else this last time and we got rainbow, silver sheen, gold sheen with red and black ..... purple sheen that looks to have tons of tiny bubbles midnight lace
Looked like fun!
It was a good trip.
Thanks for the video. That Leopard Skin Obsidian is my favorite type. My gf and I would love to go find some of that.
Time for a road trip!
It would have been fun to find the purple and hopefully you will be able to at another time. But the rest of what you found was beautiful. I didn't know that obsidian came in different colors.
You're advertising my stomping grounds from the place I was born. I left BEND in about 1972 camp with my wife and my brother in The Buttes and ended up putting A crack in the pinion gear of my rear axle of my old 12 valve Cummins turbo diesel pulling a trailer with my motorcycle and we had a camper on the truck anyways it got louder and louder when we got back heading towards Arkansas ,😊😊 ended up down in Hagerman broke down on the Snake River in Idaho because it got so loud finally we found a place to camp for about a week and I tore the axle apart and got a ring and pinion and fixed it down on the Snake River
holy run-on sentence batman!
That black and red stuff is beautiful!
It sure is!
Loved picking there. Also there is petrified wood there and limb castings in that area.
Yeah it's a great area. I wish we had more time there.
Enjoyed your work. I'm a rookie rockhounder and I found it very informative. I'm going to try and find some spots in Washington and see how we do. Thanks for passing along the information. Looking forward to your next video.
Thank you! What part of Washington are you in? or what places do you plan on going?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I live in Everett . I was going to do some research on where to go. I've been told around south west cascades. We plan on taking a trip down to glass bute next year.
I’ve found golden sheen obsidian at glass butte and you can clearly see gold material on top of the obsidian. It’s some kind of formation on the stone and clearly visible and you would know if you have gold sheen. I haven’t found rainbow there yet though.
Rainbows on the very top . Need water bottle and sunshine
Glass Butte is on my "to do" list. :)
When are you taking a road trip?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I'm not sure - it depends on The Covid. I hope to travel to Oregon to visit my parents in early August, but all depends on how the virus containment progresses - travel becomes much more complicated when you have to think of health concerns. :(
really pretty samples...thanks for your research!
You should see that little cave now. It's huge & even has some post to support it
The silver sheen is really pretty when it’s wet and you catch the light at the right angle. I want to find some rainbow obsidian. Once polished you can get some crazy play of color. I was told to cut along the grain just above the colored stripes.
Rainbow, you cut at a 15% angle from line ..👌
You sure got into some beautiful country. I know what you mean about the maps. Various individuals probably experience the place differently depending on their goals and it's hard to sort out what's going on. Still, you found some nice looking obsidian and had a great adventure. Thanks for taking us from beginning to end on this one!
I love the high desert out here. Thanks for stopping by to watch.
Hey I think you did alrite and understand the disappointment but it seems like yhe typical hype and knowledge os everything hope you enjoyed tour trip and do well with what ever your plan is with this matetial..
I found a nice golden sheen one right at knapper, otherwise most of what I found around there was strictly the brown or black obsidian. I imagine my golden sheen find was someone elses discard back at camp.
Still a nice little outing as I was just driving through, but I can understand your disappointment if you drove the 8 1/2 hours just for that! Thanks for the video.
Overall I'm very glad we went. I would love to return with someone that really knows the area.
The sheen like gold or silver can be on black or mohogony typically and you usually only find it goes through the rock in one direction.
Like rainbow, typically if you chip it in the direction of the lines through I but lines aren't there with gold sheen or silver, you just have to find the direction it shows up in, if you chipped the outside of the stone in 8: directions like the shape of a diamond then trust the stone in the light and you will only find it on one of y6 to 8 sides. If you aren't looking across the correct face of the stone or don't have the rough exterior chipped off that side or the stone you won't see the sheen. You lightly tap the edges to get the rough exterior chipped off to expose the colors or sheen
I just went here for the first time with a group of rock hounders, and got special access to a spot that most people dont get access too. Having had 70lbs of Obsidian at home already, i had no idea what i was getting into being here. 360 varieties of it, just in Glass Butte. I set up my tent behind that tree by the fire pit in the beginning of the video. The fire pit is more fortified now, but the same size. I literally stood in it to build my fire and soon added about 3x more wood than i normally do. It was great. Anyway, the thing i got from being there is i started out knocking off some spots to see inside, i couldn't. It was overcast/cloudy but even if the sun was out, you really cant see in it unless you break half of it and its thin. I got "mahogany" coloring, but with black and clear, and the two pieces i have that are leaf sized, are gold sheen. They sparkle when you move it, otherwise it looks exactly like mahogany. its nuts, its like shimmer/Schiller effect on fire agate. I really just filled my buckets and went home later and looked at them, broke them more with a flashlight. Great video, fun place to go! Highly recommend it. And by the way, the sheen is formed from water being in it when its cooling, and the more its flattened and compressed it gets, the better/higher the sheen it has.
It sounds like you had the perfect trip to glass butte.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Thank you, it was! Sorry i wrote so much. Just excited!
We are headed down with this weekend. Any suggestions on which areas we should definitely hit? Also care to share how to get the special access?
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I found if you cut the same angle as the lines, then dome it out, the sheen shows better for pendants.
That mahogany obsidian is really nice.
Thank you!
I can get some details on where to dig. I live about an hour or so north of there and many of the locals know what’s up.
I would like to know where to find the rainbow, fire and other rare colors there; or any intel for that matter. I live in NE Oregon about 3 hrs from there and plan to go. Researching at this point and plan to go in May.
We have been to Glass Butte a couple of times-both times the main road in-where the sign is-has been difficult, a couple of time impassable for a regular car. That said-we have found MANY different types of the obsidian-just walking around. Never even saw any pits back then. We came back with snowflake, silver sheen, mahigany and rainbow. We didn't even know we had the rainbow until years later when a pice chipped off a huge black chunk of obsidian and in the sun-voila! Major rainbow! So in the end-whcih road did you take in? By which mile marker? That would be helpful.
I cringed every time you tossed a piece into to bucket. It’s glass!!! 😂
I really enjoyed the video. 🌸
I was there just a couple of weeks before you and used the same crude maps which really didn't do much good. Also, most of the good spots had people camping around them so I didn't want to intrude. Mahogany was everywhere as you found out. I finally gave up trying to find the pits with different colors, and just walked out and dug around. Ended up with my own little pit 15' long and 2' deep made with a garden trowel for no good reason other than it was fun digging along and finding a basketball nodule of obsidian. I really like mahogany, however, it gets a little boring after seeing it constantly. I was going to take my dog and even bought the booties but didn't want to risk running into a rattlesnake. Also, an old Indian trick...trim your toenails way back. I ended up losing a toenail from pushing against the toe of my walking boots going up and down the steep hill to the SE. Fun trying to go down the glass-covered road at such a steep angle with your feet hurting and a loaded backpack. It was a 2900 mile round trip for me. I can't stop driving when I start so it took me 23 hrs non-stop to get there. Would like to go back but not sure it's worth it without knowing exactly where to find something other than mahognay.
I think its a great area with lots to offer but with all the other cool places to visit in the area I don't think I will be going back.
Have you looked into any of the thunderegg beds in central Washington?
No, I haven't. I think that might make a good trip though as I have never found a thunderegg.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I’ve spent the day at Glass Buttes with my family. We are on day 2 of a two week vacation in Oregon and Washington. My eldest daughter would love to go hunting for thunder eggs. Any suggestions? We are amateur rock hounders from Georgia.
@@fostermomjudy6962 Have you seen my website with a map of locations?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I have not. We can use all the help we can get. We are debating on heading back out here tomorrow to hopefully find some of the more unusual obsidian or going to dig for the green petrified wood, which I think is found at Hampton Butte.
Very interesting vid Jared. I cant wait to see what you do with it. I have a small piece of emerald green obsidian and I really don't know how to work if. You and Sarah havagudun.
I got some plans for this stuff.
That is so cool!
Thank you!
That is beautiful obsidian!! Send me a little sample.🙂
It really is nice material.
Very interesting, cool obsidian colors, I hope people are learning how to Knapp as well.
Definitely the overhang is scary, and maybe someone should watch for snakes.
I was going to say, beautiful cleavage !
Lol I was thinking about snakes too. I’m originally from Southern California and you know not to go crawling into any little cave like areas. It seems like it would be safer if people just dug out the overhang part but that takes a lot of effort.
No snakes at Glass Buttes...👌
The Sheen is a reflection of trapped gas bubbles. Most sheen obsidian is opaque, you can not see light thru it. The Sheen is at right angles to the flow lines in the obsidian. If you see lines in the rock like the pages of a book you will not see the sheen looking at the lines you need to look at the stone at a right angle to the lines.
Obsidian is surely a rock.
Technically speaking its not a rock but rather its a mineraloid but I still call it a rock.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I thought rocks were not minerals, but minerals were rocks. Or at least a cluster of crystals were rocks.
7:20 lol I woulda been in there, but that's just me.
10:30 Woo! 4lb Engineer's! My favourite hammer too!
Map and info issues aside, you got some nice stuff! Nice hunt!
Thanks man, sometimes that just the way it goes.
No way I could have or would have stuck my fat behind in that pit!
If a fella had about two days, you could pick and shovel that overburden off, but with so much else around it probably wouldn't be worth the effort.
Thanks for the video. You couldn’t pay me to crawl into that hole, either. Cool that most were pieces you could pick up. A shame about the maps but looks like you had a good time.
Yeah I really don't see the drive some people have to do things like that. We had a great time!
Would have been hard to stop me from grabbing that suker!
The obsidian that was in that tight big hole is gold Sheen mahogany been there many many times pulled out very large pieces
It needs to be cut in a certain way. Some of my lined mahogany had gold sheen. Some of the grey lined was silver sheen when I put my phone light to it and I wasn't even looking for silver sheen. Found some muddy green obsidian and I hope that if its cut right it'll have a sheen to it too.
Check your spare tire before going up, take sturdy soled shoes.
Thanks for the video. I am going to put that spot on my map for my xmass vacation I take 8 days and travel out there to find cool rocks.
You will not be disappointed.
You will be cold! Brrr
Did you happen to save GPS coordinates for any of the spots you went to? I'm heading that way tomorrow and would love to see what you saw...
I'm sorry I didn't save them for this trip since we were kinda all over the place.
Awesome. I live in central Oregon so it's only 2 hours for me. Nice stuff
It's worth the visit.
Lucky dog. It's a 2200 mile drive for me LoL
Been there many times and it's always a great time. There are over 214 varieties of Obsidian out there.. Some pits aren't even on a map, you have to explore.. As said mind the claim markers they are in full view as you drive and or walk..
Great hounding and always worth the visit!! Good video.... Thumbs up
That tri-flo you first showed on the board is great to cut, nothing better!!
We have been rockhounding for 5 years now and needless to say, don’t pick up this hobby if you don’t have lots of space for rocks to go lol
Well said!
Just got back from glass butte last night got some awesome stuff. Any tips on tumbling
I hope you had a good time and got some good stuff. Not really, I haven't done it yet but there's some good guides online that I found.
So what do you do with these rocks? I do like the black/red rocks they are beautiful.
Some of these will get tumbled, some will get cut, some get displayed in the house and most that are not perfect will get dumped outside in the backyard.
the chalky stuff is called cortex and that real white cortex is an indicator for rainbow too next year in march is the class buttes knap in some of those guys have been going there for decades theyll know every spot for every color
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The Knapp in is the best time to go and meet people that know where everything is
Jeff, can you direct me to the class Buttes Knap? Thanks!
Very cool
Is there a map of the different pits in the glass butte are?
There is but I really don't know how accurate they are.
Closer to the actual Buttes, it is right on the surface, no need to dig. Used to go there a lot in the 90s.
On some of these trips it pays to go with a group. I know Rock Rollers isn't going out with the Covid thing going on, but they are a good source for places like Glass Butte, Succor Creek, McDermitt, and other places that can get confusing. You may have some rainbow in the white coated obsidian. Imagine the gray lines in it are the edge of a flat plane and try to expose the flat of the plane. You could have a nice surprise. You were in the right place, but the tailings are usually discarded for a reason.
Sorry, but I'm going to some what disagree with you. Personally my experience with most rock clubs has been kinda meh, it's not really something that is needed to be into this and as far as the tailings go there's main reasons something gets left other than it being crappy, someone has too much, they found something bigger and better and they are limited on space...etc. I have personally left amazing finds behind at spots simply cause I had enough.
Ok, super jealous. I've only found fields of pure black in my state. TFS
Lots of oil?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Lots of fossils.
A friend and I are heading to glass butte this month. We have both searched high and low to get just a credible map of the area. Can you point us in the right direction of a credible map and are we required to obtain a permit and on the amount of obsidian we can collect. My friend wants his for landscaping. I on the other hand am a flintknapper and want what I collect to make arrow points. Thanks in advance for any help you can send my way. Love your videos.
P.S.
Glass buttes are a 10 hour drive for us, so we will only have one full day to collect out of a 3 day trip.
So a couple of things. I have one been there once, and there are many areas to search with different kinds and I don't have a map.
As for collecting. You do not need a permit but there is a collection limit per person and per day on BLM land. You can google the details pretty easily.
Okay. Thank you.
Oh man do I have something for you!
I'll have to send you a piece of what I found last time I went to LGB==> About 1.5 months ago.
Send away!
that has always been an on going issue, you have take into account how old the maps/books are , if what your searching for is real/any value it may already been mined out! as i found the case to be. other wise the trips was perfect ..great video
That is always the issue it would seem, we did however have some great finds.
Thanks.
Man, I want to go to this site...
It's a good location for sure!
I did shark teeth in much more unstable sand/compacted sand I would have shimmied under that ledge in a heartbeat for that large chunk. Yolo right? Really tho odds of it collapsing when you are not actively digging on it is low.
Yeah but its not worth the risk.
How was the dogs paws? I'm thinking of making a trip over there but I got 2 dogs and worried about their paws getting cut up or even getting a shard stuck in them.. Thats some sharp stuff.
I had the same worry and we put dog shoes on ours.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding oh ok cool. I'll look into those. Thanks
Next time you're in Central Oregon look me up!
Never know when we will be back, I got a list of places I want to go!
so weird to see that bottom shelf in the shop so empty in these old videos.
You're time traveling here!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding we are heading down to glide oregon this summer so i thought i'd scope out your oregon videos. we've already been to glass butte and came back with 3 milk crates full of material. i love that you have all your locations so well documented. i wish every rockhound was as generous to the community as you are but that's often not the case.
5:40 Pthhllll my '09 Hyundai Accent could get me in there, long as she's on her winter's, eh? LOL!
Ha!
Wondering about the road to the camp site. Can a trailer make it down the road? Is there enough area to turn around ?
Yes, but do not get off that main road. I even saw a few people with big diesel RVs.
Lots of camping areas at Glass Buttes, we camp there when we hound..
im a flintknapper who specializes in obsidian and the colored obsidian and the sheen obsidian have a kind of "grain" to them meaning the color runs direction-ally and you have to either cut or flake across that grain for the color or sheen to show up strong sunlight also helps rainbow that looks so so in overcast or low light will flare brilliantly in sunlight
Very cool, thanks for clearing that up for me!
"This place is considered the largest obsidian deposits in the world"-Oregon Discovery
That's interesting, I wonder how it's calculated cause Oregon has some other really big flows.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I was thinking the same thing but had to get my ass in gear for school this week.
Can you go anytime or is it only one month out of the year?
It's public land, you can go anytime.
Really enjoy your video's, thanks for taking the time to share. keep them coming :)
Thanks! I got lots more planned.
Silver and gold shen looks like gold and silver. I have some.
How do you have any empty space on that shelf!?!
Just gotta keep adding more!
Great Fines :) Next trip you should head out to the Oregon Sunstones. I wasn't able to go visit the Saddle Mountain area, trip was canceled. Hopefully sometime this year or next.
I'm sure we will visit there at some point.
I would love some of that obsidian do the have obsidian in Michigan u know of
Where about is your home base? I live in Colfax.
We live in the Spokane area.
Love the mahogany
Yeah is really nice stuff.
Currently Rockhounding I am head to glass butte next week any intel
@@davergregory Just what's in the video. Bring lots of water, have good tires and if you have a dog be careful as the ground is pretty much just broken glass.
It is a cool but confusing place. I have been there twice with only about an hour to spend each time. It does help that anybody could just walk down or up the roads and find stuff. It is good your pooch is okay with booties!
I think it's a spot that you really need to spend some time at if you want to really know where to look.
google the different types of obsidian so youll get an idea of what your looking for my instagram has some @palouseknapper id be happy to put you guys in touch with people who know the buttes like the backs of their hand.
I'm learning for sure, obsidian is some what new to us since we don't have much up in NE Washington.
Currently Rockhounding trust me I know that I live in the town of Palouse about 15 miles north of Pullman it’s kind of A lithic dead zone