Visiting the Dugway Geode Beds // Rockhounding Utah
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- Our visit to the Dugway Geode Beds was really enjoyable, and we found some excellent thundereggs.
The one thing I would change about our visit would be the amount of time set aside for it, it's really a location you need a few days at to really grasp it.
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Do I need a Vehicle with high ground clearance to get here?
Ok man, here's what i'm thinking: We get you a motorcycle helmet with a cam on it and microphone inside so when its super windy you can pretend that your a spaceman on a different planet and you dont have to worry about the wind lol!
Great vid though buddy.
Hi there 😀 I hunt for Geodes in the Warsaw formation, it's in Iowa and Illinois . Between Burlington and Keokuk IOWA AND Nauvoo, Illinois and Hamilton/Warsaw IL. My sister and I find solid stuff and even more with awesome crystals quartz and chalcedony, and fossils!
I forgot to tell you how awesome you are!!!
Ha, why are you trying to make me look even more weird?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Weird is different and different stands out...Ive got a method to my madness ^^
@@CurrentlyRockhounding it looks like you replied to my comment, not quite sure... But if it was me ???
Thank you for another vicarious rock hunt. I will probably never have a chance to hunt for them by myself so I enjoy seeing what you find. Geodes are amazing!
Aren’t we so lucky to live a part of the world where there are so many wonderful treasurers. I cannot due this type of rock hounding due to health, but every week I get to hunt with you and Sarah. Thank you.
I live in Canada rip
@@keberharkeberhar9067 depending where in Canada it can be pretty darn good! British Columbia Canada for example is famous for nephrite Jade. But I'm sure everywhere there has something!
The world is good but the government makes it worse. There’s places I wanted to go metal detecting for fun and I found out recreation areas ban metal detecting. It’s a huge desert area and now you can just hike or drive a road. Idk why they did that except to close it down to potential mining etc without labeling it as wilderness.
I was also upset cause there was a beautiful rock hound site I wanted to visit but it’s in that recreation area and it may now be illegal idk. The federal government and politicians term of recreation isn’t really recreational at all.
I wish non profits existed or states would actually file rockhounding permits to keep areas open to rock hounders as environmentalists literally are closing down rock hounding sites in Utah. They’re also closing down camping sites to make a buffer zone to the wilderness area over by price. It’s crazy cause wilderness areas in states east of Colorado doesn’t have buffer zones.
Hey Brother,I had watched this video earlier while I was moving Wind Blades from Vancouver to Montana, and this week when the job ended and while headed back to Texas I routed myself to the Dugway Geode site. After the long drive (62 miles) down the dirt road to get there, I spent the next five hours digging a hole on the East side of the pit you were in at the beginning of the video. The deeper I went the better, as I ended up with maybe 10 whole that are over 6-9 inches in diameter as well as too many to count that are smaller but whole. BIG THANKS for all of your videos that showcase what we can find in so many locations!!
I'm glad you made it out there and had some good finds!
This makes me miss Utah so bad. I haven’t been to Dugway for many years and when I was visiting Utah this summer nobody wanted to go out there with me. Now I’m in New York and don’t know when I’ll make it again. I love the UV reactive pieces. Still watching, can’t wait to see what you pull out!
18:55 we have found a few with the jasper in them. I have a bucket still somewhere at my in-laws I think 🤔 need to find them.
Utah is an amazing place. If you go to the website there's UV slide comparison images up which are really nice to see.
Maybe someday you can return out west.
I feel for ya Bro!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding going to check out the site in the morning!
The giveaway winner was Torrey!
Did you see the wild horses while you were out there??
Was stationed at dugway back in 1980. Collected several hundred pounds over 3 yrs. don’t a one left. Including the cut one.
Haha, "... people that don't really care about their Subarus." :D
:)
Michigan Rocks put some small ones in the tumbler. I’m going to try it with some littles I picked up in the fields at Henderson’s Ranch. I think you said you didn’t tumble?
Thanks.for the info channel I love it I'll be going there on vacation next year
Heck yeah! You will love it!
I always love colored geodes, even if it’s just a hint. We tend to only have regular quartz ones in our area.
Add a comment you say! I sometimes with I can tag a long for some of your rock hounding trips! The geode are so pretty
The big mounds you see out there were actually made from someone that had an old claim out there. You used to be able to pay a small fee and the backhoe would dig up new stuff all the time. There is a big long boring story of why the claim isn't out there anymore (if you want to know more, I can write up the explanation), but now its all under BLM control and a lot of the huge basket ball size geodes that used to be pretty common from there are almost impossible to find now that there isn't a backhoe out there.
I think there is some conflicting information out their on the subject.
I'm aware of long store about the area and its claims also I agree the big mounds were created by the old claim owners, however a few times now BLM has gone to the from my understand and done work with a backhoe to make the pits safer and in turn make the mounds nicer. Doing so also make the dig site stay where its at.
I still think its really nice place.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Its a great place. It looks like you hit it right after we had all the flash flooding (early to mid August). The roads are bad, but not normally as bad as you showed in your video. I was out there in June and it was pretty smooth, lots of people make it out there in their passenger cars and minivans. As far as the BLM going out there, its probably very rare, I have personally never heard of them going out there with a backhoe (the cost to transport one out there would be astronomically high). I would guess they probably did some work right after the old claim shut down but they don't do regular work out there at all (or the community is very secretive about when they do go). Glad you had a good time, I agree, a partial day out there is tough to find anything unless you know exactly where to look and dig, there are some people that do really well out there.
@@bjurney85 I haven't seen anyone really talk about the washed out roads so it must be pretty recent. I'm glad I had my truck and not my Subaru for this trip.
Wow that was a fun and Awsome video. Thank you for sharing...
👏👏 another informative video…..🪨
Thank you for coming by to watch!
Is that volcanic glass obsidian, or something else? Cool to see the Dugway site - I have a couple of those a viewer gave me that I plan to cut soon.
I'm still very unsure what it is.
My friend had a perlite mine and that looks like the raw perlite before it is ground up and cooked to make the perlite that you find in potting soil.
Spike Motorsports is watching and collects rocks
Exciting! I can’t wait to go there someday…it’s on my Utah list 😁. Thanks for the video!
Oh its 100% worth the visit.
the must precious find was the girl , God bless u two
Dugway does too exist. They even have a holiday Inn.
What program are you using to edit? You can use a low or high pass filter to take out the wind sounds in Premiere.
I use Kdenlive to do my editing.
Mate love your channel , very educational. For someone that looks at 180 foot deep walls of stone a mile long every working day , you give me details and explanations that others don't give. Love the idea of testing the radiation levels and that you don't just chase the preties and you grab the interesting sometimes. Every rock holds a piece of history .
Thank you so much! Also what is this wall you look at all day?
I think they can all be really pretty!
Woah Love the green glow! Sweet rocks! Rufotris . Rooted Rockhound sent me some real nice thundereggs frm Utah. On the bucket list for Utah! {}
Oh you should go! It's well worth the trip.
The middle of nowhere is my favorite place to be. Always the best place to find the best rocks. I have traveled so many gravel roads and back country roads in the last year that my mechanic gave me heck for not checking my air filter. It was so packed with dust and dead bugs it had to be replaced. Oops!😁 My poor van. I didn't think it was that bad.
Hahaha yeah that's something you gotta stay on top of when you do this kind of driving.
Very cool finds, the geodes have a really nice variation in structures and colours.
Agreed.
Well Jared, almost every time I watch one of your adventure videos my list grows. Thank you for taking us along to see these awesome areas! Beautiful materials from this one for sure! The one Sarah found with blue is amazing, and the little one you showed at the end looks sort of like an ear.😆 Very cool stuff. It's so exciting when you guys do giveaways, even if I don't get picked I'm excited for who does. Very cool that you do this and share your finds too.✌😎
Ooohhh like that giveaway rock!
How neat. You guys seem to have the whole place to yourselves. A lady in Canada had a meteor fall on the pillow next to her, early this month. Nice hole in the ceiling. That’s not a great way to go rock hounding.
I saw that! Have a small ish meteorite hit your house is quite the story.
Wow!! New bucket list destination!!
Thanks for sharing
Well worth the visit.
Rad! I’ve wanted to go down there for quite a while so it’s cool to see your video and learn more about the area. Did you get some Vernon Wonderstone while you were down there? That’s another place I’ve been interested in for a long time.
Oh you will have to watch and find out! I think you will like this coming weeks video.
Wondering what a nuclear explosion metamorphic rock would be like...?
That is a thing and I would love some of it! It's called Trinitite, also known as Atomsite or Alamogordo glass. It's a glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test.
have to go to Dugway - amazing abundance - just a guess but the material you identified as jasper I think is chert.
I think you might be correct about that.
looks like great fun there nice material
Another fabulous 🎥
Someday, I would love to visit the Dugway area. The scenery is beautiful also. I can’t believe how much I’ve learned so far from your videos and website. You are a wonderful source of information 🤩🤩. Thank Sara for the great finds! Those were awesome!
Can’t wait to see you break open and polish up some of your finds.
Thanks for the 🎥
Stay Crystal 💫
Thank you! I'm just trying to share what I learn. Always a work in progress. :)
Cool giveaway rock!! Looks like alot of fun at that place
It's a lovely location.
I was digging thunder eggs last month at Little Naches, Dugway is on my list for next spring.
Oh its so a worth it spot.
Live in America. Love your channel
So. Very cool. I’m making a list of sites from your awesome videos. Thanks!
You can also find them all up on the website!
East Tennessee here, would love to make it out West, there are so many places to go. Not so much, around here.
It feels endless out here.
I’m excited to watch I want to learn what they look like whole so I know what to look for.
Be sure to note which types you want to find. As he mentioned site 2 in all the books has lots of whole small geodes but the other location has some very large pieces and you can dig into the exposed clay layers to get some nice ones at either site. I had done both surface hunting and digging about 8 years ago and got my best at site 2 digging a hole.
Agreed, I do think its a location you need more than one day at if you really want to enjoy it.
Headed back next week. I’ve found some great spots and eggs over the past month. Saw this video and learned more than past 10 combined. 🤙🤙
Another great video and I would LOVE to have something you collected !
Thank you!
I went to Dugway 2 months ago when all the roads were washed out from all the rain. That wash you talked about was insane! But we had a 4 wheel drive high clearance vehicle. So We made it. The road going into the pits at Dugway were washed out by 4 feet, ( meaning the road was 4 feet higher than the wash) And so we had to find alternate routes and washes to drive through. But I found my prize, a whole perfectly round 15 inches in diameter geode. Haven’t cut it yet, but soon!
Dang that's a great find!!!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Thank you, I found it in the road, out of all places. Had my son dig it up because I had a broken foot and couldn’t walk, but it wasn’t going to stop me from getting my geodes!😂
Come to Brown county Indiana tons of geodes just lying all along road beds and creeks.
I would love to make my way out there.
Thanks so much for this video. I would like to go to Dugway next year.
Do it! I think its a really good location.
Wow great finds how did your tires hold up on those roads
They held up great! BFG KO2s
@@CurrentlyRockhounding good on that road you do need good tires or maybe just a small compressor and a repair kit I've seen more times than not when I go out there someone on the side of the road with a flat
I love the way those look so pretty thank you
That's nice. I just started watching your channel and have been enjoying you content.
Welcome!
I really enjoyed this video. Getting your perspective of the place is very helpful and the scenery is beautiful. Looking forward to your next adventure.
I'm glad you liked it.
You make me so jealous. There aren't many collecting sites near me in NW Illinois.
That's a little rough, we do drive quite far for these videos and locations since we don't have a whole ton right where we live.
Funny this popped up , I just bought a full dugway geode Sunday at a gem show lol . .
Nice! They cut really well.
Love riding along with you. The geodes are nice, that colored 1 is great. Fortification, druzy, chalcedon, crystals.....wow! Definitely a truck trip.
It's a great place.
Magnificent Intermountain Vistas! I really "Dug the Way" you demonstrated and filmed another outstanding Rockhounding Destination. Looking forward to those even bigger Utah agates.
Thank you, I try to do these locations justice.
great video. Utah is a must do.
I live in America subsequent Saturday night. I love your channel, I love your explanations of everything. Your travels r exciting. Thanks for hours of entertainment.
Thank you for coming to watch! :)
I see you came down to my neck of the woods! Next time you make it down this way, I would be more than happy to show you some other locations!
We did make it down there and spent some time driving around hitting locations, unfortunately it was a little tight and hard to plan with other, we do plan on coming back next year for a more relaxed trip.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Just let me know when you plan to come!
Want to win one of these baby's!
🎉 to Torrey. I need to go there.
Where can I find desert roses?
Thank you for sharing!!! Watching is my way of being able to go rock hunting ❣️
Thank you for coming to watch!
Does the GMC-300E Plus measure alpha radiation as well? As far as I know uranium minerals should emit alpha particles, which you need a Geiger counter that's specced to pick up on that kind of radiation. Their website doesn't mention anything about it picking up anything beyond beta and gamma particles so it may be worth getting a counter that can read Alpha radiation to completely rule out the presence of uranium minerals.
It does not measure Alpha particles, that said Alpha particles can be stopped by a sheet of paper so even if there is Alpha particles coming of of this it really is harmless.
The Geiger Counters that can pick up Alphas are well out of my current price range.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Good to know! I love how informative your videos are, you really know your shit. Pretty inspiring and helpful stuff for people who want to go rock hounding but don't know where to start
You've found some very interesting and very cool specimens out there for sure
It's a nice locations.
What a great find!! Looks like a great trip! Thank you for sharing and love your videos they are very well done and learning so much!
It's a great location.
aww man! too bad you said for US residents for the giveaway lol! i’d drive down to Spokane for sure! plus get in some hounding along the way 😂. guess i’ll have to just go down to Utah and dig up some dugways of my own. thanks for sharing this! can’t wait to see what’s in store for the next SNS!
Sorry man, its just so dang much to ship international.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding i completely understand. plus the extra time spent on customs declarations and whatnot. i’m just happy they’re finally opening up the border so i can do a road trip. might have to wait for early summer though i guess. so much snow lasts up in the higher elevations.
If I remember right it doesn't take much uranium to make it glow, maybe a little phosphor. Also radium is in the decay chain and will be locked in. U is an alpha emitter, alpha can't penetrate 2" of air let alone the skin of the rock. So you might not see much on the outside. Also, U is water soluble, so a fresh break. I have some really nice Sard(?) a dark beer brown calcedony that I got over in Nv. from a vain. Some pieces that I have cut into cabs from it have a nice green glow others don"t. The ones that do measure just a little higher. I can't remember CPM. I have a little better meter(s), no offense meant. It's a side hobby that I don't wish on anyone.
hey guys! this is glenna. Awesome place! im currently digging through some of the clay here, nothing i know of has ever been found here.. but not too far up the road is a clay mine. they have homer laughlin china company here, the ones that make fiesta ware everyone collects. well the clay mines for the china company are on the road between my house and my moms.. so i decided to go give it a look. they haven't been used in a very long time. but i did find some reports on minedat that they found quartz aluminum and some other minerals. Fingers crossed ill find something. My north carolina trip was cancelled due to my cousin running a fever.. dunno if its the vid.. but not chancing it. so ive been trapped in the land of sediment for a few months. and snow is flying soon.. boy id sure love to win that. i have very little from the western half of the states. ill get there someday. have a great weekend jared, n sarah. looking forward to more videos of your trip!
oh almost forgot to tell ya, i actually tried tumbling some of the Michigan fossils and wow. i had no idea they would tumble so amazingly well, so Sarah, keep your eye on the mail! ill send an email with tracking info, but as soon as they're done i am sending u out some amazing stuff. very old amazing stuff, lol ;)
also bud i can defiantly not identify that material. i know very little about Utah in general. here we do have a similar looking rock, in only small areas where it got exposed, mainly in the eastern panhandle. but it is very very old gneiss (i know west and east coast have similar tectonic history but not much else) the gneiss here was re heated by volcanic activity and became a more glass like rock with the gneiss striping intact. thing is under the microscope you can clearly see your specimen was a very silicate rich magma, causing the bubbles to form in between more stable less silica rich veins. it is not the same as the gneiss here. the only thing here I've seen that looks even relatively similar is slag glass from iron smelting. We can be pretty sure it isn't that. very interesting! if you figure it out please let us know in another vid. awesome, ttyl guys. ,glenna
Wow Beautiful eggs and geodes Utah is not on my list for a few years.
Its a killer location for when you do visit.
We were just there on the 29th of Sept., we were the only ones there and there were so many cool rocks everywhere. 2 buckets full. We also stopped at Topaz mountain same day, on our way back to Nevada
It really is a killer location. We didn't make it to Topaz Mountain, but maybe we will next year. How did you do there?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I loved your video road trip portion, we must of crossed paths. We started at Topaz first, didn’t do the pay to dig, so didn’t find much on our own. Still a nice hike up the mountain, found a very small topaz and small amethyst crystals. Very hard rock to dig in! Anyways your video brought back my day trip through there. We took the same road pass that pony express building and then a very obscure road straight north to Dugway, til we ran into a fence lol 😂 finally found a paved road and made it back to the 80…. Definitely out in the middle of nowhere. Quite the day, but loved the adventure. Sorry for the long reply 🤪
Great video y'all have some wild rocks out there.
I'm still working on the ones I'm going to send you it's kind of hard picking out ones you might enjoy it so many more cool looking rocks out there then it is here. ( That may just because I have seen these all of my life )
Some of the things I have read says we have some of the oldest rocks here I will definitely try to get you some of them.
Keep up the great work y'all do an awesome job on these videos!
Excellent vid kidz!! THANKS !!!
I'm glad you liked it.
Those would look cool in by succulent landscapes. 😏
They sure would!
The green glow from the clearer material may be Hyalite.
The green is from small deposits of uranyl.
Hi Jared, nice location with some great looking material. A bit far for me to go to get some of those thundereggs but I would love to. We do have a “Thunderegg Park” about 40km away (25miles), though I have not been there yet, it’s on the list. Another good video mate, with lots of good content and information. “Keep Safe & Keep Rockin”
The adventure is half the fun! but yeah it is pretty far for everyone I think.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding it’s a long way from here in Queensland, Australia !! 🤣🤣
Just checked about 7,622miles one way or for us it’s 12,268 kilometres 👍
Lol we took my Jetta through there! Not recommended for amateurs!! We found some nice geods in the crater you were un sure of. The road you show looks much better than when we were there with my Jetta two years ago. I want to go back after seeing this video!
Offroad Jetta!!!
Yes sir!!
I'm slowly catching up on the Utah adventures. 🤠
Its a great state to visit.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I drive through it often in a big truck which is not fun due to the traffic there. I'd love to spend time there instead with visiting and exploring around. Surprised that I haven't crashed yet looking at the geology and roadcuts while driving along! 😄
Just getting into rockhounding, just wish winter wasn't coming up lol. Want to go mining for amethyst but seem to have a bunch of lake superior agates up here in MN. What do you think would be the easiest way and cost efficient to work with thunder eggs? I got a Hi-Tech because of you I just wish lapidary stuff didn't cost an arm and a leg haha. Thanks for the vid!
What do you mean work with Thundereggs? Like you want to cut and polish them?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Sorry scratch that lol// What would be the best thing for starters to make on a flat sander that also has a good market for the finished product in your opinion?
@@z7446 I don't think I'm the best person to speak to that since I don't buy or sell rock. Sorry
You mentioned @19:33 calcite as a possibility, but I'm guessing you tested it with acid by now. I'd agree it looks more glassy than crystalline anyway. Perhaps pitchstone (which I know next to nothing about)? No clue on the inclusions!
Yeah its not Calcite but at first glance it popped into my mind. Pitchstone is something that would be new to me as well. Sometimes these bigger trips really provide me with some head scratchers as I'm really out of my element.
Cool place to visit. Good luck in all your travels!
Thank you!
Thanks again for sharing for those that can't make it out west to those cool places. Nice specimens
Some great colors and interesting pieces! Might have to add this as a destination 🙂
I would highly suggest it.
You need to check out the obsidian fields outside of Delta, and some of the old tailings piles around Mammoth, Utah.
We did hit a lot more spots in Utah, I really want to go back next summer.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I can't blame you.
Cool place ! Thanks for sharing!!
I'm glad you liked it.
Cool stuff! I would love to visit Utah some day.
Utah is awesome for sure.
I’d love a geode, but I don’t want you to spend money on mailing when you don’t have a shop heater. It’s gonna get cold😳
I plan on embarrassing the cold and becoming one with it.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding “It’s just a flesh wound.”
Dugway is on my list of places to visit for sure.
Its a really nice location to visit.
Very Cool Spot.
Awesome views! Utah is BEAUTIFUL!!! Some cool rocks too. Gotta love anything that glows under UV 👍🏼
Exactly! Utah is awesome!
awesome stuff....just waaaay too far for a day trip
Roadtrip!!!
When you turned to that pond I thought...He's going to throw that rock in it.....
Hahahaha, I couldn't help myself.
First thing I wanted to do when I saw it. I guess we never get over the feeling.
Nice thunder eggs. Hoping to get there some day. Thanks for sharing.
It blows my mind how many people take the pony express trail to get to dugway geode beds! If you come in from the Delta side you can find sunstones, topaz, apache tears, garnet, fluorite, amethyst, and beryl. It's 60+ miles less dirt road, gets you there in the same amount of time from salt lake, and you can find lots of cool stuff along the way!
It is an enjoyable route to take once or twice.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I guess I am looking from a perspective of going out there often. There is some history that way that is fun to see if you're not from around here.
Would love to know where you find the sunstones, apache tears, garnet, and flourite on the way up to Dugway from Delta. I wasn't aware of all those other possibilities.
If you ever make it to Tennessee I'll take ya'll Geode hunting.
We would love that.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I found like 50 in one day!!! Some were solid and some with beautiful crystals,. Also several with milky quartz over the crystal.
You did go on to Topaz Mtn. Area right?
Nope we passed on it.
Who doesn't need another cool rock?!! Count me in for your draw please
I live in Utah and haven't had a chance to make it up there yet. But I have a place on the Southern end of the west desert I find thundereggs that can be just as wild!
Oh that sounds lovely, in the coming videos we will be showing a lot more of Utah, some of which should be a lot closer to you.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding if your still in the area let me know I can take you to some great places!
@@zioncardman18 Unfortunately we are not
What’s the road like? Car a Mazda 3 make it
Yes but the last little bit you might need to walk, like the last 1/8th mile.
Great video! I hope you get a chance to go back and dig again, because believe me when I say: you've only just scratched the surface of Dugway! My wife and I live in Utah, and have been there twice. From our experience, the truly good stuff is in that pink clay layer. You can get some gorgeous whole geodes with very sparkly quartz inside...but you have to dig. You won't usually find those high quality specimens on the surface. It can be a lot of work, but totally worth it!
Oh we plan on going back in the future. :)
Wow wish I would have know this back when I went there when I was in the Army. Thanks for the video:)
Were you stationed at Dugway?
No I was on TDY there, temporary duty for Army Nuclear Biological Chemical testing. Testing new chemical decon equipment.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding but had alot of free time, could have been looking for rocks:)
Cool.