I Found an Amethyst Agate While Rockhounding on a Gravel Road | Agate Hunting
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- Join me for some rockhounding on a gravel road! Not only do we find an amethyst agate, we find a bunch of varieties of Lake Superior agates! Minnesotas state gemstone, the Lake Superior agate has many varieties and to have found so many on this rockhounding adventure, was an absolute blast!
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“Spry and pray”. LOL ! Never heard that one...but we’ve all done it😀
Haha its more of a hunting term, but i figured it literally applied here perfectly!
I literally do this since I was a little kid. Always looking down for interesting stones. I often feel kind of weird doing this and every time somebody is around I just stop. But it's kind of relieving to see and understand that I'm not alone with this kind of mild obsession. 😂 In the end it is such an innocent and cheap way to have fun and be happy. Thank you for that. Thosr rock hounding videos are some kind of revelation to me.
It’s a pure and simple hobby full of good times. I’ve stopped caring what people think of me, keep looking down 🤘🤘
@@AgateDad That's an interesting motto! 😂
You found some amazing pieces, Taylor! Thanks for taking us all with you!
It was a good day! Appreciate you joining along :)
A good soak in mineral oil brings out their vibrant colors and fills cracks and voids. Wipe off excess and voila.....pretty, pretty, pretty. Great finds!
How often do you have to re oil it?
Trees are BEAUTIFUL!
They're really popping now!
Wow some beauitiful banding and colours there.
I'd love to see a tumbling series. You have so many small/medium specimens I think you could get a really nice group together to tumble, lots of waiting though, but with winter around the corner it could be an option!
I think so too
You really want to find where they are excavating that road gravel!
Beautiful smalls
I love how you choose each rocks’ background to enhance the shot!
I mark of a true photographer
Wish our roads were made of agate! Some very lovely finds! We have an agate video out this Sunday - stumbled across them on the beach! We have been waiting all week for the sun to come out to do the roundup! xx
Ooooh I cant wait! I watched your last one and was amazed at the beauty of them!
WOW NEVER SEEN ROCKS THIS COOL IN ANY GRAVEL ROAD!!! GREAT FINDS!!!
Love that you always find awesome rocks. You must know where to go hunt.
I love the traveling music
The one with the amethyst is pretty. I love amethyst.
Same
Another AWSOME road, it amazes me how people drive over stuff like that and never even realize what there passing up
Amazing what you can find, just along a gravel road.
Absolutely 👍
Hi again TAYLOR
The leaves are changing there I see and a beautiful time to get outside and hunt for awesome agates and ?
I especially like the multi band ones. You found a couple small but gorgeous ones that fit.
Also there's one that has an eye in the center of all the bands! Very unusual!
Happy to see there still are gravel roads! Small finds but still fun and pretty. Fun going with you as always. See you again soon...
Yeah lots of beautiful finds! I'm happy ro find anything, size doesn't matter for me, its the happiness I get from being outside and seeing the uniqueness in each agate 🥰
rockhounds are such nice people
I agree 😊
You have a good eye.
I just got through reading about how many Indians (India) have gotten silicosis because they don't have water cutters or masks like you have.
I never thought about it, but it's good to know so that anyone who wants to grind, cut or polish their finds use proper precautions.
Have you ever considered tumbling some of your stones, I had a tumbler years ago with a couple of different drums.
I never realized how long it takes to achieve results and it isn't a video thing.
The results are fantastic if you have the patience to let it run 24/7 for weeks or months at a time:)
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Definitely a good idea to wear masks, I'd get a better one, but covid has them all bought up.
Dude this road name should be re named to Cochella Rd! So many bands! Hahaha!
Seriously though, i would be hard pressed to head home from that road. It’s got little bangers everywhere! And top quality agate lines galore!
Haha! Oh man it was hard but my eyes were so tired! Ill go back for sure 🤘
Awesome! I’ve found some amazing agates down the back alley behind my house. I love small town gravel roads. ❤️
Really amazing.
I could imagine walking down that gravel road in a summer rain storm.
The Agates would be glowing.
Ohhh yeahh!
Lots of fun and getting a few rocks is even better. Can't wait to see them polished. Be safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
👍 hopefully this winter
The nicely banded agate suggests a pyramid shape. It would make a beautiful pendant or ring!
Always beautiful agates. Never seen quite so much banding. Some looked like they were finger prints.
Thank you. Newbie and you have given me great ideas where to look and how to process rocks.
Do you soak the dish soap and viniger mixed together or separately?
Do you do anything else for polishing? They are small, can they be tumbled?
I have found larger ones on Lake Michigan but not so pretty and banded.
I have tumbled them with good results with lessons learned from Michigan Rocks on line.
I now just soak agates in vinegar if they need it
Fair dinkum rock dad you find the best stuff! Amethyst agate! 🙏💓💓💓💋so jealous!
It was a good day 😌
Wow you found some great agates on this video 📹 😳! Great job 😀
Thank you so much 💓
Man with the cleaning, try soaking them in straight vinegar, it stinks but saves scrubbing time. Still, your method gets em all purty though 😉👍
I'll give it a go with a certain agate... 😉😄
At Agate Dad....love your enthusiasm. I hope you find some huge ones.
I've found good ones in the past, I don't care about size anymore, just loving the beauty in all this 😁
What a great haul!!!
Not too bad!
And I thought we rock hounds couldn't be any nerdier! 😎
Do you make jewelry from any of your finds?
Hahah!! Glad to bring it to another level! Not yet, id love to someday!
Gee I love gravel roads.
There just so fun!
Such great finds. Gorgeous banding on the agates and the trees starting to turn was an added bonus. Thanks for the video!
I'm really enjoying your videos. My wife and I took a trip to Grand Marais, MN in 2007 and hunted the beaches on the north shore. It never occurred to me to look in gravel pits and gravel roads. Now I've got the itch to go back. During that trip we also visited an amethyst fee mine in Thunder Bay, Ontario and came back with some nice specimens.
Sounds awesome!! I'd love to go up and hunt some amethyst!
Love it man! I found a small handful of agates, yooperlites, unakite, agatized coral, a couple petoskys and a nice piece of amygdaloidal basalt on our camping trip to the UP! So gorgeous up there!
If love to travel there sometime! Happy you had good luck!
Those were all beautiful. I love tagging along on your rockhounding trips.
Love bringing you with 😊
Best gravel road ever!!! Thanks for sharing the hunt and your sorting process. :)
It was a good road, gotta get back, I only searched a small segment of it!
It doesn’t get easier than that!!! Great stuff✅✅✅🍻👍🏻
Easy picking 👌
Thanks for sharing this. Really makes me want to go out side right now!
What a good eye you have! These are some real beauties. Your pictures really show them off, too. Good job! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks 😊
Once I started tumbling my LSA's I was surprised to see how often there were flecks of native copper in the layers just inside the rind/husk. So for a while, I would trim off the husk before tumbling. But now I learn that LSA's with the husk are much rarer than those without (which makes sense, most of them are lake washed). Keep an eye out for those flecks! I almost thought I saw one in the amethyst one, on the side that the piece wants to sit on.
I'll have to check it out! I'd love to get a microscope that films to take a closer look at these beauties!
I think it would be easier to go agate hunting in the rain, or at least when it's drizzling out. Then they would pop more. I can't think of anything more fun than rock hunting.
I agree! The best would be in sunshine after a quick rain 👌
Beautiful agates, Taylor. I enjoy your hunts very much!
Thank you so much!
Gosh I would give anything to own an agate. I live in Ontario Canada near Lake St Clair and Lake Erie yet I have never found an agate.I’m stunned that you can just find them on a gravel road. We just have gravel. Trust me I’ve looked! The banding is just fascinating to me. Maybe one day I’ll win the lottery and can travel. Lol! Love your videos!
Seems like a dream for all of us haha thanks 😊
Love your excitement.
Thanks!
I loved this video, beautiful rocks and wonderful scenery. Thanks for sharing Taylor. Love the amethyst.
Thanks so much!!
Surprising what you can find on a gravel road!
Right?!
SOMEBODY is having a GOOOD DAY!!! Can't believe you found all that on a gravel road!!!😂😂😂
They're full of beauties 😍
@@AgateDad EYEPOPPING! Faves were the 360º& the chevrony one! And everyone loves how excited you get when you're finding stuff like crazy!💚
Another awesome video. I love the pictures at the end. I noticed that the leaves are changing 🍁. Absolutely beautiful! I can’t wait for future videos to watch the progression of the leaves. ♥️😂♥️
They sure are! Its wild!
All super beautiful finds, my favorite is at 8:33. Thanks for sharing 🔥🔥
Thanks bud!
Beautiful thank you
Very nice. I need to check out the alley nearby. TFS 💖🦅🦅
Good luck!
@@AgateDad I just rock hounded my front yard, it's got river rock. After spraying (thanks!) I found some beauties. I'll make a video and tag you, Rob and the rookie in Oz (don't know his name). It's 104 outside, the rocks were really hot, the doorknob so hot I could barely touch it. Grumble.
Once again great job on your video of rock hounding!
👍👍
The blue in the sky is insane
I agree
Wow, that last one with the amethyst just gorgeous. They all looked so “edible”. lol Keep safe, I hope the family is fine too. 💕
Haha little candies
Some of my best finds have been at the side of dirt roads-but in Wyoming.
I bet!!
What do you find out there? Fairburns?
Eric Konkol gorgeous jaspers, agates, marine fossils....
Thanks for the hunt. I love the one with the Amethyst in the middle. You got alot of good finds. Keep up the good work, love your videos.
Thanks so much 😁
There's a gravel pit between Brainerd and Crosby that I have driven by a bazillion times in my life and every time I want to go looking in there. I should find out who owns that.
Do it!!
Buy a pickup truck load of gravel from the same companies that supply the state roads . Just a thought. Thank you .Enjoyed !
Its crossed my mind lol I don't need the extra gravel though
@@AgateDad Thought the same .lol
Could sell it to someone..idk lol
Great finds! I have found my most detailed and some of my favorite agates on the gravel roads. Some of the best are in Carlton County MN the home of the largest lake superior agate. Keep up the good work!!
I'll have to try some out there next time I'm down there 👍👍
The trees are so pretty too☺️
Soo amazing! I wish I could find LSA like that down here! Find them occasionally but not that often! Thanks for sharing!!
Hope you will!
Lots of tinys I still say you should set some of those raw beauties in 4 prong pendant settings sooo pretty.
The golden rule of rockhounding: turn everything over! One time I was hunting for terminated quartz by a stream near my house, and I walked by a piece that looked totally normal, but when I turned it over it was BEAUTIFUL, with tons of termination going up the side.
So awesome and exactly why you do that!!
Can you find lake superior agates else where's other than near lake superior. How far do you think you could find them
You can look up the Lake Superior agate glscial path and it tells how how far it goes, but down into Iowa and Nebraska
Great agates!
😊
Holy smokes, that road is good! You could fill a tumbler barrel in no time at that spot. VERY prolific day!
Seriously!! And I searched probably
1/50th of that road 👍👍
@@AgateDad So 49 more videos worth remain then! Woohoo!
Hahaha absolutely!
This day was your day Taylor ! You found real gorgeous ones 😍
Definitely got lucky!
Nice! I need to find a gravel road near the Twin Cities to explore.
I wish you good luck!
Really enjoy watching your videos! Your finds are amazing!
Thank you very much!
Bro I died when when you said “omg it’s got amethyst!!” Hahahah good finds
Haha glad you got a laugh out of it!
I recently came across your page and I love it. I like to guess which rocks you're going to pick up as your hunting... lol
Man!! You have LSA’s everywhere in your area! You should go to your local Home Depot and buy a bag of river rock and see if there are any in it!
I've thought about it, or from a landscaping company!
@@AgateDad Lots of my best finds have been from landscaping rock. That would make for a fun video!
I found some interesting rocks. They remind me of giraffe patterns.
Hmm sounds awesome!
3:10 middle right I think I see an agate. Could just be a piece of quartz but it is glowing like an agate.
I'll have to check it!
You're right!
Scores! Great video. Thank you for the adventure! I think I'm heading to Tower/Sudan. I've never been through the mine. Have you?
Never! Sounds cool
Well I'm going to have to watch you in the other room. I woke the hubby while lol again! Amethiths...amithsith...lmbo
Hahahah tell him I said sorry!
@@AgateDad not your fault. I have a loud laugh.
Haha thats fun though
Seems like you're having better luck on the dirt road, rather than the beach :) stay safe and healthy to you and your family and friends.
Beaches are overpicked right now, people are traveling and having there fun there, which is great 😊 So im trying new spots out while the weather is warm!
Yeah AD looks like I hit it right on the head when I mentioned returning to gravel roads last vid..Seems like you had a good day....Oh how blessed you guys are to have gravel roads with those sweet agates all around it....Down here in NYC its so hard to find a gravel road period much less finding an agate anywhere....Im planning to go up to Lake Ontario about 300 miles upstate to search there....You guys are so lucky with Lake Superior in your back yard... Great Vid by the way
I'm absolutely so blessed to be living in the lake superior region.. ive actually found agates on walks in my neighborhood lol
Gorgeous finds!
It was fun finding so many banded beauties 😍
nice. Ty. i share
Appreciate it!
I love your channel Agate Dad!
You’re definitely a pro at spotting these now!! Haha
Getting better each time!
Just one eye though haha 😉
Yep...im overdue for rock stalking. Lol.
Get out and get some!! 😅
maybe it sounds crazy, but i always thought, if the agates are found in minesota soil itself, since it is the state gem, not carried away from the mountains by the lake and creeks, can you find them underneath your own yard?...i know it's a stupid question..
100% yes.
@@AgateDad i thought so...
Might be harder to find but yeah!
You did pretty good, you might tell rookie rockhounding about this one, I'm sure he would like to see this one
I'm sure he will if he finds time 😊👍
Beautiful ❤️thank you for sharing 😊❤️💙✌🏻curious why do you use vinegar to clean them up
It just helps get some grime off them
Interesting I’ll have to try it
Don't use vinegar on fossils though
Your lucky you have that type of gravel up there, here in Iowa we only have limestone on our roads
Really?? I wondered what it was like down there
South Dakota gots some really good gravel roads, tons of cool rocks
Awesome!
How does someone go to gravel pit to look to LSA. Which ones are legal to go into
ones with permission
Fabulous finds. I can see all the autumn colors, didn't the snow JUST melt not too long ago? :)
Haha yeah thats Minnesota! We get a month of spring, few months of summer a month of fall, and the rest is snow ❄
Nice!
Thanks Eric!
Beautiful amethyst agate. You do pretty good on them gravel roads. My luck down here in Iowa is pretty limited on them as they are primarily limestone here unless you can get out on the no maintenance level b roads but that's currently hard for me as my 4 wheel drive truck took a crap on me lol so I'm sorta stuck there
Well thats a bummer, sorry to hear that, hope the truck gets fixed soon and isn't too spendy!
@@AgateDad well lol. 1200 for a used rebuilt engine wasn't worth it for an old farm truck. I'm coming up to Minnesota tomorrow likely near LA crescent and Winona to do some rock hounding by the way. I'd love to make it up toward Duluth next year. You know of any camp grounds up there that won't hit the pocket books too hard?
I dont know any campgrounds unfortunately
at 3:09 you missed an agate bottom left!
Hi love your videos, im just getting started again with rock hunting. How long did it take you to know the names of all the different rocks? I live in Michigan my dad sent me some of his collection from Florida along with a pudding stone and I thought of you! Yesterday i found a orange glowing round brain lookin thing Sooo exciting! Keep up the great work.
I'm still learning, always will be! Its not a rush either, learn as you go since its just a fun hobby!
What sort of camera system do you use that auto focuses so well like that? Phone?
Yup
Seems like you find more agates on a gravel road than by the lake.
Less people look on gravel roads
Hi do you know any good places to look for agate in Utah or any good places to look for rocks in Utah? Thanks
I dont unfortunately! Do you have a Barnes & noble close to you?!
@@AgateDad I might how come ?
Stop in there and check out the section that has books on rocks and minerals, that'll be a good start...or online research.
Are you a rock enthusiast or do you also have a geology degree? I am learning so much!
Fun fact about me, geology was the only class I couldn't pass in college lol I took it twice. I did get my degree but its nowhere near the realm of geology.
I get it! It’s only when you really get to use it that it becomes fun. Like grammar... hate to study it but love to read! Thank you.
Manistee Rocks! I like the way he talks. Very northern!
You Betcha 😉
Haha now I want me some cheese curds!!