Hi Dan! I remember watching this when it first came out! Im just looking again comparing your rhodonite finds to the ones i found in Massachusetts! Yours have alot more color variations and Manganese running through them. The ones i found in my video are mostly a solid pink with some darker pinks. Super interesting!! I would love to come out there one day and help you smash some more Manganese rocks for ya and get some amazing finds!
dan your videos have been helping me so much!! im suffering from crippling anxiety which is really new to me and your videos help me calm down and ground me (pun bc you're always diggin in the dirt) thank you dan, for keeping me sane
Awesome video! Love the diversity of your prospecting - really wonderful to learn about all these gem stones on top of the gold prospecting. That saw is a beast! You must either have very tolerant or very distant neighbors! Oh yeah and rhodonite looks amazing!
I always feel like a kid when watching Dan Hurd and family’s videos. It’s like taking a vacation once a week. Thanks for the travels and the beautiful scenery.
I just subscribed as your enthusiasm is worth it just for that alone.....lol I used to go crystal hunting when I was little here in the UK and abroad, happy memories!
Dan, thanks for educating us, and I love your upbeat personality, it's contagious. I wish you the best on your new claim, and can't wait to see what winds up in the store. Be well!
Still new to this channel, but what I love is just how energetic, friendly and enthusiastic you are as you talk to us in the audience and explain stuff. Even when the day's activities aren't as productive as you might like. That and you hope you 'earn' our subscription and/or like, not that you demand it like so many other channels do. Certainly earned mine and I've been happy with every notification since
I went into a rock shop with my cousin when she was visiting. Let's just say it was a rockventure. (Hubby didn't get me that jade you had for my birthday, so I got some tourmaline).
If you get the chance go up on top of pudding head mountian from olalla creek and poke around. I have run a bunch of the trails that are on top of the cliffs above your claim and it's amazing old growth timber where the fires didn't burn off everything. The rest of the area was burned off and all the geology is still exposed and accessible through multiple fire roads that are all clean and clear. I found a sulphate deposit up there actually to top it off and a quartz crystal vein full of points and serpentinite
yeah. BC is lots and lots of different geologies squished up against each other. lots of vulcanism and km thick ice sheet in the past. i have literally found gypsum crystals in cow pies there lol
Dan, you reminded me of the old prison movies, like "Cool Hand Luke". You were "bustin' rocks!" Side note: I've made several chessboards out of wood in my 60+ years on this earth, all of which have ended up being gifts. It strikes me that some of those rocks would make an interesting chessboard.
Sweet nice looking material and it looks like you got some very nice color in some of them thanks for sharing this introduction to bc rhodonite see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻
Something that might be a really good investment that would last a long time would be to get a large focus high range ultraviolet LED spotlight flashlight, many interesting minerals fluoresce or even phosphoresce when exposed to it, and other stones can change color revealing what they are.
Got invited to go up hill 60 in Duncan B.C. to a rodonite mine, the trip there was hair raising, steep drop off's on a narrow track, with drops of a 1000.00 ft to the lake below. Get there the mine face is black. On a hot summer day! Withering!! Not much rodonite was found there. My partner and I decided to stop for lunch, and sat down near the edge of the tree's. Looking down. We could see piles of tailings, all covered with moss. Went down to check it out, lots of rodonite. Unfortunately all blast fractured so only good for specimens. Did acquire some prime stuff taken from the same site in the 60's beautiful pink, white, with black filigree. Buddy of mine was gifted a 100 lbs. of premium stuff from the mine. From an old timer.
I love that he’s gotten a Jobby. That’s a hobby that you have made some money on! I guess 2. TH-cam creator and prospector! Great content Dan and family! Thanks!
May have to catch up after work.. youtube is my side job..lol. I'm sure it will be satisfying. Always is. Thanks for your hard work Dan. It is appreciated.
You were channeling Yukon Cornelius today! Very entertaining. Definitely got your aerobic points in today. Would manganese show up with metal detector?
Dan, a raw idea about a video that I, personally, would love to see. What is your background as a geologist and promoter of mining principles? Absolutely love your videos.
Hey Dan, Consider adding some side shields to your glasses when you are pounding rock! Little crystals can come of at very high speed and injure your eyes.
The Similkameen Valley is an incredible place. I know where that slope is. Driven through their more times than I've been alive! Thanks for the Geo Tech talk Dan!
Dan, I had to move away from the Black Hills in South Dakota 2 years ago where I spent many days out cracking rocks searching for tourmaline, rose quartz, beautiful agates and other minerals. I'm stuck in a city in Nebraska for now and the ground is nothing but mud forever and ever. Great for farming, bad for hunting mineral. I miss it so much. Thank you sir for sharing your adventures, good luck and good health friend.
I collected some gorgeous red and green jasper this weekend from Wales in the form of tumbled beach pebbles, so pretty when they're wet but they dull out as they dry off. Just got to give them a final polish in a tumbler and they'll be absolutely gorgeous, tempted to try cutting a few to make jewellery especially the really gorgeous ones with elements of both red and green
What beautiful colours. Isn’t it awesome how rocks can be so beautiful. They don’t look anything special on the outside, yet inside they are mysterious & so pretty. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as pink crystal inside rocks. Thanks for sharing. (I’m still a little concerned you go to these places on your own) I’d like you to stay safe by taking one of your buddies along.
I hate i,missed it first,thing this morning. Just,thankfuk I can still watch..Hope you're having a blessed week.since,then rain is gone and things are,drying up ...I had to,catch up on yard,work
first off love your videos and the enthusiasm that you always bring about gold prospecting and rock hounding and very happy to see you doing better each day keep up the fantastic content you fricking rock sir
The ultimate Canadian TH-cam episode would be Dan showing up to find Steve Wallis in his bus, then they crack a couple step 2's, and pan some gold together before a hardy campfire-cooked dinner. Dan may require a non-alcoholic beer and low-sodium cuisine (for his heart), but Steve is a versatile guy! Upvote this comment viewers, and see if we can make such a collaboration happen. Canadians make my day! CHEERS FROM BEAUTIFUL COLORADO!
Awesome, I don’t know if you noticed or it’s just me but when you hit the rock with Rhodonite in it it sounded different than the other ones without?🤷♀️🤷♀️. Love the video and scenery and thank you for sharing. God bless and stay safe and well 🙏🙏🥰🥰👏👏👍👍❤️❤️🌻🌻
What a lovely rocks all kinds of colours 😍 meaning loads of minerals wish to have such stuff down there... :/ within a month I am planing my first trip to Scotland I would love to find even tiny spec of gold. For now what's left is to wath your videos and wish you some good finds:)
even more now I feel like I want to get into Lapidary slabbing. Vermont where I am has some incredibly nice rocks with insanely nice folds, garnet Mica-shist, granite. and so many more... I can just imagine having polished slab samples to sell. Dan, you are an inspiration to this lazy fellow here haha... I need to get off my hiney and find some shiny! hahaha
I just love rhodonite! My favorite color is pink and I love rocks so it's the perfect Stone! We are supposed to have some within driving distance from here and this was a very helpful video to see what rocks in the creek I might want to crack open
i love your enthusiasm. and ahh scree hunting :3 i wish i knew where my grandfather was exactly in Selkirks when he found that sparkling screeslope which resulted in over a pound of galena and silver and a huge quarts sceptre that unfortunately got stolen
Hi Dan! I remember watching this when it first came out! Im just looking again comparing your rhodonite finds to the ones i found in Massachusetts! Yours have alot more color variations and Manganese running through them. The ones i found in my video are mostly a solid pink with some darker pinks. Super interesting!! I would love to come out there one day and help you smash some more Manganese rocks for ya and get some amazing finds!
dan your videos have been helping me so much!! im suffering from crippling anxiety which is really new to me and your videos help me calm down and ground me (pun bc you're always diggin in the dirt)
thank you dan, for keeping me sane
You aren’t alone battling against anxiety. I hope you continue to feel better. I have issues too and my channel reflects my struggles.
I love everything you share with us.
ALL of it will be valuable in the near future.
Thank you thank you thank you.
I saw the intro shots of the landscape and instantly knew where it is, I drive past there semi-frequently!
Sending prayers for Dan so he can find the Rhodonite!
Awesome video! Love the diversity of your prospecting - really wonderful to learn about all these gem stones on top of the gold prospecting. That saw is a beast! You must either have very tolerant or very distant neighbors! Oh yeah and rhodonite looks amazing!
I always feel like a kid when watching Dan Hurd and family’s videos. It’s like taking a vacation once a week. Thanks for the travels and the beautiful scenery.
Oh wow! It’s such a beautiful stone. Jasper, the black rock before you crack it are gorgeous.
Nice looking mineral that rhodonite. Thanks for introducing me to it.
I just subscribed as your enthusiasm is worth it just for that alone.....lol I used to go crystal hunting when I was little here in the UK and abroad, happy memories!
To heck with the rhodonite, *I AM IN AWE OF THE SAW.* The added weight to help it cut was cool too :)
Dan, thanks for educating us, and I love your upbeat personality, it's contagious. I wish you the best on your new claim, and can't wait to see what winds up in the store. Be well!
I'm so happy for you never stop doing what you enjoy !
I would totally watch this rock cutting footage too. It's like a cooking recipe video without cutting into the food at the end
I love that you included all the hard work that didnt pay off
It helps put into perspective how hard it is to find what you are looking for
I’m so glad I found this channel. Feels like Dan and his family are part of my family!
Come on dan, I have to work early every morning but you keep uploading videos that I just can’t stop watching til 1 AM!
Still new to this channel, but what I love is just how energetic, friendly and enthusiastic you are as you talk to us in the audience and explain stuff. Even when the day's activities aren't as productive as you might like. That and you hope you 'earn' our subscription and/or like, not that you demand it like so many other channels do. Certainly earned mine and I've been happy with every notification since
Used to work for a marine transport company years ago. One of our ships came in with tons of this stuff on it. Large wooden boxed pallets full.
I went into a rock shop with my cousin when she was visiting. Let's just say it was a rockventure. (Hubby didn't get me that jade you had for my birthday, so I got some tourmaline).
Dan is that awesome,chill uncle I never had lol
Thank you for all your knowledge and for making these videos. Good luck
If you get the chance go up on top of pudding head mountian from olalla creek and poke around. I have run a bunch of the trails that are on top of the cliffs above your claim and it's amazing old growth timber where the fires didn't burn off everything. The rest of the area was burned off and all the geology is still exposed and accessible through multiple fire roads that are all clean and clear. I found a sulphate deposit up there actually to top it off and a quartz crystal vein full of points and serpentinite
Gorgeous stones! And glad you’re feeling better. And you grabbed the jasper! Yay! 😁
You have such a magnificent selection of minerals in those mountains! This ol' rock hounds' jealous!
This is way they call it "Rock Hunting" instead of "Rock Finding"
yeah. BC is lots and lots of different geologies squished up against each other. lots of vulcanism and km thick ice sheet in the past. i have literally found gypsum crystals in cow pies there lol
Never thought I would say this to you Dan, but thanks for showing your pink bits......
That 2" Rhodonite ball on your website is awesome looking! Nice work!!!
Dan, you reminded me of the old prison movies, like "Cool Hand Luke". You were "bustin' rocks!" Side note: I've made several chessboards out of wood in my 60+ years on this earth, all of which have ended up being gifts. It strikes me that some of those rocks would make an interesting chessboard.
I think that a selection of the black spiderweb slabs would make unique liquor or wine stops. Very Goth chic. *)
Rhodonite laminated with the ocean picture stone to make the different coloured squares would look super nifty!
Shawshank redemption!!!
You should totally make a stone chessboard!
Dan: Nice, nice rock.
Me: I like that boulder. That is a nice boulder.
Beautiful stone. We made the falls on our water feature out of rhodonite and lapis lazuli.
Because why not..
Great fun Dan
Love the diversity of your channel
Sweet nice looking material and it looks like you got some very nice color in some of them thanks for sharing this introduction to bc rhodonite see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻
I love the pink!
Hey Dan, thats where I live! Keep up the good work and thanks for making the videos.
A cabochon of the manganese with the rhodonite crystals and iron pyrite all together would be awesome
Something that might be a really good investment that would last a long time would be to get a large focus high range ultraviolet LED spotlight flashlight, many interesting minerals fluoresce or even phosphoresce when exposed to it, and other stones can change color revealing what they are.
Love the one with that red Jasper with rhodonite awesome Dan 😎
Awesome, I was just thinking about your previous rhodonite video yesterday. 😆
Hooray, just started your video. I have a new Dan Hurd video! Dan, I love, love, love you attitude. You are a rare and valuable superstar.
Hello, Dan Hurd. Happy Sunday👋
Beautiful stuff! Congratulations Dan on finding it.
That was some beautiful colors and jewelry
Got invited to go up hill 60 in Duncan B.C. to a rodonite mine, the trip there was hair raising, steep drop off's on a narrow track, with drops of a 1000.00 ft to the lake below. Get there the mine face is black. On a hot summer day! Withering!! Not much rodonite was found there. My partner and I decided to stop for lunch, and sat down near the edge of the tree's. Looking down. We could see piles of tailings, all covered with moss. Went down to check it out, lots of rodonite. Unfortunately all blast fractured so only good for specimens. Did acquire some prime stuff taken from the same site in the 60's beautiful pink, white, with black filigree. Buddy of mine was gifted a 100 lbs. of premium stuff from the mine. From an old timer.
I would love to go there some day and check it out. But not sure who to contact.
@@Danhurd Not sure I was with the Courtenay rock and gem club and we were invited, that was 15 years ago.
Rhondonite is so unique!!! Thanks Dan.
very nice sample pictures of the rocks and the jewellery :) cool to see :)
I love that he’s gotten a Jobby. That’s a hobby that you have made some money on! I guess 2. TH-cam creator and prospector! Great content Dan and family! Thanks!
Some beautiful gemstones that's for sure! Thanks Dan!👍
I was a rebel in school and now I can’t stop watching this channel.
May have to catch up after work.. youtube is my side job..lol. I'm sure it will be satisfying. Always is. Thanks for your hard work Dan. It is appreciated.
You were channeling Yukon Cornelius today!
Very entertaining. Definitely got your aerobic points in today.
Would manganese show up with metal detector?
Very nice Dan👍🏻 I do love when you get a new claim⛏🏴
I'm glad you were able to distinguish the low and high quality materials.
Great video!
You look like you're having so much fun!
That rock slide looks like broken ankle waiting to happen! lol
Dan, a raw idea about a video that I, personally, would love to see. What is your background as a geologist and promoter of mining principles? Absolutely love your videos.
Hello Dan. I'll be joining you from Australia. Warm and sunny greetings from the Gold Coast Queensland
It's flipping cold in NSW!
Great work fam. Keep the dream alive. Gold squad out!!!
Such awesome colors! Now i have to see if there are any places in Washington to find it!
Mr.Hurd, I am always learning something new with your channel, thank you , Semper Fi God Speed!. 🐾🐾🐾 🖖🇺🇸
I just spent 15 minutes watching a guy smack rocks with a hammer.
Worth it.
12 minutes *
I WAS THINKING HE SHOULD OFFER TRIPS.
One rock I've never been able to really get excited about. But as always it's a blast to see you just out having fun!
Hey Dan, Consider adding some side shields to your glasses when you are pounding rock! Little crystals can come of at very high speed and injure your eyes.
The Similkameen Valley is an incredible place. I know where that slope is. Driven through their more times than I've been alive! Thanks for the Geo Tech talk Dan!
Dan, I had to move away from the Black Hills in South Dakota 2 years ago where I spent many days out cracking rocks searching for tourmaline, rose quartz, beautiful agates and other minerals. I'm stuck in a city in Nebraska for now and the ground is nothing but mud forever and ever. Great for farming, bad for hunting mineral. I miss it so much. Thank you sir for sharing your adventures, good luck and good health friend.
This sounds like a country and western song. *)
looks like a tough one to get some good jewellery grade stuff. Great video!
that was an interesting adventure!
thanks for bringing us all along!
👍
Glad you enjoyed it
I collected some gorgeous red and green jasper this weekend from Wales in the form of tumbled beach pebbles, so pretty when they're wet but they dull out as they dry off. Just got to give them a final polish in a tumbler and they'll be absolutely gorgeous, tempted to try cutting a few to make jewellery especially the really gorgeous ones with elements of both red and green
What beautiful colours. Isn’t it awesome how rocks can be so beautiful. They don’t look anything special on the outside, yet inside they are mysterious & so pretty. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as pink crystal inside rocks. Thanks for sharing. (I’m still a little concerned you go to these places on your own) I’d like you to stay safe by taking one of your buddies along.
I hate i,missed it first,thing this morning. Just,thankfuk I can still watch..Hope you're having a blessed week.since,then rain is gone and things are,drying up ...I had to,catch up on yard,work
You have earned my subscription and piqued my interest in gem stone prospecting! I have always enjoyed hunting agates and jasper at the beach.
first off love your videos and the enthusiasm that you always bring about gold prospecting and rock hounding and very happy to see you doing better each day keep up the fantastic content you fricking rock sir
Learned something from you again ... thanks Dan
Its amazing what you find inside a rock!!!
Nice finds Dan
Cool spot! Loving the geology videos! Hope your recovery is going well. ✌️
Thanks for all the knowledge Dan
Any time!
Wow very beautiful stone!
A nice variety of pink hues. Interesting samples.
The ultimate Canadian TH-cam episode would be Dan showing up to find Steve Wallis in his bus, then they crack a couple step 2's, and pan some gold together before a hardy campfire-cooked dinner. Dan may require a non-alcoholic beer and low-sodium cuisine (for his heart), but Steve is a versatile guy! Upvote this comment viewers, and see if we can make such a collaboration happen. Canadians make my day! CHEERS FROM BEAUTIFUL COLORADO!
The best things are pink in the middle, right Dan?
Blood red is no good though.
Awesome, I don’t know if you noticed or it’s just me but when you hit the rock with Rhodonite in it it sounded different than the other ones without?🤷♀️🤷♀️. Love the video and scenery and thank you for sharing. God bless and stay safe and well 🙏🙏🥰🥰👏👏👍👍❤️❤️🌻🌻
Found some great rhodonite at the Sunnyside Mine du.p in Eureka, Colorado.
I kept waiting for the pictures of the slices. I could not believe how many colors come from that dark rock.
this is cool, never herd of this stuff
What a lovely rocks all kinds of colours 😍 meaning loads of minerals wish to have such stuff down there... :/ within a month I am planing my first trip to Scotland I would love to find even tiny spec of gold. For now what's left is to wath your videos and wish you some good finds:)
Sir, you should consider suiseki.. this some great material for that or to build root over rock Bonsais.
So pretty!, thanks for sharing
Interesting T shirt, Dan. Give us a flash next time, k? oh, and nice rocks, too.
even more now I feel like I want to get into Lapidary slabbing. Vermont where I am has some incredibly nice rocks with insanely nice folds, garnet Mica-shist, granite. and so many more... I can just imagine having polished slab samples to sell. Dan, you are an inspiration to this lazy fellow here haha... I need to get off my hiney and find some shiny! hahaha
Do it! Slabbing rocks is incredible fun, and opens up the entire field of lapidary!
The rocks that didn't bear fruit, so to speak, looked like breaking apart charcoal. It was still neat, even if they weren't the rhodonite.
I just love rhodonite! My favorite color is pink and I love rocks so it's the perfect Stone! We are supposed to have some within driving distance from here and this was a very helpful video to see what rocks in the creek I might want to crack open
i love your enthusiasm. and ahh scree hunting :3 i wish i knew where my grandfather was exactly in Selkirks when he found that sparkling screeslope which resulted in over a pound of galena and silver and a huge quarts sceptre that unfortunately got stolen
Sounds like a family summer treasure hunt is in order. Good luck and have fun. Cheers. :)
@@l.m.2404 I still have some of the Galena/silver mixture.
@@Inannawhimsey Start making that treasure map! The kids, cousins and the like will enjoy a family hunt.... where will you hide it?
would love to try a OWL Mat great showing
I always wonder what's in those rockslide areas when driving through here. Not far from the 2018/2019 morel patch
It really looks like a piece of cooked silver side meat in a lot of them. Awesome 👏
It cabbed beautiful!
Thanks Dan!
This was fun and we learned a thing or two.
Dan, I did not know ya'll had cactus way up there in cold country. Down here in Texas we have lots of cactus. lol
Cold country! It is calling for 120F tomorrow.
@@Danhurd WOW! I didn't think it got that hot up there. Better stock up on some ice cubes. By the way I love your channel.
Is there a particular value of rhodonite and Jasper beyond making jewelry