Collecting Colorful River Rocks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2020
- My favorite hobby in the world is collecting colorful river rocks. It really doesn't matter to me what the type of rock is, I am mostly interested in its appeal.
This rock hunt turned out to be a great success. You can see from my rock haul home that I had many colorful rock finds! Even though the gravel beds around Billings, MT are frequently hunted by rockhounds from all over the United States as well as locally, this video shows there is an endless supply of great material for everyone!
Thanks for coming along and supporting the growth of my rockhounding channel.
Here are some affiliate links to anything I have been asked for by my subscribers or people who have watched my videos. These are essentially "My Favorite Things." I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. If there is anything else you would like me to provide a link for, please let me know.
Link to the digital microscope I use:
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Link to the pick-ax rock hammer I use:
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Link to the rock hammer I use to "crack rocks open":
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Link to the grit I use when tumbling rocks:
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Link to the battery-operated water bottle sprayer I use:
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Beginner Rock Tumbler I recommend:
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Link to the mineral oil I use in my rock saw:
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Link to the hats I wear:
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Link to summer rockhounding/kayaking/fishing SPF shirts I wear:
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#colorfulriverrocks, #wheretofindagates, #rockcollecting
The best tool you can carry on a rock hunt is a piece of steel like a pocket knife. It has a hardness of 5 quartz has a hardness of 6-6.5 if your knife blade can't cut a groove into the material you are identifying it as being harder than the blade and likely quartz or something more desirable. Past quartz hardness is all the precious material like topaz for instance. Have fun and watch all the videos mom has made for you.
I need to use my Leatherman! I have a really nice one I just got that I keep in my backpack. Thank you for this reminder! Xoxo
I love watching you rockhounding and listening to you talk 🎉
So I'm fairly new to this TH-cam thing and the next thing I know I'm seeing you finding rocks in a riverbed, then you show us after you cleaned them up and my mind was blown. About half way through I was already thinking about how to build a rock tumbler. That should be fun. Thanks for sharing your awesome video. I'm curious as to what my local rivers have to offer.
It's amazing to see rocks go from the river bed to tumbled or slabbed with my rock saw...it blows my mind every time. I guarantee you have some treasures down by your river. Build a tumbler!
It's an endeavour worth exploring and make sure to scour the entire collection of videos mom is offering you. Join a local rock club you won't be sorry. It offers you equipment and greater knowledge in this exciting hobby. Go look at a rock tumbler to get the basics of it's mechanical working and make a huge one to tumble more material all at once. Have fun. Me, 40 years at my local club. Fascinating journey and knowledge.
@@mrfxm55 I feel so lucky to have connected with you. Your knowledge base is so extensive. You have a kind heart and, I can tell ...a rockhound soul 💘🙌🙌🙌
Wife and I love the rockhounding where you look for any kind of great rock. You hit a home run today.
BTW How could anyone vote an unlike to this video? Undeserving.
Gorgeous pet wood 🪵, agate, chert, jasper. Multiple combination rocks...beautiful day. Thanks for sharing! That fossil, check with Theo!
I love hounding rivers and creeks, mainly because that's what I have around me, besides good gravel roads too. But I don't find snatching like this, just wow. Amazing finds love the journey with you. Thanks for inspiring.
There is nothing like spending the day in nature, enjoying the moment. I love finding stones, but just being out in the fresh air is the best part!
Amazing morning. Your work is appreciated.
That blue one is INSANE 😍😍
Wow!! So many super cool rocks 💚
Gorgeous ✡️💗💖
I love your adventures. And finds.
Hope you are mending perfectly! Have been missing your wonderful adventures
For me red jasper its very very beautiful rock you find
Beautiful rock and great day.
Awesome adventure new friend here 👍🔔😂 can't wait to see more
LOVEEEEE
To say I’m jealous would be an understatement.
Ahhhh........summer on the gravel bars.......Love how much you love being there. Gorgeous little beauties!
That's amazing your frist rock.
Nice hunt thanks for sharing.
TO MUCH.....every single one totally gorgeous.....each & EVERYONE A GOLDEN TREASURE exciting dazzling INSPIRATION.....ALL the BEST of GODS COLLECTION on EARTH just for YOU to find the MR Momma to SHARE & BLESS our EYES & MIND with to FILLS our HEARTS with pleasure & JOY!
Kiss kiss thank U......still cannot figure how to access emojis
Amazing Agates, great finds thanks for taking us along.
Very nice.
One of those beauties is a good day! My GOODness!
Hopefully chopper is starting to improve and again great eye for the best pieces.
now ya need a tumbler
Cool!
I love looking for rocks... and I love even more looking for rocks while trout fishing :)
Kev
that banded moss agate is unreal! Katydid calls those mouth agates lol. Looks like a funny mouth, she finds a lot of weird shaped ones like that. The yellowstone river looks so fun to rock hunt! Thanks for showing all your awesome finds, that was a good day on the river! Nice Baculite fossils too!
Thank you Mitch! The Yellowstone is my favorite! Never a bad day on the river around here that's for sure. 😊
Wow, you found some beautiful rocks!!!! Love your videos😀
OMG so much awesomeness ! The Jasper/Agate find at 7:10 was so nice. Then came the end :) If only my area held that much beauty, just one of them would make my day ! Thanks for sharing :)
Some of the agates I would buy as is.
Nice finds.
Wow! Were you on private or public property? This is your best video yet.
7:50 that is one nice conglomerate! Looks like some baculites and/or inocermaids(clams). Gotta love that pearl layer!👍 awesome vid! That was one awesome hunt! Hard to have a bad day on the yellowstone!😊
I totally thought of you when I found that Theo!
Great Day!
Thanks for posting some new content MRM, very much appreciated!👍 First off, love the cute hair, think this is the first video i've seen ya without the cap on so was nice to see your beaming smiling face thoroughly enjoying every moment of time to just enjoy the hunt...Your enthusiasm is obvious for all to see...and all that beauty surrounding you on an awesome day of adventure out on the river hunting magical goodies the earth offers up for our enjoyment.🎁 Love the banded beauty at 11:45 and especially love days where the material just keeps popping out, just so much fun and very cathartic getting back in touch with the earth more than when we're working. You'all sure do get some really pretty mix of petrified wood chunks outta the river there, beautiful stuff maam, thanks again for sharing it with all of us nerdy tubers! Have a super rest of your weekend~
Where is your water bottle? That's the key to finding the good stuff.
AGATE makes me think of the sap hardened from trees....like amber
👏👏👏 Good spotting those shapes! That fav looks like a folded layer cake 🍰😱😍
That's a really great comment you pointed out Terryl because it does take quite a bit of time to train your brain to look for those shapes! I am starting to see things I have never noticed before. Sometimes I will sit down and stare at an area for awhile. Then, after a few minutes, treasures just start popping out! It makes me start smiling because I literally did not see anything when I sat down!
I had the same experience with an inherited rock garden. I'd seen these rocks for more than ten years and never noticed anything spectacular about any of them. But once I spotted my first chunky agate 👀😍 the hunt was on! My sis and I found buckets full of beauties of all types. And my love of rockhounding was born again! ♥️
@@terrylschumacher-levy5150 it's insane right??!! It kills me to think of all the amazing treasures I have literally walked over and missed out on, right under my feet for years and years. That phase of my life is over and I feel so lucky to now be able to find this stuff! ☺
Wow you find some beauties! Planning a future trip to Yellowstone, could you suggest places along the river to go to? TIO:)
Literally anywhere along the Yellowstone river, outside the national park, is full of treasure you can collect! The further east, the more agate. The further west, more minerals. The Rockhounding Montana book is an excellent resource for places to go- I use it all the time!
Thank you so much!! :)
Your fossil rock looks like baculites. You should watch Theo Kellison’s channel. If you don’t already. Pretty sure he is from the Billings area also. He has some great videos about those and they are beautiful when polished up:) Love your videos and hope to get over the mountains to your area soon to find my own treasures:)
I will thank you! I am trying to get better at fossil identification... i think you are right though!
Me to I have lots stone from Morocco
I feel like Montana is cheating when it comes to nice agates. Lucky ducks
I feel like Oregon is favored by the opal and thunderegg gods. 🧜♂️🧜♀️
One more potato 🥔 rock✡️✝️🥰♥️💙
and here i thought my sister was crazy leaving a company to sell rocks and rock equipment
Lol ☺
How long must stones be tumbled in #1500 Aluminium Oxide?
Red bandana take it home 🏘️✝️✡️
Come on , tell the truth. You bought those and pretended to find them. They are way too nice to just pick up. Truth is you are a lucky young lady to have access to such a rock pile with your hobby It couldn't get any better. Good finds and video.
Thanks Jeff! Yeah, those are some of my all time favorites for sure!
Some lovely finds. I appreciate seeing the stones and scenery, hearing your commentary. The cartoon like additions (what are they called?) were distracting to me. One part reminded me of when a migraine is coming on. :-0
Thank you Teresa for the feedback! I do appreciate you watching.