Oregon Rocks! Rockhounding Oregon | Best Rockhounding Spots Near Ashland, Oregon
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- Greensprings Mountain is one of my favorite spots to rockhound in Southwest Oregon because there is a lot of color and variety.
Definitely worth visiting.
Enjoy the video!!
Oregon Rocks! Rockhounding Oregon | Best Rockhounding Spots Near Ashland, Oregon
GPS Coordinates
42.12453632915471, -122.51681372232099
42.140227649182115, -122.49464349622934
42.233037439434604, -122.5058599386475
Greensprings Mountain is one of my favorite spots to rockhound in Southwest Oregon because there is a lot of color and variety.
Definitely worth visiting.
Enjoy the video!!
Oregon Rocks! Rockhounding Oregon | Best Rockhounding Spots Near Ashland, Oregon
Is this Green springs mountain in the video?
The reason why Opal common or not cracks, crates or flakes is because it's unstable, it been thru millions of years of exposure, in this case the Opal was so dehydrated that ANY amount of moisture is immediately absorbed, causing the stone to swell, as most of us know, rock isn't very pliable, even tho it Sio2!
The swelling pushes the in error core out and it crumbles!
Wanna see a sight, spray or pour H2⁰ directly upon the outcropping, however you can create some pretty good mini explosions, eye protection is required, also shards can fly, & since it's a kinda glass, it's got some cutting risks!
The material also isn't 100% Opal, it has a lot of clay in that material!
Keep on rockin!❤
Great explanation! Thanks
10:46 The first thing you should be paying attention to is the traffic!! LoL. Nice video! love how you go into great detail
100% agree. That should always be your #1 with any roadcut.
Thanks!
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks man, much appreciated
I might be biased but your videos get better all the time! I liked the educational aspect and as always….ohhhhh, pretty rocks!!😃
I put a ton of thought into making better videos for everyone. It's not the easiest thing to do but I think people enjoy/appreciate it.
Thanks and hope to chat with ya soon.
@@TheRogueRockhound ❤️❤️❤️ I forgot to say…my jaw dropped and my heart sank when your opals turned into rice crispy cereal😮😖 ( I might have laughed a bit…out of utter shock) ❤️❤️❤️
Wow!! That was crazy...the opal. How interesting but I'm sure disappointing. Was all the blue calcite? No agate? I've been to Ashland a couple times. Fun town. The water is questionable. Lol theres a fountian in town where you can have a sip. 😅 Thanks for sharing the fun video.
Lithia water….yeah, that’s an “acquired” taste…🤮
@@ceceyoung7462 and you would have to aquire it. Lol
I absolutely love your videos. My husband used to bring me things from bituminous coal mines. I didn’t know what they were and you tell me what you find. I have a 3” piece of that blue stone in a matrix of black extremely hard 6” piece. I always thought it might be a huge diamond. Lol I know highly unlikely but a girl can dream.
Thanks! Regardless of what it is, the fact your husband brought it for you makes it special
Fossils too. I have a lot from WV mines. Lol
This video was great, and I'm so glad you showed the general area you were searching through, as I, too, live in Oregon, and fairly new here (3 years) and the places you visited aren't too far from me, so I'm really looking forward to going to that general area of southern Oregon.
I also know what you mean about those dang flies! Geez they are so annoying this year, a bit more than usual. May as well use "Off" or eucalyptus oil for cologne (haha)
Thanks so much for sharing the many locations of your adventure. I really enjoy this channel, and I would someday like to see, (perhaps in a future video?) how your "tumblers" came out.
Happy hunting~🖐️😎
😊👉⛏️🪣🏞️🌲🌄
Youre very welcome and thanks for watching ^^
I have always wanted to Rockhound that area. Good to know there is some good stuff on the road to Green springs.
We got the opportunity to hound that general area.I was working a sheet like the fragment that you showed today!Man,I want to go back so bad! Those are lovely blue agates!
Love the blues too ^^
I watched rhis video yesterday, but I've been thinking about why those opals crumbled like that. And my poor brain has no idea, lol. Must have been some sort of water soluble inclusions in there. Really cool pieces of pet wood. You're right, perfect tumblers. I liked that waterline bluish one, too. Cool road cut. You always find the good spots! Great video, buddy!
Yeah man, wasn't that a trip?! I've never seen anything like that before.
Thanks for checking out the vid bro, I always appreciate hearing from ya buddy.
Cant wait until you can come out this way again.
Oh and BTW, I'll be sending ya a box soon as I get a chance so keep an eye out for that one bro
Cheers and chat w/ ya soon man
Great stuff as always! My son and i are watching you from colombia where we moved for the year.
We've been up there twice since your trip where you found that big purple seam a couple years back.
Love the darker greys and purple you can find there. Timing is key to that local as you said.
Thanks for the remembrance of the valley.
Columbia?! Thats so cool man! Thanks for watching and hope you 2 are having a great time down south ^^
Cheers buddy
to me rock pulling is the same as pimpel popping to some others...so satisfying! but when those beautiful pieces of opal disolved in front of my own eyes it felt like someone hit me in the stomack. sooo disapointing! still, i'm very happy you showed us your mistakes. we can all learn from that! as usual a great video....thanks!
Thanks Eva ^^
Sure is weird the way it fell to pieces upon adding water 😮😂 I would love to find some. Thanks for the great video ❤
I was pretty surprised/disappointed thats for sure. There's still a ton up there
Great video Rogue 👍🏻
Thanks buddy 👍
The blue stuff sure is pretty. Nice of the ground critters to give you treasures. The opal disintegration was truly strange, especially since you were pounding on it and it was falling onto hard surfaces. Could it have had to do with the temperature difference between the opal (hot air temp) and the water (cool)? Pretty doggone disappointing. Thanks for the great rockhounding tips. Fun video!
The water was ambient temp so IDK. Disappointing though.
Thanks and glad you enjoyed the video ^^
This material looks EXACTLY like an agate with calcite I found in the gravels of a boat/R.V. parking lot in Eugene. Was killing time looking through the sea of grey rocks while my mom parked the boat, couldn’t believe what was hiding there upon closer inspection. They looked to me like blue “seam agates” with calcite and thin layers of plagioclase (almost labradorite) in layers of mudstone. Wish the lot owner was there, I would have asked him where he got those gravels from.
Dont ya love when that happens lol
Usually the rock in places like that doesnt come from far away. Rock is heavy and trucks are expensive. You might check the area on google maps to see if there are places nearby the gravels could have come from.
Thanks for watching
Thanks!
You bet! Thanks for your support Phillip, much appreciated!!
Maybe you said it, but what is the host rock? Looks like rhyolite and andesite? I can't tell. Nice blues though!
basalt I think
Missed a lot of May na will watch over
Thanks buddy, hope you enjoy ^^
Hey I'm down at the Narrows RV Park for a few day going for some Obsidian. Then move to go to the Polka dot mine. will i pass any roads cut worth stopping to look. thank you
Not that Im aware of, but I might be at the Polka Dot this Saturday for the night dig.
39:42 your crumble happened because of temp. The water should have been brought to temp or rocks brought to water temp. Yah. That sucks. But it only happens once. If you learn that lesson of course.
Any good places between Ashland/Medford to take my daughter to look for rocks/minerals withiut risking getting ran over? 🤣
Shes built quite the little collection. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! Take care!
How about eagle point?
Hydrophane opal?
You are prolly correct on that
GPS cords? I’d love to go check it out
42.12453632915471, -122.51681372232099
42.140227649182115, -122.49464349622934
42.233037439434604, -122.5058599386475
Wish i could post two likes!
Me too ^^
This iPhone is a dumb smart dumb phone. Many minutes
In my favorite spot, i could sit down and load up an entire 5 gallon bucket with palm and fist size agates and jasper, without moving my butt. Not too far from there as the crow flies.