Soaking Wet and Digging for Blue Chert
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Join us as we go on a fun rockhounding adventure with Kris from Old Guy Adventures!
We found some fantastic material and had a great time in central Washington digging for this amazing blue chert.
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That was an awesome trip! A challenging day rock hounding is better than any day in the city 😊 so beautiful ❣️❣️❣️
I couldn't agree more.
This chert is beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing another awesome video!✌😎
I'm glad you liked it!
Very nice rocks, well worth it.
Thank you!
What a wealth of knowledge from both of you. Beautiful scenery. Gotta love where we live.
Thank you and I couldn't agree more about the scenery!
Those colors are amazing. I'm sure much more vivid in real life.
They really are!
The camera really doesn't do those rocks justice. I have some and the colors are comparable to taking globs of oil pastels and mixing them gently. The colors range from light pink to light blue then purple all in one rock. Its like an opal but without the shine
Really nice finds...how privileged are you! 👍
I really like picture stones of any type. Interesting vid👍 Looking forward to pt2 & seeing more from those area's.
Had a great time, we will have to do it again sometime
Just name the time and place.
Definitely my favorite part of the video was the interview with Chris.
Yeah I try to do these when I go rockhounding with people, I think it adds a lot to a video and provides insight and more of a sense of community.
Can you tell me the weight of your little sledge hammer? Is it a good weight for you or do you find you could better use a lighter or heavier one? Thanks.
Its a 3lb hand sledgehammer. Its a good size for when you need to hike in. I also have a 4lb one but I use this most often.
You should check out Mann Butte in Washington if you want the GPS location I can send them to you
I haven't heard of that location, whats up there?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding rhyolite. Pretty stuff from what I understand it's a rhyolitic dome
What do you do with the blue Chert?
You can do anything you want with it, I slabbed up a bunch of it.
Do you know the MOH scale on chert? We have a lot of it in my area. My relatives property has a lot of this light green rock but I think it's Serpentine not sure. Or a jasper. There is a lot of blue chert surrounded by dark brown crusts, most very fragile like. There is a lot of iron in the area and red dirt. So iron makes blue? I'm new at learning. I would love to take Geology but not possible right now. Are you self taught or schooled? Your facinating to listen to. Love your videos. Have you made a video how to do pH testing on stones and how to do MOH? I think there is a kit.
Is it Chert? Is it Jasper? It's CHASPER!
Love the stuff. Blue is not so common.
What a cool place to go. So good of Chris to show you around and give some history of the area. I loved the specimens you found. Y'all havagudun and stay safe.
Yeah he's a gold mine of knowledge.
Beautiful scenery again! Nature is awesome. Blue chert is beautiful.
That chert looks amazing. I'd love to see them polished. And you guys are absolutely right, I think it would be a long time before rockhounds could possibly tap out a popular location, let alone the remote spots. Most of us are like most hobby mushroom hunters. We live by the "don't hog it all" ethos. Outside of large-scale mining operations or that rare site that never contained much to begin with, I think the vast majority of rockhounding areas are likely to remain productive. We move material around but we don't take it all, nor do we want to. We fill in our holes, and we do our best to respect the natural world. As a hobby, it is best shared, so getting our favorite sites shut down would be counterintuitive. A lot of us are naturalists, mountaineers, scientists, etc. We do trail maintenance to offset our impacts, we look out for our favorite creeks, donate to wildlife rescue, fight wildfires, etc. Keeping people like us out of natural areas is, in itself, counterintuitive. 🤔
Well said!
I just realized I have a piece of that material which I was working on earlier in the week by hand. It'll take a high polish, but takes FOREVER by hand.
Man you have some real patience to be hand polishing.
Awesome video that stuff is beautiful!
Yeah it really came out very pretty!
Blue anything is cool. Just got back from Yellowstone, fyi get there at midnight, there is no one at the entrance and ya get in free.
Hahaha, that's the way to do it!
As a local to Glacier and Yellowstone parks.....that's a secret most locals know and use. Get into the park before the toll booth opens!
Gotta love the complex geology of contact metamorphism of diatomaceous earth, weathered rhyolite and pillow basalt. :) This is the reason it took me so long to identify common opal where I get all mine. There is pumice, pillow basalt, obsidian, palagonite, rhyolite, accretionary lapilli, opal, agate, chert, chalcedony, jasper, quartzite, jade, zeolite(s) and quite a few other rocks just along Old Vantage Hwy. I'm not even talking about glacial till. This is all from one hillside eroding away due to a road cut which most people ignore. I've got a ton of opal and chert-like pieces from that one hill and tons of opal nodules which I've been studying intensely lately.
Next time you head out that way towards Frenchman give me some notice and maybe we can meet up!
Fun fun fun... Dude... If you want some quartz and epidote rocks I got you covered! Haha
Ill keep that in mind for when I head out your way!
I’m totally commenting mid watching but man, I really like your guys’ vids. It’s in-depth. Like the stuff you chat about with rock mates.
And I like the convo on tapping out an area. It’s totally only the surface area that can get tapped. But that changes when weather events happen etc. Like in our creeks over here help filter the finds for generation upon generation. We just wait for the rains and then the hounds get a fresh look at what’s beneath. Given the latest droughts it’s slowed down in places, but we’re heading into La Nina event which will hopefully regenerate some pretties laying beneath. I like it cause it’s like nature decides when and what we find (Without digging of course). Waffling on a bit but yeah, I like the way you challenge the norm brother. Keep up the rad vids. I don’t get as much time to watch everyone’s vids that I would like to, but I really do like getting the chance to explore with you guys. The nature and the rock topics. Stay well brother!
Haha! “The cooler rule” brilliant!
Dude beautiful stuff, I love the stuff Sarah found too. I’m a surface picker fiend haha. But the dug rock is definitely beautiful man, especially the cut stuff.
Damn that poppy jasper though!
I'm really happy that you appreciate the videos. I want to go more in-depth into the world of rockhounding beyond just the finding of cool rocks, I think doing so can add a lot to a sense of community that otherwise is difficult to find, especially for adults.
Chert is my favorite! 😊
get the feathers out
Another cool vidéo! :) Tumbs Up bro!
Thank you!
Excellent discussion and perspective. Did you mean to not provide gps location info? Thanks
Thank you! As a general rule of thumb I do not share locations that I'm shown or locations that you could potentially die at such as a mine.
He's a very young old guy, I started in the 50s ,in the Dakota's...
I bet you have some great stories to tell.
Hey, could you please put a link for the polishing mask to?
Are you talking about the polishing pads? There is a link in the description box.
I found a bellevue rock club tree tag from the 50s still tagged to a tree down a ravine out there at red top this year. Lots of topsoil didnt dig there but found some nice vugs quarter mile down. Just interesting
It's really a cool area to go exploring.
Awesome stuff guys ⛏️😎👌
Thank you.
Enjoyable and informative videos. The Cooler Rule, so true.😆
i really like your videos
Thank you!
I thought the quality of the video was great for what the weather gave you to work with, at least you didn't have harsh sun light. I love your work.👍😎
Looks like flint. Curious to know what your tests show
Great Video, We went out to the Tuhula River over by Chris he drove out but we missed him (GPS took us to BFE) we finally found it and wound up finding some nice stuff, It's great that Chris is willing to share his spots, so many people have the attitude no its my secret spot and I'm not telling.
I'm glad you liked it. Is it fair to assume you were using Google Maps when you got lost?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding yup, LOL
@@larrymays5413 When you have a chance you should go check out my website I have a few articles up there that could help you out I think.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding thank you i will, you planning any trips to the westside
@@larrymays5413 We do plan on heading out there at some point this summer.
What a fun adventure! I don't like to be wet and cold but that rain sure helps to make the treasures stand out. Thanks for a great video.
Agreed!
Very interesting places. Beautiful specimens and its definitely a game changer to go in the rain.
Yeah it was quite nice to be out in it.
Seams like most every serious rockhounder has a channel now. lol.
Hahaha it would seam to be the case.
Loved the conversations with Kris. I does seem difficult to believe that we could tap out any area. Where I hike, the day after any rain or weather it's like I've never been there at all. I live near a small hill (old old volcano) noted in the area rockhounding books that people have been going to for years and years. It is now private property and I'm fortunate to know the owner who has given me permission to scramble all over it. That hill and the subsequent range is anything but tapped out. There are geodes and agates, among so many other volcanic goodies, that literally still roll down and litter his driveway. Us bucket/backpack fillers make such a small impact, even collectively. Great video - that poppy jasper! Thank you!
I'm glad you liked the video! Just wait for part two!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Looking forward to it!
Wow beautiful blue chert, interesting what is chert exactly, awesome trip it seems, thank you 😊
Chert is close to Jasper and Agate in that it's microcrystalline crystals of quartz.
Thank you 😊
Is cert the same as flint?
@@trishalynn56
Great video. Thanks Man!
Thank you!
Looking forward to seeing if there are any more geodes in that chunk of basalt. I wonder how the chert would do in a rock tumbler?
I have tumbled it and it comes out nicely
I feel like the chert could do well in a vibratory tumbler but I worry that it would just break up in a rotary.
I have a batch of Chert going in my tumbler right now almost 2 weeks in stage 1 just now sharp edges are softening. They come out nice and shiny
@@trishalynn56 Excellent!
I have thought about taking a cordless saw out there lol!
A cordless saw?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Yes a cordless circular saw with the diamond wheel to help cut those geodes out of the host rock. I have tried many times to try and chisel them out but get frustrated and give up. I figured a circular saw might help cut some of the host rock away.
Some how I missed your reply. I think a battery powered rotohammer would be best.