Fiddlers Canyon Blue Agate // Rockhounding Utah
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- I must say this was a highlight of our trip for me as it was a gorgeous and productive rockhounding adventure heading up Fiddlers Canyon. I also liked everything that came after this outing, as I have never spent so much time thinking about what blue rocks really are, or if they are even blue at all.
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It's blue compared to the other rocks. A grey rock for comparison would make it look for sure a blue agate. It's open to interpretation because there is a spectrum of blue hues. It even looked lavender blue at times. I really like the way you and Sarah work together. Jared's all details and Sarah is straight to the point. It's a good balance.
Love to see you all enjoying hounding for blue agate! Or grayish lol. Utah has some wonderful agate, and having a stream to wash them in is the best! 👏
Leaning towards blue but understand what your saying. Nice area. Thanks for the videos.
White edges, purple ish, and blueish. Still a very nice agate. The pastel agate was the best. Oohhh fossils too.
I agree with Sara, I think it's blue.
Love your work! My father was a big time rock hound. He self-collected and purchased from Brazilian miners things of interest and beauty but never high value.
What a beautiful area to find some really cool agates!!! Great adventure!!
Taking the whole video into account from start to finish, one of your best IMO, having been following you for at least a couple years now. Having dabbled in graphic design, one of my fascinations has been studying color and determining true color identity. What I do is use photoshop, particularly with the eye dropper tool and analyze the hue, playing around with saturation levels. Assuming you can get the color balance correct, you can, at least to a moderately satisfactory degree, confirm the specific location on the hue spectrum to ascertain the “the true color nature”. Anyways FWIW. Cheers. Thx for your great content.
that's Blue. i am actually in the neighborhood and might try my luck up Fiddlers later this week. thanks for taking us along!
Good luck
Another great video!!! The polish looks great. I think it was grayish blue. #5 or #6! Nicely done!
Chalcedony blue 💙💙💙
Ooooh, cannot wait to get back and watch the video! But running the whole playlist now~ haha
Definitely a grey blue… especially when compared to something that is true blue.
I collected some blue agate from central utah just a few weeks ago. And although i would agree that most of the agates fall more in the grey-blue realm, I did polish a couple nice pieces that are, to the naked eye, a good representation of real sky-blue. They are also face polished, and not slabbed, so maybe there's something to that! Really pretty stuff, and a blast to cut & polish to make that color pop. Thanks for the video.
Awesome place to go! Too bad I'm on the East Coast!🤣 My wife and I think your polished piece looked purple on the top part and blue on the bottom! I'm watching on a Samsung tablet! Thanks for sharing!
Man, you found some gorgeous stuff their! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
That has a pretty gray blue color. Nice finds! Looks like it was fun to go there and check stuff out. Thankyou for going there and exploring . 😊
We like all the blue and the bluer the better. This was a nice tour of what may or may not be blue. Nice tip about the canyon and rain Sara. Keep having fun. 😷⚒
I'd call it a light shade of blue leaning towards mixed with gray. Nature has a way of often refusing to be put in the boxes that man creates. Pretty stuff no matter what you want to call it.
Honestly, same. Whenever I find a blue looking agate, I have exactly the same thought process as you here - it's not actually blue, it's just the light being refracted to make it look blue. And yeah, what Sarah said is true as well, of course - that's how all color comes to be. But what differentiates this from most other color is that it changes depending on the thickness, angle, light intensity etc. while most others are more stable in that regard. Calling these agates blue is like calling (Skim) milk blue. The lower the fat content, the more you'll see this effect as well but nobody would call milk blue.
If you want to know the exact color, the big box hardware stores have color sensors for matching paint. You can get the RGB value and the shade color. At most, it will cost you the price of a small can of paint.
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here:
Mica is such a good rockhound! Pretty stuff. As always... another fun video!
Cool hunting spot. Nice finds. I'm terrible with shades of colors but I'd say blue...ish
Love the blue(gray or whateverthat color is). Anything with blue is gorgeous ❤❤👋🇫🇮
Lots of Montana agate have the Tindall affect as whole agates and become clear when slabed.
My opinion is it looks very similar to some Arizona pastiolite ..if that's how u spell it but my opinion doesn't really matter anyways lol...
Definitely some sort of calcium infill and some iron and probably a few other trace things...
All in all decent looking stuff for lapidary ... and the polish was A- not B+ heh heh...good show I enjoyed it.
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: I would call it on the blue spectrum.
If you hit the riverbeds leading up to brian head I've found yellow mossy agates down lower and the typical brian head agate the closer you get to the top. You got some good stuff too I'll have to check out fiddlers canyon thanks for the video! I know some good spots to find blue agate near Veyo Utah as well (45 minutes from cedar)
It definitely looked to be blue grey agate. The tindel effect gets so many people. And they sure do look blue until you cut them and find off your blue agate is a milky white to grey! But your agate was nice. It had the whole gambit of colors like white, grey, blue, and even a bit of a purple! Lovely! And as far as the pictures go, it depends what you want them for. If you want them to show your friends the awesome rock you found, the. The color saturated pic is best, but if you want a true record of your finds, then the Sony camera shot is best! Lol! It's all in how you use it!
The Fiddlers Canyon was a neat place and it looked like the variety of rock out there was pretty plentiful and fairly large pieces! Definitely worth a visit. Just don't be surprised when you cut your blue agate and it's not blue anymore! Lol! It happens a lot with Montana agates. They look blue until you cut them!
Thanks Jared and Sara! Great lessons; you always teach us without making us feel stupid! Thanks❣️
A nice looking slice, whatever color it is.
Nice area, nice fines…I vote grue or blay.
Almost to 50k!
Little by little!
It’s blue. I think the rosy piece is interesting…very pretty. Obviously, Leica sensed something else out there. Bear? Mountain lion? It’s good that you are a group and make noise. I kinda hope you carry bear spray, cuz I like your videos, lol.
I do hope you go back, and do what you did, here, …stack rocks to pick up on the way out.
Thanks to you both.
She alerts on everything. Most likely a bird
11:52 #5, it has a slight purple when you cut and polished it. (Sarah is correct blue) the fossils are cool. defiantly a shell fish.
Not a strong blue, but it's still blue in my eyes. Yes. I do know what you mean about the blue-gray in some so-called blue agate.
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Cool video, interesting video. I think it is fun to debate whether an agate is blue or not, I would say the cut and polished looks to me to be a light blue in the centre but I recognize that is only bc of an optical effect and not due to the agates true colouration.
Maybe a better way to describe it is that it's on the blue spectrum. Compared to all your other rocks on the table, it's clearly more blue than those. When you find a rock like that out in the grey brown muddy landscape, you're calling it blue.
Definitely blue, at least with humans' track record of naming colored things that aren't accurate. Black cherry, blood orange, red beans, white chocolate...
The tindall effect is cool though. A blue only in an unaltered state👍
Sony has a cleaner more pleasing background blur whereas the phone has a jittery busy background blur. Not all bokeh is created equal. It’s hard not to be fooled by fake blur but there is no substitute for optics IMO. Even with post processing, the optics in the Sony will remain truer to reality with a far better chance of recovering details. The ZV seemed slow to focus but that could be the lens speed or camera settings. One solution might be to pre-focus the Sony before hitting record might work to kill the delay. All that said, your video/photo capturing is always great. Oop, one thing I just noticed is the Sony did incredible fast focus when you brought the rock into the scene from a distance (recording arm length then bring the rock closer) Hope that gives you something to work with because the quality of the output from the Sony is worth it IMO.
Have you ever seen the Blue Agaet that comes out of Ellensburg Wa.? It really looks Blue. Oooops Agate, lol my bad.
It looks blue to me. There are many shades and hues of blue.
I would call it blue
Many "blue" agates are blue-grey, blue lace, Elensburg blue, etc. The tricks light plays when it passes through translucent rock are fascinating and sometimes disappointing. I cabs a piece of rose quartz and it lost all it's color a simply looks like clear quartz.
We often see fake blue in our pet wood. It is black inside but often there is white crystal on the end. Together it appears blue but if you cut into it you don’t find any blue 😢
I'm not sure you've heard of Emery Blue Agate. It's found here in the San Rafael Swell area. I can send ya some to check out and next time you're in Utah you can find it.
I have not heard of those but I will check that area out someday.
5 looks close to me
How about polishing the back side of that rock 🪨 I'm thinking it could show its true colors.
I just there last week.
How did you do?
I would call that blue agate or maybe blue grey. It's a subjective term, like saying you're a white guy, you're not white, a sheet of paper is white.
The colour is one dilema. My question is, when does agate stop and chalcedony start (in a naming aspect).
In your personal opinion, if you had a piece of this rock without a name put in front of you, would you instinctively call it agate or chalcedony?
I recently visited a mine dump and collected some seams of chalcedony. Some have bands of colour on the outer edges some not, but I wouldn't call it agate.
For me, the difference was always the agate banding.
Some nodules/seams were called agate as they had banding but the featureless stuff from the same location was just known as chalcedony.
I am not sure if this distinction still applies?
Doesn't bother me that much to get into heated discussion about it but I am curious to know your opinion.
This is far too big of a topic to tackle in a comment. The answer is that it depends and it's complicated. I know that's not a good answer really but I will turn this into a video with detailed examples.
@CurrentlyRockhounding Late night dilemas. 🙂.I have rewatched your old video on the subject. I think it will never go away. Some people will call anything an agate, some will want precise answers, and there are so many crossovers. I have druzy and chalcedony in chert, there is plenty of jasper with agaty bits of banding, I have jasper thindereggs... Silica dioxide, I suppose 😆
Well take that rock home and cut it and polish it I think you have a good chance of the blue showing it's colors.
Do you ever let dog do any running when your looking for rocks.
Nope.
It's blue