Limestone with chalcedony pockets and/or veins is common here where I am in Southwest Virginia. From my understanding, it forms like this because this area used to be a deep-sea environment long ago. Most of the creatures that lived in that ocean had hard parts that consisted of calcium carbonate. When these creatures died, they sank to the sea floor and were eventually compacted into limestone. However, there were also other creatures like diatoms and some sponges living in that ocean as well and they had hard parts that consisted mainly of silica. When those creatures died and sank to the ocean floor, that silica turned the water into a silica-rich gel that eventually hardened into chalcedony. The end result was large amounts of limestone that contained smaller pockets and veins of chalcedony throughout.
I love Adventures of Shadow! I think him staking a claim for rockhounds is one of the coolest things. It just goes to show how amazing rock people are (for the most part). Thanks for another great video, Jared.
That is a premium location, the view is astounding. It's plain to see why Lance placed a claim. He's a true humanitarian for allowing rockhounds to search for specimens. If Sarah was a T-800 nobody on that hill would be safe, she has an eye that catches everything.
What I love is that you and Lance run my two favorite rock hounding channels, and filmed complimentary episodes at the same time. Thanks for teaching us so much, Jared!
Beautiful Lavender rock..I like the ones that look like Opal..Like the one in the middle that You didn't highlight. Silica...opal...I love opal. The different greens and shapes were really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
From what I remember from school, olivine and quartz don't form together as they require different silica concentrations in the source magma, which would lead me to believe the green mineral may not be olivine. My first thought looking at the piece towards the start of the video was it is maybe some kind of copper rich mineral, but the more lime green samples at the end made that seem less likely in my mind. Another thought I had was chlorite which it looks like occasionally occurs in ignimbrites. None of these seem to exactly fit with the variety of stuff you guys found, but either way it makes for some fantastic specimens!
I see that agate as purple. It's quite amazing the color and hue change depending on lighting. I've found that some of my pics don't properly represent how vivid the colors are, and they come out kinda dull. Great place, great views, and a kind gentleman for letting others on his claim. You found some excellent material. Thanks for the close ups.
I've always called those twilight agates😅 just a name from when my youngest son and I were out in Central Oregon and NE CA. They are pretty eye catching. Nice little outing, and a great view. Love that open land.
That's great that Lance got a claim for rockhounds to play in and protect from someone else blocking it off! The community needs more people like him. As for the color of the mystery rock, I think the best thing you could do is cut it away from the crust and then see what color it shows (or slab it and put it up against a white background). I recently went to Ellensburg and watched a few videos as prep. In one of the videos, they showed an agate that looked blue, but it had a crust. When they cut the crust away, it turned out to be completely colorless/white.
The blue is from the Rayleigh scattering. It’s the same effect that makes the sky blue. Without the rind, I’m guessing there was too much light to see the blue. Did it still look like the light was coming from the inside? Blue Montana agate changes color depending on the light, too.
Hi, I'm a rockhounder in Utah and I'm with the beehive rock club in Ogden. We are looking for new places to Rockhound. Can I get additional information on this location.
Thank you for this video! O really enjoyed it! Im from South Africa and do a lot of rock hunting. I have also found a couple of light purple calcedony stones like these which i polished with sandpaper. The colour remained 🎉 mine has small bubbles of impurities so not gemmy quality but i absolutely love it, happy whenever i find one! Cant wait for the polish video! ❤❤❤
Rock hounding seems like a good hobby to go along with Astrophotography, same with metal detecting for gold. I did astrophotography back in the film days and had a lot of free time in the afternoons with nothing to do, it never occurred to me to start checking out the local rocks and minerals .. or set up the telescope in gold bearing areas of N. Calif. or Mojave Desert and swing a detector during the day 🤔
Oh wow, this reminds me of a giant limb cast or geode shattered over time through thermal cycling over many millions of years. The age almost unimaginable based on how the voids formed after the less hard calcite crystals wore away. I am interested to see if the color stays after the outside layer is removed. Alot going on there.
I wouldn't be surprised if that purple turned out being some sort of grey with a weird tyndall effect. It definitely gets washed out in certain lighting. I would love to see a 1 to 1.5 inch cab about 0.25 thick made from the center of the purple material. But, since I am a true rhyolite fan, I love the patterns in the host rock and the green stuff too. I wonder if some of that will take a good polish. If I ever find myself in the area, I'll have to see if I can get an invite.
Awesome hunt and experience with other hounders. Lance is quite the guy to be sharing his claim. I'll check out his channel. Trying to fill the space in Washington that you left when you went to Utah but not getting into Washington much. I'll keep trying. Love you're Utah stuff, miss your Washington stuff. Great job 👍
Lilac chalcedony! Nice. Loked the polyhedral aspect to some of that. Was there no calcite left? So you have quartz pseudomorph after calcite? Any fluorescence indicating possible opal? Seems l8ke a very fun place to collect. Thanks to the guys and y'all for showing us.
Really like the calcite psuedomorph you found out there. I always thought the green coloration in chalcedony is Caledonite inclusions. Just something to think about. 👍
I have been working on the shop a lot, but it has become a bigger project than expected. I'm just about remodeling the whole space to get it to be what I want, I hope that in the next month or so Ill be able to move machines into the space and start using it.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I am very familiar with how home improvement projects can become bigger projects than expected! I look forward to seeing how it turns out.
On the potential opal I would see if it will scratch with a good quality file. If it does it would indicate a material less than 7 on the mohs scale as the file is right around 7.
This stuff looks like a paler version of Ellensburg or Holly Blue. Their color comes from rayleigh scattering (like a sunset) - I suspect if you viewed it backlit, the color would be become less bluish-lavender are more reddish-purple. The same reason sunsets are red and the sky is blue essentially. If that was the case, it would make sense that the color would be very much dependent on lighting conditions.
Maybe some beautiful fluorite that rock with bluish/green layer with some purple layers ?? olivin is more like apple or olive green in color ?? just a theory but who know ?
There is Chalcedony, which is leached out mineralization of elements & there is Volcanic Chalcedony, that is of a higher M.O.H. scale reading, like 9.5. This is called elongated Chalcedony, yet I would call this pricless gem Quartzatite.
I would like to get in contact with you I have some material that is similar to Lance’s claim but the color is different however has the same triangular formations with quartz crystal formations in middle but this is in Oregon.
Limestone with chalcedony pockets and/or veins is common here where I am in Southwest Virginia. From my understanding, it forms like this because this area used to be a deep-sea environment long ago. Most of the creatures that lived in that ocean had hard parts that consisted of calcium carbonate. When these creatures died, they sank to the sea floor and were eventually compacted into limestone. However, there were also other creatures like diatoms and some sponges living in that ocean as well and they had hard parts that consisted mainly of silica. When those creatures died and sank to the ocean floor, that silica turned the water into a silica-rich gel that eventually hardened into chalcedony. The end result was large amounts of limestone that contained smaller pockets and veins of chalcedony throughout.
I love Adventures of Shadow! I think him staking a claim for rockhounds is one of the coolest things. It just goes to show how amazing rock people are (for the most part). Thanks for another great video, Jared.
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: Very enjoyable video! That is a beautiful area. Thanks for taking us along!
That is a premium location, the view is astounding. It's plain to see why Lance placed a claim. He's a true humanitarian for allowing rockhounds to search for specimens. If Sarah was a T-800 nobody on that hill would be safe, she has an eye that catches everything.
Sara has the eye for finding things for sure, she's better at it than me.
What I love is that you and Lance run my two favorite rock hounding channels, and filmed complimentary episodes at the same time. Thanks for teaching us so much, Jared!
Beautiful Lavender rock..I like the ones that look like Opal..Like the one in the middle that You didn't highlight. Silica...opal...I love opal. The different greens and shapes were really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Don't forget to take a minute to pop over to Lance's channel and say hello! www.youtube.com/@adventuresofshadowdog
Been watching his channel for months now. Great Rockhounding Adventures with Shadow. 😉
On my way!
I will say again I learn so much from you!!! The video was well done and good to see Lance and Stan too. Thank you!!!!
Thank you very much.
A very pale lavender! Beautiful!
The agate looks light purple to Gray's. 👍
Cool stuff
Can't wait to see it polished.
From what I remember from school, olivine and quartz don't form together as they require different silica concentrations in the source magma, which would lead me to believe the green mineral may not be olivine. My first thought looking at the piece towards the start of the video was it is maybe some kind of copper rich mineral, but the more lime green samples at the end made that seem less likely in my mind. Another thought I had was chlorite which it looks like occasionally occurs in ignimbrites. None of these seem to exactly fit with the variety of stuff you guys found, but either way it makes for some fantastic specimens!
I see that agate as purple. It's quite amazing the color and hue change depending on lighting. I've found that some of my pics don't properly represent how vivid the colors are, and they come out kinda dull.
Great place, great views, and a kind gentleman for letting others on his claim.
You found some excellent material. Thanks for the close ups.
love watching Adventures with Shadow Dog, they have some great adventures! Amazing colors in so many different rocks! Great Video.
I've always called those twilight agates😅 just a name from when my youngest son and I were out in Central Oregon and NE CA. They are pretty eye catching. Nice little outing, and a great view. Love that open land.
Great finds and beautiful view. That first piece looks purple, lavender, and white to me. Very beautiful.
The colors are rather difficult to capture.
That's great that Lance got a claim for rockhounds to play in and protect from someone else blocking it off! The community needs more people like him. As for the color of the mystery rock, I think the best thing you could do is cut it away from the crust and then see what color it shows (or slab it and put it up against a white background). I recently went to Ellensburg and watched a few videos as prep. In one of the videos, they showed an agate that looked blue, but it had a crust. When they cut the crust away, it turned out to be completely colorless/white.
The blue is from the Rayleigh scattering. It’s the same effect that makes the sky blue. Without the rind, I’m guessing there was too much light to see the blue. Did it still look like the light was coming from the inside? Blue Montana agate changes color depending on the light, too.
That's some lovely stuff on that claim! I definitely see shades of lavender. Beautiful finds. I think it would polish up nicely!
I love the lavender chalcedony. It would make very pretty cabochons!
Easter agate ahh ha ha good one . Sending you both central Oregon airhugs of positive loving energy to you all
Lance is a very nice man to offer rockhounds a great location to go! Beautiful chalcedony!
I would call it lilac or wisteria. Thanks for turning us on to the claim. 😊
That looks like great spot for rockhounding!
I would call the color lavender. It is very pretty. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, I'm a rockhounder in Utah and I'm with the beehive rock club in Ogden. We are looking for new places to Rockhound. Can I get additional information on this location.
Nice to see you stacked it.* watched your previous videos and was very interested in this material.
I like the agatey chalcedony stuff you were finding.
What a great friend's and claim! Interesting and very pretty stuff. Thanks Sara and Jared! And of course Lance and his friend.
Thank you for this video! O really enjoyed it! Im from South Africa and do a lot of rock hunting. I have also found a couple of light purple calcedony stones like these which i polished with sandpaper. The colour remained 🎉 mine has small bubbles of impurities so not gemmy quality but i absolutely love it, happy whenever i find one! Cant wait for the polish video! ❤❤❤
Very good video. And it’s a lavender gemstone :)
In Utah, Burgex mining consultants have an XRF that you can access for a minor fee.
I love Adventures of Shadow- it's just a feel-good,fun channel. I hope I can make it down to his claim sometime.
VERY nice stuff, it is so nice that other rock hounds share their sites.
Just a mississippi girl big dreaming of rockhounding where u guys are.
Sounds like it's time for you to take a road trip!
Great idea for a video..thku Lol yeah those are nice LOL now let's go find my own
I enjoy following your channel and
Adventures With Shadow!
Two of my favorite rock hounds!!!
Thank you!
The green with that purple chalcedony is so nice!
Rock hounding seems like a good hobby to go along with Astrophotography, same with metal detecting for gold. I did astrophotography back in the film days and had a lot of free time in the afternoons with nothing to do, it never occurred to me to start checking out the local rocks and minerals .. or set up the telescope in gold bearing areas of N. Calif. or Mojave Desert and swing a detector during the day 🤔
This was such an awesome adventure and that view at the top 😍 I think the color looks lilac-ish. Thank you for sharing. 💜
I would be very interested in seeing a piece with the green mineralization made into a cabochon. Curious as to how well the green portion polishes.
I had no idea that temperature can vary the color. I will be doing g some reading up on that subject. I continue to be amazed. Thanks Lance.
Oh wow, this reminds me of a giant limb cast or geode shattered over time through thermal cycling over many millions of years. The age almost unimaginable based on how the voids formed after the less hard calcite crystals wore away. I am interested to see if the color stays after the outside layer is removed. Alot going on there.
Very nice finds! I would call that color lavendar.
Lavender, that's what I'd call that color.. Cool vid, thanks! Cheers!
I wouldn't be surprised if that purple turned out being some sort of grey with a weird tyndall effect. It definitely gets washed out in certain lighting. I would love to see a 1 to 1.5 inch cab about 0.25 thick made from the center of the purple material. But, since I am a true rhyolite fan, I love the patterns in the host rock and the green stuff too. I wonder if some of that will take a good polish. If I ever find myself in the area, I'll have to see if I can get an invite.
i also have a jack russel that i take hiking and rockhounding with me, they are the best dogs EVER for these kinds of activities!!
Awesome hunt and experience with other hounders. Lance is quite the guy to be sharing his claim. I'll check out his channel.
Trying to fill the space in Washington that you left when you went to Utah but not getting into Washington much. I'll keep trying.
Love you're Utah stuff, miss your Washington stuff.
Great job 👍
Washington has so much to offer, I feel like we barely scratched the surface.
New subscriber here. Love those purple agates.
Welcome! I have lots to watch here.
looks lavender/purple to me, and I'm sure that is bleached out on camera. Same with pinks big time. Nice finds!
Lilac chalcedony! Nice. Loked the polyhedral aspect to some of that. Was there no calcite left? So you have quartz pseudomorph after calcite? Any fluorescence indicating possible opal? Seems l8ke a very fun place to collect. Thanks to the guys and y'all for showing us.
There's no calcite around that we found, I didn't see anything that indicate opal.
That is some gorgeous material and the area is pretty, but I misse Lyca 😢
Thank you! We thought it would be best to leave her home on this one as she doesn't do well with other dogs.
Am I correct that the calcite was once connected to the rock completing the shape and formation and then it was knocked off?
You are correct.
Knocked off, as in Knapped?
Really like the calcite psuedomorph you found out there. I always thought the green coloration in chalcedony is Caledonite inclusions. Just something to think about. 👍
I have heard other people say that, but just not sure which this exact material. Can I borrow your XRF / XRD machines? :D
About those colors... i see some violet in there. Interesting video as always. Cheers
That looks like a great adventure going up that mountain. When do you expect your shop to be up and running again? Thanks for the videos.
I have been working on the shop a lot, but it has become a bigger project than expected. I'm just about remodeling the whole space to get it to be what I want, I hope that in the next month or so Ill be able to move machines into the space and start using it.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I am very familiar with how home improvement projects can become bigger projects than expected! I look forward to seeing how it turns out.
@@AllenManor So far, I'm mostly done with all the un-fun things and now I get to start building benches and trimming the place out.
Curious, seems similar to some of the blue/grey agate found in central WA, once you grind the host and crust off it will look more clear/grey
If I understand correctly, there are quartz pseudomorphs after calcite. If so, that’s very cool. Great video as always.
You sir are correct!
14:30 The color outside is straight daylight, so that's probably the color I would go with, which I would call lavender or light purple.
On the potential opal I would see if it will scratch with a good quality file. If it does it would indicate a material less than 7 on the mohs scale as the file is right around 7.
This stuff looks like a paler version of Ellensburg or Holly Blue. Their color comes from rayleigh scattering (like a sunset) - I suspect if you viewed it backlit, the color would be become less bluish-lavender are more reddish-purple. The same reason sunsets are red and the sky is blue essentially.
If that was the case, it would make sense that the color would be very much dependent on lighting conditions.
Pinkish purple
The color is from minerals that are present and trapped as the chalcedony forms and cools.
Would´nt it be nice if the green is a newly discovered mineral? You can call it currentus rockhoundus.
Ha! That would be funny but I think I would rather name it after someone else in mineral collecting history that deserves some recognition.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding True true 👍
Yes, each has distinct characteristics & deserves their own genre.
Wouldnt normally an element like Fe or Mg present change the coloring? Not always the case, but can be
There might be some decent polyhedroid agate out there
Lepidolite and epidote? I think it's lithium causes the lavender?
Maybe some beautiful fluorite that rock with bluish/green layer with some purple layers ?? olivin is more like apple or olive green in color ?? just a theory but who know ?
What kind of rock would you say it is? I mean, if you were to sell it.
I think the most accurate description would be seam chalcedony with light fortifications but that's a mouthful to say over and over in a video.
There is Chalcedony, which is leached out mineralization of elements & there is Volcanic Chalcedony, that is of a higher M.O.H. scale reading, like 9.5. This is called elongated Chalcedony, yet I would call this pricless gem Quartzatite.
How do you locate and stake a claim? Can this be done in every state? Thank you.
That is far too complex of a question to answer here in a comment but there are plenty of other resources available for you online to research.
Color is caused by other impurities mixed in......like iron or manganese oxide ect.....
Is there geographically a reason "the good stuff is at the top"?
That's a good question.
I would like to get in contact with you I have some material that is similar to Lance’s claim but the color is different however has the same triangular formations with quartz crystal formations in middle but this is in Oregon.
You can email me a photo if you like.
Maybe peridot
Mauve
copper
Yes, that is a word...