You both demonstrated dogged determination and it seems as though you just got PAID for all your hard work! Congrats! 👏👏👏 By the way, those “ crystals “ almost look like tiny diamonds. 💎💎💎
We have to haul it back first we left it there till we can get back with rotohammers to split it and load it in our wagon either way we got a lot of cool small pieces that trip definitely got some good stuff
Hey guys!!! What a find, the first piece that was chipped off !! Be careful looks like kimberlite!! Check over good😂I'll take kimberlite over jasper !!! ANYDAY!! GOOD LUCK 🤞
I wanna go hunting with you guys! Hiked up and down AC last year after the monster rains. Found killer seam agate chunks right in the main wash bed. Incredible pieces. We camp there and Razr up to Top Notch the “back way” too. Gotta have lockers though. Nice, nice pieces. Congrats.
A Jasper in this case is a form of Chalcedony(microcrystaline quartz) and Iron Stone that became silicified(melted and recrystalized) as a result of heat from nearby volcanic activity
@johnnynephrite6147 Im going out Monday Afton any one of the Main canyons across from the campground you can find a ton of blue chalcedony Agate either in the wash or up on the plateaus
I love Afton Canyon, and I sincerely hope that this kind of “rock hounding” becomes illegal soon. Sad to see the erosion and destruction caused by more and more people pilfering our public lands.
Whatever you say, the rock is still laying there nothing was destroyed or "pilfered" in the process all that was done was digging in some dirt. Cry me a river you Negative Nancy...It's people like you that sit on their high horse behind their keyboard that will kill surface collecting for future generations and the result will be uneducated youth like you that sit on their phones even more than now like potatoes. The Canyon was CREATED by erosion, genius.
lol “pilfering”….you should go after folks who build dams in order to “pilfer” water…or ATV dirtheads who leave literal tons of garbage over thousands of square miles every year and “pilfer” the god-given silence of wild places…but no, you choose to lash out at a handful of people who have a deep reverence for the geologic history of the land and turn their legal finds into pieces that inspire and encourage others to take interest in nature…come on Nancy!
Oh come on Steven, Afton canyon IS erosion. Literally millions of cubic yards of material is exposed every year after the rain and rockhounds can come and pick up rocks and the rains will expose new material through natural erosion every year. The canyon has been a designated rock hounding area for a long time and looks exactly the same as it did 50 years ago when I first went rockhounding there.
I have a 30lbs green and gold jasper from Oregon... And a 28lbs agate found at Richardson's ranch in madres Oregon.. Love rocks....
I love the Cadys that little nodule is beautiful
You both demonstrated dogged determination and it seems as though you just got PAID for all your hard work! Congrats! 👏👏👏 By the way, those “ crystals “ almost look like tiny diamonds. 💎💎💎
10:00 A Posski Stone! Of some sort looking piece, maybe.😳😲
Not a Petoskey stone if that's what you're referring to it is either a travertine of sorts or a tube Agate
You figgin Scored!
We have to haul it back first we left it there till we can get back with rotohammers to split it and load it in our wagon either way we got a lot of cool small pieces that trip definitely got some good stuff
Hey guys!!! What a find, the first piece that was chipped off !! Be careful looks like kimberlite!! Check over good😂I'll take kimberlite over jasper !!! ANYDAY!! GOOD LUCK 🤞
Very nice ❤
Thankyou
I wanna go hunting with you guys! Hiked up and down AC last year after the monster rains. Found killer seam agate chunks right in the main wash bed. Incredible pieces. We camp there and Razr up to Top Notch the “back way” too. Gotta have lockers though. Nice, nice pieces. Congrats.
What’s a jasper?
A Jasper in this case is a form of Chalcedony(microcrystaline quartz) and Iron Stone that became silicified(melted and recrystalized) as a result of heat from nearby volcanic activity
😂 could those be found in southern Nevada also?
In the right area this location is about an hour and 15 or so from State Line
☝️ I thought jasper is either red and rare but yellow sometimes even more rare red transitioning in to yellow Jasper? 🧐🤔
Jasper can be every color of the rainbow
Thats no jasper its rhyolite.
When rhyolite becomes silicified its referred to as Jasper most jaspers are a type of rhyolite for example Mushroom Jasper or Bugs Eye Jasper
@@MojaveMineralMiners rhyolite is volcanic igneous rock and emulsifies with quartz and forms jasper, a metamorphic rock.
@johnnynephrite6147 It was much more solid than just solely rhyolite and it contained a high amount of quartz/breccia in quartz solution
@@MojaveMineralMiners bro thats cool. Im heading up there today. where exactly did you find the blue agate breccia?
@johnnynephrite6147 Im going out Monday Afton any one of the Main canyons across from the campground you can find a ton of blue chalcedony Agate either in the wash or up on the plateaus
water is missing
Water hasn't flowed up to that point I'm digging out since most likely before Europeans touched the American Continent
I love Afton Canyon, and I sincerely hope that this kind of “rock hounding” becomes illegal soon. Sad to see the erosion and destruction caused by more and more people pilfering our public lands.
Whatever you say, the rock is still laying there nothing was destroyed or "pilfered" in the process all that was done was digging in some dirt. Cry me a river you Negative Nancy...It's people like you that sit on their high horse behind their keyboard that will kill surface collecting for future generations and the result will be uneducated youth like you that sit on their phones even more than now like potatoes. The Canyon was CREATED by erosion, genius.
lol “pilfering”….you should go after folks who build dams in order to “pilfer” water…or ATV dirtheads who leave literal tons of garbage over thousands of square miles every year and “pilfer” the god-given silence of wild places…but no, you choose to lash out at a handful of people who have a deep reverence for the geologic history of the land and turn their legal finds into pieces that inspire and encourage others to take interest in nature…come on Nancy!
Oh come on Steven, Afton canyon IS erosion. Literally millions of cubic yards of material is exposed every year after the rain and rockhounds can come and pick up rocks and the rains will expose new material through natural erosion every year. The canyon has been a designated rock hounding area for a long time and looks exactly the same as it did 50 years ago when I first went rockhounding there.