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I'm the president of a local rock club in New Mexico. We have a number of new people, so at our last monthly meeting I played this video in its entirety for our 50 or so members. It was educational and everyone enjoyed your presentation. Thanks, Teach!
exactly, its hard to find that, and also where to look for them. Portugal as supposedly a lot of good places, but no one talks about them. I d love to make some hunts, but first I have to gather knowledge on what conditions to look at and its seems to be even more dificult!!
@@killzilla Everyone gatekeeps because they're afraid of losing their shiny spot. But they don't just gatekeep spots, they gatekeep generalist knowledge because they plain don't want too many people getting into 'their' hobby. It's not just rockhounding, it's tons of hobbies that rely on a certain degree of specialist knowledge.
The huge variety of examples was so helpful. I feel like so many resources only show one or two really "perfect" examples of the rock, all cut and polished. I wanna see the "ugliest" examples of the rock, because that's what I see more often when rockhounding. However, I actually know for sure that 13:17 is a Starship Enterprise communicator 😂
As someone that is new to getting into rock collecting/finding, this helps immensely. The lines really can be blurred at times so I really found relief in this video. Thank you
Agates are heavenly. I could happily spend the rest of my life alone on a pebble beach. Even if found a dull quartz pebble, it would still be worth it.
Nice explanation on how to identify different agates and jasper. It is very educational to someone like me who really interested about the classification of different agates and jasper.
I literally bought a box of rocks at a yard sale and was interested in learning how to identify them and polish them up, and you were the best video so far. Thanks for the details, will be back to learn more.
I feel like I can hear my geologist friend now, "It's all SiO2!" Lol That's literally what he says when ever someone brought in an agate/jasper/quartz/chalcedony for identification
Thank you. That explains a lot. My grandson and I decided to go agate/jasper/petrified wood collecting in NE Nebraska. I thought it would be rather easy to identify which was which. "Look!, there's and agate....no, that's jasper...hmmm. Is that a Nebr prairie agate? No! I think that's a Fairburn Agate. What's this crusty stuff? Lot's like agate or opal inside. Arggg!! i might have to go back to my own classification system...."Purdy rock....ugly rock". Still not sure if one of them was a Fairburn or not.
I really enjoyed that! It was like being back in one of my geology/mineralogy classes in college. I’m looking forward to watching your video about the methods of formation. You are wonderful at explaining things and making things clear.
I'm a happy new subscriber !!! Been rockhounding since childhood when my uncle found a real big amethyst geode near my house. Really got back into it a coupla years ago, I have a bunch of rocks in vinegar, hot water and dish soap. today..the ones i picked on the coast of the Atlantic ocean in New Brunswick and PEI Canada 2 year ago....man they already look amazing after 10 minutes!! Love this channel! Keep up the great work! From Montreal Canada ;)
Your channel came up in my feeds I am a lover of Gemstones. Watched my 1st video of yours and was immediately hooked and Subscribed! I look forward to seeing many more of your Rockhounding Adventures and your viewpoints about this vast topic. As for Agate and Jasper, I love them both. Sadly they are two Gemstones that are vastly underrated by the general public. Their natural beauty oftentimes gets downplayed with dying and overprocessing in the marketplace. I recently Hand Knotted a beautiful natural Agate 32 inch necklace for myself. That's my personal Hobby (not a business of any kind) just for me. It'sa very calming Hobby and let's me enjoy different ways of enjoying my retirement life. At 70 plus years old I don't go rock hunting too often nowadays. Glad to see the younger ones doing that and learning about the vastness and historic values of Gemstones found in Nature.
YOU ARE AMAZING...It's refreshing that you provided this for us NEWBIES. I would really like to see more of these for various rocks and minerals! THANK YOU! Most "rock" channels do not consider the beginner. THIS IS INVALUABLE! KUDOS!
Thank you, I try to make content that I wish I had when we were starting out and trying to navigate these topics. I like the idea of doing it for other rocks and minerals as well.
Hello there! I am so happy to just discover your channel! I don't know what took me so long😅 You are by far one of the most knowledgeable and detailed people! I have a rock that is very similar to the one you hold in this video. Do I call it microcrystalling quartz or just quartz? I have been researching this rock for a while now and haven't been able to identify it. I have pictures of mine for you to see. It would be great to know what this is. Thank you!
Thank you for the kind comment. What you call the specimen in question depends on how much detail you want to convey and how important or not necessary that is to you. If you have a clear, obvious quartz crystal as an example, just calling it quartz gets the message across.
I like your bottom line message in the video. A whole plentitude of amalgams out there and stones certainly don't know or care about our naming rules. Lovely array of eye candy as well.
Straight forward, honest and informative.... This is the first of your videos I've watched and am thoroughly impressed with the way you put your ideas forward. Awesome 💯
Just found your channel with this video today. Your teaching style is clear and reasoned for looking at things in grey, not black & white, which is the way of most things in life. Instant subscription to this wonderful asset!
I find jasper gastroliths where I live in Wyoming. It’s wild to be in the middle of nowhere on my dirt bike. The area straddles the Chugwater and Madison formations. The gastroliths stick out like a sore thumb. Pretty cool to find stones that came from a Dino gizzard. Good info!
After decades of peripheral interest in Rockhounding, I only recently got the bug after a bit of prospecting. Just as it took hold I stumbled upon some chert fields with rocks I can't find other examples of. I live in Arizona's most volcanic region (and the most recently active). The area is known for it's Kaibab Limestone layers predating the volcanic activity by millions of years. While hiking I thought I came across some very nice classic red Jasper, naturally polished. I began to look closer and reading the landscape, hydrology and topography suggested I'd find more not far. I was right, low water flow area literally inches deep with samples ranging from deep blood red, through peach, beige, tan, white and feint green and all combinations. Further, I began to find small nodules from pea size to golf ball; some of which broken open are geodes while others simple chert. But, as I looked closer, the "red Jasper" color was only an outer layer, probably a latent deposit of iron from the volcanic activity. The color schemes are consistent in both plain rocks be and nodules and while I call them "Arizona Sunset Stones" (as they range the colors of our sunset) I struggle to determine a clear catagory (other than micro crystaline / Chert). Some have translucence but most are opaque; some are layered; some nodules have opaque beige beads inside while others, small quartz crystals. Some nodules combine curious swirling outer layers of two distinct colored layers (identical representation in multiple samples). Wish I could find a local pro to look at my collection more closely.
More research on it today and some of the colorization I'm seeing could be limonite staining while other colors from the iron and silicates of the cinders (which are either black or deep red). The peach color (seen only in the nodules) is possible a feint mix of the red and tan/yellow of the limonite.
Funny…..I’ve been down a rabbit hole of learning… this week I was watching arrowheads being searched for. Then they’d talk about sediment and layers in the soil or what kind of rock the artifacts were. So after watching a ton of related videos, I kept being left with the thought…. What makes up a rock and how is that formed?? What are the differences?? Then I have this video pop up!! You are a great teacher and have me understanding a lot better. I think I’ll hang around your channel and learn some more 😜
Thank you for the great video! I am just getting into the hobby and you helped me learn a few things, looking forward to watching more of your content!
Lovely specimens! Personally i love getting to know the different names to Moss Agates, Sagenites, Carnelians, Botryoidal or Microcrystalline features (i often find Cherts looking like yellow or green Jasper and vice versa!) and so on.. but knowing the names/identification of specific rocks, helps me identify gems quicker while hounding and also it helps me build a mental map of where gems may have formed, based on what they are, where i find them and the condition they're in. Although it's all silica, how the silica is expressed is down to the chemistry/environment it was forged in - at least in my view :) Also aren't Picture Jasper's and Rhyolite's techniaclly cousin's - they both have upwards of %60 silica content?? XD
I know nothing about rocks, to be completely honest, but I am thinking of taking our boys agate hunting on the Oregon coast, I found your video extremely informative! And I love the eye of the beholder outlook, a pretty rock is a pretty rock!! My interpretation of agate has always been clear white or looks like a ball of earwax! Love your passion!! Keep doing what you do!
Much fun agate hunting on the Oregon Coast! Most I found there over few yrs, were small ones & very small, so gotta' look closely & hold up to the sunlight -you should be able to see light glowing from behind. Well, except for the completely white coated ones. Didn't know they were agates for long time some are all covered in the white coating, but it's great when it's partly worn away!
Great topic .A few thoughts , the more I learn about rocks the more I realize how little I know. I do know I really really like Agates. Keep up the good work.
It's a complex subject for sure that no one person can fully understand and if someone says they do, well that really shows how little they actually know.
Thanks for demystifying this for me. It’s always been confusing to me. It makes that the identification of all these stones isn’t always so cut and dry.
That was the greatest "Actually" I have ever heard. I had to listen to it a few times. I love rock hounding. I love learning a little here and there about what I have. And I now live where it is productive just a quarter mile from my house, which is pretty cool. I'm here to learn some more, to see it differently than I currently do. I always challenge myself that way. And now I have this "Actually" to throw out for humor's sake. Thanks!
Hi! Beginner rockhounder here, trying to get better at identifying and understanding Lake Superior Agates (and other cool rocks in Lake Superior) .... When I lived in Montana, I thought it was pretty easy to find agates on the Yellowstone River bc they were essentially just big chunks of like waxy-transluscent looking rocks. Now that I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan again, I'm really excited to find Lake Superior Agates bc they are way more visually interesting and exciting than the Yellowstone agates.....but, Lake Superior Agates have been much trickier for me to find with certainty. I understand the way you described agates forming and how they create the banding, etc., but I am curious about why that isnt the case with Yellowstone agates? What was different about the conditions when those formed that they are more solid and, for lack of a better work, boring in comparison to banded agates like the kind in Lake Superior?
I recently had a bunch of contravercy over my rocks on a Facebook group and I don't know much . This video was perfect for my growth in knowledge !! Thank you for a awesome video
I'm new to this I went on two rock hounding trips in September 2020 and found lots of cool stuff. Now I want to know what they are, my mind is a sponge thank you for your time.
Great video! My girlfriend and I are beginners at rockhounding. Started with hunting native American artifacts. We find lots of rocks we have questions about. Very helpful 👍 thank you so much for the explanation of some of your rocks.
WOW...thanks so much for this video. I was hoping I would find an individual who would go further in depth as to how these various stones are formed and what they should properly be called. Look forward to more of your info. Thanks again for posting.
Thank you! This gave some clarity to a few of the jaspers I have and a few of the agates I have. We have been very busy cutting and shaping with a 7" wet saw. Polishing and tumbling equipment coming down the pike soon! My creek is LOADED.... STL, MO
I LOVE this video sand your take on the argument! I have jasper with chalcedony where the bands are formed by the jasper and someone told me it can’t be an agate even though the jasper formed patterned bands over the chalcedony underneath.
Awesome video with very valid points! I shared this to a beginner's rockhounding page on Facebook. Hopefully it gets to more people and helps them understand better. Thanks Jared!✌😎
I just have to say, this is one of my favorite videos ever. So helpful!! For the past year, my boyfriend and I can't stop quoting it every time we are out looking for agates on the beach 😂
Love the host's attitude about our private rock clubs.....there is no place for all of the negative banter that inevitably comes up when someone posts looking for input on a specimen!.... Look forward to the videos to come!
I've heard that most of the silicon involved in this process comes from volcanic ash being dissolved into rain water in top of fractured igneous rocks.
My favorite is the geodized fossils I find! Fossils made of quartz crystals formed in sedimentary rock by volcanic hydrothermal processes. Such weird oddballs that they don’t even fit neatly into the basic categories of igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic. There’s tons of these geodized fossils in Indiana... weird stuff!!! Look into it if you’ve not heard of them!
Very helpful video! Thank you so much! I just came back from a trip doing fossicking for the first time in my life. Your video helped me to identify some of the stones I digged out or found in the river.
Loved this video because it has let me know I can relax about my 'finds' that are sometimes confusing. I'm new to trying to correctly ID the rocks and mineral specimens of which I now have a few hundred pounds' worth, all locally sourced here in The Big Mitten, inland. Your channel is exactly what I needed to add to my small library of TH-cam rockhounding sites. Thanks!
I highly enjoyed your take, this is something I try to explain but don't have the exact wisdom to pass on as to why I see things this way and how it is sometimes more in the 50 shades of grey over black and white when it comes to categorizing stones or really anything for that matter. Thank you for the content I appreciate you !
First time watcher, loved the video. Funny how everyone wants to correct everyone else, the deficit of our society. This helped a lot, I will be binge watching your videos now. Would love more videos like this.
THANKYOU!!!! Finally somebody who can explain the similarities, text book definitions and how and why one rock can be all thee above! Helps this amateur rock hunter in Michigan's Upper Penninsula!!
This held onto me for 17 minutes. Maybe surprisingly, since where I live there are no rocks other than what people source from far away places. That is, unless you consider quartz sand to be very tiny rocks of a millimeter or less in diameter. When I (rarely) visit places where rocks are abundantly found lying around on the ground it's a real treat, even though I don't know much about them. One of those places is coastal Oregon, where agate hunting is a passtime for many. They even have Agate Beach there. But, most of what I saw I just called basalt and it was pretty boring. All through the video I kept looking at that specimen at 1 O'clock, and you never mentioned it.
I’m very curious about Jasper. I started finding it when I was out looking for petrified wood and I saw it right along with what I was finding. And I’m talking about finding petrified wood in landscape rock. Somebody told me that the petrified wood changes and becomes Jasper. Is there any truth to that? I am thoroughly enjoying your presentation and the thought and intellect that you put into it. These explanations are wonderful and I hope I didn’t get ahead of myself with something that you talk about in the second half of the video. Thanks.
I think I can help a little bit here. So petrified wood does not change into Jasper. Both are silicate based for the most part but the ways in which they were formed are different. Thank you! :)
@@CurrentlyRockhounding thank you so much. I actually have a bag of rocks that I think I will make a video about because this video inspired me so much. I have some jasper and some brown and black material that I also think could be Jasper or some kind of microcrystalline stuff…I’m just going to highlight it and link your video in the description. I will make it here in a little bit today.
Awesome thank you:) I have a collection of rocks most I assumed to be agates but I was able to pick out the jasper pieces using this video :) Also fun learning about the make up and good ways to pick them out. I’ve got some of the crystalline(?) glad to put some names to my rocks 💜
I've enjoyed several of your videos as I've embarked on this new hobby, but this video is the one that made me subscribe. Fantastic stuff, thanks so much for sharing!
I was in a lapidary class that had an elderly scholar of earth sciences. He called the silicate family of rocks weeds. They get in cracks and grow everywhere. He was a fun teacher and now whenever I run across a “weed” out in the field, I fondly think of him
i remember the lesson from grade school,opaque,no light comes through,translucent ,light passes through,ans transparent is where you can view through it !
Some of the banded chert you have here is phenomenal! I’ve got a couple cool jaw breakers and some defined line banded chert but nothing like that in my findings lately, super into jaspagates and eye agates currently but I’ll pocket any bangers big or tiny
You're so right. All it is is: SiO2 and maybe the coloring elements or the mineral inclusion. Venus hair is SiO2 with Rutil inclusion. Moos agate is SiO2 with mica inclusion. That's how science should work and not inventing fancy names or even inventing " mystical powers " to sell your product on an mineral show. No fancy name can express the aw you feel seeing an amazing rock to make you be aware of this wonderful world. Thanks for your video
I really like the comparison you made between the Sunset picture jasper and that piece of rhyolite. Good information. I just ordered a new blade for my old Hi-tech trim saw using your discount code. Thanks for that!
Thank you so much Mr . I'm infatuated with agets i have a large collection such as yours though I was finding it hard to explain to others that they come in so many forms and descriptions. Thanks for your time 😊
I have noticed that rockhounds are now saying I'm not sure what it is, post in the comment below..Probably to stop people from jumping down their throats if they say the wrong thing..
We find lots of weird silica on our gold claims in SW Idaho, at first thought it might be opal potch and hoping for color, but it's all pretty clear and mostly sky blue like calcedony probably? Seams, nodules, and all shapes mostly weathered out of the host and is pretty easy to spot in tailings when you see the blue. They are found dredging at pretty much every layer, from the top down 6-10 feet below hard pack (as far as we can get, shooting for bedrock but never have been able to get to it in the short season we are there for). I was hoping for opal like they get in northern NV, but just realized last night the ancient inland sea didn't cover Idaho, we're too far west. Also find some jasper, not a lot, but one big chunk I brought home. ID'ing has been the hardest part.
Love this! As a fellow rock hound this is a great “back to basics” video! Well explained/described and very well done! Just subbed, keep up the great work!
love your explanation I have directed this video to tons it gets very frustrating arguing with people about chalcedony, agate and jasper especially those who are the sticklers for like the scientific definition of them I know that it's just your take on these but we share the same opinion keep em coming
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Why wearing gloves in this video?
Also, I’ll look, but thoughts about the effects of oil on stones to make them shiny?
I'm the president of a local rock club in New Mexico. We have a number of new people, so at our last monthly meeting I played this video in its entirety for our 50 or so members. It was educational and everyone enjoyed your presentation. Thanks, Teach!
Thank you so much for leaving this comment! It made my day.
Hello We are staying at Sumner lake NM and I am a amateur rockhound from childhood.
I have been greatly enjoying the rocks so far. 😎
Well I'm the president of a rival rock club in your area. Better keep off our turf, tough guy..
Finally a rockhounder explains the science of rocks, instead of only how pretty they are. Thank you!
I try really hard to provide insight and value to those who watch my videos here. I think you will find a lot of content on my channel just like this.
exactly, its hard to find that, and also where to look for them. Portugal as supposedly a lot of good places, but no one talks about them. I d love to make some hunts, but first I have to gather knowledge on what conditions to look at and its seems to be even more dificult!!
@@killzilla Everyone gatekeeps because they're afraid of losing their shiny spot. But they don't just gatekeep spots, they gatekeep generalist knowledge because they plain don't want too many people getting into 'their' hobby.
It's not just rockhounding, it's tons of hobbies that rely on a certain degree of specialist knowledge.
Geology the more you learn the more you become aware of the vastness of what you don't know. Great video you rock.
As a beginner rock hunter, with an 11 year old rock hunting partner, this is the exact kind of video that I need!! Subbed.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.
My kids are excited for our next river walk rock search
"It doesn't freakin' matter" - We need more people like you on the internet 😁
Thank you!
I needs lots of videos just like this! I love the explanations of overlapping mineral traits. This was a refreshing and open conversation, thank you!
I'm happy you liked it.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I think your one of the best when it comes to explanations, new fave rock dude! cant wait to binge watch em all!
Just wait until you find out why...the overlapidry.
My favorite quote is “ the waters get muddy “ 😊
I cant tell you how much I needed this video my good sir. Absolutely invaluable to have things laid out clearly and coherently 🙏
The huge variety of examples was so helpful. I feel like so many resources only show one or two really "perfect" examples of the rock, all cut and polished. I wanna see the "ugliest" examples of the rock, because that's what I see more often when rockhounding. However, I actually know for sure that 13:17 is a Starship Enterprise communicator 😂
Lol
As someone that is new to getting into rock collecting/finding, this helps immensely. The lines really can be blurred at times so I really found relief in this video. Thank you
Agates are heavenly. I could happily spend the rest of my life alone on a pebble beach. Even if found a dull quartz pebble, it would still be worth it.
The truth is I love them when when they are pretty ,that is what drives mu passion !
I think what you have really cleared up for me is why this has always been so fuzzy to me.
I'm glad you liked it.
Nice explanation on how to identify different agates and jasper. It is very educational to someone like me who really interested about the classification of different agates and jasper.
Great info! And I love how you get the brain working by asking questions. Good teacher 👍
The variety is what makes rocks so amazing!
I literally bought a box of rocks at a yard sale and was interested in learning how to identify them and polish them up, and you were the best video so far. Thanks for the details, will be back to learn more.
I'm glad you liked it, I have many many more videos as well!
I feel like I can hear my geologist friend now, "It's all SiO2!" Lol
That's literally what he says when ever someone brought in an agate/jasper/quartz/chalcedony for identification
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Thank you. That explains a lot.
My grandson and I decided to go agate/jasper/petrified wood collecting in NE Nebraska. I thought it would be rather easy to identify which was which. "Look!, there's and agate....no, that's jasper...hmmm. Is that a Nebr prairie agate? No! I think that's a Fairburn Agate. What's this crusty stuff? Lot's like agate or opal inside. Arggg!!
i might have to go back to my own classification system...."Purdy rock....ugly rock".
Still not sure if one of them was a Fairburn or not.
If you need a hand you can always shoot me an email with some photos and I might be able to help.
I really enjoyed that! It was like being back in one of my geology/mineralogy classes in college. I’m looking forward to watching your video about the methods of formation. You are wonderful at explaining things and making things clear.
Thank you. I like to think that I'm fairly good and taking complex subjects and breaking it down for other people.
The banded clam shell shaped agate on the right is very cool.
For real, everybody knows everything, I love that you teaching and I'm loving it
Apparently he thinks he knows everything too...?
I'm a happy new subscriber !!! Been rockhounding since childhood when my uncle found a real big amethyst geode near my house. Really got back into it a coupla years ago, I have a bunch of rocks in vinegar, hot water and dish soap. today..the ones i picked on the coast of the Atlantic ocean in New Brunswick and PEI Canada 2 year ago....man they already look amazing after 10 minutes!! Love this channel! Keep up the great work! From Montreal Canada ;)
I first joined Facebook groups to further my rock knowledge. I later left Facebook groups to further my rock knowledge.
Well said!
That was a great video. Thanks very much.
I'm glad you liked it.
Your channel came up in my feeds I am a lover of Gemstones. Watched my 1st video of yours and was immediately hooked and Subscribed! I look forward to seeing many more of your Rockhounding Adventures and your viewpoints about this vast topic. As for Agate and Jasper, I love them both. Sadly they are two Gemstones that are vastly underrated by the general public. Their natural beauty oftentimes gets downplayed with dying and overprocessing in the marketplace. I recently Hand Knotted a beautiful natural Agate 32 inch necklace for myself. That's my personal Hobby (not a business of any kind) just for me. It'sa very calming Hobby and let's me enjoy different ways of enjoying my retirement life. At 70 plus years old I don't go rock hunting too often nowadays. Glad to see the younger ones doing that and learning about the vastness and historic values of Gemstones found in Nature.
YOU ARE AMAZING...It's refreshing that you provided this for us NEWBIES. I would really like to see more of these for various rocks and minerals! THANK YOU! Most "rock" channels do not consider the beginner. THIS IS INVALUABLE!
KUDOS!
Thank you, I try to make content that I wish I had when we were starting out and trying to navigate these topics. I like the idea of doing it for other rocks and minerals as well.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I just found some massive specimens one I believe is 50 pounds of solid translucent quartz. this is very helpful!
Hello there! I am so happy to just discover your channel! I don't know what took me so long😅 You are by far one of the most knowledgeable and detailed people! I have a rock that is very similar to the one you hold in this video. Do I call it microcrystalling quartz or just quartz? I have been researching this rock for a while now and haven't been able to identify it. I have pictures of mine for you to see. It would be great to know what this is. Thank you!
Thank you for the kind comment.
What you call the specimen in question depends on how much detail you want to convey and how important or not necessary that is to you. If you have a clear, obvious quartz crystal as an example, just calling it quartz gets the message across.
Thank you for the response!
I like your bottom line message in the video. A whole plentitude of amalgams out there and stones certainly don't know or care about our naming rules. Lovely array of eye candy as well.
I think its good to try and be accurate but its good to not get too hung up on it.
Loved this video. Wish more people had this open mindedness with these types of stones 👍
Straight forward, honest and informative.... This is the first of your videos I've watched and am thoroughly impressed with the way you put your ideas forward.
Awesome 💯
Thank you!
I've watched several videos on rocks, etc. I finally found a channel that is very informative. Keep up the great work 👍
Thank you!
Thank you!! Finding this video has helped dispel the insecurity of not knowing what I’m holding!!
Great info! Thank you again!
Love this! I'm new and sometimes I get tired of seeing quartz, but this makes it brand new and exciting!
Just found your channel with this video today.
Your teaching style is clear and reasoned for looking at things in grey, not black & white, which is the way of most things in life.
Instant subscription to this wonderful asset!
Thank you, I try to make fun and helpful content.
I get it. If I want to call my rock an agate, I’m good!
😂
I find jasper gastroliths where I live in Wyoming. It’s wild to be in the middle of nowhere on my dirt bike. The area straddles the Chugwater and Madison formations. The gastroliths stick out like a sore thumb. Pretty cool to find stones that came from a Dino gizzard. Good info!
After decades of peripheral interest in Rockhounding, I only recently got the bug after a bit of prospecting. Just as it took hold I stumbled upon some chert fields with rocks I can't find other examples of.
I live in Arizona's most volcanic region (and the most recently active). The area is known for it's Kaibab Limestone layers predating the volcanic activity by millions of years.
While hiking I thought I came across some very nice classic red Jasper, naturally polished.
I began to look closer and reading the landscape, hydrology and topography suggested I'd find more not far.
I was right, low water flow area literally inches deep with samples ranging from deep blood red, through peach, beige, tan, white and feint green and all combinations. Further, I began to find small nodules from pea size to golf ball; some of which broken open are geodes while others simple chert.
But, as I looked closer, the "red Jasper" color was only an outer layer, probably a latent deposit of iron from the volcanic activity. The color schemes are consistent in both plain rocks be and nodules and while I call them "Arizona Sunset Stones" (as they range the colors of our sunset) I struggle to determine a clear catagory (other than micro crystaline / Chert). Some have translucence but most are opaque; some are layered; some nodules have opaque beige beads inside while others, small quartz crystals. Some nodules combine curious swirling outer layers of two distinct colored layers (identical representation in multiple samples).
Wish I could find a local pro to look at my collection more closely.
Wish I could post photos
More research on it today and some of the colorization I'm seeing could be limonite staining while other colors from the iron and silicates of the cinders (which are either black or deep red). The peach color (seen only in the nodules) is possible a feint mix of the red and tan/yellow of the limonite.
This is the best explanation I have seen. You broke it down so well that even I can understand. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I'm glad you liked it.
TY for helping to sharpen our observational skills!
Funny…..I’ve been down a rabbit hole of learning… this week I was watching arrowheads being searched for. Then they’d talk about sediment and layers in the soil or what kind of rock the artifacts were. So after watching a ton of related videos, I kept being left with the thought…. What makes up a rock and how is that formed?? What are the differences?? Then I have this video pop up!! You are a great teacher and have me understanding a lot better. I think I’ll hang around your channel and learn some more 😜
Thank you for the great video! I am just getting into the hobby and you helped me learn a few things, looking forward to watching more of your content!
Lovely specimens! Personally i love getting to know the different names to Moss Agates, Sagenites, Carnelians, Botryoidal or Microcrystalline features (i often find Cherts looking like yellow or green Jasper and vice versa!) and so on.. but knowing the names/identification of specific rocks, helps me identify gems quicker while hounding and also it helps me build a mental map of where gems may have formed, based on what they are, where i find them and the condition they're in. Although it's all silica, how the silica is expressed is down to the chemistry/environment it was forged in - at least in my view :)
Also aren't Picture Jasper's and Rhyolite's techniaclly cousin's - they both have upwards of %60 silica content?? XD
I know nothing about rocks, to be completely honest, but I am thinking of taking our boys agate hunting on the Oregon coast, I found your video extremely informative! And I love the eye of the beholder outlook, a pretty rock is a pretty rock!! My interpretation of agate has always been clear white or looks like a ball of earwax! Love your passion!! Keep doing what you do!
Much fun agate hunting on the Oregon Coast! Most I found there over few yrs, were small ones & very small, so gotta' look closely & hold up to the sunlight -you should be able to see light glowing from behind. Well, except for the completely white coated ones. Didn't know they were agates for long time some are all covered in the white coating, but it's great when it's partly worn away!
Those jasper stones are so pretty. I love their deep red color. Thank you for sharing.
Great topic .A few thoughts , the more I learn about rocks the more I realize how little I know. I do know I really really like Agates. Keep up the good work.
It's a complex subject for sure that no one person can fully understand and if someone says they do, well that really shows how little they actually know.
Thanks for demystifying this for me. It’s always been confusing to me. It makes that the identification of all these stones isn’t always so cut and dry.
Thank you for watching! :)
That was the greatest "Actually" I have ever heard. I had to listen to it a few times. I love rock hounding. I love learning a little here and there about what I have. And I now live where it is productive just a quarter mile from my house, which is pretty cool. I'm here to learn some more, to see it differently than I currently do. I always challenge myself that way. And now I have this "Actually" to throw out for humor's sake. Thanks!
Hi! Beginner rockhounder here, trying to get better at identifying and understanding Lake Superior Agates (and other cool rocks in Lake Superior) ....
When I lived in Montana, I thought it was pretty easy to find agates on the Yellowstone River bc they were essentially just big chunks of like waxy-transluscent looking rocks. Now that I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan again, I'm really excited to find Lake Superior Agates bc they are way more visually interesting and exciting than the Yellowstone agates.....but, Lake Superior Agates have been much trickier for me to find with certainty.
I understand the way you described agates forming and how they create the banding, etc., but I am curious about why that isnt the case with Yellowstone agates? What was different about the conditions when those formed that they are more solid and, for lack of a better work, boring in comparison to banded agates like the kind in Lake Superior?
Thanks for opening up the door to more fun rock hunting experiences and conversations!
I'm happy you liked it.
I recently had a bunch of contravercy over my rocks on a Facebook group and I don't know much . This video was perfect for my growth in knowledge !! Thank you for a awesome video
Facebook will be like that most of the time. I'm glad you liked the video. I got lots more just like it.
I'm new to this I went on two rock hounding trips in September 2020 and found lots of cool stuff. Now I want to know what they are, my mind is a sponge thank you for your time.
Well its becoming the season to get out for some more trips. What part of the country do you live in?
Great video! My girlfriend and I are beginners at rockhounding. Started with hunting native American artifacts. We find lots of rocks we have questions about. Very helpful 👍 thank you so much for the explanation of some of your rocks.
Watching this again. Thanks. Jaspers and agates are some of my favorites. And quartzite.
Thank you for watching!
WOW...thanks so much for this video. I was hoping I would find an individual who would go further in depth as to how these various stones are formed and what they should properly be called. Look forward to more of your info. Thanks again for posting.
Thank you! This gave some clarity to a few of the jaspers I have and a few of the agates I have. We have been very busy cutting and shaping with a 7" wet saw. Polishing and tumbling equipment coming down the pike soon! My creek is LOADED.... STL, MO
I LOVE this video sand your take on the argument! I have jasper with chalcedony where the bands are formed by the jasper and someone told me it can’t be an agate even though the jasper formed patterned bands over the chalcedony underneath.
Awesome video with very valid points! I shared this to a beginner's rockhounding page on Facebook. Hopefully it gets to more people and helps them understand better. Thanks Jared!✌😎
I'm glad you liked it and thank you for sharing it.
Excellent informative video! Thanks for sharing your expertise. 🙂
Excellent video ,always learn so much from you!!!
I just have to say, this is one of my favorite videos ever. So helpful!! For the past year, my boyfriend and I can't stop quoting it every time we are out looking for agates on the beach 😂
Thank you very much! I'm glad you have been finding the videos to be helpful.
Love the host's attitude about our private rock clubs.....there is no place for all of the negative banter that inevitably comes up when someone posts looking for input on a specimen!.... Look forward to the videos to come!
Thank you! I have 299 other videos up for your viewing enjoyment! :)
I've heard that most of the silicon involved in this process comes from volcanic ash being dissolved into rain water in top of fractured igneous rocks.
I think that is the case for a large number of areas.
My favorite is the geodized fossils I find! Fossils made of quartz crystals formed in sedimentary rock by volcanic hydrothermal processes. Such weird oddballs that they don’t even fit neatly into the basic categories of igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic. There’s tons of these geodized fossils in Indiana... weird stuff!!! Look into it if you’ve not heard of them!
Very helpful video! Thank you so much! I just came back from a trip doing fossicking for the first time in my life. Your video helped me to identify some of the stones I digged out or found in the river.
I'm glad you liked it!
Just started rock hounding. Hope to learn more from you and others. Thanks for the info.
Loved this video because it has let me know I can relax about my 'finds' that are sometimes confusing. I'm new to trying to correctly ID the rocks and mineral specimens of which I now have a few hundred pounds' worth, all locally sourced here in The Big Mitten, inland. Your channel is exactly what I needed to add to my small library of TH-cam rockhounding sites. Thanks!
I'm glad you liked it. :)
Fantastic information with beautiful samples. Thank you for creating this interesting video.
Thank you.
I highly enjoyed your take, this is something I try to explain but don't have the exact wisdom to pass on as to why I see things this way and how it is sometimes more in the 50 shades of grey over black and white when it comes to categorizing stones or really anything for that matter. Thank you for the content I appreciate you !
Thank you, I really enjoy making content like this and I have tons of other videos as well that you might enjoy.
Thank you for the lesson! New to rocks, and I have a separate bag of rocks labeled weird ones. This will help clarify them. 🍻
I like the weird ones. The more unique, the more interesting.
First time watcher, loved the video. Funny how everyone wants to correct everyone else, the deficit of our society. This helped a lot, I will be binge watching your videos now. Would love more videos like this.
I'm glad you liked it.
Very informative!!! Thanks for sharing 😁
Thank you Jared. Wonderfully done. I will be watching this several times it is so helpful.
I'm glad you liked it!
THANKYOU!!!! Finally somebody who can explain the similarities, text book definitions and how and why one rock can be all thee above! Helps this amateur rock hunter in Michigan's Upper Penninsula!!
I'm glad you liked it!
This held onto me for 17 minutes. Maybe surprisingly, since where I live there are no rocks other than what people source from far away places. That is, unless you consider quartz sand to be very tiny rocks of a millimeter or less in diameter.
When I (rarely) visit places where rocks are abundantly found lying around on the ground it's a real treat, even though I don't know much about them. One of those places is coastal Oregon, where agate hunting is a passtime for many. They even have Agate Beach there. But, most of what I saw I just called basalt and it was pretty boring.
All through the video I kept looking at that specimen at 1 O'clock, and you never mentioned it.
Liked "you're wrong and I'm right but keep watching anyway". That's gangster.
Hahaha thank you.
As a real newbie, I learn so much from following your adventures! You're an Inspiration, keep up the amazing videos Sir! Mike.
Thank you!
Thanks 😊 I really appreciate you helping me out with the types you shared. I have lots of fun looking for agates, jasper, and buying geods.
I’m very curious about Jasper. I started finding it when I was out looking for petrified wood and I saw it right along with what I was finding. And I’m talking about finding petrified wood in landscape rock. Somebody told me that the petrified wood changes and becomes Jasper. Is there any truth to that? I am thoroughly enjoying your presentation and the thought and intellect that you put into it. These explanations are wonderful and I hope I didn’t get ahead of myself with something that you talk about in the second half of the video. Thanks.
I think I can help a little bit here. So petrified wood does not change into Jasper. Both are silicate based for the most part but the ways in which they were formed are different.
Thank you! :)
@@CurrentlyRockhounding thank you so much. I actually have a bag of rocks that I think I will make a video about because this video inspired me so much. I have some jasper and some brown and black material that I also think could be Jasper or some kind of microcrystalline stuff…I’m just going to highlight it and link your video in the description. I will make it here in a little bit today.
thanks for another excellent video Jared, I always worry too much about defining quartz rocks so this helped a little to improve my understanding.
I hope the take away here is that its not really something to get too hung up on. It good to understand but not really something to split hairs over.
@@CurrentlyRockhoundingindeed that's what i was trying to say
I appreciate your wealth of knowledge I need to watch your TH-cam channel more often to help me identify rocks and minerals
Thank you very much.
Awesome thank you:) I have a collection of rocks most I assumed to be agates but I was able to pick out the jasper pieces using this video :) Also fun learning about the make up and good ways to pick them out. I’ve got some of the crystalline(?) glad to put some names to my rocks 💜
I've enjoyed several of your videos as I've embarked on this new hobby, but this video is the one that made me subscribe. Fantastic stuff, thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I was in a lapidary class that had an elderly scholar of earth sciences. He called the silicate family of rocks weeds. They get in cracks and grow everywhere. He was a fun teacher and now whenever I run across a “weed” out in the field, I fondly think of him
i remember the lesson from grade school,opaque,no light comes through,translucent ,light passes through,ans transparent is where you can view through it !
Wow thanks I was about to Google the definition, I'm taking a screenshot of ur comment lol 🙃
Some of the banded chert you have here is phenomenal! I’ve got a couple cool jaw breakers and some defined line banded chert but nothing like that in my findings lately, super into jaspagates and eye agates currently but I’ll pocket any bangers big or tiny
Thank you for doing this video. I struggle with these questions daily because their is so much different stuff out there.
I'm glad you liked it.
You're so right. All it is is: SiO2 and maybe the coloring elements or the mineral inclusion. Venus hair is SiO2 with Rutil inclusion. Moos agate is SiO2 with mica inclusion. That's how science should work and not inventing fancy names or even inventing " mystical powers " to sell your product on an mineral show. No fancy name can express the aw you feel seeing an amazing rock to make you be aware of this wonderful world. Thanks for your video
You are an excellent instructor/illustrator...great video thanks !
Thank you!
Your explanation is very impressive. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 👍
Thank you for coming by and watching!
I really like the comparison you made between the Sunset picture jasper and that piece of rhyolite. Good information. I just ordered a new blade for my old Hi-tech trim saw using your discount code. Thanks for that!
Thank you for watch and I appreciate the support.
Thank you so much Mr . I'm infatuated with agets i have a large collection such as yours though I was finding it hard to explain to others that they come in so many forms and descriptions. Thanks for your time 😊
Excellent video! I watched it while at work shhhhh! 🤫
You're secret is safe with me.
Ohhhh I also do that!!! Watch rock hounding videos in work!!!!
@@aydamercado6798 I won't tell... I promise!
I wont tell on you if you dont tell on me ;D
I have noticed that rockhounds are now saying I'm not sure what it is, post in the comment below..Probably to stop people from jumping down their throats if they say the wrong thing..
We find lots of weird silica on our gold claims in SW Idaho, at first thought it might be opal potch and hoping for color, but it's all pretty clear and mostly sky blue like calcedony probably? Seams, nodules, and all shapes mostly weathered out of the host and is pretty easy to spot in tailings when you see the blue. They are found dredging at pretty much every layer, from the top down 6-10 feet below hard pack (as far as we can get, shooting for bedrock but never have been able to get to it in the short season we are there for). I was hoping for opal like they get in northern NV, but just realized last night the ancient inland sea didn't cover Idaho, we're too far west. Also find some jasper, not a lot, but one big chunk I brought home. ID'ing has been the hardest part.
You ROCK!
Please forgive the pun but you are seriously the Man I need in my life to learn about rocks & minerals!
Thank you so much !!!
Thank you!
thanks so much for the info on the difference in agates in jaspers. Will watch more for sure
I'm glad you liked it.
Love this! As a fellow rock hound this is a great “back to basics” video!
Well explained/described and very well done! Just subbed, keep up the great work!
I'm glad you liked it! I think we can all use a refresher from time to time.
love your explanation I have directed this video to tons it gets very frustrating arguing with people about chalcedony, agate and jasper especially those who are the sticklers for like the scientific definition of them I know that it's just your take on these but we share the same opinion keep em coming
Thank you!