Agates & Jasper | What Do You Really Know About Them?
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- Let's talk about agates and jasper some. I often see misidentification of these or arguments over what is what, and I think I can shed some light on this topic, so let's get into it.
Generally speaking, the line between quartz, agate, and jasper can be a really thin one, and I think a video like this can really show that.
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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!
Thank you so much for leaving this comment! It made my day.
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.
I’ve found that the best way to learn how to identify rocks is by learning which rocks are in your area, taking home the rocks you were looking for, finding out you were wrong and it’s actually a different rock- and then after being wrong about the rock you found over and over throughout time, you’ll be able to notice the differences and find what you’re really looking for. Happy hounding!
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
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.
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.
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
I cant tell you how much I needed this video my good sir. Absolutely invaluable to have things laid out clearly and coherently 🙏
Love the video, I'm always learning. Keep it coming. Thanks, Chris.
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 ;)
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!
Good video CR. As I’ve only been back in the hobby a couple of years it’s very interesting to view this information and the context of complexity of just this one portion of rocks. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin
For real, everybody knows everything, I love that you teaching and I'm loving it
Apparently he thinks he knows everything too...?
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.
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 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.
Loved this video. Wish more people had this open mindedness with these types of stones 👍
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.
Hello CR, thanks for another great video. I love this topic and it's very helpful to know more about them.
I'm glad you liked it, I think its a good topic and I'm going to expand on it in the future.
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.
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.
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.
Excellent informative video! Thanks for sharing your expertise. 🙂
Soo enjoyed this! Thanks bro .. cleared up a lot of questions for me👍🏼🌻
I'm happy you liked it.
Thank you Jared. Wonderfully done. I will be watching this several times it is so helpful.
I'm glad you liked it!
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 😊
The truth is I love them when when they are pretty ,that is what drives mu passion !
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.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Love this! I'm new and sometimes I get tired of seeing quartz, but this makes it brand new and exciting!
OMG so glad I found you! I can totally relate to your style of explaining. Thanks!
Welcome! I have lots more videos to watch as well!
The variety is what makes rocks so amazing!
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.
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 video thank you for sharing your knowledge with us 🤙🏼
Thanks for opening up the door to more fun rock hunting experiences and conversations!
I'm happy you liked it.
Thanks for this video. Very insightful ❤
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!
My favorite quote is “ the waters get muddy “ 😊
Thank you!! Finding this video has helped dispel the insecurity of not knowing what I’m holding!!
Great info! Thank you again!
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.
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
Thanks for the explanation and the examples. That was very interesting and informative !!!
I'm glad you liked it.
Fantastic information with beautiful samples. Thank you for creating this interesting video.
Thank you.
Absolutely loved this video! I shared it with my rockhounding FB group 😃
I'm glad you liked it.
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You rock sir!
I'm glad you liked it!
TY for helping to sharpen our observational skills!
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.
Those jasper stones are so pretty. I love their deep red color. Thank you for sharing.
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.
Outstanding Video, very informative. I learned much from this. Thank You!
I'm glad you liked it.
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.
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
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
Awesome video man, thank you for this!!! Now I just wish you weren't so cold where you had to record this!!!!
Thank you, yeah I hope to have some heat next year if the videos keep doing well.
New to rockhounding, this was by far the best video ever. Going to look at some more😁 TY
I'm glad you liked it!
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.
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!
Thank u always learning new stuff when I watch ur channel
Love the video! and the poetic license for classified the silica beautiful rocks!!!
Your explanation is very impressive. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 👍
Thank you for coming by and watching!
*so glad I found this channel*
cheers mate !
Thank you!
I’m fairly new to the hobby. Thank you for the video. It was very helpful.
Very informative! Thank you so much!! Great video. 😊
I'm glad you liked it.
Loved this video .. it really helped me understand why I have so much trouble identifying these rocks !!! lol ... keep them coming ! and thank you :)
Thank you!
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.
Wow, thank you I’m glad I’m picking good specimens, I wondered about the identity of my collection and you taught me what I have. Thank you for the valuable information. Much ❤️
I'm glad you liked it.
I am just beginning to get into rocks. Thank you for the simple well organized explanations.
Welcome to the very best hobby! I try to keep it all really simple.
This was so interesting, thank you for your knowledge 👍💕💕💕💕
I'm happy you liked it.
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.
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!
You are an excellent instructor/illustrator...great video thanks !
Thank you!
Thank you for this video my friend I learned alot in my journey starting out as a rock hounder. bless
I'm glad you liked it.
This was awesome!! You are so interesting this is all so interesting I had no idea and now I do and imma tell all about you to my people 😁
I'm glad you liked it, I think you will enjoy the other videos I have up.
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. :)
I had to Subscribe! I agree 100%. Looking forward to more intuitive videos
Thank you, I have lots of content on here.
Thank you for sharing your amazing knowledge and time.
Thank you for coming by to watch.
Just came across your video. Thank you for uploading this. Learnt a lot from it.
I'm glad you liked 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?
I enjoyed this so much, thanks
Great video man! You never fail to produce good videos :)
Why thank you.
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.
Watching this again. Thanks. Jaspers and agates are some of my favorites. And quartzite.
Thank you for watching!
Beautiful collection shown!
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!
Very informative!!! Thanks for sharing 😁
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 for sharing your information.
yo u answer my questions as i am just thinking them in my head like i am in the conversation. This is the perfect type of informational video ... to the point ... presented perfectly ... no wasted bs ... all extractable knowledgeable data... u earned the sub brother ... awesome job ... checking the link video next .. i would love to see the video u speak of at the end about how they could be formed ... new to collecting myself .. but i literally find my self picking up the pebbles on the ground when i am waiting and i try to identify and think of how it was created ..and at the grocery store i am looking at the rock beds and my woman has to yell at me.. get in car honey time to go... lol .. any way amazing job brother nice collection as well ..big fan from Detroit MI
I'm glad you liked the video, I try hard to make helpful content without all the fluffy that is in so many videos these days, I just want to make the kinda of content that I would enjoy watching.
I needed this!! Thanks!
I'm glad you liked it.
Thanx for being a great teacher 😊
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 💜
Tysm this was great! So informative im going to share this
I'm glad you liked it.
Thank you for this excellent and informative video!
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.
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.
The banded clam shell shaped agate on the right is very cool.
I just got back into a gems and minerals and found this very helpful. Thanks and great video!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!