Rockhounding Tips, Tricks and Secrets 2
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- Rockhouding Tips, Tricks and Secrets 2
This is the 2nd video in our continuing effort to share with you tips, tricks and secrets which will hopefully help you to increase your skill at finding more agates and cool rocks in your own neighborhood and city.
In this video we continue to show you some more simple to advanced rockhounding techniques, that will save you time and money.
If you simply put into practice a few of these techniques, it can help you increase your odds of finding agates and cool rock treasures all around you.
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Thank you! Our newest video. Rockhounding Adventure Succor Creek Oregon
th-cam.com/video/qaKTaEqdTUM/w-d-xo.html
You both are adorable! I love the enthusiasm and fun you have. Everybody should have a partnership like you two and the world would be such a pleasant place. Learned a lot already and subscribed. I am hearing impaired so when I can understand the host speaking, I am an instant fan. There are a few channels that truly sound like mumbling to me so I have to pass those up ... Thank you much!
How very awesome of you to share with us your wonderful comments and kudos. Thank you so much, it's easy for us to share this, for it's our passion to share about rocks, agates and minerals. We also appreciate your feedback on the audio clarity and that you are able to understand it, that's great. Bless you and may you find buckets of rock and agate treasures!
learning videos like this are so valuable.
Danyl, thank you so much for your support!! You know how much we love you & how much your support means to us!! Big hugs!!
Thanks for sharing your rock cleaning experiment!! Rock On
Hi flowerbug55, it was fun and we hope it helps you get um clean faster and cheaper! Thank you for your comment
Hi .Newbie here. I subscribed on your other video. Um..... the rocks you showed today, I always thought they were either 'Lucky Stones', or flint. Boy am I ever learning a LOT! I'm so thankful that God directed me to your channel!!!! Oh and SeaJay, you crack me up. I love your personality. ---I'm off to look for rocks.
Hi Deirdre, thanks so much for you comment and SeaJay loved it and laughed in only the way she can and she cracks me up too! We have this philosophy that every time we go hounding, in fact every day, we learn something new and know one knows it all.
Thanks again, You Rock
Fellow Rockhound here.Eastern Kentucky Love yalls videos. Thanks for all the info. Cant wait for the videos in the future
Tonya, thank you so much!! We definitely love making them!! Happy Hounding!!
I just found you guys! I am 67 and I've always loved rocks. Your videos make me want to become a rock hound! I'm in central Texas so I'm going to start looking around using your tips. My husband can't go with me since he's 79 and has bad legs. He wears out easily. But I want to polish rocks and maybe make jewelry. My husband makes jewelry with crystals. During this pandemic, I find myself wanting to do something creative. My vegetable garden is a bust. I work full-time (still) from home but I have time to be creative. I'm going to look for a good reference book to use. I look forward to watching your videos. Thanks. Carol
Hi Carol and welcome to the rockhounding world! We're so happy to play a little part in helping you find a new and fun hobby. If your interested in seeing our latest video, it's premiering today 7-1-20 at 5:15 pm
Finding more Agates in Upstate NY
th-cam.com/video/qDOKN0Xkxpk/w-d-xo.html
and if you come on during the premiere we can chat. Either way thank you for your wonderful comment!
I love watching these videos and thinking "omg ive been there!"
Never doubt urban hounding
Yep we scored on Sequoia parkway with the help of our buddies at Starbucks who let us pic there.
that common Opel you found i wouldn't slice it i would polish it whole and make a shelf specimen out of it.
Sounds like a good idea, thanks for watching and your idea!
Joey, I haven’t sliced into it ... yet!! But I am craving to see what’s inside!! Lol!!
I’ve thought about looking at our local river rock delivery companies and places that are covered. Now it’s an even better idea.
So true, some are amiable towards it and some are not. One thing for sure is, it never hurts to ask and in person is the best way!
I would love to see what you did with your rocks. Like the opal you wanted to slice. great video.
Hi Linda, thank you so much for your comment! We're working on several video ideas at the moment, in addition to our full time jobs, so it will be a while. If you go to the video's description and look up the link SeaJays Wonders on FB, you can see a bunch of our already completed work. That is generally where we post our completed works. Thanks again for your comment.
@Linda Marquis, we have a video out that shows us shaping an opal with a rotary tool. Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/i1ndwRRRKbc/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and teaching us you're very knowledgeable
Well thank you for sharing your feelings and kindness with us!
Thank you so much! You guys are so awesome for sharing this! 🙏❤️❤️❤️
You are so welcome 🙏 ☺. Our pleasure 😊
Love your spirits❤❤❤Beautiful pieces❤
That's so sweet of you to share with us that wonderful comment. Our hearts are in the right place to share our fun & knowledge with you!
So informative. What are your tips on cleaning your agates and get that stuck on hard dirt off your treasures?
Thank you for your comment, we appreciate you. First and foremost scrubing with soap & water and use several different types of brushes. An old tooth brush, brass wire brush, stainless steel brushes come in handy. Once your to that point of clean take a look at our 3 part video series on cleaning called: Agate bowl challenge part 1
th-cam.com/video/r8upn7IOQKQ/w-d-xo.html
I am a Newby. Found my first agates on a vacation in the Wind River in Wyoming. Lots to learn to identify beautiful agates from the less beautiful. Cutting with a tile saw and polishing with my glass polishing equipment. Very rookie and not adequate, but a way to start with what I have. I am enjoying learning from you. I'm in Florida, so I don't know if I can find much here. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Well, Glass, we all started out as a Rookie Newbie... our Rookie days are just a bit further in the past than yours! Even now, we find ourselves doing Rookie mistakes, like not wearing eye protection or a mask during the making of this video, but we did wear them off camera... As far as finding agates in Florida, I pretty sure there are some there ... they may not look like the west coast agates we show, but they are around! Check out Wyld Kyle's channel & Theo Kellison's channel ... I know both of them have hunted agates in Florida!
As far as cutting with a tile saw & polishing with glass polishers, ya do what you can with what you have until you can get the tools you want!!
Hi Tonya, thanks for your Kudos! Thanks for your view and were so glad to help. Hey we just released one in this series this evening and that makes #6 in the Rockhounding tips tricks and Secrets series. Check it out and thank you again!
Your so welcome. I cant wait till it warms up here in Ky. The rocks are calling my name. Lol
Hee hee, yep SeaJay says they sing to her and for me it's just a feeling but they do kind of communicate with us, non rockhounds think we're kinda nutz...lol
I love y'all!
❤️ right back to you!
Y'all are awesome... So thank you....
Hi Marylou, you are just so sweet 💗 thank you so much 💖
Love you guys from first 🥇 vid
HI A 👋 it's so awesome receiving ☺️ such great ❤️ from folks like you, thank you 😊
I love yall so much!!!! I wish I lived by ya to go rockhounding!!!!!!
Hi Cassie 👋 thank you for your comment! Consider finding us on Facebook so we can share tips and pics back and forth, that would be fun. Agate Enchantment and Rock Wizardry is our fb name
Thank you again!
@@agateenchantmentrockwizard5969 I definitely follow you guys here on TH-cam but I don't have facebook. Rock on🤘
@@CassieCrochets okay 👌 got ya and understood. You can always send us an email 📧 it's listed in the description below this video 📹 😀 😄 👍
Rock On our new friend!
i collect all different kinds of rocks and minerals just last week i found a garnet close to my house that was as big as a baseball and i even collect different sand stones i found a real rare green sand stone i have a friend that is a professional geologist and i showed it to him and he told me that it was very rare. its a 20 pound slab i made a stand for it and it sets on my desk.
Wow, sounds like you've made some big scores! Thanks for sharing them!
Awesomeness, how very cool of you to join us.! Don't forget to click the blue bell, if you want to see our newest video's.
Jajaja,😋 you are so funny, i like you guys, i am from Guanajuato México and agate lover and a entusiastic agate lover i got hundreds of them.... Muy best wished yo both of you
muchas gracias and best wishes to you, we've got hundreds of them too...
Thank you for your knowledge and sharing this with me! I have been looking at rock my entire life. Never knew how and why they were attractive to me! You have taught me so much and would love to see more from you! I love the pages of what they are and the testing of the rocks!
Hi Amber 👋 It's for nice folks like you that we do the videos. We totally understand the attraction to rocks & agates, we share that with you.
If you'd like to see more of our videos 📹 🙂 😊 ☺
Here is a direct link you our TH-cam channel 😀
Be healthy and well:
Agate Enchantment and Rock Wizardry main page for our TH-cam channel
th-cam.com/channels/_CJiyFcx_wewXtfLv52l7g.html
Hi Amber, we hope all is well with you today. We are working on an ebook to ID all different kinds of rocks and agates, which soon we will release. Also we are releasing a new video at 11:15 today (Sunday 9/13/20 pst) if your interested you can check it out here:
Rockhounding Secrets - Polishing an Amethyst Sage Agate with Dendrites
th-cam.com/video/PDjJTofKmS8/w-d-xo.html
You guys are so precious take me with you!!!
Hi Amanda and you so very sweet thank you! What city do you live in?
I have the hardest time differentiating plain quartz and Agate. I live in Colorado and quartz is everywhere in almost every color. Every time I pick up a glowing rock it is just quartz. It never has bands or anything that would lead me to believe it is agate.
@Chris McKenzie, I totally understand your frustration. The thing is not even geologist can agree on what constitutes an agate. The dictionary say this: an agates is a fine-grained variegated chalcedony having its colors arranged in stripes, blended in clouds, or showing moss-like forms. But the problem stems from the fact that quartz, agate & jasper is all Chalcedony! This is a quote from FossilEra.com: Chalcedony is a broad term to describe a microcrystalline form of silica. Agate is any type of chalcedony which is translucent, while jasper is any type of chalcedony which is opaque. So the accepted parameters for an agate is that it must be transparent or translucent, has a waxy texture, typically white, grey, and yellowish-brown to reddish-brown, but shades of blue and green have been noted, may or may not have bands, lines, or patterning, may have druze or not. Yeah, I know, pretty vague! I have seen quartz crystals that were classified as agates because of the growth lines. What I have noted mostly is river rock or water tumbled stones are mostly referred to as agates. I hope this helps, it is about as nailed down as I can get it! You can also watch our video, Agates Made Easy, The Definition of Agates. Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/whF-saosHcE/w-d-xo.html
@@momseajay I appreciate the reply and detailed information!
hahaha! I loved it, thankyou!
Thank you for checking out our video and our channel!
Great video. I saw the one you did on Columbia Basin Agates. Did you guys ever get a chance to check out Fir Road in Pasco, Wa?
Hi Chrisz1e, hey thanks for the kudos. Ya we made our way up Fir rd and we scored a few agates and a couple of smaller CBAs. In W Richland we scored better with Ryan Kings excellent guidance.
I learned a lot on your tips in rockhounding and your geologist ID stones and minerals. Thanks
Hi Super Ceci 👌
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!
Great find I LOVE Rock hounding I have some awesome gems n stones I've been doing it for years just recently I had 2 full totes.full had alot of bandet agates Jasper's even black clear stones with desighns inside all was stoled from me I was heart broken some I've had sence I was a kid I could just bout tell you where u picked each one up .I don't understand why ppl do stuff like that I've found .crinoids as well I live in Arkansas so I spend alot time on dirt roads. Thanks for sharing your treasures have a blessed evening .
Awe your story is heartbreaking and both of us feel for you, to have your treasures taken is truly a crime. Thank you for your compliments and we love rockhounding and sharing about agates and rocks and that's why we do this.
Blessings to you may you find lots of treasures to replace the ones taken from you!
Awesome video !!! Thank you for the info !!!
Thanks so much, we're so glad you liked it!
I love y'all's energy. 🖤 I just wanna chill and go Rockhounding with y'all, maybe grab a bite. I get very positive vibes from you guys and I send my love 💕🤗✨
Thank you x 2! 😘
Rockhounding could happen, send us an email 📧 (in description) and we'll see if we can work it out
Thanks 😊 again
Thanks again!
Thank you 💘
Your expertise is amazing...thanks for sharing it with us novices!
Awe Deborah your so very sweet for saying so, thanks 😊 ☺ 😘 again 💖
Hey Nick 👋, welcome the club of nutty rockhounds, it's really a fun hobby. Finding little treasures wherever you may be. If you have any specific questions our email is in the description below.
Find Your Treasure Today!
Thank you so much for the info. I'm new to rocks and yall have helped me so much
Your so welcome Nick, it is our pleasure and our mission to help rockhounds of all ages!
Hey you guys are awesome! I’m from Washington and have spent 5 years looking for agates so far and I found your tips very helpful. I hope you guys keep up the great content!
Hi Zach, thank you!
We we're just up up in Washington for a couple of days and found some amazing agates in the Greenwater River area. In fact in a couple days we have a brand new video coming out that details our adventures 😀 up there.
Thanks for the comment!
Be well and healthy Zach
I have really enjoyed watching yall. How excited cj gets when she finds something and how knowledgeable she is. Love it. Happy hunting yall. 💛
Hi Alisha, thank you 😊☺
That's also why we always say "Find Your Treasure Today". Hope you do!
Congrats !love agates
Thank you 💘
We do too!
Love your videos. Same techniques I use for finding things, but I can’t easily identify stuff like her yet. I’m only a couple years into this hobby, down in Idaho. (Which has a surprisingly diverse and amazing mineral index)
Thank you for watching! SeaJay began her rock journey at the age of 2 on her grandfather's knee who was a amateur geologist & rockhound. So, she has a few years of knowledge on a lot of us. Yes, Idaho has an amazingly diverse gem/mineral banquet for lucky rockhounds to indulge their mineral palettes on!!
Just love these videos! Thanks😍
Hi Pamela, you are so kind and both SeaJay and I appreciate you saying so!
No entiendo mucho pero me gustan sus vídeos de ágatas y carnelia q es lo q yo puedo conseguir en mi san Miguel de allende gto saludos
Muchas gracias por compartir tu comentario. Saludos desde Tualatin Oregon y esperamos que encuentres muchas rocas y ágatas frescas. feliz Navidad para ti y tu familia
Love love love all the videos.. Im in the mountain state we have amazing finds here
Thank you for the 💘 Marylou. Blessed are you in where you live.
We are fortunate as well to live in Oregon bordering on Washington for the geology in this part of the NW is abundant with rock treasures.
Be well and thanks for your comment 🙂 😊 👍
I love your rocks💖❤Nice collection👍👏
Thank you and thanks for watching 👀 🙏 😊
@@agateenchantmentrockwizard5969 , Okay, just show me how you polish your rocks.
Thanks a lot.❤
Thank you, here's some ideas 💡 😊
How to polish and agate heart with a rotary tool than add an opal 2021
th-cam.com/video/OgIW6pdmOAs/w-d-xo.html
Tumbling rocks
th-cam.com/play/PLoscd0x9AzrFDcxhXsEBcBOahCRIhG8dn.html
Rockhounding Secrets- Polishing Agates
th-cam.com/video/0rQeIJh24yg/w-d-xo.html
Hope this helps you 💘 😻 💜 💛
Love you guys
Awe that's awesome 👌 👏 😊 😄 ☺ 😀 Thank you
Send some 💘 right back to you!
what do you do with your opals and such? do you cut them and try to facet them
Great question and thank you. One thing we are not is facitors but we have some friends that are and we help each other out. In a couple weeks we are putting out a spot light on one such friend who takes our mexican fire opal and does an amazing job of turning it into a fiery cabochon.
This is a great video ❤️ thank y'all for a good information and hounding time. Well done 👍😊
We're so glad you liked it and hope it helps you find even more cool agate and rock treasures! Thank you for your comment and good luck to you!
Love you guys! You inspired me to start rock hounding in my own back yard. I have river rock all around the foundation of my house and have found some pretty clear quartz and rough agate. I just bought a tumbler and am getting my first batch ready. I live in Colorado and am now totally addicted to researching hunting sites and how to recognize the signs. Its winter so not the best time to head up the high country but a great time to watch vids and learn. Thanks for your tips!!!
Hi Kinjari, thank you for the kudos and welcome to our channel. So you have river rock at yoir house already very cool, that's urban hounding at it's best especially in winter!
How exciting doing your very first tumble, I remember mine and the excitement was lots of fun. Good luck on your hounding and on your first tumble as well!
By the way, if you didn't know it we have a comprehensive series on tumbling rocks with tons of tips and experience thrown in. It's a 5 part series and it starts here:
Tumbling rocks step 1 60 grit
th-cam.com/video/TlY2TAgk9JA/w-d-xo.html
Have fun and again good luck to you
This was such a joy to watch. Thank you. Now I'm a subscriber!
Awe that's so nice and thank you so very much! We both are so glad you liked it and we hoped you learned something to help you in finding some new treasures for yourself.
Stick around tonight I'm uploading the next video in this series. Rockhounding tips, tricks and secrets 3 agate day.
Thanks again
Hi James and thank you! We just love bringing the fun to you!
here in E.texas I find Petrified wood all the time
Hi Billy, that's so cool I know love petrified wood too and am blessed with a bunch. Do you find Fossilized petrified wood as well in your area?
@@agateenchantmentrockwizard5969 not sure what the difference is
can you explain?
@@billywhitehorn6397 one of the best and shortest answers i can share with you is in this article here:
www.thoughtco.com/fossilized-or-petrified-1438948
Thanks for the great question!
@@agateenchantmentrockwizard5969 when you first dig it up here... alot of the time because of it's outer covering... one can't see what's inside. alot of times you have tumble it first. at least what I see here in Texas
Waw beautiful 😍 💕
ကြ်န္ေတာ့္မွာ agates မ်ားမ်ားရရွိထားပါသည္
မည္သို႔ေရာင္းခ်ရမည္မသိေသးပါ
ေစ်းကြက္သိရလ်ွင္ ကုန္ႀကမ္းမ်ားမ်ားရနိုင္ပါသည္
Agate များသည်ရှားပါးသည်မဟုတ်လျှင်ဒေါ်လာများစွာမသွားပါနှင့်။ မင်းရဲ့အရာတွေကိုသေချာဖော်ထုတ်ပြီးဖေ့စ်ဘွတ်ခ်မှာလေလံအောင်ကြိုးစားပါ။
Be well and happy 😊
Are agates geographical? Because I'm in Phoenix Arizona and the kind of agates that you find and I see on videos Oregon California Lake superior, I'm not finding here. I've checked a lot a rock beds . A little bit of white carnelian but few agates, and not the kind you're finding. I want some of those yellow carnelian chunkers that you guys are finding !
Hi and thank you. To answer your question. There's no doubt that rocks, agates & gems are geologically specific. Be sure and check out your local rock and mineral shows, they often have rocks from out of the local area. Also develop FB friends and trade what you have in abundance of for what you want. If all else fails send us an email and we'll send you a couple yellow agates for cheap and you pay shipping.
Thanks again
and i found a smoky quarts specimen that weighed 300 pounds and its not a crystal its a massive specimen. i have saw crystals that where 300 pounds but a massive specimen that big is super rare.
Holy cow, what an amazing find! Congratulations
I've got a rockhounding joke for you. I saw a piece of petrified wood down at the beach yesterday, I wonder what scares it so much?
😅🤣😂🤪
😂😂😂😂😂i love you men
In many years of rock hunting with my mother as a child and teen it never occurred to me that jasper or Carnelian were semi precious stones! They are what we found on the beach or n the creek.
We all learn something new everyday. Thanks for watching Wanda!
Can I find common opal in the NW
Absolutely, we find it all the time in many different places around the NW... In fact the last big rock SeaJay found in the pond was a great example.
Hi sir and madam....my self aboobacker from India kerala so what's value of agate.i have some rocks.
Hi Aboobacker sum, great question but we are not in the business of selling agates. Some helpful hints would be checking similar types of agates that you possess and want to sell on ebay auctions, on etsy sales of the same types. Also you can check on Facebook agates, buy, sell and trade. Lastly asking your Facebook friends that are actually selling their agates.
Good luck to you and thank you for your question.
You would have fun at Garnet Hill in Ely, Nevada.
Oh ya, we have to put that on the bucket list!
You would have fun at Succor creek and Graveyard point 👉, if you haven't been, consider it. Our premier on Succor Creek starts in 10 minutes Sunday the 19th at 9am. Come Join and chat with us if you can
@@agateenchantmentrockwizard5969 Will do. Also, if in Nevada, check out Gem Field and a turquoise min in Tonapah.
@@saradecapua3264 Cool 😎 we'll add those to our bucket list. 🪣 Also Virgin Valley and Opal ridge too
@@agateenchantmentrockwizard5969 That's a long drive from Las Vegas. I just saw something about that area. It's on my list now.
@@saradecapua3264 Just getting to Nevada is a long drive for us...LOL
The Nehalem is full of sedimentary fakers, but it's got a few nice pieces in it. I wonder where the rocks in this water feature originated.
Hi and yes lots of Sedimentary fakers in just about everywhere you look, in the NW.
You guys are cute ..and you know what your doing.. my girl and i are rockhounds..
Awwww, thank you!! So glad you found our channel & we impressed you enough for you to leave a message!!
300th subscriber!
Welcome Justin, sending out positive vibes your way!
Justin Thank you so much for subscribing to our channel!!
haii
CJ ?
Yeah? But it is spelled SeaJay!
Hey! This is SeaJay!