Seahurst Saturday - Agates, Epidote, and....Gold?!? Rockhounding Pacific Northwest Beaches WA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting but it was over 100 degrees F Saturday through Monday, and I don't have air conditioning. I didn't get a while lot done then, but its cooler now so I hope you enjoy the video! One of the more interesting finds this weekend was the piece of quartz with iron on the sides. As Jeff Williams on the TH-cam channel Ask Jeff Williams has shown, gold is often found in contact zones between quartz and the host rock, especially when there is iron in the contact zone. In this case, I'm guessing the sparkle on my specimen is iron pyrite, but who knows, it could also be some AU! Hope everyone enjoys the video, and please like, comment, and subscribe if you'd like. :) #Rockhounding #Washington
Geoduck season is never over!
Awesome finds!!
Thank you! Seahurst Park is such an awesome location! Hope you and yours are doing well! :)
Whoah! Purplish colored stone you didn't know identity of is I'm almost positive a Lilac Nephrite Jade quite rare and valuable a must keep find and Id actually recommend if you have a Flat Lap getting a cab or two or polishing the whole piece. Honestly making anything you want out of it with a polish would be incredible ice dreamed of field finding my own. If you don't have anything to finish it I'm sure if not a friend that there are tons of people that are near you or in a town/city nearest to you(if you live in a rural area) that might do it for free or very cheap if you're just polishing it and not doing any carving/etching and engraving or faceting. Oh you could also if you have a saw(like tile saw or even a table saw and buy a stone/masonry blade for it) you can cut some slabs off of it and polish them(this is best way to test for positive analysis of Jadeite/Nephrite Jade where you put a light to the back to see the light passing through) and you can keep some rough to to show how you find it as ocean polished rough and what it actually looks like beneath that with a worked finish and with more than one little slab you can use a stone/masonry drill bit to put a hole through and use however you want you know like pendant, keychain, pull-string end for a fan or light, earring pendants (like for that special someone you know😉), and if you put two holes on the ends you could attach to a band use as an awesome bracelet. Did want to mention that even though I definitely seen pyrite in that mineralized hydrothermal quartz I see lots of signs of gold and typically AU/gold containing mineralized quartz veins almost always contain pyrite & chalcopyrite (one of the main things I look for before even worrying about assaying when I'm taking field geology samples and studies) hope this is of value to you brother! Beautiful pet wood specimens too and jasper(as a native American both of those have an unexplainable deep connection to me almost spiritual so totally was with you and laughing when you said how if you like the color it goes home because Lord do I feel that🤦😂) all of those you suspected to be pets are definitely petrified wood specimens aaaannnddd...was super shocked by it being in Washington and not Arizona..you have, and I'm almost 95% sure a what they call "Rainbow" petrified wood (not typical to be fully "rainbow" like 80% you'll find will be reds, browns, blacks, oranges, and some yellows with touch of white sometimes)yes you read that right on of those pieces you had in the jaspers is like I said with nearly 100% certainty petrified wood! Im so...stumped🤔...I mean it really goes against the.. grain..of what should be there...🤣🤣🤣(pun intended LMAO) no but seriously its such a bizarre form to find it there that it actually could very well be an artifact of trade or travel from first nations of down south and/or from tribes that came back up with it after traveling down(wouldn't be my people's ancestors other than by extremely ancient ancestry as I'm a Lenni Lenape Mohican and we stem out of the paleolithic mound builders here in Ohio but definitely if a trade or travel artifact ancestry to someone over there maybe even Inuit who did also deal with people of south long ago) if you didn't know though petrified wood is technically jasper by mineral composition. Now there is a fine line between the two but they are fine quartz silicate/microcrystalline structures same as Flint and chert(also are jasper) and this reason that opal is found in all four of these forms. Just like dinosaur bones or any fossils there is no organic material in the petrified wood the carbon organic material is slowly replaced with the minerals heavily laden in the water they are in and over the time of this they concentrate and structure themselves into a type of "biotic-abiotic" like pseudomorph. In turn making it literally a rock and no longer the organic substance. A sort of internal and external cast of a once living creature a...4D copy?😂(I mean technically that's the situation) Pretty dang cool right!?(sorry if you knew all this)But yeah sorry this is the longest comment I think I've ever made just kinda kept flowing like when you get in one those random conversations and you just loose sight of time right! Being a mineralogist, gemologist and geologist this was rad to see and figured you'd love to hear that with the Nephrite Jade and that possible Undiscovered till you form of petrified wood for that region if not brought there and either a broken piece of something worn by water or piece of rough. Anyways keep at it kimosabi love your content and I need to make my way out there to your area and get some rockhounding and prospecting popping. One of the few states I haven't been to yet! If you ever have any questions btw hmu or if you were headed east ever I can tell you or show you all the best spots and secrets and probably even some special access with tribal permissions and ownership I have. themohicananddonjonthran17@gmail.com hopefully I don't get a bunch of screwheads trolling me on that email since I use it as a secondary business email lol. Hopefully hear from you soon and we'll link up. Maybe you can tell me about Washington where I need to go, secret spots, and best locations. Have good one brother✌️
Chalcedony
I found an agate there while geoduck diving once!
Some pretty stuff. It's been roasting hot in southern Oregon as well. Stay cool!
Thanks! I hope you are staying cool and doing well! :)