Having spent a lot of time as a youth in Vancouver Island, I didn’t realize those rocks were what they are, and, how rare they are in the world. Too cool! Thanks for teaching me, once again, about all the wonderful ‘gems’ BC has to offer. 😁
@@mikefuse8064 wtf? since when is "uncle" inherently sexual? you're gross. he just seems like a really cool guy, fun to be around and hang out with. tf kind of uncles do you have???
Dan, we greatly appreciate your hard work and adventuresome play, and I especially, appreciate being able to purchase some of your awesome finds! Keep working and playing and we’ll keep watching and buying! I also have a Jobby, that’s a hobby that turns into a career. It’s wonderful to do what you love, and be able to profit from it, but mostly to do what you love! Thanks Dan!
I second this comment. I really love this channel. It's everything I've been trying to get into. But here in Omaha, Nebraska I'm just short of the rockies :( about 8hrs to the west. I'd love to be doing this on a weekly basis.
cant wait to see, i recently got back from one of my claims and am going to watch while cleaning up some of my finds getting them ready for the tumbler!
7:36 what you do is you take all ypur clothes off, then the big wall of sewage water comes crashing over you and its refreshing really. But you dont want wet clothes when that happens, its really a lot better with dry clothes
What a way to spend the day !! Dan the man, you have a remarkable life ! To be able to go out and enjoy nature and turn a lil profit while doing so, is awesome. I am sure it is a lot of work, but if you keep making these videos, I’ll keep watching !! Thanks Dan
I live in tumbler ridge bc Canada (northern bc) and would love to do some rock hounding. Wondering if anyone knows if there are any crystals or stones here worth looking for?
Grandma would take us 'rock-hounding' around the Olympic Peninsula, in Washington State. Lots of volcanism, so lots of pretty rocks! Mostly, she was after geodes and agates. Agate Beach is what the name suggests; a beach littered with agate! Sure, it has been picked over for years, but every spring new stones come tumbling down the hills! Since so much of the land out there is State and National Parks, there hasn't been a lot of commercial exploitation, and rock-hounding in the Parks is discouraged. But everything runs downhill to the public beaches during Spring rains. The Cascades, which run up into Canada, have lots of quartz and pyrites, but not much gold. We even have anthracite mines! Towns with names like Black Diamond and Newcastle...most mining done today is through the efforts of several Museums. Flood-basalt in Eastern Washington, several miles deep. Can't go 2 miles in any direction and not get a reminder of the three subduction zones that converge under Seattle! We even have a Lahar Surfing Team.... Sure, there won't be much left after 'The Big One', but we survived the quake of 1700!
This post made me smile! I hope that my 2 girls will grow up to be rockhounds. I trained them on the same WA state beaches, from the Elwha River mouth down to Gray's Harbor (home of those sweet DP carnelians)! Even my 3 yo has found a few nice aggies. I was surprised to learn recently that you can even find agates on Seattle beaches! I have a bowl full of lovely agates found at/near Alki to prove it! We are pretty lucky to live in such a rad place. ❤PNW
When I first started rock hounding I was living in the Okanogan very close to where you are Dan, and you helped me understand what to look for and how to look. It all started with me watching one of your Goldpan videos, that was two years ago and I’m still hooked on all your videos
I remember seeing dallasite on your website and just wondering what it was, it's great to see another video on another cool mineral. What a beautiful stone! Edit: the crystal structures look like plant cell blocks, amazing!
Just listening to how you found the mineralization from the old reports, That's how I found the amethyst in Newfoundland covered in the Rock & Gem magazine June issue... it just happened to be the 1868 Geological Survey of Newfoundland, and it was pretty much forgotten about until a few years ago.
I wish I knew what to look for on my property in Ontario... we own an old gravel pit with over 1500m of river frontage, apparently the hill has uranium in it mined in the 30s
My dad and I do alot of river and creek hunting. We've found that you can splash water on the gravel bars and it makes everything jump out. Aswell as a little pressurized sprayer.
As always, love the videos. I’ve wanted to use a nice stone for fretboard inlay blocks in my bass. I have liked the looks of Ocean Picture Stone for that, but this looks awesome, too. Do you think inlay blocks are too big of an ask for someone to slice/trim? They’re really thin and usually made from mother of pearl or pearloid acrylic.
Your best bet is to get in touch with a Luthier. They'll be able to tell you if you can use the material. Then take that to the lapidist. You might need to order a neck, so the work is clean, and everything is flush. I hope you can do it. I'd love some Ocean picture stone inlays on my guitar.
Nice finds Dan a search will lead you to some beautiful dumortierite on the north end of the island and not far from there there's a creek that cuts through a skarn deposit with perfectly rounded peacock ore specimens
I'd like very much to purchase some of your stuff, Dan... but I learned the hard way, that as a U.S. Citizen, living in the U.S. my own country's customs agency will send me an unanticipated bill for about 40% of the retail price of anything that I order from a Canadian company, and that's a bit more than I can afford! Yet another reason to "thank" Donald Trump! 🤬
Just curious if you buy raw stones? I live on van Island and know a great spot for gorgeous Dallasite and have some beautiful pieces if you're interested
Mr. Dan Hurd can you make me your apprentice? 😁 I'll do all the labor on your adventures,. You're one of the few channels I genuinely subscribed to, about 3 channels I only subscribed no joke. I love your adventure and interested in prospecting.. Hope you stay healthy and safe and your family as well 🙂
I've seen boulders of thus stuff. I Cant remember where off hand. I'd have to find pics. I do know Vancouver Island. Problem is I've been from Victoria to Port Hardy. I have to keep an eye out when I go back.
Love your work. We're just across the border in Washington and I'm dying to come to the great north and join you on one of your group gold panning exploits. Would love to learn from you.
I love these videos but fucking hate this "releasing our video twice" thing thats starting to pop up. I dont fucking care that you're "planning" on something. This is just clogging up my feed and making me not want to watch anything that someone tries to "game the system" with. You're better than this Dan Hurd...
Nice looking stone! The problem for making jewelry out of it is ya need to make bigger pieces out of it to see the design of the different colors! Now as a big polished specimen piece it's amazing!
Wondering which creek this is. My 12 year old daughter has become a little rock hound lately and we have actually brought a few small dallasite rocks home not knowing what they are. Its midnight now but she will be excited tomorrow when I tell her what we found. We have been searching beaches and rivers in the parksville/ qualicum area of vancouver island.
I see these on the beaches and along streams in comox, BC. I remember picking a cpuple up and asking my wife if she thought they were rare, and she said "no they are all over the place"
For the really large peices, I'd be tempted to cut them into cubes, pyramids or whatever, roll them into spheres, and for the ones where the corners flake off during cutting, tumble them so the edges match.
Dallasite is everywhere on Vancouver Island Beaches, Start with Dallas Road in Victoria. The person who named it a long time ago. French Beach area too. Really great area for everything actually. Jordan Beach is amazing too. Easy to get to also. Check them out in the Off Season. Dont go in Summer. High tide and storms turn the rocks over and give you a lot of new stuff to look at.
Here’s a bit of friendly advice! When you remember to take your snorkel and mask don’t forget to take your son’s! They can haul the rock back to the car.
Dan can u ask you what Canada's law are about finding rock like you are I'm not accusing you of theft as in the UK where I am a lot of the countryside is owned by the national trust and I would not be able to do what you are doing I would love to
We r e can I go to prospect for gold I'm in kent Washington . I'm new and have been watching and even subscribed I want to go find my first nuget and I want to pan to but not sure were to go
Did you know Dalasite was named after Dallas Rd in Victoria, where it was first found. It is common on Vancouver Island, found from south to north. Takes an experienced eye to find the good stuff. There is a variant hybrid, with Gordonite That is quiet pretty. Got a finished piece sitting right in front of me. Also found a spot on Comox Lake, where it is blue, very pretty. And yes it does polish real nice.
love this stuff. i'm on the island so dallasite and flowerstone make up the vast majority of my rock collections. saw the biggest pieces ive ever seen on a camping trip up island last weekend. as big as you're seeing on the river there. i have a batch in the tumbler right now:)
Sunday morning ritual includes a cup of coffee hit of herb and some mista Hurd
I do a fat DAB but all the same thanks Dan Hurd for the great content
I smoke all day everyday, dabs, bongs whatever going. fuck, what was I saying....
amen
I right there with y'all
That's what Mrs. Hurd says!
Having spent a lot of time as a youth in Vancouver Island, I didn’t realize those rocks were what they are, and, how rare they are in the world.
Too cool!
Thanks for teaching me, once again, about all the wonderful ‘gems’ BC has to offer. 😁
Dallasite... not to be confused with Hou-stone.
Or Austone
this guy would be so cool to have as an uncle
Dan don't want to touch you nor be your uncle lol
@@mikefuse8064 wtf? since when is "uncle" inherently sexual? you're gross. he just seems like a really cool guy, fun to be around and hang out with. tf kind of uncles do you have???
@@gaygengar the way you worded it I can hear the dribble
@@mikefuse8064 ????? what does that even mean
As a Vancouver Island resident I know that location well. Thank you for the care you took.
What creek is he on?
Wow, beautiful when it's cut and polished! Thanks Dan for another wonderful adventure. Peace
Dan, we greatly appreciate your hard work and adventuresome play, and I especially, appreciate being able to purchase some of your awesome finds! Keep working and playing and we’ll keep watching and buying! I also have a Jobby, that’s a hobby that turns into a career. It’s wonderful to do what you love, and be able to profit from it, but mostly to do what you love! Thanks Dan!
I second this comment.
I really love this channel. It's everything I've been trying to get into. But here in Omaha, Nebraska I'm just short of the rockies :( about 8hrs to the west.
I'd love to be doing this on a weekly basis.
My pleasure!
Jobbie, hmmm means something else in Scotland ,might be work you don’t want !
@@bishopburnboy416 that’s hilarious. Never thought of that…
Never been paid for that. But not spelled the same either. Hobby job then.
In Scotland a jobby is a pooooooo
'Uh-oh, my bucket is full' ❤ Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm and knowledge
cant wait to see, i recently got back from one of my claims and am going to watch while cleaning up some of my finds getting them ready for the tumbler!
7:36 what you do is you take all ypur clothes off, then the big wall of sewage water comes crashing over you and its refreshing really. But you dont want wet clothes when that happens, its really a lot better with dry clothes
No man left behind!
@@secretstreamsandfeverdreams we'll come back for you!!!
Man I still rate Sunny's as one of the best shows made, absolute riot
Having trouble finding latest seasons in Aus though.
@@secretstreamsandfeverdreams i just bought the show on Google play, has every season for me
You should collect a bunch of the small and medium ones and put them into a tumbler
Dan get off my claim!
lol
just joking...
I love cutting and working with this stone... every piece is an adventure
What a way to spend the day !!
Dan the man, you have a remarkable life !
To be able to go out and enjoy nature and turn a lil profit while doing so, is awesome. I am sure it is a lot of work, but if you keep making these videos, I’ll keep watching !!
Thanks Dan
Let’s gooo 👍✌️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
If I jumped into the river in my all-n-all, it wouldn't be a "skinny" dip.
Awesome beautiful material, it's got amazing colour and patterns!!
I live in tumbler ridge bc Canada (northern bc) and would love to do some rock hounding. Wondering if anyone knows if there are any crystals or stones here worth looking for?
Grandma would take us 'rock-hounding' around the Olympic Peninsula, in Washington State.
Lots of volcanism, so lots of pretty rocks!
Mostly, she was after geodes and agates.
Agate Beach is what the name suggests; a beach littered with agate!
Sure, it has been picked over for years, but every spring new stones come tumbling down the hills!
Since so much of the land out there is State and National Parks, there hasn't been a lot of commercial exploitation, and rock-hounding in the Parks is discouraged.
But everything runs downhill to the public beaches during Spring rains.
The Cascades, which run up into Canada, have lots of quartz and pyrites, but not much gold.
We even have anthracite mines!
Towns with names like Black Diamond and Newcastle...most mining done today is through the efforts of several Museums.
Flood-basalt in Eastern Washington, several miles deep.
Can't go 2 miles in any direction and not get a reminder of the three subduction zones that converge under Seattle!
We even have a Lahar Surfing Team....
Sure, there won't be much left after 'The Big One', but we survived the quake of 1700!
This post made me smile! I hope that my 2 girls will grow up to be rockhounds. I trained them on the same WA state beaches, from the Elwha River mouth down to Gray's Harbor (home of those sweet DP carnelians)! Even my 3 yo has found a few nice aggies.
I was surprised to learn recently that you can even find agates on Seattle beaches! I have a bowl full of lovely agates found at/near Alki to prove it! We are pretty lucky to live in such a rad place. ❤PNW
I call it Gorddalisite. The blue stuff, I'm sure has picked up some copper, and is localized.
Hit those palm stones with a little mineral oil. Will shine up nice!
When I first started rock hounding I was living in the Okanogan very close to where you are Dan, and you helped me understand what to look for and how to look. It all started with me watching one of your Goldpan videos, that was two years ago and I’m still hooked on all your videos
Dan, you are doing a great job👍🏻All of your vids are educational and exciting⛏🏴
I remember seeing dallasite on your website and just wondering what it was, it's great to see another video on another cool mineral. What a beautiful stone!
Edit: the crystal structures look like plant cell blocks, amazing!
Interesting again... I'd never heard (Hurd) of Dallasite, so thanks for introducing it.
Just listening to how you found the mineralization from the old reports, That's how I found the amethyst in Newfoundland covered in the Rock & Gem magazine June issue... it just happened to be the 1868 Geological Survey of Newfoundland, and it was pretty much forgotten about until a few years ago.
I wish I knew what to look for on my property in Ontario... we own an old gravel pit with over 1500m of river frontage, apparently the hill has uranium in it mined in the 30s
You really do earn subscriptions. Love your videos, and instructional aspects. Thx
Fantastic. Beautiful Dan 🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My dad and I do alot of river and creek hunting. We've found that you can splash water on the gravel bars and it makes everything jump out. Aswell as a little pressurized sprayer.
Don't cut that piece of art Dan! Do you see the man in the Space Suit? Too cool!
Man in a space suit? I'll have two of whatever Tony is smoking please.
Think of the buckets as half empty, they may feel lighter. Thanks for the video.
Very Nice 👏👏👏🇧🇷
Entertaining and informative as usual, Dan....thanks :)
Missed the premiere launch but good morning Dan, another great video!
excelentes videos y aventuras que usted llega a realizar, saludos desde Puebla, México..
As always, love the videos.
I’ve wanted to use a nice stone for fretboard inlay blocks in my bass. I have liked the looks of Ocean Picture Stone for that, but this looks awesome, too.
Do you think inlay blocks are too big of an ask for someone to slice/trim? They’re really thin and usually made from mother of pearl or pearloid acrylic.
Go for it!
Your best bet is to get in touch with a Luthier. They'll be able to tell you if you can use the material. Then take that to the lapidist. You might need to order a neck, so the work is clean, and everything is flush. I hope you can do it. I'd love some Ocean picture stone inlays on my guitar.
Great find fam. Keep the dream alive. Gold squad out!!!
Sunday tradition, a cup of coffee and watching the next Dan adventure!
Nice finds Dan a search will lead you to some beautiful dumortierite on the north end of the island and not far from there there's a creek that cuts through a skarn deposit with perfectly rounded peacock ore specimens
I see why people like it, awesome-looking pendants!
To me, (I know it's not!), it looks like another form of granite. Different materials, but similar in it's composition.
The smaller finished stones almost look like mountains poking through the clouds!
Great video Dan! Loads of good information and interesting footage. You are by far my favorite prospecting channel!!
Thanks for this episode. I found a location that has Dallasite, but had no idea what it was. Gonna go back & grab some.
Keep up the good work Dan. You ROCK sir!!!
Very cool material, if I was close to the source, I would collect and cut counter top tiles! 👍🏻
I am liking the true prospecting videos I am learning alot more of different minerals than just gold.
I'd like very much to purchase some of your stuff, Dan... but I learned the hard way, that as a U.S. Citizen, living in the U.S. my own country's customs agency will send me an unanticipated bill for about 40% of the retail price of anything that I order from a Canadian company, and that's a bit more than I can afford! Yet another reason to "thank" Donald Trump! 🤬
Just curious if you buy raw stones? I live on van Island and know a great spot for gorgeous Dallasite and have some beautiful pieces if you're interested
Looks like may be near Black Creek....Which is slightly better than being up dog creek without a poodle......
Mr. Dan Hurd can you make me your apprentice? 😁 I'll do all the labor on your adventures,. You're one of the few channels I genuinely subscribed to, about 3 channels I only subscribed no joke. I love your adventure and interested in prospecting.. Hope you stay healthy and safe and your family as well 🙂
I've seen boulders of thus stuff. I Cant remember where off hand. I'd have to find pics. I do know Vancouver Island. Problem is I've been from Victoria to Port Hardy. I have to keep an eye out when I go back.
Love your work. We're just across the border in Washington and I'm dying to come to the great north and join you on one of your group gold panning exploits. Would love to learn from you.
Dude! Your in BC! you've earned my subscription, could you possibly suggest any areas near prince George that a beginner could start with.
I love these videos but fucking hate this "releasing our video twice" thing thats starting to pop up. I dont fucking care that you're "planning" on something. This is just clogging up my feed and making me not want to watch anything that someone tries to "game the system" with. You're better than this Dan Hurd...
Nice looking stone! The problem for making jewelry out of it is ya need to make bigger pieces out of it to see the design of the different colors! Now as a big polished specimen piece it's amazing!
Wondering which creek this is. My 12 year old daughter has become a little rock hound lately and we have actually brought a few small dallasite rocks home not knowing what they are. Its midnight now but she will be excited tomorrow when I tell her what we found. We have been searching beaches and rivers in the parksville/ qualicum area of vancouver island.
I have a ton of these rocks..big beautiful ones...didnt know what they were cuz rock identifiers apps suck lol. Now I knoe
I see these on the beaches and along streams in comox, BC. I remember picking a cpuple up and asking my wife if she thought they were rare, and she said "no they are all over the place"
You the man Dan! Always a great adventure and awesome finds. Thanks {}
For the really large peices, I'd be tempted to cut them into cubes, pyramids or whatever, roll them into spheres, and for the ones where the corners flake off during cutting, tumble them so the edges match.
I just accidentally found the most Amazing deposit of in situ Dallasite. The road is literally made from crushed Dallasite. Insane. 😎
Did paulys dad name this gemstone thought i heard something like that
Dallasite is everywhere on Vancouver Island Beaches, Start with Dallas Road in Victoria. The person who named it a long time ago. French Beach area too. Really great area for everything actually. Jordan Beach is amazing too. Easy to get to also. Check them out in the Off Season. Dont go in Summer. High tide and storms turn the rocks over and give you a lot of new stuff to look at.
Looks like a congglomerate with basalt, feldspar and quartz inclusions. What is the geological development history of this mineral?
Pillow basalt breccia, formed from lava extruded underwater then altered and infilled by various minerals.
these are stunning, i’ve only ever found dallasite along the oceans beaches!! these are so epic!!
Here’s a bit of friendly advice! When you remember to take your snorkel and mask don’t forget to take your son’s! They can haul the rock back to the car.
Your Gold Claims page was taken down? None right now? or did some one HACK your page?
Hey Dan. Did you live in Istla Vista Calif. On or around Sueno Str? Food Co-op? Did you know Holly?
Imagine walking down the creek and suddenly there’s a naked Dan Hurd in the water! As much as I love the guy, don’t think I’d want to see that… 😆
You get a like for explaining the genius way you found the spot.
But I like all the videos so I mean...
Pretty cool learn something new everyday thanks for sharing ⛏️🔘🤘
Skinny dipping? Please don’t tell me you’re starting an Only Fans account?
I've found small pieces 2-3" of this on the lower Fraser while out agate hunting.
Dan can u ask you what Canada's law are about finding rock like you are I'm not accusing you of theft as in the UK where I am a lot of the countryside is owned by the national trust and I would not be able to do what you are doing I would love to
When I lived on the Isle (20+yrs) I used to see that rock all the time and never knew what it was... thank you for the education. :)
i feel like it kinda looks like jade but i'm probably wrong either way nice haul you got there dan :-)
.....why would anyone give a Thumbs down to these Videos ? I do not understand......
Seems that 80% of prospecting, and rockhounding, is research.
Kind of looks like the mutton fat jade you found out on the Frasier. Also, your beard is coming in nicely.
We r e can I go to prospect for gold I'm in kent Washington . I'm new and have been watching and even subscribed I want to go find my first nuget and I want to pan to but not sure were to go
I love that you had a very successful time with your newest finds dalasite and the finished product looked fantastic 👏 👌
Good 'ol Dan Hurd, We love this guy.
Beautiful scenery and stones
Dan " Dallasite"
Internet "mystery spirit chakra dino eggs"
Other than jewelry, that stuff would make a nice looking little table.
Did you know Dalasite was named after Dallas Rd in Victoria, where it was first found. It is common on Vancouver Island, found from south to north. Takes an experienced eye to find the good stuff. There is a variant hybrid, with Gordonite That is quiet pretty. Got a finished piece sitting right in front of me. Also found a spot on Comox Lake, where it is blue, very pretty. And yes it does polish real nice.
cant you bring an angle grinder with a diamond cutting disk on or the likes to cut open a few samples on site?
Would gold be in that bank behind you in your outro @danhurdprospecting
Great adventure Dan
I think that looks cooler than the BC picture stone
Alot of character in both stones
thank u for not show us u going swimming we didn't need to go blind hard to watch your vid after going blind lol keep up the great vids and work
The stone you are holding in the title page of this video is fully modified by an ancient artist.
An igneous conglomerate? 🤣🤣🤣
👏👏👏 👋👋👋
love this stuff. i'm on the island so dallasite and flowerstone make up the vast majority of my rock collections. saw the biggest pieces ive ever seen on a camping trip up island last weekend. as big as you're seeing on the river there. i have a batch in the tumbler right now:)
Very cool!
Ironic that Dallasite isn't found anywhere near Texas
Dan I think it's time to bring out the rock tumbler and do another tumbling video
you're right we dont want to know dan i hope you didn't get any leeches on the old boy 😆😆😆😆✌
I found a piece at the ocean. I didnt know what it was. I picked it up because of the pattern. An old rock hound told me what it was.
Hey Dan the man ! Was wondering if Dallasite had any significance to the first nation culture ?
OMG 😲. I love the new rock. 😍 dalasite?