I stumbled upon this channel and it brought me back to when I was growing up there was an elderly couple who lived right across from us. For time they kind of became our adoptive grandparents. The elderly man taught me so much about rocks and their names. Also tumbling, polishing and cutting them open. It was so fascinating. He even took me to rock shows. Like literal rock shows with actual rocks. He'd shop for knew rocks to buy that he can cut open. And I got to pick out a grab bag of rocks! I still search for rocks till this day! Anyways, it's fun to see people actively in this hobby! I'm a new subscriber! 😄
9:11 You should keep it..Raw Amber looks like this, when you find it (ungrinded). If it was very light, than bingo :) If you grind & polish Amber it looks amazing. Fits also to the wood you found.
Love your videos! I have been collecting rock for at least 50 years😊 My grandpa use to take me when I was really young. 50 years later and I am still walking with my head looking down for cool rocks!!
Ariel so fun watching and hearing your excitement and your enthusiasm for the hunt so many great finds so glad you have someone with you to make you safe and to enjoy the hunt with thank you as always for inviting us along
OMG, sooo glad I found this video! I’ve been pocketing rocks in MN since I was a kid and never went any further. Now, at 50, I’m starting to actually learn the names of them!?! WHAAAT! I knew agates and quartz, but beyond that it was ‘heeey, look at this cool rock!’ Thanks so much!
I have some friends I've been trying to get into rockhounding, I need to share this video with them. In WA state where I'm based we also get a lot of agate / chalcedony and jasper so this is a great reference video. Thank you for making it, and fantastic finds!
I live in Cincinnati (almost exclusively limestone and shale) and I’m sooooo jealous of the variety you have (though I imagine you lucky Great Lakes people are jealous of our treasure troves of trilobites)
Tim... I'm in Indy and jealous of your trilobites. I have not found one yet. I want to go to Nether Farms in Hopewell, OH for flint soon. Haven't been yet.
I've been collecting all my life and didn't really know what they were, I just love rocks. Of course, I did go to a mountain once where there were crystals and have buckets of them and get agates from the beach. I see now that I have jasper in my collection and hundreds of others, I'm going to have to learn what they are. I have collected rocks in every state I've lived in, lol except Minnesota. I was there for 4 years. I have rocks from Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Washington and now Oregon. I'm going to go Obsidian and sunstone hunting in the spring.
Randomly watched one of your videos about freaking rocks. After a few more I find myself looking at the rocks in my driveway a totally way. I must say your personality is off the charts. Don't stop what you're doing and reach for the stars (or the rocks!)
This is how you become a rock hound ! #1 buy a bag of marbles #2 whenever you pick up a rock put down a marble. #3 When you have lost all your marbles THEN you are a rock hound.
Really enjoy your videos. You have inspired me to start a rock and crystal collection for one of my rock loving grand daughters. I also live in MN. Love Lake Superior.
I like to check different rocks with a magnet sometimes, and I've noticed the iron ore type stones are never magnetic, while rocks that have no (apparent) iron ore are. I'm in Southwest Minnesota, and we have pretty much everything you are showing. Thanks for educating me on our local rocks.
Thanks Ariel! Loved it! Myvdaughter and i went to a new spot in my area yesterday and found gorgious red jaspers, calcedony and various shades quartz crystals
Great video!!! I've enjoyed what I've obtained just skimming through it. I'll actually sit down and pay attention to it later today, once the morning rush is done. Very few vids like this, at least that I've seen, and for newby rock folks like myself it's very helpful information.
I don’t know how you ended up in my algorithm but I’m so glad you did! I’ve always liked rocks and my son has inherited that from me, so now I want to take him rockhounding and learn more about the rocks in our area! (We’re in NH so I’m hoping to find more than granite 😂)
I absolutely love rocks and I'm the only one in my family. I usually look for them in ancient river beds in the Ardèche region of france and the Ardeche river. I find tons of fossils and geodes. But I can't find a good book to guide me, all the ones I found have the rocks once tumbled and I can't find pictures of them in their rough state so I'm never sure. I don't have a tumbler, I try to smooth them with a rotary tool (quite inefficient! haha). Anyway, love your channel!
I have a cottage on lake huron, Inverhuron, Ontario, we have a beautiful sand beach 5 min away but our immediate shore we call the rock beach, no sand and you helped me appreciate and identify rocks and now I sit among all these rocks listening to the water and now constantly picking
I have to add my husband is getting annoyed at all the rocks I bring back to the cottage and home hee hee I sneak rocks in the back of the truck now so I can appreciate them more at home and he finds them it's a joke now of how many I can smuggle home to Kitchener
Thanks to a beautiful agate I received, and a video of yours I found, I am now in my first tumble of rocks I bought from the dollar tree! I have another round from rock hounding waiting to go next! Thanks for sharing your passion
was listening along while cleaning because well, the algorithm said so. Very cool, very informative and your outro song is super cute! definitely subscribed!
I'll be camping on the Potomac River at my family's property over the Fourth so this video came just in time! We have a huge area at this bend in the river we call the Rock Beach that I am hoping to find something cool at. It's not the same area as you but I've definitely seen quartz and granite there. There is also a little shop in town that displays fossils the owner has found. Thanks again for the video!
We have our very first batch of rocks in the tumbler right now (which we borrowed from someone on BuyNothing, woohoo!). While on vacation up by Two Harbors my three kids and I started picking up a few rocks along a Lake Superior beach and we had NO IDEA what we were looking for exactly but we are super excited to take a “first peek” as week 1 of tumbling comes to a close. Thank you for your informative videos and your excitement is THROUGH THE ROOF, lol! Your voice reminds me of the “unboxing” videos that my 8 year old sometime watches, but natural rocks are way better than plastic crap! 😆
I can't believe you found all those in one place. I'm so jealous. Was that private property? How were you lucky to find it! I'm in Indiana. WeI have geodes and some fossils but i haven't found a place like yours. I take my 8 yr old daughter rock hunting. She loves it. Her brother, who's 31, is a rockhound too. It was easier to go hunting when i was younger because a lot of the places in southern Indiana are hills and valleys! I think i need to venture up north to flatter areas. 😂
The number of different rocks and the joy you exhibit is amazing. I live in SouthEastern Oklahoma and wonder if you or anyone here in the comments knows of a good place for a beginner rock-hound.
I'm a new rockhounder! My stepmom has crystal freak friends, and were going to one of there houses bc they have a river! I'm hoping to find some crystals and/or rock Edit:. I just can never find any open areas of rocks around my state, but rivers and creek banks work amazing!
I'm new to tumbling, but I found 2 rocks that I think are smooth brown Jaspers. I'm on stage 1 for tumbling and will be done in a few days. I checked the rocks and the Jasper rocks just look plain brown and they're not transparent at all. Will they change during the polishing stages, or did I just tumble plain old brown rocks?! Thanks.
Where I live is predominantly glacial moraine so it's incredibly difficult for me to ID the rocks and minerals I find, as a newbie rockhound 😅 Videos like this with a ton of examples of angles, colors, shapes and sizes are super helpful!
I live in southeastern NC, about 30 minutes from the coast. Not much rock hunting joy around here (seashells, yes...rocks not so much). However I do occasionally see interesting rocks at the beach. Any tips on what to look for? I'm new to this and I'm fascinated.
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Here is what to look for: Anything that looks good to you! If you like a rock, add it to your collection!
You got that right! 😊
@@AgateAriel this is why I have so many hahaha
what edting software do you use
@@LoganGamingEditsandMorefilmora!
If I added every rock i liked to my collection id be crushed flat lol
I really love it when you guys do the show and tell to help us rookies how to learn the different rocks
I’m so glad you like it! I want to start incorporating more of that!
Ariel, your enthusiasm for rocks is personally validating lol
I stumbled upon this channel and it brought me back to when I was growing up there was an elderly couple who lived right across from us. For time they kind of became our adoptive grandparents. The elderly man taught me so much about rocks and their names. Also tumbling, polishing and cutting them open. It was so fascinating. He even took me to rock shows. Like literal rock shows with actual rocks. He'd shop for knew rocks to buy that he can cut open. And I got to pick out a grab bag of rocks! I still search for rocks till this day! Anyways, it's fun to see people actively in this hobby! I'm a new subscriber! 😄
9:11 You should keep it..Raw Amber looks like this, when you find it (ungrinded). If it was very light, than bingo :) If you grind & polish Amber it looks amazing. Fits also to the wood you found.
Love your videos! I have been collecting rock for at least 50 years😊 My grandpa use to take me when I was really young. 50 years later and I am still walking with my head looking down for cool rocks!!
I love that! Rocks are so awesome!
Ariel so fun watching and hearing your excitement and your enthusiasm for the hunt so many great finds so glad you have someone with you to make you safe and to enjoy the hunt with thank you as always for inviting us along
Of course! It’s such a great hobby-and I love making others excited for it!
And the true gem here is you, your cute as a button and very knowledgeable. Thanks for the crash course. Amazing the variety you were able to show us.
Thank you for your wealth of knowledge, your channel takes away my stress. Your amazing hobbies makes us the luckiest subscribers! Thanks
RIGHT!!!! 💯
Wow thank you so much! That is so kind of you!
OMG, sooo glad I found this video! I’ve been pocketing rocks in MN since I was a kid and never went any further. Now, at 50, I’m starting to actually learn the names of them!?! WHAAAT! I knew agates and quartz, but beyond that it was ‘heeey, look at this cool rock!’ Thanks so much!
I have some friends I've been trying to get into rockhounding, I need to share this video with them. In WA state where I'm based we also get a lot of agate / chalcedony and jasper so this is a great reference video. Thank you for making it, and fantastic finds!
Oh I love it! Yes it is such a fun hobby!
I live in Cincinnati (almost exclusively limestone and shale) and I’m sooooo jealous of the variety you have (though I imagine you lucky Great Lakes people are jealous of our treasure troves of trilobites)
Yes!! I have always wanted to find a trilobite! So funny, the grass is always greener 😂
Tim... I'm in Indy and jealous of your trilobites. I have not found one yet. I want to go to Nether Farms in Hopewell, OH for flint soon. Haven't been yet.
@@dolphindlite13go! Its so amazing and funnnn!
I can't believe how diverse this location is!
I can't get enough of this channel! I do quartz hounding in Connecticut and want to travel to Lake Superior so bad!
Oh it’s such a beautiful place-I highly recommend it!!
@@davidmsirois Lake Superior along the shore in Northern MN is so beautiful. I love picking rocks up there. I hope you get here someday.
@@RobertRedman007 thanks Robert!
I've been collecting all my life and didn't really know what they were, I just love rocks. Of course, I did go to a mountain once where there were crystals and have buckets of them and get agates from the beach. I see now that I have jasper in my collection and hundreds of others, I'm going to have to learn what they are. I have collected rocks in every state I've lived in, lol except Minnesota. I was there for 4 years. I have rocks from Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Washington and now Oregon. I'm going to go Obsidian and sunstone hunting in the spring.
Randomly watched one of your videos about freaking rocks. After a few more I find myself looking at the rocks in my driveway a totally way. I must say your personality is off the charts. Don't stop what you're doing and reach for the stars (or the rocks!)
Haha love it! Another rockhound in the making! 🙌
Hello! I think in 8:16 is hematite, 8:37 is diorite, in 6:56 it´s a water agate, 12:00 wonderful!!
Great guesses!
I like mostly greens but vibrant colors always catch my interest.
I have been getting really into greens lately! There so many varieties of them in Minnesota!
@@AgateAriel in Maine we have a lot of green jasper. Some green Jasper is bright vibrant green.
Love your vids, shout out from the Up of Michigan
I’m so happy I found your channel! I live in Alaska and go rock hounding all the time- but I’m such a beginner and learned so much from this video!!
What a cool rock adventure and love the rock identification class. Thanks to you and rachel for the fun.
I’m so glad you liked it!
We have printed those books at work. Both are good reads!
They really are! I have learned so much from them!
This is how you become a rock hound ! #1 buy a bag of marbles #2 whenever you pick up a rock put down a marble. #3 When you have lost all your marbles THEN you are a rock hound.
Really enjoy your videos. You have inspired me to start a rock and crystal collection for one of my rock loving grand daughters. I also live in MN. Love Lake Superior.
You guys are dorks! In a good way! Living life and having fun. Great videos. Liked and subscribed. Thank you. 😊😊
Loved this! I'm surfing videos to try to identify rocks I found tonight. I enjoyed your video so much.
I like to check different rocks with a magnet sometimes, and I've noticed the iron ore type stones are never magnetic, while rocks that have no (apparent) iron ore are. I'm in Southwest Minnesota, and we have pretty much everything you are showing.
Thanks for educating me on our local rocks.
Thanks Ariel! Loved it! Myvdaughter and i went to a new spot in my area yesterday and found gorgious red jaspers, calcedony and various shades quartz crystals
Oh I love it! All kinds of goodies!
Great video!!! I've enjoyed what I've obtained just skimming through it. I'll actually sit down and pay attention to it later today, once the morning rush is done. Very few vids like this, at least that I've seen, and for newby rock folks like myself it's very helpful information.
Yay! I’m so glad you like it! I hope it helps!
I don’t know how you ended up in my algorithm but I’m so glad you did! I’ve always liked rocks and my son has inherited that from me, so now I want to take him rockhounding and learn more about the rocks in our area! (We’re in NH so I’m hoping to find more than granite 😂)
I forgot to mention how much I love the new theme song 😁.
Yay! I’m so glad you like it!
Love looking for rocks and I enjoy lots of character in my rocks. It's whatever floats my boat.
Would like to see what you do with them once cleaned up.
I do need to make another “what do I do with all my rocks” video!
I love to see someone else getting excited about rocks like me. Yay!
Jaspers are my favorite type of rocks. I even named my bearded dragon jasper lol.
That is amazing lol
I love how you quizzed us throughout the video! I’m new to rockhounding and this was so helpful! ❤
I absolutely love rocks and I'm the only one in my family. I usually look for them in ancient river beds in the Ardèche region of france and the Ardeche river. I find tons of fossils and geodes. But I can't find a good book to guide me, all the ones I found have the rocks once tumbled and I can't find pictures of them in their rough state so I'm never sure. I don't have a tumbler, I try to smooth them with a rotary tool (quite inefficient! haha). Anyway, love your channel!
Thank you!! This is a fantastic tutorial for us rookies!!
I have a cottage on lake huron, Inverhuron, Ontario, we have a beautiful sand beach 5 min away but our immediate shore we call the rock beach, no sand and you helped me appreciate and identify rocks and now I sit among all these rocks listening to the water and now constantly picking
I have to add my husband is getting annoyed at all the rocks I bring back to the cottage and home hee hee I sneak rocks in the back of the truck now so I can appreciate them more at home and he finds them it's a joke now of how many I can smuggle home to Kitchener
We call Chalcedony rocks “Kidney stones.” My mom from Louisiana started it when I was a rock collector at a young age and now my kids say it 😂
Brown one you had was I believe a fossil the one you called Dino skin.
You are th schist!
So fun to watch you guys hunt, good luck!
Love the finding, cutting open and polishing of your rocks
You are great. Thank you. I love the information you are sharing. Your’s is the best channel I have found.
Wow! I stumbled upon your channel today! A whole new world opened up to me!!
Thanks to a beautiful agate I received, and a video of yours I found, I am now in my first tumble of rocks I bought from the dollar tree! I have another round from rock hounding waiting to go next! Thanks for sharing your passion
I found a Amethyst at Lampivaara Finland it was fascinating 😮
Love all these rocks.
was listening along while cleaning because well, the algorithm said so. Very cool, very informative and your outro song is super cute! definitely subscribed!
I'll be camping on the Potomac River at my family's property over the Fourth so this video came just in time! We have a huge area at this bend in the river we call the Rock Beach that I am hoping to find something cool at. It's not the same area as you but I've definitely seen quartz and granite there. There is also a little shop in town that displays fossils the owner has found. Thanks again for the video!
Oh that’s amazing! I hope you have so much fun! 😊
I learned a lot in a fun, fast paced way. Also tips to remember different types of rocks helps
Is the theme song new!? It's awesome! What a helpful video to get me ready for some upcoming rockhounding opportunities of my own. Thanks Ariel!
Yes it is! Thank you so much!
I think you are the coolest I just found your videos and they are very educational
All rocks are cool. I save as many kinds i can
Thank you for a fun educational video, Ariel!
Of course!
We have our very first batch of rocks in the tumbler right now (which we borrowed from someone on BuyNothing, woohoo!). While on vacation up by Two Harbors my three kids and I started picking up a few rocks along a Lake Superior beach and we had NO IDEA what we were looking for exactly but we are super excited to take a “first peek” as week 1 of tumbling comes to a close. Thank you for your informative videos and your excitement is THROUGH THE ROOF, lol! Your voice reminds me of the “unboxing” videos that my 8 year old sometime watches, but natural rocks are way better than plastic crap! 😆
Yay! Another video. Have to watch it later but certainly the anticipation is going to kill me. ❤
Yay! Can’t wait to see what you think! 😊
@@AgateArielawesome sauce on that one❣️ You might be breaking the law having that much fun!
Love your excitement!! I'm the same way when I find cool rocks. 😂
Haha it’s the best!
how do you decide what to tumble and what to slice up?
I mean, you have some good candidates there for slicing up to see whats inside and then polish
11:52 bottom left and upper right, 2 ver interesting looking green rocks I would have geeked over grabbing
What will you do with that big rock with garnet?
It's awesome that you get so excited, very entertaining lol
I wish I could go rockhounding with you! ❤️
You know you have made it on TH-cam when you have your own theme music. I might head north and go do some fossicking of my own
Haha thank you!! Yes you should!
Chert also good for flintnapping! I have chert around here and I'd like to make some arrowheads or stuff if I can find some good pieces some day.
This is very good to watch your video .I really like it!
Thank you so much!
You should totally upload an asmr of rock hounding videos!! Rock sounds at the beach 🙌🏻
Oh great idea!!!
I’m learning a lot!!!!!
where did you get that bag!!
Love your catchy tune 🎉
Thank you!!
Here in michigan, that coral fossil is called a charlevoix stone. (X is silent) 😊
Love the song! You must play it every time! :)
Haha done! 🙌
I love collecting rocks and fossil because its interesting to study how they form.. im benard a pinoy😄
If you like jasper's, ya gotta visit washington. 2nd season hounding, Im hooked. I love my home state. Love the channel. Keep it up.
I really enjoyed this video! Thank you
I'm so glad!
Thank you another wonderful video, love the mix of informative and entertaining content! :)
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Nice hunt...so many great finds.
Agreed! It was a great trip!
I really like your energy! Almost as excited about rocks as I'm xD
Thank you so much! Rocks rock! 😊
Thanks for sharing. Great info
Thanks for watching! 😊
Great video, awesome info
Thank you for sharing 🎉
I can't believe you found all those in one place. I'm so jealous. Was that private property? How were you lucky to find it! I'm in Indiana. WeI have geodes and some fossils but i haven't found a place like yours. I take my 8 yr old daughter rock hunting. She loves it. Her brother, who's 31, is a rockhound too. It was easier to go hunting when i was younger because a lot of the places in southern Indiana are hills and valleys! I think i need to venture up north to flatter areas. 😂
Totally subscribed! I love how you name the rocks and tell us what they actually are!!!!!! best channel ever!!
petrified wood will always be my favorite, but it seem so hard to find for me!
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for watching!
Id love to see a video of how banded agate is formed and a lot of the other types you find
I’ll add it to my list!! Thank you!
I love your new song. Cool.
Haha thanks! I have may or may not have been jamming out to it all week 😅
what about sapphires?
The number of different rocks and the joy you exhibit is amazing. I live in SouthEastern Oklahoma and wonder if you or anyone here in the comments knows of a good place for a beginner rock-hound.
Can you put obsidian in the tumbler? It’s very glassy & I imagine it would break up?
Great theme song!
Thank you so much!
Love ur channel!!
Thank you so much!!
I'm a new rockhounder! My stepmom has crystal freak friends, and were going to one of there houses bc they have a river! I'm hoping to find some crystals and/or rock
Edit:. I just can never find any open areas of rocks around my state, but rivers and creek banks work amazing!
I'm new to tumbling, but I found 2 rocks that I think are smooth brown Jaspers. I'm on stage 1 for tumbling and will be done in a few days. I checked the rocks and the Jasper rocks just look plain brown and they're not transparent at all. Will they change during the polishing stages, or did I just tumble plain old brown rocks?! Thanks.
Once at a flee market I bought a giant garnet with quartz and gold on it for $3
Can you please another video, like your 101 in finding rocks. It’s so interesting when you explain what they are. Thanks Jane-AU
Where I live is predominantly glacial moraine so it's incredibly difficult for me to ID the rocks and minerals I find, as a newbie rockhound 😅 Videos like this with a ton of examples of angles, colors, shapes and sizes are super helpful!
I love this video 😍 rocks
You can tell someone is passionate about something when they can better relay information about something than the "pros"
How do you avoid disturbing spirits though?
I live in southeastern NC, about 30 minutes from the coast. Not much rock hunting joy around here (seashells, yes...rocks not so much). However I do occasionally see interesting rocks at the beach. Any tips on what to look for? I'm new to this and I'm fascinated.
I have a polychrome Jasper from Madagascar with my dog Louie on it! ❤🎉