Agate Plume Find!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2021
- I discovered a great new spot for myself to sneak away to and find some ridiculously amazing new rocks! You won't believe the colors in the jasper rocks I found. The agates were great too! The only thing missing from my day was a little bit more sunshine, but my new finds more than made up for that.
The humongous piece of agatized petrified wood that I found at my new rockhounding spot will be fed to Drogon, my 18 inch slab saw, in an upcoming video! It really paid off to find this new great spot, my haul home of rock finds was definitely one of the best.
Looking to learn about Yellowstone River agates? This is a publication from 1972 by a man named Paul Fry. This was the very first literature I read when I was learning about Montana agates. It is called "Meanderings of a Montana Rockhound" and it is priceless:
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Here is another page with great information on Montana Agates by Jim Landon called "Montana Agate: The Best Catch on the Yellowstone River" :
www.rockngem.com/montana-agat...
For all those asking, I do not sell my rocks. As my supply permits, I do rock trades. So, if you have some nice specimens you think I would like to add to my collection, we can trade via any size flat rate post office box. Or, if you are an artist or have something else you think I would like, that's an option too! Please be patient as I have lots of emails and sometimes miss some. If you are wanting to purchase some Montana rocks, I have listed the Stores below of two fellow Montana Rockhounds KatyDidRocks and Theo Kellison, great friends of mine.
As far as places I rockhound, greater than 90% of the time I utilize PUBLIC fishing access spots on the Yellowstone river. KatyDidRocks has a great book out on all the places us Montana rockhounds like to go on the Lower Yellowstone River:
www.etsy.com/listing/1089523180
While you are there, check out her store! She has some fantastic Montana rocks for purchase.
KatyDidRocks Etsy Store:
www.etsy.com/shop/KatyDidRock...
Also, if you follow Theo Kellison on TH-cam, another fantastic Montana Rockhound, he has an Etsy Store with rocks for sale as well:
www.etsy.com/shop/SticksandSt...
Thanks for following and Rock On!
Best of luck on all your hounding adventures.
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How do I know I've watched a lot of these videos? My first thought at 4:28 "Ooh, she put new batteries in her sprayer."
Oh my gosh I was just laughing so hard at your comment, the best!
Where can I find one of battery powered sprayer? I'm all about the fore arm workout. But I've been seeing these power sprayers on multiple channels. Maybe it's time for an upgrade.
@@matthewkite5110 so, there are 2 options: a battery powered and a USB water spray bottle. Both have pros and cons. The battery powered one goes through a lot of batteries, but it's easy to put a new set in if it dies. The USB one saves on the cost of batteries, but if it dies, you need a power source to recharge it. Both are available on Amazon. You can search battery operated water bottle and it will come right up....
@@MontanaRockMom thank you. I live in Boulder. And am planning a trip over to the Yellowstone next weekend. I am gonna order one asap.
Wtf.. just get a pressure pump sprayer? Batteries is just lazy Ness
That agate at 15:00 and the ginormous agatized pet wood…. WOW!!!!!! In actuality… all the beautiful pieces you hounded were stunning!!!! ❤️
BEAUTIFUL MATERIAL YOU ARE SO BLESSED TO BE CLOSE TO SUCH GREAT HOUNDING
Right! So very blessed!!! I wish I could rockhound like that! I would be the happiest person in the world! I just had to make a huge trip to Michigan just to be able to rockhound on Lake Superior. Couple thousand dollars later 😂😂😂😂
A new spot, WOW! It seemed like every 10 steps you found an amazing rock. All the treasures laid out before you. Your to just pick up and make some amazing things from them all. Loved all the agates, but the jaspers were terrific. (Jaspers are my friends) stay happy, safe and stay healthy. I didn't see him but woof to Chopper.😷⚒🐕
Mega-WOW! This has to be your best one-day haul yet! EVERY single piece was so unique and breathtaking. I would say that your recon was successful, and that you should definitely put a pin in that spot! Awesome video - thanks!!!!
It's my new favorite spot for sure 👌
Absolutely gotta be #TheBestDay.
Such intense blue!
Had to come back and see the agates and that beautiful big piece of wood again. Sure was a good day.
One of my best days Jim! 💛
Love that big piece of wood, just awesome
I can not believe the awesome rocks you are finding in this hunt,just really beautiful stones ! I am watching this on my big screen tv and it only gets better
Thanks Melody- it was a great hunt!
13:23 so Beautiful! But they all are ! Wow!
Very nice and all the Jasper was very colorful.
TSA I'm in love 🥰. I've heard that agates, jasper and chert are similar types of rock. They all can have conchoidal fracture. I think agates can look like a potato 🥔 🤔 skin. You have hawk eye for beauties 😍! New spot is a win!!
Well. Those are some mighty fine finds!! I’m watching on a big HD flatscreen and some of those are fantastic! Great stuff!
Yay! Finally, you brought a rock pick along instead of trying to dig those outstanding agates and jaspers out with your fingernails!
That first one, WOW
Wow, wow, wow. Maybe get a hand held little red laser, put it up to the side of the rock & find the fractures. Did that since 1982…
It looks like your recon for a new rockhounding spot really paid off. I loved all of those beautiful rocks. Thanks for the adventure!
That Jasper at 7:30 is amazing looking forward to seeing the slabs from that one!
It's pretty cool right! I hadn't seen one like that before.
Beautiful!! That huge piece of petrified wood was amazing. 😺
Yeah, nature is the best designer!! Thank`s for a lovely tour. WOW, Jasp, I gasp:-)
now that’s what i would call a successful recon! drogon gonna get fed! omnomnomnom! you truly do find some amazing pieces. thanks for sharing your adventures!
Sure love them all! Thank you!
Today stone is very good 👍
Jasper OMG.......GOD painted it.......
UNBELIEVABLE.....TO MUCH🤗
Beautiful rocks
I that Jasper is UNBELIEVABLE!
That jasp/agate at 7:22 was AMAZING!!! Looks like you found a new spot with all kinds of cool rocks !!
Keep rockin!!👍😎
I love watching your videos I look forward everyday to finding one of your videos so don't stop keep on rockn
Amazing finds!
I really enjoyed seeing the cleaned, close ups at the end!
I'm so jealous! All those beautiful rocks. I can't even pick one that would be a favorite. But at 9:36? The jasper moss white is a magnificent rock. I definitely will be going to Yellowstone river next summer. No rock hunting for me this last summer I had back surgery. Have missed looking for rocks.
MRM, you just might have found your spot of the year. The variety of rocks & colours o& those pieces is sensational, what an awesome location.
Keep Safe & Keep Rockin
Cool finds!
Not too bad for a new spot, lol, jk beyond amazing! This spot is one of the best. Outstanding finds Kim. Thanks for the inspiration!
(12:50) That blue Montana agate with the black dendritic lines… 🤯
Your new spot looks like a great one! Lots of beautiful rocks! Those banded agates were amazing!
Nice treasures. The one at 2:56 I'd call an orbicular jasper maybe (spherulitic jasper). I would take a chance on tumbling that. Such amazing Montana agates with dendrites! Thanks for sharing.
That's gotta be one of my favorite types of jasper for sure Doug.
Why, what will tumbling do to it?
@@MajorBinkss Hello Major, if it is an orbicular jasper or "poppy" jasper sometimes tumbling brings out the orbs better. This one has different colors and if tumbling works away the outer layer then it might be really nice. I was thinking tumbling this one might really reveal the orbs, then again it might not. I've had some that were pretty amazing and after tumbling they became spectacular. Thanks.
9:15 TUMBLE IT! 😍
Awesome finds,what a great day of rock hounding!❤️
New spot found by boat?
Omg I just saw the 23 pounder!!! GRAND SLAM 🙌
😵😵😵😵😵
Very nice agate/jasper/wood finds!
Absolutely beautiful finds Kim. Montana is definitely on my bucket list for places to visit and go rockhounding. Plus I would love to meet all my favorite Montana TH-cam rockhounders too some day. Thanks for sharing.
You always find the most amazing rocks❤️ Hope you are fully recovered from your accident. Have a great week ahead.😊
I new spot payed off. Definitely found different material 🤩 I'll have to look for your cutting video on these rocks.
That is a sweet spot. Great finds❤❤
amazing finds!!! we are so lucky to live here in Montana
I love the Treasure State Agates!!
Oh wow the jaspagate u had with all the little eyes was soo cool just before u had that fade to the ginormus piece of pet wood. Omg blew my mind. And the brachiated jasper in your show and tell ar the end wow. And the one agate that u found with all the banding that was all brownish yellow when i saw the whitish blobs sticking out. Thought wow looks like a dino poop with prehistoric corn. Lol sorry. Had to say it. Loved the video
Probably my best hounding day so far!
That place is worth a repeat visit or a few dozen times. I was like wow, wow, wow.... On every rock.
Kim nice haul beautiful agates and jasper.
I would say you found a great new place.. some of those colors are Fabulous...
Wow Kim! This has to be one of your best videos in quite a while. What an amazing location! I must say though, I think there was one other thing missing from the video. His name is Chop, Chop, Chopper. 🐶 Rock on indeed!
Wow!!!!! Great finds!!! Thanks!!!
Salut,
You have a great channel here.... this is the variety of content I enjoy most!
....I am an incurable rock-in-the pocket-person.... and I see you are too! Really nice stones you find, by the bucket-load, at that! We don't usually find them like that in Indiana!
Congratulations for the hunt and the movie! Cheers and Blessings.... I am a recent subscriber!
Welcome to my channel! I can never have enough pockets for my rocks...I will be a life-long rock 🪨 addict!
Your petrified wood is different. nice and round. River worn. Our is jagged and I probably don't live from from you. Buffalo Wyoming. I find it interesting.
Hello there! In a video I watched from Theo Kellison, he recommended to visit your site! Wow 🤩
Do you find amazing rocks ❣️❣️❣️ Thanks to Theo🙏
Sincerely, Mrs. Ott (Grandma’s Shed)
Awe, thank you Mrs. Ott
I know the SNOW is coming.....😍😘🤣😄🙃😆🤗
thanks for taking us on your adventures :) rock on!
Wow
You send CHILLS all over me....
MRM sets out to FIND NEW HOTSPOT she means it, FINDS IT!👏 👏👏 👏👏 👏👏 👏👏 👏
💖💜💛 💚💙 💝 LOVE those ROCKS.....MRMomma FINDS them....a MAGNET......lucious, gorgeous, colorful, designer pieces ✨✨✨TREASURES.....✨✨✨✨
SNAP of her FINGERS.......👊POW!🌠🌟⭐✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Real living ROCK😇 GODDESS
👍GETS RESULTS🤡
Boom 💥 💪💪💪I ❤ you !!!
Somehow you find the most beautiful rocks in Montana 🤩
They speak to me...I listen. 😊
Love your content!
Thank you 🥰
ESPETACULAR!!!
Awesome, those are so pretty.
You find the most amazing stuff! Wow! 🤩
Thanks Julie
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That one at 10:17 is so cool!
I've ever found anything like that one before! It has so much character.
3/4 WAY through......EPIC, EPIC DAY!😍🤣🙃🤗😆GO WOMAN GO!
MRMomma HAS THE POWER!
Poppin out if ground for you ....
Wanna GO HOME with YOU......
Waiting just for you OMG 🙆😘🤣 🤗🙃🤣😀🙋💟
HOPE YOU GOT THE MONSTER PETRIFIED WOOD home for DROGON........
🌬️SNOW🌠🌟⭐🌦️🌧️🌨️SOON!
🤗🤣🙃😄😍😘
That was great!! Montana is definitely on my bucket list!!
Same. Upcoming trip is in the works now!
At 3:18, if that fortification agate was found in South Dakota, it would classified as a Fairburn.
Rodney, isn't it gorgeous? It's one of my absolute favorites.
9:17
Jasp agates like that have to be one of my favorites. Just so cool
Edit: and that agatized wood chunk… wow! I only have one piece similar to that. Incredible find
One of my top favorite finds of all time!
That was amazing! I’m glad you healed so well to be back out rockhounding!
😻 painted jasper was groovy 🙌 I want to know what @theokellison thinks of that agatized coral 🙀
Do you have a shop that you sell some of your rocks or slabs you cut. I see so many beauties that I would love to possibly own.
When I saw that jasp-agate at around 9:00, I yelled out something akin to "sacred feces". One of the most beautiful rocks I have ever seen.Call the bizarre one after it "Jasp-Agate Moon". The big wood was spectacular.... none better in Arizona. It is going to be torture trying to figure how to cut each on since each has so many choices. Since I will never collect again, I give away all of my old secret sites, BUT DON'T TELL A SOUL ABOUT THIS SPOT. That place is what old decrepit rockheads run across only a few times in a life: A Miracle Mineral Mound.
Thank you
23.4lbs, how did you get it home? I carried 2 matates a 1/2 mile through the desert weighing approximately 60lbs. Passed 2 coyotes at there den not 40ft away from me. I just talked my way passed them reminding them I had rocks lol. They said, "rock on my friend". Great hunt, beautiful agates and keep that location under your hat.
It was a tough haul, especially with everything in my pack, but I just kept on thinking....Drogon is going to LOVE this! 🐲🐲🐲
@@MontanaRockMom that is dedication my friend. You would have lost sleep if you hadn't.
Dendrites are manganese inclusions that seeped into cracks and vugs in the stone in one stage of it's formation and the element manganese can also be responsible for the coloration in quartz type stones. Jaspers and petrified wood for examples. You certainly have no shortage of brecciated jasper. It must have been an interesting geological history that made those. Whole to broken up then resolidified with a massive quartz intrusion.
Dont tell anyone else where that spot is or is will be overrun. THose rocks are fantastic!
I found an agate and jasper and i like cristals
5:22 that has to be some kind of fossil? I just cant see how something like that would form if it werent a piece of agatized coral or something. just wild! So many rocks, its like you could of made 5 different videos with this footage there were so many! this is just crazy!!!
10:19 looks like a stromatalite! nice!!
You could fit Chopper with saddle bags to carry your agates! Or pull a wagon?
A wagon sounds nice 😁
bring a broom to wash the dirt off the rocks the water .
Did Drogon get the giant beautiful petrified wood piece? My favorite rock took me 2.5yrs to get home lol🥰👍🎉🌄🌱🍀
In fact, I just published a cutting video on that giant beast of a chunk of wood!
What was it that took you 2.5 yrs to get home...I want to know!
@@MontanaRockMom a boulder i found hiking 20+yrs ago. I had to roll it through a narrow creek bed a few ft. at a time. Sprained and ankle months went by. Hurt my shoulders month went by😂.. sprained my wrist same. When I finally had it about 10ft from the road I pulled over on my paper route and introduced myself. He was almost always up in the wee hrs. and though we'd never met I'd been seeing him in his garage un the middle of the night. He was big and very strong and was happy to take a drive and help me bring my rock home🙏 I was always afraid that someone would steal it from the front yard but here it is 20 something years later and it's still right where he put it LOL. I love your videos because I love how you get so excited about rocks, the internet has been a wonderful thing with regard to finding Kindred Souls so rock on lovely Lady🎉Also. Again, just thinking about your sweet boy answering you with such tenderness and concern in the recent ornament making video, makes me smile everytime I think of it🥰
I'll have to make a short video of the aforementioned rock.
When I do, I'll post a link and then would be delighted if You could tell me what it is.🙏🍀🌱🌄🙂
@kellym.9453 I can 💯% identify with you on the boulder rolling...injuries...boulder rolling...injuries....oh but the glory of having it there for decades and the memories of all that boulder rolling....🥰🤠
@@MontanaRockMom 😊❣️🌟💚
new to rock hounding, can you find these rock in the whole state or only in certain areas .
These tend to be more abundant in the Eastern part of the state in gravel beds
Is there any place in western mt to find flint or obsidian? Wasn’t to start Flint knapping?
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Those are some amazing finds!I do have a question however, how come sometimes you say fortification banding and other times you say just banding? It doesn’t take much for me to get confused lol Is There a difference?
I'm right there with ya, and there are water lines too.
@@gems2jewels I’m glad someone else understands lol :)
Sorry for the confusion friends. Fortification banding generally refers to winding banding all around a pocket/void or bands/stripes that repeat (concentric banding) that make it look like the walls around a fortress (like in a fairburn agate). The bands follow the shape of the cavity. Sometimes I may just say "banding" because "fortification banding" is such a long phrase. Agate is made in a layering process, so most agate has banding in all different shapes and sizes and amounts, except of course Montana Agate, which may be dendritic without obvious bands. Waterline agates are formed when the layering happens slowly over time, usually from one end, where it fills up stacking on top of each other. Therefore, the banding is straight and parallel. Hope this helps!
@@MontanaRockMom totally help!!! Makes sense! Thank you for that! And the explanation how water lines are formed. Very cool! I’m seriously addicted to agates. Lol another question for ya. How much longer are y’all able to rockhound on the Yellowstone river before winter comes? I’m planning on making a trip out there. It’s in the bucket list. Lol not sure if I would wait til next year or if I can come in like a month? I would be grateful for any info! Thank you!!! ❤️🙏
@@rockersfromaz3001 last year we hardly had any snow, so I rockhounded throughout the entire winter. You can rockhound as long as we don't get dumped on with snow....which unfortunately is so unpredictable...but often melts quickly
Where is this new spot located?
Did u cut ur hair it looks 😍
I think I'm always changing it, lol!
I am beginning to see why the river is called Yellowstone .
did I miss the big piece of pet wood or did you leave it?
I took it!
@@MontanaRockMom I seen that after I posted the comment