Filming and documenting my adventures exploring the mountains of northern BC Canada. I have always been deeply interested in geology and love spending time outdoors on adventures. Thanks for checking out my channel, I hope you enjoy what I have to share!!
You found me, great to hear I'm coming up in searches!! Yea I should really share my channel more on my personal pages but idk haha. I'm still learning lots about making videos, hopefully someday this could become a full time thing🙂
Some really crazy beautiful veiws in this video, your camera work is always so awesome aswell. Where i live in alaska we have alot of the same plant life so it was fun to see that too. Love your videos, you are so informative every step of the way and it always keeps me interested. Keep up the fantastic work, looking forward to seeing your next adventure!
Thanks!! I really enjoy watching videos from youtubers in Alaska too. I actually live right near the panhandle which is why we have such similar terrain, similar geology too!! I've been trying to find some garnets here that are comparable to the Wrangell deposit but i haven't quite found that quality yet. I'll be uploading more soon, glad you like the videos!!😁
@@NWRockExplorer I just looked up the Wrangell deposit and i had no idea we had such quality garnets over on the pan handle! I live on the Kenai peninsula and I've always gone to collect agates on the beach but haven't really even thought about what other stuff we might have around here. I hope you find those high quality garnets in your area soon, it'd be really cool to see that and see what you do with them. I think it's awesome that you do all your own metal work aswell, I'd one day like to do that too, but for now I just really enjoy cabbing. I've got notifications on so I'll definitely be looking forward to your next upload. I wish you the best of luck with your prospecting!
Check that porphyry for magnetism, I have a black piece from the Fraser river roughly that size, and of all the porphyry colours I’ve collected it’s the only way me that is 🫶🏼🤙🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
I haven't been a huge fan in the past either, most thundereggs looked the same to me. There's so many varieties though!! Some can be filled with quartz crystals making them a geode, some can be brightly colored agate, fire opal, and like i showed in this vid some can hold precious opal!! There can be some pretty cool formations in these things if you're in the right spot🙂
Some nice specimens, have you ever found a vein of agate, I suspect it was agate I found while building logging roads in BC, about 300 yards away it surfaced again,I have some samples 3/4 inch thick and 5inch long 2.5 inch wide. I’m no longer in BC.
Awesome!! I have seen some pretty big seams of chalcedony and chalcedonic quartz but the largest agate I've ever found is about 5 lbs, it was part of a giant thunderegg!! Still always on the search for better and better material though😉
@NWRockExplorer watercolor binder is the easiest and least messy to make. You probably already have a good collection of mineral pigments. Any iron oxides will be a super stable option for pigments as well.
It can be elusive but it's out there!! Most areas where I've found it have tons of common opal so if you see lots of common opal your on the right track. It just comes down to the luck of the draw if you'll find it but your odds increase the more your boots are on the ground😉
I'll take a thunder egg over a kinder egg any day lol! That green is so pretty. I love the ones that look like an aerial landscape photo of a green forest with a crystal clear agate lake! Stunning!! 😍
It's probably one of the most rare thundereggs you can find!! I've never seen anyone else post precious opal thundereggs before either, feel so lucky to have found one!!
How cool to find a flash of precious opal inside a thunder egg! What's really neat to see is all the green mineral inside. These eggs are so different from the ones here in Oregon, I really enjoyed seeing the variety in them. It seems like the smaller ones outdid the bigger ones! Thank you for this great video. Your editing was excellent and you gave us plenty of time to see each egg revealed. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks!! Yea i didn't know if people would want to watch a 20 minute vid of me opening rocks, tried to cut out all the empty spaces I could. I still think some different angles while i was cutting the rocks would've been good. I'm super happy with how the thundereggs turned out though, I think there'll be some great landscapes in some of them!! Quite a different variety to most places and the rhyolite itself is quite colorful too!!🙂
Those common opals are such a good finds. Me and my mom have been agate hunting for about a year and a half and we now have a jar full, some of them are so big and clear and we found some pretty good vivid red jaspers! My dream is to find an opal, just one little opal and oh boy I’ll be jumping for joy 😆 BC is such a lovely place to go rock hounding
Thanks!! I try to put as much information as I can in these videos to help people find gemstones in their areas. It doesn't matter where you are there is always something cool to find!!
Wow! Those moonstones and sunstones you found were absolutely gorgeous! I can't wait to see what you make out of those beauties! Your Canadian sunstone and moonstones are so much more beautiful than in any other area! I've never seen that quality of stone, come any other country or province! It will be nice to see more videos from you again! I've always enjoyed your videos and then there was just a huge gap! I'm just glad to see you still making them! I learn so much from you! Glad to see you again and I so look forward to more videos from you❣️
Thanks!! Yea i got really busy with work for a while there so i was kind of burnt out and decided to build up the garden in the backyard during that time haha (vid to come?). I'm finished my work on those projects now and its back to digging!! I'm going to be headed out in a day or two on a couple week long rockhounding trip, i have some awesome sites planned out!! These moonstones are some of the best I've seen dug on RU-vid but there are really also really nice moonstones found in Sri Lanka, Burma, Madagascar, and Tanzania!! Thanks again for sticking it out, I know I can be a little off and on when it comes to making videos. I really want to challenge myself to be more consistent in the coming months😁
@@NWRockExplorer challenge yourself and me and all your fans will be just thrilled! And as long as you put a video out every, say, months? We will watch them and be happy! But weekly would be better! Lol! I don't want you to burn yourself out again! We value you too much! Thanks Liam!
It is pretty cool to see sunstone and moonstone in the same specimens. It's a bit more rare than finding the regular plain orthoclase sunstones, there must be a mix of orthoclase and albite feldspar in order for the moonstone to glow🙂
Such a nice spot out there, and so much area to explore!! I'm really hoping to spend some time hiking up this creek to do some better exploring. I've even seen a piece with a little bit of rainbow lattice in this spot!!
Awesome to see you back at it! Hey, question, can Moonstone be found down here in NW Washington State rivers? I go out a lot but normally look for Jade around here, but there is a ton of other cool rocks down here just not sure what to look for. Thanks for posting your trips!!
Thanks!! Well the best advice I can give if you want to find moonstone is to look for places with lots of feldspar. Generally you'll want to look for granite, diorite, gneiss, or pegmatites. This variety of moonstone is made of a mix of orthoclase and albite feldspar which are some of the most abundant minerals on earth. I'd say as long as your seeing both orthoclase (pink) and albite (white) feldspar, your on the right track😉
I'm so glad I found your channel! I do rockhounding in Nova Scotia. I only started a year ago. It's fun to see what people can find in different parts of the country 😀
That's awesome!! yea I also find it pretty cool to see what people find elsewhere in Canada. I've learnt a lot from watching the rockhounds over in Ontario, seems to be a hot spot for rockhounds out that way. Would be awesome to see more rockhounds in the northern provinces. Would be so cool to do a trip exploring the north at some point!! What kind of minerals are you after out in nova scotia? I've seen some of the nice varieties of chalcedony out that way on the "Rockhounding Life" channel🙂
@@NWRockExplorer "Rockhounding Life" is how I got started! So yeah, I find blue chalcedony nodules, banded and fortification agates, seam agates, jasp-agates, jasper, rhyolites, porphyry, limb casts, amethyst if you're lucky. We have a few very cool fossil beaches too!
Interesting thank you.... What benefits money wise in rock picking how can i start and what basic tools do i need??? 80 yo surrounded by ancient rocks. I spyed a massive black rock peppered with shinny sharfs with 2 thick silver vbands running through it....very 3xcit3d to see your vid pop up...
I wouldn't get into rockhounding for the money, there are far better and easier business ideas out there. The best thing is to do something you really love to do regardless. It is possible to make money on a larger scale but that requires substantial investment. You might be able to recoup your cost if your a hardcore rockhound and have great spots. Basic tools to start would be an Estwing rock hammer, a small sledge hammer, a flat chisel, a backpack, safety glasses, gloves, a first aid kit, and possibly bear spray depending on your area. A GPS or mapbook is handy if your going deep in the backcountry🙂
Thank you so much for your video. It is awesome how you share what you're actually looking at and what to look for. I'm a beginner collector and you're the first youtuber that actually shares knowledge and explains stuff. Thank you! 😊
That's awesome!! I try to share as much as I can as I'm still learning myself. I'd like to go more in depth in the future. Every winter I put a lot of effort into researching so I can put it into practice in the summer. Now Is the time to get some boots on the ground again, I'll be back out exploring soon🙂
