$40,000 Gem Stone Fossil Found.

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After a day hunting Ammonite and Ammolite on the Bow River, my buddy Chris took me to a machine Ammonite mine where they are digging Ammonites worth tens of thousands of dollars out of the hard rock shale. Unfortunately, half way through the day, the mine site was hit with a freak Albertan tornado, forcing us to abandon a Gem Ammolite worth an estimated $40,000 half dug in the pit.
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@steelwheelsminnesota 6 месяцев назад

Mr Hurd my boys have been watching your channel, now all they want to do is go outside and dig in the dirt. I love it, thank you for sharing this.

@samsonian 9 месяцев назад

OK Dan, I came up with some ground rules on whether to get worried or to just press on regardless: 1) If you see houses flying, worrying may be a good cautionary step. 2) If all color drops out of your vision, you may be in trouble. 3) If you see any women with a green face, either walking or flying around with a broom and wearing a pointy hat; spit on her and see if she smokes. 4) If you hear the opening bars to the album ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ by Pink Floyd, tune in and drop out! 😂😂 Cheers! 🖖😎👍

@joshcline8764 9 месяцев назад

Spit on her and see if she smokes. Hahahaha. Nice.

@wrxs1781 9 месяцев назад

Also Kansas is nice this time of year.

@dawndixon402 9 месяцев назад

😁👋👍👍👏👏💕🙏🏻Big time thank you. For sharing these beautiful jems, with us. I am extremely thankful that everyone was able to get to safety. The storm pictures were great. Thank you to everyone who made trip possible. The miners were really nice. I appreciate them letting you take part and make a video. Thank you guys.

@TylerDollarhide 9 месяцев назад

Ammonites are so common here in northeast Texas, though much less pretty looking, that they're often found in gravel roads in the country side. Unfortunately it's been in the 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the past couple of months that I haven't been able to go fossil hunting. I was so jealous at first that not only do northern states and Canada have much better gemstones than Texas, but also ammonites that are so common here. But since it's normally illegal to collect them in Canada, I feel much better that it's pretty much all we have in Texas.

@alexmaddocks7179 9 месяцев назад

Lots to be found in central Texas too, like in the Glen Rose limestone.... but always in poor states of preservation, with no shell (or color) :/

@firstlast-bh6uv 9 месяцев назад

North Carolina is the same way with quarts crystals found in every yard

@battedtomcatnlnl153 9 месяцев назад

Ey. Don't complain. I am Dutch and life In The Netherlands and we have only 1 place for Pyrite and is closed. We have only fossiles here. You can find minerals but you need to go to the big rivers that come from Germany

@tedc7714 9 месяцев назад

We picked up a bunch of amonites in Texas west of Denton on some leased hunting property. They were complete but nothing special in them. They were coming out of a clay bank. Must have been a mass extinction some time way wayback In time..

@_TONY_Az 9 месяцев назад

Good stuff Dan your doing such a wonderful job bringing Canada's gems out to the public ty

@susanturcotte3176 9 месяцев назад

My apologies everyone, for not getting to see the very end of the premiere and say goodbye! Family calls and arrivals for Tim's funeral started. Thank you for all the support and prayers! Dan, I just watched the video again and saw your tornado pics! That was a really close cloud! So glad you are safe and could share an awesome day finding brilliant pieces! The Hurd Herd loves you! Blessings from Alabama ❤️

@shanelocke237 9 месяцев назад

Very well said champ

@OverMyDadBody 8 месяцев назад

My condolences. No need to apologize.

@PDLM1221 9 месяцев назад

I find this amazing really cool neat way of finding Gemstones and fossils. Very interesting ! Thanks Dan for being this to us!

@caseypayton6259 9 месяцев назад

Just loving this series of Ammolite videos!

@beansdad70 9 месяцев назад

I’ve always been fascinated by and loved ammonite fossils, but these that have all of that color! That is some beautiful gemstone. My small piece is en-route! Great experience Dan, thank you!

@ejais 9 месяцев назад

interesting laws around the legalities of digging for ammonites in Alberta. A lot of interpretations about being a custodian and who is able to sell them due to fact they are recognized as a protected gem in Alberta. I saw an interesting story about a blood tribe member and his journey into being a ammonite prospector on the Lethbridge news. Quite the process to uncover the beauty in this gem.

@jeremypincock323 9 месяцев назад

I Love to watch your videos so entertaining and people can learn a lot because you explain the processes so well thank you

@darrellbrixey5341 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this awesome content Dan

@AmyBG88 9 месяцев назад

So cool!!! Love this one. Thanks, Dan!

@markpashia7067 9 месяцев назад

That sure looks like the area around Drumheller. Was there to see the Hoodoos in 2017 and visited some old coal mine tourist traps as well. Beautiful country. Amazing to see such a rift in the wide open plains like that.

@josephcormier5974 9 месяцев назад

Just beautiful Dan thanks for a great video six stars brother

@jayarnett4157 9 месяцев назад

Super interesting Dan. Great video. TYVM

@sharynhay4872 9 месяцев назад

This was really interesting. I never heard of that stone. Keep the variety coming!

@brent5832 9 месяцев назад

Hey, they didn’t have hard hats on at all. 😂

@mattb8083 9 месяцев назад

You obviously didn't look at that grey hat closely. Derp.

@jchrizzy6995 9 месяцев назад

When in alberta do as the albertans do

@putteslaintxtbks5166 9 месяцев назад

They have their hard heads on their shoulders and their safety shirts on!

@UmmmmmmmWhat 9 месяцев назад

There are ballcap style hardhats that are ansi rated and certified and osha approved now... look closely, you can see the plates under the fabric. They are much more comfortable than a traditional hardhat and work fine.

@JamesWellsIndiana 9 месяцев назад

If you look closely, you can see they are wearing something like SKULLERZ 8945 Universal Bump Cap Insert A lightweight, impact-resistant shell that inserts into any baseball cap, hat or other headwear for additional head protection. It helps protect against bumps, scrapes, bruises and other minor head injuries. Made of lightweight, durable polypropylene and designed with maximum ventilation to provide continuous airflow for breathability without compromised protection. An interior foam pad reduces impact but does not absorb odors

@AJShiningThreads 9 месяцев назад

Wow! ❤❤❤ what a fantastic series!

@zxcpiggy 9 месяцев назад

this might be my dream job because of watching this channel I found quarts and smokey quarts a while ago i was never into rocks but finding it while just going out in the woods for a walk really got me hooked on it me and my buddies sat their along the creek digging for hours lots of days this summer wonder what else i can find🤔🤔

@maryglo1 9 месяцев назад

Fascinating! Thank you! Well done.

@ne1sail 5 месяцев назад

Very interesting and informative. Thank you.

@lifewithankylosingspondylitis 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for these videos. I see snippets of where they go but not the cool footage of all this. I am a FB friend of Chris and I am from Ontario Canada and I have been a silver cove customer ordering from silver cove for about 5 years. Love seeing this more detailed and how it's done! Nice to randomly find your channel

@Brian_the_Rockhound 9 месяцев назад

I love yur videos bro. You always find amazing stuff. The colors on these are insane

@seankearney2592 9 месяцев назад

Hi Dan Hope you and your Family are Safe...Best of Luck were praying for you all here in Ireland...

@ludwigvanzappa9548 9 месяцев назад

Fascinating! Thank you!

@Merojewelleryworkshop 9 месяцев назад

Good job man keep it up 👍

@lifestooshort44 9 месяцев назад

Very cool! I run an ammolite mine in southern Alberta also...our setup is a bit larger than this one though. Very cool to see ammolite on the bow River banks though!!

@valiantwarrior4517 9 месяцев назад

So beautiful. I wish I could afford even a small pendant of ammolite. It’s amazing that ammonites fossilize with this material.

@Kate-xe3wd 9 месяцев назад

I like your intro tune. These treasures are gorgeous. I never knew Ammolytes were so precious. I've seen some in Florida but they were white. I like the colored ones.

@beforethunder4987 9 месяцев назад

Cool video! That torrential downpour looks like Tennessee. Small fast moving storms that pack a punch. See people pulled off the side of the road a lot here. Loved the video!

@gilbertmelara Месяц назад

What up Dan thank you for this new video wow is incredible that they are so many beautiful hen fossils in that wall 👍

@dustinfindsrocks 9 месяцев назад

Ammolite is an absolutely beautiful and fascinating gemstone. One of my favorites

@EdWolfram 9 месяцев назад

Opal filled shells would also be biological gems as well as some of the wood opal can be gem.

@Travluminatii 9 месяцев назад

This is the only natural source of ammolite tho

@Danhurd 9 месяцев назад

There is only one "Organic Gemstone" classified as precious. Here is an article to read. geology.com/gemstones/organic-gemstones/ (pearl is now considered Semi Precious, and Opal is a mineral, not organic)

@EdWolfram 9 месяцев назад

@@Danhurd Thanks for the info sir. I would have guessed since the ammonite is silica replacement of a sea creature and opal shells are the same exact process they would be classified the same. Science is a fickle practice. Is it still Part of the remaining shell that has color and not a silicon replacement?

@jameswelch1054 9 месяцев назад

I love the ammolite videos. I know they are very soft, and would like to see how they are hardened to make gems?

@davidsolomonii5618 9 месяцев назад

You have a Good Eye Dan nice prospecting Dan

@stephsexoticpets 9 месяцев назад

TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT! I wanted to yell "DAN RUN!!!" while you were doing your outro lol! SUCH BEAUTIFUL TREASURE

@crystaldragon471 9 месяцев назад

Hey Dan, just curious if you've heard of ammolite in Utah? I operated a mine where we find prionocyclus wyomingensis up to 8 feet in diameter and beautiful aragonite layers which are absolutely cabochon quality (not just doublet or triplet material). I have such a specimen for sale at Love Rocks Gift Shop in Manti, Utah right now, but it is a near- surface find (about 5 feet deep), so the quality is lesser, but still spectacular. What I really wanted to know is if the oil shale in Alberta is also Mancos shale? It's all part of the Great Western Seaway, so it's all part of the same Cretaceous period aquatic deposit stretching across North America.

@ayottend 9 месяцев назад

Organic gems include Pearl, one of the classic precious gems. That, and turquoise are the two gems that can rank up with diamond, corundum, and beryl

@RICDirector 9 месяцев назад

Dont forget topaz. The fire even in clear colorless stone is seriously impressive.

@maineiacts 9 месяцев назад

Hi Dan and Folks affected by the latest Wildfires around Kelowna/ Okanagan....Prayers and Safety Blessings offered up!!! Thinking of you folks !!!😘🙋‍♀️💚- Mindi Iowa,U.S.🇺🇸🇨🇦 Going to be quite hit the next few days down here in the upper Midwest and South..Craaazy Weather.. Somehow, hope the hurrican/ tropical storm system near Calf.makes rain for you folks in B.C., Alb,/ Id.,Mt..Hugs!!

@d.andysprospecting 9 месяцев назад

Incredible! Thanks for sharing Dan

@JnVrockhounding 9 месяцев назад

Awesome video Dan

@northernerinnc3179 9 месяцев назад

Pics at the end looked like you WERE in Kansas, Toto! Amazing how much those stones/gems go for!

@scottishwifie14 9 месяцев назад

Ammolites are amazing I love the colours remind me of opal, I do have opal shells and also an Ammonite fossil which has a thin layer of iron pyrite’s my sister found NE England.

@stevenwood2176 9 месяцев назад

Hope a pt 2

@cliffordolive1 8 месяцев назад

Beautiful 😮

@billymitchem5256 9 месяцев назад

Great job 👏

@shanna74 9 месяцев назад

Awesome content love it

@georgeconnon7272 9 месяцев назад

Beautiful!

@Pitbull.Prospecting 9 месяцев назад

Crazy storm Dan

@IAMTHATIAM01 3 месяца назад

you guys are awesome!

@lutherwalker9371 9 месяцев назад

Love your show, now I know what I have seen before 👍🏿thanks. Also I was wondering if you have heard anything about Andy .

@slimwantedman6694 9 месяцев назад

Good morning from Southeast South Dakota

@rebeccavigil8445 8 месяцев назад

What is the white iridescent shell that sometimes is found from baculites considered?

@triple_A_rockhound 9 месяцев назад

Hella cool And yikes on that twister Nice see another friend of mine on your channel 👍

@bobweiss9138 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this with us Dan

@rintintinification 9 месяцев назад

Great vdeo Dan

@Theeggman710 9 месяцев назад

That area is so pretty

@rebeccavigil8445 8 месяцев назад

Amazing video, Dan! What kind of glue and accelerator?

@christinemartin7065 3 месяца назад

Friggin gorgeous fossils! Super interesting how you mind the gem

@samGold27 7 месяцев назад

Hi how are u , a question plz how to use or from where I can get the satellite site to check if my land has gold or anything ???

@williamcovey2330 9 месяцев назад

Hoping you and your families are ok, the wild fires look horrible 🙁

@glennwoods2462 9 месяцев назад

Hope you and your family are safe from the wildfire.... Sounds really scary.... Take care and wishing you the best..... ✅✅👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@valiantwarrior4517 9 месяцев назад

Those gentlemen are good at their job.

@mragatetv 9 месяцев назад

good find ammonite❤

@iinezlee6534 9 месяцев назад

🙋ello Dan Thank You!

@GalvestonGuy 9 месяцев назад

Very cool!

@robertglesener 9 месяцев назад

That green sky is a warning for tornadoes! It was close.

@Cohowarren 9 месяцев назад

Shale is fun to look thru.

@anthonymichaelwilson8401 6 месяцев назад

Such an exciting guy to watch

@bismargoldmining 9 месяцев назад

wow amazing my friend, very good video my friend,, thank you for sharing the video my friend. greetings one hobby.🤝💪👍🇮🇩

@fish1999onBass 8 месяцев назад

*To bad the storm came, great ammonite finds*

@ToniM-qr7zo 9 месяцев назад

I have a 6 in ammonite fossil from a flea market and I wonder if it was professionally cleaned if it would shine inside like that 😮❤

@user-wq5rh9cn4e 5 месяцев назад

Interesting and educational, things like coal, how to spot etc.... Thank you for sharing and educating. Thumbs up 👍

@SHGemstone 7 месяцев назад

Magnificent play of color 😍

@WhiteIndoraptor 9 месяцев назад

Be safe Dan

@1944chevytruck 9 месяцев назад

HOLY CRAP!

@robertsnearly3823 9 месяцев назад

There at the end, I heard a voice in my head that sounded like a well loved Spy. He said, It missed em' by THAT much! 😊

@debcamp2359 9 месяцев назад

Awesome!

@NoName-kt4di Месяц назад

How do you clean them?

@jaratt85 9 месяцев назад

I wonder if that stuff fluoresces under shortwave UV like opal does.. if so a noodling machine would be very useful for them to get all the pieces.. (a blacklight room with a conveyor and trommel.. the trommel drops the material onto the conveyor after knocking off the dirt) It amazes me how the values are so much less for that than real opal, especially black opal. A $40k black opal is only the size of the end of your finger, smaller or slightly larger depending on color, pattern and flash.

@jkaustok 9 месяцев назад

One of the coolest double whammies of geology

@mragatetv22 9 месяцев назад

goog luck to find gemstone

@batuakik9246 9 месяцев назад

Waw....... Begitu menakjubkan.... Batu indah telah di temukan... Ssngat menyenangkan

@swiggins4209 9 месяцев назад

I have found lots of these in the northern end of the province, unfortunately the ammolite is incredibly thin

@user-hm1uv3pv7t 9 месяцев назад

Awesome

@sharonpuddick7378 9 месяцев назад

very good

@DR_SOLO 9 месяцев назад

Good morning from the hottest recorded temp in the USA, Nevada.

@amandak.4246 8 дней назад

this makes me way more impressed by the intact, undamaged ammolites i've seen before. seems hard to mine them with no damage

@glennwoods2462 9 месяцев назад

Very cool video, than you... 👍

@vonBelfry 8 месяцев назад

I can tell my question will be answered with a resounding "no" because all of this is forming in shale, but were there any stories of them getting a full, intact ammonite that didn't need to be pieced together?

@2dbuy 9 месяцев назад

I read somewhere ammolite only occurs in alberta canada. Shale is found all over the place and so are ammonites fossils what was so special about the conditions in Alberta that made ammolite only form there?

@rebeccavigil8445 8 месяцев назад

I've found ammolite in Colorado

@TheUncleRuckus 9 месяцев назад

If you get super glue on fingers or wherever don't use harsh chemicals to try and remove it, just use Sandpaper, Emory Cloth or a Nail File to sand it off. Removing it that way won't harm the skin. 👍👍

@reliantbatteries7196 9 месяцев назад

Good morning from Utah usa

@MarsG0Dofw4r_ 4 месяца назад

Hard heads under those hats! 😊 You got one on uder your hat Dan?

@gouraviarts5931 9 месяцев назад

Good sir g

@Iceman3385 9 месяцев назад

Good morning from idaho usa

@markwentz8332 9 месяцев назад

Dan Hurd Storm Chasing!

@lightsoutisay 9 месяцев назад

question: would Ammolite be considered a form of opal, since some opals come from fossilized shells of creatures?

@DrachenGothik666 9 месяцев назад

Nope. The colours from Ammolite & Ammonite from the nacre, the shell the animal makes for itself. Opal is a mineralization process that occurs with a silica solution in association with water. they both produce simial colours, but the process are very different.