Gemstone Exploration: Kyanite & Garnet Crystals Found!! 

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That's awesome!! Most of my knowledge has really come from going down rabbit hole after rabbit hole trying to understand how each rock came to be. Also questioning the other prospectors and geologists until I drive them crazy haha. The curiosity and learning never ends!!

Thanks!! I'm hoping to make the most of this season, lots of plans in the works!!

Thanks!! I'm really happy with how this video turned out!! I feel like I've come quite a ways in my filmmaking since I've started, still so much to learn though!!🙂

Thanks!! I'm really happy with how this video turned out!!😁

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Thanks!! yea that one boulder surprised me, hopefully there's more where that came from!!🙂

Thanks!! Yea the sifter was just a quick and easy build, it works great and is a very useful tool to have in the field!!

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!

Thanks for sticking around!! I really want to be more consistent this year. Last year was a pretty tough one balancing work, health, and some failed trips due to forest fires. I've made some changes and I think this year is going to be great!!

Thanks!! I'm hoping to use that sifter a lot more this year, it's such a great technique!!😁

I think I'll have to give that a try!! I used to do some bottle digging so I have some pretty cool antique bottles I can do that with!!🙂

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Thanks!! The kyanite was crystalized all through that boulder, and the way the crystals are orientated almost makes it look like it was formed as a knot in the schist!! Most of it was just grey kyanite but it seems the inside had some more iron concentrated to give it that nice deep blue color!!

Thanks!! I've been thinking about changing up my videos a bit and mixing in some vlogging. It'd be nice to share a bit more of what i get up to and how I'm able to get out prospecting as much as i do. If I could share some of the adventures with less finds or just doing some different things I do I'd be able to upload so much more often!! Its really hard to find new spots with something cool in each video😅 The chisel I use is a Stanley fat max chisel, the yellow handle really helps make sure I don't lose it and the hand guard holds up really well!! really any stone chisel works good but these are what my local hardware store had when i first started and it's worked well for me ever since🙂

⁠@@NWRockExplorerNot finding the jackpot is just as much a part of the adventure as actually finding something great. In my opinion you could still make great content by showing those trips. It's still a teaching experience and it still involves a lot of exploring. As far as I understand you also cut and polish some of your finds. Making videos where you show the process and results would also be great content. And by all means, try the Vlog thing. 😁 And thanks for the reply on the chisels. I actually think my local hardware store sells Stanley chisels, so I might buy one. 🙂

Thank you so much!! I will try my best to get some home decor items in the shop, I have some pretty cool ideas!! I'll get your order packaged up and sent out as soon as possible!! I think that larger chunk of kyanite I found in this video could be cab grade and cut to be set into a piece of jewelry. If I wanted to make jewelry with raw kyanite I'll need to find some larger loose crystals. Some of the smaller garnets could work in jewelry but I still have to work on some good designs to complement them 🙂

@@NWRockExplorer Thank you! 😊

I love his jewelry too. 🙂What type of home decor do you think you'd like?

@@kimberleykimberley2465 I kind of have in my mind something like a sun catcher made with stones that let light through, maybe dangling from a piece of driftwood. Also strands of hanging stones, little jars of stones....

@@gwynnfarrell1856 That would be so pretty. Great idea.

Thanks!! When I'm searching for new spots for quartz I'll look at geological maps briefly but most of the time I just find these sites by exploring on foot. Quartz crystals usually form in pegmatites, hydrothermal veins, amygdales, thunder eggs, nearby coal seams, or sometimes in dolostone like Herkimer diamonds. Quartz can pretty much form anywhere so its hard to say where you should look exactly. Generally I'll start looking around the contact zones between different rock types. In the contact zones there is usually more movement or faulting which could create a breccia or just enough of a space for siliceous fluids to gather during formation to create veins. Pegmatites also like to form on the outskirts of plutons and batholiths sometimes intruding miles into nearby country rock. For amygdales and thunder eggs, look at any volcanic rock, they could be forming in any volcanic rock you just have to be lucky to come across a silicated section of it. For more information I'd check out "QuartzPage.de" It holds everything you'll need to know about quartz🙂

@@NWRockExplorer Thank you for your response! Looking forward to putting this to use :)