Oregon Rocks! Rockhounding Oregon | Best Rockhounding Spots Near Ashland, Oregon 

Greensprings Mountain is one of my favorite spots to rockhound in Southwest Oregon because there is a lot of color and variety. Definitely worth visiting. Enjoy the video!! Oregon Rocks! Rockhounding Oregon | Best Rockhounding Spots Near Ashland, Oregon

GPS Coordinates 42.12453632915471, -122.51681372232099 42.140227649182115, -122.49464349622934 42.233037439434604, -122.5058599386475

I have always wanted to Rockhound that area. Good to know there is some good stuff on the road to Green springs.

10:46 The first thing you should be paying attention to is the traffic!! LoL. Nice video! love how you go into great detail

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

I might be biased but your videos get better all the time! I liked the educational aspect and as always….ohhhhh, pretty rocks!!😃

Wow!! That was crazy...the opal. How interesting but I'm sure disappointing. Was all the blue calcite? No agate? I've been to Ashland a couple times. Fun town. The water is questionable. Lol theres a fountian in town where you can have a sip. 😅 Thanks for sharing the fun video.

This video was great, and I'm so glad you showed the general area you were searching through, as I, too, live in Oregon, and fairly new here (3 years) and the places you visited aren't too far from me, so I'm really looking forward to going to that general area of southern Oregon. I also know what you mean about those dang flies! Geez they are so annoying this year, a bit more than usual. May as well use "Off" or eucalyptus oil for cologne (haha) Thanks so much for sharing the many locations of your adventure. I really enjoy this channel, and I would someday like to see, (perhaps in a future video?) how your "tumblers" came out. Happy hunting~🖐️😎 😊👉⛏️🪣🏞️🌲🌄

I absolutely love your videos. My husband used to bring me things from bituminous coal mines. I didn’t know what they were and you tell me what you find. I have a 3” piece of that blue stone in a matrix of black extremely hard 6” piece. I always thought it might be a huge diamond. Lol I know highly unlikely but a girl can dream.

Great video Rogue 👍🏻

We got the opportunity to hound that general area.I was working a sheet like the fragment that you showed today!Man,I want to go back so bad! Those are lovely blue agates!

Great stuff as always! My son and i are watching you from colombia where we moved for the year. We've been up there twice since your trip where you found that big purple seam a couple years back. Love the darker greys and purple you can find there. Timing is key to that local as you said. Thanks for the remembrance of the valley.

I watched rhis video yesterday, but I've been thinking about why those opals crumbled like that. And my poor brain has no idea, lol. Must have been some sort of water soluble inclusions in there. Really cool pieces of pet wood. You're right, perfect tumblers. I liked that waterline bluish one, too. Cool road cut. You always find the good spots! Great video, buddy!

Sure is weird the way it fell to pieces upon adding water 😮😂 I would love to find some. Thanks for the great video ❤

Thanks!

to me rock pulling is the same as pimpel popping to some others...so satisfying! but when those beautiful pieces of opal disolved in front of my own eyes it felt like someone hit me in the stomack. sooo disapointing! still, i'm very happy you showed us your mistakes. we can all learn from that! as usual a great video....thanks!

Missed a lot of May na will watch over

The blue stuff sure is pretty. Nice of the ground critters to give you treasures. The opal disintegration was truly strange, especially since you were pounding on it and it was falling onto hard surfaces. Could it have had to do with the temperature difference between the opal (hot air temp) and the water (cool)? Pretty doggone disappointing. Thanks for the great rockhounding tips. Fun video!

This material looks EXACTLY like an agate with calcite I found in the gravels of a boat/R.V. parking lot in Eugene. Was killing time looking through the sea of grey rocks while my mom parked the boat, couldn’t believe what was hiding there upon closer inspection. They looked to me like blue “seam agates” with calcite and thin layers of plagioclase (almost labradorite) in layers of mudstone. Wish the lot owner was there, I would have asked him where he got those gravels from.

39:42 your crumble happened because of temp. The water should have been brought to temp or rocks brought to water temp. Yah. That sucks. But it only happens once. If you learn that lesson of course.

Maybe you said it, but what is the host rock? Looks like rhyolite and andesite? I can't tell. Nice blues though!

Any good places between Ashland/Medford to take my daughter to look for rocks/minerals withiut risking getting ran over? 🤣 Shes built quite the little collection. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! Take care!

Hydrophane opal?

Hey I'm down at the Narrows RV Park for a few day going for some Obsidian. Then move to go to the Polka dot mine. will i pass any roads cut worth stopping to look. thank you

GPS cords? I’d love to go check it out

Wish i could post two likes!

This iPhone is a dumb smart dumb phone. Many minutes

In my favorite spot, i could sit down and load up an entire 5 gallon bucket with palm and fist size agates and jasper, without moving my butt. Not too far from there as the crow flies.