I'm 75 now and my left thumb is very arthritic from missing the chisel and hitting the thumb many times while mineral collecting. I strongly suggest that you get a chisel with a plastic guard on it to protect your thumb. Nice find, by the way.
I am in awe at how respectful you are to leave behind those awesome rocks! Bravo I salute you for the refreshing trait of not needing to friggin OWN all that you encounter. Blessings to you and yours🙏🏻🦋
I agree I know we have done that in the past and some people have given us a hard time about it, I've even shared locations with people that I know have the same values as I.
I've never seen this rock before, how beautiful. I was nervous when you chipped off the ends but the split is stunning!! Do you slab this rock then or do you just chip along the piece and the it cuts naturally? You wouldn't need to polish it either just a good clean. Great video, thank you.
@@jessegillmer8062 Hello,I've found it best to go hunt after a good rain storm. It's very difficult to overlook anything with colors that usually reside within these stones,purple black white orange even red,Best of luck to you,I hope you pick up some beauties. PS My best advice is to pick up everything and don't be afraid to dig!
That is some stunningly beautiful rock! Agate, opal? Wondering what the total amount of time involved spent in mining that little section. From the ending it sort of looked like "Catch and Release" rock hunting.
Hi sir I really enjoy nature and rock hounding. We should go rock hounding together. Those rocks are amazing. I can make you a sculpture out of those rocks
Hahahaha, I saw "Owyhee" and thought you meant Hawai'i (olde English)! Saw the silicates in the thumbnail, and thought "Where the heck did you find agate on a volcanic island?!" Sweet find though, all the agate around here (vein agate anyway) is pink-brown, some vuggy with quartz or calcite (occasionally cacoxenite) crystals inside. Not much in the way of your soft (color), translucent blue. You need a bigger bar to pry them whole boulders out my friend! Then a bigger hammer (I use a 12lb sledge) to crack 'em open in one shot!
Surely this amount is a relatively unusual find! So that is what one does when they find more than they can carry out! Afake spoils pile marks the spot . . . OR NOT.
Too bad you couldn’t have taken this beauty out without busting it up in a zillion pieces. Probably would have needed a wheelbarrow to haul it out, though. Thanks for sharing.
There is a place here in Washington where people dig out dirt from under trees - yes, living trees - and they don't replace any dirt. I hate seeing it. They are digging for crystals.
so you are native american and being so the government wont stop you from taking the rock? send me some and a guy in Texas named Jackcrafty@ youtube some and you will get some fine arrowheads back.
Thirteen years ago I realized the earth wasn't brown and grey. I've been dreaming of unearthing treasure stones ever since. Some day I hope to have an experience like this. Thanks for sharing.
I wish I lived someplace where I could find this stuff. I went on a trip to Michigan a few years ago, stayed on a smaller lake for 10 days you couldn't get me out of the water, I kept digging in and finding horn coral, and little bits of unidentifiable beasties, but I was in a zone. I couldn't get enough. XD. I was looking for a Petoskey stone but never found one. Found a clam though. I was possessed.
You are wonderful! The act of filling up with sand and sand without bringing up minerals is worthy of praise. I think that God of Nature will surely be pleased.
Blue Opal - a " new kind " of pale sky - blue , a type opal discovered by the white man about 15 years ago, he called it : " Owyhee." Native Americans might have used it, think , but we are not quite sure about that yet. Found near hot springs they say, where they used to hang out. Very spiritual stone. Calming and a soft, just a nice Gentle Energy Flow . A Beautiful stone , and it changes colour ,a bit , when out of the ground to a darker blue shade, they say. A Powerful energy that - can open many Doorways ! Grounding and Unique. Can be used in many ways.
Wowzer amazing stones. Makes me a bit home sick. Till I remember why I came south. So I wouldn't fall down in the snow anymore. Grats on finding such beauties.
I see you haven’t gotten a response yet so I’ll help. It’s a cryptocrystalline quartz that in this case has inclusions of what look like hematite. It comes from a silicate solutions filling the holes and bugs in rocks and hardening overtime. Material with little inclusions are called chalcedony and if it has lines ar plumes like these its agate. Stuff that doesn’t allow light thru is jasper, but all three are cryptocrystalline quartz.
You own are at covering too! Why did it😐? In my country we have many beautiful stones but not of this. I like this sky blue agate that is only at west of North America (Are you in this page yet?)
Dang, I know this is old but I would love to find a spot like this to take my mom and dad, they aren't super mobil, and I would love to have them find some natural "Treasures" before they cant travel anymore.
Not sure where you live but Glass Buttes in Oregon is a good place to find obsidian. Decent smaller pieces can be found without going too far off the highway. The best dig sites are a bit tougher to get to, though. Also note that Glass Buttes is about 50 miles from the nearest city.
I love to hunt for rocks and other nice rocks. I would love to know of where I could find some of what you found. I am not looking to raid the area, but to travel with my family and collect some good pieces. I have been given some blue opal from Owyhee still encased in the shell of a thunderegg. However, we would love to take a trip to Owyhee to collect some for ourselves. Would you be willing to share some directions to where we might collect some and or some of the material you are showing in this video? Thanks for sharing.
Tracy U Same here! We were out at Owyhee today, and are armature rockhounds, but enthusiastic none-the-less. Anyways, I am trying to find some sort of pointer on good spots to dig out there.
+Breonna Van Patten We found a place and got some blue opal, however it was on private land and I am unable to state the location out of respect for the owner and the problems with pillaging and claim jumping that had happened in the past from others divulging the location. However, I can say that it is near Three Fingers Butte. Please respect claims and check with the local claims offices to ensure you are trespassing and following the rules.
+John Jacquez We found a place and got some blue opal, however it was on private land and I am unable to state the location out of respect for the owner and the pillaging and claim jumping that had happened in the past from others divulging the location. However, I can say that it is near Three Fingers Butte. Please respect claims and check with the local claims offices to ensure you are trespassing and following the rules.
Wow! Some comments call those gorgeous boulders opal, some jasper, but I live in Canada and your goodies are not familiar to me. What is that type of rock?
Actually, that stone will have the most value when it is slabbed and then cut into cabochons, so knapping one end of it like that to see the quality of the material inside is normal. Especially when there is so much material. If it were crystalline or some rare formation, he wouldn't be handling it that way of course, but for massive material like that it usually doesn't have nearly as much value as an intact boulder as it does cut into jewelry-sized pieces.
I hope you have a saw big enough to cut that, if not my friend Stewart Murdock in Redmond, Oregon does. He's a flint knapper and would work a trade deal.
