Roadside Rockhounding // Gypsum Crystals 

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The dead cat is baffling the wind sounds very well. Nice specimens.

I love gypsum because it has so many types and formations. Really cool spot!

Another beautiful day with. Did she get the best one? A fun time had by all. Be safe and stay healthy 🐷⚒

I'm in the mountains above Los Angeles and we have a huge deposit of beautiful, clear gypsum crystals. It's right next to an amazing marine fossil deposit, where they are just everywhere. Not many seem to know or care about it... I'm ok with that.

There is a gypsum mine south of where I live and I find some pretty cool crystals out there, as well as agates, chalcedony, quartz, jasper, nephrite jade, chert, basalt, and tons of Gryphaea and Belemnite fossils...and rattlesnakes, badger, coyotes, and the occasional lone wolf.

Those mics are a world of difference broski, nice upgrayedd (The two D's are for a double-dose of awesome).

Interesting place interesting samples too

Wow, your sound is great with those mics in that wind. Always enjoy your vids!

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Nice video my friend!! Thanks for sharing!!

Yeah, those are nice dude. Never saw the crystals before this...you should cab some!

Wow nice pieces!

Yah Oregon!! Cant wait to see where you will be next!

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I have some gypsum pieces that are as clear as ice.😊💎⚒️

It's very cool how Gypsum can produce in many different forms. Solid Softer crystals, big Gypsum chunks or sponge like form. Very unique mineral. Good video!

We've been there a few times. Tons of gypsum. Not my favorite mineral due to the softness, but we do like the translucent nature of it. BTW, the town is pronounced like the band Weezer.

LOL. I was out in a wash today, and found some, of what I believe to be, gypsum crystals... but no. Just more quartz I guess.. Along with maybe some felspar. SE of Hemet, Ca. Nice day with the dogs.

That "Brecciated, Jasper, Gypsum Amalgamation" at 8:40 warrants yet another trip. Good thing it's minutes off of I-84. But I'll wait until Fall to retrieve my samples. Thanks again for the video Jared and Sarah.

We live near one of the premier locations in the world for finding gypsum: White Sands National Park in south central New Mexico. The large pieces weather out of the limestone of the San Andres Mountains to the west of the dunes. The larger pieces break down or are suspended in the waters of summer thunderstorms and collect in a normally dry lake bed. From there, the grains of sand are blown over to the Park. The larger pieces can take a hundred different shapes from water clear crystals to very large milky sheets. You can also find some wonderful selenite and calcite. There is only one problem.... you can't collect any of it. The National Park is like any other National Park.... no collecting. And, immediately to the west of the Monument is the White Sands Missile Range, which is HUGE. You might be able to sneak onto the Range for an hour or so, but soon enough well armed soldiers in jeeps show up and if you are lucky, they escort you off. We've seen a lot of very special material but the only way you can get some is from private collections from before 1945. You can't even collect sand since just like Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, they check vehicles leaving. Oh, and the hardness is a 2.

I am so sorry I have not been able to send you the crystals I promised. Things just have not worked out. Besides the "hour glass crystals" in the only area in the the US that they are found we have several large gyp mines here and I hauled overburden from on small mine that we used for road material. In that we found loads of what we called isinglass ( Micah). I can not get into the now-closed mine legally anymore But when I can get out again I plan on getting some larger sheets. Nice vic and interesting. You and Sarah havagudun.

Hello CR, enjoy watching you three out and about finding cool rocks. Nice location. Thanks for sharing.

Looks kinda like selenite but wrong kind of structure interesting 😊💙✌🏻Sarah you can always spray paint your hammer orange ,

That one fiberous looking piece .... could it be trona ??? CR videos are addicting. Thanks guys!

Ok quick note... orange handled tools are older plumb hammers and Irwin's hand saws, chisels and such.. That is my color for tools. But you can rattle can coat with the new plasticoat in bright orange or many other colors. Questions about gypsum... is the rocks sort of similar to a milky bluish common opal but not... it's not glassy its more powdery? We have some here in the midwest but I never thought to research the attributes. I found some specimens like what I'm questioning. Happy weekend!

I could fill up at least a five gallon bucket with the amount of gypsum i've dug out.😊

Was wondering if you have ever run across an area that has what looks like clam shaped fossils, whole, that are microcrystalline, like they are a product of metamorphosis...some, like sedimentary but shaped like shells?

Grrr! I still can't tell if some railroad specimens I have are selenite, calcite, or gypsum. Do rainbows appear in selenite or gypsum? I have some that are clear as glass, don't double refract like calcite, and have beautiful rainbows. Time to buy a hardness kit and a better magnifier!

Why isn't it orange? I lose them at home all the time 😂😂😂