Rockhounding Old Rock Slides, Finding Garnets And My First Kyanite. 

I really hope to find some better ones around here. Gem grade is proving to be super hard to find!!

There is some arsenopyrite and tremolite in this area so I suppose you're right!! Nice catch!!😁

I agree!! devils club can be the worst!! The good thing about it is that it keeps many prospectors from exploring some areas. if you know how to hike through it without getting covered in spikes, you can come across some pretty awesome spots!!🙂

Thanks!! I'm going to do some more exploring in this area in the spring. I recently found out about a trail that leads to the top of the mountain and there should be lots of ground to search up there!!

Lots of our garnet is brown around here too, every once in a while you come across some nice red ones though🙂

I’m located in Greenwater Washington I find crazy stuff up here

I love this spot, the geology is just so interesting!! there's skarns, pegmatites, garnets, marble, tremolite, and kyanite, just all kinds of cool stuff going on!!

There's not too many people rockhounding and making videos up here so I thought, hey why not. I was gonna head back up there today but its crazy windy so its probably not the most safe idea haha. Thanks for the sub by the way!!

@@NWRockExplorer No problem, looking forward to more content! I'm just getting into rockhounding in north BC and it gives me some motivation and clues to get out and get looking.

@@NWRockExplorer Research to find a geological map of the area your in, target adjacent to intrusives that have cooked the country rock. Then hopefully find some weathered outcrop.

@@lotharschiese8559 This spot is a ways away from the nearest intrusives but I am planning a hike that way soon, It just seems to need a little bit of heat and pressure to produce some nicer garnets. I have a few areas where there is contact with granite that I've been meaning to check out but they're quite the hike, hopefully soon I'll get around to checking them out😁

Thanks for watching!!

yes for sure, old rock slides can be really dangerous to explore, always take precautions before doing so. Thanks for watching!!

Thanks!! I really think there is a good chance for some amazing finds there, just need to explore the area a little better.

Thanks!! I'm in BC Canada!!

Garnets are one of my favorites too, there's so many shapes colors and varieties out there!!

@@NWRockExplorer oh I know. Super cool mineral. I had the pleasure of randomly finding half of one on a hike in the Sequoia Forest in Cali that’s the size of a golf ball on a hike, then a bunch of small ones like you found up in Vermont. Plan on doing a few show and tells this winter once I start to organize my rocks lol. But those you found are great ones.

Thanks!! Yea I have a lot to learn but whenever I learn something new it's nice to share it to make it more common knowledge🙂

Armchair 70 yr old geologist/miner. Reminded me of my younger days, days of discovery, field trips!

@@NWRockExplorer Healthy attitude to have! You WISH to learn, start with Nick's first video! He teaches Geology and he is good at it! ru-vid.comvideos

Thanks!! I'm still learning how to film and edit so with time these videos will hopefully get a lot better. I cant really meet up with any rockhounding buddies at the moment because of the virus so it's always fun to bring you all along with me.

Thanks!! I've been watching your vids for a while now and i find them to be quite interesting and educational, This whole island i live on is a part of a big metamorphic belt that stretches up from bc to the alaskan pan handle, there has been a couple gem discoveries in Alaska in similar metamorphic rock so i thought there could be a possibility in my area as well, examples would be the Green Monster Epidote and Wrangell Garnets. I have been looking at geological maps and surveys to get an idea but there hasn't been a whole lot of exploration in my area.

I feel like this year is going to be my best year yet, I've got so many places in which i've done hours of research on and just need to explore. i've also got a couple trips planned with local prospectors which will be cool because there's not really anybody up north here to share my interest with haha.

@@NWRockExplorer Thanks, I saw recently that you subscribed to my channel which lead me to yours so, I returned the favor. We have a lot of metamorphic and intrusive rocks also. If you haven't done this yet, search up the publications for the geologic maps that you are using. It took me awhile to realize this but, some geologic maps have publications with far more detailed descriptions of the rock outcrops then what is shown in the legend of the map itself. Other publications can be useful too. For example, I have one map I have been studying, and it showed a large pluton in the area which was marked in the legend as "Granite - Eocene". Well now I know there is granite from Eocene which is cool. But if I go to the PDF file for the publication, I get a paragraph of information just on that Eocene Granite. While reading it, I look at what minerals it says it contains and it mentions... "contains equant to bipyramidal smoky quartz, white to pinkish feldspar, biotite, and sparse amphibole. Contains miarolitic cavities, which are more common in associated aplite dikes. Pegmatites are rare." So now I know that I might be able to find Quartz Crystals associated with that Granite. So sometimes geology maps leave information out and sometimes its intentional but not always. For example, in Montana, there is a deposit of lake bed sediments. The map does not mention, for obvious reasons, that fossils of tyrannosaurus have been found in that geologic unit. Though that information is not in the map itself, it is available in other publications.

@@NWRockExplorer I also feel this coming year will be our best year for finding things. Its always good to meet new people with similar interests and that can be a time to learn and share information and make new friends. I wish you luck on your search for what ever minerals and crystals you are in search of.

@@GeoForge Yes, for sure. I'm always looking for fieldwork documents or any others on the area, our geological maps don't seem have links or citations to more information aside from the general make up of the bedrock. Having fieldeork documents or if theres a minfile doc on the area would be the best case scenario.

Hopefully the garnets will just keep getting bigger and better haha. There is a chance it was copper staining but the pyrite in that material wasn't the typical Chalcopyrite that I'm used to finding. I really like your vids and am trying to find my own little panning spot around here, those old timers really cleaned this area out though haha!!

@@NWRockExplorer If you’re ever down in PG or Quesnel lemme know, you’re more than welcome to hit up any of my claims to do some panning✨

@@CaribooGOLDHunter Thanks!! That sounds awesome!! I'm usually headed down that way in the summer checking out the Fraser lake and Francois lake area. I'll Get in contact for sure!!

Some garnets can be depending on how much Iron they contain. These ones here are slightly magnetic but don't exactly stick to a magnet🙂

When I first started I was using a claw hammer and a chisel, if you have a decent budget an Estwing rock hammer is a great investment along with a small chisel to carefully extract specimens!! Really it depends where you are rockhounding because if your rockhounding creeks, rivers, and beaches you don't need any tools🙂

@@NWRockExplorer thank you! I'm in New Mexico so not so much around water.

@@KotoriOnWheels I've seen some amazing finds come out of NM!! Your definitely in the right area, good luck out there😁

@@NWRockExplorer thank you! Got some mica schist with garnet and staurolites yesterday! Need tools. :)

Thanks for the tip!! I'll try that next time. I'm way up in northern Canada and I found the green mineral in quartz with schist. My best guess is some form of tremolite.

Thanks!! This was quite a ways out but there is cell service. It'd be cool to go rockhounding with people but there isn't too much interest in this kind of stuff here.

Thanks!! I have found lots of epidote in the area but this material is super bright green, its kinda hard to show in pictures. The crystals are also kinda blade shaped which is making me lean toward some kind of tremolite, I'll have to see if I can take some better pics of it. I'm still in the learning stages myself so it is awesome to have people try to help me out with identification. there's always something new to learn!! thanks for watching🙂

What part of bc are you from? There is an awesome group on Facebook called BCRockhunters, People from all over BC share their finds there and help each other Identify their finds. That group is where I started out and there is some very knowledgeable people in it to help you out🙂

@@NWRockExplorer Thats also what got me into it!! hahaha its a small world

interesting, I know kyanite can be a indicator for corundum which is also known as sapphire!! I kinda hope to find my own sapphire deposit some day!!

@@NWRockExplorer I've found a few neat looking pieces of corundum in North Carolina. I also found a very tiny piece of metalic looking tourmaline. It has the striations of tourmaline at least, and it isn't metal. I have yet to take it to a place to get it looked at since the closest place to me is over two hours away.

@@thatmeanpersononlineoffend9376 Corundum is fairly hard to come by in my province but honestly there is so much land that is unexplored that you never know what's out there. Could your piece of tourmaline be black tourmaline or Schorl?

@@NWRockExplorer Very true. Plenty of treasures that can be found, and all sorts of strange ones at that. I enjoy watching your videos because it helps with identifying places to look. I'm still learning that. Most of what I have I found by chance and not because I was looking for it specifically. And I do believe it might be black tourmaline. It's completely opaque, and color wise it looks like polished hematite, but as far as its form it definitely looks like tourmaline. I could probably send you photos on Facebook. I found your channel through the Look What I Found! group there.

I'm in BC Canada, this location is under wraps for now as i haven't completely explored it yet, I may release locations in the future once i find more but for now i've only got a few to go to.

Just a general area Vancover . Golden Nelson .Kitamat fort Nelson.

I figure you are north of kin basket lake in Vermont?