Three Peaks Magnetite & Fluorapatite Crystals // Rockhounding Utah 

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I love that Sarah is finding her voice on the videos! So much fun.

Great trip. I’m glad it was spring….not summer! No one else out there. Thanks.

Wow you guys sure found some ecellent pieces this time around! Those two keepers are really spectacular! Its always nice to return to a location and find what you initially went looking for! And the rest is really bonus material! Those magnatite crystals are pretty awesome! And like you said, this time around you are doing the thumbnail and perky box size specimens, so you dont have toug out big buckets full of material that you will probably just discard half way back to the car! Its way wasier to carry thing that fit in a thumbnail or a perky box size! That magnatite is really heavy stuff! Im glad you and sara had a better trip out there this time. That means you are doing it right! Lol! Great specimens and you only had to carry half the weight that you would normally have had to carry! Thank goodness for downsizing you specimens❣️ 😆 Thanks Jared and Sara for the fantastic adventure!

Fun video, I don't know exactly why the apatite is formed like that but maybe the conditions for apatite formation wasn't great and so they mostly didn't fully crystallize and look very amorphous we have something like that happening to a lot of the apatite locations up here in Ontario the crystals seem to form with some interesting side effect, bolbbiness, skeletal forms, etc. Up here we have a couple theories like skeletal formations, long term etching, calcite pressing up against the crystals during formation, etc, and in all likeliness it's a combo of multiple factors during and after formation.

Excellent Video, it is good to see you two having fun. Yes, I watch your channel because they are informative. Thanks for sharing.

I'm glad you were able to find whay you wanted on this trip. It is beautifully uv reactive. Thanks for the scenic trip .

That's some excellent fluorapatite.

Love this area- I plan on looking for lodestone next time I'm down there.

The green mineral looks more like epidote. Nice finds 👍

Awesome fluorescence

Seriously want a piece to add to my uv collection. Too cool

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

I have found the magnetite with banded agate in it. And if you go further west you can find awesome agates, Jasper and even geodes/thundereggs

Bodacious!

Very interesting minerals

Cool.

Great finds! I copied this information from Mindat.... "Fluorapatite is by far the most common species in the apatite group. It occurs in almost all igneous rocks, during initial phases of paragenesis, as an accessory mineral, commonly in microscopic crystals, and may occur as very large bodies as late-magmatic segregations in alkaline igneous rocks. Also occurs crystallized in pegmatitic facies of acidic and basic types of igneous rocks. Common in magnetite deposits, and in hydrothermal veins, particularly those formed at high temperatures, and in Alpine cleft-type veins."

Nice findzzz!!!

fun fact this is the southern end of a extint super volcano known as indian peaks super volcano

I like her comment about who's backpack it is going into. Word of warning, if a geologist or rockhound says, can you help me I am moving, then start running fast.

Mountain Goat it around indeed lol.

I sure hope you have yourself "Secured"out in the wild.❤

The green mineral is epidote