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Thank you!

I know right!

I do have a mitre saw with a diamond blade that I cut a couple of stones on but I stopped. I need to revisit that. I also have a UV light but haven’t had much success using it. Maybe I need to retry that again too. Thanks for the advice!

@@jimsgems74 Cool keep us posted and please do share any finds.

I don’t have a degree in any rock related designation but I grew up studying rocks and got away from it in my teens. I should’ve stayed with it but nonetheless I came back to it. Thanks for the kind words!

@@jimsgems74 Being self taught is pretty cool! Thank you for the response.

@@Sol-Amar yes of course

Yes, that's a good question. That's usually how I know if it is all rust or iron stained or the real color. It will be interesting to see if it retains that yellow!

I need to be doing some panning. I haven’t even attempted looking for gold.

@@jimsgems74 That's how I started RH, looking for gold NO luck of course LOL It did pique my interest in rocks/minerals. It is a lot of fun to play around and if you get some cool if not you had fun well to me anyways. Great family activity. I bet your daughter would enjoy learning about it, if she's into that kind of stuff.

Yeah, I’ve expected this all comes from other locations loosened up stream but haven’t explored that because it’s not on my property. I will say this is a spring fed creek and is only about 200 yards further up stream from me.

Haha, that’s great!

I agree, but I’m a little biased lol

Pretty good guess I would say, more than likely they occurred during formation. Pretty cool in my opinion.

This is good info, I should’ve guessed growth to be a possible culprit to have caused that but now I have a reason to purchase one of those digital microscopes I’ve been looking at.

@@jimsgems74 Yes they digimicro. I have been seeing them online and others using them would be AWESOME to have and so much fun to use. I would nerd out looking at my collection at 20xs zoom LOL If you get you will deff have to post some videos!

@@user-kx9bh4sh8v I know I am going to nerd out too and my wife is just going to shake her head at me over these rocks. She thinks I'm losing my mind now, lol.

​@@jimsgems74Ha Ha HA! I know EXACTLY what you mean. The hubby thinks the same thing with me LOL. It's crazy the things we connect with that's others don't understand. I know for myself there is no other place more peaceful than when you are out at a creek at one with nature in the fresh air. He tells me all the time great as long as you're having fun and enjoy it. Like I have staid before i just started this yr. I have already converted all my flower beds to rock beds. Now working on all my nick knacks, counter tops and any other nock and cranny I can stash one. Just something about them that brings a calming, serenity just plane ole happy feeling! I know that crystals do have an effect with our Shakras. I have been reading up on that myself lately pretty interesting. As always love the videos thank for sharing Happy Hounding

Oh wow, you’ve got to share ! Most of mine are obviously of the yellow variety but I love the variations of color!

That’s true, you used to see that more in the old farmhouses of my youth. Those days are certainly gone aren’t they my friend!

I am looking at buying one but I know I have to get the right wavelength I think to do that accurately.

I love it too!

@@mre3161 I’ll take that ! I’m in South Cackalacky

@@norarlee6090 I know right!

You are blessed then, they are beautiful gems!

I know, I struggle with that often but after I clean it I will have a better idea as to what it is and what I want to do with it. I agree that gold and orange coloration is beautiful.

@@joycedelk7115 I agree and I really like the red ones too. They are rare.

Me too, they are some of my favorites!

Claude Debussy the composer

@@jimsgems74do you like de bussy?

Well, I am a little backward. My typical choice for music in my videos unless I really like something that I want to play, is to pick a song that I like in the moment and also see if they have fewer number of shares or uses in other videos. I know, I defeat my own purposes sometimes, but that is my method. So, yes, I liked Debussy in that moment for that video.

So, what you are seeing is just my cleaned rocks in a metal bucket full of just plain water. My secret is simple, I buy a product called Iron Out because most of the rocks in South Carolina are stained with red clay mud or soil with a lot of iron in it. I fill my bucket of rocks up with water to cover them and then pour in about a cup of iron out and then let them sit for up to 7 days. It may not take that long, and more iron out is not better. In fact, when they dry they will become chalky looking if you use too much, but that will do the trick.

@@jimsgems74 Ohh, well that’s simple enough! Thanks for the advice 🤓 I actually have Iron out too.. live in the country.. water gets rusty. 😄 I’ve always been a rock collector, and have piles of them and I’m trying to learn more about them. I appreciate the help!! 😁 Are you planning on cutting some of them? I have an older wet saw.. from back when they made things to last 🙌😊

I’m slowly collecting tools so I can get more involved in rockhounding. I love it so much 😀

@@joycedelk7115 be warned, it will draw you in, lol! I’m glad I could help.

@@joycedelk7115 I just can’t bring myself to cut them. I did cut one but I didn’t do anymore. For now I’m just looking for the best light to put under them for display.

Thanks! 😄

This area has quite a few old gold mines, and one large defunct kyanite mine. An adjacent county has the largest operating gold mine in the US. That kyanite mine location is still being monitored by the EPA due to contamination that occurred when they originally mined it. So, there are instances of these types of rocks and minerals being in the area. The state rock is also amethyst, and over the line in Mecklenburg county the largest emerald mined was found there, so we have the possibility to find some really nice rocks here.

@@jimsgems74 WOW! that's pretty freaking awesome.

You’re making me hungry, stop!

I’ve seen a lot of rock that looked like chalcedony to me as well. I’m never sure though. It is definitely hard material, around 7 on the hardness scale so it fits.

​@@jimsgems74 I've got a video of my wife and I at that spot. The first 20 minutes is us getting down there but you can see and compare from some of what we found

@@scottbeutler4459 I will definitely do that and see what I think!

Hello to you as well and thank you so much!

I find so many gold ones. They are most prevalent for sure. I’ll consider Gandolf or Grandolf since he is so grand lol.

I do that often, but haven’t found so many arrowheads, but I’m also typically not looking for them either.

Well, she’s actually my daughter but we started late and had her at 40! She has friends that have grandparents our age lol, but it’s all good. I couldn’t imagine life without her.

Me too!

Thank you, I have been trying to get them more involved and she just decided she wanted to be a part of that video, so I’ll take it!

Yes I see that quite often too. I won’t call it that because I’m not certain but I’ve thought so too.

Thank you, they sure are. I take one of my metal buckets (roughly 2 gallon buckets but it doesn’t matter) and put all the rocks I want to clean in them. Fill the water so it is covering them completely and put iron out in the water. Start off with a small amount (in 2 gallons I might use half a cup of iron out). Leave for roughly a week then pull them out and wash them off. I use iron out because SC soil is very muddy and iron rich. You might not need that in your area.

I agree, they aren't rare for the most part. There is the possibility here in our county to find Amethyst, Garnet, Emerald among other gems but again it's rare. Our state gemstone for SC is Amethyst, so it is not out of the realm of possibility. My passion for these rocks lies in the fact that something so dirty and ugly to begin with can be cleaned up and shown in a different perspective that someone might never see. I love that!

The yare some type of quartz but I am not quite sure. Some of them have unique colorations that have caused me to start asking academia what I might have. For now, I am not doing anything with them. I am categorizing them into groups based on their transparency or translucence so I can display them, but other than that I am doing nothing.

I am not opposed to selling them, I just haven't gotten that far yet, lol.

a faint blue quartz which could be a sillimanite or kyanite or other variation of quartz variety.

I’ve thought so too, I just haven’t started that search yet.