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Thank you much , I love that place I always find cool stuff there

Haha well I can change that if you want some let me know.... I'm out and about today but hit me up on my Facebook when you get a chance

@@huntingrocks eh I just got 8 pieces not long ago from a guy. Had two or three polished pieces already but wanted some rough to work myself. I think the ones I got are gonna be ok.

I like that name for it, it's one of my favorite weird winter things to find.

It's one of my favorites, I really like "metal" minerals , they can be so pretty

Lisa, I'm not sure. Brave is the word you were going for. I think you meant "Wacko" LOL I for sure will hit it again but I think I'm going to do it in the fall or spring next time, may hold off me next year trip till it cools off and do the south west. The polishing them is still something I'm learning and have been practicing on , next week's video I find my pieces that are great for practice. I love to give folks and idea of what I'm doing and why incase some one else has a better idea and can toss me some pointers and of course vice versa for any one who already mines it and sees what I do and says "Hey why didn't I think of that" And I think I will do a polishing video, it may be wrong but it will be fun lol

Being from St.Louis we k8nd of just grow accustomed to always feeling like we are in a steam basket, but this heat felt like an industrial steam pipe broke on me LOL . Its some cool and exciting stuff and was one of my most favorite videos to edit yet lol

So I'm still learning and have been checking out other youtube videos, some of em I have polished down the more bubbly parts of the chalcedony and then I'm going to start slowly polishing with a rotary tool, that's how I have seen people get the most bubbly looking fire out of them. Next week's video I do a creek walk where I found more but not as nice so I am experimenting with it to see how it turns out. Fingers crossed

@huntingrocks I've heard that you can use a rotary tool and different grits of valve grinding compound working up to a buffing compound to accomplish a nice shine

He says "Hi Uncle Don!!"

Thank you very, very much for those kind words. I love getting out and showing people where they can hunt for stuff from paymines to free . And I really enjoy doing it for the folks who can't get out and do it, coming up in the next few videos I'm getting ready to shoot I'm getting some new gear so I can wear a camera on my head so people can see just what I see and of course thebone I use now for close up shots. I want people to feel like they are more in the action.

Haha I'm gonna go out there again but it's gonna be in the fall, I was used to the heat out there when I was a kid but they had had so much rain it was actually humid in the desert .Scientifically speaking they had enough rain in February and March to not be a desert 😮

Will do but I will warn you I have never polished it before so I can't make any promises it will look good lol

That was the crazy thing was the humidity usually out there you can spray your self down with a mister bottle and stay cool but this year the humidity was so high nothing was evaporating ... it was like some sort of sick amd twisted sauna lol

I do too , usually it's hot and dry out there ... this year, it was hot and humid, and that's much worse, LOL

Haha brother it was a toaster oven out there and what's worse is the humidity was actually up from all the weird late in the year rain they had. You would LOVE playing with it, and no doubt could make some super pretty stuff.

I am a huge fan of the national Audobon Society rocks and minerals book . For free look at the area I would recomend checking mindat.org it will also give you a really good idea of what can be found there. A lot of books like to show pristine museum quality pieces, which can be found but for most of us rockhounder types unless we are underground we probably won't find them (Due to weathering and the such) I also use an old book "The Golden Guide to rockhounding" It's not bad for a cross reference but for a new Rockhound the Audobon Society is very useful. Oh and also Mindat covers the entire world so any place you may look you can type in state name then look for the county you will be in. Good luck I hope you find some AMAZING pieces. 😃

Haha hey no judgment here I talk to the rocks and fossils I look for. I have taken people rockhounding before it's always fun to see what some one else finds along the way

Haha it's true ,I love when people miss stuff it makes a great day

Thank you much, this was my first trip there, it got me hooked I plan to go every year now

@@huntingrocks I live in Idaho. I have never been there but maybe I should? 200 bucks, plus trip costs, isn't nothing for me.

There are a few other mines around that area too, Royal Peacock is the one I usually go to, but I want to try some of the others next year

Thank you

Thank you, I'm glad I had my spray bottle or I would have missed a bunch

@@huntingrocks 🌏🌎🌍

Thank you and that place us truly just one gigantic fossil Christmas present , always so much good and amazing stuff in it

@@huntingrocks Gotta love that little bitty fella. Reminds me of the guppies I caught when I was a kid.

Why thank you , I can't wait to go back to that beach I need to explore it more

@@huntingrocks Yeah. Too bad you missed out on a few hours of time to explore getting there!

Chalcedony is a member of the quartz family it's actually cryptocrystalline so essintly super fine quartz crystals all grown together it has sort of a waxy luster and feel to it. It's really cool stuff it's slightly softer than regular quartz which makes it easy ( well for those that can) for carving

You will love it , even if you don't find any (Which you will) it's a beautiful drive

Thank you so much, and I meant to mention the UV thing. I probably shot it, then forgot to edit it (I get so excited about dugways I forget to do stuff LOL) .... also sneak preview, I'm in Colorado and tomorrow I may be shooting some fluorite and tourmaline videos ... shhhh don't tell no one LOL

@@huntingrocks I won't tell but you just put it in the comments! 🤣

Thank you very much, I will say with out the squirt borrow though it would not have been such a good hunt

Haha, thank you , I am still waiting to cut that one I don't want to ruin it but I think I might have too.

@@huntingrocks oh that a toughie! Yeah, not sure I could cut it, but you go for it!

@soul_adventurist I always figure if I regret it then I just got to go find another LOL

Yeah, I need to get one this one I borrowed from a buddy of mine. Next year, I hope to hunt for some uranium ore, so I need to pick one out . If you have any recommendations, I am all ears

@@huntingrocks those old civil defense models are pretty solid, as long as they’ve been calibrated. They’re a hell of a lot cheaper than the newer digital ones.

@zlatansmithlord awesome I will check it out thank you for the info

@@huntingrocks no problem. I bought one of them last year because I was wondering if some of the petrified wood I was bringing home from the Yellow Cat area in Utah might have been radioactive. Luckily no. 😅

Hahaha Hamilton is the true star of the show. I think I maybe the same way some of my best suff has been for sure picked right up off the ground .

I have never tried Palo Duro. I'm gonna have to do a little research on it and check it out.

Thank you much , digging usually always gives better finds but some times it's just to hot to dig lol

No. Free digging area.

@@deedeeperkins9975 Thank you!

Nope it's a free to dig spot, however the roads can be a little rough and not great cell service so just go slow , but it is free camping which is pretty awesome also

@@huntingrocks Thank you so much for sharing! I really want to go. Can you tell me what the black Crystal's in a geode is!? It was one I opened with a small chisel a few years back and they're definitely small black Crystal's with clear Quartz as well.

Hmmm, that I am not sure it could be goethite, which is a fairly common iron mineral usually found in quartz geodes ( this includes amethyst and Citrine of course)

Oh yeah 100%, there are however that diamond in the rough A grade but they take a LOT of looking.

@@huntingrocks it’s like Haunted Ridge 😂 locals only pick up the best

You're gonna love it , beautiful specimens every where, I recommend a spray bottle as well as your normal digging tools. Tell Rhonda I said "Hello"

I am so happy you had such a good visit , I hope you found some amazing things and great looking specimens

Thank you much

I went before they were fully open so you would have to ask them, I usually don't break rock in the field so I can't give an accurate answer

Yep it goes through a metamorphosis being a copper mineral it changes from that beautiful blue to a beautiful green. But I have found pieces that are cerulean blue, I have also found pieces that are cobalt blue which made me wonder if I had found cobalt , they were not sadly according to the giger counter I used LOL. The cicades had quited down for a bit but recently they got loud again, guess it was a late hatching brood or something . I like the sound they make

Hahaha I got a few more western vids up my sleeve, In fact will have a surprise western video shot next week .... depending on if it's where the fire was or not cause we are headed to Colorado for a week of R&R .... But there will be videos shot .... even if they are not great videos LOL

@@huntingrocks Awesome! What part of CO are you guys going to? Or I guess we'll find out. 😉

@TheAdventureCloset we are gonna be Eastern slope of Rocky Mountian national park in Estes Park.... so long as the fire is down

It's an amazing place with soooo much history those tailings piles are hundreds of feet tall and football fields wide there are so many goodies at that place that have not seen the light of day for over 100years ... if ever. And thank you so much for the kind words I just want everyone to be able to enjoy finding treasures, I love it when people find amazing things digging in the ground

@@huntingrocks you're awesome!

Hahaha Azurite first then over time, it chemically changes to the Malachite. It's all a copper ore, so it turns that pretty green.... Now I'm not sure about free float copper. I really haven't looked into it yet. And Disney is 100% a people trap set by a mouse .... it's a fun, overpriced, overcrowded people trap, but they got cool put put golf soooo I give them a B (-/+) 🤣🤣

Thank you :)

Yes, and no, they have been running it slow to start, this first year, they have been testing the waters. Most of them didn't think it would be as big as it has been.Im thinking next spring they will really start cranking the open days

@huntingrocks I was just up.that way this weekend to hit up several mines gave ya a shout out in my hawks bluff video I just posted

@Bigfoot903Outdoors sweet on my way to check it out

Would love to have you, we need to do another collab shoot

Haha thank you I am super happy this place opened the only place I could find Azurite and Malachite near me was a 24 hour drive away and when I was younger I could do that straight through now I got to stop and sleep at a motel or campground 16 hours in LOL

Can't wait!

I was gonna hold it off till after I completely finished my western trip but figured with them still having tickets I better get it out there for them.

That's awesome I am a HUGE fossil fan, I usually shoot about 3 to 6 trilobite videos a year cause I love them so much lol

Hahaha well I hope you like my videos better than that awfully written article