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NWRockExplorer
Canada
Приєднався 15 кві 2020
Filming and documenting my adventures exploring the mountains of northern BC Canada. I have always been deeply interested in geology and love spending time outdoors on adventures. Thanks for checking out my channel, I hope you enjoy what I have to share!!
Precious Opal Uncovered While Cutting Thundereggs!!
I'm glad some of these thundereggs turned out pretty awesome inside, I'll get around to polishing some of them soon!! Which one is your favorite!? I'm happy to be back making videos again, looking forward to the adventures this summer holds!!🙂
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Rockhounding Moonstone: Exploring A Creek For Hidden Gemstones!
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So I finally got back out to that Creek where i find moonstone!! At some point in the near future I'd like to try following it up to the source but that'll have to wait for another day. Looking forward to some more exploration trips this summer!! Thanks for watching!!🙂 Other socials nwrockexplorer muskeg_gems www.tiktok.com/@nwrockexplorer
Gemstone Exploration: Kyanite & Garnet Crystals Found!!
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So I decided to head back to that kyanite spot from my last video and decided to sift for some garnets and came back with some nice specimens of kyanite!! I learned quite a bit about the geology in the area too!! I'm hoping to spend some more time out there to see what else I can discover, so much potential out there!! If you would like to help support this channel, check out my website where I...
Prospecting for Kyanite and Garnet In The Search For Gemstones In B.C Canada!!
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Well I finally got the chance to get out exploring again and right off the bat I found a pretty cool spot!! Can't wait to get back out there again!! We have some snow now but it might warm up by the end of the week so I may be back out there sooner than I thought. Feel free to check out my new website too muskeggems.com I list some of the best specimens I collect and the jewelry I make up for s...
Exploring a cliff for pegmatites and crystals⛏️
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In this video i decided to go and check out a cliffside I was curious about. I had seen a couple good pegmatites along the highway near there so i was curious what could be up a little bit farther. I still think this area has potential, the next time i head out there I'll probably head the opposite way and try to follow the intrusive as the opposite way i was headed slowly turned into a low gra...
Mountain Top Sunstone Prospecting, BC Canada (Day 2 of 2)
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Well this is the last video from the top of the mountain. The third day was a bit of a disaster so I left a little early. It was still a great trip and awesome to do a little exploration out there just to see what there was to be found. I think I'll so more exploration in the area at some point but I have some big plans for the rest of the summer. Thanks for watching #explorepage #thefinders #e...
Mountain Top Sunstone Prospecting, BC Canada ⛏️
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Well I got out for a bit of a prospecting trip on top of that mountain i was exploring in the fall of last year. didn't end up finding quite what i was looking for but I still had a good time and it was definitely a trip I'll remember. Note for next trip: Bring some bug spray or at least a bug net!! haha. Thanks for watching!! If you would like to help support my adventures I have an online sto...
Exploring the creek in the search for more indicator minerals⛏️
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In this video I went exploring the same creek that was in the last video. I didn't end up finding too much but i still had a good day exploring the geology of the area. I think I will return one more time to try get to the top of the mountain!! Recently I have been out traveling searching for new locations and got to meet up with a rock club. It was a pretty fun experience and I might have come...
Rockhounding Strange Crystals And Indicator Minerals At A New Creek⛏️
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Well I'm back!! Sorry its been so long, I've been a bit busy this winter but I should be making more videos now that the snow is gone and work is slowing down again. Thanks again to everyone who's been sticking around, it means a lot!! This trip was a bit of an exploration to see if I could find more samples of a pink mineral I had found in this spot last winter. I did end up finding a small sa...
Gemstone Prospecting On Top Of A Mountain!!
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Well I've finally got a video up!! This one took forever to upload, I think this might be my biggest video yet!! Had lots of fun on this trip and found some great samples for the collection. I will be headed back up there this year to do some more exploring, this was mostly a test for me because I've never done this kind of camping before believe it or not. I can see lots of areas that I need t...
Red Agate Beach!! Rockhounding BC Canada!!
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I filmed this video way back in august. I was planning a big trip but plans didn't really work out this time, hopefully next season will be the year for it. I still got to meet up with some fellow prospectors and made a good trip of it anyhow. I've been to this spot a couple times before so I decided to stay out there a couple nights to see what I could find. Hope you all have a great week, tha...
Rockhounding Precious Opal In BC Canada!!⛏
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Well at the end of one of my last trips I decided to take one last stop at the Shelford opal beds. I've been there once before and didn't find all too much of anything aside from a little bit of agate and common opal. I actually went a little off trail in this one and found some awesome opal digs, I believe someone else was digging there before me at some point but they left behind some awesome...
A Quick Trip Rockhounding Quartz Crystals
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I filmed this video a while back before I had some car problems, just took a quick pit stop at an old collecting spot to see what I could find. ended up finding some nice quartz plates and clusters!! nwrockexplorer NWRockExplorer
Prospecting For Sunstones!! Huge Crystals Found!!
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I filmed this video a while back before my last adventure, ended up having some car problems so I'm waiting on some parts at the moment. anyhow, I'm pretty stoked on some of the finds in this one and there were definitely some great lapidary grade sunstones in this haul!! most were quite fractured but some seem to still be solid enough to cab!! Thanks to everyone for sticking around, hopefully ...
Searching For New Spots To Rockhound⛏
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Searching For New Spots To Rockhound⛏
Prospecting For Canadian Sunstone!! New Source Found!!⛏
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Prospecting For Canadian Sunstone!! New Source Found!!⛏
Prospecting For Quartz And Feldspar Crystals!! New Pockets Found!!⛏
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Prospecting For Quartz And Feldspar Crystals!! New Pockets Found!!⛏
Prospecting BC Dravite Tourmaline!! NEW FIND!!
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Prospecting BC Dravite Tourmaline!! NEW FIND!!
An Attempt To Find Crystals In A Slide Zone⛏
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An Attempt To Find Crystals In A Slide Zone⛏
Rockhounding CANADIAN Moonstone and Sunstone!!⛏
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Rockhounding CANADIAN Moonstone and Sunstone!!⛏
Prospecting For Garnets And Quartz Crystals⛏
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Prospecting For Garnets And Quartz Crystals⛏
Searching For Quartz Crystals In A Mountain Stream⛏
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Searching For Quartz Crystals In A Mountain Stream⛏
Exploring For NEW spots!! Winter Rockhounding⛏
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Exploring For NEW spots!! Winter Rockhounding⛏
Back to the creek Prospecting for Sunstone and Moonstone⛏
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Back to the creek Prospecting for Sunstone and Moonstone⛏
Exploring The Beach For Crystals, Winter Rockhounding⛏
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Exploring The Beach For Crystals, Winter Rockhounding⛏
Winter Rockhounding!! SUNSTONE And A SURPRISE Garnet Find!!
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Winter Rockhounding!! SUNSTONE And A SURPRISE Garnet Find!!
13ft Off Grid Camper build, Part 1. Refurbishing The Stove And Furnace!!
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13ft Off Grid Camper build, Part 1. Refurbishing The Stove And Furnace!!
Panning Creeks In The Search For GARNETS!!
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Panning Creeks In The Search For GARNETS!!
Cutting Rocks With A Tile Saw!! What's Inside!?
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Cutting Rocks With A Tile Saw!! What's Inside!?
Since when did you have a youtube channel? Your video showed up on a search.
You found me, great to hear I'm coming up in searches!! Yea I should really share my channel more on my personal pages but idk haha. I'm still learning lots about making videos, hopefully someday this could become a full time thing🙂
Some really crazy beautiful veiws in this video, your camera work is always so awesome aswell. Where i live in alaska we have alot of the same plant life so it was fun to see that too. Love your videos, you are so informative every step of the way and it always keeps me interested. Keep up the fantastic work, looking forward to seeing your next adventure!
Thanks!! I really enjoy watching videos from youtubers in Alaska too. I actually live right near the panhandle which is why we have such similar terrain, similar geology too!! I've been trying to find some garnets here that are comparable to the Wrangell deposit but i haven't quite found that quality yet. I'll be uploading more soon, glad you like the videos!!😁
@@NWRockExplorer I just looked up the Wrangell deposit and i had no idea we had such quality garnets over on the pan handle! I live on the Kenai peninsula and I've always gone to collect agates on the beach but haven't really even thought about what other stuff we might have around here. I hope you find those high quality garnets in your area soon, it'd be really cool to see that and see what you do with them. I think it's awesome that you do all your own metal work aswell, I'd one day like to do that too, but for now I just really enjoy cabbing. I've got notifications on so I'll definitely be looking forward to your next upload. I wish you the best of luck with your prospecting!
Good!
Check that porphyry for magnetism, I have a black piece from the Fraser river roughly that size, and of all the porphyry colours I’ve collected it’s the only way me that is 🫶🏼🤙🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Kinda boring.
Got it, any constructive criticism?🤔
Next video after yours she goes to fast = not interesting
music is in harmony with how you show me a rock plenty of time to enjoy and learn= timing critical to high quality Thanks
That was so fun to watch. I love the opal in the thunder eggs. Thanks for sharing with us😊
Never was a fan of thunder eggs for some reason, but the fire opal ones are cool!
I haven't been a huge fan in the past either, most thundereggs looked the same to me. There's so many varieties though!! Some can be filled with quartz crystals making them a geode, some can be brightly colored agate, fire opal, and like i showed in this vid some can hold precious opal!! There can be some pretty cool formations in these things if you're in the right spot🙂
Some nice specimens, have you ever found a vein of agate, I suspect it was agate I found while building logging roads in BC, about 300 yards away it surfaced again,I have some samples 3/4 inch thick and 5inch long 2.5 inch wide. I’m no longer in BC.
Awesome!! I have seen some pretty big seams of chalcedony and chalcedonic quartz but the largest agate I've ever found is about 5 lbs, it was part of a giant thunderegg!! Still always on the search for better and better material though😉
@@NWRockExplorer wow that’s a good one.
Precious opal in a thunder egg, That is so cool! Great find.
Thanks!!🙂
Rock on 🤘🪨⚒️
Wicked man! I had no idea you could find precious opal in Thundereggs
Me neither haha, never thought I'd find something like that!!😅
nice finds
Thanks!!🙂
That green mineral around 2:00 looks like it would make a great pigment!
Maybe, I'll have to give that a try🤔
@NWRockExplorer watercolor binder is the easiest and least messy to make. You probably already have a good collection of mineral pigments. Any iron oxides will be a super stable option for pigments as well.
What a great find, ive been searching for precious in BC myself for ages with no luck
It can be elusive but it's out there!! Most areas where I've found it have tons of common opal so if you see lots of common opal your on the right track. It just comes down to the luck of the draw if you'll find it but your odds increase the more your boots are on the ground😉
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching🙂
I'll take a thunder egg over a kinder egg any day lol! That green is so pretty. I love the ones that look like an aerial landscape photo of a green forest with a crystal clear agate lake! Stunning!! 😍
The flash in that thunderegg was awsome, i have never seen that before❤
It's probably one of the most rare thundereggs you can find!! I've never seen anyone else post precious opal thundereggs before either, feel so lucky to have found one!!
How cool to find a flash of precious opal inside a thunder egg! What's really neat to see is all the green mineral inside. These eggs are so different from the ones here in Oregon, I really enjoyed seeing the variety in them. It seems like the smaller ones outdid the bigger ones! Thank you for this great video. Your editing was excellent and you gave us plenty of time to see each egg revealed. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks!! Yea i didn't know if people would want to watch a 20 minute vid of me opening rocks, tried to cut out all the empty spaces I could. I still think some different angles while i was cutting the rocks would've been good. I'm super happy with how the thundereggs turned out though, I think there'll be some great landscapes in some of them!! Quite a different variety to most places and the rhyolite itself is quite colorful too!!🙂
Cool!
I alway6s enjoy your videos especially into the mountains in search of large garnets.
Thanks!! There will be lots more garnet hunting done in the future, I already have a few new spots in mind!!
Fun video. What a variety! The common and fire opal mixes are my favorite.
Awesome!! I really like those opals too, I'll be sure to try and polish a couple of them up!!🙂
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
Those common opals are such a good finds. Me and my mom have been agate hunting for about a year and a half and we now have a jar full, some of them are so big and clear and we found some pretty good vivid red jaspers! My dream is to find an opal, just one little opal and oh boy I’ll be jumping for joy 😆 BC is such a lovely place to go rock hounding
Where is this in bc Vancouver island?
North Central BC🙂
Great video. ❤
Thanks!!🙂
Where is this
The John Shelford Opal Beds🙂
I enjoy your explanation of what you're finding. Very informative 💖
Thanks!! I try to put as much information as I can in these videos to help people find gemstones in their areas. It doesn't matter where you are there is always something cool to find!!
Wow! Those moonstones and sunstones you found were absolutely gorgeous! I can't wait to see what you make out of those beauties! Your Canadian sunstone and moonstones are so much more beautiful than in any other area! I've never seen that quality of stone, come any other country or province! It will be nice to see more videos from you again! I've always enjoyed your videos and then there was just a huge gap! I'm just glad to see you still making them! I learn so much from you! Glad to see you again and I so look forward to more videos from you❣️
Thanks!! Yea i got really busy with work for a while there so i was kind of burnt out and decided to build up the garden in the backyard during that time haha (vid to come?). I'm finished my work on those projects now and its back to digging!! I'm going to be headed out in a day or two on a couple week long rockhounding trip, i have some awesome sites planned out!! These moonstones are some of the best I've seen dug on UA-cam but there are really also really nice moonstones found in Sri Lanka, Burma, Madagascar, and Tanzania!! Thanks again for sticking it out, I know I can be a little off and on when it comes to making videos. I really want to challenge myself to be more consistent in the coming months😁
@@NWRockExplorer challenge yourself and me and all your fans will be just thrilled! And as long as you put a video out every, say, months? We will watch them and be happy! But weekly would be better! Lol! I don't want you to burn yourself out again! We value you too much! Thanks Liam!
that place is, so pretty, and nice specimens
Thanks!!
glad to see you back😊I love ur ventures
Thanks!!😁
You found some great looking pieces in between there!
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
HI LIAM!❤
The Malanite was cool. Love that you found sun/moon on a couple pieces.
It is pretty cool to see sunstone and moonstone in the same specimens. It's a bit more rare than finding the regular plain orthoclase sunstones, there must be a mix of orthoclase and albite feldspar in order for the moonstone to glow🙂
Such a beautiful place to be while finding glistening gems! Thank you for this great video! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Such a nice spot out there, and so much area to explore!! I'm really hoping to spend some time hiking up this creek to do some better exploring. I've even seen a piece with a little bit of rainbow lattice in this spot!!
You found some really nice Moonstones. Glad to see you back. Can't wait to see more of your videos.
Thanks, Cant wait to get out there to make some more!! So excited to do some exploring again!!🙂
Awesome to see you back at it! Hey, question, can Moonstone be found down here in NW Washington State rivers? I go out a lot but normally look for Jade around here, but there is a ton of other cool rocks down here just not sure what to look for. Thanks for posting your trips!!
Thanks!! Well the best advice I can give if you want to find moonstone is to look for places with lots of feldspar. Generally you'll want to look for granite, diorite, gneiss, or pegmatites. This variety of moonstone is made of a mix of orthoclase and albite feldspar which are some of the most abundant minerals on earth. I'd say as long as your seeing both orthoclase (pink) and albite (white) feldspar, your on the right track😉
Thank you for posting this, your land is so rich with different kind of stones
Beautiful! Nice to see you back 🙂
beauties^-^
I'm so glad I found your channel! I do rockhounding in Nova Scotia. I only started a year ago. It's fun to see what people can find in different parts of the country 😀
That's awesome!! yea I also find it pretty cool to see what people find elsewhere in Canada. I've learnt a lot from watching the rockhounds over in Ontario, seems to be a hot spot for rockhounds out that way. Would be awesome to see more rockhounds in the northern provinces. Would be so cool to do a trip exploring the north at some point!! What kind of minerals are you after out in nova scotia? I've seen some of the nice varieties of chalcedony out that way on the "Rockhounding Life" channel🙂
@@NWRockExplorer "Rockhounding Life" is how I got started! So yeah, I find blue chalcedony nodules, banded and fortification agates, seam agates, jasp-agates, jasper, rhyolites, porphyry, limb casts, amethyst if you're lucky. We have a few very cool fossil beaches too!
Interesting thank you.... What benefits money wise in rock picking how can i start and what basic tools do i need??? 80 yo surrounded by ancient rocks. I spyed a massive black rock peppered with shinny sharfs with 2 thick silver vbands running through it....very 3xcit3d to see your vid pop up...
I wouldn't get into rockhounding for the money, there are far better and easier business ideas out there. The best thing is to do something you really love to do regardless. It is possible to make money on a larger scale but that requires substantial investment. You might be able to recoup your cost if your a hardcore rockhound and have great spots. Basic tools to start would be an Estwing rock hammer, a small sledge hammer, a flat chisel, a backpack, safety glasses, gloves, a first aid kit, and possibly bear spray depending on your area. A GPS or mapbook is handy if your going deep in the backcountry🙂
What state are you in?
HAPPY TO SEE YOU AGAIN.USA
Some nice finds!
Thank you so much for your video. It is awesome how you share what you're actually looking at and what to look for. I'm a beginner collector and you're the first youtuber that actually shares knowledge and explains stuff. Thank you! 😊
That's awesome!! I try to share as much as I can as I'm still learning myself. I'd like to go more in depth in the future. Every winter I put a lot of effort into researching so I can put it into practice in the summer. Now Is the time to get some boots on the ground again, I'll be back out exploring soon🙂
8:50 I'm quite confident that's petrified wood. Nice finds!
Very inspiring. Got me out doing some hunting. And having some success. Is very exhilarating. I'm hooked. Thank you.