What in the World Are People Looking For?
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2021
- It's time to do some investigation, why in the world are people out here digging?
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Thank you for cleaning that up.
Good on you! The trees will be grateful for the covered roots
Yep. Strange not to find any float at all.
I know, right? I have never been to a location with zero float.
You always try to explain, sometimes things are just unexplainable. Cool quartz!
I can almost smell those Ponderosa pines and Douglas firs on a warm summer day. That's pretty cool find.
Thanks man!
When I asked my seven year old grandson if he had anything he wanted to say about this video he said "It was Great!"
Awwww, tell him thank you for me.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Sure did! He likes to watch your videos. He was asking where Sara and Lyka were.
That looks like beautiful digging soil, but I can't imagine what it would have taken to get through the likely mat of roots to reach it. Based on the location, is there any chance that people were actually digging for the dirt? There's a funny little sub-culture in the gardening community that likes to collect soil from particular "healthy areas" to propagate certain bacterial and fungal balances into backyard gardens in pursuit of thriving plants of particular types. Not sure how deep their holes are (trying to avoid carrying weeds, but still keep the microbiota), but the diggers might not be after rocks after all.
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. I enjoy learning from you.
Thank you for watching! I just try to share the journey.
Me? What am I looking for?.... my mind..
Nice. Doing your homework for perhaps trip back ??? You earned an A+ from me. Very freaking cool.
I'm glad you liked it.
I love finding new places to rockhound! Especially when there is on one else around, which makes it such a nice excursion. Definitely a good place to explore some more!
I think that's the case pretty much everywhere here. It's always quite.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding As is most cases in Utah, unless you go to the well-known places like topaz mountain.
Minnesota(?)!
Appear to be prospect pits to me. I dig them all the time up here in Ontario looking for weathered calcite veins.
Well I'm glad I dug up my moonshine stash out of there last year or you would be having an amazing Saturday Night Special this weekend! LOL!
Dang it! I'll keep looking for your stash.
I thought you might be asking me what I am looking for, I have a list. Put some of the host rock under UV light before you give up. My fear of rockhounders not filling back in the holes has nothing to do with the forest. Its more about enviromentlists seeing it and using it for a way to shut down what I love to do. All you have to do is see what the gold miners are going thru right now and once they shut them down, guess who is going to be next. Just in my lifetime I have seen many areas that I used to collect in have no access now.
I did look at it under both the long and short wave lights and see nothing.
I have been following that issue here in Washington, I'm well aware of what they are now going through.
I have to agree. I have been with others looking around and found holes, but was unable to see what they were digging for and moved on. There should be some proof in the tailings. Thanks for the great info and those amethyst look great no matter the size. Good indicators for next time. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
I really think it was kinda odd, I feel like someone dug a hole, and other have just came along and everyone has found nothing.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I'v seen it before.
Good luck on the Amethyst dig! Looking forward to the video
Great way to start a morning!
: )
Duuuuuuudddddeeee! Super stoked about the Amethyst! Looking forward to more!
Oh yeah, I fully plan on heading back and doing some proper searching in that area but on this adventure it was super hot, and the air was thick with smoke.
🥾🥾 these boots are made for digging
Loving my rock hound adventures….
On this glorious day I n Michigan…
Thanks friend…..
I always love seeing your comments! : )
@@CurrentlyRockhounding
Your channel for me is a dream come true… I’ve been interested since childhood a “closet” rock hound …
(Cause real girls don’t dig)…. 😂
Hey!
You just filled in 3 months of my work towards making my underground home.
Ha! More like pudding stone....
So, i know some people who will take their unwanted material, and even some people who do it maliciously, and spread them in areas where they dont come from. Its essentially harmless, BUT, that might be the kinda thing you have here. Somebody leaves behind something that wasnt there naturally, others did to find more. OR, like you said, once person digs a test hole, then others follow, heck i have done that several times!
Im down here in Western Nevada, and started Rock hounding back in April. I struck the Rock hounders in July, and found a vein of LARGE (3-12" crystals, and plates 10-20") of the Purple stuff. And, it was untouched, in a remote, easy access area, so we got a claim on it! Lol, imagine that, starting this hobby, then having a claim of amethyst in just 4 months time. If your ever down by Reno, hit me up, ill take you there. I would love to get an experienced person to give it a look over. We have a pegmatite swarm, in low sage brush hills.
Nice insight thank you.
Thanks for coming by and watching!
Send me the coordinates to that spot I really need to go investigate deeply into why people are digging out there I have to bring my pan.lol
New to your channel. Cool informative video. I really (dig) what I can see of your gem & mineral collection.
Welcome! I have 260+ videos here to check out and a website as well!
Another interesting video, Jared, good of you to undertake a bit of a cleanup, if everyone did a little bit that would be great instead of leaving holes everywhere, not a good look for the hobby. It is usually a lot easier to fill in a hole rather than dig it. I have not really undertaken any digging yet but I might get the opportunity in October, going on my first Group Fossicking/camping Trip, so long as we are not in lockdown or border restrictions at the time.
Keep Safe & Keep Rockin
Very informative! I’ve seen holes like this before and always assumed it was animals! Great video!
I guess it could be but this really seems like someone was chasing something.
One thing that gets me is people digging out under live trees around the roots. Nice video dude! My inner Karen was triggered when you started talking about backfilling. haha love it! :)
The roots catch the tailings!
The trees have a way of telling how long the ground has been untouched ground away from tree sometimes has been possibly dug and reclaimed or trampled by cows squishing out the good stuff and freezes . Under trees is very common in many locations . Go look at dendrite butte and that Idaho location .
@@magapickle01 I've done well not digging under live trees. Just my preference. 🤷🏻♂️🤘
Bro! I live in spokane. Ive been looking for a rockhounding buddy. Or just some places to go dig. I want to take my daughter.
Hello Bryant! You should try to make it to the Rock Rollers club for the tailgate sale on the 14th, Ill be there and we can chat about it. Also I have listings on my website you might like.
Good luck in your amethyst hunt. You work hard and I am so glad it paid off. More next time😀
Oh I will find a nice deposit!
😱 those amethysts are beautiful!
Thank you.
As far as crystals go, Amethyst is my favorite! Awesome stuff!
Gold miner's are crazy sometimes, gold fever destruction
You're right it doesn't happen by accident because they're probably was gold there and still probably is some gold there so grab yourself a shovel and a pan and go find some water and see what you can find
If you grab a pen and a shovel and some water you could find some gold
Dude I’m after amethyst in Missouri... rare find here. Rock on Jared 👍🏼
It's also somewhat rare here as well.
My bad granite holds amethyst
Was that a publicized spot or you just came across it?
This is just a spot I came across when driving around looking investigating an area hoping that it would have crystals since the areas geology is conducive to it.
All the amethyst I have found up there has been in an area named trout creek, most of the crystals I find are smokey or clear.
That's in SW Washington?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding negative, trout creek is near kettle falls but I do most of my searching on the Idaho washington border west of priest lake
@@tysonh147 I see, I think Washington has 7 or 8 Trout Creeks that I know of.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding there are some big smokeys that come out where I normally did near squaw creek which is in the books, did a lot of exploring around that area and found a few spots to get away from the crowds. If you don't mind getting your rig scratched up a little there are a lot of places around there.
Thanks for sharing the site repair and the 'hounding' part of rockhounding. We'd call it Rockfinding if it was always about killer scores. Hunting is part of it and it can be enjoyable as well as constructive as you've shown here. Cool little amethyst points, though. Hope you find the pocket!
Nice finds.
Thank you!
Why the heck didn’t they fill in their holes?!?!? I guess I watch too many metal detectors!
It's kind of a complex issue, there's locations and situations that warrant leaving holes open. Example a well known and good rockhounding spot it makes more sense and a causes less problems to just leave holes open since people generally won't or don't want to muck a hole out so the area just expands a new holes get dug vs leaving one open for the next person who could be just a few hours after you.
What did you use to clean the muscovite? I love how it turned out!
Just dish soap and hot water.
Where abouts in NE Washington are you?
Is there gold or other metals in the area? You maybe should pan some of that dirt out under that tree they dug out.
I think next time I'm in the area I will get some of the dirt to pan out. The miss dirt would explain that.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding The holes were at the bottom of the hill correct and some under trees, gold just popped in my head when you were down in that hole, I couldn't think of anything else, reminds me of when I'm gold prospecting out here in Arizona, down in a deep hole under a tree lol.
If you're in an area that had native American tribes running around those holes could be from digging arrowheads and other related items.
I'm always afraid when I'm hiking about that I'll one day see a badger den (I don't live near where badgers are, but some day I might) and try to dig it thinking someone wanted what was under there only to be met with a very angry mustelid and all of its teeth.
That would be rather unfortunate.
Maybe you can find better quality Amethyst wherever you found your Amethyst
Oh I will be returning for some proper digging.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding if you find a real deep purple then you are in luck
We've found a lot of holes similar to that down here in AZ. And we always wonder the same thing. What where they looking for?
Plasma Agate, BLM just open the Clear Creek area in San Benito and Fresno Counties, near the New Idria Mercury mine. Thanks for sharing.
I’m in Fresno county, care to share more info on the BLM changes 😍
@@juliamarie9055 I understand the Clear Creek area was closed due to an surface exposed asbestos vein. It was reopened a few years ago (2015?).
Oh awesome but beautiful samples thank you 😊
I think they are pretty neat.
I Hope is not bear Digging
Religion or not, open holes can be dangerous, so kudos to all of the backfillers. I have never done this type of rock hounding but would definitely never leave an open hole.
It's kind of a complex issue, there's locations and situations that warrant leaving holes open. Example a well known and good rockhounding spot it makes more sense and a causes less problems to just leave holes open since people generally won't or don't want to muck a hole out so the area just expands a new holes get dug vs leaving one open for the next person who could be just a few hours after you.
Quartz holds gold right? Don't people take it and smash it all up to pan out the gold?
That is a thing they do but I really don't know much about that.
See you thought they were digging for rocks. Truth is someone just forgot where they buried their treasure and took a few holes to find it 🤣 lol. Very curious what they were finding though that they kept digging.
Oh wait was the amethyst from those holes?! Is that what they were digging or unrelated and you were saying you found that somewhere else?!
You know that's not really that crazy of an idea, I didn't even think that could be the case.
No the Amethyst was found at another location in the area.
I’ll trek out with you to dig amethyst. I’m out in nine mile falls.
I'm still in the process of locating a good deposit. How do you like Nine Mile?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding it has been very good to us so far. I noticed that there are two platinum mines just north of my location. According to the diggings web site. I also have a gold mine that produced about 20 years ago. It’s about 5 hours from the Spokane area in Montana. I don’t have the eye to read the land. So I haven’t ventured out there yet.
@@matttysonrupp Drop me and email and we can chat more about it.
Here's my HYPOTHESIS!!! They were digging for Native American Artifacts. That quartz would be a a good quarry source for tools. I have seen here in Arkansas a couple of places on hillsides where Native Americans would quarry material. There will not be alot of manufacturer flakes just mainly large test spall chunks but there's a possibility for finding large preform and blade caches.
Be great to see you and Nick Zentner of Central Washington University do a field trip together.
That would be amazing, but I doubt he even knows who I am, he's quite the busy guy.
so are you going to tell 12,000+ people where you found the amethyst? haha just kidding! I like finding my own special sites, and yes I have found some crazy stuff that no one thought existed in my area. There are gelological anomalies out there, just have to find them! It looks like the blind were following the blind with the holes thing, obviously the first guy found 1 cool crystal or rock and then told a dozen people and they found nothing lol
Oh its coming, it just wasn't going work into this video very well and I didn't find much due to time, heat, and smoke. But its coming!
I feel like that might be the situation here.
Some of that stuff looks like fossilized plants.
It kinda does but the geological processes in place here would not allow for fossilized plants
I.. there’s to large of pits to be just nothing or exploring. You can tell the test holes from the ones prospected. The hole with no tailings, it was back filled. You needed to clean out one of the holes to expose the entire bottom.
I agree, it sure seems like this area has too big of holes and too many to just be poking around and testing. However in all my digging which there was a lot of off camera I didn't even the smallest of chip of anything. We have gone to 100's of locations now and if there something good you can always find at least a discarded low quality, broken clue of what someone was getting into.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I’m thinking whoever dig those holes invested a lot of hours. And it appears they hid their intentions well. For me, I wouldn’t invest half that time for nothing. The clear quartz is a big clue in my opinion. And it must be larger only if they didn’t classify the tailings. Little clues
And if I found something worth that much digging I’d hide it too. I wonder if you dig the wall of one of the larger pits about a foot or two wider.. also seemed like they were all about the same depths
@@2HighNoon Agreed
Clearly most of the holes went deep. Then spread out like when people bottle dump dig. They are looking for that layer that has all the glass. This looks no different. It appears you need to get under the overburden and then go sideways. The Houser geode beds in California are like that. I got into a hole already started and dug into the wall farther. I pulled out two geode conglomerates. One was the size of a grapefruit, the other the size of a good sized watermelon. The tailings though containing small broken geode remnants were pretty much not worth looking through. The very end when you gave up you were filming s hole with shovel marks. You need to dig into those walls to find what, obviously, quite a few people were digging for.
Another note. You really pushed the bunk theory and watching the remainder of the video I thought of one more evidence. Some of those holes were long. Like they were following a seam. The fact that the holes are not just deep, but long, I say they were finding something.
Off camera I spent some serious time digging and opening up a hole, screening it as well and came up empty handed.
I really want to agree with you that they were finding something, cause otherwise that's a lot of work to find nothing but there was no evidence of finding things otherwise which has been the case with all other rockhounding locations I have been to.
Bear dens?
I don't know about that.
I have a couple rocks that I'd like to send you if you're interested.
That's very kinda of you! I do have PO BOX!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Awesome! Send me your PO Box and I'll send you some neat samples of agate/jasper I took from Oregon and a sample of what I think is serpentinite from San Francisco area. If you like the Oregon sample I'm more than willing to share the location.
truffle hunting?
Maybe, but these holes, seem pretty deep for that based on what little I know about the subject.