Unboxing the Gemstones of Utah | Gems Across America
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Utah, home of Red Beryl - one of the rarest gemstones in the world - plus a Topaz Mountain, and a unique rock known as "Ice Cream Stone." On today's Gems Across America episode, Elizabeth uses her geology and gemology expertise to unbox the coolest specimens from a rockhound's paradise.
02:07 - Red Beryl or Red Emerald???
04:46 - Topaz Mountain Treasures
06:50 - Unboxing Variscite
08:32 - What is Ice Cream Stone?
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At topaz mountain you can pay about $600 to have them blast fresh rock at a private claim and be able to take anything you find in it. But you can honestly just walk the runoff beds coming down the mountain and find gorgeous sun-bleached topaz crystals.
Not anymore. He changed it in February to 800
Alot of the mountain is still blm land from what I understand.
@@bellashealingartistry8934 that's unfortunate. But I imagine COVID hit them hard...
@@qgardner9403 yes in deed! Well worth a visit if you are ever in the area!
Wow, I’ve never ever seen a faceted Red Beryl before, I didn’t even know it was possible. Loved the Tiffany stone, beautiful. Also that Topaz was so clean. Thank you for sharing.
Camping at Mt. Topaz, the wife and I got into a rock hounding frenzy, and were unable to stop crawling around until several hours after dark, despite having to drive over a thousand miles home the next morning
About the bananas. Every time someone brings up Potassium, i reminds me of the time when I was at Reed, and a bunch of atomophobs convinced the student body to ban all radioactive materials from all student accessible areas.
The Dean put myself and a few other students in charge of presenting a counter argument to their claims. My strategy was what I called the “Ben Franklin” approach.
I let them have there way, then rigorously enforced the rule the rules, without mercy or exception.
I had the class members who pressed this rule bagged up and taken away by the cities hazmat team. When they protested, i listed off every radioactive element in their body, that they would die without.
Benjamin Franklin sad “The true test of a laws merit, is it rigorous and impartial enforcement. Especially upon those who enacted it.”
as a geology college drop out from utah I love this episode!
Another mineral found there is Utahite
Utahite is an extremely rare secondary copper zinc tellurate mineral found as a product of oxidation. Its chemical formula is Cu₅Zn₃(Te⁶⁺O₄)₄(OH)₈•7H₂O. It was first described in 1997 for an occurrence in the Centennial Eureka mine, one mile southeast of Eureka, Tintic District, Juab County, Utah, US
i find it funny that they didn't like the name bixbite for being easy to confuse with bixbyite but then they let utahite slide when a synonym for variscite is utahLITE. not confusing at all
they did a pretty bad job naming this mineral btw, but at least it's not eurekadumpite, that one hurts to say
@@somethinginthewalls388 i like the name bixbite and I still use it even though it's one letter off from Bixbyite. Huh didn't know Variscite has that nickname yet Utahite is very different from that mineral. Eurekadumpite even though that name is hilarious, it's a beautiful blue mineral with fannish spray like crystals found in north star mine.
@@braintwo3398 okok a bit late but is there ANY place at all where i can get an utahite specimen bc the more i look at it the more i fall in love with its color and shape. also it's a tellurate that actually looks good. you don't get many of those
@@somethinginthewalls388 really a tellurate that looks good? Do others looked bad and I do Its on ebay which yes I know he weary but this seller I've seen has minerals you never normally encounter. He has a specimen that is Utahite and it's Dagenaisite too.
@@braintwo3398 i live in romania and our country has many tellurate and telluride minerals... all rare but they're often black/silvery microcrystals that are very aesthetically unappealing (at least to me) it's more the tellurates that look better but it's often bc they have copper and that makes them blue or green. agaite for example is a really deep blue green color but again, it's the copper
i really don't trust anything on ebay but thanks for telling me anyway!
So I'm shocked to watch this video and not have you mentioned dugway geobeds where people can just go out there and search for very interesting geodes that can fluoresce and more important the septarian dragon eggs that can be found in utah. These dragon eggs are by far some of the coolest gems you can find.
What a colorful episode. Those Topaz were beautiful love that color of topaz. Red beryl is always a joy and I agree it’s very raspberry like.
My great uncle was a geologist, he told me they used to call it Scarlett emerald way way back.
Great minerals, I would love to go mining out there. Utah also has some amethyst. I have a small geode with light amethyst crystals formed in rhyolte from the Wah Wah mountains.
Just bought a 132.46 carat uncut red beryl certified will make a video when I receive it but can’t wait to get it !!
I would like to see different tourmaline colors from the Himalaya mine from California. Very nice looking red beryl, love the topaz and all the others you had in the video.
Here is a REALLY tough state to do.....try and do Kentucky! I would really like to see what interesting minerals you can come up with other than Fluorite or Agates
That last fact about Topaz being Utah's state gemstone reminded me of my current state, whos gemstone is Black Coral. And while olovine, peridot, and obsidian can be found here there really isnt any dedicated gem excavations. Pearl's and dead coral are just easier to find and or synthesize. And people are more interested in the beaches anyways.
Nice presentation, I learned something!
I earned both of my degrees in geology in Utah. On different field trips, I visited both the Topaz Mountain and the red beryl mine. Unfortunately, at the time of my trip to the red beryl mine, the owners were in negotiations to sell it. So, we were not allowed to actually go in. The owners of the mine used to let students from my school go in on occasion and collect samples. Anything under a certain size that they found they were allowed to keep. Over that size and they had to turn it in to the mine owner who would then pay the a finder's fee for the crystal.
I did manage to collect quite a few topaz crystals on my visit to Topaz Mountain. Unfortunately, I don't know what became of those samples. 😞
I've been waiting for this one!
honestly i don't blame elizabeth for thinking the topaz crystals look faceted. if you gave one of those to me and said the terminations were polished i would've believed you
if you ever do an episode on Texas then PLEASE bring a specimen of chambersite. it's one of my favorite minerals, but getting ahold of one might be hard. they are very rare and very hard to obtain too - you have to go as deep as 70 ft below the surface to get a chance of obtaining a single crystal!
Wow, those gemstones from Utah are very beautiful.😯😀💎 I like all of them. Never knew there're many types of red beryl.❤💎 Some have unique names like the Tiffany/ice cream🍨💎 stone and the topaz mountain.🗻 It's interesting to know about them and where to find them. Thanks for sharing and nice video.😊💎
When are y'all gonna get to Nevada? We have the only opal in the US (from petrified trees and brightly flourescent) plus garnets, gold, silver, agate, fluorite, turquoise, beryl, and azurite.
I love the blue opaque stones, and I now currently live in New Mexico. Could you do a video about Turquoise (We actually have a rural highway, east of the Sandia Mountains, called the Turquoise Trail. I also hear there is Amozonite here, and other blue and green gem quality minerals here.
Oquirrh is pronounced oh-cur. Accent on the oh. Thanks for spotlighting my state.
Magnificent sweet sweet stones fantastic knowledge have to agree that topaz awesome awesome thank you another fantastic video
Nice rocks! Enjoy watching ur show!
Thanks!
thank you very much we are from Ethiopia we can supply gemstone
Yes yes I love red beryl 😊
But...they do have green aquamarine...
I like the name bixbite personally. Why not red maynardite lol ?
I managed to score a little topaz piece that looks just like that one except it a rich peachy-red colour, still very transparent and gemmy, just tinted with colour!
Great Utah-inside-jokes! 😂 and really cool finds!
That's really cool about the red beryl! Odd tie in to your gemstones in video games vids...I am currently playing Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town and one of the gems I have had the easiest time finding from the very beginning is red beryl! LOL :P
I would like to see what is in Illinois.
They seem to get small red beryl samples in its host rock at a rock store near me.
I would like to see an episode about South Dakota.
"break the crap out of rocks" .......... i think i am in love with U
Oquirrh = Oak-er ... fun video
Love the beryl s. What’s the easiest way to tell between quartz and beryl?
not all of topaz mountain is on a claim, you totally could go to those and find sherry topaz and red beryl! its amazing
I don't know about the red beryl. I believe that that is all in the boundaries of a claim. But, there are areas where you can just drive in and start digging for topaz.
@Glenn Blaylock You totally can, you just go to a bit of higher elevation on the west wall of the dome and you'll find some :)
I had never seen this show before. I am hooked! This is very cool. Have you did a show about California? I would like to see it. And one about Wisconsin. Thank you
Please get to Indiana.
I would so bust rocks for a living as well I would love that job soo much
I live in Texas and would love to see what beauties you guys would pull out
Love that topaz ❤
Nevada next please!
NJ
I'd like to see gems from Idaho and Wyoming
Oquirrh is pronounced locally as "ochre"/oh-ker
I was getting ready to post this same comment
Colorado! We have several mines. Rhodochrosite, the gemmy stuff.
Check it out!: ua-cam.com/video/07gRZ4p9hJ4/v-deo.html
I'm not sure if I buy the whole 1 ton of ore Rhyolite to find a single carat Gem. That sounds great on paper, but it has no accounting for geological processes or luck. Maybe just a better way of stating this is that the Red Beryl production zone is buried under the ground, as opposed to the mine on Mt. Antero Colorado where the stones are at the tippy top of the mountain and just waiting for people to come brush the surface off to find them. This sounds far more difficult as you would have to dig through a dickload of Rhyolite to find them. Btw, Rhyolite has hardness 6 on the mohs scale, which makes it technically more scratch resistant than Steel. However, Steel has a much more tight molecular bond, so it is still possible to penetrate, but requires much more force, XD no wonder there aren't any Red Beryls, nobody wants to pay millions of dollars to mine them.
great show would have loved to see azurite from La sal tho may be on round 2
South Dakota!
I would love to see a video on Virginia!
I want to see Georgia and West Virginia. I’m curious if West Virginia produces anything besides coal.
I'm not huge fan of JT, but she's well informed. 👍
I have a 750 gold ring with a faceted red beryl 2.8 mm from the Gavin Linsell brand. and in November I will get a faceted red beryl 0.13 ct with a dream size of 4×3.5 mm. the red beryl is one of my favorites. so the red beryl. the Hayun from the Eifel. Benitoite in gemstone quality will eventually be sold out worldwide. then you just have to find a collector. Even Gavin Linsell says the 3 will soon be sold out. the Russian alexandrite anyway.
How about a focus on Maine?😊
Again I just wanted to let you know you done an excellent job on the red beryl it's about time somebody explained that about Bixbite I'm going to give you a little information you probably didn't know Lamar Hodges found the red beryl in the wah wahs in 1959. Maynard Bixby found the beryl at the topaz mountain range in 1905 the red beryl at topaz mountain are tabular and they're not Jem quality Lamar Hodges is my grandpa me and my dad and uncle Steve Hodges set the first stick of dynamite off at the Wah wah mine my dad is the one that sold the mine to Robert & Rex & Ted Harris me and My Three sons are currently opening up a new area for red beryl we have all the associated minerals for red beryl
Good to know! And thanks for checking out our videos. We didn't have time to go into all the history in this video, but you might be interested to know that Elizabeth previously wrote an article for Gem-A , that goes into the history a bit more and touches on Lamar Hodges' discovery. gem-a.com/gem-hub/around-the-world/american-gemstones-red-beryl-utah
@@gems thank you I really appreciate that they done an excellent!! job on that report by the way I mentioned we are currently looking for a new positive red beryl we have found all the associated minerals we will keep you informed and thanks again
Wyoming
Georgia
I thought it was Tiffany stone because it looked like a Tiffany glass lamp.
Have you done New Mexico?
Yes! ua-cam.com/video/AmHLwbuhS6k/v-deo.html
You heard my plea!!!
Do any of you buy red Beryl ?
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Alabama
Oquirrh = Oh-ker
Arizona?
Arizona was vast! ua-cam.com/video/nw5_CvmZYWE/v-deo.html
Hi... watching from riyadh... how much per ct natural ruby... thank you for your answer...God bless...
Red Beryl, also sometimes called "Scarlet Emeralds", which I think is a MUCH cooler name.
What happened to Natalie?
Natalie wanted to try new things. We wish her the best.
Being from Utah and hearing her pronounce these areas is making me laugh. I guess us Utah folk really do have an accent 😆👌.
Oquirrh is pronounced oak-where
Beryl is pronounced just berrrl (almost southern)
Creek is pronounced crick
wont find anything in alabama , quartz but ehh
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The heading was about red beryl. I would of loved to of seen more of the very rare red beryl, but the host decided to focus on the boring common Utah topaz. Very disappointing. I suggest that you find a better host for this series.
I'd say kansas but that state has nothing
Ohio. Curious to know what gems come from Ohio. Thank you for letting us know not to call it bixbite.
I think I love u let's go.rock hunting sweety
Your saying it wrong it's not barrel it beryl
Diamonds are not rare! Just overpriced!
The info was almost right in this video but red beryl comes from the violet mine in the wah wahs and may need byxbe found byxbite on topaz moutian.the red beryl mine was discovered by Lamar Hodges and Mitchell Hodges the only place to get gem quality red beryl can be found.
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