Finding Yooperlites on the Beach of Lake Superior in Michigan | Crystal Collecting
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- Yooperlites were just discovered recently back in 2017 by Erik Rintamaki. Took him a year or so to figure out what they were but come to find out they are fluorescent sodalite along with some other properties. Being that he is the founder of this special mix of minerals he named them "yooperlites Yooper because that what the people call themselves in the region, and lite, because they light up.
You can find his site at yooperlites.com if you would like to join on his expeditions! Very highly recommended for sure!!!
This is one of the expeditions we took one night and had a blast!!! whaaaaaat!
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If God gave it for free
That means it's free for all
Don't make money from free
It will go sour
You should slice these things.
@@kingxbacon i live in a mininning town trust me don't make a big scene about it just leave nature alone look but dont touch my mum always said it's a good rue
The Crystal Collector, nice stones 😍 this is a white opal mixed with lava in Volcanic movement
@@chaouchrayan u watch soon that nice shore will be trashed all because ???????????🙏 God Bless it protect it Amen
That’s insane how they light up like that. It’s almost like they’re from another world. This earth gives us the most beautiful things. Thanks Brian and Matrix!
Better still, where do they come from? What's down the bottom of that lake?
Forgive the pessimism a second; -10 bucks says whatever mystical and almost supernatural amazing life, growth, or formations are long destroyed by this disgustingly greedy race... well, not the whole human race, but you get my point. The altruistic of us are far to few, and the egoistic far to many. Now that's out of the way... lol
I too would love to see what wonders lurk beneath that mysterious lake. Wouldn't it be amazing to take a sub down there to find and investigate some old lava tubes or caves that link it to an ocean? The type of wildlife would be unimaginable.
Really cool.
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@@trupyrodice4462 Forgive the optimism a second; - we live in a wonderful and beautiful world with a Creator that is always revealing his creation.
As a kid I imagined falling stars to look like that ❤
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Bryan!!! What a great video!!!!! Thank you for coming out with me and sharing my love of Yooperlites with the world!
They are amazing!! Can they be found in other locations or just that area??? I NEED ONE!!
@@sandiscuriousthings257 anywhere in the great lakes region that glaciers took stones.
Hmmm, I live in southeast Texas but I am near the big thicket which is where a glacier came through and melted. Maybe they are there as well?
@@sandiscuriousthings257 I doubt they would be in Texas but there are tons of fluorescent minerals in the United States. Get a light and go look. Ya never know until you try. I sell lights at www.yooperlites.com
It's so fun seeing yooperlites featured on one of my favorite youtube channels!
Eeeek! That whole beach is a rockhound's dream!!!!
Most definitely! Just the "LSA's" alone are enough reason for me to go. (Lake superior agates)
For sure!!! I want them all!!!
Yeah and plus there’s tons of Petoskey stones
Got that damn straight
I would have a truckload of non-glowing rocks too before the night was over!
These are simply amazing! There is so much beauty on our planet if people would only take the time like you do to look for it. Because most of the time it's right in front of our face. Thank you so very much for sharing these are simply out of this world 🌍
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Those are dragons eggs I don’t make the rules
Nickie B I feel bad for you
Exactly what I said to my mate on forwarding this video. "dragons eggs found"
@@nickieb5297 no I will not. I'm already 6ft 5.. And a pain to find jeans to fit me. If I grow up anymore that will make it impossible to find jeans.. Can I not grow out instead.??
H. D prospecting my brother got a growth spurt going from 6’2”-6’7” in 3 months and he got stretch marks on his back
@@joeschranz4525 damn
This randomly showed up in my recommendations and it's making me want to start collecting again. So beautiful. Happily subscribed!
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They look like little balls of lava as it starts to cool off..... amazing I like it !😝
Dang u likes balls hhahah lol LMFAO
Exactly what I thought too! Or hot coals in a BBQ.
Agree!! That is what I initially thought it was!
who else wants to build a city of this stone and use uv lamps to illuminate the whole thing xD
And then whole city people will get vanished together due to skin cancer.... 😇😅
I'm coming down on acid right now lol and you just painted the most beautiful picture in my mind, that's an awesome idea lol.
i hope you like beeing sun burnt, otherwise idk
Me
I thought about decorating my living room with these and have UV lights installed but then remembered how all the jizz would light up... they should have named it jizzlite
Whoa!!! Are you kidding me!? Those are incredible!!! It's like it's own volcano in there!!! I'm in awe!!!
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Michigan is the place to be for some beautiful rocks. Just another reason to plan a rock hunting trip😉. I would have been picking up rocks left and right. Awesome find
Congrats to Erik Rintamaki for finding such an exciting rock and getting to name it! Wow. Thanks for taking us on the expedition to find some of your own ... that was fun. Thanks for sharing. .... I shared it too.
Thank you!
It's funny how I'm a Yooper and just found out about these last week. I need to take my kids for a ride now and get some uv lights.
yeah i am sure most if not all kiddies would probably have a liking to it! How cool-looking!
Wow... This is the beginning of a new chapter in rock hunting!
Wow! They're awesome...like the purple too! That would have to be fun! 👍
What an amazing find, they are gorgeous and I loved the blue one you found Bryan. Well done Eric for finding something new. One of the mysteries of Mother Nature that has been discovered. Thank you for taking us along my friend. Take care, good luck and happy hunting Mary-Ellen UK
@@ABaumstumpf new to me as I have never heard of this.
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I remember swimming in Little Prescisle frequently as a kid🤗. And after one day complaining about the rocky beaches realizing how beautiful and awesome most the rocks were. My mom finally got an answer as to why i kept insisting to go out a little further/deeper than she liked. She was *not* used to that. As in the red river, much warmer water, i was spooked from a fish nibbling my toe. And she had no problems with me staying near😅. I told her there was a peaceful feeling out there, farther out. I asked about it being from the water and she said it sounded like i was speaking of the earth. She explained things to me about the surface and beneath. Probably the first time i made a "metaphysical" connection about stones. Or one that had actually became pesonal to me based on my experience. My middle name is Jade, so i was familiar with the concept.
Thanks for sharing the video guys 🤗🤗
Wow what a great story!! Thanks for sharing 🙌⚒💎💜
WOW!!! This is why I have been a rockhound all my life ...No two rocks,crystals or fossils are ever the same ...Rock hunting to me is always like Christmas morning ya never know what ya may find...( That toad was so cute.)
Forsure mother earths surprises
@@nickieb5297 I am always in awe...
I do concrete work 20years i still find time everyday to find a stone or fossil
as a native of Michigan, I never knew!! those are awesome!!
As a Minnesota native I never knew either! I wonder how many are on the beach in Duluth?
This is sad. There are plenty for everyone. Why make it no fun like that?
@@sueiverson258 huh??
Wow! They are some beautiful rocks. Who would ever have guessed they existed
What a awesome discovery. Thanks for sharing the video. And your pup and his apple...so adorable !
I live in the Granite Belt, a fantastic rock hounding area in south east Queensland in Australia. You can find tons of cool rocks including clear and blue topaz, low quality agates and enormous smoky quartz (up to a foot long in some places, no joke). I have even been fossicking for sapphires and opals away a few hours away from my place. But if I lived in America anywhere near Lake Superior, I would drop everything and go to look for these incredible yooperlites! I love these so much!
I reckon they should be given the nickname "night opal", because they looks so much like the orange glows you can get from opals.
Lachlan Smith I LOVE that as a trade name
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Would love to make a rock garden with those stones
Or a trail with uv lights
That would be amazing .
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This man found glow stone from Minecraft
Yes just yes
Wait...in the over world?
Julie Greene
He got a Minecraft but no nether mod
Light model please
Or maybe "magma(block)" stone? :D
That whole beach is packed with gorgeous rocks, and round ones too, like perfect balls!!!
9:40 - 9:46 you litterally just captured the frogs fart with the UV light.!! That's freaking cool and hilarious 😆 did anyone else notice this.!?
I saw that lol😆😆😆😆
Nature is beautiful xD
Frog farts
What???? They are awesome!!! There's a rock covered beach in my hometown, I'm headed there with a blacklight pen ASAP!!!
So cool! And Matrix is getting big! My dog always thinks Lake Superior is playing with her when the waves splash up. 😉
ABSOLUTELY THE MOST SATISFYING VIDEO you’ve filmed ever! The water waves and the findings of these beauties, is beyond me!!!! This video is SOOO UNDERRATED!
Hello from Minnesota! I hope you're having a great time finding great rocks on lake superiors shore!
I just can’t get over how beautiful they are! I want one!!!
Those are the coolest things EVER...When the UV light hits them they look like glowing embers🔥...And the smiley face one 😀...And the galaxy 🌌one and the other one that is your new favorite with the band that wraps around? - Sweeeeeet....Yes you rock dude!...(pun intended)
Us government: *dumps radioactive waste in the lake*
UA-camr 50 years later: *wow glowing rocks*
Wow.
So sad. Don't eat em or sleep with em!
I seen a video a while back, where a woman picked up a what she thought was a pretty rock at one of the beaches she went with her family. And she put it in her pocket. A little while later she felt this awful pain where she put the rock in her pocket. It ended up burning her so badly that she ended up in the ER. And she had 3 degree burns on her leg and need surgery. FOLKS, be careful what you pick up.
🤣 🤣 🤣
I was thinking about that because uranium ore glows under uv light. It would be nice to test it with a geiger counter
Whaaaat about all that green , and Chalcedony andxagates,and jasper laying there too! Lol. I would,have more,than i could,carry in 10 minutes. Here in NC you have to dig deep and long to find anything worth keeping.
Vermont is tough, too. I've spent years with little to show. But, I do have a few nice pieces. Some of the world's best garnet nearby, but not allowed in the area to look for it.😒
Teresa Salmon walking the beach during the day is a trap! I could stay for hours! You can only pick 25 pounds a year, so you have to be selective. Anything round or egg shaped catches my eye too. I’m sunk!
my pockets would be full!
You said it.
SuperKasper333 rr
Yooperlites are fabulous. But some of those baby pink stones. Wow!!
i didnt know they have pink-coloured varieties! How cool! Couldnt wait to fetch few ones online.
Those are so cool! Thanks for showing us how they're found.
I am so glad that you had the opportunity to meet and hunt with Erik Ringtamke ( I know I spelled it wrong!) Mr Yooperlite himself. What an amazing rock to find! They just glow! Some look like they should be hot!
Yea me too! What an awesome time, it was just happenstance that we were in the same area at the same time, 🙌💎
Omg. I want a house, sidewalk and kitchen counter made of this!!!
Emerald city exist ,there is a civilisation underground using all this ,and using us like slaves .
@@lenutaionascu9073 lololol
Pretty cool rocks. I do rock shows and have recently noticed everyone walking around with their flashlights lol
Crazy the things mother nature provides us if we just look. Another awesome video mate!
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Great specimens Bryan. That blue one was really cool and unique. Outstanding video as usual!
Oh the tabletops I could make with those! What an amazing artist Mother Nature is!
You should try cracking one of them open to see if it's more clear in the middle and make a glowing geode.
Same on the inside as they are on the outside. Pattern runs all the way through.
Me: Sees way cool rock, stops video, goes to website, bookmarks it in my "To Buy" folder, resumes video...smiles.
I was hoping you'd go to Lake Superior, those Yooperlights are awesome
possibly one of my new favourites. They look so plain in the normal light and so different in uv light! it's almost like looking at another planet.
That is totally awesome. I've never heard of these and I live in Michigan. I'm going to make a trip up there in early spring right after ice out and the winter waves have washed up more. Thanks for the incredible video.
Yes I’ve heard about that event each spring, im gonna try to make it up for that also
I have never seen so many gorgeous rocks on one shore in my life!!!
Love the Name! Proves that there are still amazing things to discovery in our world.
I bought a cheap UV light, but forgot to take it with me on my annual trip to Lake Superior this summer. Bummer.
Wont find much with the cheapo lights.
@@yooperlites thanks, that's good to know.
I went out with a cheap light a week ago- don’t think my batteries were too good. My daughter found ONE, but had a different brand of light. I now have a new lamp, with more LEDs, and want to try it again. It’s always fun to go out, no matter what you find (or don’t find!LOL).
Fantastic adventure wow some magnificent finds you said it piece of space frozen in time sweet thank u be safe
The intro those gems are GLOWING
those in a fish tank would be magical
yesss
Some on UA-cam has done that
Bro under high par blue reef lights!!$$
Them are really cool stones, I will have to get a light and look for them in lower Michigan. Great video my friend.
Scott Holliday they can only be found on the shores of Lake Superior near Whitefish Point.
Somewhere along the shores of Lake superior is a Cliffside that fluoresces at night and we have not yet discovered it.Fabulous! My father, grand and great grandparents worked the copper mines of the UP, after immigrating from tin country in Cornwall GB. The Lake Superior round stones are fascinating! Congratulations on your discovery!
Ohand if you go to Munising to do the picture rocks, take the morning tour. It's best in the morning when the wind isn't blowing and the water is like a mirror and the reflection off the water and the colored rocks is incredible.
Oh wow thanks for the advice! That makes sense!!
Stunning! I want some now! I live in Northern Cal and have to put this on the bucket list! How fun!
Me too ❤
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Omg that's stunning 😍 my mind went crazy with ideas to use them lol.
Ann Davis Display case with a UV light. Dang, that galaxy one!
A floor made of that in the garage would be so cool 😘
They are amazing...great video thanks for sharing! ✌️
That is an awesome and brilliant discovery! Great video and video subject.
💥💥💥 Cosmic 💥💥💥 Galactic 💥💥💥 Fell from the galaxy is what it seems! Eric from Yooperlites ... u discovered something so cool! Never seen anything like it before. Bryan your vids are so much fun I wish I could wiggle my nose n magically be there. Love this
Thank you!
Yess! I started watching your videos when i lived in Colorado. I recently moved back to my home town in Michigan. Glad you made it up here!
So the Green glowing rocks at Fukashima should be called Fukalites?😂👍
LOL
LOL, How funny.
🤣
LOL 😂
Cool stone!!! We love finding new rocks! Great video.
I genuinely thought I was on Erik Rintamaki's channel until I heard your "Whaaaaaaat?" ^^
Oh my gosh those are amazing! I’ve never seen anything like them! Thanks for sharing! 😍😃
Oh man might have a new favourite stone! Just awesome mate!!!!! 👌✨
This is like wow! Thanks for the share.
I love all things sparkle and thought this was fascinating and just to add to all the others I've seen on your channel that I didn't even know existed lol. I love crystals thank you for sharing your channel
Like opals for ravers. I bet you could cut and sell jewelry to dance club goers.
Honestly not a bad idea at all
I was thinking the same thing!
dchubb42 I have a pendant, but I’m far from a raver . 🤣
lmfao. raves. grow up
I want a whole suit of armor
They are Beautiful! Thank you for sharing them with us! 👍
Huge fan. I Love these glowing rocks!
Thanks so much for watching!
Great video
This past year my brother and I traveled to the UP by lake superior and found a ton of yooperlites ourselves, really beautiful stones!
That’s awesome, it’s so much fun!
Astounding! Meanwhile, admiring every other stone on the shore as well!
I’ve never seen them. Super cool ! 😎✌🏼💫
I’ve never been crystal hunting or geode hunting but have always been fascinated with stones of any kind, 68 now and a little old to start but sure do love your videos!!
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i wish your still healthy and living happily! And nah, it probably wont be too old to start this hobby, irregardless of your age. I used to collect crystals when younger.
I am still in crazy love with collectible stones of all kinds and of all seven colours on rainbows, be they precious stones, semi-precious ones, or just common glowing rocks like yooperites and sodalites.
And they say everything has been done. Beautiful.
Oh wow these are just amazing,I wish the UK had got unique stones like this. These are STUNNING!
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I love it. I would line my flower bed with them and put black light up at night
I was thinking along those lines myself. The landscaping possibilities are intriguing. I wonder if the site of the source rock is known?
@@charleskunkle7029 I'm sure they are along a big part of the North shore. Those glaciers spread stuff out far and wide a long with the ice on the lake every year then breaks up and carries rocks all over.
Uv may interfere with flowering cycle😝 infact
@@Zeddicus_Zorander Oh you're so right. Well then I would just use it for my front flower beds that actually have red wood chips and bolders and no flowers.
Beautiful thanks for telling us about these precious stones
Wouldn't it be cool to see setups in living rooms with these stones and the lights over them? Super gorgeous and inviting.
Great video! Awesome Yooperlites! Tyfs.
I would have named them lavamite !
I'd had no idea they were such a recent discovery! They're gorgeous.
Dang every stone on those shores are pretty
Those yooperlites are so cool. Good find!
Dude, I would go collect as many as I could, then use them to line out a walkway to your door. And put a UV bulb in place to illuminate them at night! 👍
@pokenei You can say that again. I had a nice little collection of ammonites, and didn't have much room for them inside my house, so I arranged most of them out in my little flower garden. Somebody came by and stole every one of them.
That is awesome! Congratulations😘
Now we know how the rocks on Indiana Jones movie glow.😉😉😂😂
Now this is a trip I would love to take with my family. We are a very adventurous family. This is one we can not pass.
These look super fun, I'm going to have to get some of my Earth science students up there to collect these sometime.
Absolutely cool!!! Thank you for sharing!
Wow really cool looking Rock ever 10out10!!! :D
Thanks for sharing! I will definitely check these guys out when I get back to the UP.
Since your in that area, you should also do some lake superior agate hunting 😊 my favorite American agate to collect lol
Yes, I went and I have a video that needs to be edited, it could be a month before I get it out due to just being so busy but it was so much fun!
Welcome to Michigan and the amazing U.P.! For those that don’t know, a person who lives in the Upper Peninsula - or U.P. - is called a “Yooper”. It comes from “U” “P” -Er. That’s why Eric named them “Yooperlites”. They are cool rocks, but I for one, will be glad when the Yooperlites craze fades. Too many people walking the beaches all night long looking for these. No, they are not radioactive. Nor Opal. Nor are they charged by sunlight. They have fluorescent sodalite in them that is only visible by certain waves (UV) of light. Which is why you need a special flashlight to find them. In normal light, they look like just plain granite rocks. But the U.P. has so many amazing geological finds! (BTW: I think you can find them for sale online and I think Eric has a website to sell them too.)
This inspired me so much that I wrote a poem! What should the title be??
I found a galaxy on the beach and had to take it home!
It was beautiful and speckled, and I swear to you it shone!
Under the autumn-moonlight I tried counting all its stars,
As I held it tightly in my hand, and climbed into the car...
I raised it to the window and I squinted both my eyes,
Because I’ve heard the poets say that galaxies are planets in disguise...
I held my breath as a shooting star flew right under my nose...
This galaxy inside my hands is living, I suppose!
And as the sky above me darkened and my own stars came into view,
I closed my eyes, wondering, if someone’s holding my galaxy too
That was Great, man! 👍👍👍
My young son loves hearing poems, I read yours aloud and he clapped very eagerly and giggled.
@@shakifaery wow 😌🥺 that’s the best compliment… I swear, that just made my whole week 💕
Way to cool. Thanks for the video. Some thing cool to do at night.