I 've been treated for cancer since February. No energy or motivation to do anything. Between your video , Shane and Pauly's I've been getting up and out playing in the creek and mud. Thanks. It's the best I've felt in years. Words really can't describe. Randy Ray. Morganton, Ga. Best place on earth. Or close.
That prospect looks great for rockhounding on...nice crystals and clean calsite after the acid of course. A great video Dan. Your club will have fun there for sure. 👍. Thanks for the great trip and tag along. And until your next great video...Bye 👍
Just beautiful Dan. The crystals look like they're part of an ice glacier inside a cave but on a mini scale and some of them are so gemmy clear! Absolutely beautiful!
*Never mind the 'cultivated odd persona'...it seriously gives me the 'chuckles' over the tiny specimens you have, because I have THOUSANDS in my yards...many of which are over fifty-pounds of 'pure' calcites...and fluorite specimens as well that are 'just something for me to look-at in the side-yard off the kitchen' and of course...perhaps 4 or 5-hundred lbs.of 'Fluorspar' as well...all of which I collected 'freebie'*
a rock hound myself :) thanks for the great informative video Dan ! i have a massive collection i have always been apprehensive about putting in acid . now that i have seen you do it i will be cleaning up some very rare finds i have had for years.thanks again.
Hellooooo Dan Hurd. Been moving house, got a new job, and a new phone. Been weeks since I have been able to watch and this popped up in my feed. Good to see you again my friend. Anther great video.
that acid treatment for exposing the chrystal is fascinating and how beautiful it is,we are so blessed with the riches our plant earth gives us brilliant!!!!!
Don't ever let anybody or money change you if you ever get rich don't let it change the way you are right now cuz you are very unique and a very good person it shows in your videos you spend a lot of time with your family and love them very much don't ever change the way you are ever
Always something interesting to watch and learn with you! I bet you find it really hard to go back to work when you have all these wonderful claims and other hobbies that have to be put on the back burner. Thanks for sharing another great video!
Not a new subscriber, but I am a new patreon member. I just wanted to say, I love all the different things that you do. You have a wide variety of things you do and you share it, to give us so much good content. I wanted to leave and comment and be sure to thank you for all of your hard work so, thank you! You are very much appreciated!
Amazing video, Dan! I am hoping we are going to get an update as to what those green crystals/formations were inside the rocks! Great photos at the end, as well! Thank you for sharing it with us!
I would love a small cluster of crystals like that. I have a passion for tiny things and that would be so awesome to display with my collection! So lovely!
Dan thanks for getting me back into Geology and rocks(same thing i know). And learning about the acid and water to clean the specimens. Cant wait to have a chance to get out in the field again and prospect.
In case you weren't aware vinegar is available in three strengths. 5% is household, 7% is pickling and 10% in industrial or cleaning vinegar. The 10 works quite well in my tries. Cheers, Billy in Ladysmith
Quartz has the very useful characteristic of having the lowest coefficient of thermal expansion that we know of. It is transparent to cellphone frequence radio waves and allows cellphone masts to stay in tune as the weather changes.
Really neat formation process, and keeping a little of the calcite intact to keep both plate faces connected displays so much nicer than just having them separate. Between you and MeMiner I'm starting to think of shifting my retirement plans from Montana to BC.
Yeah dude, Dan, that was amazingly cool. Thanks bud. Just cool to see it in timelaps but also to see what was left after the calcite melted away. So beautiful!
What beautiful crystals. I'm going to have to try that. I always wondered how one recovered the crystals from rock specimens. The claim should satisfy the needs of the 1120. Thanks for the valuable information. Have a great day and be safe Dan. Great video.
Just started watching your vlogs they're very entertaining and educational. My wife who loves to pan for gold has yet to see your adventures. I can't wait to show her she will be very impressed. Thanks for taking us on your adventures 😊. Can't wait for the Bell to ring for the next one.
Great Video Dan. I find lots of calcite seams in limestone along with iron pyrite. I wish the ones around here had crystals in them like that. I do give some of them a quick acid bath to give it that waxy smooth look.
Very very beautiful, especially @ 17:11. Same can be said about your crystals too. Some of them or parts thereof seemed to be a little smokey quartz. Don't really know if that's possible, whether they can live together like that. Inspirational Dan, just love your knowledge :)
I am in no way someone who has ever been interested in rocks/gems (geology?) but your channel has really caught my eye & I am beginning to grow an interest in this field. I love your attitude & enthusiasm for this subject. By any chance are you going to look for amethysts or hematite any time soon?
I live in Manitoba and we have alot of limestone with crystals in them. Would putting them in acid also desolve the limestone and reveal the crystals better. This was such a great video thanks
I have a spot here in CO USA that less than 7 people know about where I found Geodes That are agate/calcite/quartz crystals. I have only ever cut them never tried an acid bath. Gonna have to give it a go and see how they turn out!
Amazing!!! That's really what I'm into! I post all my gem finds on my UA-cam! Honestly I can't get enough of them because of how beautiful they are! And my goodness there's a lot of Crystal Gems here in Utah!
Dan, Those are some awesome quartz specimens. Looks like they, green ones, may have some petrol left behind. See if they fluoresce in long wave UV-A. The yellow looks like the stuff around our area which is mostly iron and sulfur diffused in calcite for that shimmer of gold look.
More than one has been fooled by this type of deposit. The sulfur makes it yellow and the iron makes the rock heavy. There are two failed gold mines by us that were based on finds of that nature. We have a mica mixed in for the glitter effect. To make it even more convincing we also have occasional iron pyrite crystals. It's all very convincing to the untrained eye. " 'Til next one " Thanks for the fun Dan.
Awesome video. You are very educational in all your videos. I live in Maine and I wish I could find spots like these around where I live. You have me wondering about gold panning I think there is a location near me that has potential. I’m going to try it before it gets too cold.. keep up the great videos and be safe doing it...
Dan, That first large piece of rock that you placed in the acid bath reminded me of an alligator showing his teeth (the quartz). LOL. I want to see you take one of these rocks out of the acid and have nuggets just fall off the rock. Do that so I can be thoroughly amazed by you. Ha Ha. I have already drawn the conclusion that you are amazing!! Like I commented on the last video. . . . I could watch you 15 hours a day!!
Yay Crystals!! Are all Crystals unique?? Yes! Yes they are not a doubt.. The small green gemmys kinda look like paridot or green mossy calcite.. My 11yr old was given a geode with massive clusters
I 've been treated for cancer since February. No energy or motivation to do anything. Between your video , Shane and Pauly's I've been getting up and out playing in the creek and mud. Thanks. It's the best I've felt in years. Words really can't describe. Randy Ray. Morganton, Ga. Best place on earth. Or close.
That prospect looks great for rockhounding on...nice crystals and clean calsite after the acid of course. A great video Dan. Your club will have fun there for sure. 👍. Thanks for the great trip and tag along. And until your next great video...Bye 👍
Thanks!
Just beautiful Dan. The crystals look like they're part of an ice glacier inside a cave but on a mini scale and some of them are so gemmy clear! Absolutely beautiful!
for some reason , watching stones getting dipped in muri is fairly calming , thanks Dan , I look forward to your videos , so much to learn out here .
*Never mind the 'cultivated odd persona'...it seriously gives me the 'chuckles' over the tiny specimens you have, because I have THOUSANDS in my yards...many of which are over fifty-pounds of 'pure' calcites...and fluorite specimens as well that are 'just something for me to look-at in the side-yard off the kitchen' and of course...perhaps 4 or 5-hundred lbs.of 'Fluorspar' as well...all of which I collected 'freebie'*
Nice change of pace, I am a mineral collector so this was refreshing, do more
a rock hound myself :) thanks for the great informative video Dan ! i have a massive collection i have always been apprehensive about putting in acid . now that i have seen you do it i will be cleaning up some very rare finds i have had for years.thanks again.
I may be in my 30s but I watch you because you’re a teacher and you got a lot to teach you make watching fun
Hellooooo Dan Hurd. Been moving house, got a new job, and a new phone. Been weeks since I have been able to watch and this popped up in my feed. Good to see you again my friend. Anther great video.
Head of the local rock and gem club. You rock Dan. I joined the local club in October. Skagit, WA. A few hours South of you
Well that slow motion stuff is super cool, thanks for showing that. These specimens are really perty!
Why thanks!
You had a BEAUTIFUL day there at the cabin. That blue sky and clear air reminds me that I need my mountain fix again.
It was a great day
What beautiful specimens and an even more beautiful view. Great video . Much love from California
Thanks!
that acid treatment for exposing the chrystal is fascinating and how beautiful it is,we are so blessed with the riches our plant earth gives us brilliant!!!!!
Agreed
Wonderful crystals! I love the shot of that gorgeous yellow lily you took!
Beautiful crystal and scenery thanks for sharing. Have a great day and prospect on.
Thanks!
Don't ever let anybody or money change you if you ever get rich don't let it change the way you are right now cuz you are very unique and a very good person it shows in your videos you spend a lot of time with your family and love them very much don't ever change the way you are ever
Very beautiful quartz clusters there Dan!
Always something interesting to watch and learn with you! I bet you find it really hard to go back to work when you have all these wonderful claims and other hobbies that have to be put on the back burner. Thanks for sharing another great video!
Your channel will keep growing and growing, just because of you great demeanor and personality.
Not a new subscriber, but I am a new patreon member. I just wanted to say, I love all the different things that you do. You have a wide variety of things you do and you share it, to give us so much good content. I wanted to leave and comment and be sure to thank you for all of your hard work so, thank you! You are very much appreciated!
Amazing video, Dan! I am hoping we are going to get an update as to what those green crystals/formations were inside the rocks! Great photos at the end, as well! Thank you for sharing it with us!
I knew at one point - I'd have to look that up again
I love to go rock hunting! I come from a family of rock lovers! What you did was awesome! It was really fun to watch!!
I would love a small cluster of crystals like that. I have a passion for tiny things and that would be so awesome to display with my collection! So lovely!
It's amazing to see how a delicate piece of nature can be preserved so well for so long. Just a little bit of calcite is all it needed.
Yup
We have a lot of quartz and calcite in my area. Can't wait to try this on some of my samples.
Awesome
Wow that’s great watching the Crystals emerging from it’s captor. Thank you Dan. 👍🏻🇦🇺
Thanks for watching
This is really cool seeing the calcite dissolve! Love seeing lake okanagan, makes me nostalgic for my childhood
It's a gorgeous part of the world
Loved this episode! It was really fun to watch the calcium dissolve, and, see those beautiful crystals be revealed. Thank you!
Lovely setting and so much fun to dissolve the calcite - I always think!
Ok that time lapse was nuts showing the crystal structure.
Beautiful crystals you got there Dan. Nice video, I am a gold junkie but I like a bit of variety now and then. Good job. Great camera closeups!!
Thanks!
Dan thanks for getting me back into Geology and rocks(same thing i know). And learning about the acid and water to clean the specimens. Cant wait to have a chance to get out in the field again and prospect.
In case you weren't aware vinegar is available in three strengths. 5% is household, 7% is pickling and 10% in industrial or cleaning vinegar.
The 10 works quite well in my tries. Cheers, Billy in Ladysmith
Good to know
Quartz has the very useful characteristic of having the lowest coefficient of thermal expansion that we know of. It is transparent to cellphone frequence radio waves and allows cellphone masts to stay in tune as the weather changes.
Im thrilled i came across your channel. You are humble and very informative. Thank you for blessing us with your grace.
Thanks!
Amazing timelapses, thanks for recording it, the results are beautiful !
Thanks!
Thanks, Dan. I'm not even a novice prospector of any kind, but I find your videos very interesting and always enjoy them.
Why thank you
Nature and its creations are marvelous. Thanks for sharing the gem clusters with us Dan.
Thanks!
To me gems are more fascinating than gold just because of the diversity of them !!!! Beautiful stuff Dan!!!!✅🍺
Thanks!
Very nice. Love the chemistry side to prospecting. *Great Video*
Thanks!
Those are some awesome crystal specimens. The rock club is really gonna enjoy that claim.
Love the time laps Dan. Great video and great photos. Thank you for another inspiring video.
Thanks!
Really neat formation process, and keeping a little of the calcite intact to keep both plate faces connected displays so much nicer than just having them separate. Between you and MeMiner I'm starting to think of shifting my retirement plans from Montana to BC.
OK Now I have to check into your rockhounding club!!!!!! Absolutely Beautiful samples Dan
The crystals were beautiful & I loved the scenery at the end!!! Thanks for another great video Dan!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome video! Loved the time lapse, it’s exciting waiting to see what’s going to be discovered
Oh man those crystals kept nice and in tact by the calcite are awesome. I love their size, mini little beauties. 👌👌👌
Yeah dude, Dan, that was amazingly cool. Thanks bud. Just cool to see it in timelaps but also to see what was left after the calcite melted away. So beautiful!
What beautiful crystals. I'm going to have to try that. I always wondered how one recovered the crystals from rock specimens. The claim should satisfy the needs of the 1120. Thanks for the valuable information. Have a great day and be safe Dan. Great video.
As always, great content Dan. And I thank you for last night my friend.
Thanks and no problem!
Nice instructional video. You do great with feeding us rock and gold hounds invaluable information. Thank you and Onwards and Upwards!!
Great landscape shots, and foliage!
Thanks!
Thanks for the beautiful scenery and specimens.
Man that's cool! Thanks for the video Dan!! Looking forward to the next adventure you share with all us lucky people!!😁
really neat process. Something to do with grandchildren for sure. Thanks Dan, love your videos.
Thank you for taking the time to watch
That first big one at the 11min mark looks like an alligator!! So cool what nature can do!! Your timing was perfect! Such a cool find :)
Nice samples. The gem club would love it!
Great video! And what absolutely gorgeous views. Thank you so much for taking the time to share it with us!
Thanks!
Just started watching your vlogs they're very entertaining and educational. My wife who loves to pan for gold has yet to see your adventures. I can't wait to show her she will be very impressed. Thanks for taking us on your adventures 😊. Can't wait for the Bell to ring for the next one.
Oh Guy Mosh. Such beauty in such small specimens. I've got to try the HCl wash.
Great Video Dan. I find lots of calcite seams in limestone along with iron pyrite. I wish the ones around here had crystals in them like that. I do give some of them a quick acid bath to give it that waxy smooth look.
Nice
Great vid Dan, I like how you left the calcite in some of those to hold them together.
Similar finds here in Statesville NC I have buckets of quartz crystals that have not been cleaned yet
Really nice specimens, Dan. The dark crystals @ 15:20 are almost certainly smoky quartz. I'd have staked a claim, there, too. 👍
Thanks!
Stunning landscape and specimens. Maybe a ORE giveaway for your patrons so we can dissolve at home. Would like to add one of those to our collection.
Wow! I never stop learning.
Thanks again Dan!!!
Thanks for watching!
My son would love this.and being a concrete contractor I have hydrochloric on hand all the time. Thanks dan
Glad you enjoyed it
Very very beautiful, especially @ 17:11. Same can be said about your crystals too. Some of them or parts thereof seemed to be a little smokey quartz. Don't really know if that's possible, whether they can live together like that. Inspirational Dan, just love your knowledge :)
I am in no way someone who has ever been interested in rocks/gems (geology?) but your channel has really caught my eye & I am beginning to grow an interest in this field. I love your attitude & enthusiasm for this subject. By any chance are you going to look for amethysts or hematite any time soon?
Those are some amazing crystals Dan
really enjoy your videos Dan and gang, thanks, from Scotland UK
Love these type of videos, Dan Nice change-up! Thanks!
This is the third video of yours I've seen. Now you have my subscription
They are beautiful Dan
That sample with tiny crystals looks like a gator mouth full of teeth...
It kind of does
Awesome video! It’s pretty rad to see gems and such in raw form.
Another great video Dan 👍👍 keep up the great work 👍👍 those crystals are looking awesome 👍
Marvelous time lapse photos. Thankyou.
Loved this!! The big one looks like a crocs open mouth.
I agree
Love gemstone hunting. We have a lot here in North Georgia.
It's a lot of fun
I live in Manitoba and we have alot of limestone with crystals in them. Would putting them in acid also desolve the limestone and reveal the crystals better. This was such a great video thanks
Thoroughly enjoyed this video something different from the norm, hope you post another like it thanks Dan
Thanks!
I have a spot here in CO USA that less than 7 people know about where I found Geodes That are agate/calcite/quartz crystals. I have only ever cut them never tried an acid bath. Gonna have to give it a go and see how they turn out!
You inspire me and make me want to pursue prospecting. I've never prospected and would love to learn the ways.
Well, that's awesome to hear!
Wow dan You made this exactly one day after my 59th B'day. very cool. subscribed on this video.
Amazing!!! That's really what I'm into! I post all my gem finds on my UA-cam! Honestly I can't get enough of them because of how beautiful they are! And my goodness there's a lot of Crystal Gems here in Utah!
Dan,
Those are some awesome quartz specimens. Looks like they, green ones, may have some petrol left behind. See if they fluoresce in long wave UV-A.
The yellow looks like the stuff around our area which is mostly iron and sulfur diffused in calcite for that shimmer of gold look.
I think you're right - it was sulfur
More than one has been fooled by this type of deposit. The sulfur makes it yellow and the iron makes the rock heavy. There are two failed gold mines by us that were based on finds of that nature. We have a mica mixed in for the glitter effect. To make it even more convincing we also have occasional iron pyrite crystals. It's all very convincing to the untrained eye. " 'Til next one " Thanks for the fun Dan.
Awesome video. You are very educational in all your videos. I live in Maine and I wish I could find spots like these around where I live. You have me wondering about gold panning I think there is a location near me that has potential. I’m going to try it before it gets too cold.. keep up the great videos and be safe doing it...
Awesome video Dan! I can’t wait to try this out here in Puerto Rico
Dan,
That first large piece of rock that you placed in the acid bath reminded me of an alligator showing his teeth (the quartz). LOL. I want to see you take one of these rocks out of the acid and have nuggets just fall off the rock. Do that so I can be thoroughly amazed by you. Ha Ha. I have already drawn the conclusion that you are amazing!! Like I commented on the last video. . . . I could watch you 15 hours a day!!
Cool video Dan. Nature is amazing
Nice video. Bud now the question gold or no gold?
I was wondering that too . Maybe he wants to file the claim first .
Not gold - I think it was sulfur
am I the only one that can see Dan playing Santa at Christmas and being happy to do it?
Wow Dan. Those look amazing.
Great video Dan. You had some awesome quarts crystals.
Thanks!
Darkened room and blacklight for those little beauties.
Congrats, well done!!!
Thanks!
My mom would love this! Great video Dan👍
Thanks!
Yay Crystals!! Are all Crystals unique?? Yes! Yes they are not a doubt.. The small green gemmys kinda look like paridot or green mossy calcite.. My 11yr old was given a geode with massive clusters
That Limonite looks interesting too.
Those are really cool. I think I've seen something like that in the past. If I see it again, I'll be sure to take some home.