*HUGE PAY DAY* After finding "GEM SILICA" !!
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2025
- Digging deaper into the Dayna Blue Seam we came across material that was so perfectly uniform we can call it "Gem Silca" And not only that we have Gem silica with Dendrites!
I know there will be debate weather or not we can call it Gem Silica because most other Gem Silica comes from copper mines. But we did have this tested and it showed a Copper content, as well as Cobolt, Titanium and Chromium. The official definition of Gem Silica is "Gem silica is a bluish green to greenish blue variety of chalcedony that receives its vivid color from the presence of copper." And that is exactly what we have.
The only difference here is the presence of the other three metals as well. There are significant copper deposits very close to this quarry.
But if you follow this link, you will see it looks almost identical to the high quality Gem Silica found in Arizona. geology.com/ge...
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I’m a geologist, rock hound and lapidary. I find your channel addictive. This is very interesting material. I thought chrysocolla as soon as I saw it. Beautiful color.
It's so nice to hear the excitement in your voice as you're mining the Dana Blue. Congratulations! Such a wonderful and prosperous adventure...... Having your family partake by your side.... Priceless
Wish I could spend a day out there with Dan just learning about rocks
me too
Me three. Just fascinating watching Dan go through the process of getting the slabs of Dayna Blue and Gem Silica. Evan seems proud of himself finding the nice Boulder Dan and Dayna. I love the ping sound then the pop sound when rock cracks. So beautiful . Thanks for another aweso.e video.
Well done all! Great to pick up one of those pieces and meet you your Dad and Eve at the Vancouver show. Keep up the great work with the Show. Stay safe.
What a great precious stone, so nice to see the family working together.
When you said you've lost a lot of feather and wedges I had this image of an archaeologist in a 1000 years trying to work out what those fragments of metal were used for, and how on earth we managed to make small perfect half circles in the rock 😂
Really enjoy your videos Dan but my faves are your BC ocean picture stone, and seeing you out with your family. Your boys sure have grown! Love that they're involved with your business too ❤
And it's great that you've identified your Dayna Blue! Fantastic.
Hey Dan. Maybe you could paint you feather and wedges a neon or reflective color so they are harder to loose. Part of the paint would wear out but the edges would stay. Great rocks on this adventure. It's wonderful to see your family with you.
Dan has an awesome team. Have to respect how hard they work together as a family.
Love that color blue
You are so lucky to be able to be surrounded by such beautiful scenery.
Thanks for sharing with us
The pins sound musical as they create more and more pressure--- another part of the artistry of these gems!
You finally broke me down Dan. I ordered my first piece of Ocean Picture Stone while watching this video. Can’t wait to see it in person.
It’s always so much fun to hang out with you and your family!!!
Thank you 🤗
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE NEW FINDINGS!! THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF PROSPECTING IS FINALLY PAYING OFF. WELL EARNED!
I've spent the last 40+ years painting, and hopefully I'll spend the next 40+ doing the same. If I ever make something half as beautiful as these stones... I'll call it a life well spent. Don't try to compete with nature, you'll always lose. Thanks for your videos!
great wisdom!
Brilliantly done as always Hurd family ❤ Congratulations on making ONE MILLION PLUS subscribers! Not surprising since you’re the bestest and most fun of them all 🎊
Dan i will be honest with you here i have subscribed to your channel for around 5 years and last year i thought that the content was a little bit to much money orientated the thing is I'm a stubborn person sometimes (all of the time) and what do i know really.
I just watched this video of you and your family with smiles on your faces working together to not only share it with the world but to do something you love to provide for your family. Over the last year you thought me i can be wrong 😮 and your 1.2 million subscribers prove that.
It seems so long ago that you quit teaching at the high school but now you have a class of millions❤
You deserve lots of Respect
Dan as does your family
Dan @12:42 I would try to undercut the seems by at least 3 to 4 inches and 6 to 8 inches deep.(the deeper, the better) Although heavier blocks, the extracted seem has more of the top and bottom layers and feature less cracs. I dug bigger fossils out of quarry cliffs, the rewarding blocks were always those with a previous undercut.
It's a lot more work, but so rewarding.
Think pressure relief for the wedges ;)
I never get tired of watching this rock mining.but blue is my favorite color.but out with the family and having fun getting it dan your great.nice video
Amazing stuff Dan! I would love to see someone take this stuff and make a mosaic picture with a bunch of pieces. Since this stuff didn't really have the white parts in it, I would do a river scene. Like looking at a river running through the forest but from a birds eye view. It's all so beautiful!! Thanks for the great content!
I am always amazed at what you find. Its a family thing that is awesome.
Hi Dan, and family. I am always amazed at the rocks you find. However, as I am sure most viewers would agree, the Ocean Picture Stone is my absolute favourite. Wish we had such amazing rocks here in Northwestern Ontario.
Keep rock hounding and making videos! From Karen Hurd Gobeil in Thunder Bay.
around Thunder Bay you should find Amethyst and some Lake Superior Agate. Happy rockhounding.
Very lovely blue to it. Don't often see that colour in nature that vibrant (excluding the sky).
Thank you for the wonderful video with your lovely family, the beautiful scenery, and the amazing Dayna Blue.
I don’t normally leave comments because I know you don’t have time but dam!! This bright blue gemmy silica is just awesome!
Good job Dan, love the videos
The Ocean Picture Stone captivates me. Normally, it's gold, and peridot. That get me. Love the green color! The Dana Blue, is beautiful.
Glad you and the family are doing great! Love to see the clear skies. Love the vid. Beautiful rocks!
I ❤ love your picture stone, and that dark blue, it's gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing adventure . Finding the best one to work on. I'd love to see more of your cut works of picture stones.
As an avid cab wrapper, I'd love to see more of the processing after the stones are found, even the cab making process!
Love your videos! With the feather and wedges, more holes means more control. We tend to drill closer holes and use more wedges to control where the cracks happen. But really cool.
Love watching your videos... it would be a bucket list trip to spend some time out there with you and your family... keep up the good work and keep enjoying what you do.
These sky blue stones are very nice,, I like only these videos of you 😊
Damn I love those timber tigers. Cutest little critters there is. It nice of you to bring snacks for the beasties Dan.
That was real Dana Blue and nice work!!!; )
I’d be so interested in a geology lesson of this place 😍 awesome video & rocks!! 💜
Hi Dan, I would like to see you get a piece of pure gem silica made into a sphere! Then get Dana to price it up.
Love the channel, its odd at how much I hated the rocks part of geography at school but now I find that it's really quite interesting. Especially with your GLOTD.🙂👍
WHOA...how gorgeous is that stone!! There are so many beautiful scenes depicted in different stones...just amazing! Love those thick, juicy blue chunks of the spectacular Gem Silica. Has mother nature done an awesome job here or what?!
Dan, I enjoy your videos very much.
Question: have you ever considered using a gas-powered concrete saw like Husqvarna K770 12" 5HP Gas Power Cutter (there are others that are less expensive) to cut around the picture stone rather than fracturing it with the feather and wedges? The 12" saw allows for a 4-inch deep cut.
we appreciate you Dan.
I have been following your channel for about a year maybe 2 lol , love watching every episode. I have been collecting local Ontario rocks and minerals since I was a kid from the escarpment in Hamilton to north bay . Just checking out old quarries and rock cut roads given away most of my collection to serious collectors aka hey thats pretty can I buy it lol
Thank you for doing what you and your family do .
The rock at 23:17 could be mounted on a walnut burl, and be an art-piece on its own, no work required. Beautiful!
I got my piece of Dayna blue ocean picture stone today in the mail
Can't wait to open it for Christmas.
Love the blue gemstone. Love your videos. Liked. Great video. From Jordan
Dan, at 13:35 when you were drill more holes, what is the curly thing coming out of one of the wedges?
Thanks in advance, an awesome show as usual :)
What a beautiful area,I could just sit there all day,but probably not,because of so many awesome rocks and minerals😊
That is some of the prettiest rock I have ever seen! Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely 💯 Awesomeness! Loved watching this video as my first from your channel.
Love your channel, you find so many cool rocks and this one looks like a cool ocean dip
Wow, that's definitely the best I have seen....gosh it's beautiful 🤩
Thank you Dan for sharing another awesome video
Ever consider making a set of backsplash tiles for kitchen or bathroon then putting it up for auction. would be a one of a kind and worth a lot.
That little shard you had in your hand at 10:45 would be really cool cut into an arrowhead or shark tooth. Gem silica is basically opal potch right? Opal without the play of color in it? I've been saying you weren't charging enough for that stuff since you found it.
Chrysocolla is like opal potch in the crumbleness, but gem silica is solid agate, quartz, or some kinda micro cryptoline silica with copper mainly and if nickle agate its Chrysophrase. Only the low grade crazes like opalite when dry.
pretty cool you followed your passion to the point of it paying you!! looks like thats over in the "Loops" area hmmm...... haha
That's pretty rock. Nothing like it in Indiana. What a fun family activity!
Absolutely love your content Dan! And your shop with all those saws is my dream shop! I just recently got my garaged cleared enough to put in some work benches so I can get a slab saw, trim saw, and then some grinding wheels and polishers. I grew up learning how to make cabs from my dad, and he has lots of great equipment that I love to play with when I visit, but I don't have any of my own yet. But soon! I live just across the border from Canada here in WA state near where Jason from Mt Baker Mining and Metals is at, hoping to make it up to a rock show that you're at so I can buy some material!
Its so wierd watching your videos about gold, minerals, crystals, etc., something ive always been interested in and periodically hearing my own name😂 Fellow Evan over here✌
Such a unique geological formation. The geology of earth is so facinating: from volcanoes that erupt tons of gold per year to ocean picture stone…Amazing :)
that Dana Blue is an amazing stone. ever since you started on this mine ive always wondered if that blue would make an awesome cut stone. It would look amazing as one of those Shperes...
There are only a few channels I subscribe to that I hit the *LIKE* button as soon as I open the clip, *Dan Hurd* is one of those few :)
Have you thought of bringing up a small compressor for blowing out the dust? I know shot firers sometimes use compressed air to dust down rocks so they can see where the flaws are to optimise your blast patterns. Might be easier for cleaning off your work area. Only downside is you need a full face respirator to prevent any of that silica dust getting in your lungs and eyes.
Almost glacier blue. Glaciers are still in the ocean. Lol I love when you guys do this claim. Its gorgeous. This is something i could all day. It looks like fun to me. Im totally jealous.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that shade of blue.
Dana is beautiful! One suggestion Dan. Spray bottles for the whole family, so its a fair water fight. 😆 Another great video! Thanks!
thank you for making your videos. My head was in a dark place this morning, and you showing your family reminded me of why I still live. God bless you.
Holy crap man what a find, Gem silica is stunning 🎉
GO DAN & FAM!!! LIVIN' DA VIDA LOCA!! 💯👍🤗😉💖 Hope to get a few pieces from you if there's any left later!! Just would like a few pieces to primitive shape for some wire wrap necklace or bracelets perhaps!! Have to see more of your site!! Let be your channel and adventures!! Bit envious here!! I miss rockhounding..Some agates and associated pebbles here in S.W. Iowa.. Lake Superior some, carnelian,chert etc...Your B.C. Scenery is Spectacular!! I see a lot on Steve Isdahls' channel ( Van Ild, his Hunting grounds around Interior B.C.) Be Safe Out There and Thanks for the LOL Moments!! Always a pleasure!! 💚🙋♀️🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦
Feather and wedges must have been hard work back when they actually used a feather to hammer in the wedge.
That is some really beautiful stone. I know I'd pay some of those prices for the larger pieces. Someday, I will get to Tucson.
Yo, your enthusiasm is contagious
Ha I didn't see your cuts first time I watched this I really enjoyed your video!
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Silica rocks!
Gorgeous pieces! Thanks for sharing!
Congrats. The last slice looks like Peruvian opal. My Wilder Blue is chrysocolla in quartz from Nevada.
Dan have you considered using sierra blasters to knock of a bunch of overburden all at once or is too uncontrollable? Im certified to use the system but haven’t had an opportunity to do so yet.
Probably too uncontrolled for small rocks like in this video, I'd imagine.
Hi Dan.
Have you ever considered using demolition mortar instead of the feather and wedge?
Thanks for sharing Dan, loved it
Excellent stone exceptional beautiful thank you for sharing this with us six stars
A video on, the difference between, Feather and Wedges and more standard tools would be interesting!
Excuse my language but that was the most fucking hilarious thing I've heard in a while and my life's always been pretty screwed up. When Dan says, your glasses have sunscreen, nice. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This stuff reminds me so much of what woodworkers are doing with epoxy and mica powder to make 'rivers' in table slabs. But the earth has done this millions of years before anyone ever thought to try.
This video could be a good drinking game. Every time Dan sprays water on anything everyone take a shot of whiskey 😂
You should take a power washer up with you to clear the stone on the vein to get a better idea of where it goes
I wonder if you could knap an arrow head out of the Danna blue? Its got less inclusions in it that would cause small fractures. But only if it hard and brittle enough.
Your Ocean Picture Stone videos are my favorite!
It's great to see you use Makita. I work for them in New Zealand and love following your channel. I do some rock hounding with my daughter as well. Great pass time
Don't tell Evan? I hope he doesn't watch the video, or you're busted! He's already contributing so much! Good on him! :-)
Beautiful land for that beautiful rock, dear everyone. I watched the whole video and I really like it
Another great video Dan, that sone is EPIC
Of large game animals I've eaten, deer,moose, and elk,i.m.o. elk was great,deer would be 2nd,and I didn't like moose at all.All legally harvested,and not a trophy hunter.Seeing the elk in your video brought back some happy memories.
No matter how much I get to see the rocks and when they are cut and I can see what is inside.. I am just amaze 😂😂
My brother and I used the 10" saw like that lots of times. That is beautiful stuff! I wish we still had it😢.
Headed to shop on your website now. Such a cool find!
I’m interested in getting started with learning how to prospect “not necessarily find gold” but just learn how to identify different rocks and potential gems, ore and other things. Any recommendations other than your vids? Books, sites, and vids? Thanks!!!
You earned my subscription. Hi to you all ftom Australia.
Can you get longer feather and wedges to have better control of where the rock cracks?
They do make larger ones, but the that doesn't necessarily translate into better control. The rocks have unknown imperfections like how strongly layers are bonded, and that is usually what dictates how it breaks.
Longer ones would probably just let you break a larger peice, but what dan is looking for is typically a layer less than six inches wide.
Wow amazing 🇮🇩⚒️⛏️💎💎👍👍👍
Take four rectangular pieces glue together to make a piller ,then put a light inside. A thought ..👍
Bob Ross of rocks wants a word...
Those are definitely some happy little stones.
happy accident
Looks like auqua marine
Lol....
This guy's easy to listen to 👍
And very interesting information 👌
As a red green colorblind person. I love these videos. It would be a dream to come help you harvest it. I love moving boulders for gold... this the same ish.
Who cares lol.
Why do you need a permit for your mine? Is it like a building permit? I found that building permits alert the property assessor to come increase your property taxes… so a mining permit must alert the mining authority to come and check to see if you hqve returned the landscape to a natural condition?
Great haul and awesome adventure