Exploring a Gravel Pit for Agates
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2019
- I was given a helpful lead on an open gravel pit and was not disappointed! Watch as I hunt agates in a pit for the first time and see what is found!
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Thanks for watching everyone! I hope you enjoyed my Halloween themed agate hunting vid! I look forward to chatting with you so make sure to let me know what you thought of the video!
That was a great video. From what I've watched on UA-cam, gravel pits are the way to go. The scenery is better on the beach, but the rocks seem to be better in pits. One of my favorite shots was the little sand pillars with the rocks on top.
That one you're unsure about is what I call a "maygate". That's short for "maybe an agate". I pick up a lot of those.
Thank you sir! I have not been disappointed so far! I'm going to start calling those maygates haha!
I love how the rain made those little sand pedestals with the rocks sitting on top. It was like nature was presenting them to you.
Such a good way to explain that, love it! It was so fun seeing those, never seen anything like it!
That is one of the neatest things!!
You do such a nice job of showing the beauty of the stones in your photo shoots. My favorite is the banded on the leaf♥️
I like that one too 😁 thank you, I really appreciate that! It's fun getting to show them off a bit!
Some amazing agates! I really like the white one you found on the big rock. Thanks for sharing!
Oh man! You are so lucky ❤ I would die and be in heaven in this location. I saw so many different gems as you panned your camera around. I'm literally drooling right now ❤. Congrats on all of your treasures. I've only come across your page recently, and your passion is infectious ❤ so I've been lucky and watching your adventures of the hunt over a 4+ years span in just a couple of weeks..."Time travel?" Lol! I'm so happy for you with your success and deeper passion for these precious gems. Take care and stay safe. Happy Hunting ❤
~Jules~
Fantastic video! And look at all those comments. Great finds. The gravel pits are the best but many owners don't want to be liable for one getting injured. Volunteer to sign a waiver. Might want to draw one up to have on hand. Really enjoyed your video, beautiful agates. Farmers fields are another great place to look. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
Thanks so much Joel! That's actually a great idea! I need to do that just to be safe, I wish I knew of more open pits but they are hard to come buy! Farmers fields is another place on my list of places to go, just gotta start knocking on doors! I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Great to see you found a honey hole.🍻👍
Yeah I was verrry excited! Found another pit yesterday that's open as well!
That little marble shaped one with the single band at the 2:50 point was absolutely beautiful and would make an awesome jewelry piece, its always nice to have someone give you good locations ( thanks random guy ).
Oh yes as much as we rockhounds are tight lipped about spots, sometimes we can be very giving and it's amazing the kindness in that!
Finding the nearest gravel pit, damn! Thanks for sharing.
Chewy! We loved that. Logan says do more Chewy in future videos.
Hahaha I'll see if I can plug him in somewhere!
Hey!!!! it’s Wookie Rockhounding! Hahahaha! Get it! Chewbacca! He’s a wookie!!!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Hahah! Oh I get it! You should change your name to that for the day next year and do a full wookie suit haha!! 🤣
Too funny our boys from down under.
@@winnievanorden1 seriously too funny!
OMG...Chewy! 😆😂🤣 LMAO! Great video dude. You find such colorful agates. REALLY nice banding too! I really love the part when you scan the hillside. Looks like a graveyard of stones. Or stalagmites with stones on top...wicked cool looking! I'm not sure if that one stone is a moss/jasper agate but it could be! I wish you had a way to cut it open or to polish the outside...it may reveal its identity better. But it looks promising😄
Thanks for sharing and Happy Halloween to you and the family!
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Thanks Marlaina! It does like kinda spooky haha maybe I can polish that big one up this winter and see what happens! Happy Halloween to you too!!
love the Nice reds agates you found the banded is my favorite i always pic them up but odly enough I found more petrified wood at a gravel pit I go to but they had really nice bands on them and a few big ones too but great vid as always👍
Thanks so much! I love the classic LSA red as well
Such nice finds. Going to checkout with local gravel pits. I usually hunt local lakeshore "Lake Michigan ". Quality matters!!!
Great editing on the Halloween Video ! Wow what a great place to go to. So many nice finds. It would nice to have a long driveway filled with this gravel. I enjoyed much. Congrats on all your finds ! Happy Hunting :)
Thanks!! It was really a fun day, wouldn't that be nice?!
The rocks you are getting are Carnillion. We have them also in Washington State.
Nice video man! Some of those might be good cabbers! Happy hunting!
To be honest, I'm not sure exactly what that means lol what is it? Thanks though!
Nice video, amazing what you will find in gravel pits
I'm excited for this summer to spend more time in them and hopefully find some bigger material!
Nice hunt. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Don!
pretty cool
Appreciate that! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment! 👍
Love me some Halloween🎃 agate hunting.. well done. It's about time for Christmas☃️ hunting 🎅.. I may hit a rock pile if the sun shines 🌞
🎀 Tis the 🎄 Season 🎀
It was a fun hunt! It's been so dang cold out! I'll be posting another hunt on sunday! Not a christmas hunt but still cold! Lol
Very nice 😄
Thanks a lot! Thanks for commenting!
Now this is good content:)
😁 thanks so much Richard, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Great video man! I love the Halloween theme, the fact you're in a gravel pit, and some great finds! Keep it up!
Thanks bud! Glad you enjoyed it! Still waiting on one of those classic pit monsters! Someday!
@@AgateDad You're definitely in the right kind of place, but I was thinking somewhere that they've already 'classified' them, so you just go to the pile of the size you want to find. You'll find lots in the pile of small material, and not many in the bigger material, but the ones you find in the bigger material are that big! You're on the right track though. No reason you couldn't find a beast there, just not as good a chance as when they've separated and cleaned them for you! LOL!
Hey, I've almost got your package ready to send! Sorry it's taking forever!
@@thirstfast1025 you're absolutely right! I just drive by a spot yesterday that had them all separated by size..lots of no trespassing signs and private property signs.. I'm going to have to give them a call and see if they'll let me in!
@@thirstfast1025 And no worries bud!! I know you're busy and have more important things going on so no rush at all! I'm just grateful knowing something's coming that's going to be amazing!
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Chances are someone working there knows what they are worth at a half kilo so I bet any they see get picked up and put in a box for selling.
You hunt agates? You have my immediate sub! Looks like your in the Wisconsin/ Minnesota area. Superior agate country!
You know it brother! This pit was in MN, I have been in WI but not nearly as much as I would like to!
@@AgateDad I just read that Superior agates can actually be found as far away as the terminal moraines in Idaho! My basic electronics instructor in the USAF thought I found one in a small river in Biloxi Mississippi! I guess agates are pretty tough! That's a loooooong way to tumble!!!
@@mikelouis9389 you serve? That's crazy, I know they can be found worldwide but in different classifications, like south Dakota has fairbairn agates..which is funny because I've heard lake superior agates can be found in Iowa. I wonder how widely spread the LSAs are from that big old glacier?!?
@@AgateDad I "served" lol! It's been about 40 years plus since I was in. I found that one odd ball when I dove off a bridge and went deep. I grabbed two handfuls of gravel and there it was! Never found another one, just random gravel. The location was very rural so I doubt it was from construction. It was about ten miles from the gulf coast. Day yum! That is one heck of a long journey! It was about an inch long, primarily red wit extremely fine well defined black bands, heart shaped. Let me tell you, I dove to the bottom hundreds of times with a spaghetti strainer and never found anything other than clear quartzy kinda agate.
@@mikelouis9389 that's amazing, I know it's late but happy veterans day to you! What a fun story, just finding one can make you go to those extremes to find more!
Mannnnnn! This video! They just keep getting better dude! The stills, 😳 so effective and that pan where the rocks are standing on pillars of dirt, looks so cool hey. I actually have a similar shot that’s gonna be in next vid but I don’t want you to think I stole it 🤣😂
Dude you’re finding bangers brother! They look like chunks of salmon! Lines and lines for days!!!!
Dude 8:40 I was saying out loud, take it..... take ittttttttt.... yeah! He took it haha! Those are the fun ones to see inside. 👌
hahahaha! Dude! My wife and I literally watched that movie tonight!!
Agate Dad
Oh man what movie is that from!!!
@@Rookie_Rockounding IT! Take itttt lol I thought for sure you were quoting it Hahah
6:00 - How marvelous, a little stone forest! Any idea why that happened?
I think it had to do with rain washing away the lighter sand around those rock trees but with the weight of the rocks on top, it wasnt enough to wash them away..terrible description lol
Also love your slideshow at the end. :D
@@KatyDidRocks thank you!! Its fun taking those pictures, I'm glad you liked them!
@@AgateDad Well, however it happened, it was MAGICAL! :)
@@KatyDidRocks absolutely, I love finding stuff like that when I'm out!
Gosh you'd never get me out of there! Excellent video, great photos! It's tedious stopping to get the photos but I think so so worth it. It's only a matter of time and we'll be watching you find a big one. I really needed this, thankyou. And it's Rookie Friday too. Yay.
It was very hard to walk away..until I went back..and made another video..coming soon lol it was fun stopping to get the shots, helps me take a breather every few minutes! Super glad you liked it! Cant wait too! It must be friday over there huh?
What that is cool😕😕😟😟😟
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The question rock looks like agate breccia with rhyolite. When you first turned it over I thought it could be a agate petoskey stone, yup they exist. I have a few but nothing that reddish brown. With a loupe you would be able to tell. I have about 50 agate fossils. Calcite color will FADE, agate will not
Cabs are items for earrings or a pendant for a necklace, even for rings :)
I had no idea, so cool! And great information! I need to get a loupe and look into that, and others that I question if there is small amethyst crystals embedded in them.
@@AgateDad Few things to note : Calcite is softer material (mohs 3 ) also, look to the mohs scale of hardness. If you plan on tumbling in the future best to learn about it. You don't want to put soft rocks in with super hard ones ( agate, mohs 7-8), will tumble the softer ones into nothing. Fast way to check hardness is take a metal pick or file, something you know is steel and rub it on a rock. If it leaves a steel mark you know that rock is over steel mohs hard, which is about 5.5-6.5 or so. If the rock breaks up or you leave trail of dust from the rock itself then that rock is softer than steel mohs hard, under 5.5-6.5 or so.
Could very well be on the crystals but I have zero experience with that here in SW Michigan. One thing I do know is Flint has a lot of crystal formation within it. And tons of crystals fade color, most amethyst will fade in sun light
Maybe what you could have is chucks of Garnet? Maybe
@@TheMogjo I have read about and looked into the scale but never had to apply the information, but very good info and very helpful, so thanks!
Maybe person with coordinates left u that banded beauty on big rock
The rock that you didn't know if it was an agate or not, if you liked it doesn't matter what it is. Right?! By the way I thought it was a very interesting rock. Pick rocks that please you no matter what the scientist call them. Have a great day!😊
That is true, at that point, over a year ago, I really only cared about agates, nowadays, I like a lot! So I probably would have picked it now!
Did anyone else see a fish in the lower left of the screen at 3:02?
Now I have to go look lol!!
Hahaha it was a leaf. Looked like a brown Swedish fish!
I am also an Agate Hunter
From Japan
That's amazing! I didnt know there was agates there! What are they called?? The ones here are called "lake superior agates".
Another great video! How did you manage to get into a gravel pit? I've been emailing so many of them, and haven't had any luck in getting responses! I spend a lot of time in construction sites, but those get pretty heavily picked over.
At this spot, I got an email from a guy who knew of it and that it was an open pit..and I drove by another yesterday! So that was exciting Haha I'll have to do a video at the one I found yesterday. Try calling the pits and ask if you can sign a consent form saying you wont sue them if you get hurt lol maybe that'll work. Let me know if it does because I've never tried it haha!
I go into alot of pits by me with a farmer friend who got my family hooked on agate hunting. Their are so many pits in my area(Bruce,Wi). We found a website that shows every pit ever registered in Wisconsin and find the owners/or Co. Hauling out of the pit to get permission. And now I think I'll take some time and go hunting at a local pit. Thank you.
@@StacyClark73 that's really cool! I wish there was a website like that for MN, you should email me the one for WI, maybe there's some up by me I could get into!
I don't know your email. I see you post alot on Reddit, does that have private messaging? I just started using the app last week so I'm not familiar with it much yet.
@@StacyClark73 my emails on my about section on here, sorry lol could have mentioned that! But its agatedad@gmail.com.
Everyone has a hard time believing that my best finds are usually in gravel pits or in with the little rocks used for landscaping.
I believe that!
Hi ya. What is the largest size of agate you've found in MN?
That's so weird... I stopped the video to ask the above question. Now I'm at 5:36 and you said "this is the biggest one I've found today". Spooooky!
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So i thought i should clarify my question: ...what size is the biggest agate that you've found in MN ever?
Thanks!!
Haha I just in my most recent found my biggest, it's a goofy looking agate, sagenite agate, but probably close to 6-7 oz..I honestly sont know though! I'll have to weigh it and get back to you! Its ar least 6oz I would say though..so almost half a pound!
@@AgateDad oh that's amazing!!
Good for you!!
I'm still catching up on your vids, but now i have to fast forward to check it out.
Thanks again - always entertaining!
We luv your videos and have probably seen all. I have to say though you are too hung up on size. You are finding great material . Small can be some of the most beautiful.
I've learned alot on your videaos and wonder how do you finish polish these small ones?
Back then the “thing” was to find bigger agates, I’ve found my way and could care less about size, I love getting out and finding anything I can 😆
I love the intro