I feel just like you. I’ve liked rocks since I was like 1. It’s like I inherited a huge rock collection from my younger self. I’ve always collected rocks on trips. A few months back I looked up “how to find quartz.” Then it started recommending rockhounding to me and it rolled from there.
Complete newbie at this but OMG is it addicting! I went rock hounding this past weekend and came across quartz clusters, agate, jasper and a really nice piece of sandstone. Can't wait to get a tumbler and start making my own pendants.
I just started agate hunting a few months ago. It's so addictive I started a UA-cam channel about my journey as a rookie agate hunter! Makes the hobby even more enjoyable!
@@AgateDad I wonder why do rockhounding people never expand from just agate hunting? Like take the crystal collector. In the post month he did garnets, tourmaline, amethyst, selenite, wavelite, hour glass crystals, topaz and much more.
@@eitanengel8259 sometimes people are content in one thing. I prefer finding agates probably 95% of the time, but the other 5% is open to new discoveries and other goodies 😁
Huh...I think I found three agates whole cleaning up my front yard. These were originaly just picked randomly with a bunch of other rocks that my grandma picked way back in the day when she was working on her garden. Its preety fascinating and finally I now know what these are. I have two white ones and one that looked like an ordinary stone until you shine it at a light. Thank you for the information :)
Thanks for the video. I just came back from Agate Creek Queensland Australia with a bunch. Now I have to learn how to polish them up! 14 hour round trip but already want to do it again!
I read about how to make an industrial tumbler out of a rear axle of a big semi truck with the rims and tires in place. You want to cut an opening in the highest part of the rim to load rocks. The article said a cover is not needed but I always thought if I was going to do one I would have a hinged door sealed with inner tube rubber. The idea is to set up a motor geared down so the tires rotates slowly and all the rocks stay in the lowest part of the tire at all times tumbling over each other. Each tire can hold about 100 lbs of rocks and you have 4 tires going at all times each one with a different grit. Always use same tire for the same grit. You rotate the rocks once a week and you have a 100 lbs of polished tumbled stones each week. I have been wondering if you could use quartz sand as grit for the first stage to do the rough rounding off? I am posting this on all videos about rock hounding to spread the idea, if this is you channel and you do not like that let me know. The fact that the tumbling will all take place in a rubber tire should help keep the noise down. The rocks should never touch the rim. I have suggested to people that they make a sound proof shed just big enough to be practical so the noise will be minimized. Plus the rubber in a tire is thick and should absorb a lot of the noise. Also you should have a small fan on the motor to keep it cool. A high quality motor will be a must as it will run 24 hours a day. I am no expert but with the proper gearing the motor should not be under too much stress. I would sell the tumbled stones. Once tumbled, you grade them by quality and type. Some would be really valuable. I bet you could average $10 usd per pound with just good found material and more if you have high grade material. Definitely not for the weekend rock hound but if you sell stones or want to, what a cheap way to start. You could tumble other people's rocks for a fee or shares too. You could make one with car tires for a smaller scale operation. There has to be a lot of people with a 30 year in the making, 3 ton pile of rocks out behind their house. With this they could see results from all that collecting.
I was thinking the same thing, I've often picked up, marveled, wondered why it looked the way it did (waxy), why it was see through (those that were), questioned whether or not it was actually a rock at times and eventually discarded each of these over the years. May still have one or two around somewhere. Sigh, if only I'd known.
Here in northern Ireland at Carrick Fergus beach there's hundreds of these things. I love walking there I find so much stuff there. Has really pretty sea glass too. Lots of jellyfish
use to go to agate beach as child and look for many weekends. watching with one of two rings on. might not be most glamorously greatest rings or jewelry stuff, but they got their speciality.
Hey - great video! One thing though, I've been watching a lot of geologist channels on UA-cam, one channel is JTV and they often mention the mohs scale and scratch testing; I'm pretty sure I remember them saying glass was a 5.5 on the mohs scale 🤔
Great info! Thank you very much. Question: At the beginning you aligned the agates from right to left with regards to the "quality" of the agate, and at the end you said that the translucent material in the last agate didn't have any lines in it. Do you mean visible lines, because an agate should have concentric lines to qualify as being one.
agate is a rock, and rocks are general classification of mineral composition and crystal structure of minerals. It’s not an exact science, and this is a rock hounding classification more than a scientific one. Moss agate for example doesn’t always have banding, but is considered agate. I hope this helps with your question.
I’ve found some beautiful pieces along the banks of the Bouie river near Hattiesburg Mississippi. Growing up I found mostly amber colored. Here I find white, grayish black, white, gray and a salmon color
I have 2 very similar pieces I found that I think are agates. One in Willow one in Homer. Both pale in color and waxy luster. The only difference is one looks like a very fine glitter was thrown in while forming. Are they the same rock?
I found a piece that has this waxy luster that u are talking about and its gray/light pink and the edges are translucent. Im not a 100% sure if its agate but this video helps a lot!
Just a note: a conchoidal fracture is not a "random" one, instead it is a typical behaviour of cryptocrystalline materials, which upon fracturing form concave shapes
I have several rocks I thought were White quartz but they kind of look like what you have. Also I have one with orange crystallization on the front and an orange color all the way through but still is mostly milky white.
I came here trying to figure out what an agate I found was and it looks identical to the one you talked about tumbling on the beach! Top left one. Would it be worth getting a tumbler and tumbling it? Thanks
Hello, I need some help in determining whether a black agate ring i've just bought really has a genuine agate or not. The problem is that it looks absolutely opaque to me, its just a flat black stone. I've tried to shine a light through it, there's absolutely none passing through. I would appreciate your help to know ways to check for the authenticity of the stone (if it really is a stone). Thanks in advance
if something is advertised as agate, chances are it is as advertised. Its a fairly common stone and isn't really worth enough to put a fake out there. If it is black and took a very nice polish and it scratches glass its probably agate
HI, nice info bout agate. I am a Geologist. I want to point to you that one of your agates shown here is of the shape of a Canine tooth. SOme rocks are formed by replacement of existing minerals. Like wood opal. Similarly calciam carbonate of fossil bones and tooths is sometimes replaced by silica atom by atom on a geological time span. Just check whetheer that piece wwhich is third from left at the bottom at 0.04 time of your video is a replaced silicified fossil tooth. Just my guess.
@Owen Digity lol um you obviously dont understand what is meant by the term canine tooth then so be careful when throwing insults like calling someone dumb mmmmkay?
I was wondering we have a cabin by moose lake Minnesota and is known as the agate capitol although I have never found one. Odviously the north shore is a good place but in landlocked areas where would you look
I would look on roadsides, areas that have just been dug up(like a construction site), creek beds/gravel bars during low water, and gravel pits. Most of those areas you'll have to get the land owner permission. Good luck hunting!
Identified an agate in a box of vintage rock samples I bought because of this video. Thanks Now to figure out if this uranium ore is going to kill me or not...
@@HowtoAlaska 10-4 I'm treating it like covid and wearing a mask lol hopefully isotopes are scared of N95 masks and Mason jars. But joking aside, I completely didn't expect to get Rockzilla in a mixed box of rock samples.
I didn't know there were agates in Alaska. Personally I think agates are 6.5 to 7.5 in hardness. I do a lot of polishing and some are extremely hard, some grind away really easily.
It’s pretty much impossible to identify rocks with certainty through a picture. It doesn’t show many of the traits that are needed to identify them properly.
Microcrystalline, most of those are microcrystalline and the translucent ones of mono colour are chalcedony . For the stone to be called agate it must have bands, must have bands .
Moss agate doesn’t have bands and it is referred to as agate, just saying. Chalcedony is commonly referred to as agate because most beginners have a tough time getting that scientific.
Hey no problem, I will be doing some gold panning videos in the future though. I have some ore from a gold mine i worked at that I'm going to crush and pan as well. It will be when I get around to it though.
I have a big agate. Purple color . Unfortunately I don't know how to make money out of it. I have also fond estimate 18kg white Ang purple agate in one piece. I just use it as a footrest 😎😂😂
I found a 65 lb. carnelian agate that i am not sure what to do with. I postd a yutube video Large Giant Carnelian Agate!!! any sugestions wold be apreciate.
No no no! You must hold the Agate up to the light whether it be the Sun or a lamp or any sort of light if it is a Agate you will be able to see through the stone. In opaque manner. Some are smooth some are rough all will be opaque, and show various colors as well as quartz only quartz is less opaque
Fishermanjake AK, your not gonna believe something for agates. Days ago on Friday at school, drama class 1st period, my friend Daniel was showing me some rocks he normally had from home and soon, I saw a tumbled stone that he had me keep was something surprising, It was like a combination of the silica bands of Agate and the violet purple, light purple and white like the traditional colors of Amethyst. I quickly thought up and decided a new name for this tumbled stone that is like a combination of Agate and Amethyst. I have called it, "Agathyst" It sounded like the coolest mineral name idea I created. My friend English teacher Mrs. Padget I like spending time with was pretty surprised about it and thought I could have that idea in the dictionary of rocks, minerals, and fossils. Today while 2 days ago, I was learning a lot more about how agate, quartz, and silica work. So when I saw your video today, I was thinking and wondering if you know well about this "Agathyst" I've been talking about?
+Nick K Agate classification is like other classifications of rocks, they vary in names for slight differences in the rock. Chalcedony is very similar to agate and has very similar properties. One could argue that it is a type of agate because they are both microcrystalline quarts. The same is true with your amethyst. Amethyst usually refers to the large purple crystals of quartz, however the microcrystalline matrix could be referred to purple agate or amethyst. Really rocks are just a classification based on mineral composition and formation, while minerals are a naturally occurring crystal structure of a specific chemical composition.
Thanks for the info and some clues. Maybe someday it might be true that this "Agathyst" that I'm so curious and excited thinking about could become a true thing like having my name idea in the mineral dictionary or who know what would happen. On the show Prospectors from the Weather Channel. Some episodes about a miner Rich Fretterd and some others being in the Cripple Creak Mines in Colorado, USA, They find mysterious mixed mineral specimens made of 3 things. Purple Fluorite, Barite, and some quartz, and the specimens looks similar to kyanite or scolcite by the way the crystal forms look. They didn't think of a name for that. I thought something like maybe Fluorbarartz or who knows. Thank you for your response.
NAK (sorry, I'm very late) but if the bands make kind of v or even w shapes it could be banded amethyst, or chevron amethyst. I have several specimens of it and it sounds like your description. I'm not saying that it is 100% necessarily it, I'm just putting it out there...
What about moss agate? Moss agate isn’t banded. Anyhow, I made the video for the beginner, Most people don’t know what chalchedony is. To most, agate is an easier understanding of many forms of Chalcedony. It’s kind of like calling diorite granite. To a geologist it matters, to someone installing countertops it doesn’t. Classifying rocks is kind of an art as they are so varied and agate is an acceptable classification of the rocks I showed in the video.
This is so cool i think i found my people. Ive been a rock person my whole life.
I feel just like you. I’ve liked rocks since I was like 1. It’s like I inherited a huge rock collection from my younger self. I’ve always collected rocks on trips. A few months back I looked up “how to find quartz.” Then it started recommending rockhounding to me and it rolled from there.
People in this community are so nice, sadly I’m not from America so I can’t really meet them
@Ilinca Sîrbu true, I will, thanks!
Complete newbie at this but OMG is it addicting! I went rock hounding this past weekend and came across quartz clusters, agate, jasper and a really nice piece of sandstone. Can't wait to get a tumbler and start making my own pendants.
keep at it it is a great hobby, hopefully I will get some other rock hounding videos up this summer.
I just started agate hunting a few months ago. It's so addictive I started a UA-cam channel about my journey as a rookie agate hunter! Makes the hobby even more enjoyable!
@James Bryant haha wow that was a long time ago!
@@AgateDad I wonder why do rockhounding people never expand from just agate hunting? Like take the crystal collector. In the post month he did garnets, tourmaline, amethyst, selenite, wavelite, hour glass crystals, topaz and much more.
@@eitanengel8259 sometimes people are content in one thing. I prefer finding agates probably 95% of the time, but the other 5% is open to new discoveries and other goodies 😁
Thank you! I found out a "dull" agate looks like a piece of quartz but now I can see a difference. And I know I have found an agate!
Huh...I think I found three agates whole cleaning up my front yard. These were originaly just picked randomly with a bunch of other rocks that my grandma picked way back in the day when she was working on her garden. Its preety fascinating and finally I now know what these are. I have two white ones and one that looked like an ordinary stone until you shine it at a light. Thank you for the information :)
Thanks for the video. I just came back from Agate Creek Queensland Australia with a bunch. Now I have to learn how to polish them up! 14 hour round trip but already want to do it again!
Clear and simple. Thanks!
I think you did a nice job. Thank you for the information.
Very informational, thanks!
Thanks! Very informative!
Awesome video! Very informative!!
Thank you for the great examples, these videos help heaps.
Very informative. Thank you!
I read about how to make an industrial tumbler out of a rear axle of a big semi truck with the rims and tires in place. You want to cut an opening in the highest part of the rim to load rocks. The article said a cover is not needed but I always thought if I was going to do one I would have a hinged door sealed with inner tube rubber. The idea is to set up a motor geared down so the tires rotates slowly and all the rocks stay in the lowest part of the tire at all times tumbling over each other. Each tire can hold about 100 lbs of rocks and you have 4 tires going at all times each one with a different grit. Always use same tire for the same grit. You rotate the rocks once a week and you have a 100 lbs of polished tumbled stones each week. I have been wondering if you could use quartz sand as grit for the first stage to do the rough rounding off? I am posting this on all videos about rock hounding to spread the idea, if this is you channel and you do not like that let me know.
The fact that the tumbling will all take place in a rubber tire should help keep the noise down. The rocks should never touch the rim. I have suggested to people that they make a sound proof shed just big enough to be practical so the noise will be minimized. Plus the rubber in a tire is thick and should absorb a lot of the noise. Also you should have a small fan on the motor to keep it cool. A high quality motor will be a must as it will run 24 hours a day. I am no expert but with the proper gearing the motor should not be under too much stress.
I would sell the tumbled stones. Once tumbled, you grade them by quality and type. Some would be really valuable. I bet you could average $10 usd per pound with just good found material and more if you have high grade material. Definitely not for the weekend rock hound but if you sell stones or want to, what a cheap way to start. You could tumble other people's rocks for a fee or shares too. You could make one with car tires for a smaller scale operation. There has to be a lot of people with a 30 year in the making, 3 ton pile of rocks out behind their house. With this they could see results from all that collecting.
Thank you so much. Very helpful!
enjoyed the facts on agates ,very informative
WHAT I CANT BELIEVE IT IVE COLLECTED HUNDREDS OF THOSE STONES AND THAUGHT THEY WERE JUST NORMAL STONES THEN ALL OF THEM WERE AGATES
sweet! they polish up really nice
I was thinking the same thing, I've often picked up, marveled, wondered why it looked the way it did (waxy), why it was see through (those that were), questioned whether or not it was actually a rock at times and eventually discarded each of these over the years.
May still have one or two around somewhere.
Sigh, if only I'd known.
@@Lady8D you can still find them
Here in northern Ireland at Carrick Fergus beach there's hundreds of these things. I love walking there I find so much stuff there. Has really pretty sea glass too. Lots of jellyfish
thank you for this!!!
Nice video mate, great information and just good ol rock appreciation.
Subscribed!
Thanks for info 😊👍👌
Thanks for that. Very interesting.
Very interesting topic
use to go to agate beach as child and look for many weekends. watching with one of two rings on. might not be most glamorously greatest rings or jewelry stuff, but they got their speciality.
Hey - great video! One thing though, I've been watching a lot of geologist channels on UA-cam, one channel is JTV and they often mention the mohs scale and scratch testing; I'm pretty sure I remember them saying glass was a 5.5 on the mohs scale 🤔
Can you do a video of how to identify the different types of agates? Like I have struggle to differentiate crazy lace agates and turritella agates.
Great info! Thank you very much. Question: At the beginning you aligned the agates from right to left with regards to the "quality" of the agate, and at the end you said that the translucent material in the last agate didn't have any lines in it. Do you mean visible lines, because an agate should have concentric lines to qualify as being one.
agate is a rock, and rocks are general classification of mineral composition and crystal structure of minerals. It’s not an exact science, and this is a rock hounding classification more than a scientific one. Moss agate for example doesn’t always have banding, but is considered agate. I hope this helps with your question.
I’ve found some beautiful pieces along the banks of the Bouie river near Hattiesburg Mississippi. Growing up I found mostly amber colored. Here I find white, grayish black, white, gray and a salmon color
Thank you you helped me emensely
I have 2 very similar pieces I found that I think are agates. One in Willow one in Homer. Both pale in color and waxy luster. The only difference is one looks like a very fine glitter was thrown in while forming. Are they the same rock?
I found a piece that has this waxy luster that u are talking about and its gray/light pink and the edges are translucent. Im not a 100% sure if its agate but this video helps a lot!
Just a note: a conchoidal fracture is not a "random" one, instead it is a typical behaviour of cryptocrystalline materials, which upon fracturing form concave shapes
I LOVE THIS
Cool vid! Subbed
Thankyou very helpful
I have several rocks I thought were White quartz but they kind of look like what you have. Also I have one with orange crystallization on the front and an orange color all the way through but still is mostly milky white.
good job 👍👍👍
Like yes good man
Can you help me identify of I have found a paint rock agate? How could I show you
Wait did you polish that quartz?
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i live in minnesota ive been wanting to go to lake superior but its like 2-3 hours away
I came here trying to figure out what an agate I found was and it looks identical to the one you talked about tumbling on the beach! Top left one. Would it be worth getting a tumbler and tumbling it? Thanks
agates tumble very nice. You wont make money off a tumbler, but its a fun hobby to create cool things for yourself and friends
Hello,
I need some help in determining whether a black agate ring i've just bought really has a genuine agate or not. The problem is that it looks absolutely opaque to me, its just a flat black stone. I've tried to shine a light through it, there's absolutely none passing through. I would appreciate your help to know ways to check for the authenticity of the stone (if it really is a stone).
Thanks in advance
if something is advertised as agate, chances are it is as advertised. Its a fairly common stone and isn't really worth enough to put a fake out there. If it is black and took a very nice polish and it scratches glass its probably agate
Thanks a lot for your help! Really appreciate it.
sir I have the same stones , how much does this stones cost ,where I can sale these stones can you help me
nice , thanx
HI, nice info bout agate. I am a Geologist. I want to point to you that one of your agates shown here is of the shape of a Canine tooth. SOme rocks are formed by replacement of existing minerals. Like wood opal. Similarly calciam carbonate of fossil bones and tooths is sometimes replaced by silica atom by atom on a geological time span. Just check whetheer that piece wwhich is third from left at the bottom at 0.04 time of your video is a replaced silicified fossil tooth. Just my guess.
I wish it was a tooth, I've found lots of agatized wood, but never anything like an agatized tooth.
and your dumb too mister geologist. that agate formed millions of years before dogs existed. Maybe your grams will pay for vet school
@ Owen canine teeth are not all from dogs, that is what we call the pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars of a mammals. jsyk
Cool.
@Owen Digity lol um you obviously dont understand what is meant by the term canine tooth then so be careful when throwing insults like calling someone dumb mmmmkay?
Very interesting I find I have more agates I thought were dirty quarts. Or colored quartz rose and orange hummm
I was wondering we have a cabin by moose lake Minnesota and is known as the agate capitol although I have never found one. Odviously the north shore is a good place but in landlocked areas where would you look
I would look on roadsides, areas that have just been dug up(like a construction site), creek beds/gravel bars during low water, and gravel pits. Most of those areas you'll have to get the land owner permission. Good luck hunting!
+Fishermanjake AK (FishermanjakeAK) minh co da thach anh tinh the
Interesting
HOW MUCH DOES AGATE COST
So is that large piece of quartz an agate too?
Glass is a 5 on the mohs scale and quartz is a 7 and can cut or scratch glass.
I also have same agates how much does it costs
how much is a price for agates?
Identified an agate in a box of vintage rock samples I bought because of this video. Thanks
Now to figure out if this uranium ore is going to kill me or not...
well you better refrain from licking it
@@HowtoAlaska 10-4 I'm treating it like covid and wearing a mask lol hopefully isotopes are scared of N95 masks and Mason jars.
But joking aside, I completely didn't expect to get Rockzilla in a mixed box of rock samples.
If they shatter like glass does that mean they can be as sharp as glass?
They can make arrowheads from them
Have you tried them under the UV light ???
What UV adds here?
I found lots of agates this week ,at a beach , when a big piece of the mountain rocks collapsed in 2008 they appeared .
I have some blue ones they are transparent and look dark blue and really light
price of these agates???
Hmm...do they still teach about mohs scale these days? Lol hope so
Yup, learned it in school a couple years back.
i have a agates rock how much if i sold it...it is so clear if you put in the water or light...
I didn't know there were agates in Alaska. Personally I think agates are 6.5 to 7.5 in hardness. I do a lot of polishing and some are extremely hard, some grind away really easily.
@Donald Kasper they're forming deep in the ground where they do hydrofracking too. I guess that proves it doesn't take long for them to form.
Is there Facebook profile where I can send some pictures for identification?
It’s pretty much impossible to identify rocks with certainty through a picture. It doesn’t show many of the traits that are needed to identify them properly.
Microcrystalline, most of those are microcrystalline and the translucent ones of mono colour are chalcedony .
For the stone to be called agate it must have bands, must have bands .
Moss agate doesn’t have bands and it is referred to as agate, just saying. Chalcedony is commonly referred to as agate because most beginners have a tough time getting that scientific.
You can find allot of them in kuwait beaches
In Nicaragua rivers theres alot
some of them could be jades. how do you know they are not jade
For a second there I thought you said eggate. Lol
Which price of the 1 gram of ageta?
Sorry Agate
I was in Alaska for 3 weeks, never thought to look for rocks. Drove 800 miles, from Anchorage, to NWR.
Can agate sale ?
Price
sir i have some stons like this
I would love to find these, but the geology in my area is not the right kind. Dang it...
holly blue agete
Steven wants to know your location
how would I identify monotonic gold?
I've never seen gold in an agate before, not that it couldn't be there.
Fishermanjake AK thanks for reply
Hey no problem, I will be doing some gold panning videos in the future though. I have some ore from a gold mine i worked at that I'm going to crush and pan as well. It will be when I get around to it though.
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I have a big agate. Purple color . Unfortunately I don't know how to make money out of it.
I have also fond estimate 18kg white Ang purple agate in one piece.
I just use it as a footrest 😎😂😂
I have an agates..u want to buy it😊😊😊
Can I find them on the shore of the pacific ocean?
Yes, northern California has an Agate Beach.
I found a 65 lb. carnelian agate that i am not sure what to do with. I postd a yutube video Large Giant Carnelian Agate!!! any sugestions wold be apreciate.
Seeing is beleaving. Check it out on you tube Large Giant Carnelian agate!!!
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This type of stone I have
How to FIND agates?
Michael Brady any beach on Lake Superior is a great starting point.
I believe he's referring to the title of this video which helps with identification but not with how to find them.
The Kenai Peninsula is part of Alaska I just wanted to give you a heads up it's pretty simple thank you
Mine looked like a tiger eye but then i could shine a light thru it .. so it was agate all along 😂😂😂
Use a LED flashlight to see how translucent it is.
And I find them in my backyard
No no no! You must hold the Agate up to the light whether it be the Sun or a lamp or any sort of light if it is a Agate you will be able to see through the stone. In opaque manner. Some are smooth some are rough all will be opaque, and show various colors as well as quartz only quartz is less opaque
Is jade an agate ?
Nope
sir there r thousands here
but finding difficult sent me ur Emil adree I sent u pic.this is real r not
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I have an agate
Still hunting for shines stones and buttons???
Not this time of year. As soon as the snow melts
Fishermanjake AK, your not gonna believe something for agates. Days ago on Friday at school, drama class 1st period, my friend Daniel was showing me some rocks he normally had from home and soon, I saw a tumbled stone that he had me keep was something surprising, It was like a combination of the silica bands of Agate and the violet purple, light purple and white like the traditional colors of Amethyst. I quickly thought up and decided a new name for this tumbled stone that is like a combination of Agate and Amethyst. I have called it, "Agathyst" It sounded like the coolest mineral name idea I created. My friend English teacher Mrs. Padget I like spending time with was pretty surprised about it and thought I could have that idea in the dictionary of rocks, minerals, and fossils. Today while 2 days ago, I was learning a lot more about how agate, quartz, and silica work. So when I saw your video today, I was thinking and wondering if you know well about this "Agathyst" I've been talking about?
+Nick K Agate classification is like other classifications of rocks, they vary in names for slight differences in the rock. Chalcedony is very similar to agate and has very similar properties. One could argue that it is a type of agate because they are both microcrystalline quarts. The same is true with your amethyst. Amethyst usually refers to the large purple crystals of quartz, however the microcrystalline matrix could be referred to purple agate or amethyst. Really rocks are just a classification based on mineral composition and formation, while minerals are a naturally occurring crystal structure of a specific chemical composition.
Thanks for the info and some clues. Maybe someday it might be true that this "Agathyst" that I'm so curious and excited thinking about could become a true thing like having my name idea in the mineral dictionary or who know what would happen. On the show Prospectors from the Weather Channel. Some episodes about a miner Rich Fretterd and some others being in the Cripple Creak Mines in Colorado, USA, They find mysterious mixed mineral specimens made of 3 things. Purple Fluorite, Barite, and some quartz, and the specimens looks similar to kyanite or scolcite by the way the crystal forms look. They didn't think of a name for that. I thought something like maybe Fluorbarartz or who knows. Thank you for your response.
NAK (sorry, I'm very late) but if the bands make kind of v or even w shapes it could be banded amethyst, or chevron amethyst. I have several specimens of it and it sounds like your description. I'm not saying that it is 100% necessarily it, I'm just putting it out there...
Akik agate
The silica percipitated precisely in silence, in a procession salivated over so long perhaps it was silly. Very silly
CAUTION---AGATE is the only variety of CHALCEDONY which is banded.
What about moss agate? Moss agate isn’t banded. Anyhow, I made the video for the beginner, Most people don’t know what chalchedony is. To most, agate is an easier understanding of many forms of Chalcedony. It’s kind of like calling diorite granite. To a geologist it matters, to someone installing countertops it doesn’t. Classifying rocks is kind of an art as they are so varied and agate is an acceptable classification of the rocks I showed in the video.
I have big agates. I would like to share with u if you can get ahold of me. And I'll tell u where I find them.
I’m getting a meatale detector on Monday or Friday
Frost Bite what’s that?
I have agate