Some Michigan Rocks That I Haven't Tumbled Before - Rocks in a Box 68
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- There are a couple things in this batch that I haven't tumbled before that I think you'll really like. The rest of the rocks are pretty nice too.
Thanks to Christina Jelinek for editing the closed captions for this video.
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A very lovely assortment of rocks. They all came out really beautiful. The glass was very pretty as well. 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I wasn't sure what would happen with that glass. I was thrilled with the way that one turned out.
@@MichiganRocks I think it was one of the most spectacular peices. 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
A few of my very first tumble came out of polish this morning. The best were banded chert, a few nice pieces of Yellowstone River petrified / agatized wood, and a small Montana moss agate.
I attribute my success to your excellent tutorials. You "rock" !!! Thanks!
That's awesome, Richard. Banded chert is underrated in my opinion.
Love those colors!
Nice touch going back to the beach where the rocks come from. Pretty rocks! Thanks. Suzy AZ USA
Thanks!
Back in the 70’s I tumbled stones. Decided to become a Geologist. Now I’m retired. Watching your videos brings back my youth. Thank you for your videos.
One of my favorite minerals to tumble was Iron Pyrite. It is soft, but it came out like gold mercury when held in the hand! Beautiful!
I have never tumbled pyrite, and I haven't heard of many other people tumbling it. Now you've got me curious about it. I might have to give it a try sometime.
@@MichiganRockstalking about pyrite, order some cube ones! Give them a little polish and give it a look!
@@Danny-9404 I have a specimen of pyrite cube crystals. They look good without polishing them.
Super!!! Another Great Video!! You must be pretty cool, to get your two sisters and your wife out looking for rocks!!!! That is pretty neat!!! 🤗♥️🙏🏼
They all tolerate me. What more can I ask for?
@@MichiganRocks There is nothing else!! They tolerate you??? No, they all Love You!!! 🤗🤗
They turned out great. Funny how the slag and glass are the prettiest (to me). ❤️💔🦅🦅
Those were some of my favorites too.
The rock at 8:35 is one of the coolest I've ever seen! Even though it might not even be a rock...
Nope, that's slag glass. Cool though.
Beautiful collection. Really surprised how well the slag & fossils came out in tumbling. Thought you'd lose detail in line/print of fossil. Nice batch. Always good to see your family. God bless.
I was very happy with the slag too, considering I didn't give it any special attention.
Looks like I have a few of these... I'll have to watch again and try to learn something 😮
I have lots of them, but I only do the before and after pictures on the Michigan ones.
A very cool box of rocks.
The second rock from the beginning of the video looks like rutilated quartz.
It's very cool! But so are the rest... Neat glass tumbling too :)
It's not rutilated quartz. I have a couple pieces of that and it's completely different. I do see the similarity though.
I enjoyed seeing the Point Iroquois Lighthouse, since I live in Iroquois, SD. The rocks are sure beautiful. Enjoyed the video !!!
Thanks, Mark. Hopefully you don't have so much swimmer's itch in your Iroquois.
Super tumble! I was rockhounding Upper Michigan in May and found many of the rocks you have shown tumbled here. I’m tumbling my rocks now and your videos helped me get great results.
My two sisters rockhounded with me and when they picked up a rock I wasn’t sure would tumble well, I simply said, let’s give it a try. To my delight many are making amazing transformations like your rocks do in the video. Thanks again Rob!
You're welcome! Trying out new rocks is a great way to learn. I can show you lots of things, but there's nothing quite like experiencing it for yourself.
Right off the bat, that blue one is absolutely amazing.
Really nice finds I like the pink rocks too!
I've always liked the way you explain as much as you can for me being a newbie great video 👍
Thanks!
Wow Rob, I love how you put this video together. Showing the videos and scenery where you found them, plus the before and afters are awesome. These turned out amazing, what a shine! Love the variety and colors!
Thanks. It kind of took forever, but I like how it turned out.
Nice rocks Rob...that swimmer's itch looked brutal.
That was awful.
Very nice outcome!
Wow! really nice job Rob, those came out very good.
Thanks!
Nice box of rocks. Your videos are always fun and uplifting to watch. Thanks for sharing.
Glad to lift you up!
Another great video! We depleted a bit of your stock at Olivet's! Bummed we didn't get to connect this trip...will maybe try again next year, or if we get lucky and find a teardrop camper...then we'll be heading back up to the up! Btw... no joy in petoskey today...there were literally thousands of dead fish along the shore ...worst in petosky, but down through charlevoix, and even acme...tons of algae as well. Did find a few baby petoskey in charlevoix, and we finally got to see the mushroom houses, and walk up sleeping bear dunes. Hope you had luck in Harrisville...we stopped there on Sunday en route to Alpena.
Harrisville wasn't very good. My neighbor Sam was with me and we found a bunch of tiny puddingstones to add to his tiny puddingstone collection, but not much else. I found one puddingstone that was big enough to tumble, but gave it to someone on the beach who hadn't found much.
I wonder why there are so many dead fish in Lake Michigan. That's kind of disturbing. I have never seen that. Fish flys (May flies) can stink like dead fish after they all die, but I haven't seen lots of fish washed up like that before. I'm sorry you had such bad luck.
The mushroom houses are awesome!
Sorry about the hunt. Turns out the dead fish are Ale wives and it happens like this every 10 years, lucky us!
Stay well
@@ebsinger3250 I guess I have heard of that, now that you mention it. I haven't experienced it though.
Lovely rocks as always. Also, continuing to really appreciate the effort you put into the formatting on these videos.
I can't do this for all of them, but I like to give the Michigan rocks a little extra love.
A pink pendant would be beautiful. The blue glass would make a great bracelet. Nice box!
I'll have to try polishing a spot on the cab machine.
absolutely beautiful!
4:25 is so interesting & rich - 3:31 is more of the banded iron that i think is powerful - that beach glass is super cool! turned out great
lots of nice rocks & glass. stone #2 with the chicken footprints 👍🏻
Great video!!! Cool to see how these different rocks turned out. Thanks for sharing the information!
Keep rockin!!👍😎
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Could the quartz rock with the black have tourmaline in it? The beach glass is beautiful. This box had some great rocks. Can anyone suggest a book or map where I can find some rocks on the Great Lakes? I'm hoping to come out there next month and do some rock hunting. I plan on camping from my vehicle. Just to save money and enjoy being outdoors. Never been past the Wisconsin border on the west side. Really would like to find a variety of rocks to take home. Especially like banded iron, pudding stone and petoskey. Any rocks from there would be great. Nice side by side comparison Rob!
There's a map at the Michigan Rockhounds site. They're currently working on redoing the map and adding a lot more information to it. www.michiganrockhounds.com/map
Other people suggested tourmaline for that quartz rock. I don't know how to positively identify it.
Awesome variety! Even the not perfect ones are cool to see.
It's only fair that I show a few that aren't perfect along the way. If you pick up new stuff, that's bound to happen.
I have tumbled too many rocks like the one at 10:00. Try as I might I just can’t get rid of those micro pits. I think the rocks are just somewhat porous. I’ve also tumbled a number of fossils like the ones at 11:50 & 12:10. At first I thought the ones like at 12:10 were favosites that had metamorphosed into quartz but when you take a close look at the individual cells they are actually square shaped instead of hexagonal. I think banded chert is one of the most overlooked stones by newcomers. When you see them on the beach they sure don’t look like much but oh what a transformation when they come out of the tumbler !!!
I was thinking they looked sort of like favosites too, but not quite. I hadn't looked close enough to realize that the cells were missing a couple of sides. Good catch.
I agree completely about banded chert.
Those are so pretty!! I love the pink rocks!
I would say 95% of the rocks l tumble, l have no idea what they are😆 but they usually come out just as nice as the ones you showed in this video. 😉 . Beautiful batch of rocks you have there.
You don't have to know what they're called to enjoy them or tumble them.
@@MichiganRocks this is very true.
Tyfs ❤️
The tiny one that was second to last with the little window looking area looks like a Cold Water Agate. I have a few like that. Some have more bands to them and some don't.
Like all the variety you tumbled.
I'm never quite sure of myself when identifying cold water agates. I suspected that one might have been one though. Thanks for the help.
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I was just at Vermillion and Whitefish Point on Sunday looking for agates. It was cold and windy and I didn’t find any agates. The slag turned out really nice. I’ll have to try some.
I can't wait to get back up there. Cold and windy is better than hot with stable flies.
@@MichiganRocks That is so true! We also went to Munising and Marquette. There’s black slag on the beach at Bay Furnace near Christmas. Have you been there?
@@joyceknitsandsews Yes, I brought some slag home once and then returned it a few years later. It just sort of looked like black obsidian and I'd rather just tumble obsidian.
3:24 I think that would be basalt with a quart vein. If it is that’s a nice shine on the basalt!
That's a good guess, I think.
That slag is stunning! WOWOW....and that blue glass...holy wha. Wow...that agate is gorgeous! When you polish the banded iron, does a magnet still stick to it?? I did tons of "magates" too. I read something somewhere, that said Native Americans would chip parts of chert for sharpened needs. That second to the last one is just beautiful! Have you ever done a polishing twice to see if the "undercuttings" go away?
I'm not sure if a magnet sticks to banded iron. I should try it out one of these days.
Polishing twice will not undo undercutting. If anything, it would make it worse.
@@MichiganRocks interesting. And yeah...give the magnet a try over the polish!
This was a beautiful display of tumbled rocks. Especially liked that slag? and that multicolored glass strip. Thank you for sharing.
I should be getting my new 4# Tumble Bee rock tumbler next week and might you be able to suggest what grit I should purchase to do cultured beach glass?
Are you trying to make fake beach glass? I just used sand. Here is my atttempt:
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cool!!
Regarding water piks and ultrasonic cleaners... I have used both, and both do a great job of cleaning. However, the water pik likes to splash water literally everywhere, and the ultrasonic does indeed have a tendency to crack your rocks.
My friend Jonathan bought me a knock off Water Pik and it works great. I use it all the time. It does spray back a lot though. Better than cracking rocks.
@@MichiganRocks I agree-much better than cracking rocks!
Amazing, beautiful stones. What do you do with all these stones you tumble?
I made a video just to answer that question. ua-cam.com/video/jZ9Dns9ioX8/v-deo.html
I'd like to say, watching some of your videos has moved me to try tumbling. I did buy a 1lb tumbler (baby step) a while ago just to see if I would like to pursue tumbling any further. Well, today I'm ordering my 3rd 1lb tumbler. So my thinking is for purchasing a $65 tumbler, suits a inexpensive 'way to see' if I'll stick with it. It feels like I will. Keep your video's coming, thank you. Hope to visit the lake region someday.
If you buy any more tumblers, consider a Lortone 33B. It has two three pound barrels and isn't super expensive. Kingsley North and the Rock Shed are two god places to buy one. Links are in the description.
Tumble more Lake Superior Agates!!!
I'll tumble yours.
How much do you typically bring home? Do you have all your tumblers running all the time? What's your max capacity? It would be neat to have like a studio tour or something. Have you done a video where you show off your collection?
I don't bring too much home from each trip because I go out fairly often. I try not to accumulate more than I can do something with. I have my tumbler cabinet running all the time, but it doesn't always have all the barrels on it. I can run two twelve-pound barrels, one six-pounder and eight three-pound barrels simultaneously in the big tumbler. I have two or three extra three pound barrels and an extra six pound barrel that I could run on separate tumblers if I wanted to, but I never do that. I also have two Lot-O vibratory tumblers that are not always going but often are.
Here's a tour of my shop. I have updated the cab machine and moved a few things around, but it's basically the same. ua-cam.com/video/_kgta1BLOkY/v-deo.html
This video shows some of my finished tumbled rocks: ua-cam.com/video/jZ9Dns9ioX8/v-deo.html
I have a whole "Rocks in a Box" series that started with the second video above.
@@MichiganRocks Nice. I'll check them out. I have some of my rocks on display in my aquarium. I'll have to make a special video, just about them. I'll share it when I do.
Fellow chert fan... I have a secret spot in the UP where blue chert is just lying around by the handfuls. I've yet to see any of it slabbed or polished.
I thought it was Leland Blue the first time I saw it, but wrong area lol.
I find some blue chert in Lake Huron too. It's usually pretty small and some that I have tumbled comes out gray, so I think the blue is sometimes just on the outside.
Is there a reason you haven't tumbled any of the stuff you found in the U.P.?
@@MichiganRocks don't have a tumbler! lol the most basic of reasons. next time I'm up there I'll grab a pile of really blue stuff for you to play around with. It's very blue, so blue at first I really did think it was slag. Had to sit down on the beach and look closely - as soon as I saw the first fossil I knew it was naturally occuring.
I adore slag, too, and have a huge collection of colors. I know where many waste piles are just under the surface in Detroit and have buckets of it
I tried to post a video of some in a jar of water and I guess external links aren't allowed? It was a Dropbox link. I was looking at it to see if I thought the blue color would pop with polishing.
@@TheLindagdetroit Some comments go right to the spam folder and I miss them. I have box checked that says, "allow all comments", but some still go to the spam folder. I'll go see if I can find it.
I really didn't know you could tumble glass, that was an eye opener and it turned out beautiful. Any advice for tumbling labradorite? I've tried several times with little success
I just finished my first batch of labradorite. I got it fairly shiny, but it just has so many fractures that it's never going to look good. I did mine in a Lot-O vibratory tumbler, using the same method that I usually do.
@@MichiganRocks ya thats my problem too, only way I've gotten it to look halfway decent is to spend hours with 3000 grit paper and a lot of elbow grease
Beautiful finds!!!! Silly question, but how did you know those were fossils? I'm super new and learning, so any help is appreciated!
We have a lot of fossils here in Michigan. Many of them are coral fossils. I'm not as familiar with the fossils in this video, but a couple of them looked like other coral fossils I have seen. I did a video on fossils for my daughter's middle school science class that you might enjoy. It was my third Rocks in a Box video: ua-cam.com/video/pV6sAr4H0-Y/v-deo.html
Good morning Rob, great collection to tumble, all mixed up like most of my batches. The “seam agate” was very beautiful transformation! Sorry to see Nancy’s eyeball lose it’s sight, but that backside is stunning! I think those “speckles” are old impact fractures that tumbling reveals, maybe? Great production, very enjoyable to watch. Thank you!
Question if I may? Do you have a source to replace 3 pound barrel top rubber seals? I’m wearing mine through. Found one seller but they double their price with the shipping, for each piece, no matter how many units you buy. I don’t mind paying, but that piling-on postage seems a bit inappropriate. I use a bike patch kit to fix little holes, but now I have one that’s ripped. Ideas?
I buy all of my stuff from Kingsley North or the Rock Shed. Both carry replacement lid gaskets. They might be out of stock, but they'll get them eventually. There are links to both places in the description of all of my videos.
@@MichiganRocks , thanks Rob, you’ve recommended them before, another need, different grits I think. Anyway, thanks again. And great job on this production!
@@berjo77 If you need lapidary stuff, those two places are the best I've found.
@@MichiganRocks thanks, you were correct. The Rock Shed had what I needed plus one spare just in case. It’s shipping today. I will put tire patches on one of my blowouts to get the tub rolling again, the torn one is a goner, it’s been with me since day one and worn thin. Not bad for something that thin and delicate to hold up to 5000+ hours operation.
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Sim eu quero. Agradeço a Deus todos os dias por onde moro.
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@@MichiganRocks Thank you. I will try.
@@lorebilim7471 Thanks!
Could the black inclusions in the gray rock at 1 min be black tourmaline?
Could be, I'm not sure. Several other people have suggested the same thing though, so you're probably right.
Second piece looks like tourmaline in quartz
Several other people said the same thing. Thanks for your two cents!
Did you make that pink pendant yet? ✋
Nope.
Do you have a P.O. Box? I'm a avid disc golfer. I live in S/E Michigan, and most of the agates and fossils I find are from the S/E Michigan area. I find many agates and fossils out on the disc golf course almost every round I play. I would send you some nice Michigan fossils and agates, I've found for free, ill even pay for the shipping. You could polish them and make a video about it, maybe. I've got tons of agates, I plan on polishing up my best ones, but I'd give you some nice rough ones for free. I haven't polished any of my really big ones yet, I'm not sure if I want to slice them or tumble some of them. I just bought a Nat GEO. tumbler, a year ago and haven't even used it yet. After seeing your tutorial on it, I might want a nicer tumbler for my big agates. However, for the small ones I think it will work. I have pounds of agates in my basement, all rough and ready for polishing. "I know they are agates and not junk rocks, I have a geology book and have done my research in books and online." Just a suggestion.
My son was really into disc golf, but I don't think he does it much anymore. I have only played one round. It was fun.
I get quite a few offers from people who want to send me rocks. It's very generous, but I have a more rocks than I can tumble as it is. I'm really curious about the agates you're finding though. That's a very unusual part of the state to find agates in. I would love to see some of them. Could you send a couple pictures to my Instagram account? I'd really love to see them. Thanks! instagram.com/michiganrocksyoutube/
please send me banded iron
No can do.
@@MichiganRocks hey nice vids
Those look like chigger bites Rob
Do chiggers live underwater? I only got bites up to my knees, the same depth I was wading in.
Loved the stones from your "secret" location. The fossil stones looked beautiful polished. Thank you for sharing.
I was surprised at how well those turned out. It was a nice surprise.
Great video rob !!!!😎
Those are amazing!!! The bright blue one is my fav
Is the banded iron magnetic?
I'm not sure.
I found some pink rocks with green jagged lightning marks that run through the rocks. I found them on Lake Superior I cut them with a saw but didn’t polish them yet can not wait to do them.
Those sound really cool.
@@MichiganRocks Yes they are I don’t know what they are but they were about fist sized I had to cut them with my wet saw, the green lines went all the way through. They are very pink with bright green lines through out.
There were some neat ones. I liked the multi color glass the best. That would make a cool pendant. Pretty on both sides. I liked the format of seeing which trip and the beach where you picked the rocks up. You have a good memory.
I don't have that good of a memory. I had the rocks in separate boxes labeled by beach when I took the before pictures.
The pink rock looked a lot like your swimmer's itch. Rocks in a box, always fun.
Come to central Minnesota and we'll load you up with agates.
That's not a good look!
Ahhh man, I really need to get a life! A rock hounding life. I found some cool stuff too so far, mine are from Lake Erie. ❤️❤️. The pink one is beautiful, my favorite.
Have fun man! Thinking of starting myself
I haven't hunted Lake Erie yet. Anything good there?
No, nothing really worth making the drive, if I find a good spot down here, I’ll share. ❤️
0:57 I wonder if that is Quartz with little flakes of tourmaline in it (same with the one at 1:49 ).
Several people have suggested that. I don't really know how to identify tourmaline for sure, but it sounds like that's something I'll have to read up on.
Make a video about tumbling glass
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Always fun to try new material and see what happens. It's hard for me to get to the Rock hounding sites/mines I want to, but I was able to order gravel from Montana and look for sapphires and I'm still going to get a bag of ore from California to sort through. Rocks are just a passion
I have never ordered bags of rocks or pay dirt. Sound like it could be a fun thing to sort thought though.
@@MichiganRocks it is, and just Google mines that ship, or message on IG and I can recommend a couple
@@ktlivingherway516 For now I'm happy collecting my own stuff, but maybe some winter I'll give it try.
I wonder if that isn’t tourmaline in the quartz on that 2nd one? Those glass pieces from Marquette are wicked!
Could be tourmaline, I'm not sure.
Looks like tourmaline inclusions to me. Quartz with tourmaline is pretty commonly seen on eBay and Ali Express, not expensive, and I have picked up some examples.
@@JohnGotts Thanks, John.
🙋♀️🌞Too many great rocks to pick a fave, but the lake Michigan fossils ❤were right up there!
Those were fun for me too since I hadn't tumbled them before. I was really happy with how they turned out.
All those rocks are beautiful ! So many different colours and patterns , that piece of multicolour glass is gorgeous 🤩😍👍
I really didn't know if that glass would polish or not. I was very happy to see that it did.
@@MichiganRocks I’m glad it did too and it turned out to be a wonderful piece too 👍🥰
I love the before and afters! Great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Me too!
Wow 9 mins or so. Wow 😳 AMAZING piece of glass
Nice video Rob, I think quartz is under rated, I especially like the inclusions, thanks for sharing
That one with the inclusions was great. The inclusions made that rock.
That is one beautiful pink rock!
You have everyone looking for rocks.
Mike Ryan has just clued me in on turquoise...it only crystalizes in Virginia...and I have a blue green crystalized piece of granite from a drainage pipe...a quarried stone... six-sided and flat on top... sure looks like turquoise color wise...
Sounds beautiful.
Oreo 😂 and banded iron are both nice!
Wow that piece of slag is gorgeous! And yes, you should try turning that pink rock into a pendant. That was my first thought when you flipped it over😂 It is very pretty even with the undercut.
That slag was really great. I love the swirls.
Thank you so very much for the before and after pics. Stunning.
Your'e welcome.
If your ever back up here near Curtis Michigan or by Grand Marais and we can show you our slag hideout as the slag you showed on this video is exactly what we find and big chunks of blue purple and green. Would love to rock out with you.
Sincerely'N'TRUTH d'Anthony
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
I have a hypothetical for you. what happens if you mixed your 1st 2 stages up better with various sized rocks to get better shaping. and then instead of you using vibratory tumbler for your last two stages...switch back to the rotatory and switch to cerium oxide for your polish. see what results you get? just a thought
I have a fairly good mix of rocks in the tumbler. I didn't show all the rocks from this batch. There were some small ones in there that I didn't have good before pictures of so I left them out. I was happy with the shaping I got. Where do you see room for improvement there?
I'm also really happy with the polish I'm getting. I have some cerium oxide, but it's much more expensive than aluminum oxide. Since I like the polish I'm getting, I don't see any reason to use a more expensive polish. I do know that in the past cerium oxide was the standard in polish. Is there a reason you're suggesting it?
I´m curious. I have access to a lot of lava (Iceland) and I wonder how it would do in a Lortone tumbler. What´s your opinion and/or input? I'm a beginner tumbler.
I haven't ever tumbled Icelandic lava, nor do I know exactly what that means. I suppose any igneous rock would be considered to be lava.
Those look great!
So you tumble agate other people's rocks? You probably shouldn't have said that to thousands of people!
I rarely tumble other people's rocks. I do get requests, but not that often. Maybe once a month. I almost always say no. The problem isn't tumbling them, it's keeping them separated from my rocks. At the end of the first stage as I remove a couple rocks each week, I have to start filling the empty space with my own rocks. Then they get all mixed up.
I think the black in the second photo is tourmaline. Sweet rock!
Other people have said the same thing.
Beautiful indeed
Very much enjoy these before & after videos from you. Thank you.
Glad you like them, Doug!
Thanks for showing what the various rocks look like polished. I would never have guessed that some of them would have turned out as well as they did. Even the ones with undercutting look great and show the color of the rock. I like this type of video, not that I don't like your others too.
Thanks, Rick. Seeing how much the rocks change during polishing is what I love about this hobby.
This was a extra-pretty, colorful Rocks in a Box. Thank you for showing them. Once again I've got to say I really like how you show the before and after in the same shot.
It's comments like yours that keep me doing those shots. I guess I like them too. They take soooooo long to do!
@@MichiganRocks I appreciate the extra time it takes you but, don't feel you HAVE to do it that way. Your videos are enjoyable however you precent them.
Have you been able to identify the pink rock? I get similar and I'm stumped as to what they can be.
Can you give me a timestamp? It's been awhile since I made this video and I don't remember which pink rock you're talking about.
Oh wow almost at the end you said something about a little green rock 💚... it looks like jade
It might look like jade, but I don't think we have any jade in Michigan.
Thanks those look really nice. Very good video format.
Thanks, John.
So did you ever cut that really pink rock? Or try to get the undercut off with the cab machine?
I don't think I did.
Some of your tiny rocks would look awesome as wire wrapped charms for bracelets.
I suppose they would.
Beautiful
1:08 looks like rutilated quartz. It varies in appearance. Just grabbed "My Book of Rocks and Minerals: Things to find, collect, and treasure!" And it's a match but with different color. My mom ordered it for my 17th birthday. It's a fun book to read.
Also, at 3:17, it's basalt. I usually don't tumble those.
I think that's schorl, which is a type of tourmaline in quartz.
I think you might be right about that being basalt. I don't usually tumble that either.
@MichiganRocks I forgot about that being in quartz, too...huh.
swimmers itch? Never heard of that. But, the rocks were fun.
It's a parasite that moves between snails and waterfowl, although it can be transmitted by mammals too. Humans are not a good host, so the parasite dies after burrowing into your skin. I have read that it occurs all over the world. www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/what-to-know-about-swimmers-itch
Such a wonderful video of your work. Really good job
Thanks, Jodi.
I loved the pink rock,there were so many pretty ones,they do not have to be perfect to be pretty !
Yep that one was a fun color even if it undercut some.
Good god, what is ‘Swimmer’s Itch’??
It’s a parasite. It is extremely itchy. Here’s an article about it: www.cdc.gov/parasites/swimmersitch/faqs.html