WHAT DID I BUY at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show 2024?
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2024
- Kate and Jim spent five days at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, and brought home a huge pile of rocks to show for it! Come along as we dig through the bags and buckets, discovering and rediscovering the treasures we hauled home. From agates to opals, from Australian jasper and petrified wood to dinosaur bone, there's something for everyone in this stash!
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Kate you are such a joy! I love your videos and love that you share your experiences! I thouroughly enjoy the visits with you!
That makes me smile.
Love the fire agate!
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: I can't wait to see you slab those treasures! Good times to come!!!
Hi, Kelly! Working on it!
That’s so much fun! Love all the rocks you brought home. Can’t wait to see you work with them.
Me too!! Thanks!
All is gorgeous! ❤
What a killer haul. Right on Kate 😎😎
It really was. :)
That is a lot of beautiful rocks that you picked up a the shows. Happy birthday, awesome stones you got yourself for your birthday. Keep up the great videos and God bless you and your family.
Thanks so much! It was fun.
Great choices Kate! Can't wait to see what you do with them!
Gorgeous. I came home with a lot of beautiful rocks too. Yes I need to write down too
LOL, #thestruggleisreal
Great finds, thanks for sharing and one year I'm going to this show
It's overwhelming - but worth it!
Love the noreena jasper!
Really lovely!!! I just started rockhounding and I learn so so much from you!!! You are such a good teacher. Thank you!! Enjoy your rocks
Thank you so much, Nancy!
You're gonna like that Noreena jasper. It's very ancient material, some 2.6 billion years old or so. It can be fussy about obtaining a really high polish and you want to be wary of fractures along the color lines. But it's worth it, it's very beautiful material when worked.
It's probably for the best that I didn't go to the show, I'd have a pickup full of fancy rocks and no money to get home.😉
That is really cool - thanks for the info! I'll do a little more research.
Dan Hurd is still mining fabulous Ocean Picture Jasper from his mine up in BC.
By the way awesome rocks
The opal is nice.
What fun. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Save it😊.i though snakeskin were more creme color with yellow like thing on.
Maybe it comes in multiple colors?
@@KatyDidRocks maybe 😊
The Jaspers remind me of going to an ice cream shop where there are multiple tubs of all flavors and mixes... Jasper's just as yummy!
They really are!
Good taste in rocks! 🙂 I just came back from the show and picked up some of the Australian Jaspers as well. Did you see any Marra Mamba Tiger Eye? Amazing stuff.
Great choices!
Thanks!
Nice haul Kate.
What an array of colours 😍😍😍😍. You definitely brought a lot of gorgeousness and some I have never heard of before. 😊
Very nice rock haul. Can't wait to see what you create.
Thank you for sharing your trip and treasures.❤😊❤
You are so welcome!
Incredible crystals show also the music is so relaxing
Nice materials you got at the show! Very beautiful rocks!
I often think that a lot of crazy lace agate looks like bacon.
Thank you for thinking of us!
Omg.....opal!!! Can't wait for it's unveiling!!! "So many beautiful rocks"! I know you had a great time in Tucson.
:D The trick is going to be finding a good place to keep them!
Hi Katy, it's delmar hope you're doing good. I actually make jewelry for living now Lo l I hope you are doing well
Wow Kate! The stuff you brought home this time is awesome! There is so many things that I want to get my hands on! Lol! Thank you for sharing!❤
Lisa, it was such a blessing to be able to go there and share, and think about what others might want to get their hands on. :)
The Ethiopian opals are my favorite!
Hi, love the rocks. The opals being destroyed by water sounds solveable. Wht not use a very light oil as the cooler and wash the disks off with brake cleaner? It removes oil and drys in seconds.
The water doesn't destroy the opals, it just removes the color temporarily, as the opal soaks up water. When it's dry, the color returns - but it's tricky to cut when you're working on a clear rock.
Hay I really like those opals very nice I had an idea what would you think about having Theo take one of your opals and have shape it like a ring shape maybe a 8 12 angles on the stones. I just saw he got some stones from some rock in the Dakotas. And did some rings stones they very nice. Anyway hope you like the Idea.
Love that ocean jasper!!
Me too - I think! :)
I felt like I was there with you going through ur goodies ❤😂🎉😅😊
I'm glad!
You bought some gorgeous stuff!
Thank you!! 😊 I am in love. :)
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I bought fluorite as well
It's so pretty!
Tiger iron is messy to cut. I had 2 60 lb pieces I cut and my oil was nasty red. Clean the oil after cutting. So just wait till you’re ready to change oil and cut it before changing.
Good to know! Jasper does the same thing. I have an Everclean oil cleaner on my big saw - I'll be sure to use that one to cut.
wow, that you called Noreena Jasper and Mookatie Jasper and snakeskin- jasper was beutiful, food for an Jasper-lover. can`t wait to see that one slapped!! you really bought a lot of lovely stuff
Thanks! I went a little crazy with the jaspers, but cutting them will make a fun video. :)
Hi Katy! Wonderful haul! I was at this years show but missed the Ethiopian opals somehow. Do you recall which show you found them at?
Hi! I bought these at the Pueblo, but I’m pretty sure I saw some at other shows.
Thanks!
Part of me wants to go to Tuscon, but I'm afraid I'd spend way too much money. You got a lot of nice material.
We saved up for the trip - worth every penny!
Kate, being as you just got back from Tucson, it seems like a good time to ask you this. In one of the last videos you did before going to the show you cut a variety of agates; with one of those being a Laguna Agate. I've been told the area where it's mined has been sold and the new owner is no longer selling rough rock. Being as you had some to cut, do you know if a person is still able to buy natural/unsliced material? I am hopeful you can solve this mystery for me... and possibly even suggest where I might be able to find/buy some.
Hi, Grant! I bought mine from Highland Park Lapidary - they seem to have some available.
I love the Ethiopian opals! I have tried to buy them while in Ethiopia but the government won't allow them to be sold there due to an issue with taxation. They are taxed for exporting so they can't sell them in country. I did find a few at a gem store but they were super expensive. I think it was just because I was from the US. Everything gets more expensive if you have white skin.
Wow, that's interesting! Guess you probably would have to find a miner and buy directly from him - and then not mention that it's in your luggage. Oh, wait, that's smuggling! :D
@@KatyDidRocks I did know a miner! Unbelievable. He gave me bluish turquoise rocks (Amazonite) that I brought home and tumbled. Sarawit was his name. I went to his house when the electricity was out. We looked in his pails with a flashlight. He had rubies. He was so excited to show me. He had went south to mine but was disgruntled with it and I saw him back in Addis Ababa the next trip I made there. What a guy!
Hey Kate I'm from the bitterrot valley anywhere I can get cool rocks without killing my back?
Like scouting not going to a mine place and spending loads of money 😂
As somebody who has recently fallen in love with boulder opal, why does it have to be so expensive 😅
LOL< you're not wrong!
Kate please slow down the turning or back the camera up I got so dizzy
Yeah, sorry about that! I’ll try to do better.
What did Mr. Did get?
Blue stones are pretty rare. There is a story about blue stones being given to a child by an Alien from another world.
Sounds like a great story!