Winchester Creek // Hunting for Beryl
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2021
- So this is a very interesting location and area that ultimately left me with more questions about the area than answers. This is absolutely a place that we will be returning back to in the future.
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Fascinating find with the garnets! I’ve done some collecting at a pegmatite locality in Western North Carolina for beryl, and the garnets in that pegmatite had me scratching my head as well. Thanks as always for sharing and the level headed analysis of the hapless diggers! 🤪🤦🏽♂️
Great educational info. Thx.
Crazy looking material! Love the garnets and I bet those smoky pebbles would tumble up nice!
Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to going back and spending some more time out there.
Schorl = black tourmaline. Often found in pegmatites with beryl and mica.
Lots of pegmatites in that general area. Still lots of fun to go hunting!
Correct!
Well, you got your beryl and bon8s garnets. Oh was fun watching the prequel. Keep Sarah and the doggie happy in the rocks. Stay happy, safe and healthy.
As for tickets go it is because of being on Stimson property and if you dig deep up hear is how you fined big crystals and garnets are all over this area we just don't normally have ones of size there is also petrified wood and uranium hear where you where
Cool Winchester creek road I go huckleberry picking up here nice area
It is a lovely area.
Always awesome information on locations , thank you for sharing 😊💙
Epic video! A virtual geology field trip plus Saturday Night Special witty observations. So informative and entertaining! Your editing was stellar too, rock on!
Thank you!
Those darn West Siders! 😆
I can't really blame them but I kinda blame them. I mean I get it places out here are like a 6 or 7 hour drive depending on where your going if you're coming from Seattle but they really should of left this part of the state blank in the book I think if they really didn't want to spend time on it. Nothing is better then what they listed.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding soooooo, a blank map.
I spent the day up in that area last year. Started down FloweryTrail and ended up Winchester creek road in that area. Found some nice mica books, that smokey milky quartz but no crystals to be exact. Very interesting rocks and granite as such. Enjoyed your video and will spend more time in that area this year!!! Thanks!
If you find anything neat up there I would love to hear about it!
Great video!!
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Thank you.
Garnets are not specifically a metamorphic mineral. I think they are more widely found in metamorphic schists and gneiss which most people are used to observing, which may lead to this assumption. But those of us who live near pegmatites are used to seeing them occur lots of times toward the lower zones of a pegmatite deposit. In the formation of the melt, it seems that through a settling process, there tends to be a garnet seam that may form. Beneath that seam, lots of times we find graphic granites. Pegmatites are all different, size-wise, composition, etc. It looked like you r rock with garnets showed that yours had a similar seam zone too. Looked like half of the rock was more feldspars, then garnet, then quartz/muscovite. That looks like a good geologic piece showing the change in zones in that one rock.
I agree with everything you said here. Since this video I have been learning a lot on the subject.
But smoky Quartz tumbles sooooo well
There has to be more pegmatites with beryl, usually where there's one there's more. That schorl spray is very cool but isn't it the same thing as black tourmaline? Awesome video by the way, I can't wait to see more from this spot🙂
Oh yeah I want to go back and really explore more, maybe when the sky isn't opening up with rain. So yes and no, so Tourmaline is a mineral group (38 different types), Schorl is black tourmaline and it is the most common but there's no mineral called Black Tourmaline. If I try to be more accurate in what I call something it seems like some people like that a lot and others prefer more common names. Sometimes I feel like I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.
That's my long way of saying you are correct! Well we both are.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Makes sense, thanks for the clarification. My buddy in the southern part of BC just recently found a new aquamarine deposit so I'm learning quite a bit in hopes to find my own someday.😃
@@NWRockExplorer That would be a lovely find!
Yeah I wouldn’t quite say gem trail. The mica would interest me since we don’t have it in Missouri, but seems pretty basic for the Rocky Mountains. Garnets are always cool though
Fun video to watch, I love the gem hunts. Those look like garnets to me. There are several types of garnets that contain aluminum.
I wish I knew more about the Garnet group, I might be young still but I feel like I'm running out of time everyday as I try to learn all the things! :)
A dremel with diamond blades and attachments may help remove beryl.
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I'm thinking I would completely trust you in writing a rockhounding book for the PNW..Oh and Idaho..where I'm from.
Thank you, really I think the best format isn't a book, but rather a website.
we hit the jack pot !!! two videos in one day!!!! i have a question? how come you didnt show looking to the left, right, and above those dug out sites? it looks like that area needs to be turned up-side down shaken stirred and sifted, that is just my observations though, did any thing point to the down hill side of the road? i love to explore those kinda sites,, great tips and video
I guess I didn't think of it, its just endless mismanaged timber company land.
The downhill side of the road here is crazy steep, but perhaps on our next visit we will explore it some more.
I like beryl. It is a great crystal.
It can be lovely stuff, well if its well formed!
Just a thought, Maybe the people digging are tumblers like me who have very limited funds and they can get a good amount of a common rock that tumbles well for free. I mean smoky quartz does look awesome when tumbled even if it isnt really valuble.
That's a possibly for sure.
It’s a shame that info like that gets into books. I fell hard for the same literature and forum posts until I found myself standing at the site, looking at the map. Thanks for spreading the right stuff.
Yeah man, it feels like sometimes I'm pushing a boulder up hill or I'm trying to empty a swimming pool with a pint glass with some of these things I just wish I could get the word out there more on a number of subjects.
Thank you for sharing the location! I love looking for beryls. You should see if you can get permission to explore the logging property.
Oh heck yeah man! As for the logging property I don't know if permission is really important at this point since its surrounded with nation forest I think I will be just starting there.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Well that makes things easier. If you are ever down in Utah, let me know and I would be happy to show you around!
“Cole-ville” 😂 it’s pronounced “Call-ville”. Won’t hold it against you. Another great video.
I have heard it pronounced both ways by people and been corrected by people on both sides so I have no idea at this point which is correct.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding just call it "over yonder" people will get the gist.
Was just going to comment this. The tribe pronounces it as "Call-ville". There is apparently more of these finds to the NE of Chewelah up Burnt Valley. Will be trying to find this location in the near future.
Drummond Creek
Was wondering how safe digging under the trees like previous people did. Perhaps they were looking for more garnets?🤷♀️
It's not really safe at all but people still do it. I never go in these overhangs, and often I will knock them down so the next person doesn't do it, but at the same time this was timber company land so I just left it.
They very likely could be trying to find more Garnets.
Could the red stuff be cinnabar? Not sure if that's spelled right
I don't think so. Generally Cinnabar precipitates as coatings on rock surfaces and compared to other known samples I have and the conditions I don't think that's what it is that I have here.
LOL
In Canada you're not allowed to take anything from parks, is it different in the states?
In America its a really complex system they is state by state, county by county, and different area with in those have different rules.
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Great video, it's sad people will harvest that stuff to intice people to invest in their scam !!! My thoughts only! Rock on brother!
I'm not sure what you're talking about here. What scam?
Yea sorry, got caught up in the heat of the moment! Lol. Great show! Keep seeing shows where dummies are getting taken out to hunt ...well junk mostly and it's inspired by those books.
There are also lots of so called mining outfits that are looking for investors and ...well they are just a bunch low life's! .... I won't mention na....yea I will search azrock mining in Peoria AZ.. have had the opportunity to meet the founder and know BS!!!!!!!@@@
Are my eyes deceiving me? A pegmatite in Washington? Is it true?
We have lots of it in NE Washington.
First thing have you gone back and is there some way to send you info and pictures I live in the area that this video was made and would like to talk about some fineds
You can always shoot me an email and we can chat there. It's below this video in the description box.
I found you on Instagram
I think the red crystals are actually red beryl
What makes you think that?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding because red beryl also forms in granite. And garnet forms in schist.
@@gemcollector8508 Garnet often occurs as an accessory mineral in igneous rocks such as granite. It's just not common in Washington but it is absolutely a thing. Red Beryl / Bixbite has not been observed in Washington before.
You are correct though in that its more common to see Garnets in Schist in the NE Washington / North Idaho areas.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding if blue barite can form, you'd assume red barite could as well.
@@gemcollector8508 just because one color forms don't mean another will. The right conditions have to be met and the right materials have to be present.