What a year at the Ocean Picture Stone Quarry. *2023*

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  • We had a great year collecting Ocean Picture Stone. our unique an beautiful gemstone we mine. This quarry is the only known place int he world this amazing lapidary stone comes from. And what a year we had finding some of the best quality stone.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 189

  • @need100k
    @need100k 3 місяці тому +8

    More incredible than the stone itself is having the only source in the world.

  • @michaelrobinson8915
    @michaelrobinson8915 Місяць тому +2

    I see your most prescious gem, yes she has kindness as her precious glow. Dana the real gem..blessings...m

  • @aaronsavage1234
    @aaronsavage1234 3 місяці тому +9

    I want to see Dan go up there with a backhoe and a water cannon. He could reveal a few tons all at once by washing away the hillside

    • @CanadianGoldMining
      @CanadianGoldMining 3 місяці тому

      there is stuff in the works for the first thing you mentioned ;)

    • @UnholyBe4st
      @UnholyBe4st 3 місяці тому

      To much will force him to drop the price...i doubt he wants that

    • @clonejones7955
      @clonejones7955 2 місяці тому

      ​@@user-gu8uj5qi2gHe owns the claim.Its Crown land.You don't mine there because you don't own the claim.

  • @kristielana4364
    @kristielana4364 19 днів тому

    @Danhurd I ordered BC Ocean Picture Stone I am so pleased with my pieces. All the work Dan and Dayna put in I am so amazed. Dayna packages up everything up nicely. I encourage people to check out his shop!! I can’t wait to see what treasures Dan and Dayna come up with.

  • @youtubeSuckssNow
    @youtubeSuckssNow 3 місяці тому +7

    This ones gonna be better! I hope you get your permits for machinery soon!

    • @DanSalig-jq5mu
      @DanSalig-jq5mu 3 місяці тому

      Dan IS a machine. Opening clip samples look like storm clouds with seagulls off a beach. Amazing stuff

  • @guidorea8347
    @guidorea8347 3 місяці тому +4

    WoW, just WoW!!!!!.... one of the best videos I've seen on those picture stones....🙂👍

  • @supersonicdevin3212
    @supersonicdevin3212 3 місяці тому +8

    I never knew stones could be so beautiful. Amazing!

  • @josephcormier5974
    @josephcormier5974 3 місяці тому +4

    Looking forward to seeing what the new year brings. Thank you for sharing this recap of 2023 six stars brother

  • @danielcarter305
    @danielcarter305 3 місяці тому +1

    Dan, I know you love Dana Blue, but I really like the blue at 44:55. You should rename this color River Picture Stone. The host rock embedded in the quartz looks like boulders in a river.😄😄😄

  • @normawilliams317
    @normawilliams317 3 місяці тому +3

    I loved the long video! Thank You. And thank you for sharing all your knowledge and adventures with us. I love not only the rocks but the beautiful country side ❤
    You are a lucky man. Much Love for you and your Family 💞

  • @cheekysaver
    @cheekysaver 3 місяці тому +2

    When the rock starts to crack... I kept thinking.... rock rice krispies. I think you have yhe best job on the planet. Thanks for taking us along.

  • @Grumpyoldman165
    @Grumpyoldman165 3 місяці тому +2

    This stuff is beautiful good find Dan

  • @Mynameis7nad
    @Mynameis7nad 3 місяці тому +1

    Get a motorized concrete saw. You can cut a line 9" deep and use a wedge to break it off the rest of the way leaving cleaner cuts and basically blocks. Also would be easier to cut off host material. Amazon has a wet and dry 16" gas powered saw for 300

  • @williamscoggin1509
    @williamscoggin1509 3 місяці тому +1

    Those with the dendrites are just so cool

  • @chuckster6513
    @chuckster6513 3 місяці тому +7

    Hey Dan,
    That was an unexpectedly long video !
    But it was full of good content.
    I am very glad for you that Dana will join you on site.
    I hope she enjoys being out with you as much as I for one enjoy seeing you two working together.
    As for the material you removed from the site.
    Some of it is simply unbelievable.
    I have a wild imagination which I so often enjoy.
    But some of that ocean picture stone needs no imagining.
    It just looks like a photograph.
    Thank you for bringing this content to us.
    Take Care

  • @slimwantedman6694
    @slimwantedman6694 3 місяці тому +3

    Good morning from Southeast South Dakota

  • @anneburton6708
    @anneburton6708 3 місяці тому +2

    I love ur picture stone! Love watching you all digging it and processing!!

  • @ericpowers885
    @ericpowers885 3 місяці тому +1

    More of this please .Love when you tell us what the pieces are worth

  • @harpintn
    @harpintn 12 днів тому

    It is amazing how a tool that is thousands of years old is still being used. I guess when a tool is as good as the feathering wedge it is hard to improve on it.

  • @LookAtThisRock
    @LookAtThisRock 3 місяці тому +6

    Those are some.....picture....perfect.... rocks....hahahahahaha!!! Ok. I'll see myself out.

  • @TheColorMagic1986
    @TheColorMagic1986 3 місяці тому +2

    licks the stone lol ............love your videos dan!!

  • @1944chevytruck
    @1944chevytruck 3 місяці тому +2

    Amazing stone!

  • @captbad9313
    @captbad9313 3 місяці тому

    I like the panoramas where i see the town I live just 10 miles from.

  • @michaelrobinson8915
    @michaelrobinson8915 18 днів тому

    Say dana blue, dan. The most best beautiful dana blue..blessings...m...

  • @davidlewis9068
    @davidlewis9068 3 місяці тому

    Ocean picture stones are really nice.

  • @robertforrest7956
    @robertforrest7956 3 місяці тому +1

    Almost a Sleeping Beauty Turquoise blue....😘

  • @jamesblake7338
    @jamesblake7338 3 місяці тому +1

    That is some beautiful stuff!

  • @ModernAmericanNomad420
    @ModernAmericanNomad420 3 місяці тому +1

    Great parenting Mr Hurd..awesome video

  • @TimNorfolk-jy8vx
    @TimNorfolk-jy8vx 3 місяці тому +1

    You absolutely have earned my subscription Dan in fact I wish I could subscribe a million times.

  • @glendajorde9062
    @glendajorde9062 3 місяці тому

    beautiful

  • @isaaccreech8844
    @isaaccreech8844 3 місяці тому +1

    Loved the video as always, Dan!

  • @christinehodge3608
    @christinehodge3608 12 днів тому

    Amazing pieces

  • @bonniedrouillard3963
    @bonniedrouillard3963 Місяць тому +1

    I am dreaming of the heart your dad made! ❤

  • @sarajackson8159
    @sarajackson8159 3 місяці тому +1

    I finally got to hear the rocks POP!!! So incredibly cool. Thank you for taking us along 😊

  • @nopelindoputraperkasa5869
    @nopelindoputraperkasa5869 3 місяці тому +3

    Nice sharing Vidio.. amazing stone..🇮🇩😍😍💎💎💗👍

  • @RosarioEdwin-yu6hf
    @RosarioEdwin-yu6hf Місяць тому

    Absolutely amazing

  • @bobweiss9138
    @bobweiss9138 3 місяці тому

    Wow Beautiful

  • @sharonmalone8312
    @sharonmalone8312 Місяць тому +1

    The pieces are so beautiful,I wish I could afford some,especially a tree. All I can do is watch and drool over them. So awesome!

  • @earlaagaard8175
    @earlaagaard8175 3 місяці тому

    That is aMAZing stone....thanks for taking us along!!

  • @jfk64kennedy95
    @jfk64kennedy95 3 місяці тому +2

    Hello all, hope all going well, so far, this yr

  • @ironhorse7588
    @ironhorse7588 3 місяці тому +1

    We love following your adventures Dan. I love the pieces of Ocean Pictures Stone we bought from your website. 🙏💕💒😇

  • @Soapartisan875
    @Soapartisan875 16 днів тому

    I’m happy to see that your beautiful wife Dayna is just as adventurous as you . Two peas in a pod . You collected gorgeous stones they look like earth globes .

  • @sampickens1998
    @sampickens1998 3 місяці тому

    WOW!! Dan, those ocean stones are absolutely beautiful.....

  • @MhdkhusrinKemilauemas
    @MhdkhusrinKemilauemas Місяць тому

    Amazing very good

  • @giovanemarcelino6520
    @giovanemarcelino6520 3 місяці тому +1

    Is beautiful

  • @pamelamurphy4765
    @pamelamurphy4765 3 місяці тому +1

    Absolutely fantastic! I love it when you go to this quarry. Enjoyed all of your adventures here!

  • @user-ok4cv4vl1d
    @user-ok4cv4vl1d Місяць тому

    SUPER FIND MY FRIENDS ❤🙏💪👍

  • @johnstuart8511
    @johnstuart8511 3 місяці тому +2

    I am watching: Loving the story and exploring (And the nature). Life couldn't be better. Thank you Dan.

  • @PGcoinworld
    @PGcoinworld 3 місяці тому

    Thank you sir 👍🎉❤

  • @user-bu3ly6rh4z
    @user-bu3ly6rh4z 3 місяці тому

    Good job to your team Dan. Enjoy watching your videos and hope everything is going great ! All the love from celeste and I and the kiddos

  • @vlakyotrokovice
    @vlakyotrokovice 3 місяці тому

    Super 👍👍😊 Karel

  • @rca-in-glasgow6781
    @rca-in-glasgow6781 3 місяці тому +4

    I really envy having a wife that is such a great partner. ❤️

  • @cindyzelmer9228
    @cindyzelmer9228 3 місяці тому

    💗❤️I 💙 ocean picture stone‼️❤️💗

  • @averieldeathrider8407
    @averieldeathrider8407 2 місяці тому

    From Texas here & love your content!! 😎😎 beautiful scenery & beautiful pieces!! Ocean Picture Stone Is 1 of my faves!!

  • @stuartbailey6201
    @stuartbailey6201 3 місяці тому

    Ancient
    Looks Iceberg Blue great find

  • @semoneg2826
    @semoneg2826 2 місяці тому

    Wanted to fast forward a bit...Am so happy i didnt...it was pure joy seeing Dan chisel out those rocks piece by piece out of the hill side..
    Those ocean turquoise blue rocks❤❤❤❤
    Great job

  • @joebolt9433
    @joebolt9433 Місяць тому

    So awesome love all of what you do keeps you young and strong watching from Nuiqsut Alaska on the colville river.

  • @rogerdudra178
    @rogerdudra178 3 місяці тому

    Greetings from the BIG SKY.

  • @d.andysprospecting
    @d.andysprospecting 3 місяці тому

    Some really nice pieces! Id love to see an epoxy table or something made from some of them!

  • @cptnkaos5994
    @cptnkaos5994 3 місяці тому

    nice OPS Dan

  • @ghostprepper5859
    @ghostprepper5859 3 місяці тому

    @Dan Hurd, you're whole family is beautiful Sir!
    I have been following you for a couple years on and off.
    Im disabled and can't get out so I get to enjoy you and Jason, and crazy Canadian, then there's that crazy Arizona Miner
    I enjoy watching you folks, I used to play around now I just buy paydirt 😊

  • @mewsli
    @mewsli 3 місяці тому +3

    How does ocean picture stone form ? And what is the composition of the three coloured bands ?

    • @mewsli
      @mewsli 3 місяці тому +1

      Oooops!! If I'd waited a few more minutes, I'd have gotten the answer to my question 😂😂😂😂

    • @semoneg2826
      @semoneg2826 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@mewslilol

    • @10thletter40
      @10thletter40 Місяць тому +1

      45:45 for those who want to know in the future

  • @debcamp2359
    @debcamp2359 3 місяці тому

    Epic, long and entertaining video.

  • @user-bu3ly6rh4z
    @user-bu3ly6rh4z 3 місяці тому

    So jealous and would love to do this one day -

  • @pineappleanthony8286
    @pineappleanthony8286 3 місяці тому +1

    Let's go she's representing Edmonton oilers who are 16 consecutive games won in a row.

  • @DanO530.8
    @DanO530.8 3 місяці тому

    You should call it roody blues tell me who you’re talking to…..after that song 🎶…you’re a good guy Dan your family should be happy to get to go out and see the beautiful world and learn different rocks

  • @janinemcmahon218
    @janinemcmahon218 3 місяці тому

    Have a contest for your customers who have madeitems out of Ocean PStn and have viewers vote on the most attractive pieces. The winners prize is a big piece of whatever stones you have available. Or a piece of OPS. I’d love to see what people have done with it. It’s so beautiful. You narrow it down to 20 or something.

  • @dn2817
    @dn2817 3 місяці тому

    I ordered some from you and it’s in the mail.

  • @TalkAboutaTrapstar
    @TalkAboutaTrapstar Місяць тому

    be careful with any silica dust, Dan! anyway good work! that vein is an awesome find!

  • @sampickens1998
    @sampickens1998 3 місяці тому

    Dan, have you thought about making an epoxy coffee table using the ocean stone for your wife. I think she would really love it, you too!!!

  • @vitpankin
    @vitpankin 2 місяці тому

    Pauly is a true gemstone =D

  • @meettheworld6241
    @meettheworld6241 3 місяці тому

    Those spheres are so cool! They look like little water world planets! Lol

  • @randalljones4370
    @randalljones4370 3 місяці тому +1

    Speaking as a dentist who pulls lots of teeth and fractured roots,
    there is something very satisfying in watch Dan bust up and 'extract' his quarry.
    Did Dan ever get his Mjollnir for those bigger feather-n-wedges?

  • @jamest.5001
    @jamest.5001 3 місяці тому

    27:26 that would look awesome in a backsplash in a kitchen , cut stone slabs into tiles, then a strip of ocean blue stone it would be an expensive tile. But beautiful!! Have an awesome day 🤠

  • @mobiousenigma
    @mobiousenigma Місяць тому

    DAN thanks for the vids! fyi driving a feather between 2 wedges would do nothing but drive a wedge between 2 feathers and you can split rock.

  • @ldvan100
    @ldvan100 3 місяці тому

    At 1:11:30, the wire trees are beautiful.. Being an electrician myself, I've been making them for years with cable rems.. Like the addition of chips for leaves and such..

  • @okboomer6201
    @okboomer6201 3 місяці тому +2

    I would like a geological explanation as to how this forms.

  • @TimNorfolk-jy8vx
    @TimNorfolk-jy8vx 3 місяці тому

    I have 18 grandkids and my oldest grandson loves to collect all kinds of rocks I’d love to get a real small one for his collection

  • @jongordon6132
    @jongordon6132 3 місяці тому +1

    Loading up all that picture stone, where is your wheel barrel or hand kart maybe?

  • @atuuschaaw
    @atuuschaaw 3 місяці тому

  • @thatcrystallady_donna
    @thatcrystallady_donna 3 місяці тому

    I'm slowly working the 1lb piece that I got from you a few years ago. Have too many pots on the fire and need to get back to these beauties. Still need some Dana blue.

  • @christopherwells372
    @christopherwells372 3 місяці тому

    Have you considered using a portable diamond saw to add cuts to direct your extraction with feather wedges? These saws often used on concrete.

  • @DjHall-zx7pd
    @DjHall-zx7pd 3 місяці тому

    Hey Dan my name is DJ I'm from Danby. Vermont we have a gold belt that runs thew Vermont new Hampshire an ends in main . I've tryed so many rivers an streams u can find gold but u do a hundred pans to find a few flakes an my flakes would be fly pop to u ..you would throw back for sure . So wish I grew up in BC or Alaska I love gold panning . My last trip to a river I found my biggest peace I call a picker but to u it wouldn't be . I've been following u for years wish I could be a patron but have no clue how to. not good with technology.. keep the videos coming I've watched um all an still am you an your family are great.

  • @snowman333-
    @snowman333- 17 днів тому

    It has been pointed out, maybe by E Musk, that if you have a situation that requires a massive amount of energy, making one huge motor (or device) would be expensive and have little redundancy but dividing up the load by using, say 30 devices could be; A) less expensive per unit B) designed in redundancy assured C) modularized maintenance and repair D) reconfigurable E) reduced transportation costs of modules compared to final configuration

  • @MrDalerex
    @MrDalerex 3 місяці тому

    Hey Dan get a rope saw!! For the bigger pieces

  • @rossgraveley
    @rossgraveley 3 місяці тому

    Hey Dan why not use like the Sierra blaster to remove some of that old overburden above the picture stone it does I've heard they're pretty good and are pretty easy to use and that they can move some pretty good overburden

  • @Clarence_13x
    @Clarence_13x 3 місяці тому

    Dan, you’re forcing me into buying a lapidary bench grinder.

  • @allenwalters8812
    @allenwalters8812 3 місяці тому

    you should see about turning some of that into watch dials for the modding community. They would eat that up. They sell a lot of ones made out of other stone and meteorites. They bring good money.

  • @legoawsomeness
    @legoawsomeness Місяць тому

    You should take a fine brush with you to clean up some of the dirt on the rocks too

  • @kennyball3568
    @kennyball3568 3 місяці тому +1

    Hay dan i do believe you already posted this video 6 months ago your gem silica video

  • @mariaalmanza8981
    @mariaalmanza8981 3 місяці тому

    Hello Dan my name is Maria, this is amazing adventures I m learning a lot from you videos I want to start to treasure hunting! How did you find all these beautiful stones! I will love to go in adventure with you and your beautiful family at least one day! Can you send me a beg with the blue pieces?

  • @EdWolfram
    @EdWolfram 3 місяці тому +2

    I want to cut some 13x9mm cabs for earrings. The slabs seem extremely thick for an earring blank. Would chips be better for what I'm looking for. Size is tough in pictures.

  • @TheToolfreak1988
    @TheToolfreak1988 3 місяці тому

    Hey Dan,
    Current Tucson resident and visitor of the gem show. By any chance can you post what tent your stones will be in?

  • @Travluminatii
    @Travluminatii 3 місяці тому +2

    I’ll take one on the house :)

    • @kaboom4679
      @kaboom4679 3 місяці тому

      I'll take one IN my house , although it's already got a " list to port " from all my other rocks as it is .

  • @s.d.iprospecting4359
    @s.d.iprospecting4359 3 місяці тому

    Kinda looks like opal without the spectrum colors.imagine if that was an opal seam wow that would be worth some serious money.

  • @66bigbuds
    @66bigbuds 22 дні тому

    You need a big Bobcat with a jack hammer attachment.

  • @tonylightstorm5468
    @tonylightstorm5468 3 місяці тому

    Tucson Tony here, welcome back to Tucson or Chukshun as we natives will tell you. Where you at this time here at Tucsons Gem show . Definitely want a piece of Dana Blue...

    • @Danhurd
      @Danhurd  3 місяці тому +1

      I’m not vending. But stay tuned to my Facebook. Will have a meet and greet party Thursday night. I will have some stone there

  • @timmynorfolk7817
    @timmynorfolk7817 3 місяці тому

    Hey Dan my oldest grandson loves to collect rocks he’s been doing it since he was three years old he’s now thirteen I can’t afford the real nice ones so how much would one like 3 inches or so wide cost 🤷‍♂

  • @geraldbrunckhorst8291
    @geraldbrunckhorst8291 3 місяці тому

    Hi Dan! Gerald friend m Montana again. You made the comment about he rari😢of ocean picture stone. How rare? Possibly very few mines ever discovered? Thanks for your geology lesson of the day, particularly about ocean picture stone! Tell Dana and the boys we love their participation in the videos!

    • @saragruber1019
      @saragruber1019 3 місяці тому

      He said he doesn't know of any other place where it exists. He did make a video because another person was claiming to have found ocean picture stone deposits. They were working the next claim over from his.

  • @cordellseitz7741
    @cordellseitz7741 2 місяці тому

    Neat stuff perhaps make Dice’s for games