@AgateDad Yes, it is!!! We're planning to go to Montana and Wyoming this summer to do some hunting on the Yellowstone😁 Just before that we're going to be headed up to Thunder Bay, so we'll be driving thru Duluth at the end of July, and coming back down a few days later🙂 Can't wait to see the Big Water again!!!!
The ones you though were banded chert are actually Fossil Sponges called Stomatolites. They are very common around the Lake Michigan Area. The jellybean one is Polka dot or Eyed Agate There are some beautiful ones found in Wisconsin, I have also seen them elsewhere, yet not as nice as Wisconsin ones.
I’m so happy that I stumbled upon your channel. As a little girl (Ugg I’m 61) I was obsessed about scanning beaches for agates, or sea (lake) pottery , or sea (lake) glass. I just love beautiful rocks. To be able to see what actually is inside these agates with you is so amazingly fun!! I love your passion and appreciation for these gifts that the universe gave us 🎉🎉 thank you!
They all may not be agate, but each is beautiful in its own right. I live in the upper most Northern part of CA. Our beaches are covered with agates and other precious and semi precious stones
As a fiber artist, I especially love your I don't knows....and then you open the cut and I see my inspiration for my next project. THANKS SO MUCH. I am smiling with all your sharing. Have a wonderful year .
I just came across this channel, and I'm hooked! I love mother nature and I work with all kinds of different painting mediums, these formations in those rocks are works of art in themselves, just stunning patterns and colours that would be difficult to replicate. Thank you for sharing your passion with us!
So cool!! I tried to pick a variety from my buckets! Some I knew had obvious bands and some I just needed to know what the inside looked like. Thank you so much for cutting them for me!! They were cooler than I could have even imagined! Happy new year!!!
Alot of those are cold water agates. I find them along the mississippi down in that area. You can also find drusy quartz crystals and geodes. That is my go to rock hunting area from redwing all the way south of there. I have a 150 pound rock that had drusy quartz crystal and banded cold water agate all through the middle and I used a circular saw and got around ten pieces that weighed around 5 pounds a piece and polished with disc sander pads and put epoxy resin on all of them. Really awesome stuff down there. The stuff down there is alot like the stuff you find at haunted ridge rocks in cadet missouri with different colored drusy quartz.
That jelly bean tube one might be worth taking another slice and doing some cabs. I think they'd be really pretty. When I first got my saw, I used a single edge razor blade to peel the red paint off the blade before I ever used it. It came off really easy.
Thank you Emily and Happy New Year to you Agate Dad and to your family too. Thank you Agate Dad for all the wonderful videos you produced in 2023 an here's to more epic finds and cuts in 2024.
Happy New Year to you and your family, Taylor! Thank you Emily for sharing, and thank you Taylor for cutting them! I can watch your cutting videos all day! They are so exciting! 😊
Southwestern Wisconsin is the driftless area. The glaciers didn't make it to this area so it' has a lot of chert and Galena and other lead ores can be found in the area. LSA's can be found near the Mississippi river. Also Calcite can be found there. Lead used to be mined in the area. There is a mining museum in Platteville and Cave of the Mounds National Natural landmark near Madison.
Happy New Year to you too 🥂🎉✨🎊 The quartz from minute 7:17 is great 🥰 I love quartz 🥰 Aventurin is my favorite. But the Jelly Bean Agate is really great 😋👍 Greetings from Germany 🥰
1:33 banded chert is my guess, 6:58 looks like a jasper quartz mix almost like a thunderegg.15:03 I think is hematoid quartz, a lot of tubes in the large stone. There is a little plus sign at 15:04 right side. 15:00 may be chert also. Just fun no matter what.
It's not like the type of saw blade that you'd use on wood, more of a grinding wheel. Not exactly fun to poke, but it won't take off a finger in the blink of an eye :D
This saw has no teeth. It's basically super hard sandpaper. I use masonary saw blades to cut tile, marble, etc basically every day. Especially when the blade is wet, you can hold your hand on the blade with almost zero worry past a slight sanding of your fingerprints lol. Dry, it's like running your fingers over lower grit sandpaper. But there's zero risk of injury unless the blade decides to break from extreme misuse
Happy New Year! I hope you have a phenomenal year!!
Happy New Year, Taylor! Can't wait to see all the agates, fossils, and other specimens this year brings😁
@@debidevaney8398going to be a fun year 🤩
@AgateDad Yes, it is!!! We're planning to go to Montana and Wyoming this summer to do some hunting on the Yellowstone😁 Just before that we're going to be headed up to Thunder Bay, so we'll be driving thru Duluth at the end of July, and coming back down a few days later🙂 Can't wait to see the Big Water again!!!!
Happy New year. That one agate looks like a kidney
Bro, why do you have a rock?
you make me want a saw because I love even the weird ones!
Do it! linktr.ee/AgateDad
same, i feel compelled to go find rocks to see whats inside haha
I bought one because of Agate Dad!
I worked for a granite quarry (Weymouth Granite) for 43 years. I never get tired of seeing the surprises that nature creates. Beautiful!!!
The ones you though were banded chert are actually Fossil Sponges called Stomatolites. They are very common around the Lake Michigan Area. The jellybean one is Polka dot or Eyed Agate There are some beautiful ones found in Wisconsin, I have also seen them elsewhere, yet not as nice as Wisconsin ones.
I’m so happy that I stumbled upon your channel. As a little girl (Ugg I’m 61) I was obsessed about scanning beaches for agates, or sea (lake) pottery , or sea (lake) glass. I just love beautiful rocks. To be able to see what actually is inside these agates with you is so amazingly fun!! I love your passion and appreciation for these gifts that the universe gave us 🎉🎉 thank you!
They all may not be agate, but each is beautiful in its own right. I live in the upper most Northern part of CA. Our beaches are covered with agates and other precious and semi precious stones
Es ist immer wieder erstaunlich und wunderbar was die Natur an Farben und Formen hervorbringt.❤
Only a million years in the making. Cool stuff!
10:07. In the quilting world, each of those halves, the banding is doing what we call "quarter square log cabin" ... surprise!
Man, the tube agate would make some beautiful slabs and cabs 😎
The laundry can wait…..Taylor is cutting some rocks! 😆😆😂. Happy 2024 ❤
All of the agates are beautiful, I agree with you, the jellybean agate is amazing, the color, the details are amazing. Unique rock.
They were all beautiful but the one you called the "jellybean agate" (I thought it looked like a potato before you cut it) was just amazing!!
First cuts of the year. I can't wait 💯🔥❤
Hey Happy New Year. A couple of those would be pretty as a counter top!😂
As a fiber artist, I especially love your I don't knows....and then you open the cut and I see my inspiration for my next project. THANKS SO MUCH. I am smiling with all your sharing. Have a wonderful year
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I just came across this channel, and I'm hooked! I love mother nature and I work with all kinds of different painting mediums, these formations in those rocks are works of art in themselves, just stunning patterns and colours that would be difficult to replicate. Thank you for sharing your passion with us!
My brain made so many earrings watching you cut those smaller rocks. Oh my goodness! 😍
So cool!! I tried to pick a variety from my buckets! Some I knew had obvious bands and some I just needed to know what the inside looked like. Thank you so much for cutting them for me!! They were cooler than I could have even imagined! Happy new year!!!
They were so fun, thank you so much for sharing with all of us!!
Hi emily
Alot of those are cold water agates. I find them along the mississippi down in that area. You can also find drusy quartz crystals and geodes. That is my go to rock hunting area from redwing all the way south of there. I have a 150 pound rock that had drusy quartz crystal and banded cold water agate all through the middle and I used a circular saw and got around ten pieces that weighed around 5 pounds a piece and polished with disc sander pads and put epoxy resin on all of them. Really awesome stuff down there. The stuff down there is alot like the stuff you find at haunted ridge rocks in cadet missouri with different colored drusy quartz.
Spot on, my property is in Crawford County - right near the Mississippi River 😉
Happy new year yall! May you all have luck on your rock hounding adventures this year! This was such a fun video to watch
The big one with the tubes is way cool!
Your right hand at 4.27 the blue green grass with the yellow flowers is simply superb. I love that stone.
Looks like mountains and a ski slope. What a nice surprise.
Always love watching you.thank you for sharing. The jellybean one is my favorite as well.
That 2nd one is banded chert for sure. I’ve collected a lot of that on the Southern tip of Lake Michigan in Indiana. It’s beautiful though!
6:51 I would say there is a lot of life and action going on in that stone when it was formed .... so fun
Do you have a video explaining how you identify agates vs another rock
Yeah that one with all the colorful tubes is AMAZING!! 😮
Wow beautiful
Hey 👋 sprinkled 💕
8:00 almost reminds me of picture jasper
This journey inside rocks is a thrill every time. Thank you!
Oh, there are many I think are very pretty.
2nd one reminds me of smoky quartz id find at the beach at North Sea in Scotland. Miss finding the gems there when I lived over there.
Happy New Year. When I first saw thoe agates in your hand there were 2 that made me think of Brussel Sprouts.
Also from SW Wisconsin... great way to start the New Year.
Absolutely!
I love your enthusiam and the way you discuss where to cut! It's inspired me to add a lapidary saw to my rockhounding equipment.
Nice! What kind of saw?!
The black and white agate, I believe it was in the second batch was so odd. One half was brownish and the other half blue! Funky
Happy New Year!
Very cool stuff! I love hearing you get excited about nonagates too. Almost all rocks so gorgeous!
What a fun group of beautiful rocks!!!
That jelly bean tube one might be worth taking another slice and doing some cabs. I think they'd be really pretty.
When I first got my saw, I used a single edge razor blade to peel the red paint off the blade before I ever used it. It came off really easy.
Happy New Year dear Agate Dad and merci for the beautiful cuts
7:46 this is coral. I knew it before you cut it but this made me 100% sure. Awesome piece! ❤
I love the jelly bean agate! 😮❤
Very cool!
I like that one 🎉
Absolutely beautiful!!!
Really enjoyed your selection of rocks!!!
Oh biscuits us Outlaw Mineral folks love a good mystery rock!! We love your channel have a rock-tastic day.
Thank you! You too!
That grey one definitely looks like the banded chert we have in the Dakotas, that last one was awesome too!
The one st 7:40 is crazy, tube agate, you should make slab of it and polishing it
I always love these videos. I love each one and the surprises are so FUN!
Very cool rocks.
The jellybean would look great with birds etched into the black spots, like birdies in a cherry blossom tree
Totally tubular 😅
Thank you Emily and Happy New Year to you Agate Dad and to your family too. Thank you Agate Dad for all the wonderful videos you produced in 2023 an here's to more epic finds and cuts in 2024.
They're all very pretty
Happy New Year to you and your family, Taylor! Thank you Emily for sharing, and thank you Taylor for cutting them! I can watch your cutting videos all day! They are so exciting! 😊
Happy New Year A.D. that was a great showing of the cut rocks.
I love watching you cut these stones.
Beautiful colors!!
Awesome finds. Thanks for sharing.
I love watching you, you get so excited when you get to cut open cool stones. We are moving to Michigan and can’t wait to go rock hounding!!!
Happy New Year from tropical north Queensland, Australia. I really love your vids and look forward to each reveal. Thanks.
Happy new year! Thanks for watching:)
Cool to see some WI agates on your channel! Let's go Taylor!
The 2nd to last looks like a fingerprint! Super cool! Happy 2024!🎉🎉
8:05 was definitely a keeper. liked it, happy new year!
That is beautful ❤🎉
This video was so fun!!! The little purple one is pretty!
I love that one
Tumble rocks!😊
What ever it is it's really cool either way 👍
I live in wisc and never found agates like these!!! Fabulous, unique@
Thanks! That was really fun!
My sister just showed me this site, and I have already subscribed!!! Love this ❤❤❤
Happy New Year. 🎉🎉 I think they're all very unique
Happy new years blessings to you 🎉🥳
Same to you!
mountains trees river awesome
Happy New Year to you and your family!!!
Same to you!
Love it ! Love it !! Love it !!!
So pretty
Beautiful work 🪨🪨🪨 😍!!! Happy New Year🎉🎉🎉
Southwestern Wisconsin is the driftless area. The glaciers didn't make it to this area so it' has a lot of chert and Galena and other lead ores can be found in the area. LSA's can be found near the Mississippi river. Also Calcite can be found there. Lead used to be mined in the area. There is a mining museum in Platteville and Cave of the Mounds National Natural landmark near Madison.
I would love to see a pudding stone cut in half. I also like the ones that you dont think are so great.
Happy New Year AgateDad and family! The tubes are totally tubular 😂 Hope everyone has a fab new year!
Happy new year!
What a fantastic video. I love the surprises inside!
Happy New Year to you too 🥂🎉✨🎊
The quartz from minute 7:17 is great 🥰 I love quartz 🥰 Aventurin is my favorite. But the Jelly Bean Agate is really great 😋👍
Greetings from Germany 🥰
What do you do with the stones ince you've cut them? I'd love to see.
Cut, cut, cut. The best way to start a new year😊 I loved them all. Happy new year!
1:33 banded chert is my guess, 6:58 looks like a jasper quartz mix almost like a thunderegg.15:03 I think is hematoid quartz, a lot of tubes in the large stone. There is a little plus sign at 15:04 right side. 15:00 may be chert also. Just fun no matter what.
I liked the jelly bean agate.
Happy new year to you!
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This is amazing to watch
Fun! I really enjoy your channel, its kind of relaxing to watch!
Glad you enjoy it!
Happy new year, nice agates & jaspes
Happy New Years Taylor to you and yours! Each one is so pretty and unique, great cuts, awesome agates, so different! Great video!
You are so daring to cut those stones with your fingers so close to the saw. Those stones were very pretty, most of them. Good for you.
It's not like the type of saw blade that you'd use on wood, more of a grinding wheel. Not exactly fun to poke, but it won't take off a finger in the blink of an eye :D
This saw has no teeth. It's basically super hard sandpaper. I use masonary saw blades to cut tile, marble, etc basically every day. Especially when the blade is wet, you can hold your hand on the blade with almost zero worry past a slight sanding of your fingerprints lol. Dry, it's like running your fingers over lower grit sandpaper. But there's zero risk of injury unless the blade decides to break from extreme misuse
Awesome video and beautiful specimens!! I’m looking forward to following your adventures for 2024!!
In the words of Gomer Pyle, SURPRISE, SURPRISE SURPRISE. 🥰 Happy New Year and TY for such a fun start.
4:30 reminds me of bumblebee jasper but it’s found in Indonesia but very similar
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing. 🎆🎉🎇