Banded Beauty | North Shore Agates
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- Опубліковано 4 гру 2019
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Join me as I look for agates on a beach along the Minnesotas North Shore to so some hounding. I was able to find some strange stuff but also an amazing agate that was breathtaking! Thanks for watching and please subscribe to help support my channel!
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Thanks for watching everyone! Let me know what you think about some of those weird finds!
Drooling Dude, hahaha I need a drool rag!
Beach glass is fun to hound and it tumbles great too...
@@michaelvandyke haha that's how I felt with those finds!
@@michaelvandyke I've seen some tumbled glass and it does look great!
🤝👍👍👍👍👍Lots of beautiful Agates, congratulations. Lucky, in winter on the shore you can look for gems.We in Russia also had snow yesterday, the rivers were covered with ice. Now we wait for spring to hunt for the stone.
I feel your pain, I'm pretty much stuck to beaches for now, unless we get a warmer day but we will see!
@@AgateDad But now there is time to saw and Polish the finds over the summer. Resting on the Black sea, I also spent days hunched over in search of Agates on the shore. This passion, the love of stone, does not let go.
@@v7i5k2t5o7r it is such an amazing hobby, never stops, there is so much to get into that there wont be an end!
@@AgateDad 🤝 I agree with you!
“Just found these when I went out on a little 5 min break and found these”... dude... seriously! The bands!!!! FOR DAYSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
I loved this man, and who said there’s a “season” 😉 gettin er done dude!
But seriously, it’s nuts how much weather affects the hunt. You do it well and show it perfectly 👌👊
Hunt agates like the mailman, rain, sleet, snow. 🤘🔥💯💪
Yeah I got lucky on those!! The peeler I literally shined my flashlight in some rocks and boom!! Haha and the other i stopped at the 100ft strip of beach along the side of the road and found it lying at the very end of the 100ft lol meant to be!
I am excited for winter projects, I'll see if I can still get out but if the lake freezes... then its toast haha but when the ice pushed up the shore in spring...🤤🤤🤤 going to be nuts!!
@@AgateDad thats the greatest feeling! Seeing it laying there nice and pretty just for you!
@@GravelBarHopper oh yeah! Meant to be, just for me!
11:50- yes it's an agate. It has chalcedony and quartz banding with quartz in the center. Definitely would call that agate😊
13:00- I don't think it's crazy lace but maybe just a lace agate
Yeah I agree, it's not crazy lace, just reminds me of it! Thanks so much for watching!!!
The pieces of pottery? Dishware? that is crazy, they are evenly worn same shape too. They have been through a lot together!
My thoughts exactly!! How on earth did they wind up so close to each other after all of that time.. blows my mind 🤯
Love all of it! The glass and pottery is beautiful!
Thanks so much Carol, I was pretty excited to find that pottery! So neat, I wish I knew what it was from.
Really nice finds..just loving that banding its like an acrylic paint pour! Natures Art is amazing.🌈👍
Appreciate it, and I absolutely agree, nature is amazing and constantly is blowing my mind. So beautiful!
Cheers!🍹 to more mind blowing moments👍
@@katherinedoughty839 thanks 😀👍👍 hope to find another beauty like that again soon!
I think it is a crazy lace agate ? That beach glass with metal in it is found in my area all the time. It is old car shop/garage window glass ( I am sure on that one ) My Mom had it in her old garage that she had torn down. Your finds are awesome. Congrats on all of your finds :)
How do you think it got on the beach from a garage?? Awesome though! Thanks so much for watching! I am thinking fortification agate thanks to Amy, my book didnt help me but she did!
@@AgateDad it is nice to know someone with great knowledge as Amy has :) I do know that for years company's dumped there tear down of buildings along Shorelines ( which is terrible ) but they did as well as people with their bottles and pottery that we now find as sea/beach glass. I was amazed to see your glass with the wire because I have found several pieces and not all in the same location.
@@upnorthadventureswithccc That is pretty sad..but one mans trash is another mans treasure!
Great finds am learning so much watching your channel.
Thanks for this journey. I have to say, I worked my butt off, made smart moves and retired. Spent all my time working or hanging out with my wife and kids. I never had a chance for friends. It's sad to say it, but you feel like a friend, and I get a chance to get away from life and enjoy some beautiful journeys.
I’m glad you feel it, the only reason I get more and more comfortable filming is because I feel like I’m with friends, people like you! I’m cutting doing the same, working working working, UA-cam, and family time. That’s it and I hope I can retire before I’m too old. Dreams and goals 🙏
@@AgateDad if you believe it, see it, say it, you can manifest it. It worked for me. Positive energy,, raising my vibration, becoming a better person. Happeir too.. everything is energy, frequency and vibration.. Trained myself over the last year not to be preprogrammed since birth to be a worker bee. Made my money work for me instead of working for my money. Thanks for that comment too, that really means a lot.
I’m trying to keep up the energy to make it happen, it’s tough sometimes. Many dreams are being thought of regularly. It’s pretty much all for my family, if I can retire somewhere in there, then I knew I did everything else and took care of everyone else before me.
Another Great video :) Scenery is Awesome !*!*!*! ConGratz on your finds :)
Appreciate that a lot Larry! It really is amazing along the North Shore, my favorite place for sure!
Awesome finds.... Keep it rolling!
Thanks! I will, it's been in the negatives this week so it's been impossible to get out..first time in a long time I haven't been able to get out.. maybe next week! At least I can still polish agates!
Thanks for braving the weather and sharing your finds. Beautiful
Of course! I love getting out, no matter the weather!
Im really glad i found your channel i was watching rookie rockhounding and he said you had a pretty cool channel so i came and checked you out and im glad i did because after watching this video it was a instant sub for me know doubt in my mind i think ill like this channel
Oh that is so awesome! Thanks for the support and commenting, I love talking with you all and taking you on my adventures! 😁
Absolutely stunning agates! Congrats to 300 brotha!🎉😎👍
Thanks so much Marlaina! Awesome support from awesome people!!
It's beautiful
Love your enthusiasm!
Thank you so much Laura!!
Nice hunt luv the icy beach scenery
Glass with wire in it most likely came from a window in an old iron or copper smelting plant.
Such great info, I wish I could see a timelapse from when it was whatever it was until the moment I found it, now that would be a sight!
Paused this at the beginning to say...wow😲 what a beautiful introduction💖
Oh thanks Marlaina 😁
Thank you for sharing...I love love rock....
Thanks for watching!!
Excellent video brother, I like saving the small ones for the tumbler.
Good idea! Thanks for watching man!!
I love your name! IMO...If you don't get excited every time you see a huge gravel bar, then you're just not a hopeless rockhound!!! 👍
@@BackcountrywithShaughn ohh god yes! Literally heaven. Treasure hunting!!!!
Congrats on 300 subscribers! What an awesome finds you got! Funny, but I got same piece of wired beach glass a month ago LOL
Oh that's so awesome!! And thanks, pretty crazy it's gotten to that point, super blessed!!
Love watching these videos when i cant go looking myself. spring can not come any faster
HAHA you are telling me, I really look forward to polishing these this winter and sharing that on here, but I am pining for some good weather and a good long hunt!
Beautiful snow there. Please keep it up there! Those smaller agates can be used in all kinds of crafts or just to show. Havagudun Bud.
Haha I wish it would go! Rockhounding has been more difficult lately lol! I've been looking into different ways to use them!
Love your channel!
Thanks so much Hali!!
Beautiful! I love the finds. Beach glass and pottery is another thing I collect. I live in central WI but I go to like Michigan alot. I have found some fossils their.
I always am on the lookout for them too, they're usually just so beautiful! I wish I could make it out to Michigan sometime.
@@AgateDad just a little ways away for you. I go to Algoma, WI alot with my kids. They love the long beach and very friendly place.
@@heatherlawrence1896 I'll have to look into that, sounds great!
Very nice finds, AD. I wish we had that beach here in Marquette. Our beaches seem to be washing into the lake and with all the snow and ice our season is definitely over with.
So sad 😭 I can tell ours is coming to an end..but greener pastures await! Excited for winter projects.
@@AgateDad Been looking forward to some as well. Yours 😅
@@DonFassbender hopefully I can get cracking this month!!
Wow the white lace agate was so cool. So many different unique pieces. Would all the snow be melted yet?
Not yet unfortunately, someday hopefully haha
As far as the names go, I'm no expert but I know (and you mentioned too) fire agate and crazy lace are names for region-specific materials. Luckily, these all fall under the umbrella term "Lake Superior Agate", which is highly sought after globally. The winner of the day, I'd call maybe stalactitic, but that's honestly just a guess.
Oh, and 15:55 looks like thompsonite in the chalcedony there.
Its funny though, depending on what happened and the different angles you could call agates many types. I've had some eye agates that also have water level and so on. They're just a wonder!!
Hey TF, agree that LSA is highly sought after and look forward to a day I can get up there and collect some for myself!!! 👍I also am curious about your comment on the piece at 15:55 and needing your assistance. I tried blowing up the image as much as possible but must be missing the "zeolite like" formation of Thompsonite you mentioned so am hoping you can direct my eyes better? haha (old man here 🤔🧔) The pinkish material running along the edge of the ripple band that runs from the mid-line on the port side of the stone to higher up on the starboard side is granular from my eye's view and the botyroidal formation of white chalcedony on the bottom didn't appear to have any zeolites. What side/quadrant of the piece do you see that in? Am very fortunate to have a couple of nice palm sized specimens of Thompsonite "ball" formations in my mineral collection. (lotsa zeolites in hydro-thermally altered basalt around the PNW) Have a great weekend ahead my friend!
@@BackcountrywithShaughn Hey Shaughn, sorry for slow reply, I'm right sick (again...). Essentially, I just know that there are 3 main minerals that fill these vesicles: chalcedony/agate, prehnite, and thompsonite. Lol! I have a nice little ball of my own too!
I'll take another look at the video at some point and elaborate. Cheers! Stay healthy!
@@thirstfast1025 No worries, im not in a rush nor do you owe me any replies. haha Brother am so sorry to hear of the health issue and hope you are getting better? Take good care of yourself! Back to the matter at hand... love that pale green prehnite and the almost bubbly/drusy look to it's formations and am fortunate enough to have some samples with babingtonite sprinkled around on just nubs of basalt. (zeolites {hydrated aluminosilicates of the alkaline-earth metals} come in many forms from what I read (over 200) with the most common being analcime, chabazite, clinoptilolite, erionite, ferrierite, heulandite, laumontite, mordenite, and phillipsite) Got some super fine and delicate samples from when they blasted the new road cut over on hwy 97 a few years back and up on the upper Clackamas river after some blasting they did of the basalt wall over the roadway. When you get better we gotta start talking about connecting this summer somewhere in between us like Colorado for Amazonite and other feldspars or maybe Utah for Septarian nodules or or or make some suggestions~ (I can't fly due to injury so everything has to be driving for me) Talk again soon~
@@BackcountrywithShaughn Man knows his zeolites! I didn't even think about thompsonite being zeolite, because I thought it was always just in reference to the zeolite metamorphic facies. I do know that most (maybe all?) of them act as molecular sieves, though I don't fully comprehend what that means.
And you gotta *love* when they cut roads/railroads eh! I've got some absolutely lovely lavender amethyst that I have never found anything else like (not big points, but such soft color) while they were making the highway east of Thunder Bay 4-lanes. And last summer I got the biggest fluorite cubes I've ever collected when they were putting in a passing lane right by where I grew up. ua-cam.com/video/e3-3fiJtx-Y/v-deo.html
Soooo, I'd absolutely love to do some collaborative collecting, but I don't have a passport. But if I did (or to be optimistic, once I do), uh, yeah Pikes Peak would be very high on my list of 'wanna-see's"! I wouldn't mind visiting Herkimer Co. at some point, but there's a deposit much closer to me that is actually comparable to Herkimer. The dolostone is all pink-red because it's associated with hematite (botryoidal) and goethite (often stalactitic), but you don't get those signature 'single-crystal-in-it's-own-vug" you do in NY. But you *do* occasionally get eisenkiesel. And there are myriad carbonates/calcite habits, and some very old stromatolites (2.8Ga), some of them are just huge.
Well, back to the couch and O.J for this guy! Stay healthy and happy hounding!
Oh and the ones you say are your best finds lately, we call those "rootbeers"! I don't think I've recommended this to you before but I read this book and it solidified the things I thought I knew and taught me things I didn't. It is an awesome reference book to have and it answers all those questions about what is and isn't an agate and what kind you have. It is called "Agates of Lake Superior: Stunning Varieties And How They Are Formed by Bob and Dan Lynch. Best book I've ever picked up for referencing agates! They also make a smaller version as a field guide!
I'm pretty sure I have thay book!!! Love it!!
Dude when are you gonna start tumbling these beauties!? They are already preformed and ready to go! Love your channel brother, fellow rockhound myself. Thanks for continuing to inspire and motivate!
Haha someday, it just takes so long to tumble! Appreciate the awesome comment man!!
@@AgateDad of course brother! It does take a long time but for the most part you just add grit and let it run for a week per each grit (usually four stages). Its so worth it and your agates would polish up beautiful my friend. Poly Plastics is a great company for tumbling materials.
OK, you win the "hardest hike to get to the rocks" prize. :D Beautiful finds - glad you could still get out.
It wasnt too bad, but one wrong step and I could see 6ft pits between the rocks, so it could have been bad lol thanks for w as watching, it's getting harder and harder. I went out the day after filming this and like 3 spots I wanted go to were snowed in 😭😭😭
Haha Kate, I dunno it's close!
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5:15- someone thought your Agate was a Jolly Rancher haha
Hahaha they have been called beach candy before!!
Hey AD, thanks for the cool (no pun intended) content post sir! 👍 Sure is some beautiful scenery you have there along the lake! Great to see that your enthusiasm for the hunt hasn't diminished even though the weather and conditions are not being super cooperative, kudos to you for putting in the extra effort of not only going on the hunt through difficult conditions, but also taking usable video, editing the video to clips then crafting all that stuff up into entertaining material to share with us rock hungry tubers! Woot~ I specifically liked the way you told your "story" with the layout of the video... intro, action, follow up, review. Great work! Anyway... In my small bit of experience here on this wondrous floating globe in space..Going to extreme locations under difficult conditions often in harsh weather is many times the best way to "find" those extra special specimens that stay in your memory and collection(See ILR123). 🤦♂️😜 Have personally walked across over 9.5k (6miles) of desert in 38C (100F) to find just one more chunk of something special while packing over 25kg (55lbs) of tasty magical goodness in my super cool canvas rock pack. ✔ Rockhounding...it's more than an addiction, its an obsession~ 🤷♂️🤔🤩 Thanks for helping keep my obsession in check my friend from MN. Have a super week!
Oh man thank you so much!! I'm glad you liked it bud! It really has become am obsession! It's such a blast being able to explore and have these amazing adventures and then go and share it and meet awesome people like you!
Its definitely getting harder to get put though. I look forward to winter projects though!!
@@AgateDad Agree sir, definitely one of the better parts of my world is experiencing and sharing our passion for beautiful things, places, stuff, people, times! 👍 Look forward to seeing what you come up with next!
@@AgateDad I hear you there but as in all things you know how it goes in this life SSGT right? "Aim High - Fly, Fight, Win" We don''t really control anything, except what we choose to do at this very moment. haha Thx for your service my friend~
@@BackcountrywithShaughn Hopefully winter can be nice to me and allow me to get a few more times before I start in on my indoor winter projects..we will see what happens!
Talk about extremes! I went out with a white towel to reflect the heat! I made Dave carry the umbrella because he forgot his hat. What pretty finds. I feel I need to go there. I need to double check you haven't missed any!
I need to check out your videos! Been so busy today! Super happy with the finds though!! I know I did miss one lol I spotted one I missed in the video!! I'll send you an agate if you can find it haha!
@@AgateDad Oh man, now I feel a strong urge to check every single shot bit by bit for any sign of an agate, it'd take me hours haha. When I watched earlier I spotted a little one glowing in the photo at 16:04 to the left of the bigger agate.
@@iloverocks1235 That may be one.. but not the one I am referring too haha
@@AgateDad Oh no. I was afraid of this! Ugh now I'm going to have find it!
@@iloverocks1235 hahah I wish you good luck!
Thinking water level 🤔, I classify it as awesome agate.
That one you found looks like it has some tubes running through it. There's a big one in the white area.
Yeah it's an amazing agate! What do you think on what kind it is?
I would just call it a tube/oddball
Just seeing this video now (a little late to the party) but I too found a tooth last weekend on a beach near two harbors! Unreal, like where are the people who belong to these teeth!!??
Also, I too found an agate with bands like that last weekend! Crazyyyy!
It was a human tooth?!?
@@AgateDad YES, I was like uuuuuh what!? How do I react to this!? Should I call the police? I ended up just taking it, I’m still not sure what to do with it.😬
Id call the police!!
My dear perfect
Thanks so much!
5:45- jasper and chalcedony mix it looks like
sorry i missed your comment Marlaina!
@@AgateDad no worries! I've been so behind lately.😎🐾
Me too! So bad 👎 busy busy with house projects and work..boo!!
That is such an awesome find!
Oh thanks! Really enjoyed that one!!
Question for you . I’m 65 bad back my sister is 67 and has had 2 strokes and walks with a cane . She’s is planning on coming to visit me next summer .we want to do some rock hounding in the north shore area . Are there any places you could recommend that would easily accessible for someone with our limitations?
Thanks
11:45 that looks like prehnite in the area with the bumpy lumps.
Yeah that was a weird piece!
Do the agates wash into the lake from rivers or were they created in or around the lake?
My rookie understanding is that they were formed in ancient lava flows (over a billion years ago) around the lake superior region, then distribution throughout that region by a glacier, primarily around lake superior but can be found as far south as Iowa. But that's just this area, and I'm still learning a lot to the science behind it all! I think they are just more easily found around the lake and rivers because the water is currently a big source for moving the different earth surfaces around. Not sure if that helps lol
Thanks so much though for commenting and watching!!
Could the one agate be a cathedral agate?
I've never heard of that, where are they commonly found?
A tooth ????lol!
Milk glass..and u need a new jar for teeth and bone bits🙂
Good idea!
That tooth is a molar from a herbivore larger than a rabbit and smaller than a deer
What day did you shoot this?
Monday, the day after the blizzard ended.
@@AgateDad Huh! That one totally missed us! Looks heavy!
@@thirstfast1025 Get out of here.. we got 21"...but out drive way had 3 feet of snow!! I am still shoveling snow off our driveway..and deck..and roof!
@@AgateDad Haha! Lucky us! Don't worry, we'll get ours too! Snowin a little here right now, but not much. Got the first solid practice on my driveway rink today. Ohhhh, the back hurts after that, but it felt so good! Gonna freeze the net on tonight once the snow quits.
@@thirstfast1025 haha I'm jealous you get to do that! Sounds so fun!!!
Deer tooth? Did anyone ID that?
I dont think so but I'm fairly certain it is that 👍👍
It's a fish tooth