Just found an agate yesterday with the interior geode cavity visible and completely contained. Going to spruce it up n make a pendant. Looking forward to your premiere!
I think it's normal for us humans to go " just one more...." It doesn't really matter what exactly we're looking for... Just ONE more.... I love seeing you happier again Dan!
Those were some incredible agates!!!! I love all of your videos Dan and I'm so glad to see you healing and recovering so well after your surgery! Keep up the amazing work and thank you for always putting a smile on my face!!!
I came upon your channel and must say it is a sheer delight. I absolutely love rock hounding and finding agates is my favorite thing! Have to research more on where to find them here in Saskatchewan. Thanks for sharing your amazing, informative and geographically diverse adventures! I have been learning a lot from you , thank you.
You are so blessed to be able to take a drive over to your claim and just search and find all types of treasures that the Earth offers. I live in Indiana and, particularly where I am situated, there is NOTHING like this anywhere, no agate, no mountains. Just flat land as far as the eye can see and corn. lol I would have to travel two + hours to even find a spot to look.
I really love watching the gold mining but learning about all these other beautiful rocks and gems are so cool I mean these are things most of us can find just playing around on a weekend warrior adventure
Dan is such a babe haha . Personality and attitude, that beard and hat lolol . You always have a giggle watching these videos. I am now getting into prospecting myself after watching him, Pauly, mouldy hat, ask Mr Jeff, klesh , few more. . Keep up all the awesome content!!
Glad I was able to make the premier show and chat a bit especially since it was on my bday. Just bought a half pound bag of pay dirt can't wait to get it and get panning
I love your videos Dan. As a fellow rock hunter/mildly part time prospector it is really fun to watch your adventures. To see the joy and genuine excitement in your finds makes me smile and laugh at times. Keep up the awesome adventures. Sincerely, Garrett.
@brainbah - It sounded great, IF I maintained the proper technique. There was no "click" from the pick, on electric and acoustic. It felt very smooth, and very stiff. They shattered very easily if dropped onto the heavy base of an old Atlas mic stand. I also had a jeweler drill holes in some of the picks to put them on gold chains. I did break a hellofa lot of strings with agate picks. I went back to thin plastic picks when I retired from my mediocre guitar career. lol I never was very good at maintaining "proper technique".
I’m from a area in Washington state called Ellensburg. We have a agate in our area called a ellensburg blue. Ranges from very light sky blue to a dark almost purple color. Makes great facet cut Jewelry and brings decent money in our area of nice quality.
Love the longer video dan! Always anticipating your video notifications. My dad actually lives on the island and just got a sluice box for searching. Hoping i can make it out that way this summer to join his ventures.
Absolute pleasure watching your channel Dan. I love that you do gold prospecting and gems. On a recent trip to what i thought would be a less then steller location i didnt find any gold (go figure) but found 5-6 very nice garnets in each pan. Had a great day mining gems. thanks for all that you do and glad to see you are doing well affer surgery. May your pans be heavy with the yellow and heavy, keep the vids comming.
Hmm... seeing the agates in the basalt reminds me of a patch of rock in north Jersey on a mountain that I noted 20 years ago was severely tilted from its original stratification. The southern half was mostly sedimentary and schist. The middle was metamorphosed rocks, quartz intrusions and granite, and the north face was mostly basalt. I recall the basalt being full of holes.... and I remember where that particular mountain is located! I will have to make a trip back there.
Lovely! I went agate hunting yesterday, nothing this amazing but still a few treasures. Come on summer, it's time to start digging! Saw your jade video today, thanks for the great scratch test tips!
Good going Dan. I once found a big red agate in Washington just laying on the ground while clearing right of way for BPA near Glendale wish I still had it.
Dan I passed my advanced driving. If you stick your wheels in first gear or second just to get it moving just steer and no revv and it will take you anywhere... In forests it will stick to tree roots it's fun on the ice in the woods. It would take you up 45 55...
Wow, really nice prospecting site. I'm a meteorite hunter from New Brunswick. I found many meteorites throughout the years mostly in the Southwestern parts of the US and from central Canada moving towards the Western parts of our country. Never found a meteorite in my home province of NB yet. I also search for micrometeorites and have found 100's of specimens here in NB and abroad. I just subcribed to your channel and love watching you prospect for gold and gems. Man, it looks like your having fun. BC has got to be "Rock Heaven" and a geological playground. One thing that's cool about meteorite hunting is that you learn alot about rocks and minerals because most of everything you find out there is a meteorwrong. Your videos are really educational and entertaining. Keep up the great work and be well.
Good to see you out doing stuff, you're looking good and healthy! It's hard to believe its only been like 4 months since they unzipped you and fixed your heart. Great job at getting back in the saddle! Awesome agate finds too!
The agates I find look like moon rocks with those bubbles you where talking about at 9:17 on the outside. And I find nodules just like yours but rarely find banding, just quartz pockets.
Cheeers Dan always progressing* amazing rocks* here in portugal we have more shells and corals* ill show you sometime the pearled shells* cheers such beauts*
I hunt Agates around lake superior in Michigan once a year or so, amazed how easily your basalt breaks apart. Also agate isn't the name of the gemstone, it's a type of chalcedony mixed with quartz. And basically they are all geodes with the only difference being if it filled in solid or not.
Hi Dan. Great video. Please stay safe and healthy and take care of yourself and your family members. To all members also. Talk to you later my friend. ☺☺☺😇😇😇
Found you again!!! Was subscribed a while back then mysteriously your channel disappeared but recently I heard your name again so I was able to find you so I subscribed again. Looking forward to your adventures.
😲 OMG. Dan wow! I love the egg shaped agates. You've got some awesome clams. Now you have these agates on your property too. I'm getting jealous 😆 lol. Your video was awesome. I enjoy 👀 watch all Your videos. That pictures stone is amazing. I would love to find one of those, there gorgeous.
Dan, I want to thank you for this video. One its informative and gave me some ideas on places to look for agates that have like type of host materials . A place I did not think of to ever look. Secondly, I watch a lot of rock hounding and the like type videos and visit I don't know how many channels just to support or learn thing...in that I found a particular channel that the person who made the content was a fraud and a charlatan in what he claimed were his real finds, real content and whatever else. I started to call him out on it and recieved some backlash from some other viewers who were and are being fooled by his content as if it is real and not just planted and fakery all around. After dealing with these people I said I would find a few good CZcamsrs who are posting real content of rock hounding type content..so they can see what it really looks like..compare them. I am definitely going to recommend and share your channel to these people. The content creator of this other channel I speak of portrays his finds as agates and crystals and gemstones and its always clean and shiney and soo perfect pieces coming right out of the host material.. and that is never the case. Like you, in this video ..it demonstrates how agates and the like are actually found and how they appear and look in host materials..what the host material looks like..how dirty it is..and most important how not so shiney and perfect they are not coming out of the host material directly.. So thank you.. I do not like deceptive people, especially ones who make it a point to make a profit off others.. hopefully in sharing your videos I can help get this other guys content taken down or stop him from taking advantage of people and making money off them by being so deceptive and false..by selling fake items. And yes...he has been selling items he claims are real .. he took a lady for several hundred dollars for what after convincing her to get the material stone tested..ended up being some sort of glass material not a gem stone. I love your content...and hopefully someday I can arrange to get some of that beautiful picture stone you have.. rough pieces for making some jewelry. I absolutely love that magnificent blues pieces that you have ..that is some very beautiful grade pieces.
Hose those off and use a black light on those. The 360nm - 480nm on that claim jumper sample with the white bands all cleaned off, would kill some slehstacks for sure!
cool! although, the mostly clear translucent stuff is chalcedony. So what's the difference between agate and chalcedony? well first, it's the same base mineral, quartz, but it's not the nice crystal kind, it's got much finer crystals, some would call jasper, agate and chalcedony a micro-crystalline quartz. so what is the difference between those 3, jasper, agate and chalcedony? transparency. chalcedony can be almost clear, jasper however is very opaque, while agate is in between the two and often has bands or patches of chalcedony in it. some fancy jaspers, agates/whatever's often have a mix of all 3 of those, and can include druzy quartz crystals too, at this point it's up to the individual to assume which kind is most abundant in the material if they give a coprolite.
@@Danhurd yeah I saw that one, but I'm just curious what the agate looks like polished up. And the value since you find so many large stones. Looks awesome in the rough! Reminds me of the "Outback Opal" guys
I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Your pleasant voice is so calming. Watching your videos is extremely pleasing, making me want to try some exploration for gold and such. Any ideas how I would go about looking for areas near me in Ohio I could begin my journey?
What is iris banding? You don’t want the hill slick as you’re going up! Be safe. Good size agates. Do you show makings jewelry? Oh my! That is a beautiful agate from “not your claim” lol Thank you for sharing.
I love agates ...n hunting for them..we go around Fraser valley any suggestions on where to find some agates ..n keep on with the videos dan..norine here...greetings to u n family.
No I haven't idea cut the agates into thin pieces and then somehow glue them on to like a lamp and put a 1000 white or even a 500 Watt light bulb led light I mean. The light would show off the stone. I bet it would be soooo cool. I have a bunch of stones to do it but no saw to cut them with. Keep up the hunt. Cuz those stone will be gorgeous after they get cleaned up a bit. Love your show. But I didn't know that agates were worth anything. Cut I got red ones yellow agates crystal agates from quarts one black agate
"So I told myself one more find and I'd go. That was half an hour ago."
Rockhounds: This is the way.
Hahaha😂😂🤣😂😂
♥️🇨🇦♥️😁
This reminds me of when I was bringing backpacks full of rocks home everyday for a while there.
Good to see you live and kicking!
Living vicariously through your channel. Thank you for doing all the gem and gold prospecting. The variety makes it so enjoyable.
Just wanted to let you know that you have earned the "new" title from my kid.
Dan Hurd, nono... Thats "Grandpa on CZcams".
Here’s a fun game. Take a drink every time Dan says AGATE! 😂
Oh lord, please drink responsibly!
Hello challenge, hello alcohol poisoning
Hospital pls
Every time he says agate I’ll have a cone indeed gonna be intense
Holy crap I just drank a bottle of crown!
Just found an agate yesterday with the interior geode cavity visible and completely contained. Going to spruce it up n make a pendant. Looking forward to your premiere!
I think it's normal for us humans to go " just one more...." It doesn't really matter what exactly we're looking for... Just ONE more....
I love seeing you happier again Dan!
Those were some incredible agates!!!! I love all of your videos Dan and I'm so glad to see you healing and recovering so well after your surgery! Keep up the amazing work and thank you for always putting a smile on my face!!!
I came upon your channel and must say it is a sheer delight. I absolutely love rock hounding and finding agates is my favorite thing! Have to research more on where to find them here in Saskatchewan. Thanks for sharing your amazing, informative and geographically diverse adventures! I have been learning a lot from you , thank you.
What a memory treat Dan, TY. Can't do it myself anymore, but always loved prospecting with my Mom in the 60's. Agates are fun.
You are so blessed to be able to take a drive over to your claim and just search and find all types of treasures that the Earth offers. I live in Indiana and, particularly where I am situated, there is NOTHING like this anywhere, no agate, no mountains. Just flat land as far as the eye can see and corn. lol I would have to travel two + hours to even find a spot to look.
Awesome video !!!!
Thank you so much for letting us all tag along on your adventures !!!!
"Goodbyeeee child" had me cracking up 😂
Me too haha
Enjoyed watching you recover the Agates from the basalt, and learning what to look for at the same time!
Hello
Ahh I love it when I fall asleep with CZcams playing and wake up to Dan eagerly bashing away at some rocks!!
Damn, the content keeps coming! Lucky us! Thanks Dan for the great material you post to keep us entertained.
I use that light to candle my chicken and duck eggs when checking on them in my incubator
I really love watching the gold mining but learning about all these other beautiful rocks and gems are so cool I mean these are things most of us can find just playing around on a weekend warrior adventure
Dan is such a babe haha . Personality and attitude, that beard and hat lolol . You always have a giggle watching these videos. I am now getting into prospecting myself after watching him, Pauly, mouldy hat, ask Mr Jeff, klesh , few more. . Keep up all the awesome content!!
Dan it is good to see you recovering and getting out more and more.
Glad I was able to make the premier show and chat a bit especially since it was on my bday. Just bought a half pound bag of pay dirt can't wait to get it and get panning
Hope you enjoy!
I love your videos Dan. As a fellow rock hunter/mildly part time prospector it is really fun to watch your adventures. To see the joy and genuine excitement in your finds makes me smile and laugh at times. Keep up the awesome adventures. Sincerely, Garrett.
A long time ago, I used to make a living playing guitar. For about two years, I used guitar picks made from agate.
@brainbah - It sounded great, IF I maintained the proper technique. There was no "click" from the pick, on electric and acoustic. It felt very smooth, and very stiff. They shattered very easily if dropped onto the heavy base of an old Atlas mic stand. I also had a jeweler drill holes in some of the picks to put them on gold chains.
I did break a hellofa lot of strings with agate picks. I went back to thin plastic picks when I retired from my mediocre guitar career. lol
I never was very good at maintaining "proper technique".
I take it they were exclusively for Rock music?
I'll see myself out
Yellow stone named
¶Sun honor agate¶
It has strong energy
And it has spiritual uses
Greetings to you
I'm following you from Egypt ...
I’m from a area in Washington state called Ellensburg. We have a agate in our area called a ellensburg blue. Ranges from very light sky blue to a dark almost purple color. Makes great facet cut Jewelry and brings decent money in our area of nice quality.
Hi Dan, Good to see your out and about, some very nice agates for the day. Look after yourself. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin
Love the longer video dan! Always anticipating your video notifications. My dad actually lives on the island and just got a sluice box for searching. Hoping i can make it out that way this summer to join his ventures.
Absolute pleasure watching your channel Dan. I love that you do gold prospecting and gems. On a recent trip to what i thought would be a less then steller location i didnt find any gold (go figure) but found 5-6 very nice garnets in each pan. Had a great day mining gems. thanks for all that you do and glad to see you are doing well affer surgery. May your pans be heavy with the yellow and heavy, keep the vids comming.
Hmm... seeing the agates in the basalt reminds me of a patch of rock in north Jersey on a mountain that I noted 20 years ago was severely tilted from its original stratification. The southern half was mostly sedimentary and schist. The middle was metamorphosed rocks, quartz intrusions and granite, and the north face was mostly basalt. I recall the basalt being full of holes.... and I remember where that particular mountain is located! I will have to make a trip back there.
Lovely! I went agate hunting yesterday, nothing this amazing but still a few treasures. Come on summer, it's time to start digging! Saw your jade video today, thanks for the great scratch test tips!
Agate is one thing I've found small pieces of in the ancient tidal pebble beds in the NJ Pine Barrens.
This is my favorite content, the rocks
Good going Dan. I once found a big red agate in Washington just laying on the ground while clearing right of way for BPA near Glendale wish I still had it.
Dan I passed my advanced driving. If you stick your wheels in first gear or second just to get it moving just steer and no revv and it will take you anywhere... In forests it will stick to tree roots it's fun on the ice in the woods. It would take you up 45 55...
I use a lot of these beauties in my jewelry business! I AM DROOLING!!! Happy to have stumbled across your channel🙂
Nice finds excellent video five stars my friend thank you for sharing
Great video, Diamond Dan!
ALWAYS top quality ❤❤🤗🤗🤗love all your videos and .practically addicted to them ✌ .Thank you for all the hard work 👑
Those are beautiful Dan, some nice finds!
Just did my first agate hunting in the Yellowstone river basin. Pretty cool stuff.
Wow, really nice prospecting site. I'm a meteorite hunter from New Brunswick. I found many meteorites throughout the years mostly in the Southwestern parts of the US and from central Canada moving towards the Western parts of our country. Never found a meteorite in my home province of NB yet. I also search for micrometeorites and have found 100's of specimens here in NB and abroad. I just subcribed to your channel and love watching you prospect for gold and gems. Man, it looks like your having fun. BC has got to be "Rock Heaven" and a geological playground. One thing that's cool about meteorite hunting is that you learn alot about rocks and minerals because most of everything you find out there is a meteorwrong. Your videos are really educational and entertaining. Keep up the great work and be well.
Great looking agate's mr. Dan. Love what you have going here. Keep up the great content
This is so cool, I gotta find myself a claim like this.
Beautiful treasures from mother earth.Very interesting thanks for the trip up rocky mountain.David out.
Great video Dan!! I can't wait to get back out agate hunting!! Hope you have a great rest of your day!!
Good to see you out doing stuff, you're looking good and healthy! It's hard to believe its only been like 4 months since they unzipped you and fixed your heart. Great job at getting back in the saddle! Awesome agate finds too!
The agates I find look like moon rocks with those bubbles you where talking about at 9:17 on the outside. And I find nodules just like yours but rarely find banding, just quartz pockets.
Love the gem and crystal hunting videos!!!!
Crazy springtime roads. Have the same issues in places around the Black Hills. If not ice I run into the slimiest mud.
Cheeers Dan always progressing* amazing rocks* here in portugal we have more shells and corals* ill show you sometime the pearled shells* cheers such beauts*
With your truck, tire chains all around and you can get almost anywhere. Not fast, but still get you through that sticky spring snow.
This is what I've been waiting for!
Great video Dan. Rock on, brother!
I bet those agates are pretty enough, after being run through a rock polisher and getting to the clearer glass like center!
I hunt Agates around lake superior in Michigan once a year or so, amazed how easily your basalt breaks apart. Also agate isn't the name of the gemstone, it's a type of chalcedony mixed with quartz. And basically they are all geodes with the only difference being if it filled in solid or not.
Awesome finds dan and great video as always
Love agate! There’s a place in Colorado where we gather Agatized Jasper
Hi Dan. Great video. Please stay safe and healthy and take care of yourself and your family members. To all members also. Talk to you later my friend. ☺☺☺😇😇😇
I’m new! And you definitely earned my subscription! This Chanel is amazing
Dan is doing cool things for sure.
Found you again!!! Was subscribed a while back then mysteriously your channel disappeared but recently I heard your name again so I was able to find you so I subscribed again. Looking forward to your adventures.
😲 OMG. Dan wow! I love the egg shaped agates. You've got some awesome clams. Now you have these agates on your property too. I'm getting jealous 😆 lol. Your video was awesome. I enjoy 👀 watch all Your videos. That pictures stone is amazing. I would love to find one of those, there gorgeous.
Love the agates really nice especially the monster one you found Dan
Thank you for the more info on agate hunting and geo hunting and can't wait to get out myself again. You got some beautiful rocks there❤️
Thanks
glad to see that you are doing well really enjoy your content you are always fun to watch along with having a wealth of good info.
Glad you enjoy it!
Smiling!
Arkansas has lots of rocks but not sure anything like your finding. I live in the Boston Mt. area near Harrison.
Dan, I want to thank you for this video. One its informative and gave me some ideas on places to look for agates that have like type of host materials . A place I did not think of to ever look.
Secondly, I watch a lot of rock hounding and the like type videos and visit I don't know how many channels just to support or learn thing...in that I found a particular channel that the person who made the content was a fraud and a charlatan in what he claimed were his real finds, real content and whatever else. I started to call him out on it and recieved some backlash from some other viewers who were and are being fooled by his content as if it is real and not just planted and fakery all around.
After dealing with these people I said I would find a few good CZcamsrs who are posting real content of rock hounding type content..so they can see what it really looks like..compare them. I am definitely going to recommend and share your channel to these people.
The content creator of this other channel I speak of portrays his finds as agates and crystals and gemstones and its always clean and shiney and soo perfect pieces coming right out of the host material.. and that is never the case.
Like you, in this video ..it demonstrates how agates and the like are actually found and how they appear and look in host materials..what the host material looks like..how dirty it is..and most important how not so shiney and perfect they are not coming out of the host material directly..
So thank you.. I do not like deceptive people, especially ones who make it a point to make a profit off others.. hopefully in sharing your videos I can help get this other guys content taken down or stop him from taking advantage of people and making money off them by being so deceptive and false..by selling fake items.
And yes...he has been selling items he claims are real .. he took a lady for several hundred dollars for what after convincing her to get the material stone tested..ended up being some sort of glass material not a gem stone.
I love your content...and hopefully someday I can arrange to get some of that beautiful picture stone you have.. rough pieces for making some jewelry. I absolutely love that magnificent blues pieces that you have ..that is some very beautiful grade pieces.
Hose those off and use a black light on those. The 360nm - 480nm on that claim jumper sample with the white bands all cleaned off, would kill some slehstacks for sure!
I love your videos so much! Those agates were absolute beauties, too. Cheers, Dan!
Glad you like them!
Awesome video Dan!
Dan look into studies mud and snow tires for the truck. I have had great success driving snow covered mud roads with the Yokohama studies snow tires.
I would be very interested in seeing a video of you in the shop, cutting and polishing some of those stones.
@@ChirpyMike ocean picture stone. I want to see these.
I have some nice blue and red crystles i think you'd be proud of :3
Awesome, thank you for sharing. God bless and stay safe and well 🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰🥰👏👏👏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Great video enjoyed watching nice finds😀
I love your channel !! :-) every time a new video is posted it's like watching an episode of your favourite netflix series.
Wow, thanks!
Very much enjoyed 👍🏻👏🏻 You’re my kinda kooky!
Great vid! Would love to see the agates processed and polished up
Hey Dan! Love the channel. Do you have any ways an amature could identify what they may have found (fossils, agate, geode, gem or otherwise)
lol you need a more aggressive tire Dan. get a nice MT tire on there and youd be plowing your way through that snow
cool!
although, the mostly clear translucent stuff is chalcedony.
So what's the difference between agate and chalcedony?
well first, it's the same base mineral, quartz, but it's not the nice crystal kind, it's got much finer crystals, some would call jasper, agate and chalcedony a micro-crystalline quartz.
so what is the difference between those 3, jasper, agate and chalcedony?
transparency.
chalcedony can be almost clear, jasper however is very opaque, while agate is in between the two and often has bands or patches of chalcedony in it. some fancy jaspers, agates/whatever's often have a mix of all 3 of those, and can include druzy quartz crystals too, at this point it's up to the individual to assume which kind is most abundant in the material if they give a coprolite.
I would enjoy doing that. Thanks Dan!
Awesome finds yet again! Well done matey
Thanks 👍
One time I went to agate place but I didn't even know what I was looking for. Thank you for a priceless lesson ☺️
You are so welcome!
“SURFACE FIND!” Lol 😂
I would like to see a video on how you process the agate, and the estamated value of the stones themselves
I recently made a video about processing my ocean picture stone in to Cabochon pendant. You would do the same with agates.
@@Danhurd yeah I saw that one, but I'm just curious what the agate looks like polished up. And the value since you find so many large stones. Looks awesome in the rough! Reminds me of the "Outback Opal" guys
Addictively fun!
I love the gem hunting parts of your life....but how do you managed to roam the hills all alone... you're brave Dan.
Thank you for very interesting lesson
I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Your pleasant voice is so calming. Watching your videos is extremely pleasing, making me want to try some exploration for gold and such. Any ideas how I would go about looking for areas near me in Ohio I could begin my journey?
Just wanted to say thanks. Watching your vids help me from kicking my coworkers asses.
What is iris banding? You don’t want the hill slick as you’re going up! Be safe. Good size agates. Do you show makings jewelry? Oh my! That is a beautiful agate from “not your claim” lol Thank you for sharing.
Lovely, lovely agates Wow
Omg I love rock and collecting them and I would love to know what are some places I can go to collect some gem stones! If you can share that of course
I love your vids. Maybe use the quad on those unavailable roads. You brought it up, why not utilize it?
Wow what a nice found
You should open a rock shop in Kansas city and call it Kansas city Agates. You could have a dance studio upstairs.
I love agates ...n hunting for them..we go around Fraser valley any suggestions on where to find some agates ..n keep on with the videos dan..norine here...greetings to u n family.
No I haven't idea cut the agates into thin pieces and then somehow glue them on to like a lamp and put a 1000 white or even a 500 Watt light bulb led light I mean. The light would show off the stone. I bet it would be soooo cool. I have a bunch of stones to do it but no saw to cut them with. Keep up the hunt. Cuz those stone will be gorgeous after they get cleaned up a bit. Love your show. But I didn't know that agates were worth anything. Cut I got red ones yellow agates crystal agates from quarts one black agate
Ahh, you said, “basalt.” It is so crumbly!