Sunstone Knoll // Labradorite Crystals in the Utah Desert
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- This was an interesting location to stop at. I really view it more as a place to stop and pick up some nice specimens. I guess you could spend some time digging but we didn't.
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YAY You are still in Utah!
We have one more location in Utah to show off next week.
Amazing video, congratulations and thank you for sharing it with us!!
Very cool. Will definitely take the family next spring.
It's pretty good.
That big one @4:27 is super sweet! It does look like a miserable spot with the flies and heat!
Someone told me the because Utah had a super wet year this year that was the source of the flies.
Love Love Love you guys!!!❤❤❤❤
Thank you.
Sunstone - yeeeeeees! That is really cool, Jared. I wonder if digging would have revealed larger ones. Also, I like the champagne colored ones on the right best. Thanks for showing them to us!
I have seen some bigger ones from other people but not much bigger. I think the goal to to find some with some color inclusions in them.
I like the Sunstone Knoll ones the best.
:D
I learn so much from you.
Thank you! I try to make the content fun and educational.
great stuff as always!
Thank you.
Cinder Butte in Idaho has some nice stones
I will have to look into it.
i think they are both beautiful and I'd be happy to find them.
Oh yeah!!! I hope to visit the Oregon locations next summer.
The one on the left looks best for faceting. There are several facet quality stones in there😁
Maybe someday Ill learn how to do that!
Cool trip my favorite stone labradorite, beautiful sun stones , Happy Thanksgiving 🍁💙😊, thank you for sharing 😊💙
Happy Thanksgiving!
We like sun stones. Most of ours were pinkish but some were shillers. They were all pretty.
Those are ones you found in Oregon?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding near delta, Utah. I think the locals were misidentifying them as sapphires.
One on the left has more clarity.
No sunstones in Missouri. No feldspar at all really! Which is weird compared to um earth I think 😂 If you ever make any collecting trips to the Midwest or southeast springtime is best. I’m REALLY looking forward to April. All the spring rain reveals stuff and it’s not overgrown or hot 👍🏼 Sunstones are feldspar right? 😂
Really no feldspar at all? That's kinda odd.
The spring thaw really is nice to see. They are a type of feldspar.
First!...that's a really cool spot!..I wish I had visited it when I was out there!nice color on some of those!!..yah u were there in September,..I was there in June..114 degrees..was a bad idea..
June is kinda in the middle of the hottest time to be in Utah.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I found out the hard way..lol
Great video and good information! I just found your video after visiting Sunstone Knoll again a couple of weeks ago. We had a similar experience and issues with glass while there but no bugs in the wintertime fortunately! We didn't find anything really impressive, or even a chunk like you found, but it is a fun place to visit when you're in the area!
It's a cool area and so easy to visit if you're just driving by.
Oh now I’m intrigued as to which locality would make the better faceted stone. If you have the Will and the means it would be interesting to see one of each as prepared gems!
I would love to see that as well but those machines and those skills area not something I have.
I liked both. I guess it would very on what your plans were for them.
For the time being these are just going to be specimens in a jar.
Cool stuff from another interesting spot!👍😎👍
Thank you.
Iike the clear sunstones,..but I also like the color from Oregon..both are beautiful!
I went out there with my dad about 25-30 years ago when I was a kid and back then, it was littered with sunstone everywhere. When I took my own kids out there this April, it was disappointing how picked over it was, but it used to be a huge amount of material there. Regarding the flies, it was a much wetter August and September than we normally have and as a result, the flies were WAY worse this year than I ever remember them, not just in the desert, but the cities were bad as well. And yes, July and August are miserable to be out there, easily reaches 100-108 during that time. Going out there in the summer, make sure to bring LOTS of water.
That will happen, the float gets picked over.
You know we have done a lot of travelling and I have never seen anything like it, open the car door and flys just zoom it and hangout until you drive down the road with the windows open.
The topaz just a stone throw away are brown when you dig them up and clear when sitting in the sun light and there are so many things to go after in that area
I would like to go to Topaz Mt. next summer.
Not bad for a roadside spot. Looks like theres a good bit by roads in utah. As far as more desirable sun stone, heck idk i dont have any and dont know much about them. Just that its labradorite. Still a cool find.
Utah feels untouched in so many places.
the one on the left
:)
Kinda like the Utah ones.
Me too! However the Oregon location can produce some nice colors, I just don't have any.
I’m fairly new to all this and I’ve been watching you and all the other rock hunters like Katee did and Theo and Montana rock mom just for starters the crystal collector Paleo Chris and while Kyle I am fascinated with all the joy of findings and that just before the pandemic I started doing rock collecting and I’d love to do a lot more
Welcome to the wonderful world of collecting rocks and minerals! Personally I think this is without a doubt the best hobby to have. You can take it as far as you want and really deep dive into subjects so much that you will never find the bottom of it.
The flies are completely weird. What do they eat? There isn’t a cow in sight….nor water! Nice video….did not know Utah had sunstones. I got some cut lattis sunstones from Australia at the gem show. They are waaay cool rocks, and only in Australia so far.
A few people told me that since Utah had it's wettest summer in ages it just made for the perfect conditions for flies be all over.
Cool sunstones in Utah. Not really large. Faceting smalls means...smaller.
Happy early Thanksgiving to you, your beautiful wife and doggy 🐕🦺 🐾🐾.. thanks for all the information throughout this year....🙏🏽
Thank you and happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
I prefer the clear.
There are definite difference in the rockhounding “season”. My desert hounding ends around June and starts again in Oct.
It's never fun to feel like you're getting boiled alive.
That's cool to know that there's a sunstone spot in Utah! Beautiful. It's hard to judge clarity, often the exterior isn't indicative (they get a sandblasted/weathered look sometimes and are fabulously clear inside). It would be amazing if sunstones with inclusions were discovered out there. Maybe we could score some rainbow lattice on this side of the globe?! 😆. Thanks for another great video. Cheers!
I don't think the sunstones from Utah are as good as what comes out of Oregon but I think they makes some neat specimens and you never know what could be found if you spent some real time digging at this location.
For me right now they will just be some neat specimens.
Okay, I misspelled lattice. Oops.
That was fun you found some nice stones and also got a good laugh with that there's a lot of flies. Made me think of the boys down under swatting flies away.
I got some bad bites from the flying ants at this location. I've never seen those before.
Thanks for taking us along. Nice finds. Any day rock hounding is good. Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving!
Get some dr Teals Epsom salt Eucalyptus and spearmint liquid. Put some in a spray bottle and spray your work area and your car to detour the bugs...
I bet it smells good too!
That's a good idea.
@@KatyDidRocks it does.. its pet safe that's what I use. I use 1 tablespoon of the liquid per jug of water.. and it definitely helps.. amazing scent.
I like the ones from Utah. But both are very nice! Thank you Jared & Sara!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! the ones on the right( spectrum mine ),, they are all treasures in my eyes,, thank you guys for bringing us along
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
:D
Really hard to pick 1st I liked the creamier looking stone, but then when you dumped the jar some of those stones were beautiful 😊❤️
:)
I get sooooo sad when I see your vids.......
I live in the Netherlands. we have absolutely no rocks where I live!
only clay and sand.
so, will you make me happy and go rockhunting with me when I visit the states?
(chance is very slim though)😁
We also have limited rocks around us so we find ourselves often driving anywhere from 50-500 miles to get to a spot. These Sunstone's are 950 miles from our house, granted it was part of a bigger trip but we often have to put in a lot of effort for these things.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding funny enough, but that's actually good to hear....it always looks like people on youtube make these finds in their backyards!
so thanks for the headsup. I'm not as sad any more
Too bad you were there during fly season. It's kind of weird. We had some in our trailer and at home, too. I thought there was amber colored sunstone there. I do like the pinkish gold stones. Thanks for sharing, Jared and Sara! Keep smiling, keep rockhounding!
If there is more amber colored stones at this location we didn't find any and there could be for sure some out there since you have this big open desert to explore.
I’ve never gone rockhounding for a specific stone. I’m usually the one with their head down and picking up whatever shinies I see. I don’t know yet if that’s good or bad. I remember being a very little girl mad as hell because my dress didn’t have pockets for all my rocks. My mother telling me to drop some but I would cry nooooo, they are all pretty. My grandmother fixed the problem when she bought me my first pair of “dungarees” and cowboy boots. Hahaha, my mother was quite put off, especially when I refused to wear a dress until I started school. In the 60s I had no choice. Anyway, pain meds make me babble!
Love the sunstone and any kind of labradorite catches my attention. Id take it all home.
I forgot the.question.
Meh
Pick up whatever makes you happy!
Also that's a funny story thank you for sharing it.
Gotta have some good pockets or a bag at all times!
My mother was always picking up odd colored rocks from different places. She was always in her dress even for outside work until she was in her 60's. Then she broke down and got some denim pants. Now I am partners in a rock shop with all kinds of stones.. She must have given me the right gene to inherit and she is, I am sure, envious of what I get to play with every day.
Forcing little girls to chronically wear dresses is repressive and evil.
Well, looks like Utah has quite a lot to offer for rock and mineral enthusiasts. Hard to judge quality of the sunstones from the video. I'm not an expert. However, I've read that desirable sunstone shimmers with various colors as light reflects off of inclusions.
Have said that, I use a different metric that tends to generalize well. A rock/mineral is a good specimen if I enjoy looking at it. Perhaps, a bit pedestrian, but it works for me.
By my measure, your sunstones are great.
I'm also not an expert on these stones and most likely they will remain just specimens in a jar.
The flies are horrible as sunstone knoll
They were pretty bad.
random question: do you use a brother ptouch labeler for your jars or have a better/cheaper alternative?
I do use a Brother label maker but its about 10 years old. They don't make it any but I think the ptouch is pretty much the same thing just newer.
I'm not sure about cheaper or better options but I really do like having a label maker, I use it for all kinds of things.