I feel just like you. I’ve liked rocks since I was like 1. It’s like I inherited a huge rock collection from my younger self. I’ve always collected rocks on trips. A few months back I looked up “how to find quartz.” Then it started recommending rockhounding to me and it rolled from there.
Complete newbie at this but OMG is it addicting! I went rock hounding this past weekend and came across quartz clusters, agate, jasper and a really nice piece of sandstone. Can't wait to get a tumbler and start making my own pendants.
I just started agate hunting a few months ago. It's so addictive I started a CZcams channel about my journey as a rookie agate hunter! Makes the hobby even more enjoyable!
@@AgateDad I wonder why do rockhounding people never expand from just agate hunting? Like take the crystal collector. In the post month he did garnets, tourmaline, amethyst, selenite, wavelite, hour glass crystals, topaz and much more.
@@eitanengel8259 sometimes people are content in one thing. I prefer finding agates probably 95% of the time, but the other 5% is open to new discoveries and other goodies 😁
Huh...I think I found three agates whole cleaning up my front yard. These were originaly just picked randomly with a bunch of other rocks that my grandma picked way back in the day when she was working on her garden. Its preety fascinating and finally I now know what these are. I have two white ones and one that looked like an ordinary stone until you shine it at a light. Thank you for the information :)
Thanks for the video. I just came back from Agate Creek Queensland Australia with a bunch. Now I have to learn how to polish them up! 14 hour round trip but already want to do it again!
I read about how to make an industrial tumbler out of a rear axle of a big semi truck with the rims and tires in place. You want to cut an opening in the highest part of the rim to load rocks. The article said a cover is not needed but I always thought if I was going to do one I would have a hinged door sealed with inner tube rubber. The idea is to set up a motor geared down so the tires rotates slowly and all the rocks stay in the lowest part of the tire at all times tumbling over each other. Each tire can hold about 100 lbs of rocks and you have 4 tires going at all times each one with a different grit. Always use same tire for the same grit. You rotate the rocks once a week and you have a 100 lbs of polished tumbled stones each week. I have been wondering if you could use quartz sand as grit for the first stage to do the rough rounding off? I am posting this on all videos about rock hounding to spread the idea, if this is you channel and you do not like that let me know. The fact that the tumbling will all take place in a rubber tire should help keep the noise down. The rocks should never touch the rim. I have suggested to people that they make a sound proof shed just big enough to be practical so the noise will be minimized. Plus the rubber in a tire is thick and should absorb a lot of the noise. Also you should have a small fan on the motor to keep it cool. A high quality motor will be a must as it will run 24 hours a day. I am no expert but with the proper gearing the motor should not be under too much stress. I would sell the tumbled stones. Once tumbled, you grade them by quality and type. Some would be really valuable. I bet you could average $10 usd per pound with just good found material and more if you have high grade material. Definitely not for the weekend rock hound but if you sell stones or want to, what a cheap way to start. You could tumble other people's rocks for a fee or shares too. You could make one with car tires for a smaller scale operation. There has to be a lot of people with a 30 year in the making, 3 ton pile of rocks out behind their house. With this they could see results from all that collecting.
Here in northern Ireland at Carrick Fergus beach there's hundreds of these things. I love walking there I find so much stuff there. Has really pretty sea glass too. Lots of jellyfish
I was thinking the same thing, I've often picked up, marveled, wondered why it looked the way it did (waxy), why it was see through (those that were), questioned whether or not it was actually a rock at times and eventually discarded each of these over the years. May still have one or two around somewhere. Sigh, if only I'd known.
use to go to agate beach as child and look for many weekends. watching with one of two rings on. might not be most glamorously greatest rings or jewelry stuff, but they got their speciality.
Hey - great video! One thing though, I've been watching a lot of geologist channels on CZcams, one channel is JTV and they often mention the mohs scale and scratch testing; I'm pretty sure I remember them saying glass was a 5.5 on the mohs scale 🤔
I’ve found some beautiful pieces along the banks of the Bouie river near Hattiesburg Mississippi. Growing up I found mostly amber colored. Here I find white, grayish black, white, gray and a salmon color
I found a piece that has this waxy luster that u are talking about and its gray/light pink and the edges are translucent. Im not a 100% sure if its agate but this video helps a lot!
Just a note: a conchoidal fracture is not a "random" one, instead it is a typical behaviour of cryptocrystalline materials, which upon fracturing form concave shapes
Great info! Thank you very much. Question: At the beginning you aligned the agates from right to left with regards to the "quality" of the agate, and at the end you said that the translucent material in the last agate didn't have any lines in it. Do you mean visible lines, because an agate should have concentric lines to qualify as being one.
agate is a rock, and rocks are general classification of mineral composition and crystal structure of minerals. It’s not an exact science, and this is a rock hounding classification more than a scientific one. Moss agate for example doesn’t always have banding, but is considered agate. I hope this helps with your question.
I have several rocks I thought were White quartz but they kind of look like what you have. Also I have one with orange crystallization on the front and an orange color all the way through but still is mostly milky white.
HI, nice info bout agate. I am a Geologist. I want to point to you that one of your agates shown here is of the shape of a Canine tooth. SOme rocks are formed by replacement of existing minerals. Like wood opal. Similarly calciam carbonate of fossil bones and tooths is sometimes replaced by silica atom by atom on a geological time span. Just check whetheer that piece wwhich is third from left at the bottom at 0.04 time of your video is a replaced silicified fossil tooth. Just my guess.
@Owen Digity lol um you obviously dont understand what is meant by the term canine tooth then so be careful when throwing insults like calling someone dumb mmmmkay?
I have 2 very similar pieces I found that I think are agates. One in Willow one in Homer. Both pale in color and waxy luster. The only difference is one looks like a very fine glitter was thrown in while forming. Are they the same rock?
Identified an agate in a box of vintage rock samples I bought because of this video. Thanks Now to figure out if this uranium ore is going to kill me or not...
@@HowtoAlaska 10-4 I'm treating it like covid and wearing a mask lol hopefully isotopes are scared of N95 masks and Mason jars. But joking aside, I completely didn't expect to get Rockzilla in a mixed box of rock samples.
I came here trying to figure out what an agate I found was and it looks identical to the one you talked about tumbling on the beach! Top left one. Would it be worth getting a tumbler and tumbling it? Thanks
Hello, I need some help in determining whether a black agate ring i've just bought really has a genuine agate or not. The problem is that it looks absolutely opaque to me, its just a flat black stone. I've tried to shine a light through it, there's absolutely none passing through. I would appreciate your help to know ways to check for the authenticity of the stone (if it really is a stone). Thanks in advance
if something is advertised as agate, chances are it is as advertised. Its a fairly common stone and isn't really worth enough to put a fake out there. If it is black and took a very nice polish and it scratches glass its probably agate
I was wondering we have a cabin by moose lake Minnesota and is known as the agate capitol although I have never found one. Odviously the north shore is a good place but in landlocked areas where would you look
I would look on roadsides, areas that have just been dug up(like a construction site), creek beds/gravel bars during low water, and gravel pits. Most of those areas you'll have to get the land owner permission. Good luck hunting!
I didn't know there were agates in Alaska. Personally I think agates are 6.5 to 7.5 in hardness. I do a lot of polishing and some are extremely hard, some grind away really easily.
Microcrystalline, most of those are microcrystalline and the translucent ones of mono colour are chalcedony . For the stone to be called agate it must have bands, must have bands .
Moss agate doesn’t have bands and it is referred to as agate, just saying. Chalcedony is commonly referred to as agate because most beginners have a tough time getting that scientific.
I have a big agate. Purple color . Unfortunately I don't know how to make money out of it. I have also fond estimate 18kg white Ang purple agate in one piece. I just use it as a footrest 😎😂😂
It’s pretty much impossible to identify rocks with certainty through a picture. It doesn’t show many of the traits that are needed to identify them properly.
No no no! You must hold the Agate up to the light whether it be the Sun or a lamp or any sort of light if it is a Agate you will be able to see through the stone. In opaque manner. Some are smooth some are rough all will be opaque, and show various colors as well as quartz only quartz is less opaque
Hey no problem, I will be doing some gold panning videos in the future though. I have some ore from a gold mine i worked at that I'm going to crush and pan as well. It will be when I get around to it though.
I found a 65 lb. carnelian agate that i am not sure what to do with. I postd a yutube video Large Giant Carnelian Agate!!! any sugestions wold be apreciate.
This is so cool i think i found my people. Ive been a rock person my whole life.
I feel just like you. I’ve liked rocks since I was like 1. It’s like I inherited a huge rock collection from my younger self. I’ve always collected rocks on trips. A few months back I looked up “how to find quartz.” Then it started recommending rockhounding to me and it rolled from there.
People in this community are so nice, sadly I’m not from America so I can’t really meet them
@Ilinca Sîrbu true, I will, thanks!
Complete newbie at this but OMG is it addicting! I went rock hounding this past weekend and came across quartz clusters, agate, jasper and a really nice piece of sandstone. Can't wait to get a tumbler and start making my own pendants.
keep at it it is a great hobby, hopefully I will get some other rock hounding videos up this summer.
I just started agate hunting a few months ago. It's so addictive I started a CZcams channel about my journey as a rookie agate hunter! Makes the hobby even more enjoyable!
@James Bryant haha wow that was a long time ago!
@@AgateDad I wonder why do rockhounding people never expand from just agate hunting? Like take the crystal collector. In the post month he did garnets, tourmaline, amethyst, selenite, wavelite, hour glass crystals, topaz and much more.
@@eitanengel8259 sometimes people are content in one thing. I prefer finding agates probably 95% of the time, but the other 5% is open to new discoveries and other goodies 😁
Thank you! I found out a "dull" agate looks like a piece of quartz but now I can see a difference. And I know I have found an agate!
Huh...I think I found three agates whole cleaning up my front yard. These were originaly just picked randomly with a bunch of other rocks that my grandma picked way back in the day when she was working on her garden. Its preety fascinating and finally I now know what these are. I have two white ones and one that looked like an ordinary stone until you shine it at a light. Thank you for the information :)
Thanks for the video. I just came back from Agate Creek Queensland Australia with a bunch. Now I have to learn how to polish them up! 14 hour round trip but already want to do it again!
I think you did a nice job. Thank you for the information.
Awesome video! Very informative!!
Clear and simple. Thanks!
Thank you for the great examples, these videos help heaps.
Nice video mate, great information and just good ol rock appreciation.
Subscribed!
Thanks! Very informative!
Very informational, thanks!
Very informative. Thank you!
enjoyed the facts on agates ,very informative
I read about how to make an industrial tumbler out of a rear axle of a big semi truck with the rims and tires in place. You want to cut an opening in the highest part of the rim to load rocks. The article said a cover is not needed but I always thought if I was going to do one I would have a hinged door sealed with inner tube rubber. The idea is to set up a motor geared down so the tires rotates slowly and all the rocks stay in the lowest part of the tire at all times tumbling over each other. Each tire can hold about 100 lbs of rocks and you have 4 tires going at all times each one with a different grit. Always use same tire for the same grit. You rotate the rocks once a week and you have a 100 lbs of polished tumbled stones each week. I have been wondering if you could use quartz sand as grit for the first stage to do the rough rounding off? I am posting this on all videos about rock hounding to spread the idea, if this is you channel and you do not like that let me know.
The fact that the tumbling will all take place in a rubber tire should help keep the noise down. The rocks should never touch the rim. I have suggested to people that they make a sound proof shed just big enough to be practical so the noise will be minimized. Plus the rubber in a tire is thick and should absorb a lot of the noise. Also you should have a small fan on the motor to keep it cool. A high quality motor will be a must as it will run 24 hours a day. I am no expert but with the proper gearing the motor should not be under too much stress.
I would sell the tumbled stones. Once tumbled, you grade them by quality and type. Some would be really valuable. I bet you could average $10 usd per pound with just good found material and more if you have high grade material. Definitely not for the weekend rock hound but if you sell stones or want to, what a cheap way to start. You could tumble other people's rocks for a fee or shares too. You could make one with car tires for a smaller scale operation. There has to be a lot of people with a 30 year in the making, 3 ton pile of rocks out behind their house. With this they could see results from all that collecting.
Here in northern Ireland at Carrick Fergus beach there's hundreds of these things. I love walking there I find so much stuff there. Has really pretty sea glass too. Lots of jellyfish
WHAT I CANT BELIEVE IT IVE COLLECTED HUNDREDS OF THOSE STONES AND THAUGHT THEY WERE JUST NORMAL STONES THEN ALL OF THEM WERE AGATES
sweet! they polish up really nice
I was thinking the same thing, I've often picked up, marveled, wondered why it looked the way it did (waxy), why it was see through (those that were), questioned whether or not it was actually a rock at times and eventually discarded each of these over the years.
May still have one or two around somewhere.
Sigh, if only I'd known.
@@Lady8D you can still find them
Thank you so much. Very helpful!
thank you for this!!!
use to go to agate beach as child and look for many weekends. watching with one of two rings on. might not be most glamorously greatest rings or jewelry stuff, but they got their speciality.
Hey - great video! One thing though, I've been watching a lot of geologist channels on CZcams, one channel is JTV and they often mention the mohs scale and scratch testing; I'm pretty sure I remember them saying glass was a 5.5 on the mohs scale 🤔
I’ve found some beautiful pieces along the banks of the Bouie river near Hattiesburg Mississippi. Growing up I found mostly amber colored. Here I find white, grayish black, white, gray and a salmon color
Thanks for info 😊👍👌
Thanks for that. Very interesting.
Very interesting topic
I found a piece that has this waxy luster that u are talking about and its gray/light pink and the edges are translucent. Im not a 100% sure if its agate but this video helps a lot!
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Thank you you helped me emensely
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Just a note: a conchoidal fracture is not a "random" one, instead it is a typical behaviour of cryptocrystalline materials, which upon fracturing form concave shapes
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Thankyou very helpful
Can you do a video of how to identify the different types of agates? Like I have struggle to differentiate crazy lace agates and turritella agates.
Great info! Thank you very much. Question: At the beginning you aligned the agates from right to left with regards to the "quality" of the agate, and at the end you said that the translucent material in the last agate didn't have any lines in it. Do you mean visible lines, because an agate should have concentric lines to qualify as being one.
agate is a rock, and rocks are general classification of mineral composition and crystal structure of minerals. It’s not an exact science, and this is a rock hounding classification more than a scientific one. Moss agate for example doesn’t always have banding, but is considered agate. I hope this helps with your question.
Very interesting I find I have more agates I thought were dirty quarts. Or colored quartz rose and orange hummm
nice , thanx
I have several rocks I thought were White quartz but they kind of look like what you have. Also I have one with orange crystallization on the front and an orange color all the way through but still is mostly milky white.
HI, nice info bout agate. I am a Geologist. I want to point to you that one of your agates shown here is of the shape of a Canine tooth. SOme rocks are formed by replacement of existing minerals. Like wood opal. Similarly calciam carbonate of fossil bones and tooths is sometimes replaced by silica atom by atom on a geological time span. Just check whetheer that piece wwhich is third from left at the bottom at 0.04 time of your video is a replaced silicified fossil tooth. Just my guess.
I wish it was a tooth, I've found lots of agatized wood, but never anything like an agatized tooth.
and your dumb too mister geologist. that agate formed millions of years before dogs existed. Maybe your grams will pay for vet school
@ Owen canine teeth are not all from dogs, that is what we call the pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars of a mammals. jsyk
Cool.
@Owen Digity lol um you obviously dont understand what is meant by the term canine tooth then so be careful when throwing insults like calling someone dumb mmmmkay?
I have 2 very similar pieces I found that I think are agates. One in Willow one in Homer. Both pale in color and waxy luster. The only difference is one looks like a very fine glitter was thrown in while forming. Are they the same rock?
Interesting
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Glass is a 5 on the mohs scale and quartz is a 7 and can cut or scratch glass.
Wait did you polish that quartz?
Identified an agate in a box of vintage rock samples I bought because of this video. Thanks
Now to figure out if this uranium ore is going to kill me or not...
well you better refrain from licking it
@@HowtoAlaska 10-4 I'm treating it like covid and wearing a mask lol hopefully isotopes are scared of N95 masks and Mason jars.
But joking aside, I completely didn't expect to get Rockzilla in a mixed box of rock samples.
sir I have the same stones , how much does this stones cost ,where I can sale these stones can you help me
i live in minnesota ive been wanting to go to lake superior but its like 2-3 hours away
I came here trying to figure out what an agate I found was and it looks identical to the one you talked about tumbling on the beach! Top left one. Would it be worth getting a tumbler and tumbling it? Thanks
agates tumble very nice. You wont make money off a tumbler, but its a fun hobby to create cool things for yourself and friends
HOW MUCH DOES AGATE COST
I also have same agates how much does it costs
Hello,
I need some help in determining whether a black agate ring i've just bought really has a genuine agate or not. The problem is that it looks absolutely opaque to me, its just a flat black stone. I've tried to shine a light through it, there's absolutely none passing through. I would appreciate your help to know ways to check for the authenticity of the stone (if it really is a stone).
Thanks in advance
if something is advertised as agate, chances are it is as advertised. Its a fairly common stone and isn't really worth enough to put a fake out there. If it is black and took a very nice polish and it scratches glass its probably agate
Thanks a lot for your help! Really appreciate it.
I have some blue ones they are transparent and look dark blue and really light
I was wondering we have a cabin by moose lake Minnesota and is known as the agate capitol although I have never found one. Odviously the north shore is a good place but in landlocked areas where would you look
I would look on roadsides, areas that have just been dug up(like a construction site), creek beds/gravel bars during low water, and gravel pits. Most of those areas you'll have to get the land owner permission. Good luck hunting!
+Fishermanjake AK (FishermanjakeAK) minh co da thach anh tinh the
I found lots of agates this week ,at a beach , when a big piece of the mountain rocks collapsed in 2008 they appeared .
I didn't know there were agates in Alaska. Personally I think agates are 6.5 to 7.5 in hardness. I do a lot of polishing and some are extremely hard, some grind away really easily.
@Donald Kasper they're forming deep in the ground where they do hydrofracking too. I guess that proves it doesn't take long for them to form.
You can find allot of them in kuwait beaches
Microcrystalline, most of those are microcrystalline and the translucent ones of mono colour are chalcedony .
For the stone to be called agate it must have bands, must have bands .
Moss agate doesn’t have bands and it is referred to as agate, just saying. Chalcedony is commonly referred to as agate because most beginners have a tough time getting that scientific.
So is that large piece of quartz an agate too?
Can you help me identify of I have found a paint rock agate? How could I show you
In Nicaragua rivers theres alot
For a second there I thought you said eggate. Lol
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Hmm...do they still teach about mohs scale these days? Lol hope so
Yup, learned it in school a couple years back.
holly blue agete
Steven wants to know your location
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price of these agates???
I was in Alaska for 3 weeks, never thought to look for rocks. Drove 800 miles, from Anchorage, to NWR.
how much is a price for agates?
Have you tried them under the UV light ???
What UV adds here?
If they shatter like glass does that mean they can be as sharp as glass?
They can make arrowheads from them
Price
This type of stone I have
I have a big agate. Purple color . Unfortunately I don't know how to make money out of it.
I have also fond estimate 18kg white Ang purple agate in one piece.
I just use it as a footrest 😎😂😂
I have an agates..u want to buy it😊😊😊
Mine looked like a tiger eye but then i could shine a light thru it .. so it was agate all along 😂😂😂
some of them could be jades. how do you know they are not jade
Is there Facebook profile where I can send some pictures for identification?
It’s pretty much impossible to identify rocks with certainty through a picture. It doesn’t show many of the traits that are needed to identify them properly.
I would love to find these, but the geology in my area is not the right kind. Dang it...
sir i have some stons like this
How to FIND agates?
Michael Brady any beach on Lake Superior is a great starting point.
I believe he's referring to the title of this video which helps with identification but not with how to find them.
And I find them in my backyard
AKA Sugar Babies :)
No no no! You must hold the Agate up to the light whether it be the Sun or a lamp or any sort of light if it is a Agate you will be able to see through the stone. In opaque manner. Some are smooth some are rough all will be opaque, and show various colors as well as quartz only quartz is less opaque
Which price of the 1 gram of ageta?
Sorry Agate
Use a LED flashlight to see how translucent it is.
Akik agate
Can agate sale ?
how would I identify monotonic gold?
I've never seen gold in an agate before, not that it couldn't be there.
Fishermanjake AK thanks for reply
Hey no problem, I will be doing some gold panning videos in the future though. I have some ore from a gold mine i worked at that I'm going to crush and pan as well. It will be when I get around to it though.
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i have a agates rock how much if i sold it...it is so clear if you put in the water or light...
I have an agate
Can I find them on the shore of the pacific ocean?
Yes, northern California has an Agate Beach.
I found a 65 lb. carnelian agate that i am not sure what to do with. I postd a yutube video Large Giant Carnelian Agate!!! any sugestions wold be apreciate.
Seeing is beleaving. Check it out on you tube Large Giant Carnelian agate!!!
The Kenai Peninsula is part of Alaska I just wanted to give you a heads up it's pretty simple thank you
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Minnesota has the most agates , I mean dont come to Minnesota...I'm just kidding ...har har
Find em fishing all the time .. my buddy just gave me some blue ones his farmer neighbor found in his field.
@Philip Tooley good! We'd rather not have to share with everyone. the 11842 lakes are over crowded as is.
I’m getting a meatale detector on Monday or Friday
Frost Bite what’s that?
Hi ..
I have agate
The silica percipitated precisely in silence, in a procession salivated over so long perhaps it was silly. Very silly