Gemstone Hunting, Finding the Money Stone! *Peridot*
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2020
- WOW! Did we ever find an amazing gemstone! This is my Peridot claim which has produced many facetable Peridot gemstones in the past. Today we have the whole family here looking for the elusive large Olivine crystal known as Peridot. Big enough crystals can be faceted into an actual jewelry grade gemstone. Rock hunting and gem hunting is one of our favorite adventures. Because not only is it a fantastic hobby it can also be profitable if you find the right stone.
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Hello Mr Hurd! I'm a master faceter down in Washington. Try using a tile saw for removal. Hammering like that will create inclusions. Peridot tends to have many inclusions as is and odd shaping that leads to smaller finished gems. 5ct rough will yield a 1 CT cut stone as a general rule regarding peridot. Awesome video and family! Thanks
Hello, I have a 15 CT faceted oval solitaire crystal set in a ring, after your comment I cannot imagine how big it was when rough, or they were worth very much.
@Carol Harris I have had similar issues where I'm just so stoked I break stuff on the spot
Interesting, thanks for this information!
That sent shivers down my spine to watch that screwdriver and hammer in action. The best faceting specimens might have been lurking just below the surface, only to be turned to sandpaper grit before being noticed. I think I would have been more prone to slowly pick the fractured junk off the surface with dental picks, at home, not in the field!
@@richard68ization I have 1000 of those haha 😂
'I deserve more respect around here'. Yep, I agree young man. That was your crystal. Yoink it back for your personal collection.
Kid's a natural rockhound. That'll pay off big later in life, he keeps that up.
@@WeirdPros ya I know he is my friend in real life and I already told him that sooo get lost
@@jameswood3012 if you live long enough to grow a head, you might become a real prick.
@@kenycharles8600 LOL ouchhh
@@kenycharles8600 lmfao and till this very day legend has it James Wood is too scared to reply. -kolt2021
7:32 "I deserve more respect around here" Hahaha I loved that! You tell em little man. ;)
✊RESPECT! Bro👊 Respect. COMMAND That RESPECT Little Man!👍 also diggin' the Rainbow🌈Hoodie... Peridot is Vibin' with ya kid💚 ...Must Be A Leo♌🦁👑☀️
Diamonds and crystals are more expensive copper😂😂😂😂energy
The future is in the hands of electronics, not in the hands of wealth
@@AveGoddess So many disgusting emojis
@@BANGFILCENEL01z it’s in the hands of me haha 🤣
@@AveGoddess I have more respect than you will ever have haha loseeeeeer
I wish my dad had have been like you and had a sense of adventure instead of sitting in the pubs
Bring sum bed sheets or traps you can remove the crystals on them and save them from falling of getting lost
I was thinking a hairstylist cape to tie around the rock. They fold up small and are easy to carry.
A small "drop cloth" like a painter would use might be ideal for catching those chips that tend to fall between the cracks. Nice find !
@basil fawlty LIKE this one. Even chewing gum would work well.
Definitely a drop cloth, and maybe a pick tool instead of screwdriver
Yeah it blows my mind that they’d just let a bunch fall between the rocks.
I was thinking the same thing.
His precision chisel looks like a screwdriver 6:11
very cool! Always fun to find gems.
I was walking around Mount Antero couple days ago and walked up onto a 81.71 carat brown to clear Topaz!!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge once again.
Peridot is my "birth stone" and this is the first time I have ever seen Peridot in the wild. Thank you SO much Dan. I really appreciate you sharing this with us. You ROCK! (was that a pun? LOL)
Same here!!!
ye
Mines diamond, it's hard to find videos of people finding diamonds😂
Same.
same here
Your gemstone videos are actually my favorites. I can't get enough of them!
Am I the only one who says "hello" back to Dan during the intro?
Probably
@@ulfrtheviking I wanted to say probably 🙄
I am a gem collector at heart. I found peridot in Hawaii and collected off the beach. I would love to go gem hunting with you, but since I live a bit away (California), I would love videos of your gem hunting. I do enjoy you gold panning too. Be safe and have fun!!
I love the way that mr dan and his family is still healthy and safe from the virus. I wish a healthy, happy and long life mr dan. Good luck 🤗🤗🤗🤗😊
Good Morning Dan, a perfect start to a Sunday. Sitting in my recliner, a cup of piping hot coffee, and your latest most excellent video, doesn't get much better than this.
Thanks
Whoa, does this bring back memories! I found a decent chunk of peridot along the bank of the Thompson River (before it meets the Fraser River, British Columbia) when going along with a friend of mine who was a junior rockhound. He found a big chunk of jade that day too, but he tumbled my peridot into a real nice elongated teardrop and I wore it as a necklace for years till I lost it somehow. We never did find much gold, just a few flecks, but we lucked out on the green stones that day! Seeing this video 30 years later makes me wanna go back again and see what I could find today. ;-) Thanks for the video!
So that's where my flat head went?! 😂
Seriously though, what a fabulous claim!
I could watch all day.
I also think you should encourage one of the children to learn how to facet gemstones, awesome scope to learn with the specimens you have there!
I’m up for the gemstone hunting. Thanks for the happy finds. Makes me feel like the whole world is full of hidden gems (animal, vegetable, mineral, and ideas).
Dan, bravo for taking the family along on your adventures. My dad took me when I was 4 & 5 panning and fining geodes. I am a lifeline mineral lover.
Thank you Dan for this important lesson on mining, the use child labor.
The best labor is free labor (I love my cousin and nieces and nephews 🤣😂)
Education.
yes, be sure to call them names too
Marc Stokes “ Thank you Dan for this important lesson on mining......carry the stuff out as a powder because you used a dull screwdriver to mine this precious gem, it’s much easier to get it home that way”!
@@tanyas.3812 kinda dickish.
Your children’s hair is SO beautiful. Outshines the gemmiest gems.
I think they are one of the most beautiful stones. They don’t get the promotion they deserve. I love them.
Peridot is my birthstone. I enjoyed seeing you find them.
happy early bday as this is mine also
It’s mine too but I’m way better than you in any way possible
@@jameswood3012 except punctuation. lmbo
@james wood except for I.Q.
Beautiful finds and love that family is included. Definitely worth watching
A lovely day with the family! Peridot is one of my favorites, it is such a beautiful green!
“I deserve more respect around here.”
Me too, kid. Me too
I have more respect that you will ever have
@@jameswood3012 idk. Paul has my respect and you don't soooooo.....
Paul 1
You 0
Thank you for showing me where to find Peridots. I didn't know that they were found in Basalt columns. Every time you show me some new information on where to find Gems and Gold and how to 'Get them" is fascinating.
I've hiked many basalt slopes over the years and had no idea there could be peridot underfoot. Off to hunt!
I have 1 million big pieces of periods because I’m the best at everything and I’m super rich way richer than you, you can see me on Forbes billionaires list
What a great way to spend the day with the family. I like any treasure hunting you do be it gold, gems, detecting or magnet fishing. Its all good Dan.
I love gems you guys should do more of them I love that the family is all in we need more
Gemestone hunting is great!! The video was insane!! I live in a volcanic island and there are lots of big olivine crystals here. Great video again!
Evan will be a miner one day, that college fund will be towards his first claim haha
The shot of your boys both looking at and working on the one stone together was so heartwarming. So awesome to see :)
Oh I soooo love peridot! I bought myself a pair of earrings from a lady that made jewelry back when I was younger and working in my nursing career. I wore them so much when I was younger. I now only wear my mother's earrings that she left me. You all are really living the greatest life! Thank you for sharing your adventures and family with us!
Awesome! Great vid :D There's a rockslide near kamloops that i'll have to head back to!!
Awesome Awesome vid Dan!! Haha your bucket says "RONA"😅
Thanks for the mineral video Dan. I started collecting various minerals and gemstones thanks to your videos. I wish there was places like you have down here in Tennessee. Great video!
Awesome to see entire family out with you Dan and doing something a bit different. Love the colours
I wear peridot from Hawaii, where I grew up. The volcanic rock holds many samples. It is my favorite gem.
Those are really nice crystals 😍 looks like you all had a great day 😃
Awesome video Dan! Any day with the family doing something you all enjoy? Priceless memories! and the best part? A facetable gemstone. what a day!!
Thanks for sharing.
Very nice. And I agree with the "twerp" he does need more respect. 😉 Good job kiddo helping your Dad. Maybe a suggestion to catch more of the crystals is is have an old sheet with you to help catch them. Thank you for sharing. All of you stay safe and healthy.
It's great to see the family spending time together, what a fun way to spend time together 😊
Hi, Mr. H.
.I have a chisel just like the one you're using on the peridot pls found it handy for installing, and removing screws also...lol
Thats so cool I remember going there years and years ago. Had such a blast scrambling around the rocks.
Dan love thed gem hunting vids SIR!
Beautiful family and scenery too dude!
looks like you could do with a dustbuster running when chipping out those crystals.
Thanks for putting the proceeds into Evan’s college fund. At first I was I annoyed with you when you said you would put it up for auction. You redeemed yourself when you mentioned the fund! Congratulations Evan!!
This is so interesting to watch. I appreciate you go out with your family and film these adventures.
Dan you always have some of the most amazing videos. Someone spending time with you would learn a lot. Thanks for the great videos
Goodness I love the green gems--peridot, emerald, Russian chrome dioxide, even Muldovite! Oh, I should just face it--I love gems period! Thank you for taking us along, so much family fun and learning at the same time, it's invaluable!
DachshundsRule Are you a long time JTVer?
@@janetross1900 Oh, I ordered a ring from them ages ago, but have loved chrome dioxide forever (since I discovered it, LOL) I don't go look very often though, since jewelry isn't a huge priority when you're dirt poor. I have recently dropped hints around my boys though--perhaps my birthday? LOL! One can hope!
fun fact at some point two planets had collided with each other within our solar system creating a large accumulation of pallacite. Metallic meteorites with olivine crystals inside!
Look up an asteroid called 16 Pysche. Looks like the solid metallic core of a planet that got its mantle smacked off.
Dan those are some nice gems that I’ve never seen before. I still enjoy the gold prospecting best but that looks fun as well. Great video buddy I enjoyed it
Such great, informative, fun videos u make dan. Love watching all of them. Keep up the great job
Wow... I really love you guys' hair color, so beautiful
17:24 WHAT?! I'm from Taiwan
"THE MOLE PEOPLE ARE COMING!" Thanks, Dan, and your family too.
Great Crystal Hunt. Best Wishes.
Wow!! Peridot such a gorges stone. Great job Dan and Crew! Till next video :-)
Going Peridot prospecting on my property in eastern Oregon later today. Such a beautiful color. We discovered it last year. I'm learning everything I can. Thank you Dan.
Would love to hang out on a claim like this for a day, not a crazy fan of gold but i love me some rocks.
If I lived up in BC I would be pouring over geological maps looking for favorable locations for that sweet, sweet nephrite.
If you get so lucky as to find a big boulder of gem quality nephrite, then, you know, _gold schmold._ :-)
Hey... would love details on cleaning up... do you process the gems some how? Iron-out, etc?
So cool out with the kids! Showing another side of life. Your a good man Dan Hurd! Thank you!
I love watching your videos! Maybe when your doing the peridot crystal you could lay a heavy rubber mat down to catch anything that falls. I love the picture blue rock too. It's so beautiful!
Since this is my birthstone I've always wondered where peridot came from.
same
Ah yes, the age old, tried and proven chisel: A flat head screwdriver.
I just love ❤️ your amazing and wonderful attitude i enjoy watching you and your family on these amazing prospecting adventures thanks again Dan and May god bless you and your beautiful family
Peridot is my all time favorite, and my birthstone, I'm so very jealous. I absolutely love watching hounders/miners find them but Ooof the envy sits in my gut, they're sooo gorgeous! It is my dream to find a peridot but I'm 51 and never even owned a price of birthstone jewelry, now with degenerative disc and arthritis Im out of the game for hunting for or affording the hunt or jewelry. I "sastify" my pretty shiny things by picking my landscape rock and random gravel for agate chert and poor quality quartz.
You inspired me to start my own channel Just want to say thank you for all the hard work you put into making such great content and inspiring me and others like me to change our lives for the better thank you
I wonder if any of the gemstone cutters on CZcams would do a collaboration. I’ve watched a few videos of Gems by mbk. It would be interesting to see where it came from and how it gets cut.
I agree, following something through the whole process, one CZcams channel at a time, would be a great series and a good collaboration for everyone involved, I'm sure!
Gemstone hunting was fun to watch! Thanks for the variety and the science.
Very cool adventure, looks like fun!! Would like to see more. Thanks for bringing us and God bless!!
Could a port-a-band saw, cut the Druzies off whole? Seems like it's a possibility
I thought a similar thought! Would be cool to see a whole cluster naturally together
Hey, Dan, loved the video! That place looks like a rock hound's dream! If the medium sized peridot gems are too small to be faceted, could they be tumbled or smoothed into cabochons?
You are a good Dad. Wish I lived in an area I could take the daughter when she is older to discover things like this.
Love your videos Dan. Thanks for inspiring me to start gold panning again. Looking forward to starting up this summer in the small creeks in my area. Even though I am in a non-gold bearing state, I have found flower gold and heard of others finding small pickers. Seeing you and your family out panning, jem finding, and having fun inspires and gives me hope that maybe my family could too. My oldest already loves rocks. Thanks again, and you, your wife, and kids stay safe.
You’re playing when you call him “little twerp” and he laughs along. I laughed along with my dad too. He was also indomitably positive and loved by all.. it still stuck with me. I know he was never trying to be mean.
Just a saying, be careful and don’t assume your young ones are always on the same page with your comments about them. Especially when it can be associated with their appearance.
Love the channel. You and your family are amazing.
Since your comment is too long I’m not gonna read it
@@jameswood3012
lol. If this comment is “too long” by your standards, you have other issues my bud 😉
Hey Dan! Loved watching how you collected these! Been collecting gems a long time now myself and enjoyed panning the gems (and gold) out of your pay dirt :)
Hope to see more like this in the future! :)
Dan mate! I love watching you find gold but selfishly, seeing you get stones makes my dayyyyyy! So beautiful man!
“He’s turning into a teenager” haha!
Happy for you that you get yo do what both you and I love. I'm a rockhound with gold fever and I truly enjoy your videos and thank you.
Question : would it be viable to use the screwdriver not on the gem cluster itself but on the basalt near it?
I'll explain my logic, I would aim at removing the whole cluster in big pieces or whole, then one could try dislodging the gemstones with vibration alone (something like an ultrasonic cleaner to give you the idea) and then work on what is left to extract the bigger gems whole.
In my mind it seems it could work fine but if you are not being extra careful there must be a reason, is the valueof peridot low enough that it doesn't warrant very fine care?
Just curious, your videos always give me weird ideas on how to try and optimize to insane levels what I see you do XD
I think in his later videos this is what he has done.
I'd be stretching my shirt to catch those sneaky lil fliers....!!
Love your gem hunts -- beautiful Peridot , one of my favorite stones
Fascinating video Dan. Love the gems and the gold!! Thank you so much😀
Would love to see more of this kind of thing. Break up the content a little, makes it more interesting.
As an avid and long time rock hound, your extraction nearly brought me to tears. Don't you have any sense of the substrate? I watched you shatter at least two 6c stones, chasing a 3c on the surface
Well maybe in person things looked a little different than on video. there were no 6c stones there. In fact there was only one good stone in the nest, and I got it. And the basalt here is amazingly hard, we shatter chisels and break hammers frequently here. We have worked this claim (Local Lapidary club) for many years. And we know what we can find and how to actually get the stones we want. If I did find the 10c crystal, I would go about extraction differently. Video can be deceiving sometimes.
@@Danhurd I grant that video can be deceptive. My apologies.
Great video as always Dan, I love the gold videos but I have been gathering crystals all my life and truly enjoyed watching this. Variety is the spice of life, keep making videos showing all of your various prospecting. Also, liked that “Rona” bucket...hilarious!
Looks like your boys' hair caught fire from your beard! You seem to have a really great family. Awesone crystals, and thanks for the advice on how to chip them out of rocks!
Don't call him a twerp, you Clod!
It's endearing. Can't you tell the difference?
LOL, my Dad used to call me that sometimes, I but I look back on that time and laugh.
I did a search for 'call', which is done by pressing ctrl+f and then typing the word you want to find. There are a lot of comments where people didn't like it. It was kind of off-putting and gauche. As a girl, I would have been hurt by it as a kid, but I don't know their dynamic.
"The Mole people." Are they related to The Worm People?
Or cousins to the crab people?
Dan is a magician. i cant believe he can just go out and find these things. ive never even found a single flake of gold and only ever found quartz
Howdy Dan I'm kinda of new to all this but my whole life has been an interest in gems and minerals. And on my many hikes in the hills of Wisconsin, have come across many cool minerals. I really enjoy your videos and adventures looking for stuff, that's what I call it lol. I always leave with something of interest and investigate its composition. Thanks for your time. Sincerely Jimmy
This hurts to watch you smash them out with a flathead screwdriver 😖😖😖
me too. i thought, there's got to be a better way.
Jeezus he was just crumbling them upppp!
Amen, I thought I was the only one thinking that.
Yeah at least get a sharpened chisel and break the rock around it. But it’s his claim so set up a little shack with a generator for a small rock saw
Call him a twerp one more time, take it from me it matters. Im sure you love him Stop the hurting please.
Ya stop callen the wee lad a twirp. Lepercons are good luck . And the boy has the luck of the Irish in his jeans. Not very nice to take his findings and give them away.
Gold, gemstones. It all fun. Anytime in the Bush is great. Love your channel Dan
I think i just fell in love with prospecting because of you, been binge-watching your videos and i loved every single one of them, i like the gem videos more because of the variety it gives and makes me learn something new every time. But when you find a big gold nugget it is golden content as well, cracked me up so much! Keep on digging and greetz from Belgium!
Great video Dan, thank you sir. Great to see you out with the family
this was fun n different!
‘disturbed the mole people’ was funny!!
thanks for bringing us all along!
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Your videos are informative and interesting. I enjoy watching your enthusiasm as you share your adventures with us. Thank you!
Dan, another great video. My wife likes it when explore for the gemstones. I notice several times you commented that a few of the gemstones fell down in between the rocks. Have you thought of using a towel or pillow case or sheet to go under and around the are to catch some that flies over your hand. You might save some of the smaller ones you are looking for. Keep up the great work. I hope your back is still getting better.
I like how you also do gemstones. Very interesting method to finding them on creeks, where you flip the classifier over. Looks fun. Wow. Those faceted peridots are great looking.
So awesome to see the whole family out having fun great video Dan❤👍✌
Great video! I only wish I could get out into the bush and have fun, memories. I blew my back working in the steel industry for 36 +/- years. Maybe I will make it a goal to tone this old body up and make an attempt to get out there. You have inspired me Dan.
thanks for taking me along Dan love your adventures