We found a $25,000 Fossil! *Illegal Ammonite Mining!*
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2023
- Ammonite collecting IS Illegal in Alberta, Canada. Despite what many rock collectors will tell you. My buddy Chris Robak takes me to his secret spot where in the past he has found Ammonites and Ammolite worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. He explains to me everything about this amazing fossil and the gemstone created from it. How it is illegal to mine in albert without a "Shell Agreement" with the Alberta Government, and how our $25,000 ammonite find today is 100% legal because it is on his family's historic Ammonite "Shell Agreement" or "claim"
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A few years ago my husband and I were hiking back to our car after a day at the river and I found a fairly big stone at the side of the path that looked like a big dollop of petrified mud. After it sat for a few weeks I decided I wanted to break it open, because I wanted to see if I might find any fossils in it. No fossils, but something even better. A little footprint. A perfect positive and negative of anything from a duckling to a dino. It's really very neat!
Super cool! What state did you find it in?
My husband and I go fly fishing and I always struggle to keep my line wet, as I start rock hounding around the river I’m suppose to be fishing. 😂😂😂
Oh congratulations on such a wonderful surprise. I want to find one😢 lol I’m envious!
@@gretchenschaumann1808 I found it in western Canada. The husband and I do a little gold prospecting, but we've done more than our share of salmon/trout fishing in our rivers too. We've got 4 salmon bearing rivers and their tributaries within a 10 mile radius of home. It just doesn't seem fair to harass them when we can't usually keep them though.
I'm so glad you didn't say human baby
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Dan, thank you for always explaining the legal ins and outs in all your videos. Educational and trustworthy.
My pleasure!
Trustworthy? How do you know?
@@travisk5589 He's saying he is worthy of his trust based on what he's seen and heard. His judgement, but that's what that means.
@@travisk5589 Because the information he provides can reliably be corroborated by other sources?
@@travisk5589just watch the video and be educated.
So you're telling me this dude goes and plays on the bank of a river (at least I would call it play, looks fun!) And walks away with 50 grand worth of samples?? I'm in the wrong business lol!!
yep
Yes lol😊😊
Im working 5 years at a shit job for that...
Yeah let's go be river people ill be mayor !!
No these take a LOT of work to get to saleable condition
The first fossil I found was an ammonite. My father took my fossil hunting in the siskiyou mountains in southern Oregon. I was about six and I tried to run up the road cut. As I sliding back down with a cascade of rubble I landed standing up with about three inches of rubble on my feet and it top was a perfect ammonite fossil. I've found a lot of fossils I've the years while prospecting, but nothing compares to the first one.
Very nice concretions, in many places in Europe the masonry used to construct some buildings is cut from sedimentary rocks displaying wonderfully preserved fossils of bright white against the browns and black host rock.
true.
Down in Baja California, off the Direto by Ensenada, I found a cluster of baculites that were pearly pink. Head of my college geology department couldn't identify the mineral. You just reminded me of fun times.
Awesome video, full of treasures and facts about legal needs. Thank you to Chris too for inviting you, and thank you for sharing it with us. Take care 🥳👏🙏❤️
Dan's a national treasure.
For 🇨🇦?
Ok dude
@@ReezMo *international* treasure!
@@breannathompson9094yes, for us US fans :-)
I know right?!? I wish I had half his energy and positivity. Always fun to watch him finding cool treasures.
I learned so much today. Your channel is so rewarding. This old lady in Tennessee gets excited over a Civil War musket ball or a Native American arrowhead and you’re pulling out millions of years old ammonite fossils that have turned to gemstones! Truly this earth is amazing! Thank you for sharing it all with us’❤TN Nana
Hey- ladies never age they mature
@@markiobook8639 Some turn into good wine while others in vinegar, though, so depends...
@@markiobook8639 😂there may be a few who would argue with you on that point!
Jesus Christ spoke this world into existence around 6,000 years ago.
@@earlysdabro it's been longer than that, also god spoke it into existence not Jesus, also where is your source?
I love learning all about these rocks, minerals, and fossils! Theres so much more to them then "oo shiny!" and the way you present the information is great!
I was so excited to see this video today. I've been telling my husband, who indulges my new rock hobby, all about ammonites/ammolites and your video pretty much put pictures to everything I've been rattling on about. We really enjoyed seeing the claim, too! I had no idea they existed, nor that we'd need to ask for paperwork if ever purchasing. Good to know!
I love fossil hunting. You can find some crazy looking fossils all over this world. Like those with the extra color to them are beautifully.
I love how you explain things & the educational side of your content. Both educational & entertaining.
This is the video that had me hammer that subscribe button.
It's only the first video and I have the fever. Which fever? All of them. I've now seen most of your videos and many of the other treasure hunters. Thanks to your enthusiasm I've found all kinds of cool places to visit near where I live in USA's east coast. I've planed a trip to go corundum hunting in North Carolina first! I don't want to be dramatic but, it's been a rough few years for me and this has genuinely been helping with depression. My favorite thing about your videos is that they have a bit of everything. Tons of great scenery, information about prospecting, geology, and how to enjoy treasure hunting without ruining a beautiful place.
When I start getting good you can bet you'll see me visiting BC to enjoy nature and adventure with all you fine folk!! The BC Sea Picture Stone is crazy beautiful, as are these Ammonites/Ammolites, and I really appreciate how informative you are in every video.
That looked like a fun day out. Beautiful fossils, and that ammolite is a spectacular colour.
CHRIS:Thanks so much for letting us tag along with Dan on your claim. Very interesting for us and profitable for you. Humping those fossils back to the truck is NOT easy but worth it. I hope the government lets you keep all of them.
They are cephalopods, not fish, which includes squid, nautilus, cuttlefish and octopus. Fish are part of Chordata, having a back bone, cephalopods have no backbone.
OK,OK, OK, did not want to get to technical in this video with Latin names and classification of swimming organisms, Most laymen out there can understand a fish lives in water, or generalizing as fish works for this.
Great to see you collaborating with Chris. Never thought I would see you two together in a video. I've actually met him in person at a silver cove show, Great guy 👍
He has been in a few of my videos now.
@@Danhurd.great i would be tuning in
hey dan you have no idea how cool this is for me! im big into fossils and gold prospecting and ive actually seen some ammonite/ammolite in the Royal Tyrell Museum collections and prep room, one was with a hadrosaur skeleton! i also live in Alberta so its cool to see this stuff from my province on youtube. Thanks for doing these cool videos!
That huge specemin was my favorite part of the museum!
which specimen was it? i have quite a few pics if you give me a description i might be able to find it@@ShoeboxNinjasInc
Hey Dan! WOW, talk about treasure hunting! Before finding your channel, I never knew where all the beautiful gemstones and gold etc came from. From a novice's point of view, we'd probably just pass over these treasures, just thinking they were just a plain ole rock not knowing what was actually inside. Lol Mother nature is incredibly sneaky at hiding all her gorgeous gemstones and treasures! Ammolite is STUNNING! Would love to see what you got all polished up. Awesome video!!
Amazing, and beautiful. It’s a treasure hunt to be sure. Loved watching, and learning. As always, thank you Dan.
Dan thank you for sharing this beautiful stone. I live in Australia grew up in Gold Country and love opal. I appreicate your lessons of the day you taught me about something i didnt know existed.
Dan, Chris. You both show excellent content and love how you're doing these videos.
That was very interesting, thanks for bringing us along and giving us some info on the subject
I appreciate how you explain these intricate concepts in layman’s terms for us to learn and not feel ignorant. I also really appreciate your non pretentious tone when explaining. I’ve been watching you a very long time and always feel inspired by your positivity!
What a fun day you guys had. I never knew about those. Thanks for sharing.
I always enjoy watching your video thanks for all the time you must put into each of them !
It doesn't matter what the objective is, you always make it worth the watch!
I've gone Ammonite hunting in Arizona, and a 3/4 was my top find! Just a small 5lb, but a bucket list and a memory!
I would really love to check off many other bucket list items, and rock hounds have A LOT on that glitter we adore! Just a thumbnail of sparkle gets my saliva flowing, and I want more!
I can only like and subscribe, but if I could, I'd definitely donate! Keep it real Dan, that's all I ask!!!
Могу сказать тебе полное фи деньги это ничто .Старые игрушки бывают очень уродливы .
10-Stars.... I had so much fun watching you both discover these stunning fossils. Thank you for posting :).
So interesting! Thank you Dan and Chris! It was very interesting learning about how the government protects fossils. I think it would be a good idea to have a removable pulley system you could set up each time to haul the find back to the truck. Or a pulley system from the water to the the main hill and then a neat little motorized cart to assist bringing them to the truck.
I think a heavy duty drone would work great for this. It could pick the rocks up and drop them off in the bed of the truck 🇺🇸👍🙏
@@mwatkins2464 I didn’t know they made drones that could lift more than contraband lol. Seriously though, that’s a great idea if they make them with a heavy load carry/drop capability.
@@saralynn518 I don’t know either but I don’t see why not unless the government has put restrictions on it. I know they wanted to make them for pizza delivery but still not strong enough 🇺🇸👍🙏
@@mwatkins2464 I think that would cause some big problems (could lift roughy the weight of a man+), but for rockhounding, it would be incredible! I think I should try to dig out my tinker toys. I sketched out a rough idea for a motorized cot (to simplify it). A surface large enough to hold rocks to transport out, but the weight issue was a problem. Also wanted a little canopy on it so you could lay down face first and scour rocky areas for the smaller ones. It’s more complicated, but that’s part of the idea. I have a messed up back and hips. Lots of ideas but no knowledge or money behind it lol.
Thank you, Dan. Great show. Very intertaining.
Some time ago hubby purchased Amolite from Alberta, two large shards, he had them mounted into two large sized rings, one for him, one for me. They are stunning! Once cut and polished they are expensive but, so worth it as they are stunning,the colours!!! Amazing! Yes,we have a certificate that came with them. 😊👍👍👍👍👍💜💜
Congrats Dan! Ur such a awesome teacher and sharing ur passion. keep up the awesome work! - Kurtis
Super cool Dan!
PS. My theory is that these form pretty darn quickly in impact events. If it was a slow process, the microbes would prevail instead. Also could explain why they sound like they’ve been put through a kiln. Thanks for sharing these beautiful creatures with us.
Hypothetical question: could the presence of metal vapors under intense pressures create that kind of iridescence?
Your personality is refreshing. Your content is great, I mean, who doesn't love shiny things. Lots of love from Cali!
Nice to come across your channel and saw Chris!! Love silver cove ammonite and ammolite!
Just discovered your channel today. Subscribed after 1 video.
Ha. I've got lots of that stuff in my back yard. Never had a clue what it was or what it's worth. Thanks!
Dan,
Thank you both for this fascinating video.
Nature is amazing!
Cheers,
Rik Spector
I always learn so much from your vids and I enjoy your enthusiasm!
I remain amazed at all the awesome stuff beneath our feet. Keep bringing these beautiful treasures to the rest of us.
Incredible geology and fossil episode. I’m amazed at the procedures that he has to adhere to when collecting these amazing fossils. Great episode. Thank you. 👏😁🇦🇺
Ребята вы вообще смыслите в геологии?
@@user-cl3nu2ig5j Can’t translate. ?????
@@user-cl3nu2ig5j Sorry…don’t know why.
Always enjoy your content dan!!! Keep up the good work.
Geez you must love ❤ your job! What a life!! This was incredibly interesting and fun! It reminded me of rockhounding with my grandmother when I was little 🥲 awww I miss her and the rest of my family. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Dan, The man, you're always doing something special, and Cool! Ya friend Chris seems like he knows his 💩, very well for a younger person! I ❤ you for always mixing it up! Can't wait for another Gold panning vid. ❤ ya much! ✌🥰👍🤗🙏
Many people do not like governmental oversight, but that oversight helps to keep poachers from coming in and decimating the area. Good on you, Canada.
There are laws already in place that will keep the countryside from being tore up. &
Some people are into bondage.
BIG mistake.
The main motivation of the Canadian government is to keep the public from having free access to wealth and independence.
Any claim of protecting the environment or protecting the people is a fraudulent effort to control territory and profit from it's resources.
The national park system is a perfect example. They are logging and mining it as we speak and I can't eat a fish without paying them money.
Yeah, Heil Canada !! I love to Goose Step along
What a great job Chris has. That was fun Dan. I’ve seen them do this in the UK.
Love this video! I remember learning about ammolite when I visited a gemstone shop at Whistler in BC. Cool stuff!
Illegal? That’s ridiculous.
I really like watching your non gold prospecting videos. Don't get me wrong, I also enjoy the ones for gold as well, but I've always been more of a gem and rock hound over the years. If there was a way to coordinate a vacation to help you do a few days of gem videos, I would probably jump all over that😉
An amazing experience collecting those ammonites. Thanks for sharing
Wow! I just found this video! 1979 was the last time I was digging fossils with my father at that spot. My great uncle owned a a ranch above that site at the time. We use to dig tons of fossil out that area, had no idea they’re a certified gems. moved to the US since then, but have fond memories of that place
So very cool! Those are stunning 😮
I could watch videos with Chris in them, all day long!! He is such a an amazing, patient, soft spoken, down to earth person. His wife is just as wonderful as him! There isn't a rock, he can't identify!! You should hang with him more often!! He can show you ALL KINDS of places, to try out, he has been all over the world! If it has to do with rocks, or fossils, no question is ever stupid, with Chris!! Him and his wife, don't judge. They treat everyone the same, no matter how they look, or dress, etc. Truly wonderful people!! The world needs more people like them!!
I just ❤ him and his wife!! Have a wonderful day!! From: Lisa D, in Lloydminster, AB/SK. ☺️
I am so excited I got my Pinolite tile from your store Mr Hurd ...it's fabulous thank you from Dayton Ohio!!
We used to find trilobytes in upstate NY, near Cazenovia.
Would be interesting to see a video on working the shell to make jewelry.
Hopefully next year
You were so calm with the flying shovel lol
Incredible. what delightful and colorful ammonites. Would love to look there.
This would be so much fun to go and visit and help uncover some beautiful specimens! I love learning about all these different places and minerals, along with seeing such amazing finds! Keep up the wonderful work Dan! :)
Это ужасно . Уровень начальной школы. Прости Дэн я обладала твоими знаниями в 1 первом классе Россий школы . Главное любознательность и интерес.
Chris should start a channel. I would love to see the process.
I am glad I came across this very educational video, and being able to learn about the formation of the Baculites, Ammonites, Mennonites...Mmmm...I think the last one goes on a different chapter.
Wow Dan this was one of the Best ! You guys found or Hunted some awesome items this time ,.absolutely beautiful!
You have to love a free society that isn't allowed to pick up rocks.
Rock lives matter, their going extinct…reeeeeee! Save the rocks!😁😂
Canada is NOT a Free Society
As a geologist I just want to go there to collect.
Those are pretty cool! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you Dan for sharing this awesome content
Was pretty sure reading on the Alberta website that it’s OK to collect. (fragments along the river eroded out) not sure if it’s only Alberta residence. They consider you a temporary custodian of the fossil . just not legal to dig for them or sell. Possibly i was looking at the wrong website and this was years ago.
Misunderstanding of the laws is one of the reasons we made this video. Chris is involved in trying to get the laws changed in alberta. Changed for the better.
@@Danhurd that’s awesome! Me and my kids love going out and exploring. We really enjoy your videos. unfortunately, for some reason you are not suggested in my feed often anymore . I’ll have to go to your channel and do some catching up.
So weird how the government is in everything! Pisses me off honestly
Very cool. Always appreciate the educational content too
Gov. always has it's priorities straight. Sucking opportunity out of life.
The opening mouth thumbnail is epic man love it !!!
Great video! Thank you for sharing
Absoultely stunning!! I always think of Ammolite as Opal's first cousin.
wtf they go out for a day ammolite hunting andfind material worth twice what i earn at work in a year
Here is a geology lesson of the day: a 5000 dollar arrowhead is easier to sell than a 50 dollar arrowhead
One of my top five of your videos.
Glad you made it out to Alberta!! You should go visit the royal Tyrrell Museum here in Drumheller!! I live 35 minutes away from it, and went there almost every year for school growing up!!! ❤
Great video as always Dan. Thank you for explaining how the fossil is formed, I have always wondered how something could get inside a rock. I had a crappy school system we didn't learn much lol... Now then why is Canada so strict on mining? As in the slucing rule not letting the water back into the river, this adventure you can't take a rock of the beach without a permit, how about shells does that take an act of parliament to collect? Lol...
It's unreal. smh
I love the wojak style thumbnail
This is one of the reasons of why I want to study geology. I love ur videos, keep em going!
Thank you, sir, and I wish the best to you and yours.
No one cares about something until its worth something. Then they tell you stole after it sat there for millions of years. All because tax man wants his cut of your work.
I never see you guys using canoes much. Not being from Canada, I thought they were traditionally used a lot and I'd imagine it would be a good way to move a lot of heavy stuff to and from the river instead of manhandling it up steep banks to a truck. Obviously that would be dependant on there being a more conveniant access to the river further up/downstream. I know you can get a good 350/400kg of stuff in a 16ft prospector (the name says a lot about their original use!). I could just see you and Chris snubbing a 1/4 tonne of ammonite down the river to the next landing, the water looks perfect for it.
Chris brought a boat back the next day to collect everything we piles along the shore
Thank you! Very interesting. I have loved rocks and gem stones since I was a kid.
Love watching you channel. Learning about rocks. What is valuable and what is not. We hunt rocks from time to time.
Thank you for sharing
God bless
We have a rock saw too.
You have to beg mommy government to let you have a pretty rock. Please pretty please! Hahaha
No begging, jus the official paperwork with the museum not the government
Right. That ruins it for me. It's disgusting.
@@Danhurd it is enforced by the government. The museum isn't the one that will punish you when you don't jump through the hoops
And why not?
Some of them might give humanity as a whole new knowledge about the different species that once existed.
Damn, your facial expression is SHOOK! !!!
Nice rock, Dan. Very pretty.
I was watching you a year or so ago. I had trouble with my CZcams accout so somehow I lost you. Glad I found you again. I want to get out there this summer and explore for gold and any nice rocks I can find.
Very beautiful sharing 😊
Asking permission to live and explore earth. Are we all not humans of the same planet? Statists always make excuses for support of asking permission from those that have no "authority" to govern. Earth belongs to everyone.
Yeah, that’s how I feel. And this may seem strange ..but I feel the right to fossil hunt and collect… some have religion..I have fossils.
I have done some illegal trips to a place. This is our history, my church, I can see it touch it marvel over it.
If I didn’t find it, it would of turned to dust, I have no problem with registering a find and documenting it. But if you can’t get a permit and they could yank it out of your hands when you do find it… then why even get the permit.
There has to be a curator clause. You store and document it, it’s yours, but the museum/government can have access anytime.
I understand digging out/mining with big machinery as a problem, but the average rock nerd like me isn’t trying to sell this sh#t. I have fossils that I’ve harvested and ones that a old timer curators got from the Gobi, raw form. He stored a lot of stuff for the museum and others.
Very cool guy.🙂
Honestly screw them go have a look enjoy ya life
Точняк😕👍
Ridiculous that it’s illegal to collect rocks and fossils.
Thanks for sharing this video with us Dan!
Mother Earth and the passage of time has truly given us spectacular things to behold!
I think I would be inventing some sort of labor saving device to help with the lifting and transport. Your back is a precious thing that all the money in the world may not be able to fix.
Who cares if its illegal. The government does what it wants....why can we the people do the same
that's called Anarchy
The Government, like all criminal organizations, despises competition and will use insane amounts of power to crush it.😊
Do you often steal from your neighbours?
@@jfk64kennedy95that's not anarchy. Anarchy is self-governance not chaos
@@goldnoob an·ar·chy
noun
1.
a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority or other controlling systems.
Thanks, beautyful ! A shame he had to break the big one. What a piece ! And very interesting to hear how you can be legal hunting ammolite.
Incredibly cool and beautiful! I need to see more of these and I definitely wanna go and find one, that’s adventure worthy!
What a great video and with so much information, Thank You
Absolutely stunning fossils. Great video as usual
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What a treat. Chris thank you for sharing your site with us. And to you and Dan both, for sharing your knowledge and experience.