In search of a facetable gem stone (garnet).
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2015
- Today we went to Big Silver Creek behind Harrison lake to see if we could find a garnet big enough to facet (cut into a gem stone) This pace is at the 34 km mark up the Harrison East forest service road. This is an active logging road and during logging hour you must use a resource road radio. Otherwise you will get squashed by a large logging truck. The garnets are everywhere. But unfortunately we did not find that one big one for faceting.
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I wish I had a teacher like you 25 years ago when I was in school ! Your an inspiration to the kids and doing great work. Thanks for sharing this video.
Thanks for your kind words.
At 9:33 I am in love with the stone in the top left that has a purple reflection on its bottom left side. We used to pan for garnets when I was 6-11 years old in the stream that ran through the campground we stayed at near Hill City, Black Hills, SD. Got lots of smooth ones I still have, along with a small phial of gold flakes. I was going to be a geologist when I was a kid because of those trips.....fossils, all colours of Quartz, mica, iron pirate, etc!
Dan, hello from Iowa USA. I use to live in the Seattle area and spent time in search of garnets. The location I found enabled me to fill a 5 gallon bucket in 2hrs. I took that bucket and “high graded” at home. I filled a large ziplock bag - I sent this bag to be faceted. Ended up with a sandwich sized baggie full of stones. Brilliant,teardrop and hearts- finished stones. Some over 5cts. If you like I’d let you in on where you too can find this place.
Hey Dan, im a land owner in Oklahoma. My property has a natural creek with no human contanct before me unless natives. Im finding gems similar but stuck to the outside of all kinds of rock like its gem crusted now. Most seem to be ocean life fossils like coral.
Are you in south central Oklahoma, I am not familiar with the geography there but if there is a lot of limestone you can find devonian invertebrate sea creatures if you look in the right layer. Trilobites are worth money. We have the coral where I live but I think there is also dinosaurs and vertebrates out west but its in a different kind of rock if you have that. I hope you find some stuff. I think trilobites are in the blue grey layer. As compared to dirt color
Love the way you always have a perfect rock to sit on while you sift & pan👍
Hey Dan, my daughter and I have fallen in love with rockhounding and are moving into finding different types of gems etc. We're in Calgary and it's pretty limited here. Your videos have really helped and I can't wait to try out what I've learned.
oh I love Garnets I had no idea you could find your own this way wow Some day i am gonna do this too! lovely video guys!!
Excellent spot!!
Cool to see the whole process of sieving.
so magical! What a great idea to bring the family!
thanks Dan, my wife loves all your videos !
This was fascinating to me. Thank you Dan. Subscribed.
I went to Emerald Creek ID last weekend. You have to pay to play but you can find very big garnets there including star garnets. Its one of only 2 known places they can be found. My biggest was about an inch across but my brother in law found one the size of a golf ball. Most are fractured but some look like they might cut into a nice gem. I will tumble most of them but the nicest I will take to have cut and polished. I am hoping to find some star garnets in the bunch.
you might want to go to the Slocan River between Passmore south to Slocan Park ...garnets up to 5 cts plus in size...the garnet is a Pyralspite...lively colour ...remember...inside bends :) spent over 40 years prospecting in the West Koots
"Embarking on a quest for the perfect facetable gemstone, and my sights are set on the radiant beauty of garnet. Excited to explore and share the journey ahead! 💎 ❤
Lol 5:40 that's the million dollar question. Love your videos. I'm learning alot. You sparked an old interest in me. I can't wait to view all your videos. Stay safe, have fun.
Ha! Sometimes I just like do things the hard way. Glad to hear you're enjoying the videos.
the effort you put into finding a gem stone was amazing and interesting to see. thank you for sharing.
you make it look easy ...
great work
That's cool. We go prospecting and that's the ladies favorite part I think, the garnets. Yet, we just find tons of smalls she collects from the black sand. I always think they are coming from somewhere.. maybe larger ones around up further in the canyon.
Thanks Dan, good video on Garnets
Your knowledge and skill amazes me and I see your dyi gem sieve nicely done
There are some beautiful little garnets in there-like little berries!
They do look like little berries
Sir i would be a happy man if i only had a full hand of the small stuff. Great that you are able to do this, here in my country only clay, sand and dirt, oh and worthless pebbles.
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In the past I have found some nice deep red 1/2"- garnet here in North Carolina. I found that the best thing to do, was to take all the rough and throw it in a tumbler or vibe with some 800 grit and let'r go ! Checking it after a few hours to see how it's cutting, it will give you a better look after the top layer of crud is knocked off.... It's best viewed by using a pyrex baking pan filled with some water, with a light underneath after first rinsing all the spent abrasive and dirt away ! You can decide from there as to toss or continue....! I would keep a couple of pounds of the small garnet around for future use on other new diggs. Besides, the smaller garnet could be final polished for use as rounds or cob's too !! So... keep the small stuff too, it's great for polishing metal in your tumbler !
I wished i lived where you live. Gold and garnets cant get better than that!
I'm pretty lucky!
Thank you that was information I was looking for.
Dope video Dan. Really cool
I found these garnets prospecting in Ireland and I thought they were rubies but now I'm quite sure that they are garnets.. I have a video on my channel so Dan if you will ever be bored and so kind to take a look at them and tell me what you think they are I would appreciate that ;-) Your videos are awesome! I watched tones of them! Thanks for sharing Dan!
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Where would you send the stones to be faceted if you had found a nice one?
I hope you keep the little ones. I would love to have any garnets of any size even the tiny ones to make something for my grandbabies.
Here's a thought, How about collecting enough of the smallest ones to create a .5 or 1" layer in the bottom of an aquarium? Some hobbyist may be interested in a garnet bottom for a designed setup. May be too much work for a bag of garnet gravel but I have seen some "micro" setups and someone may want it.
That small grate cleanup with the whole top being red was pretty impressive to me.
In wake co nc there is a place called 'garnet hill' and we had a couple of fun days rockhounding there and walked away with baggies of near gem quality stones.
Oh gosh! When I was 14 years ol I was on a Backpack trip into the Rockies and found an old Rockslide littered with Garnets! There are massive amounts of Almandine Garnets, I think that’s what they are. They are embedded in Basalt Rock! You can find them as big as a kids fist too. All of them are Brilliantly Red! Gosh they Look like Rubies too!
Yes!
We have fully formed gumball sized ones here in Idaho. Cool videos! Keep up the good work.
i love how you have built that wall around your washing area so that you don't create plumes of dirt or warm the river too much.
it's a good habit that keeps the state off rockhounds backs.
so this is what homeworld did to the gem shards
*gets ruby*
*gets sapphire*
*puts the two together*
AND YOU GOT GARNET!!
This is a great video. I have a question, where is a good place to look for gems? What makes one spot better than another?
Thanks!!
We found some really nice sized garnets a couple of years ago and had one gem cut for jewelry. Love these stones they are beautiful.
Nice hunt. Oh and we have the same last name too.
I want to see you take a pile of those smaller garnet stones and put them into a rock tumbler. You might be surprised as how bright they get with a polish.
That would be a fun video
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I've been panning a nearby river for gold, and along the way I've been finding a ton of fine garnets. It's a bunch of fun and I'm wondering what I should be looking for geologically in order to find some bigger pieces.
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Cool vid. Thanks.
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Very good garnets :))
Hi. Have you ever come across a red grant that goes transparent and has a blue reflect when placed under a whit light? Also looks like black specs inside like carbon build up. Any ideas on what it could be?
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Great fun to watch! And where are Big Silver Creek and Harrison Lake?
Cheer from australia Dan.
I worked at a tree nut processing plant. The had various separating machines. In 3 years I collected about 5 lbs. of nice garnet and other stones. They would just dump the rocks around the property. Bet there's a crap load of good rocks there.
I'm a sucker for beautiful rocks
The garnets "closest" to me here in New Mexico are North East of the Sandia Mountains, just outside Edgewood. They're on a private claim (Baca Mine) and I was one of the last groups to go there legally. While they aren't the pretty red I'm used to, they are cool looking because they have the neat geometric shapes. The local rock club told me the mine used to turn the garnets into high-end sand paper!
The small chips would make a lovely Druzy cab! The lake, river looked like Michigan. I see you're in BC Canada.
great video, Thanks
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Just received my package of your paydirt a day or so ago...Haven't opened it yet, but did a shake test and seen 3 small flakes thru the plastic...lol.. Waiting for my day off on Friday to classify and pan it out.. Maybe I got some kind of bonus bag, or one you had an oops moment and put a lot of fines in it...lol
So many gem shards. So many innocent garnets shattered. Heartbreaking.
I know...it's a modern Canadian tragedy 😓😓😓
Somewhere, sometime ago those tiny little pieces of semi-precious stone were part of a large formation of giant six sided crystals. Wouldn't it be nice to see some of those!
I know a guy that has a water jet that uses garnet sand to cut through 1" thick glass.
i love your videos
Good luck, gems hunter
very cool
Wow amazing
Hi Tahank you l love you I could not get enough to watch your vidi
Hi Recep!
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Just rewatched this vid on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Thanks for another excellent video. Even though they didn't end up being facetable, you have some lovely garnets there!
We really want to win that microscope Dan!
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Hey Dan get a 3 dollar bag of pea gravel and sift it look for glassy red purple and blues stones they look like saphures,garnets and possible aquamarine... is worth it if 1 is facatable
that last shot looks like wine grapes, beautiful.
Would you bother to tumble these baby garnets or would they get eaten away to nothing? Thank you!
Nice to see how simple physik can do this 3:29 The small red stones u can sell to handcraft people who work creative....
You may want to try the Fraser just below Yale or at emory creek. I have some nice clear red ones from there in schist,
Awesome!
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Nice stones dan. I like these. An your peridot mine 👌.. I have one rough ruby in my collection.. It's fairly big and too hard for me to work so I domt know what to do with it. Be a shame to crush it down. Would love to see it faceted. It's at least a few grams. Dono what that is in karats
I've been doing pottery lately and all those garnets got me thinking. I wonder how it would look if I crushed the garnets up and used them in a slip and coated a bisqued piece and then glaze fired.
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I would make sure the heat wouldn’t disintegrate them.
The flowers painted in the Taj Mahal are painted with crushed gemstones.
good
My river produces crushed garnet if you are interested in getting some just let me know.
I love garnets, I was out just walking one day about 2 years ago after it had rained and step on a really hard rock that I thought went through my shoe. I picked up this beautiful reddish, burgundy stone the size of a gumball turned out to be a garnet.
Nice! Garnets sure are pretty.
I had my garnet made into a necklace because I didn't want to cut it down plus I get compliments all the time because it's in the natural state.
Hi Dan love your channel. I facet gems myself. I would love to get a piece of garnet to work with.!!
Wow. I need to get a gem sieve. I've got a bucket of dirt from a claim I went on in Ohio, lots of tiny garnets in the soil up there.
Garnet caviar
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Tons of Garnets on the Fraser & Nechako.
Could the smaller, non-facetable stones be tumble polished and used as micro mosaic pieces?
Of course
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I have some that might not go through a 1/2 " classifier in a tumbler right now (didn't check the mesh) any advice should I be cutting instead of tumbling ?
+MrLodak I have a gemologist friend that sends mine away for cutting. Somewhere in Asia.
This was my question, what about putting the dull specimens in a tumbler ?
hey dan do you know anyone interested in buying a 377 carat blood red ruby i have one for sale
Makes wonderful sandpaper
and a lot of other things-if it would be not so far to transport ;-)
Very nice
Thanks!
I have a huge pile of raw garnets but I'm new to this and how do I clean the iron residue off the big ones
holy cow id love to do this looks like alot of fun
Clean garnets between 8th and quarter inch are definitely worth faceting!
What gem sifters do you use?
This was really interesting.I really enjoyed it. I may be mistake but it looks like a place where bears might step out of the trees?
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Hi Recep! Hello from Canada
Does the underwater ring of stones stop currents or is it just for fun?
LET GO GOLD IN THE HAND IS GOLD IN THE PAN
Nice frist finding
Did you build the stone ring wall in the water?
I enjoy your videos. In northern Colorado we have kimberlite with diamonds. I wouldn't know a diamond or kimberlite if i was sitting on it. Do you ever do anything with diamonds?
I wouldn't either!