GALLONS of Agates! Rock Hunting on the Yellowstone River
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Kate, Jim and Kava head out on their boat on the Yellowstone River to go rockhounding for Montana agates, petrified wood and any other gorgeous rocks they find. The sun is sinking lower in the late afternoon sky, and Kate follows the sun to find dozens of glowing agates hiding in the silt. The finds are not big, but they are beautiful! Come along for a relaxing, agate-filled rock hunt on the gravel beaches of the Yellowstone.
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When my mom was alive she would have found a place to sit on that sand bar and look at ever rock around her. She found so many great rocks that way. You guys found a lot of great rocks too. I can’t wait to come up to Montana next fall.
Fall is an awesome time for rock hunting!
This afternoon I found almost 30 little agates on the street right outside my home, where the asphalt is weathering away. I call them Road Agates 😄 I also found two pieces of petrified wood.
Road agates - perfect!
Thanks to your channel I have been wanting to go rockhounding on the yellowstone for months now and u got the chance to go because of work. I found quadruple the agates and petrified wood that I found in Washington in the last 4 months!!! I found probably 80 pounds of material rockhounding all day long today I'm blown away!!! I LOVE MONTANA!
That's awesome! I'm so glad you got to go. :)
@KatyDidRocks I stopped my car on road and got random impulse to look at the gravel and I found the most beautiful waterline agate about the size of a quarter! So I decided to cross the road over to aome train tracks and I rockhounded just of to side in base of the tracks and I found so many little agates and a huge waterline moss agate! Montana is insane! I'm sad i gotta go back to washington :D 😀
Oh Katie, if I knew where you lived, I would send you a big bouquet of flowers! Thank you so much for sharing your passion for rockhounding on the Yellowstone River. Besides watching your videos, I bought your book and traveled to Miles City, MT from Wisconsin and I found the bridge you mentioned in your book. Oh girl there was agates, petrified wood and chalcedony. I was grinning from ear to ear with all the beautiful rocks I found. Thank you from the bottom of my rockhound heart!
Thank you so much! I'm glad my vids are enjoyable for you - AND that you found such good stuff! I love the Yellowstone, and am delighted to share it with folks. :)
Cool finds! Always good to be at the water!
Always!
I love petrified wood almost more than agates.
What a “WOW” day!
It was a good one. :)
It was your day for agate and petrified wood. Jim you have the same kind of sprayer I do. Good choice. I hope you all had a bit if fun on a beautiful day by the river. Woof to the pup. 😷⚒
He likes it because it holds a lot of water. :D
@@KatyDidRocks it does and you pump it and spray with no shaking or batteries.
Just ordered a box of your rocks!!! Cannot wait for Monday!!!
Yay!
@@KatyDidRocks totally awesome. Loved the Agates. Thanks again.
We find agates and petrified wood sometimes on the Missouri River here but it is quite a bit smaller. I always enjoy your videos and especially the ones when you cut some of the rocks.
Hi Katy, can't believe how many agates you find! I just created a channel for lsa's. It's Upper Peninsula Beautiful. Just released my first video with my son. Going to list my second soon and I show one of my agate jars. Your videos are so clear and good! I could use some pointers if you ever had the time. I love your channel!
Good luck with your channels and you're all of your endeavors
That's exciting! Send me a message at katydidrocks@gmail.com with questions I can answer for you - I'll be happy to help.
Hi Katy, beautiful finds. My trip to the Yellowstone resulted in some crystalized petrified wood and lots of mud covered rocks. Next week going back out!
Nice! The rocks are looking a little better after some heavy fall rains.
Oh wow! So many!
Howdy!
Just one more! Just one more
Oh look at that one! ❤
Loved your video
Thank you both
Glad you enjoyed it!
Gorgeous agates and petrified wood.
Thanks!
Hello 😊
Hi Katy, and everyone!
:)
Love finding agates, sometimes your littles are bigger than my average large. 😮
It all depends on where you hunt!
Katy the agate magnet!
It was a great day.
Hi, Melinda.
So much nice!
SO much!
Another great location. So many petrified wood and agates, your Jasper is gorgeous out there ❤😊
It really is. I love the jaspers, because they come in so many colors.
@@KatyDidRocks agreed 👍
Nice petrified wood Jim!
I'll tell him. :)
Nice jasper!
Thanks! 😁
Hi everyone
@@KatyDidRocks I thought I was in your livestream. Don't know how this happened 😂
17 light years away in a distant solar system, on the planet Noagate, gold is as plentiful and thus as cheap as iron. Agates on the other hand are as rare as diamonds and are valued as much. We must appreciate the bounty of the plentiful here on earth for what they are, and not for how often they occur.
:D
If I missed any comments, I’m sorry - I’m on my phone and things got strange.
I’m back. 😊
Some cool agate finds. Maybe some beautiful slabs in the future.
Yeah!
Like those riverbanks, so clean and easy to walk and to look through and last, you find a lot of nice gemstones too
So glad to have found you all !
The river is a delight.
:)
Wow! You found so many and they may be smalls but they will make gorgeous tumbling rough! And there were some that weren't quite chunky but they were a little big for tumbling that would make great cab pieces! You just found something for everyone! And so many stromatolites! Wow! I'd never heard or seen anyone collecting stromatolites on the Yellowstone and since I dont remember who it was that found the first one, now everyone is finding them out there! They are so cool and they are f
Different from every other rock out there! They are just amazing! What a great little hunt! Lol! So many cool finds! One thing about finding smalls... they don't break your back carrying them back! Bonus! 😂🎉 Thanks Kate and Jim and Kava!
Nice per wood
Thanks!
Hello
I know a place on the Yellow stone that produces priceless agates with beautiful internal artwork! As far as I know I'm the only one to know of it's location. Happy Hunting and hope you too find your honey hole!
Hey, Charles - want to be best friends? :D Just kidding - I am happy no matter where I am on the river.
@@KatyDidRocks Yeah just getting out is all worth it to me!
Water bottle! Great idea
It helps a lot in the silt.
Hi
:)
I love your rock hounding.
I live on the Clinch River in VA.
I would love to do what you do, but here. I don't know how to get started.
I would suggest starting online. It looks like Virginia has lots of awesome treasures: rockchasing.com/rockhounding-in-virginia/ Also, if you are near an urban center, contact the local rock club - they specialize in helping folks get started. Good luck, and keep on doing!
So many nice rocks, love etsy but the shipping is a killer to France, oops !! I will continue to dream on my computer watching ur videos, lol
Ha, yeah, shipping rocks to France might be just a bit pricey. :D
I seem to find a lot of agatized rocks in a few different places around here in Dallas. Is it possible to polish, cut and at least make a small profit from the sale of different types of these rocks?
Love your wheeled bucket! Is that your invention or did you purchase it somewhere? I want one!
Sadly, the company that made it is out of business. :(
Luar biasa🎉
Terima kasih!
I wish I could find someone near Columbus, Montana to teach me. Daily I got to the river but have no clue what to look for because all of the rocks look the same to me lol.
One thing you might do is bring a spray bottle and just pick up rocks that look interesting and wash them off to look at them. A lot of rockhounding is purely experience - and by doing that, you will learn a lot.
Mantap ❤,
Hey question kate. Does your "so many beautiful rocks" book list your (accesible) hunting sites in MT?
Hi! In the book, I visit fishing accesses and bridges that have public river access from Huntley to Sidney. So, it does - but only for the Lower Yellowstone.
I just bought a Montana agate with waterline. I don’t know if I should cut it or leave it as is…
Hi! It depends on the stone. Waterline can have great dendrites in the layers if you cut along the plane of the waterline (horizontally). You can do this by gluing it to a piece of wood if you have a slab saw. I made a video about doing that: czcams.com/video/FnuIUJkki-c/video.html But if your waterlines are small and tight, and they don't seem to have a lot of variety, you probably want to just keep it as a specimen.
Shoot, I lost the comment thread.
What are your top 3 favorite minerals?
i wanted to buy one of your coffey mug with a rock in it but couldnt find any way to order one
Hi, David! I am working on making more right now - hope to have some in my Etsy shop within a few weeks. Thanks for asking!
What are you complaining about the agates not being chunky? Agates that size would be a celebration in the PNW of WA State!
:D Yep, I know. When I hunted the beaches in Oregon, I celebrated when I found one the size of my thumbnail!
Please don't get all the agate leave me some for when I come to rock hound up there!
Ha, nobody gets ALL the agates! Most of them are really silty, and we've been having rains, so the ones people missed because they will dirty will probably be findable soon.
Jasper is good to tumr and tiger i
It is!
My chat thread is all weird…..
If you got them at Yellowstone then you have illegally obtained them. You need to return them.
😊 The Yellowstone River runs for hundreds of miles east of the park. The gravel beaches and riverbanks below the normal high water mark are open to recreational use, including collecting. I appreciate your concern for the actual park, which really is a national treasure - but I am well aware that collecting of ANY kind is forbidden within the park’s borders. Thanks for watching.
Ooo i mskr myonr ftone budi love jor peterfithwood sorry for my iĺlsick engish hahaha i have to by my stone on.ine in Holland we dond have stone bech
That would be difficult!