 Hello and welcome back to the rugged rockhound today. I am here with my dad. We are in the drum mountains So for those who don't know where the drum mountains are Just over this hill a little past this is topaz mountain So we're just south of topaz mountain about five miles and this is known as agate heel right here It's a little hill where people come and collect some agate. I've never actually been here So i'm excited to see what we can find so up here apparently Are the pits where people like to dig We're gonna look around first just kind of looking at the ground And i'm already seeing some agate So looking promising If you'd like to know where this is i'm gonna go ahead and put the gps coordinates right here So you guys can see where it's at and then you can use those gps coordinates to come and Explore this place So let's go ahead and check it out So you can see we're pretty close to where we parked and we start hitting the pits people have dug in and then right here You can see what they're going for They sag it like this Got this nice banding going through it It is all over here But this is going to be very difficult to get anything out with just hammering chisel Kind of wish I had some kind of power to it Look at that stuff It is very pretty As you work your way up the hill you can see that it is literally coated In chips of this agate Just everywhere So i'm wondering If the goal is to try to find large enough pieces that have weathered out That have what you want on it Instead of having to try and bust it out I'm gonna find bigger pieces of it. This has got some nice quartz on it Maybe there's some nice quartz pieces Been working our way over and i'm definitely seeing larger pieces and better looking ones And this one seems to have a bunch of quartz on it Oh, it's a nice black line going through it right there Look at that Some quartz on top Yeah, i'm thinking maybe it's just a matter of really searching And looking for the better and bigger pieces that have weathered out Or if you've got better tools you can go back to the pits and dig that nice stuff out Interesting This looks very clear at the top there. Oh look at that Huh Looks like it's got stuff going through it at the time Cool Yeah, i'm consistently seeing larger pieces now Of course a lot of them are low quality But mixed among them are nice ones It's just a matter of finding those. It's got some nice red to it. Yeah That's pretty, look at that That's what that bubbly chusset on it Boutriota I like that i'm keeping that one I found this one It was all dirty so i couldn't quite see and i Sprayed it off and i'm not too bad Some of this darker red Jasper is nice too Just sprayed this one off it was right there Sprayed this off and look at that Some nice colors and patterns there Hopefully you guys can see that Very nice And this right here Look at those swirls on it All those patterns Sprayed off a little bit Sprayed it off and look at that That is quite nice Yeah, i like that Look at that Wow That one's letting light through pretty nicely Just found that one and sprayed it off. Look at the purple on that thing It's interesting And look at the orange in that Let me hold it further away That's where i'd started. Decided to come down instead of up. I found this Look at that nice pocket there Kind of got a nice agate rind Well agate In the center and then kind of goes to like a jasper on the outside It's a neat piece I think i see one right here. I like it's got that edge Oh I do like that. Let's spray that off Yeah, hold on to that one. I like that one So I was over there now. I've come across Somebody has a pit up there, but I came here and just started seeing larger pieces everywhere Just big chunks And then I found this one look at the red in that Little red drops. It's kind of neat, isn't it? Right there I think I'll hold on to that one So we're in a park there and we walked up where most of the pits are. I just kind of walked over here Since I got past this Little gully right here Pieces got much larger Let's take a look at that right here Got a whole bunch of pieces all through here and right up here Look at the size of this one It's huge There's that gully I was in Think that's why I was over there. My dad's still over on the main hill I figured if I can just get further away As long as there's stuff I should be able to find some better quality And I think I might have found some of that better stuff Spray these off All right, the mud was the dirt's pretty caked on but look what I managed to clean off Look at that Definitely some better looking stuff I said just got to get away from where people usually are That was pretty nice too There's the vehicle A little further along and this is a great opportunity to show you what the stuff looks like In the limestone So you've got this limestone that had spaces that then filled in With all the quartz All these different varieties And that would have come from hot water Probably from the volcanic activity that's happened Over at Topaz mountain which you can't see it's on the other side of that hill And then there's some also basalt flows over that way So the volcanic activity that happened here probably brought up the hot water Through the limestone which then deposited All this nice quartz So I've come up and over the hill from there So now you can see the other hills behind me Which makes you wonder what's in those hills Don't know what time I'll have today, but probably in the future. I want to check out somewhere of those So here I've started right into some of it's been a lot of jasper mostly red and brown jasper And here we're seeing some more of that brown jasper But we're getting these little veins going through it. I saw this one right here It's got some black along the edge of it so I don't know Not something I'm going to keep But it's interesting I've come over to the next hill so that's where I just was So that is that little ridge And then back over there look pits right there. I missed those because I came down there I'll check those on the way back That's the main hill going that way. So our vehicle's right about over there Across the valley to come over and take a look on this side And most of what you're seeing is jasper Getting decent pieces of it Here in there it's really not that good quality Well, I finished searching the side of the hill right here Up to about there So I just kind of started right on there worked my way across Then decided to come over here where I thought I saw those pits. Oh, and it was all jasper over there But you can find better jasper elsewhere And they're not pits. It's just a lighter colored limestone Fake out Just walking back in say hello say hello to the horned toad How you doing horned toad? Yeah Lots of lizards out Okay, I'm on the back side of the hill again, but this time from where we parked over there So first I started by, you know, coming up the hill and then I went on the left side from where we parked Now I'm over here on the right side from where we parked So if you look off we can see into the valley There's the highway that comes in To topaz mountain over here behind the hills And back that way is delta So, yeah Anyway, over here I'm finding much bigger pieces. Look at the size of this jasper Look at that dark kind of a purple and brown So the pieces back here are much bigger The question is can we find quality? So I've been searching around here for just like five minutes And already look at these pieces I found so much better than what I was finding over on the other side Look at that thing Look at this one Ah, it's beautiful And look at some of these These are nice too And this one I love this one Look at that Love this side right there and searching for around a little more. Here's some other nice pieces Got this one And we've got this one So look nicer. Hopefully When I get cleaned off better This one and this big one right here This is some nice jasper. You can see you've got the nice red and yellow and tan kind of all together And it came Off of this outcrop right here. Look at this stuff Just got this nice Red dark red purple yellow almost yellow orange tan Jasper This one looks like it might be pretty nice Oh, yeah That'll look real nice if you see some crystals in the pocket too Very nice And I think I see some crystals up here too. Look at that That's cool just for the crystals Nice So this one started as just that tip sticking out of the ground and then the whole thing that should look really nice once I get it Cleaned off really well And this one is one that you didn't really suspect much but then Look at that side It's really nice Just a tiny bit sticking out and then look at that underneath It's beautiful Yeah, this is definitely the best spot we've been at all day Definitely Look at what I just found Oh Oh, it's heavy beautiful though Looks like we hit a really good spot right here. We've got a bunch of agate coming out and I don't know how well you can see any of this, but It all seems to be good quality Okay Still nice, but we have some really nice ones somewhere So we can find oh here it is That's what I was looking for Look at that That beautiful I'm back from the dig the drum mountains. That was a cool place. I've never been there before I'd seen it in the book before and but every time I go out to topaz I want to go to the topaz mountain, you know So this time I find I was like no going to go check this agate out And it did not disappoint. This is some beautiful stuff and it comes in all varieties I saw just about every color of the rainbow except maybe green Or maybe I did no I did see it's kind of an ugly green, but Just about every color of the rainbow Agate and jasper both mixed just all over is neat stuff I've got some pieces cleaned off here and let's take a closer look at them I actually have quite a bit just sitting over there that I that I came back with a full bucket But these are kind of the cream of the crop Now I admit it's hard to tell what I'm trying to Show you With this lens on right here because you really need to get up close to appreciate these So I'm going to go ahead and put the macro lens on and I'm going to show you how these look close up The first piece is this nice red brown jasper. It's got some nice patterns There's a lot of this out there, especially on that on the backside of the hill on the right There's a lot of this so if you like this stuff There's a lot of that there. This one's kind of nice because it was more of a almost a blue Almost a blue pretty close Right along the top there This one had a nice pink kind of a flesh color to it And once again you can just see all kinds of patterns going through this stuff So here you can get a closer look at these bigger rocks and just see what they actually have all over them You can just see these little bands of agate running all through these pieces I like how this shows the stress in the rock from when it was Part of a fault or you know, just rocks moving and it cracked and then it filled in with Agate kind of a colorless agate Okay, it kind of went dull on me because it went dry. So I got it wet again Look at the side. Look at that beautiful patterning of the the agate with the Jasper just all mixed through this This one's very dark But look at the patterns in it It's just really neat You can see just little bits of agate showing everywhere And this is a bigger piece of that one rock. This is the side that doesn't look that great. Look at that This is the other side of that one you just saw broken off Because it's got pretty much the same pattern and if you flip it around look at that neat stuff So what'd you think about that cool agate from that area? Yeah, I I was impressed I I really didn't think the agate was going to be that quality And it's neat and I bet if you spend more time and really poke around and dig you can probably find some really amazing stuff Agate and Jasper of all varieties on that one hill and who knows what's on the surrounding hills I gotta get out there and just explore some more. Yeah, it's a neat area And I can't wait to get back out there and remember there's treasure everywhere