 Hello and welcome to the rugged rockhound today. I am in New Mexico. We're on Thanksgiving break and just Enjoying being in another state so Here we are Having a good time Fight looking at some rocks That's some granite a layer of quartz in it a lot of volcanic rocks around here Welcome to New Mexico Volcanic rocks everywhere More of Volcanic's Yeah, some quartz right there It's a Volcanic And these Volcanic's can find Geodes. Maybe we can find some Mostly looking for agates. I Think I found a nice agate right here Yes, that's a good-looking agate. It's got some nice colors and let's hold up to the Sun It's pretty opaque, but still It's actually not too bad Nice the like it look at that beautiful thing. That is a beautiful granite that pink feldspar in there You guys finding over here. Oh, you found a big piece of agate Well here I may help you get it out. You ready? Look at that one Show that one off She found a big piece of agate She got Some more of Volcanic's kind of the greenish stuff and then the light color All right found a nice little fossil here It's a neat little uh brachyopod kind of unusual to find in the wash because they'll Break up pretty easily But yeah, it's a little brachyopod Yeah, that's a volcanic rock that's got some nice little layers in it Neat All right found this piece Get better lighting so you can see layers of the uh calcidone With some crystal growth on the middle and then you can see the surrounding volcanic rock, which kind of has a green color to it but doesn't have some Nice layering through it. Maybe even a little bit of agate It looks like the center part is actually calcite Kind of neat she got over here found a hamburger That's neat so you kind of got that red jasper in the middle and he got some Little layers of agate on the edge that are actually quite nice Because of those beautiful bands layering bands very small though That's that's a pretty neat rock So there we go found a nice little banded jasper I got nice little swirls and colors going through It's neat. I was just bending over to put the rock in my bag. So this looked interesting Some interesting colors and patterns in it. Yeah, look at that almost like a mixture jasper agate Interesting Over here and I found this That sounds like glass Looking at it closely might be calcite Or gypsum. Well, I don't think gypsum makes that sound but maybe Scratch on the finger now. Oh No, it's gypsum. It's scratching with my finger now, of course it's gypsum But yeah, it's kind of a nice Clear one. I'll show them because they probably haven't seen it before Hey, this one kind of has A little bit of color to it, but yeah, not that good still Hey, look at that. That looks very colorful Well, it's also very stuck in there. Oh, that's actually quite nice Yeah, look at those colors and patterns in it Yeah, I think I'll keep that Didn't find a whole lot for a while was coming back down and found this big chunk just sitting in the wash It's kind of an agate kind of just a calcite interesting stuff But we're heading back. Yeah sun's getting low. It's getting harder to see things future rock Those rocks in that bucket. I made it back to utah from new mexico got all the samples washed off So let's quickly take a look and see how they turned out. Here's the first one It's kind of a red jasper. It's got a few neat colors and patterns in it. It's just that agate that I found This one was pretty nice colors and patterns Almost has a wood green texture to it really pretty This one had some really nice banding in it very pretty. That was that large one that had the nice Layers of agate And what I think is calcite in the middle. It looks like calcite. I haven't really tested it, but I think it's calcite Yeah, you can see some banding in it There's that big one. There's nice Here's the last one. This was my favorite It's got really cool patterns in it What kinds of designs Yeah, I really liked this one. I'll hold it up to the light Those were the specimens I found some of them turned out pretty nice. There were some nice colors and patterns And it was overall a pretty fun trip. It was pretty short. That's why this video is a little shorter than others And I know some of you are like, oh no, he didn't post last week and the week before was an unboxing Is his channel disappearing? No, I am just really busy with my master's degree I've been working really hard with it. So I haven't had as much time for youtube videos But I do plan to add more Hopefully the next month or so, but come january It's going to get really busy for me. I don't know how often I'll be able to post a video post a video from about january through april so Yeah, it's going to be a little rough then because I'm going to be doing my student teaching But as soon as that's over and the spring and summer comes back I'll be right back at videos besides that's the time to rock out anyway It's a little too cold around here to be rock hunting during the winter Ground gets frozen makes it hard. Anyway So it was overall a pretty good dig. I had a great time and Remember there's treasure everywhere