 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today. I'm feeling quite a bit better this week has been a better week So exciting improvement over the weekend I managed to get over and visit Eric and We cut some stuff open. I had some larger ones sitting around that were from all kinds of things and He helped me get him cut open and he even took a polished one So I'm excited to show you what what I came back with what we got cut open some neat stuff Let's go ahead and take a quick look Okay, here we go first one. We've got one of the scepterians from his claim that I collected last year I haven't cut yet. Oh very nice Yeah, the scepterians from his claim. They're pretty good I mean, they're not as good as some of the stuff you get from Southern Utah at Ordeville But still they're they're nice things Next up we've got one of those Jasper nodules that come from the San Rafael Swell This is one of the larger ones. I still hadn't cut open Ooh Now look at all those bladed crystals in there. Those are gonna be celestite Look at that It's really cool all going through that very nice Here we have a another scepterian from his claim Not as much in that one just a few little cracks Yeah, not a whole lot there. They can't all be winners Here's a dugway geode. I had sitting around I still hadn't cut open and Yeah Does not disappoint Look at that good old classic dugway geode Beautiful Just wanted to quickly show you this Eric gave this to me. It's a rock. That's got a bunch of Malachite growing through it probably from an old mine Somewhere in Southern Utah but Yeah, those are nice little Zone, you know little spots where the Malachite just grew into whatever space it could find pretty cool stuff Here we have another Jasper nodule from the San Rafael Swell and Nice it filled in with blue celestite. You can see that blue and I can feel the weight Very nice. Oh They've got a lot of winners in this one So this has been sitting around in my stuff for a long time. This is some clay canyon material I used to be able to go dig here years ago and and after Somebody messed it up for everybody Claymone or wouldn't let a people go out there anymore But it's where you get like the green verisite and other cool things but most of the time you get this yellow Crandolite and this one I had never cut open and Ah, no green or blue Just Crandolite, but even the Crandolite can be really pretty So you can see Crandolite going all through it and then right here you got a little vein where there was calcite nice Here we have another nodule from the San Rafael Swell. If you remember this is the day I was driving up to To a wedding reception and we stopped at a place My wife came out with me for a little bit and this is that nice one that was sitting off On the riverbank and oh Yeah, look at that. Look at the red in that That one's beautiful. Oh, that's a really good one. I Guess you could it's like a red moss going through it Very cool So here's some Jasper That I got a long time ago. I'm trying to remember where I got this from Or maybe this was on the this is what maybe this is the not I think about it Maybe this is the Jasper stuff that we find Out in Utah by the the chimney rock area Might also been from southern Utah a long time ago when I was down there. I remember for sure. Anyway, let's take a look. Oh Look at that That's beautiful Wish I could remember exactly where I got this one from it's been a little too long. That's a nice one though Sweet Here's another dugway geode. I hadn't cut open yet Yes again Really nice good old dugway beautiful Here's another 10 my file swell it it was it was already broken like this and He helped cut the end off of it the part down here broke, but this part up here stayed intact That's nice, too Take a look at this side more So that's the full length so down here you got the red Jasper mixed in with some of the calcite and Probably celestite, but up here. It's really nice cool Here's another dugway geode. It's a double Yeah, look at that Look at that. Okay. Here's the one side Here's the other side Very nice That's another really good dugway geode so here Some of that red agate that I found About two years ago with my dad when I was out on the northern northern part of a little further north on the San Rafael Swell and so Eric helped cut it he I gave him the piece on this side because I thought he'd appreciate that he he hasn't been out here He didn't have any of the stuff And here's what it looks like inside Really nice stuff And I wonder if we could cover this so you can see the light coming through Yeah, you can see some light coming through there Look at that Really cool red agates So here's a big septarian larger one anyway that I had collected last year from From Eric's claim and he went ahead and polished it for me. So here it is all polished up That's a nice one, isn't it? Here's the other side of it So that's mostly calcite in there, but there might be some barite. There's usually a little bit of barite in these Really nice All right, and last but not least Eric gave me a Large slab of agate and jasper that he got from southern Utah. I don't know how long ago And he just gave me this piece and I thought I'd share with you. It's really cool That's a really neat big slab It's just beautiful Thank you so much Eric This is awesome There you have it. Wow. Those were some good ones, weren't they some really good specimens from the San Rafael Swell from his claim Geodes bunch of other things It's always exciting to cut things open and just see what's in them and it's always Always wonderful to see that most of them ended up being really good stuff And it's just wonderful to be feeling better. So Unfortunately still gonna be a while before I can go out rock-hound. I'm not well enough for that yet But it will come Hopefully in a less than a month. I hope Anyway, just looking forward to it and until next time remember there is treasure everywhere