 Hello, and welcome to the Rugged Rockhound. Today, I am cutting the stuff that Tim and I found on Thursday and when we went hiking, well, what walking around and found the algae specimens and some of the other stuff, some fossils. So we're gonna cut into a bunch of those. Right, Tim? All right, we're gonna start with Tim cutting. Don't make it through. Which way does the pattern go? Yeah, it's too long. It's a tough, tough call there. I don't actually know which way is gonna give you the better pattern. That will probably be too long. Yeah, it might be too high for the algae. So it might have to just go that way. Go for it. Oh, well. Focus length is about a foot, so any closer in it doesn't focus, so right about here. Yeah, that's a pretty good spot. All right, Tim's gonna cut some of that banded calcite that we found up behind Mount Nebo. One side broken in half. Yeah. Oh, that's pretty nice stuff actually, huh? Oh, that stuff is pretty, look. Yeah. It's a shell. It's a shell. Wait a second. I was cutting through a shell. Wait a second. This algae flew off of the shell. That's why I shook my head at you. Did you show it on that thing, right? Nope. It's going, I forgot this is going. That's why it was really hard. It's because it's a shell. All right, this is pretty cool. Okay, I'm starting to understand this stuff a little better. So right in the center is a perfect gastropod shell, perfect seashell, and it's surrounded by these, I guess, algae ball. Unless this is kind of an oolytic thing where it just got rolled in. No, because then it would be all damaged. No, that's got to be algae growing off of it. They're all shells. Another shell? Yep, they're all shells. It's kind of an angle. So all of them have a shell in the middle of them, a gastropod shell. I'm gonna look it up. I'm gonna research it, but there's the typical algae ball. That's what we're supposed to look like. Crazy. This is so cool. Two shells. All right, what we got in the next one. It's a small circular one. Well, it's kind of an elongated one. It's a piece of the shell. Yeah. You can see it go all the way. So I guess most of the shell probably still would have been there. Yeah. So that one Go ahead and angle it up more. So that one, you can see just a little bit of the shell is showing, but it still has the pattern all the way down. So it probably is still in a complete shell. The rest of it's just still down deeper in it. Yeah. That's one where you'd probably grind it down to see if you could expose the entire thing and then polish it. Wow, these are getting exciting. What did we find in the center of this one? I wonder now, now that I'm seeing these, I wonder if these ones that look just like a regular algae ball, if these ones might be a piece of a shell, a piece of a crushed shell of some kind. Yeah. I wonder now. That's what it's looking like. It might be that. So every single one of these is round head. There was nothing in the middle. That one just broke pieces? Well, that happens sometimes. There it is. Sure enough. There's the shell. That's the tip of the shell. There's nothing on these pieces. Yeah, that shattered. Okay, you cut a big round one this time. And this one doesn't have anything at this time. Very interesting. So this is a traditional, where's that? I don't see it on the cross screen. Oh, because it's dark. Huh, so that's just more of a traditional one. Hey, what did he find in this one? Another gas pod shell. Oh, beautiful. Beautiful gaster pod shell. Dude, you can see them. Oh, this one, he perfectly cut right at the top of it. So you get to see the very top of the shell. Beautiful. Oh my gosh. Oh, I'm just going to do this. Still pretty, but not the shell. Oh, that's pretty. He's excited. He gets a different kind of fossil. Oh, yeah. I just don't know what it is. I don't know what that's what it looks like. Well, anyway, this is what he found this time. It's a nice, beautiful bird's eye marble. Something at the center of this. I don't know what it is, though. I can't make out any features. If anybody knows what this fossil might be at the center of it, let me know. I mean, it is even a fossil. I don't know. That one, I'm pretty sure is a broken piece. It looks kind of like the fingers of a clam shell or brachypod or something. I think that's maybe what that is. You can see a line of calcite going through it. That's a fracture after it formed. Okay, next little one. Yep, another shell. Sure enough. So I found out what to do with the small ones. You go on the edge, not right down the middle. Ah. Because then you're just grinding it off. Then you don't risk both sides breaking. You just have the one side that'll break. Yeah. Okay, it's not that kind of a shell because it doesn't get bigger. It's very uniform. Wait, Tim, I know what these are. What? I know what these long cylindrical ones are. They're crinoid stems. Oh! I mean, the structure has mostly been lost. But yeah, yeah, it's a crinoid stem. That is actually a crinoid stem at the center of these ones that is long and thin and stuff. So those other thin ones might be crinoid stems. This is a small one. Yep. It's at least part of the shell. We've got another gastropod in there. Like everything else kept breaking. Almost did. We lost a little bit of it, but most of it survived. Yeah, that's got to be a crinoid stem. Yeah. It's got to be. The crinoid stems are cool, but they're not gastropod stems. I know. What? Okay, let me see what this is. Beautiful. They're yellow? Beautiful. They've got a different color in them. It could be a yellow calcite. Kind of like what you get with the scepterians. So that's a beautiful one. The contrast is nice. Yeah, we moved the cart so that we could be in the shade more. Another shell. Look, the tip stayed intact on it. The tip stayed on while the rest of it broke off. And then the other side, beautiful. This has most of it. It just has part of it. Still nice. Tiny little shell right in the middle. I guess, the shell. What the heck? It's the tip of it. So here's the top of the shell, and then it broke off right there. Yeah. So here we have an example of a broken one. So there's the top of the shell. It closed around. And then it broke off right about here. And so the, I guess algae or whatever. Whatever's going on here, I figured out. Formed around it. So there you see a broken one. Oh yeah, dude. Good one? Oh yeah. It's perfectly flat. So we've got a good cut on this one. Beautiful there. Look at that one. Perfect cut on it. As good as you can get. You've got all the way to the tip on this side. And most of it on this one. That's about as good as you can ask for. Ah, it's found. Fantastic. There's the next one. Well, once again, he gets one side really good. The other side just got a tip of it. This one came out really nice. I love how this one has the orange. And then the more calcite in the center. So it's got good contrast. Looks like it was a long cry note stem. Or something. Well, still pretty cool. This side anyway. Now I'm going to go ahead and start by cutting one of the pieces of the banded calcite. Basically the calcite on it. And then I'm going to cut this piece of the bird's eye. And then I got all the other bird's eye stuff. That's pretty nice. Look at that. Some nice looking bird's eye. A little bit of the shell right in it. It's a spherical one. But it just has the broken top part of it. Nice. I think it's a little bit of a weird looking shell. Still pretty. No shell in that one. Probably another cry note stem. There's my first one. There's my first shell. I wish the contrast was better. But it came out perfect. Otherwise. Oh, it's double chambered. Another shell. Once again I got another one of these ones that isn't well defined. Doesn't have that yellow contrast. But otherwise it's perfect. There we go. My first good one. Got one. And it's beautiful. That's what I needed. Another one. Pretty nice. Of course my last one wouldn't be good. My last one. Want one. We just finished cutting everything. And that was quite an exciting little bit of cutting. Who knew that was going to be in the center of those algae balls or whatever. Like I said I got to do some research on those. So I'm going to look those up. And we're going to go ahead and roll the photos of the close ups of the really nice one. Well that's the end of the video. I hope you enjoyed the cutting for today. I'll do some more cutting down the road. We've got a bunch of geodes and other things that still need to be cut. So I'll do some more videos down the road. I hope you enjoyed. See you on the next one.