 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound channel if this is your first video and your first time seeing me welcome I hope you really enjoy today's video today. We are down in central, Utah And there's my good friend out there already looking around So we are here and Just off of a road called the last Chance Road. We took exit 91 Um drove on dirt road took a couple of right forks I'll put that in the little montage we did before and here we are in this valley area and what we're looking for here on The valley floor itself. So if I look at the big valley way back here behind me, so all of this All of that valley Anywhere around here we can find agate This is our first time out here. I've never been out here So I don't know what quality of agate or how much you can actually find so we're gonna take a look around We might also even look up in the hills a little bit and see if we can find maybe the source where it's coming from We might we're just gonna be exploring. So we're gonna explore For the next several hours and just see what we can find out here. They also say you can find little balls of barite So I'll just keep my eyes open and see what we can find So what'd you got Tim? Hey, it's all night So there's some gypsum crystals that are growing on the surface here Which is very common in this part of in these parts of utah Where a lot of the layers are full of gypsum and other salts And when the water comes through and rain and stuff like that, it'll work its way to the surface and will actually form crystals Look at that That's a big piece of the solid Oh bigger than other things we've seen Kind of cool Seen much else really Okay, Tim What have you found while I was over on the other side gypsum more gypsum? I've found a lot of that too So I think we should uh I think we should head further down in the valley personally. I think we're still too high up Okay, as it turns out we were in the wrong valley Um The the book's picture looked like it was just two forks, but it was actually three forks And I didn't see that so we needed to go another four miles But here we are and this valley is spectacular. It's beautiful I appreciate that because it's much much prettier than the valley we were in before Oh, it's beautiful And sure enough just right next to the vehicle I see my first piece This looks like stuff. I've seen down by cedar city What I want is really nice stuff with banding in it. All right, this looks like a much better place where they uh Wash is cutting through right here. There's a little bit of bands there There that's much more colorful Yeah, I like that it's interesting Great art Interesting Kind of like the shape Okay, we uh were back up on the road and we came back up the hill Turned out we were in the completely wrong spot. I was not paying good attention to the book It wasn't supposed to be down in the valley. It was supposed to be up here in a flat area near a place called willow springs And now I'm seeing lots of little bits of agate But I wanted to come up here because it is just A beautiful view Look at that view Okay, I was looking around and I looked in there and right in the back there Was this thing look at that That's pretty that red going through there like that Okay, uh, unfortunately my battery died. So while we were down there looking for stuff I ran out. So we kept looking Found a bunch more stuff and then came back. So I'm just gonna quickly recap with you So here's what tim found A bunch of good-looking stuff and we'll see what this all looks like after we wash it off We'll get a better close-up of all this So that's what tim found. This is what I found. So there's that big one and a bunch of smaller ones too and Like I said, once I get them all washed off, we'll show them. So we're gonna move from this area So this is just the one we ran into just when we decided to stop park and Take pictures basically the arrow is supposed to be is over there On the other side over in that area and maybe across the top of the hill So we're gonna go back over there now and search that area and see what we can find All right, we finally made it to the right spot. So this is the actual spot because in the book it has a picture And that's what's in the background. So going across the top here from here all the way over there Going that way all agate and it is everywhere Look at that. Is this it's what the ground is made of? Just one more agate. So now it's all about being picky And throwing away some of the stuff in our buckets Once we find the best-looking stuff. Oh my gosh, it is literally everywhere Everywhere, I thought I'd bring you back in because now you're seeing the barite structures It's actually a broken one that's got some of the nice Barite spraying out Yeah, see they kind of make a circular pattern Like this So they used to be barite and then it's agatized So it got replaced by quartz So it's not barite anymore, but it has the shape of it like that you can see And I did find this piece that I liked That's got a nice round smooth part to it. I think that'll look nice on the inside. So I'll keep that one Walking along You can see how it's kind of changing color a little bit. It's getting a little lighter Still just everywhere Agate barite Kind of at the point. We just don't know what to do because it's everywhere. I think maybe I'll keep things like this where it's the whole nodule That's what I've been keeping and then I can then I can have the fun of cutting it and see what it looks like You guys see any agate? Do you see anything other than agate? That's not agate Everything else is agate just about Anybody who likes agates and colored Chalcedonia stuff Feast your eyes This is just Staggering, you know, we're definitely seeing more yellow up in this area And that spot right there was just Let's keep going for anybody who ever dreams of a wash Where the only rock in it is agate So I can pick up any piece And agate All right, finally found something a little different it's Kind of a clay ball A little bit of quartz there, but look at that. It's like a gold sheen And looking at it closely. It looks like it's gypsum So gypsum probably filled in a little crack, you know, several little cracks going through it It broke along it and just got this Really cool look to it That's pretty neat and it keeps going right along this all the way out there Found something that were a little different Kind of got a purple and they're not they're opaque. They're not translucent Huh Might take that back. Hello bolder of agate more boulders of agate More Boulders now getting further away, of course from the parking area Getting better stuff. Hello big Bolder of agate Just more Everywhere More I can well if you wanted to decorate your house Your yard or something now where you can get enough agate to do that All right, so a quick recap Tim slid down the hill a little bit So I came back to the vehicle to get some ibuprofen for him and took the bucket back Decided tossed pretty much Everything we found before except a few things And then just put in what we felt like and This is kind of what we're going back to Combined this is kind of our combined bucket. We're sharing These are the ones we decided to keep so I'll get back home get these cleaned up Washed off so you can get a better look at them and see just what we kept Just so you know if you ever come out here That covers the hills All the way pretty much in both directions. It's it's crazy All right, I'm back here and I got all of the specimens washed off. It's actually been about a week since we got back from the uh Excursion where we went and found all the agate, but I finally got around I've been so busy. I finally got around to cleaning everything off. So let's go ahead and take a look at all of it So it's a wet overcast day. I'm not sure how other colors will show up. They should be okay But yeah Here are the specimens That we came back with I like it when it gets the really dark yellow in it As well as some dark red lines We found a little bit of purple stuff up there too Once again, it's probably all that You know agatized Basically quartz, just don't need Just coming in different colors I like that one a lot I like the red right at the top that one This one's better right there Yeah, it's more of that purple The purple wasn't very common actually not whether not as common as the rest of these pieces That's got some good red there You can see my reflection in the water This one uh, I kind of need to cut into as well See if it's any better There's the nice big one I kept This was cool because it had a little pocket of quartz and it actually had some calcite Growing inside of the pocket. It's pretty neat. This one has some good yellow on it Yeah, right there. That's it That's where it's really nice I really liked the yellow right there I've got a little bit of yellow right there inside of all that red And this is a pretty darn good one too All that yellow and red All along the edge. The red's really good right there Yeah Such a neat area And these are some nods that we found that we're gonna cut open later Tons of agate everywhere Most of it just okay. Some of it pretty good It was a lot of fun just to show you how cool it's gotten and how what it's been You can see snow right there on the mountain behind me Fall is here It was a lot of fun. I hope you enjoyed and hope we uh We'll see us on the next video and remember there's treasure everywhere