 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today. I'm out here with my wife. We're on our way traveling over to Cousin's wedding reception and Since we're driving through Utah decided to stop here You might recognize the San Rafael swell there. So I figured I'd try the the the nodules the Jasper Agate sometimes in the middle gets the celestite crystals Jan has just been picking up a few pieces right here that just kind of small little pieces of the stuff and I wanted to try a place. That's a little easier access for people who have maybe just a car so there's the highway right there and the great no man's and See people driving today was the the ring of fire solar eclipse so that's the main highway there that goes from the interstate down to Hanksville and and Galvin Valley and Right here in the wash We're gonna follow it up and those hills right there. The lower ones are the right layer You know that area over there. That's where we've been searching the past. I wanted to try here closer and just See what can be found see if it's worth Doing this route where you can easily take a car. Oh and here's the GPS of where I'm parked Okay, let's go start in the wash and then work our way up in the hills so I made it to the wash and So we got off on that the road there and parked over there But for you guys it might be a lot easier if you just park along the edge Because there's a ladder that comes up over the fence here. That's really convenient. Let me get right into the wash So the goal is to follow the wash down to where it goes through those heels there So just found this it's like some black Trit or flint or something Looks like maybe there's something going on in it. So I'm gonna take it back and cut it open Hey, this darker rock that basically looks like chert figured. I just cut it and see and yeah It's about what it is basically just chert Here's a little one probably nothing in it really So far that's all we've seen is little things Well, hopefully you'll find bigger things as we go further Here's this little one cut open That's not too bad for a little tiny thing Nice Now that one's quite pretty. It's actually translucent. You get a little bit of light going into that orange there That's a pretty one Yeah, I like that one keep that one. There's a little bit of the agate Yeah Not too bad. That one's the biggest one we've seen so far That's very flat though. It's too bad This nice yellow this piece right here with some nice yellow in it Yeah, that's a nice piece Jenna just found this one. Oh look at that nice botch right on it That's cool That's a good looking piece right there That'll look pretty Polished up at some point So I'm up on the sidewall of the stream bed where the river used to be and I got this thing sticking out Let's try and get that out there. I grabbed my hand pick. Okay, just dug it out. Oh look at that. That's a good nodule That should look really nice cut and you can see some nice botch riddle and it's outside of it there Yeah, look at that. Oh That one's gonna be great to cut into I'm excited for that one. I think we got another good one here on this wall Maybe nah, it's just a thin thin piece I mean, it might still be pretty inside, but We got a lot of these on the other one and they tended not to be that great She's on this one decent piece of agate. Oh, yeah, I'm right next to the highway now That's decent. I'm looking at the botch right on it cool So the road is on the other side of that hill. I've walked up the wash quite a distance There's not a lot in the wash really so I've been skipping most of it Here's the first outcrop though. See that More greenish gray color. That's the layers you're looking for and you can see I'm poking out a little bit over here too Lower down though. Just kind of a little bit there Yeah, it's just kind of a lower edge showing but we'll be looking through that stuff as we go down Here's this one cut open Okay That's pretty typical for there Not too bad Just coming out of the wash and I reckon already see red all over that hill and there's one just sitting right there See if that looks any good. It's got a nice round shape to it Nah, I'm pretty sure they'll be better ones All right, let's get to looking and I'm parked way down there That one's a darker color than the ones I'm seeing around here Feels really light might be hollow. Let's break it. Just see. Oh my gosh That was right. It was hollow Big crystal of cell night right in the middle of it bunch of calcites on the edge Do we see any celestite in there? Maybe a little bit back in there. I can't quite tell but definitely calcite and so tonight in this one That's pretty cool All right We'll try and look for more that are kind of that dark color and light of course Weight makes a big difference Here I'm on the hill There's tons all over oh Sorry, I still have macro lens on but you get the idea. Okay, so I do want you to get a better feel for this area So you got lots of these thin flat ones everywhere just thin flat ones all over the place So you're trying to find the ones that are a little bit more filled out like that see They'll have crystal pockets on the inside and I've already seen lots of celestite Grown in tightly in some of these So this would be a good spot to look around for any of the good celestite ones That one's pretty flat as well. Let me see if I can find some of the good celestite here. Oh There's some So here's some kind of the white celestite there you go, so yeah, there's celestite through here So let's try and find some good crystal pockets See Celestite in that one a little bit really this thing oh Now that I Don't know that be worth cutting It's not one solid mass though. It's a bunch of little things No, I'm gonna try breaking it So I don't I don't know with this one. Oh some little pockets in there Nothing big Yeah, it's just a bunch of little ones All right, so this first spot while abundant you can see the stuff everywhere. It's mostly flat stuff And the crystal pockets tend to be small Things are pretty small They're really not that great right here. So I'm gonna keep moving on and go to one of the other hills See if it's better for their own. Maybe it was a bit too hasty as I was coming off of it. Look at that one nice and solid Rounded look that'll be a good one to take and cut Came out with these ones too, and I don't think that one's gonna be any good. I Think that one's gonna be the good one. So I'll take that one back nice So is that hill and now I'm on this hill and I broke this one that's thicker and look at that Look at that celestite in the middle there Completely filled it in There's a big one sitting right here though Sun's nice big and thick I don't know if there's anything in it I'm gonna break it and just see All right There's a pocket right there See some crystals in there We've got on this side. Oh Just massive where it filled in Did have a cool little pocket right there Yeah, these ones tend to be just full of this celestite It's really cool But I'd like to get some pockets with crystals with the celestite As you can see people did dig here This was a place. They were digging looking for that celestite. I wonder if they found anything good I'm gonna say they did find some good stuff here. This one was just sitting Over on this rock where somebody had pulled it out You can see it had some nice pockets in it some stuff So I'm assuming they found something just found this it's the edge of a broken one lots of crystals in it Yep, we'll keep looking. I broke it open quite a few of these flatter ones now and you'll get little pockets of nice calcite in them But so far I haven't found any with nice Celestite crystals terminated like that. Usually the celestite just tends to fill it in completely. So Gotta find some that have the nice celestites Gotta be here somewhere. Now. What is this here? It's a big section of just white. Oh This actually might just be a huge layer of celestite That is cool. Wow Big thick layer of celestite That is cool, so I decided to follow it up and start digging and Popped out a piece of it. Maybe I should dig into it and see if there's any good crystals on it So there it is the vein of celestite running like this and at least that far because I'm seeing stuff over there All right, let's see if we've got anything good in here. Okay. I just pulled this section out. Anybody need celestite? I got enough Huge thick vein of it Dang Be nice that there's too many crystals in there I'll break it into it a little bit and just see Okay Split into it and it is pretty much just massive Occasionally gets tiny little pockets in it where you might get a few crystal edges And that's about what you get like that one's got a partial termination on it Yeah There you got Part of the crystal But it just shatters because when you use any force to break this open They tend to just shatter Which is really unfortunate Just broke this one open a bunch of calcite on it in this side Very nice And then this one had a large calcite right there a little broken But what popped out of it in the center was some selenite that had just grown in the middle of it Really cool And this one someone had broken open and look at the celestite on it. That's beautiful Yeah, I think I'll take those home with me It looks like the calcite grew over the celestite See I can see celestite underneath that calcite So I wonder if you could take something like this and dissolve all the calcite off of it without dissolving the celestite Wonder hmm. I don't know might be something worth trying at some point So I was on those hills over there and I've decided to come over here now And so we got found a lot more stuff over there. It's mostly the same usually thinner things smaller things They're not very solid With like agate and stuff they mostly have calcite or celestite in them, which is cool But let's scour these hills see if there's any difference Here's this one cut open it broke up it and the reason it broke is because it had a pocket inside and You can see some celestite crystals on it nice A few little crystals right there In the center of the pocket Well, it looks like it has changed a little bit If you remember on previous excursions out here, we found a lot of stuff like this A little bit more solid Yeah Interesting not that pretty. Hopefully there's some better looking ones So as I came around I saw that I don't know if you guys can see it But there's a stick right there for the corner of somebody's claim I don't know if it's a current claim or if it's an old claim It doesn't look that old, but it's the only one sticking up I could find Right there. There's an old one laying down Old that one's really old and then I've looked all over this and I cannot find another stick anywhere I haven't gone up over that yet But it's also missing the stick that would have the paperwork for the claim so It's probably an older claim, but just because I don't know I'm going to be safe and not Keep anything from right here Anyway, just thought I'd point that out I'm still going to be respectful And until I know for sure Not going to keep anything from this area And I'm on my way back to the vehicle It's right over there So Maybe Anyway, so Pretty good day. So yeah at the end there was that That marker for a claim So then when I found so I'm guessing it's an older claim But just to be safe, I did not collect anything on it And I'm going to do some more research Make sure And if there's no current claim there Then I might come back out to that spot. Some of it looked really pretty Okay, I'm actually at home inside my house. It's a little bluster outside today and Threatening rain and stuff Um, I just needed to quickly jump in here and say after doing some research getting back home about this area I'm glad that I only went as far as I did I was up to the very border of a lot of different claims. So Just keep that in mind if you ever decide to go out here kind of stay down in the The wash And better yet, maybe let's try the other side of the road. So in this area The the wash that I walked up remember the first hill I came to on the right where I started going up and picking up pieces That one's safe that first hill on the right. That's safe the next two or three hills on the right The the part that's sloping down to the wash and up a little ways. That's also safe There are claims further north of it But I didn't walk that far. So I never saw any of the markers The very last one, you know, where I said, oh, here's the claim marker. That actually is the border That is the far east border Of a series of claims that had west and north and so on So good thing I saw it pointed out said i'm not taking anything from here and I didn't So yeah, keep that in mind. There are a lot of claims in that area The spot I walked up to the wash and those few hills on the right That's about as far as I recommend you go. Don't go any further. There's claims up there but It does continue on the other side of the road. So Maybe a few of you adventurous people will try the other side of the road On the east side within the same layer and maybe to help you out Here's the gps coordinates of where I can see the layer poking out on the other side Maybe give it a shot and back to the vehicle there's a good day found a few things And I kind of wish I could spend more time out here, but Like I said earlier, we got a wedding reception to get to so Until next time remember there is treasure everywhere