 Now the wind picks up. It was nice and calmer early. Hello and welcome once again to the Rugged Rockhound. Sorry, it's a little breezy today. Eventually I want to get a better camera or at least a better microphone. That'll happen eventually. Anyway, today I'm once again north of Grand Junction looking for Barite. So last time you were with me I was where that big hill is. I was down in some of those lower hills and other places we've been searching is over that way. I said come here where the hills are a little lower. It'll be less up and downhill. But it'll probably also be harder to find stuff. So since there won't be as much exposure and these have probably been hit pretty good. So I don't know. Let's give it a shot and see what we can find today. And here is our first potential spot. I'm really far from the vehicle. So here I saw all these broken calcite just sitting around exposed and then it was just here and then nothing, right? I don't really see what looks like a whole dug. You know, so I'm like I'm gonna start digging and I'm digging and I'm certainly getting the rock here and definitely getting calcite coming out of it. So this is a good spot to dig and see what we can find. Looking good. We got the nice color you want. The nice reddish color, rust color basically. And we definitely get nice veins of calcite popping out here. You got a really good vein of calcite going right here. That's all calcite. There's a piece of it. This is looking very promising. Things are getting even better. So here we have kind of that dark rim rock that you usually see on the edge of one of the nodules and then inside of it, I should say concretions. But inside of it, look at that. Just hit into some nice calcite. Oh, it's looking really good here. Just wanted to show you. Got a nice terminated dragon's tooth calcite as they like to call them out here. So it's just a small one, but we've got terminated crystals. I've got crystal edges that I've been finding. So good calcite. Just no barite yet. As I dig further into this, it looks good. The calcite's getting better. But no barite. It does happen out here though. Sometimes you'll dig one out and it won't have any barite. But maybe we can still get some good calcite crystals. So we've been getting in there a ways and just more and more calcite. Decided to just kind of look around. See, I'm still just right there. And I saw this. I walked over here and this had a bunch of calcite coming out of it. And then you had another one up here, but I didn't really see any calcite. So I just scraped off a little bit. Didn't see much. Came down here. Started scraping this off and I believe that's a barite crystal right there. Broken. And it was right just... It was like what, two inches below the surface? I think I'm gonna move over here and dig into this. That's a barite. I'm pretty sure. So awesome. Let's dig into this. Here's this one washed off. So we got the crystal there on top. It's broken, of course. But it's cool to get them on matrix. And this is why you take it slow. You see that? You look at that and you think it's just a rock. But look where it's broken. That's not a rock. That's a crystal. And from what I can tell, it's pretty clear. So pretty sure it's calcite. It's pretty light. So it's just calcite. But what if that was barite covered in dirt like that and it looks like a rock? Gotta take it slow. I'm gonna take that home and clean it off, though, because if it's really clear, I want to keep it. So I've been digging for a while, and it's just been a lot of calcite, again. But I just pulled this out, which I think might have barite right there. And who knows what else? I can't tell. It's really dirty. So we'll take that home and clean it off. But I really think that's barite right there, which means we might have some more barite down there. So I've dug a bunch more all around and kind of just collapsed it in. I didn't really find anything else other than a bunch more calcite. So we've got a few potentials here. One that I'm pretty sure is that one. Two possibilities here and just some nice calcites in there as well. So got a few things, but it kind of just started disappearing. So it might have been that there was the kind of the end of one of these and the rest of what it way. Don't know for sure, but cool. Anyway, that's where I'm ending today. The sun's getting low, so time to head home. And here's this one washed off. Just a broken piece. And I'm back at home. So I thought originally I was going to go out more during the week and get out more and dig some more barite, but it just didn't work out this week. And I I ended up doing other things, getting some other work done. So I've only only went out once. So that's where we're going to end the video here today is just that one time out. Still a lot of fun, had a great time. And remember, there is treasure everywhere.