 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound. Today is actually a continuation of the day where we've been digging out the blue opal geodes. We're here once again with Tim and Doug. We are going to be in some old tailings from way back in the day. We're looking for some Bertrandite, which is basically a purple stone that's got all kinds of stuff in it, beryllium, fluorite, all kinds of stuff. But it's usually very pretty, so we're going to go see if we can find any. It might be a little few and far between because these are just old tailings. We'll see. So Tim found a piece that is apparently part of the Bertrandite. So it comes in multiple colors, so you'll get these tan colors and blackish and whiteish, but purple is what you're looking for. Okay this is apparently a nodule that you can they can come in. I knocked the edge of it off and in this case I don't see any purple, but that's what it kind of looks like. So that's kind of what we're looking for. Here's this one cut open. Oh, white, black, and brown. Okay, up on the hill now. Starting to see pieces all over, mostly what you're going to get is white, orange, tan, brown, black, but what you're really trying to find is purple. You can also find red, which is really nice, but it's the purple that you really want, which I haven't found yet. We'll keep looking. Here's this one cut open. Oh, very grayish. Almost a green. I think I see one right here. Yeah, that's a bigger piece. Might be better. Hmm, keep looking. Here's this one cut open. Oh, that's kind of a red down there. Yellow, brown, black. Okay, made it up here and Tim has already found some purple. There you can see some purple and he found a nice one apparently. Oh, look at that. Put that in the light. Oh, maybe in the shade. Might be even better actually. Oh, look at that. Look at the purple in that. Tim's got a good one. This one we already saw, we had broken it off here, so we decided to cut this part. Oh, not as much purple. It's still nice. Now that we're here, we're seeing little bits of purple everywhere, so there's a little bit of purple there. I was just seeing a bunch of purples. They're kind of all over now, but they're mostly tiny. So what you're trying to do is find bigger pieces, not little ones. Okay, let's see if we can find some big ones. Okay, just found this one. It's got purple in it. Nice. That's my first good one. Here's this one cut open. It broke a bit, but we got that in it. That's really nice, that purple in there. Cool. I see something hiding in the bushes. Nice little piece of purple. Looks great. Here's this little one cut open. It broke up a bit, but look at that. That's really pretty. Nice stuff. This is a larger piece. Got some red in it, but I haven't seen a purple, so I may not have purple in it. Here's a big piece, and I think I see a little bit of purple in the middle of it. It's mostly black, but that might be really nice. Cool. Here's this one cut open. It fractured a bit. Very dark black, but it also has some dark purple in it. This looks like a dark piece right here. Yeah, it's very dark. It's kind of cool though. So here we have one of the pits people have been digging into. Found this on the side. No purple, but it's still a very pretty piece. Nice. It's getting purple over there. So I dug into the side a bit, and you start to see that it's when it's white like this, and it comes out. It's kind of this white rock, because you can see it. I knocked the edge off this. I don't see any purple in this one yet, but there may be a further in. And then like this one has a white look to it. So that's what we're trying to look at. So if we see things that have like a white look like that, then that's probably what we're looking for. Yeah, except this one's also not a very good looking one. But interesting. We're figuring this out. This is actually my first time ever being here. So I've been getting a few more pieces here. Found some larger ones that look like they'll be good purple. This one I'm excited for. Some of that I don't know. But yeah, some good purple ones at least. Here's this one cut open. Whoa. That's really cool. That. Here's this one cut open. Oh, that's a very dark purple. That. Here's this one cut open. More of a brownish, but it's got a little bit of purple in it. Here's this one cut open. Oh, that's nice. It's very dark, but maybe you can see it's got all those little lines in it. So cool. Here's this purple one cut open. It's very dark. It's definitely got purple. Here's this one cut open. Nice. Looks like a moss jasper. Here's this little one cut open. Whoa. More purple. Very nice. Here's this one cut open. It's like gray. A tiny bit of purple here and there. There's this little one cut open. Oh, nice purple in that. That looks like an owl. Staying back at you. Here's this one cut open. More purple and white. Cool. Here's this one cut open. Oh. Cool. Once again, dark purple. Found this on the surface right there. Saw that sticking out. Flipped it over and nicely got a little purple in it. Nice. Here's this one cut open. Not too bad. It's got purple. Some other things going on. Some moss dendrites. Cool. I believe I found some purple. Small but pretty. So Tim found a piece that looks like it says fall. F-A-L-L. Maybe an E at the end. Interesting. It's got purple on it. That's some purple in it. Looks weird though. I know. Just found that. There's some interesting colors in it. Looks more like a quartzite though. Not quite what we're looking for. And we're back to the vehicle. We just got back from finding all that Bertrandite. Looks like we got some good stuff. You guys have already seen it all cut open. I haven't yet. But it probably looks really nice. So need area. And I forgot to give you GPS coordinates. So here you go. There's you some GPS coordinates to where we parked. Come out here and get some. Until next time, there's treasure everywhere.