 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today. I'm back up at Glade Park so some of you remember this road here parked right off to the side right here and Yeah, my wife is actually here with me today But depending on how she feels she may or may not get out rockhounding with me. Yeah, we'll see But yeah, so those I didn't think I was gonna come back here until I cut that agate open Remember and it looks so nice inside and I was like, okay Let's find some more of those and it was right around here It was just over that hill where I found that one. So it's coming out here somewhere close Maybe maybe I'll even check the other side of the road. I don't know. We'll see so wish us luck today Oh, and as always here's the GPS coordinates to this place. Okay, let's go see if we can find some of those agates Right off the bat. There's the car There's some agate just sitting on the road right there. Doesn't look very very good though I'm looking more for those nodules I don't know. We're down the hill. All right. There are a number of small ones just sitting around here See they kind of got that white out Exterior these are very small. So I don't think there's gonna be much inside those And there's ones kind of more like this Okay, that one's big enough that might be willing to cut might be something good in there And right here you can always see one that's just broken Interesting Don't see anything good in it, but maybe it looks like one right there maybe Well, we'll take and cut it and see not sure if you can tell but if you look in there you can see some Transparency and some colors going in there like little balls inside of it It's very interesting those fears Huh, that looks like one of those larger pieces. Let's take a gander at it Hmm Don't see anything quality from the outside. Maybe I should keep a couple of the big ones and just cut into them and see There's anything better further in here's this one washed off Not much inside that one just pulled this out from under that bush Looks right Yeah, we'll cut into that one. Oh, and I'm just gonna quickly bring up So I'll take these home and cut them and then if you don't see It cut open and if it just goes to the next one It's because I cut it and there really wasn't anything in it and it just kind of save time I'll just jump into the next one just reminding you about that. Okay. I just saw that look it looks kind of like a Jasper Although on the outside You don't see much Hmm, that might be worth cutting. Yeah, well, here's this one cut open Ooh some colors in there. It's like a Jasper Really cool Okay, now we're down at this secondary road There we go. That looks right That has that outside look Like the last one All right, I think I saw something else over here This is kind of interesting Hmm, yeah About that, could that possibly be something? Mmm, that's hard to tell but because it might be something we'll take that back as well Now that one looks nice and white Mmm pretty flat though We'll still try it And is that one next to it? Maybe That's the thing is a lot of these are very hard to tell like you'll see the white on the outside You're like, oh, I think that's one and then when you cut it open you just have a chance that it'll Look nice. Yeah, it looks like one potentially Maybe not good, but we'll try it. It looks like one Yeah, cut it see there's one Don't know until we cut it Maybe not very good though that one looks like it might be Now I'm pretty sure most of these are gonna end up being duds and it's just every now and then you get one That's really nice But that's okay as long as you get some nice ones. It's worth it There's a Thicker one right there. That's a big chunk Okay Looks like there might be some blue in that actually. Okay, that's one I'm gonna take home and really clean off and maybe cut This will be a good one to really test and see if these big chunks like this are worth anything Here's this washed off. There really wasn't much in that one. Oh well It's like another large piece right there Mmm. This one doesn't look nearly as good though. Yeah, I'll leave that one I'll just go with that other one. I just found That looks like one that might be a little bigger maybe Worth cutting at least so the road's up there and as I walk down I found an old road that just goes like that and Definitely not used anymore. So this might be a really good spot to look for this stuff And we see anything right off the bat Well, that looks promising Okay I'll take and cut that one too Looks like it might actually have some different color in it like yellow That's interesting. It's just to kind of a solid chunk of the kind of agate Yeah, see it's not very good color. It's not terribly clear, but it is agate Hmm. This looks like it might have some darker stuff on it. It's definitely bigger than I thought it was Now it looks like it's some lichen growing on it. I don't know though Okay, we'll take that one home and wash it off really good. Okay a couple of interesting things here Okay, there's some more of that stuff And there's that Maybe We'll take it back It's got an interest interesting shape to it Hmm maybe Looks like something that would be worth taking back and cutting Yeah Yeah, we'll take that one back. That looks like maybe something there and it's better size than some Okay, we'll take and cut it maybe No something's going on there Okay, and Maybe again, okay, so right up there is that old road and I came off it here and there's a lot of white right here so That's hopeful. Yeah, we're gonna really scour this spot. There might be some stuff here. Look at that a bullet Don't care about that. Um Hmm This one's very weird We'll cut it Yep, good white one can hear maybe Maybe All right, definitely looks like some good potential here. So this looks very interesting Yeah, I think I'll cut that What is this? Hmm Once again, I think I'll cut that Yeah, I think that's worth taking Okay, that's just a quartzite stream pebble Well, that's a pretty stream pebble, isn't it? So when I say true stream pebbles, I'm talking about this is a layer of conglomerate So the actual rock unit is a conglomerate which used to be a river Delta well, I'm not Delta like a close to the mountains type river So but yeah, there might be some really cool rocks in it There's another possibility Is that another possibility? Hmm, probably not but ah, we'll cut it anyway. Okay, let's move up this way Maybe this one I don't know This looks really big right here Wow Man, can you imagine if that's an agate? What you kind of looks like from the outside that's by far the biggest one I've seen out here That's kind of in that nodule shape Oh fingers crossed this ends up being something really good. Oh, please be please be an awesome agate Okay, right through here. I'm seeing a lot of the vein stuff That one looks kind of interesting Maybe I'll cut into that so Here's a big chunk of it Is that anything? Hmm, maybe Here's a nice big chunk of it. There's a big chunk of it Is that a chunk of it right there? And some more chunks here, so it's definitely coming out right here That one looks like it has a little bit of red in the top and bottom Hmm So if you decide not to spend too much time washing this one off You can pretty much see what it looks like Interesting though When any of this vein looking stuff like this, there's a lot of this out here. It's just not really good quality But there's definitely plenty of it. That looks like it might be one Yeah, that could be one Here's an example of one broken open as you can see not looking that great, but you can tell it's kind of got that Cal Sydney Look to it So I saw the tip of this poking out like that so I grabbed it and it turned very dark And I'm intrigued. I don't know It could be nothing. It could be like a a worn chunk of the salt But you know what? Why not just give it a cut? We'll see maybe there's something in it. Maybe there's nothing that looks intriguing right here All right, you can even actually see a little bit of the agate going through that although Doesn't look terribly good, but there's enough there. It's worth Cutting into and taking a closer look a lot of the ones you'll find will be very flat like that And there's probably not enough there to really make them worth keeping Now what do we have here? It's a broken one. But look at that orange in it Wow I haven't seen anything like this yet Holy crap. Look at that orange. It's just In your face Okay Maybe there's color out here Just showing you this after I kind of washed it off a bit didn't really need it, but it's just so cool I had to look at it again. That's probably orange all the way through It's just so cool Here's another vein piece Which looks decent enough. I'll probably take that one back and wash it off. Maybe cut it Here's this one washed off See cool little dots and patterns inside some of it Neat that one's not too bad either So i'm i'm definitely seeing better stuff as I come down So the road is probably a good 150 feet up from me and I've come down a ways and the wash is just below me so Yeah down here further definitely getting some better possibilities Oh, is that something else I see right there? Yeah, that looks right Yeah, that looks good. We'll take that one back. It looks like one right there Yep, that's probably one. We'll take that back and cut it open That's nice and white Very small one. It looks nice That looks right Yep And over here probably Got a little one down here Now we're finding a bunch of little ones and somebody lost a lens to their glasses And here's another one broken open. This one's dark inside. So there's quite a variety of what can be on the center of them Maybe it's just worth keeping all of them because what what if you find another one of those orange ones? Yep Little tiny one there Another tiny one here. You can see a little bit in there. Ooh, there might actually be some color in that one Nope Nope, not that one. That one's very round So this one was very fractured. So I just broke it open and you can see some kind of pastel colors through that one Interesting here's some more of the banded stuff, but look at those really thin lines of red That's cool Okay, I've actually walked further now. So I was just over there And then as soon as I came across this wash area and came over to the other side, they're gone You don't see them anymore. I've seen nothing since basically where that tree is So Something's going on here. I think there is a fault. So there's probably a fault along here The layer that we are getting him out of which seems to be the conglomerate layer Disappears here and now we have sandstone Just stumbled across that first at a distance. I thought it was just like some melted aluminum or something, but then now that's a rock Just has a funny pattern to it Hiking back up the old road And that looks like one right there A little bigger than I thought Good. Anyway, I found this one. That one's kind of cool. A little bit of orange in there Fun Okay, once again, I've lost the layer. We're back into the red stuff So I'm looking over on that hill and I'm thinking I think the top is sandstone I think this little bit of white is a thin layer that might actually be the conglomerate and then it's red So I wonder if you just kind of have to try and find that thin layer of it possibly I'm not going to go over there today though. I'm just going to go back up to the road and look on the other side of the road Oh The rain's coming down It's a light rain, but it's raining And I think I'm going to go up and check on the far side of the road And then that'll probably be it for today All right. I'm now on the other side of the road to the east side Look at that. That's a good size right there It's one of the bigger ones I found Very good. Hey, look at that I can already see a little bit of banding on the outside. So That one could be good. Just found this one. Nice big one. It's already broken. So it looks like maybe not good, but I'll cut it anyway just because it's big and this little Got a car coming up Okay, so I've been collecting along the side of the road and it's done pretty well as well So if you do come out here Um, and you find it hard going into the bushes and going down the hills and stuff You can collect stuff along the side of the road for a fair distance. So I'm parked back there And I've come over here and this is about where it ends here as well What if you remember this is where that ravine is kind of going down where I got stopped down there So this is pretty much like a cut-off zone You're probably not going to find anything that way So it's probably mostly all in that direction I did collect a lot of small ones And ones that just look all the same. So I didn't film that So I'm going to cut them all open and I might find some good stuff So I'm going to put that all right here. So all this stuff I didn't film but I did cut open Here you go. Here's the montage Here's this one cut open Hey, it's got some patterns in there Not great colors But it is very interesting Here's this one cut open A little bit of it broke off Oh interesting it does have kind of the same color and pattern of the the vein daggots Here's this one cut open Okay Got some cool patterns going on in there All right, this one shattered when I tried to cut it But it's got some kind of jasper colors in there Here's this tiny one cut open Nice I know the lighting isn't the best but just wanted to quickly show you all of these I cut so many open You can see that volcanic rock there I just cut all these open half of them are like volcanic rocks that Don't look like much other than volcanic and half of them are more of a they're like a flint They're just like a white gray So many of them were just white gray Very disappointing. I was really hoping for more But alas it looks like the vast majority of the stuff out there is not what you're hoping for So I have a suspicion because all of that stuff yielded almost nothing but yet remember this one That was just amazing What I think happened is that Most of what I cut open is volcanic rock and other things and They weren't really the agates and then the ones that were these Nodged like things a lot of them are just white or gray. That's just the way they are What I what I think it is is there's probably these veins of agate that are in the conglomerate layer And there's a lot of those But in the conglomerate you get these which are part of the conglomerate And if you think about it, it's a bunch of pebbles in a river that got pushed downstream So very few of what you're looking for is going to be this And I think they may be farmed in the volcanic unit because a lot of the ones I cut open were volcanic rock And you just basically hoping to get lucky In finding a little bit of agate that formed in maybe an air bubble inside of the volcanic unit And you're basically just trying to win the lottery kind of so Yeah, probably not many of these out there And I'm heading back to the vehicle So I don't know what I got I hope I got some amazing stuff, but I don't know that orange one though that little teeny orange one that just screamed orange That got me excited. So who knows You guys know, of course, you know, I don't know yet until I cut everything open But I have a feeling there's going to be some interesting stuff And I can't wait to cut it because it could be stunning I don't know. Keep in mind though, this area does seem to be fairly small It's a fairly thin layer It may continue further north. I don't think there's anything heading south further up the road I think you kind of have to go back the way you came Probably more on the west side That's my guess, but I don't know for sure. So Yeah, there might be more out here. Who knows? Anyway, I hope you enjoyed and if you like the spot come check it out. It's really easy And until next time remember there is treasure everywhere