 Hello and welcome to the Rugged Rockhound today. I'm joined once again with Utah Rocks And we are out here and we've got Jeremy coming down You guys might remember him from a previous episode when we were getting some of that pink topaz and Bixbyite so we're here today at his red barrel claim So Jeremy's got lots of cool claims we can come to and he does feed digs and it's great So if you guys would like to come out here and dig some a red barrel yourself, which is basically red emerald Here you go. Here's a link to his website. You can go there and you can sign up and come out and have a fun trip That's what we did. Are you are you moving? I'm moving to Grand Junction. Oh, no. Yes. See less of you. I don't like that I know, but I'll get out occasionally the Rugged Rockhound in Colorado. I guess now Well, yeah, well still a lot of Utah because Grand Junction is very close to you exactly There's a lot of good stuff there. You got all the southern Utah. You can hit that a lot easier and central So what kind of stuff do you find up here? So we're finding first of all red barrel, and that's the red emerald basically if people don't know what red barrel is It's the rarest rare rarest red colored gemstone in the world 150,000 times more rare than diamonds GIA. That's what GIA said Ruby's not even close to his rare is red barrel. Red barrel is the rarest and most sought after for sure, so We're looking for topaz you'll find more topaz than anything I think your son actually called the garnet pseudomorphs crunch berries the last time we were out so We're finding crunch berries which are garnet pseudomorphs. They originally were spesartine almodine garnet Mm-hmm, and then they pseudomorph Into hematite and feldspar, but they still have the garnet core So we get them in combinations too. So the ultimate is when you get like All of them together We've had garnet pseudomorph with bixby with topaz with red barrel all together. Oh, that would be fun That's what we're really looking for that makes for a specimen. Absolutely So this little zone here I call it little amethyst topaz basin and if you want to find a Amethyst on the rock with topaz This is a good place to find it because the topaz occur in like these amethyst bugs here And uh, amethystine line bugs, I guess I'm gonna put this so this kid over here Is actually the hopper tight fit So this is where hopper tight was discovered to uranium-based mineral. It's named after my business partner john hopper So this is up here. I call pit number two This was very active until about the 90s and we found rosette barrels here So they're more thin nice, but they're rosettes. So they stack on each other and they kind of look like little flowers a little roses That's what I'd like most of them are real jimmy up there. So It's nice to spend a little bit of time up there. You can still find them Um, my group that's down below they found two yesterday, but they were just loose. They just found them randomly So the best thing to do is actually work the rock and then screen I mean, I know you guys have Really with that. Yes Welcome to serial canyon red barrel mine. Yay We're looking for it's in this pit. Yeah, it's absolutely. So we're looking for red barrel So that's the rarest red color gemstone in the world We're looking for topaz. We're working for bixbyite holfer tight amethyst And crunch berries which are garnet pseudomorphs and they're replaced by Hematite and feldspar All right, first red barrel was found by you today. Yeah, there you go. Got that nice hexagon. Oh, yeah, these are thicker That was nice number two red barrel. Look at that thing Beautiful one too. You got one. Nice always got a real tiny one. I wouldn't even have been able to see that one So my first screen I just found a bunch of little ones But on my second screen I started off with a nice big topaz very nice It's a good find right there So yeah, the other ones were just a bunch of little ones Haven't got my first red barrel yet, but I'm hopeful it's in this one Maybe we can spot it together Oh right there. It's a red barrel. There we go There's a red barrel So I'm pulling out lots of topazes And I've gotten four red barrels so far. This is the first one. I've gotten a matrix though A nice little red barrel matrix. These will look better when I get them home cleaned up They're a little dirty here. All right in this basket. I just pulled out two nice clusters by that one very nice So good cluster and then another little cluster pretty nice Not too bad A nice little specimen here topaz with a garnet perched on it. It's a nice little cluster Cool little specimen there and another nice little topaz cluster Very nice. Once again, I will get these all cleaned off. Cool I just pulled this out It's a nice red barrel on a topaz with a lot of bixbyites on it Uh, what a cool find. That is a specimen I'm gonna wrap that thing up So this is the nicest looking red barrel I've found so far. It's got a very genny look to it. Lots of bixbyite on it But right there that's beautiful right there Just glows in the sun. So all these pieces like that piece had it on and then that piece I showed Let's take a look at some of these pieces And there's nice topaz that come out of here too with a nice barrel So I see that needle like yellow crystal. It's tiny That is hole for tight that tiny little yellow blade if you can see it even Look at this one. They just found that topaz on matrix Let's turn that a little bit. Look at that thing shine It's a very good crystal into matrix Very nice We got Jeremy here digging a vent So that hole going down is just a solid vent that's just got topaz coming out a lot of hematite see the hematite on the rock Really all too rock A little bit out of time you can see the topaz on there so a little bit Got a little topaz there and there There's some hematite. There's another topaz You can see it's the edge of a large pocket You can see how see how loose it is. Yeah, that's a vent. That's a vent. Wide open. It's so nice That's why a hole for tight actually has to have an opening Pretty pretty wide opening in order to form so We've dug this vent before Back here going down this way and it's buried a little bit It's just really hard rock. So I was hoping it would have loosened up a little bit and it did. It's still hard work though Here show us that thing you just found. Wow. Look at that topaz That's a big one Really nice Little bit it's cool because it's got so much variety in it's in the matrix. Oh, I had a little nice little matrix boost That got a nice termination Yeah, so I pulled that out of the pocket Nice little combo there. Then I've got a few other things here too just like this Nice little double terminated Things like that. Nice Just a few things Admittedly, I haven't been filming for a while. I just came back up here and just decided to keep going through it so just pulling out tons of topaz is mostly low quality, but It's important to take them back and wash them off to see if any of them Have anything good on it like a red barrel or bixbyite or something Anyway, I thought I'd show you this nice red barrel Very good one nice clean one all the way around And yeah, it's just a good crystal I'm in the upper pit where they've tunneled inside quite a bit All over there And I was opening up this right here And if you ever wanted a hematite There's plenty there I'll do a flashlight just to see if that helps at all Yeah hematite everywhere Here's this one washed off Very nice and clear Just wish it the tip wasn't broken off Here's this one washed off Nice red barrel perched on the topaz. Unfortunately the topaz is a sandy topaz But it's still really cool Here's this one washed off Here's this one washed off Here's this one washed off Very red right there Here's this one washed off Here's this one washed off Very nice This one washed off Here's this washed off. This is a garnet That was replaced on the outside with bixbyite small bixbyite crystals all over Here's this washed off a bunch of bixbyite and a little red barrel there that you can barely see. Here we are back at the vehicles. Wow I actually had to switch through my lens a lot and I probably messed up on some of them and uh because I found so much stuff that I didn't film because a lot of it's just the same and it's hard to really film without it being cleaned that's why you guys just uh most of them cleaned kind of at the end. I didn't really show them throughout I know I'm trying to show them throughout you know washing them and showing them right after I find it but these all kind of look the same so I kind of just showed them in bulk all at the end so I hope I didn't mind that too much this is my last rock counting trip out here in Utah while living in Pleasant Grove because we're moving my wife and I are moving to Grand Junction got a job there with education doing science technology engineering and math STEM STEM education so we gotta help educate kids it'll be good and from there I'll go ahead and rock count because Grand Junctions just over the border of Utah I'll be rock counting Colorado and Utah probably about equally so fun look forward to that and so yeah that's why I didn't have a video out uh depends on when I post this video might be a few weeks before I post this one but I'm just really busy moving starting the job um all that stuff so I'll just get these out as I can I might only get one video out a week but once we get things going there in Grand Junction I should be able to get back into the rhythm of uploading a video every Friday again so yeah anyway I'm just rambling I hope you enjoyed remember I just go ahead and check out Jeremy Fuller's claims he's got a bunch of good ones and they are well worth it so check him out until next time remember there is treasure everywhere