 Hello and welcome once again to the Rugged Rockhound today. I'm joined with Grand Junction Recordings and his dog So Yeah, it's Lewis. That's his name, right? Rich Lewis. Yeah, Rich Lewis and Sirius called the serious claim after the dog. There we go. So yeah, he's invited me out here This is gonna hopefully be a great day. We'll find some cool bearite Hopefully you never know out here. So yeah, he's gonna take me around. So this is his claim and If you'd like to he's got a website where he sells the stuff So if you'd like to here's a link to his website, you can go check him out. All right, let's get to it Let's see what we can find So here we are just up from our vehicles Kind of an interesting spot right here. I started digging into it. It's got a dome shape to it It had a nice curve here And we got a nice vein of calcite going through there. So I'm gonna dig into that and Other people of course have dug here in the past But I just wanted to show you here This is a piece they pulled up. You got a barret crystal right there and a chunk of barret right there. So It's here So This is a nice little dome shape right here, you can see I hit the edge of it here We've got the edge of it there and you got a bunch of cast in the middle. So this should be a nice nice Concretion that will dig into and see if we can find any barret in it, but it's looking really good so far Just pulled this off and that is barret So it's kind of a vein of it So these are chunks of barret. I can feel the weight You can you can see how it's a little darker So I am going to slowly Pull this apart and see if we've got some good Complete crystals in here anywhere so This is the spot where I've got the barret that I'm trying to get into it's really hard So taking my time, but we found below us an extension of this one a nice big section of it Then pulling out tons of cords. Look at look at the thickness of the cords Thank you for we've we've we've actually been talking about cords for the last little bit so it's on my mind But yes calcite so Pulling out tons and tons of calcite. We've been going through all of this, but no barret yet. So Just tons of thick thick calcite So just remember when you come out in this area This will be very common where you'll dig and dig and dig and find tons of calcite Then all of a sudden you'll finally hit some barret true. Okay. Here's the barret pocket I was just breaking this and the whole thing's loose now. So we're gonna pry this up and see what we got Well, it looks like it was a very thick vein of barret Doesn't look like we got any terminated crystals That's some of the calcite that was from right here Yeah Looks like Looks like unfortunately, we didn't get any terminated crystals in that pocket of barret No, that's unfortunate So I opened up the pocket that was pretty much solid barret just so we could take a look at it So here you can see a nice crystal that grew this way. I'm a smaller one there So kind of cool to be able to see that in there It was a big just thick pocket of the barret Um This one had a few faces on it. So that was kind of nice and just Chunks of it all came out and pieces No good clear crystals nothing fully terminated But good evidence because where there's some there's usually more Now after digging for a while We've found a lot of calcite. This was softer down here better stuff here This was really hard and this is all the barret we found was that mass that didn't have any crystals We're gonna take a break from digging and just do some hiking. There's some really good potential out along here With the layer being nicely exposed through there So we're gonna just walk around and see what we can finally on the ground or dig into something We find out there So the place we've been digging was back over there we came over here just to kind of search around in this area and We've dug in a few places haven't really found much, but this is looking nice I've got these nice pockets here that I can see some nice calcites in them maybe some other stuff I Mean it's hard to see because everything's super dirty But I can definitely tell you these are calcites because look it's broken right there Oh, I need to put the macro lens on probably, but yeah, this is looking promising right here So this is calcite right here. You can see where it broke right there and you can see that little glint there so Yeah, that is an actual terminated calcite crystal which I believe I'm seeing a bunch on this one as well and Could be on this as well So some of these that look more promising. I'll probably take back and clean them off And who knows what else? We'll keep digging Just pulled this out and it's got a nice berry crystal on it right there. You'll see You'll definitely see it better once I get it washed off, but it's right there Here's this one wash off This was a really cool specimen. It had these really cool double calcites right there And then look at the barretts on the back Two barretts right there Fractured and right there, but still that's just a really cool specimen Calcite like that So John just found these look at that bear right It was on the surface so it's cracked and stuff But it's got some crystal faces there. Mostly has a point right there That's really cool and some other pieces. So we're finding bear right finally And yeah, I could easily have more bear right on some of these they're just so dirty and that's exciting Look at that pocket coming up. Oh, here's a piece coming out. What's on this? Yeah, I can see a few little calcites on it and that might be a tiny bear right there It's so hard to tell it's so dirty and small, but that's probably a little bear right there Here's this one washed off. There's the bear right right there And some calcite around it. I'm not sure if there's any more bear right on it. I couldn't tell maybe right there But for sure that All right, I pulled some more out a lot of the ones I pulled out seem to be kind of like this Where there's barely anything like this one has a tiny bit of calcite there and that's it And like this where I looked really closely at it and there's no calcite or bear right on it So, you know, I've got a handful from that look good but I just found this one kind of in here and I believe that might be a bear right once I clean it off You can tell there's calcite in it though So definitely worth taking home. So I think I probably should go back through some of these Rocks here and make sure I'm not missing any bear rights. Here's this one washed off So it was mostly calcite, but it did have a bear at crystal right there Well, I'm glad I went through this stuff I'd already moved because I found two or three more potential pieces That look like they might have little bear rights on them So good to hold on to those and anyway, yeah, we'll have a lot of stuff to wash off when I get home John just found this. It's a nice Piece of bear right it's broken, but it's got some nice a few nice faces on it And it's fairly clear. So it's a good piece Now I've been digging for a while now. I've gone in pretty much every direction. I've run out of Barrett and calcite I've seen neither for a while. So I think we're gonna go with that We've got quite a few Decent potential specimens here some of which I know have bear right so we're gonna pack those up and Move on So I washed all of these pieces off and they ended up having some like calcite crystals on them But they're so dirty and coated. I thought Either I'm gonna have to try something With a chemical or maybe just leave them out here and get some rain or something. I don't know It may not even be worth keeping but yeah, these didn't have any bear right They were just some cool calcite crystals on them that Unfortunately are just covered in gunk We're just walking around doing some surface collecting sounds like he found something a Big chunk of bear right Look at that Too bad it's not the crystal, you know nice crystal, but it's a big chunk just found this This is calcite with a bear right in it right there. Yeah nice little bear right cool Here's this all cleaned off so right here, we've got a bear right crystal and It's broken here so the bear crystals loose, but I thought maybe I could re-heal it well reattach it put some like Epoxy on it or something and reattach it like that if I want it like that or if I'd rather just pull it out I haven't decided yet. I was digging up there. Didn't find much. He's pulling out a few chunks of bear right But right here on the surface. I pulled this out. It's Oops dropped it and broke it Well done me. It was a section of a bear at crystal Good job me dropping that Anyway, that's broken anyway There you go some potential right here So right there in the back on the left we're finding some bear right and look at it come out terminated look how beautiful that is So it's right back in here It's right here. I don't know how well you can see it, but there's the vein and we got terminations coming off of it Here's this washed off. So it is just a thin coating on the crystal giving that orange yellow color It is fairly clear on this side anyway Inside that bear right just pulled this out look Look at that crystal right there on the head nice little terminated crystal Look at that. It just came out. Look at that beautiful thing. It's a big chunk of bear right Broken on several sides, but terminated about 150 grams. Maybe 200 Yeah, it's really nice Here's this big one washed off not as nice as I was hoping it would be It happens still it's a big piece of bear right Right there. We got a few nice crystal terminations So we'll take it and I'm back home So I didn't finish filming while I was out of this claim because I cut myself pretty good when I was digging into that pocket I got my head on it and When you get a good cut on your head it can really bleed so unfortunately I had blood all over my face just coming down and Decided not to film that on YouTube because of reasons. I Know you guys are probably like, oh, I'd like to see that but now I'm not gonna film that So I'm instead filming back at home. So overall it was a pretty good day. We found some interesting things I've had better days, but it was still cool. It was fun to get out. It's always just good to go rock Hound and a huge thank you to let me come out to visit the serious claim So until next time remember there is treasure everywhere