 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today. I'm back out at the barite north of Grand Junction But in a little different area. So On the other side of that hill over that way, that's where I've normally been going But I decided to instead come down a road right here that I haven't been on yet that I kept eyeballing going I want to try that sometime and so the barite Concretion things look like they're about halfway through right here You can probably see one on the top right there, and they kind of come through over here So I'm just gonna kind of walk around a little bit and get to know this area. I Might drive up further. We'll see but I'm gonna start kind of looking over here, and then maybe wander over that way Who knows see if we can find any good bear my bearite specimens today. I can't talk. Anyway, here's the GPS to where I'm currently parked There you go. Okay. Let's get out there see what we can find Okay, I'm on this lower hill right here Now that we're closer you can see them a little better, right? You got your Grecian there you got one over there And here this hill has a bunch of the stuff coming out of it you can see a lot of calcite here So this could be a good spot Don't really see a Good source of Where it's coming out, but Might be worth going into right here So I poked around just a little bit. It didn't feel good. I didn't really see any good nodule like shape the good spherical Well, you know the rounded shape Come over here a lot more calcite coming out right here It's like somebody dug here at one time but see this this There's a little bit more of the shape we're looking for so I think we're gonna Try and dig into that So I dug this out right here and this is a where somebody had dug in the past So they must have had a small one here. It wasn't really very big So I started working my way here and this feels like it could be something and then we had a nice little gap right here So I'm excited that could very well be part of yeah Concretion here. That's hopefully maybe we'll find something here besides calcite Okay, I started pulling down this wall and the piece I pulled out right here It's got a nice vein of calcite on it Look definitely thicker than most of what I've seen so far and that vein is going right here And then we're also getting a little vein here. So Let's hope in this area. Maybe you're right or maybe further that way they have calcite Calcite Calcite Maybe got a little bit of crystal based on that One thing we're not really getting is that kind of dark red Red color that usually is associated with it. So But as long as we're getting some decent veins of calcite keep chasing it for a little bit. Oh Little crystals on it, but I'm Not sure if any of that's buried. It might all be calcite Hmm, I'll take that home and wash it off and if it has buried in it, I'll show you oh Oh Now that's buried and that was down here that came out of here. I Can fill the weight on that thing You can't really see anything, but it can fill the weight. That's definitely buried So I sprayed it off a little bit. There you go. There's some buried. It's several little kind of terminations It's not terribly clear, but it's buried Need to start making my little pile somewhere. Oh Yeah, bags are usually a good spot to Start piling them up. There we go Might have some buried in it That's bearite can feel grab all these bearite pieces That are coming out right here So yeah, there's like a vein of bearite that was across like this. It's just coming out in pieces and We'll wash them off to see if there's any good ones So you can see I pulled out lots of chunks with bearite These are calcite for what I can tell but I'll check them closer later Just to make sure and it looks like the bearite vein is kind of going off in this direction I move this rock in the bearite Seems to be still here It just looks like a rock, but that's a heavy chunk. That's bearite We'll get it home and get it washed off see if there's any cool crystals on it. It's a chunk though Just pulled this out has a bunch of calcite on it and the colors getting better definitely finding more of the color we're looking for those reds and Can't see any bearite on it Yeah, it seems like the bear it I did have Right here is kind of disappeared now So I need to just keep Digging and see if I can get into oh wait. Nope. There's some more of it. Okay. It's right in the back there Look at that Look at that beautiful bearite shape right there and that just came out of this vein part right here So I was prying these apart and that popped out there. So I'm gonna slowly grab things out of there See what we got. Oh, yeah That bear right there Okay, yeah, we'll get these all washed off when I go Oh Yeah, see this is a vein of the bearite with some crystals just to kind of stuck along the edge Nice There's one there's one They're very hard to tell when they're dirty But now that I know I'm in a vein I just pull everything out that I'm like yep That looks like some of it. Yeah, that looks like some of it So as I was trying to pry it off this front part pulled off first Remember the vein of bear it was here. So I knew there was some along the edge here and look at all that buried underneath it Also, this piece got some buried there cool There we go got it all put in the container. There's quite a bit of it Don't know how much of it will actually end up being good But we still got more going that way. There's probably still some more down here at the bottom So I'll keep pulling it out. If I find anything like really good. I'll bring you back in and show you All right, just to catch you up. I've removed all this Didn't find any bear it going that way removed this and there was a bear a vein under it and probably dipping down And there's a big chunk of the vein right there the rest I put in the bucket So I found the edge of it. This is all dirt down here going under it. So this is the edge of it Going like that. So the main massive it goes that way and The bearite was once again kind of right along the edge of it I find that commonly where the bear it tends to form near the edge of one of these I mean sometimes you get it right down in the middle of it, but quite often I feel like they Form more toward the edge Interesting that's a lot of calcite. I've been pulling tons of calcite out Yeah, the bear it kind of disappeared. We'll keep digging for a bit though. All right So I dug a whole bunch. We're at the bottom of it. So there's no more going down It's just kind of going that way a little bit in that way and it doesn't look very good to me Not seeing a lot of the calcite anymore. So I think that was probably the main spot if there is more bearite It'll be back in that way But yeah, I think I'm good here with this spot Found a good amount of stuff You've got multiple rocks here with bear right on them All right. Um, I'm gonna go explore elsewhere There's a little piece of bear right on the surface has a few crystal faces to it Yeah, I'm just over I was just digging right there There's lots of calcite coming out in multiple places all over. It's probably several small ones All over the place here. I could probably just I started trying to dig right there I could probably just dig in lots of places and might run into some bear it Maybe I'll just stay on this hill Here's another bear crystals the tip of one Really cool found it right here. This is looking really good You got the right color. It looks like somebody dug here But at the same time Maybe didn't finish digging. Hmm. All right. I poked around a bit. I did find a few little loose pieces here and there Um, I dug a little bit just to see if any of them looked like ones that Still have stuff going this place has been dug. You can see where people have dug And decided to go ahead and head back to the vehicle because I wanted to go back over to the area Where it's got that big one that that eric found that we dug into a bit I wanted to see if somebody's dug into it and see how it looks now and maybe even digging it myself I don't know, but I've been wanting to go check it out. So I'm gonna head over there And let's see what's happened since I was there last We are approaching the hole Let's see how it looks I would say that is pretty much how I left it I don't think anybody's been here Okay, another one down here I don't remember if I went that far. So maybe somebody dug a little further that way I didn't pull this out. It was loose just sitting there And look there's a little bear right there And there There's a bear right on it We can find out where that was. Let's go that way Maybe it's off the roof here Okay, now that I'm down in here That looks like bear right. It's got the darker color Maybe some crystal faces there That may be where it came off of here I think I mean it can still just be calcite Hmm Maybe I'll try in that way a little bit. You know that dug into it a bit I also dug around a little bit Found lots of calcite again, but no bear right. I think I'm gonna stop there today With digging in the hole and maybe just go do a little bit of surface collecting for a little bit And then probably head out. It's starting to get pretty warm Found an old dig right here pick this up Got some bear rights in there. They're broken We'll see what we can salvage out of it Okay, I got everything washed off. I'm just going to show it all at once So we have here kind of the bigger pieces now. They didn't really look nice There weren't any really good crystals on it. These are just like big pieces with Vane all over so for example like that see it's the bear right you can see kind of that brownish color It's kind of nice and shiny It's heavy, but pretty much everything in the bucket looks like that or worse Moving over here. Here's all the little stuff And as you can see I got lots of little stuff Lots of little partial crystals as you can see like that that one and that one This one I believe was mostly terminated. Yeah, sorry too close Yeah, I see it's mostly terminated a little damaged This one again a partial crystal still kind of nice But other than that it was mostly just pieces Just pieces that are mostly just the thick vein So just kind of go over. Yeah the numbers in the tray. I used this tray originally for a I think I did with the family That's why there's numbers in it But it was empty so I just used it to put everything in really quick It's got some crystal faces on it too So yeah, that's that's what mostly turned out lots of little broken ones Very few that had any terminations But overall it's still really cool because this is a lot of bearite It has a lot of bearite And I'm back at the vehicle who it is getting too hot it's still summer Can't wait for fall to come. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed there was some great stuff That very last one that you saw me pick up There were a few more bearites that I picked up, but they were like broken and stuff Yeah, anyway, I hope you enjoyed we'll see you next time and remember there is treasure everywhere