 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today. I am out in Utah So I'm right off the highway Sorry can't hold the camera. So I'm right here off the highway this is the highway between Let those cars pass. This is the highway between Moab and Monticello. So Moab is back that way Monticello is that way and I'm here close to what's known as the Wilson arch. This is an area that's been known where you can go pick up some Agates. I'm gonna start here in the wash below me Big truck So yeah, I'm gonna start in the wash below me. This is just kind of a starting point It'd be nice to eventually find out exactly where all the agates coming from. It's probably a layer that's Either above that sound stone or right below it. I don't know My first time out in this area actually to rockhound and I was just looking on the ground and I saw this So that's an agate. It's not a very good one. It's got a pinkish color to it But it is an agate. So hopefully we'll find more of that around here. So It's really easy access because you can just park right off the side of the road. That's why I decided to try here first Then I got a couple areas that if I get any time today, maybe I'll go hit those as well Anyway, here's the GPS to where I'm currently parked right off the road Great. So yeah, I'm just gonna hike down to the wash and just see what I can find So I just came down from my car. You got this small wash kind of working its way off the road And immediately after there's some agate. That's not good quality, but it is agate. I'm seeing little pieces here and there Okay, it's got a little bit more red pink to it All right, I saw a little bit better one right here Okay All right, so there's definitely a fair amount of the stuff But so far Not very great quality a little further down and yep, you can see a lot of it It's kind of poking out here and there There's a bigger one there There's one there And there It is low quality though Well, well, well, what do we have here? It looks like some rocks people have pulled out So it looks like we might be right in the thick of things where the agates actually coming out Very interesting. Hmm. Yeah, I can see a seam through there Looks like somebody pulled this big one up Yeah, that's a bunch of agate on it Once again, it is low quality Down in the wash and you can see where people piled up their finds Put their agate here on the side these are the ones they didn't want to keep And then there's a whole bunch through here So I'm going to go look through it and if I see any good ones, I'll bring it back in So I just pulled out of there this one Get a little bit more transparency there A little bit of a bluish color in a little bit of it Hmm That one looks kind of nice. I might take that one. Maybe get it cut open Hmm Not sure but definitely looks better than what I've seen so far So yeah, there is a ton of it. The agate really is everywhere But a lot of it is really low quality like this This one looks a little better It's got a little bit of red on the edge there Okay, hmm This one's all brecciated Here's this piece here Again, just not a lot of color, but definitely got some transparency in it This one looks maybe a little better It's got a little bit more color in it. Very fractured though Okay I wonder if there's any good nodules that would be fun to cut open. Whoa Look at that color and that one's a lot better Kind of a red orange Okay, so there's some potential out here Here's this one that cut open Okay, a little bit more going on in that Some colors and patterns Nice Now this one has some blue color in it and black Yeah, I think I should take and cut that one too Okay, getting some more variety now Here's this one that cut open Oh, yeah, I like that dark in the middle Wonder if that might be a little bit of calcite in there Might just be quartz still but a darker color Just found this one. Yeah, somebody lost their happy birthday balloon This one looks like it might have more color. Let's spray this one off. Here it is Okay, a lot of them kind of have this pink fleshy color Very calm in it seems out here Just pulled this one out and spread it off Definitely has more of a red color. Okay, it's getting better It's getting better So there is just a ton of it really close to the road all through the wash and even on the hillsides So if you come out here, it's really accessible. That's really nice Now I'm guessing though that most of the really good stuff if there is really good stuff here Is going to be harder to find close to the road because of this is a known place and lots of people have been out here So I'm going to go ahead and start heading further away to see if I can find some higher quality stuff that Maybe gives us a better idea of what you can really find out here It is everywhere It is so thick through here just So much you could go in any direction from the road and you'll find some good stuff This has a little bit more of an orange right there. That's kind of nice Still very fractured though Just found this one Well, it doesn't look that great color wise. It might have some interesting patterns there if I cut it right So maybe we'll take that and try and cut in a way that it might look nice Just found that Looks interesting This one looks interesting Oh, yeah A little bit more color in that one Cool that one might be fun cutting We'll give it a try Here's this one cut open It's a little better on the inside. It's pretty much what you can see from the outside Kind of cool Here's this one cut open Fractured on this side About what I thought Pretty much looks like the front It is nice though. This is a nicer piece Just found this larger one. It's got some better red in it Yeah, I didn't go much further than where I was and I'm already finding a lot better stuff Yeah, so there probably is some good quality stuff out here Just need to walk far enough Just found some more blue. Nice. That's a big one too Good to have the blue out here too. Yeah, this is this is getting a lot better All right, I've pried a few of them out to take a closer look. So first that big one that's Nice and blue And it's a chunk. It's a chunk. Yeah, I got This one was interesting that one Cool And now you can kind of see some of the formation. There's the rock that it's forming in Cool It's making these nodule shapes And this one looked interesting there Oh That looks cool there. Let me spray that part of it off Yeah, it's kind of got a grayish dark grayish color to it And you can kind of see into it a little bit Okay, I'm seeing a bunch of interesting ones all close to each other This one Oh, okay, cool. This one. Look, that's a lot darker That's pretty solid. Let me get that out A little bit of red on that side Very dark through that one cool And then this one look at that And over here And there This stuff really is everywhere here This one is a nice red stripe with white going through it. Cool I see something just barely poking up that might be nice. Let's uh pop that out and see if it is Hmm. Yeah, it's just okay Just saw this. That's got some nice red Yeah, it's a little better red than I've been seeing Okay Look at that. It's got a nice little edge to it. Here's a really orange one Kind of, I like to look at that one. Again, it's one of those darker ones. It's kind of a blueish gray Let's get that out There it comes Oh, yeah, look on the ends. Look at that one. That one I think it's worth cutting into Cool So I've walked down a ways and I've just seen so much I kind of stopped filming because you just kind of see Mostly the same stuff over and over This one however a little bit better a little bit more color to it Than most of the ones here So good to see that but it is really really everywhere So it is actually a great place to bring kids and families because You can't miss it. It's everywhere. That one's kind of orange nice Okay, now this one's a little bit On a different level you can see the yellows and reds and some purple in there This is more like what you see over on the sand raffle swell area With the better quality agates. So there are some better ones out here Good to be seeing that Here's this one cut open. I had high hopes for this one that fractured and There were a lot of fractures going through this one pretty much looks like it does in the outside Hmm, it's just okay That's a big piece. Look at that and that's a boulder There's a lot and sometimes they get big I see something better color down here though Hmm, yeah, a little better color a little darker here Yeah, that's better looking That's darker. It's more like a red jasper there Hmm, that might be worth taking home and at least cutting just to see Here's another decent piece. Let's cut some of that red in there Getting more toward the quality of the stuff you find further north Up by you know yellow cat and the sand raffle swell And here we got power lines and where the highway used to be a long time ago The old highway Now look at that That might be some private property over there cool Yeah, let's just check this old road out Yeah That's muddy down there You guys probably can't see it. It's probably too dark, but it's muddy down in there Might get difficult trying to go down further Yeah turns into Almost a slot canyon Yeah, that might be challenging going down Just following the old highway. It's nice to stop and appreciate the beauty every now and then of the The country here with fun red rock canyons I wonder how many people even actually come out this way and see this there's the highway right there Not far All right, let's go check these hills So I wandered over there didn't really find anything decided to come over on this side Also, not really finding anything. So Unfortunately, it's kind of what I thought maybe The agate's coming from further up mostly With maybe some places where it comes out Anyway, so that's where I parked Walked through that wash and found all that stuff in that very short stretch Haven't checked up that way yet But i'm kind of intrigued by this smaller wash coming off from over there All right found a spot. It's coming out See all that right over the top right there It's all coming out right through here. So you got this layer of sandstone And probably mixed with mudstones and it's coming out through here That's kind of got a cool pattern on it Cool, we'll uh search this area. It's like an agate graveyard It feels like that Just right off of that smaller wash the main highway is just right up there I'm parked over on the other side of that hill I think this might be a really good spot right here. This is where it's coming out Probably hasn't been hit as hard. It's over there Yeah Let's take a closer look at this stuff. Now this dark one's intriguing On the side I see some red Huh, huh. I don't know That might be worth trying to cut. I can't tell though Huh, look at that. Now that is really cool I like that one too. Just that part of it that that surface. Here's this one washed off It is interesting. A lot of these out here the the colors aren't that great Quite often they don't have banding. This does seem to have a little bit in it But they're still pretty interesting pieces Just found this little one. It's got some nice intense red right there Yep, you can find these little gems among the everything else Like this it's darker. It's got the kind of black on the outside Wonder if I cut it. Can we get some interesting patterns? Here's this one cut open Definitely looks like it's going to be kind of clear on the inside You know translucent Yeah pretty much Maybe expose a little bit of possibly pluming going on Up there Otherwise, it's just basically colorless Kalsitny So I got one of these darker ones and broke it And I think these darker ones do give the better patterns and colors So maybe from the outside focus on the darker colored ones Maybe those are better. This one has some cool inclusions in it. Look at that Hmm, maybe you need to cut deeper into that one too So here's another one of those darker ones and I flipped it over and look at that Right there It's kind of clear you can see into it a fair distance Cool. Yeah, I'm thinking these darker ones tend to be higher quality than the other ones. They're more the light Here's this one washed off Don't know Further in it's probably just going to look like a lot of the stuff we've already seen and gone over but Who knows eventually I'll have to get it cut. I just I don't have anything big enough to cut these Maybe Eric will get some of these cut for me for this video I'm not going to have these big ones cut. I'll have to do that in another video a later video I'm sorry. I keep doing that to you guys cut them in later videos But we'll get there So we have this neat spot where it's coming out And then it kind of seems to disappear I don't see anything. So I wonder if it comes in pods like it just There's a zone where it comes up where it found a way up And it's not just throughout the entire layer. So it has to It just comes and goes maybe so I'm going to hike over that way a ways and just see if I see anything And then probably head back that way getting back toward the car So there's this zone where it's all coming out And when I look over that way, I don't really see any so I guess it's not just a layer of it It probably came up in little spots. So maybe you just have to kind of find a spot where it's coming out Hmm very interesting. So I'm going to head over that way And hike a ways and just see if I see another zone like this And then if not, I'll probably hike back that way toward the car And we'll kind of figure this out area out a little bit more Okay, so I was just over there came up and over and we see some more But desperately not nearly the quantities I saw over there So it does kind of come and go But it does kind of seem to be falling us layers. So it might just keep going off in that direction For those who might want to come out and explore a little more Cool So we got this interesting one right here This used to be a kind of a common thing out here this Being kind of some of the better looking stuff Kind of having this color pattern and look to it Here's this one cut open Okay, about what I thought very clear on the inside A little bit of plumage going on just a tiny bit Here's this one cut open Once again what I thought a little better on the inside There's quite a few out here that kind of have this look to them These colors and patterns Here's this one cut open Okay, not a lot going on in there It's interesting though Here's this one cut open yet fractured right there Oh Hey, look at that red dot in there. That's cool. It's got a lot of inclusions in this one. This is cool I like this one Much much better than a lot of stuff. I saw it there. So more like that And I'm on my way back to the car Which is right there So This is an interesting area Um personally the quality that I get isn't such that I would make a trip out of this I would just recommend going to yellow cat or to that area south of Green River or over to the San Rafael swell those aggots tend to be better But if you're on your way Somewhere else Let's say you're traveling down to new mexico or whatever if you're on your way this I do highly recommend stopping at It is worth taking A quick break because it's so easy. It's so accessible and there's so much stuff Most of its low quality But there are some hidden gems and who knows what else is out there because that was it is a layer that you kind of follow and places it gets thicker and thinner and Who knows you follow it for ways Maybe the quality of the aggot will change. Maybe you can find some Gem out there. That's better than what I found today Anyway, until next time remember there is treasure everywhere