okay not gonna lie this is not a normal hike... so there's still geological action
going on here so throwing the rocks uh in case there's any rattlesnakes
we'll give it one more try here right in here
1.7 billion year old rock
don't--easy to break again don't let it whoop ya now--there it goes was it worth it no
or was it i don't know there it is right there
i got a couple of nice chunks in the vein on the other side man
yeah this stuff's a little different here it's uh it needs to be mixed with the purple stuff in fact
that looks like it's almost solid purple but it's a it's a fracture i can stick my hand up in here
you can see the fluorite seem going right into the fracture but it's
it's only that wide so i'm going to give up on that one
so yeah i started rock hounds anonymous because uh it's probably scary
because rockhounding is like a sickness you know it's uh so yeah we uh what do we do with the rock
well those of us that are lucky enough to have a cutting and polishing equipment cut and polish
it and those are us that don't have it we go to our friends houses and we cut and polish it
but um i mean i got so much rock every type in my apartment i'm just running out of space
but uh it's fun you know you come out with friends and you you dig and you hike and yeah you stay
healthy yeah stay healthy that's what i love keeps me in shape so you don't turn it into your artwork
no no no no no this this is this is hobby my artwork is very different my artwork is what
feeds me my own work feeds my belly this feeds my soul look at this look at those colors oh yeah
that is just amazing amazing amazing this fluorite it's just so blue green so i said it's seafoam
yeah yeah and i don't know what that material is oh it's almost white it's really pretty it's
very soft i mean it'll pack right off and it runs right next to where all the fluoride is you know
wherever there's fluoride there's that white stuff but it might be calcium i don't think it's quartz
because it's too small that stuff yeah oh this white yeah i think that's calcium it is calcium
i'm talking about this stuff here oh that's no it's not that he's talking about this right here
that used to be this rock here no really so it's all clean now playing along the edge because of
the mineralogy there was probably a little bit of acidic or something and broke the rock back down
in the clay it's basically a process of rock during the dirt that's what it is fun fun fun
oh i didn't realize that rock turns into dirt who knew i didn't know i thought dirt was dirt
what you got there we got seafoam oh wow wow that's trippy reminds me of star or superman
my son
you do not remember me
yeah it's a little darker green but yeah that's this is nice stuff it's just uh
it's really pretty it's just kind of the gem quality and so yeah we'll polish this up or
doesn't even really need much polishing you can see it all looks polished and ready
so it's good stuff um you guys are interested in vlogs huh i got an interesting one for you yeah
i have a Spanish mine i found two years ago in the Uintah mountains oh really
that was severely hidden for some reason they moved rocks that were half as big
as a house in front of it there's no road in the area anywhere it's uh in a real isolated
spot don't know why they hit that maybe they're still gold really good some really pretty stuff
up in here try to get to it that's the big challenge contorting your body enough
yeah purple we got purple nice that's a lever right you know what we call a leverite
leave it right there no good police right yeah lots of labor rights in utah right there
it's a very old joke right millions of years oh look at this
bunny ears oh yeah i'm gonna get one more somebody drew something over there long time ago but that
might be indigenous in the rock i don't know so what's this is definitely here this is like purple
it looks like no it's well it's purplish it's just rocks this stuff is everywhere in here i
don't know what it is yeah it's kind of purplish and pink it's very pretty yeah it is you hit the
wrong rocks and you get a loose vein you could end up with it all coming down on you so we got to be
kind of careful i see a spot here that hasn't been mined us but there's a big rock that's got
to be moved it looks like it's fractured right here across there but i'm not going to adjust it
this is a big vein look how thick this vein is goes from
this is about five inches thick damn what are they usually about an inch about an inch
look at all that clay and this this one's going to come right out i got it i got it
uh these are darker yeah these are the darker darker green ones they're darker green in
that area put them over put them over with our pile now there's some nice banded stuff there
what do you got oh yeah oh yeah we got a bunch of that last time we were here
that's pretty good a couple pieces like that for you guys oh look at this banding see that
okay that's the piece i want right there okay looking to see the banding which goes from the
green to the white to the green to the white to the to the purple so if i can get under that
i'm gonna dig out this purple rock
it's locked in the rocks
......
all right there's one that's two perfect wow see he does all the work for me yeah
oh we got several of them look at the purple in there i think that's purple i like i like the
bands in this one yeah nice before all right i'll put them in our pile are you out there
digging coal yeah yeah let's get some let's get some coal action here all right i'm heading out
you know behind oh he's got that long screwdriver there you go that's going to come out you got it
that's the challenge very easy to beat it up
oh look at that big chunk enough to carry it out in one bag like last time
wow look at you mr rock pile
i don't know if it's any good or not
you leave people half your age miles behind you you're terribly
there you go see it's starting to break away up top there you go big old jump
look at you you're like a rockhounder now dude
yeah so if you go in here sideways and this bottom drops out then you'll get that whole
chunk like this that's good that's good you can get in there you can crack that
hard work isn't it yep you wouldn't believe what we pulled out of here
two weeks ago we must have each gone down with 50 pounds i mean it was crazy
so imagine this in your mid-60s right i can't believe how good a shape he's at man
Matthew's a beast he is a beast go try see if you can get right in here and kind of angle
it in and maybe this whole piece will come out because you're up in the clay right and i don't
think that's going to do much for you oh there we go put your hand up there right here
oh i hear him there it goes yeah
that's just coming out in rubble huh no but that's a pretty one we've got some purple in
it right there yeah yeah oh you got that look at that it's a little gemmy stripe right there
see the crystals in it yeah good one nice teamwork all right we out of here
if you look right here you can see little gold slivers
right in there i think that's the pyrite oh shut up
nobody asked you
...... you got a video of this lunatic Hobbit--
what do you doing i'm a hobbit in the hole looking for his ring schmiegel schmidt my precious my
precious
when we get out of here
back here tell us about rockhounding
that's when you're hound for rocks like just regular old stones or whatever so where we uh
went into a nice little cave and or should i say mine and so we dug out a bunch of this
wonderful blue green fluorite and um our our local professional next to me is my buddy Matthew Kroll
who seems to know something about everything look at that it broke already look what you did
but no rock hounding is uh it's kind of a disease like i said earlier where
you know we just go out to crazy places where we probably shouldn't be and and just get really
beautiful material and you know cut it and polish it make jewelry or display it all over our houses
and buy lighting panels so that people could see how crazy we are with all the stuff we have but
yeah it's a lot of fun tell us tell us about rock hounding and how did you get into it hey yeah i
i retired here about eight years ago and then i got kind of bored and i decided to
pick up rock hunting i lived in Wyoming all my life and Utah impressed me because of the
immense geology and different types of geology it has so i basically just started researching
and studying that and over the last few years been pretty successful you can follow my instagram site
if you want yeah what's your Instagram go for it m-a-t-t w-y-o-m-a-t-i-b-e you'll see all kinds of
beautiful stuff i'm finding something yeah oh that's awesome now you have a page as well you
have a Facebook page right i got a lot of Facebook pages put the links below Oz fine arts studio
oh yeah as uh also is a fine artist very fine absolutely fine you can find a painting below
all right i got a question for you okay what why do they why would you pick a mine here
like why would how do they just pick an area to to drill how did they find this they apparently
up above here there are other prospects where they found it on the surface of the ground so it
follows a fractured down the mountain kind of on the tranviron just basically straight up and down
where there's a series of veins that formed in fractures in the fluoride why did they
use it because in 50s there was a big demand for fluoride because of all the steel mills
and steel production in the U.S. unfortunately that's all gone now but
when that started fading off uh it basically wasn't worth mining anymore because
it wasn't in demand anymore and the steepness of the slope and the close closeness to the
residential area down here plus the fact that the tailings can't be discarded without rolling
clean down into the residential area made it impractical to mine and the lack of water also
is it rotten it's rotten inside i was waiting for a scorpion to jump out
they're so pretty though a lot oh those have you ever eaten one of those no i never have but i've
i've read they're edible so i do eat mushrooms though i pick wild mushrooms every year in Wyoming
the psychedelics ones now these are a metal mushroom and i can't remember the scientific
name but they grow in what they call a fairy ring oh nice so easy to identify and
i've done it all my life i've known my dad had done it all his life his his parents did it all
their life nobody's ever been placing so that's cool you got to know what you're looking for
though because people there's a lot of people get poisoned by them every year in the U.S. and there's
people that misidentify them and think they're edible so go ahead so i would just like to add for
all the people that know Matthew Kroll the fact that he eats magic mushrooms explains a lot yeah
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