in this video we're gonna soak lake superior agates in mineral oil for a week
and the reason why is because when agates are dry they look like this but when they're wet
they look like that and that looks a lot better so by taking some dry lake superior
agates and soaking them in mineral oil for a week we can extend that wet look
for months let's look at some of the agates we'll be soaking in mineral
oil so here's our candidates and i really think that these are going to benefit from
a longer lasting wet look here's a pair that could be brother sister agates they got the
same color and same kind of banding in them pretty cool a few with some really nice bands
not sure if it'll make much of a difference with this one but i'm excited to see how it plays out
got this guy going in the batch as well here's a couple with some good quartz going
on in there that i'm really looking forward to see how the oil soaks into the courts
and a couple of really banded and beautiful lake superior agates this one's got a lot
of bands hiding throughout it and i'm really looking forward to seeing how this one fares
so let's get it ready so one of the methods that people have used for soaking agates and mineral
oils to heat them up and i'm gonna test just doing them at room temp to see if it makes a
difference that way and how long the last so i'm gonna be doing a follow-up video in the future
to see how these fare with the oil but until then we're gonna put them in this mason jar
fill it with oil and let them sit for a week so let's fill it all up
so we got this filled up with all the agates and it's almost comical that the amount of
mineral oil that i had was the perfect amount to fill this jar so now comes the fun part
we wait we'll see you all in seven days
so we're back and those agates have been soaking in that mineral oil for a week let's take a look
here they are still soaking in oil and you know what after about an hour of them soaking in there
i already saw a difference so we probably didn't need to leave them in there as long as we did but
it is what it is so now we get the fun part of getting them out of here and getting the
oil wiped off and all that fun stuff is going to be an oopy goopy mess let's get it started
we got them all wiped off got all the oil rubbed in and we can touch them now
with ease without getting oil all over our fingers they look spectacular i'm
so excited to show you all of these there's a few of them that are mind-blowing better
i'm so pumped about this so one of the first ones i wanted to show you was this guy that had the
light quartz in there and possible amethyst and the back here it's very shiny that's just rubbed
in and look at that how that purple popped it's absolutely amethyst on that carnelian
i don't know if you consider that a nodule but that is really really cool these two same thing
i rubbed in the oil as much as i possibly could these just look wet now so beautiful
we got some shadow benny you can see it right there
pretty cool and these two i wasn't too sure if it would make a huge difference and well i don't
really think it did i don't think you need to do mineral oil on limonite stained agates
but this stuff looks pretty cool right here and then the details in this guy really did pop a lot
better right here but the top and bottom didn't make a huge difference but it's got some really
beautiful details in here that showed up that i didn't really notice before that is really cool
it almost looks purple i wouldn't say amethyst but it looks purple that's so cool i'm very happy with
how this one turned out this is one of my favorite lake superior agates it is so neat i actually
found it about five feet away from this one and i love how the limonite drips in through there
really great bands already kind of showed you this guy what it would potentially look like
looks about the same quartz is just soaked in with that mineral oil some bands on the outer rim here
really started to pop and that white really really pops and this guy had so many fractures in it i
was really excited for this one and now it looks so good these bands are some of my favorites i
love the reds and the whites that are popping there i look so much better than before i was
pretty excited about this guy most of it is just nodule husk but there's this one part right here
i was really looking forward to and it always looks so just bland dry and now
much better much much better and these bands in this little area right here
popped a little bit too so that was cool to see i was pretty surprised at this one at
how much the quartz soaked in that mineral oil look at this line right here that is so neat
it's got some banding going on up here and i always knew this one was really beautiful
and i'm pretty sure that this is a sagenite agate and by the way it has pink on the husk here which
is extremely rare for lake superior agate but the details that showed up after the soak
right there unbelievable it's almost like the base of the sagenite sprays i've never seen that before
it is so cool and on to the two big ones i was really pumped about this one because this is one
of my favorite lake superior agates it's probably my favorite one and i always loved getting this
one wet and taken a peek at it now i can just look at it and it's full glory and this is one
of those lake superior agates i'm never gonna do anything to it is gonna stay as is forever
so beautiful looks much better it looked pretty good before but it definitely looks better now
and this guy right here is one that i was absolutely amazed with the details that showed up
after just an hour of it soaking like right here some of these details that came in these bands
that showed up it's gonna be hard to see with the glare but this is shadow banding all along here
when you rotate it you can see it right there watch right here
see that how cool is that but the bands that popped over here
were really really cool i knew there was bands in here and up in here but it really came up in
through here but right here this is what really popped this whole area is showing every detail
oh this is a close second behind this guy and then watch as this red comes down it's almost like iron
stain quartz in this pocket it is like red quartz it's so cool looking this is probably the one that
had the best before and after with the mineral oil soak oh so cool and that husk oh absolutely
phenomenal well i had a super fun time with this project i hope you all enjoyed it if you can do me
a huge favor click on one of the videos that pops up on the screen right now thanks for watching bye