Hey everyone
Sam and I are headed up to the UP today
we're going to go for 4 days
we had to wait a little bit to make this intro because it was dark at 5 o'clock
in the morning when we left, we're a little bit excited
so
hopefully we find a few rocks
well we made it to our first stop
we're just a little bit east of Grand Marais here
hey Sam, our ladder's still here
this has been here for several years
there's- kind of hard to get up these banks otherwise
alright, the flies are already bad, we just got on the beach, so
we've both just donned our nice little mesh pants
keeps the flies off pretty good
literally just gotten on the beach and
Sam called me over to show me this agate
(Sam) the first one of the day, and then I found the second one next to his foot
might be amethyst actually, smoky quartz in there
some nice bands
(Rob) it's cool
good sign
check out this omar
got a deep hole in it, two holes
that one's pretty cool
(Sam) might be an agate, got a lot of deep red, and it's kind of transparent there
little bit of botryoidal stuff
kind of goes into like a seam there
(Rob) yeah, definitely looks like carnelian kind of orange in there
interesting rock
(Sam) it's coming home with us, that's for sure
might be an agate
(Rob) strange looking rock
that's an interesting looking rock
it looks better wet, they always look better wet
it's not an agate, but I like it
found the first rock that I'm going to claim is an agate
more of a carnelian, there's not much banding on it
but it's got some nice color
if I can get the sun better
just picked this thing up just because it was weird looking, kind of a
I guess brecciated?
but look at the red parts, they look pretty
agate-y
along here, this one especially
I don't think that's something I'll keep, but it's interesting
looks like wonderstone a little bit, doesn't it?
we don't have wonderstone here, but
I think that'll tumble well too, it's got conchoidal fracturing
that's a good sign that it's nice and hard
that's a keeper
weird looking omar
here's a nice little one with
some stripes, that's not dry right there, it's
just a different color but
nice little bands on that
(Sam) just found this little guy from the bright red color of it
do the pick up
a little bit of this outside there
very smooth and waxy, little bit of quartz in the middle
might be some fine banding on there
hard to tell, but
definitely a little piece of agate
just found this little chip
got some little bands on it, kind of neat
(Rob) I just picked up this little chip
and Sam and I can't decide if that's an agate or not
we're both kind of leaning towards no
maybe it's just a piece of quartz
little bit of a bandy sort of thing along the edge there, so let us know
what you think
just saw some black sand here, and I brought my gold pan, so let's see if there's
any gold in it
oops, kind of thin
well, I - we're going to be rich now
should pay for the gas on the way up here
right there
is our big gold nugget
they call this flour gold, because it's the size of a speck of flour, I don't know
if it's showing up there, but maybe under water it'll look better
oops, I think I just floated it, it's floating right here
alright, take my word for it, there's a speck of gold there
let me show you one other fun thing about black sand
there's a lot of magnetite in it, so I've got a magnet inside this little gizmo
look at all the magnetite that's stuck to that
(Sam) just found this neat little piece, figured it might be magnetite, because
that's what it kind of looks like without the red bits
got a magnet with us
and it's magnetite
(Rob) that's cool
that's neat how it's kind of
worn like it is
cool find
not sure what that is
very coarse grained and kind of sparkly
not a good candidate for the tumbler
maybe just sandstone, but a
very black sandstone
(Sam) could be a moss agate
not too sure, but it'll get thrown in the tumbler, see what happens
(Rob) yeah, it'll definitely tumble well
lot of black sand along here
not going to pan it though, rather find agates
a little banded iron formation there
that's jasper and hematite
lots of flies
look, there's like a pile of them right there
I am very glad to have this thing on
and then when you bend down to pick up a rock
they just land and bite immediately
and they kind of hurt, I'm being very brave for you
alright, that's enough of that
(Sam) alright, we think it might be an agate
but I suspect it might be stromatoporoid
the color's kind of wrong for an agate
the banding is quite
nice for a stromadoporoid, if it is one
so
(Rob) I don't see any of the vertical lines there
stromatoporoid has horizontal and vertical lines, I think
(Sam) I think I see little bubbles in it, but
I don't know
(Rob) I would call that an agate
you're thinking not, either way it's a really awesome rock
(Sam) yup
(Rob) call that the find of the day so far?
(Sam) so far
(Rob) nice one
(waves crashing)
(Rob) a pretty piece of unakite
that's really pretty, think I'll take that one home
and a piece of epidote Sam pointed out
that'll tumble up nice too, you want that one, Sam?
(Sam) yeah
(Rob) what's this
Chert I guess
I like that one a lot
and I just plucked this out of the water
and this is the kind I refer to as a magate
as in it may be an agate
there's a lot of agate-y qualities, especially through there
just not quite there
nice
spotted a couple examples of Jacobsville sandstone, there's one here and a kind
of nice one over here
but sandstone doesn't tumble very nice, even though it's pretty
alright, just got the find of the day
this is not the side I saw, or I probably wouldn't have picked it up
but I saw that
and this was in knee-deep water
it was right down there
that's a nice one
that's a Lake Superior agate, in case you didn't know what we were looking at and
ooh-ing and aah-ing about but
that's a very nice one
pretty colors there
see a, not quite a bowling ball omar
that's nice
epidote?
(Sam) maybe
(Rob) yeah, I think it's epidote and
maybe quartz? I don't know
going to keep that one?
(Sam) hmm, considering it
(Sam) just found a nice piece of banded iron formation
(Rob) that's really nice
that'll look great tumbled
yeah, you guys know how I like to pick up trash as I walk along the beach
how's that for a piece of trash
the reel looks a little clogged with rocks
the rod looks pretty good
Sam's a fisherman, what do you think Sam?
the reel's probably done for, but the rod might be fine
(Rob) we'll cram it in the Jeep either way
(Sam) I think it breaks in half, actually
(Rob) oh yeah
pretty green one
epidote
I love that stuff
that's nice orange-ish yellow piece of chert
(Sam) some sort of jasper maybe
a little like iron in there kind of
that'll tumble up nice
(Rob) worth a try
very orange
something interesting down here, don't know what it is yet
ope
I think that's magnetite maybe
usually it's blacker than that
think that's banded iron
getting bitten by flies showing you
that looks sort of metallic there I think
and then look at this piece of sandstone
that's pretty
saw this from shore and had to come out and see what it is
big piece of quartz
sometimes they're pure white, this one isn't obviously
here's an interesting rock
it's got a lot of
stuff going on there
got some nice stripes on it
I just love unakite
lots of unakite here
that's pretty
jasper and I'm not sure what
little bug on there
that's a big piece of magnetite
that's a whopper
here's a couple neat ones right next to each other
just like the color of that, pink on there
little green circle
and then
that one's pretty cool
well we were going to wrap this video up at the water, but
we decided to come back to the campground because the stable flies were so bad,
they were biting our legs there
back here at the campground, I don't know if you can see, but there are flies
everywhere
so if you're in the UP you're either going to have flies or snow I think, those are
your options
so, what you got there, Sam? What are your top finds?
(Sam) here's the agates, this one is the one we're not sure about
and then we've got some more in the bucket we'll show a little clip of those
and then these are all small little agates?
all small agates, and then the big agate-y chunk
and I've got a
my prize agate, this is the one I'm most excited about, I got a couple other ones
the one that looked like wonderstone I'm kind of excited about
so uh
you'll see in my bucket also
so the Two Hearted River is just down over the hill here
we're at the Reed & Green Campground
which is a beautiful place, other than the flies, so
we'll
we'll be back with more videos in the future