well it's another cold day up on the north shore mid april
snowing and windy figured i'd come out hit up the beaches and i just found this
right here oh yeah
that is a beautiful lake superior agate
beach worn
well let's see what else we can find today well it's been another i'd say 15 minutes
found a good little handful uh i think this might be jasper a couple not so great agate this is a
piece of tomsonite and this is actually a green agate we'll take a closer look at that later
i just saved this lake superior agate from right down there
it's a double bubble
so we got some pretty good wave action going on today but it makes it really hard to find stuff
and even when i see it another wave comes in and then it disappears so i'm going to hop up on the
beach and look at some dry rocks see if we can find anything up here so i searched through all
this material here and only found a couple of kind of funky pieces here and right there
is a crystal impression there's a few of them but that one's like an actual triangle that is super
cool and then this guy it almost looks like it has potential agate bands and stuff but it's very very
beach worn it's really really funky and then i just found this really cool piece of wood
so i'm gonna bring that home because that i don't find too much wood like this this is really really
beautiful very beach wash beach horn got some pork free that's actually a really nice piece
nice little feldspar crystals in there that's cool
so i don't know what i just pulled out of the lake here i thought it was the limonite
stained agate and i was like no it's not but then i look closer and right here
is a funky translucent window it's really hard to tell right now because of the weird glare but that
is really really weird that's really cool oh yeah it's a little boop that's a nice omar look at that
a little baby boop on the back
so the weather conditions today seem to be a bit bi-polar and it's making agate hunting conditions
not very good but i've decided to break out my 10-inch lapidary saw to cut open a bunch of this
stuff to see what is going on inside let me show you what we're going to be cutting so here's the
bin we're going to be cutting open this porphyry right here this goofy looking thing to see if
we can find any real agate bands going on to the inside and a few of these random it set we found
let's see what's going on and this one i think i'm going to cut it right down the middle
see if there's any bands going on it's a little darker up here so hopefully it's not full of
quartz and then i really want to see what's going on inside this double bubble so let's head out and
fire up the saw so we got this all filled up with water it's ready to go let's turn it on
and the first thing we're going to cut is this for free right here
let's check it out oh yeah man i love seeing the side of this porphyry such beautiful feldspar
crystals and next up is this really goofy looking potential agate but i'm not too hopeful we're
gonna cut it right down the center right here since this has a big surface area so let's do it
it's pretty but not very spectacular i don't know if i'd consider that agate let
me know what you think i don't it's probably some other mineral that is i look alike so
yeah so i'm gonna burn through some of these other random stones here potential jasper
agate i think this is when i get a couple of random things in this little mini galaxy stone
so
so some of those are what i would say are keepers or potential stones to work
later with polishing and stuff a lot of them i'm gonna just probably toss and
then we are on to our last three i'm really interested to see what's going on in this one
the double bubble nodule and this sweet like superior agate with the quartz hopefully the
quartz isn't all the way through but we will see so let's cut them
i have not peeked at this yet let's take a look at it together wow it's not
super spectacular but it's just more interesting because i've never really cut anything like that
we'll take a better look at that later and maybe pop the macro lens on to take
a look at that because that's pretty cool up next is this double bubble again nodule
we're going to cut it straight down the middle catching both of these
parts and yeah hopefully there's some sweet bands inside let's take a peek at this double bubble
oh i was hoping there'd be some more spectacular bands going on cool little pockets right here
but not the most magnificent is what it is on to
this one hopefully this one's good
i have a feeling it's going to be a lot of quartz inside but won't know until we cut it so
let's do it
oh i am excited to see what is going on
in this agate
oh yes oh sweetness that is so beautiful through i don't so this is quartz this would be more clear
cal sydney and through there you can see these little i don't even know what you
call those betrothal formations i don't know this is going to be such a great candidate
for polishing beautiful white banding in there a little bit of like a bluish purpley hue going on
oh awesome i'm so excited let me head back inside we'll take a closer look at some of
the details with this and the other ones with the macro lens so here's all of our cuts and before
we pop that macro lens on to take a closer look i forgot to show you this green agate that we found
it's not primarily green but it has green in it which i never never find anything like that that
is really really cool but let's take a peek at some of these really cool ones with the macro lens
me so i had a lot of fun on that rockhounding adventure and cutting
all these beauties up i especially love this really nice nodule that we found
beautiful bands inside definitely going to polish it in the future
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