hey what's up everybody today we're going to be cutting open porphyry it's these beautiful
rocks that have feldspar inclusions in them and some of these like this one right here i think
it's potential to have some agate pockets going on on the inside so this big guy right here you
can see these little white pockets those look very much like little agate pockets
so we're going to start off small work our way through the big ones
we're going to do together so let's cut these open and see what's going on on the inside
and our first cut looks like that that is really pretty really really pretty
all right moving on let's do this really river burned chunk of porphryr to really
know if there is any agate pockets in this one but again we'll cut it up
oh that is really cool
those crystals absolutely beautiful
i'm wondering if these are calcite pockets quartz pockets
or maybe a little agate going on in there let's find out
let's see what's inside this one
do not believe that those are agate pockets
i bet they're little quartz pockets
that's pretty cool though i love the greens in there that's really neat
up next is this really really beautiful chunk of porphryr i've got really great crystals in there
really really cool looking forward to seeing what's going on inside this
we're going to cut it right down the middle right there
oh those are so fine that is so cool almost looks like a possible little agate
pocket right there it's so small though
cool cool this one i don't have a ton of hope for i don't know if this
is even porphryr but we're gonna cut it open we'll see what it looks like
so here that one is
that's really pretty i don't think that's the porphyry that i'm used to finding a couple of
these look like possible crystals if you know what this is exactly leave a comment let me know
i think it's really beautiful yeah here's our next contestant that we're gonna cut
right down the middle right here kind of take a this chunk off right here
here we go
that's pretty cool i just love the contrast between the host rock and the orange feldspar
crystals so pretty that'd make a nice little display piece if we polish that
alrighty moving on to some of the bigger ones we've got this guy
it's got great crystals in it though i'm gonna cut it right along this spine right here so
we'll see you when it's done
and the inside of this one was not as exciting as i'd hoped it's just mainly
because of the host it's like the host rock kind of takes away from the contrast
making that orange pot the crystals are great but this isn't funny you're just
kind of like oh the host isn't that good it doesn't doesn't make it as
beautiful in my opinion so now we're moving on to this guy right here let me get that wet
you can see all these little white pockets all over i hope they're a little bigger on the inside
so we're going to make two cuts on it one like that
and one like that right there and hopefully you'll find some agate
lake superior agate going on inside oh so excited i've wanted to cut this one for a very long time
have it look not gonna look gonna do it together it's kind of weird as i came through
it felt like i was hitting some hard
hard spots because normally you just burn through this material so i'm hoping
that there's some nodules that we cut through and that's why i got so hard so let's see
no maybe it's just because there was so much surface area to cut that was my second guess
let me get that wet looks like right there there's a tiny tiny tiny little nodule
ah let's hoping there'd be some bigger ones
it's still really pretty but yeah it's kind of like the same thing that host rock kind of
muffles the crystals a little bit we'll cut it one more time right here maybe we'll get lucky
all right let's check this one out
we got a couple little pockets there i wouldn't say it's too impressive
but i had more hope for this one to be honest but we are on to our last piece
the crystals on this are very interesting they're a little more spread out so i'm
thinking it'll be really cool on the inside that one actually looks like a legit star
so we're going to cut this one the long way it's probably going to take a little bit longer
not sure if you could hear me we made it we got through all those beautiful pieces
of porphryr let me set you up we'll get some better light
we'll check out our last piece not gonna look i'm just gonna rinse it so it's nice and clean for you
well
it's cool not my favorite it's still really pretty though
a little triangle right there little x
well hey still cool that we're able to see inside this i love porphyry it's one of my favorite
stones to find up here on the north shore or rock hounding
yeah pretty cool though this is all the porphyry that we cut in this fun video
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