hey what's up everybody welcome back to the channel my name is taylor and today we're on the
north shore of lake superior doing some thomsonite hunting i've been here for about five minutes i
found one okay piece let me show you what we're looking for this stuff is really beautiful
so here's that piece i'm going to get it wet i've had it in my hand as i've been walking here
thompsonite is zeolite and it's very beautiful it's got this flower-like pattern on there
this is not what i would consider a high quality piece hopefully we can find a few of those today
but it's really really pretty stuff you can see how thin of a layer it is on there let's see what
else we can find so it is a beautiful day up here on the north shore minnesota side absolutely calm
as far as lake superior goes water's super clear and i think we might have gotten lucky because you
can kind of see that right there it looks like a thin layer on top of that rock i'm i'm gonna
it's clear enough for me i can tell it is i don't know how high of a quality piece it's gonna be
that is really pretty
you can see the flower-like patterns in there i wouldn't say it's the best piece i've ever found
but it's probably probably top five that is a beautiful zeolite
and this stuff in my opinion is more rare than lake superior agates
with this high quality pattern i have very few good pieces in my collection so
we're gonna head down the beach and see what else we can find as we wade in lake superior
so there are a lot of rocks that look like this we're doing a lot of scooping today you can see
there's some pockets here that have that zeolite pattern in it this isn't that great of a piece
so i'm going to leave it here i think i might have found one right here
we'll uh move this big rock let's see if it is
i don't think it is throw it up here is this one no this is cords no this pattern threw me off
yeah a lot of scooping today i'm not going to show you everything we're scooping
let's see what else we can find we found ourselves a really big chunk
looks like you can see the pattern on there possibly
not very i don't even think that's thompsonite it's just some little formation ah tricked me
alrighty so we're on the beach this spot of this you can see that pattern in there
this thing is huge not coming home with me but it almost looks like a possible nodule of it
there's another one right here this stuff is really pretty
really cool i think i found another piece right here you can see that layer
you can see the flower pattern in there ah it's tempting to polish that
right here and see what it looks like i'll have to do that
yeah you can see that flower pattern kind of like right there all over in it that
it's really neat yeah i'll bring that piece home so i just spotted this other piece here
you can see it right in there it's a little flower pattern and then where was it this is
a really old piece you can see the zeolite going on right there not very good but i had spotted one
now i can't so there it is right here you can see it right there tip of my thumb
right there that is pretty cool i wonder how deep that goes right there that's really pretty i'll
probably bring that one home not a little i don't know if you would call them nodules or anything
one of the last things i expected to find up on this hill is right here a piece of porphyry
oh there's this guy right here or did i already look at that
no but yeah i'm gonna take this one home and uh
i like that one right there by my thumb that is really cool got a few more pieces here
that little guy right there
this guy right here and this one's got them kind of all over they're really pretty
like that one that's kind of a shard right there
so i've had enough fun up on this big hill looking for this thompson night
i'm going to climb back down we're going to hop in the lake and see we can find on the way back
so i am on my climb down and i actually found something that was super sad because i cannot
bring it home with me there we are that is the zeolite thompsonite like pattern we are
searching for it look at how big this is it's way too big to bring home golly that is pretty
goodness gracious that is nice there's a big one here
there's another one right next to it that has some nice stuff look at that
wow
well i know nobody else is gonna carry these out so maybe i should come back with a chisel
look at that
there's a whole nodule right there i guess they do come in nodules no idea oh look at this
on the back side
that is crazy green get out of here
gosh that is pretty i'm gonna try flipping it just to see if there's anything on the back side
oh goodness gracious there is the whole back side is looks like a death plate
wow look at that one
that's crazy yeah look at this
unbelievable absolutely fantastic stuff looks like there's a loose piece back here
i thought that'd be a better piece shoot all right well that is pretty neat i'm glad we found that
these patterns that i'm talking about that's the high quality thompsonite
talking about that's what we're looking for i found very few loose pieces like this
wow so much of it oh look there's a loose piece ah just a little bit shoot little nodules in it i'll
keep poking around if i find anything else i'll show you alrighty i have been doing some poking
around and we have found some amazing stuff oh my gosh look at this that's coming home look at that
really beautiful i'll put that in my backpack i don't think that was anything this whole pile
right here some of these that we're gonna just take home and chisel stuff out look at that
that's super pretty it's just full of them save this for a rainy day probably leave that one
probably that this one's got a pretty cool little piece in it
leave that do that take these ones but check this out so i found a bigger piece over here just uh
that in it but just laying here right there and i picked it up and i threw it right on this point
and look at what broke off and was exposed
that is beautiful look at that
but guess what the other part of it broke off we're gonna bring that home check this out
oh my gosh oh my goodness that's the best piece hands down of toms tonight i've ever found
oh my gosh the green oh my goodness
oh i'm gonna see if i can get a couple more pieces off of this
i got a couple more pieces off these broke but that's a nice little piece right there right there
a little bit right there we could have some fun trying to cut that out
polishing it we will hop back in the lake and see what else we can find
so on the walk back we didn't find a ton of other pieces but we found some really amazing
stuff on that hillside i'm going to be putting a slide show at the end of the video of all the
beautiful details in that thompsonite it's some of the best i've ever found
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