yep so this is what rock hunting in minnesota looks like up on the north shore lake superior
we're literally fighting the lake for space
to look for rocks but luckily because the ice is set in the water is so clear and uh
i just started right right there i got scoopy we got his head reattached
and i think we just found our first i wouldn't say full blown agate but it's agate and host rock so
set that on the ice here because that's possible
yep nice lake superior agate and host rocks some little nodules running through there
first rockhounding video of 2022. let's uh let's see what else we can find today
look at how clear this is through the ice
that yellowish one above the orange one is one i'm looking at i don't know what it is i don't believe
it's an egg it might be some jasper but i just had to show you how clear this is i see a really
cool one over there sitting right there so we'll grab this orange one or excuse me this yellow one
and then we'll grab that black one with the white tip on it
yeah we're breaking breaking through ice
fighting against ice here
all right
all right not worth it moving on not playing your games lake superior
all right this one's wedged hold on all right have we finagled that one out
oh my gosh this is not even planned look at that
right here i like superior agate got stuck in scoopy's face trying to get to focus here
it's so little but it's got some limonite staining on there
that's cool i'll stick that in my pocket and then this one thought it might have some agate
on the tip it's really cool looking but i'm not exactly sure what it is i'm gonna leave it here
so i noticed that this chunk of ice is moving around a little bit
and i want to see what's underneath here so we'll just move it let's see what's under the ice
look at that it slides right under the other ice what do we got here
this agate right here
doesn't want to give up his goodies today looks like some quartz with hose rock looks
like some quartz banding on the bottom there not enough for me to bring home but
yeah i'm actually having a lot of fun doing this my legs are freezing cold but it's fun
it's as cold as it looks well i just plucked this out of there i thought i hit record and
apparently i'm having a brain freeze but found some green epidote this is really really
pretty i'm probably going to bring this home polish it up
so i'm trying to get to some more open water here i'm going to break through the ice
there's a little bit more open water comes down to about right there
and then if we go back to where we started there's a little more down there so we got
some more to look through i'm still hopeful we'll find some more stuff on this cold day it is cold
being super careful last thing we want to do is fall in but i'll let you know if i find anything
got another chunk of host rock here took some finagling and uh through the ice here it looks
like there's a bunch of it going on in there the colors at least yeah right there got some bands
oh that's really pretty all over that's really cool oh that's like purple right there
that'd be a good one to cut since it's so thick with inclusions going on so
yeah just about out of water here we'll hop on to the beach
run down there and then uh well we'll see what we find down there all right so we made it to the
end of this beach we're gonna work our way to the other end hop back in the lake and see what else
we can find i've had more let go in the other way so hopefully that luck continues right now
and i'm just happy to be out of the lake for a minute my feet are freezing
we are to the other open water this looks promising
ton of material to go through and check this out i don't know if i've ever seen a stone of this color
wow come on a stone of this color
on uh lake superior that is really really crazy that's so yellow
that's really neat i'm gonna leave it but it's pretty cool we have found
porphyry our first porphyry of the year
beautiful feldspar crystals in there that is so cool
oh yeah looks like it's got some little agate pockets in there i'm gonna take that one home
and we're gonna cut it in the future because i've actually found lake superior agate inside porphyry
and i find very very little that actually show a sign of it so we're gonna keep this one for
sure i already think we might have spotted an agate or it's quartz of source but right
there it looks translucent and uh we're gonna get her out of there see what it actually is
that's a piece of quartz that's pretty though i'll leave it so a few minutes ago i found
this host rock some more nodules in it that i'm gonna bring back cut open but right down here
is a piece of jasper so that's spoopy the horse rock right there
snipe this thing
we go we got it
cool oh yeah some nice red olytic jasper
beautiful first piece of jasper of the year pretty happy with that that's cool
we got ourselves another piece of jasper right here
what's that sounds cool
that's pretty it's a pretty good piece nice so coming back down the the beach here when
i look under this big chunk so we're going to move this guy out of here see we can find
get out of here
all right let's see what we can find
gosh the water is so clear it's so pretty
i don't think that's an agate but it looks really really unique so just play it safe and grab it
i don't think it is an agate but it's got some really cool really distinct lines in there
that's unique i've only seen that in agates with uh crystal impressions so
we'll leave it but still cool well we have searched this whole beach and i have run
out of water i had an absolute blast on our first rockhounding adventure of 2022
there's gonna be many many more so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss them
found some pretty good stuff today and i'm glad you guys got to see it see you next time bye