Roadside Rockhounding: Agates & Zeolites
Roadside Rockhounding: Agates & Zeolites
Join us for some fun roadside rockhounding in the Washington desert.
We definitely run zero risk out here of being in contact with people during this quarantine.
Stay till the end for a slide show of these tiny little agates and zeolites.
In the video I mention pillow basalt which is a volcanic igneous rock that forms when lava of basaltic composition erupted underwater. The rapid cooling of the lava by cold water on all sides forms the pillow-shaped bodies, which can then break open and extrude more of the hot lava from inside.
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Good spot
You can find TONS of agate at the Columbia river near Vantage. I have buckets of specimens. It took me a long time to figure out if it was agate or jasper. Some of it seems half agate and half jasper. Some are opal and the rest I just call it chert and chalcedony. I’ll upload a video of my collection so I can be corrected too. 🙂
Dude what a rad rock hunt, crystals and bubba agates, poppin outta the basalt 👌
And man loved learning how you guys started hounding.
Hahaha! “If you ever wanna be corrected… just say it on a video” 🤣😂🤣
And dude, beautiful slide show of the pretties 👊 just rad!
The go pro deos not do rocks any justice I got a nikon p900 it does really good macro pics I love doing banded agates close up but keep on hounding bro🍻
I found a chunk of basalt with zeolites on the beach this weekend, then you tube saw fit to toss this video back into my feed 🤣 it’s like it knew I needed the confirmation of what I found.
I enjoyed this video. I have a few spots I go to that has basalt with olivine/peridot, zeolite. Also white,silver,pink and yellow Druzy crystals with some botryoidal Calcite. I’m amazed that one valley or one hill side can have such a variety of basalt with different textures and colours of crystals. On the east coast I found basalt with orange crystals last summer. Basalt is under rated by most people but I think it has great qualities. I rock hound in the Okanagan Valley B.C. we have some of the same terrain. Enjoy your finds. 🐕🐾
Looks like you found where the Easter Bunny hides his Jelly beans🤣🤣🤣🤣♥️ Cool spot!!
Learning of rock hounding in Spokane ,Washington awesome thank you 😊
after all this is over lets meet in the middle somewhere like eastern Oregon, I got some good spots up there , and I can get from here to there in a days drive my email is calluseyed@gmail.com, stay safe ; )
those agates are so blue !!
Agate dad calls the agates in basalt galaxy stones.
How do you polish your agates?
Where can I buy that chisel with the hand protector?
Looks as if y’all got some really good treasures and had a great time doing it that makes for a great day!
There is something I would like to ask.. Why should it bother you if I was to find something I like and enjoy colleting if I decide i want to take 20 buckets home and do with it what makes me happy even if it’s speading it all over my house leaving no more than a path?
Great video guys keep up the good work and stay safe out there.
*89…,👍* thanks for sharing this light show was nice..
Are the agates brittle?
I look forward to hear from you.
God bless you,
Stay safe Ken
I’m in Clarkston so as soon as the video began I figured you were on the snake! I am JUST starting to learn and get into this so your videos are a wealth of knowledge and resources. It also shows there are tons if places right in the area, thank you!
That was super fun to watch!! I’ve been waiting for the thaw here so I can start doing similar things to our basalt formations! So many agate beauties hiding in them!
The Fourth Photo in the slide show looks like a Sheep if you tilt your head to the side lol. So Cool!
they are digging into the bedrock on my work’s property and i have been getting a bunch of these! watchung basalt, greetings from nj!
Often beauty is in the smallest detail usually overlooked. We have commercial mining operations here in NZ for zeolite used for kitty litter and much more.
Yes, they do like tell when your wrong, when your doing stuff that’s unsafe, which according to the comments I’ve read, is everything, and a bunch of other crazy stuff, I don’t know how ya’ll do it, but thanks, I enjoy watching.
Nice find on your agates 👍
Thank you for taking us so long.
I enjoyed this video.
I’m glad I found your Channel.
Can You Here the Bell Ringing.,,
I look forward to hear from you
By for ñow.Ken
Google tells me zeolite is used in water filtration systems and has many other uses as filtering agents. There are several different types and some are very dangerous to breathe. Who knew? Another rock to make a dent in my brain. Y’all keep on hunting and teaching, above all stay safe and havagudun.
I’ve found some of those little crystals in basalt some are hollow others solid or in sheets. All look like quartz crystals.
Wow! That’s really cool! I’ve understood how agates were formed and have eroded out of the basalt, but never ever have I seen them actually in the place they were formed! What a fantastic find and perfect demonstration of how agates came to be! Thanks for a great video!
Such a cool surprise to find all those agates and jasper’s. It just goes to show it could be a stretch of road we go past many times. The view of the lava and Ash mountains are very beautiful. Thank you, I enjoyed it very much 👍🏼
It’s amazing to hear how light the traffic is! Now you need to try to think of any other road cuts that used to be hard to access due to heavy traffic.
Just for the record, my mom nicknamed me Butterfingers for the same reason. I’m stoked for you guys finding those agates in that basalt. If I was there I’d want to tear the hillside down too.
This was fun to watch , especially since you described it. I’m a newbie even at my old grandma age. I’m going to really pay attention to stuff we stop by. Thanks.
Great fun find. Very interesting I live in Battle Ground Wa. St Helens is close.
Cool video, dude!! When we find these rocks at the Oregon Coast, we call them birthing rocks!
Thank you 😊
Curious, are most roadside areas public or private? Is there a certain distance from the road that is considered public?
Nice Video, I sniff out rocks down south of you in Oregon. I really enjoy driving the BLM roads, finding their rock piles and quarry’s, they seem to be a treasure trove of sorts. Always inspecting and spelunking, most recently I have been finding similar looking Zeolites but they have a dark green shell, and are completely full of crystal clear quartz, but it Flakes off like a Mica. Any idea what it might be? My last specimen was 2.5cm in diameter, beautiful rock.
mindat.org shows a site in that area west of Clarkston and has a list of minerals and zeolites, but although it lists opal and it has chalcedony it doesn’t specify agate so you likely found a distinct site . Mindat has a free copy of Zeolites of the World by Rudy Tschernich
I had fun trying to figure out the exact location you guys were at based on the hills in the background and that funky house. What did we ever do before Google maps? Lol. Next time we are in the are totally checking this out.
Cool video, around me there are lots of old trap rock quarries which are known for their world class prehnite and additionally quartz clusters, amethyst and other associated trap rock minerals.
Skarn!!! <said in my best pirate voice>
What a cool scenic drive 🙌 nice little haul of agates you got there. Are you going to tumble or polish them?
No coordinates this time?
Thanks for watching everyone, I hope you enjoy the video.
Wawawai?
Paper towels would work in your bucket. In layers it would protect and cushion the stuff you did not want to break
WOW
Is it legal to use small explosives to rock hound in WA?
Do you know what mineral makes up the really needly white zeolites. I found a really nice there.