Unboxing the Gemstones of Utah | Gems Across America
Unboxing the Gemstones of Utah | Gems Across America
Utah, home of Red Beryl – one of the rarest gemstones in the world – plus a Topaz Mountain, and a unique rock known as “Ice Cream Stone.” On today’s Gems Across America episode, Elizabeth uses her geology and gemology expertise to unbox the coolest specimens from a rockhound’s paradise.
02:07 – Red Beryl or Red Emerald???
04:46 – Topaz Mountain Treasures
06:50 – Unboxing Variscite
08:32 – What is Ice Cream Stone?
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I would like to see different tourmaline colors from the Himalaya mine from California. Very nice looking red beryl, love the topaz and all the others you had in the video.
Arizona?
If you dig something up that is extremely rare and expensive, for example a perfect 50 carat Red Beryl, hide it immediately and do not tell anyone around because the owners of the land and/or mining area WILL try to tax you heavily. People are unfair and greedy and self important, you take that 50 carat Red Beryl and you collect ALL the money from it and you donate half of that money to an animal charity and humanitarian charity. Fvck all the rich greedy low lifes out there who care only about themselves and hoard their billions of dollars in hopes of gaining power over the flawed system we call Society.
I would love to see a video on Virginia!
Love that topaz ❤
Nice rocks! Enjoy watching ur show!
Magnificent sweet sweet stones fantastic knowledge have to agree that topaz awesome awesome thank you another fantastic video
Im so sick of hearing how rare red beryl is. It is NOT rare if you can find 50 in a day along with topaz on the same matrix it os NOT rare. News flash we have been finding it in Montana too. So montana, new mexico, utah, AND arizona. Its 4 states now can we STOP the rare crap. Do we find tanzanite in america? Heliodore? Alexandrite? Grandiderite? All of those are more rare than red beryl abd 98% of all of red beryl is unfacetable. Not for jewelry. This topic is getting very silly. Rare. Lol nope.
Great Utah-inside-jokes! 😂 and really cool finds!
Oquirrh = Oh-ker
as a geology college drop out from utah I love this episode!
"break the crap out of rocks" ………. i think i am in love with U
I would like to see what is in Illinois.
Wow, those gemstones from Utah are very beautiful.😯😀💎 I like all of them. Never knew there’re many types of red beryl.❤💎 Some have unique names like the Tiffany/ice cream🍨💎 stone and the topaz mountain.🗻 It’s interesting to know about them and where to find them. Thanks for sharing and nice video.😊💎
Ohio. Curious to know what gems come from Ohio. Thank you for letting us know not to call it bixbite.
NJ
You heard my plea!!!
The heading was about red beryl. I would of loved to of seen more of the very rare red beryl, but the host decided to focus on the boring common Utah topaz. Very disappointing. I suggest that you find a better host for this series.
Here is a REALLY tough state to do…..try and do Kentucky! I would really like to see what interesting minerals you can come up with other than Fluorite or Agates
I would so bust rocks for a living as well I would love that job soo much
Wow, I’ve never ever seen a faceted Red Beryl before, I didn’t even know it was possible. Loved the Tiffany stone, beautiful. Also that Topaz was so clean. Thank you for sharing.
I had never seen this show before. I am hooked! This is very cool. Have you did a show about California? I would like to see it. And one about Wisconsin. Thank you
Red Beryl, also sometimes called "Scarlet Emeralds", which I think is a MUCH cooler name.
Georgia
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Have you done New Mexico?
Please get to Indiana.
Colorado! We have several mines. Rhodochrosite, the gemmy stuff.
That’s really cool about the red beryl! Odd tie in to your gemstones in video games vids…I am currently playing Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town and one of the gems I have had the easiest time finding from the very beginning is red beryl! LOL 😛
great show would have loved to see azurite from La sal tho may be on round 2
Oquirrh is pronounced locally as "ochre"/oh-ker
But…they do have green aquamarine…
I like the name bixbite personally. Why not red maynardite lol ?
At topaz mountain you can pay about $600 to have them blast fresh rock at a private claim and be able to take anything you find in it. But you can honestly just walk the runoff beds coming down the mountain and find gorgeous sun-bleached topaz crystals.
I thought it was Tiffany stone because it looked like a Tiffany glass lamp.
What a colorful episode. Those Topaz were beautiful love that color of topaz. Red beryl is always a joy and I agree it’s very raspberry like.
About the bananas. Every time someone brings up Potassium, i reminds me of the time when I was at Reed, and a bunch of atomophobs convinced the student body to ban all radioactive materials from all student accessible areas.
The Dean put myself and a few other students in charge of presenting a counter argument to their claims. My strategy was what I called the “Ben Franklin” approach.
I let them have there way, then rigorously enforced the rule the rules, without mercy or exception.
I had the class members who pressed this rule bagged up and taken away by the cities hazmat team. When they protested, i listed off every radioactive element in their body, that they would die without.
Benjamin Franklin sad “The true test of a laws merit, is it rigorous and impartial enforcement. Especially upon those who enacted it.”
I’m not huge fan of JT, but she’s well informed. 👍
Great minerals, I would love to go mining out there. Utah also has some amethyst. I have a small geode with light amethyst crystals formed in rhyolte from the Wah Wah mountains.
They seem to get small red beryl samples in its host rock at a rock store near me.
Nevada next please!
Camping at Mt. Topaz, the wife and I got into a rock hounding frenzy, and were unable to stop crawling around until several hours after dark, despite having to drive over a thousand miles home the next morning
I live in Texas and would love to see what beauties you guys would pull out
My great uncle was a geologist, he told me they used to call it Scarlett emerald way way back.
I’d like to see gems from Idaho and Wyoming
I’m not sure if I buy the whole 1 ton of ore Rhyolite to find a single carat Gem. That sounds great on paper, but it has no accounting for geological processes or luck. Maybe just a better way of stating this is that the Red Beryl production zone is buried under the ground, as opposed to the mine on Mt. Antero Colorado where the stones are at the tippy top of the mountain and just waiting for people to come brush the surface off to find them. This sounds far more difficult as you would have to dig through a dickload of Rhyolite to find them. Btw, Rhyolite has hardness 6 on the mohs scale, which makes it technically more scratch resistant than Steel. However, Steel has a much more tight molecular bond, so it is still possible to penetrate, but requires much more force, XD no wonder there aren’t any Red Beryls, nobody wants to pay millions of dollars to mine them.
Yes yes I love red beryl 😊
What happened to Natalie?
Again I just wanted to let you know you done an excellent job on the red beryl it’s about time somebody explained that about Bixbite I’m going to give you a little information you probably didn’t know Lamar Hodges found the red beryl in the wah wahs in 1959. Maynard Bixby found the beryl at the topaz mountain range in 1905 the red beryl at topaz mountain are tabular and they’re not Jem quality Lamar Hodges is my grandpa me and my dad and uncle Steve Hodges set the first stick of dynamite off at the Wah wah mine my dad is the one that sold the mine to Robert & Rex & Ted Harris me and My Three sons are currently opening up a new area for red beryl we have all the associated minerals for red beryl
Alabama
honestly i don’t blame elizabeth for thinking the topaz crystals look faceted. if you gave one of those to me and said the terminations were polished i would’ve believed you
if you ever do an episode on Texas then PLEASE bring a specimen of chambersite. it’s one of my favorite minerals, but getting ahold of one might be hard. they are very rare and very hard to obtain too – you have to go as deep as 70 ft below the surface to get a chance of obtaining a single crystal!