Giant Agates in Utah // Huge Dendritic Agate on Brian Head Peak
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- We couldn't have asked for a better day out here. The winds were not too strong, and the agates were huge and plentiful.
Location & GPS Information:
currentlyrockhounding.com/bri...
Thanks for watching!
Did you enjoy this video and find it to be informative? You can help ensure that more videos just like this get made by supporting the project on Patreon. / currentlyrockhounding
#CurrentlyRockhounding #Rockhounding #Agates
Did you enjoy this video and find it to be informative? You can help ensure that more videos just like this get made by supporting the project on Patreon. www.patreon.com/currentlyrockhounding
Every person on earth deserves to experience the indescribable beauty of Utah. At least drive through one time... you will not regret it.
Well said and I couldn't agree more.
Even blind folks for the mtn.air,and the quiet in the desert.
Better make it fast the utvs are destroying it quickly
❤
It makes me so happy to see people having tremendous fun.
Rock hound people captured my heart.❤
Just rewatching and shared your video on our channel. The agates are just amazing and the views can't be beat. If you let us know when you all will be visiting again, we can show you a few other local spots to check out!
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Wowzer!! I agree with your choices. What a place! Even the culls are good. For us dusty dogs...that haul is a gold mine!!
Its an impressive location.
Wow! Those agates are unbelievable, so beautiful. What an amazing area! Definitely on my list. Thanks Jared!✌😎
It's a good location for sure.
We went to Brian’s Head last fall when I first started rockhounding and I went a little crazy with the amount of material I took home! I tumbled a lot of it ( and I’m still tumbling some 😆) and it turned out beautiful :). But, I agree. I took too much of it and now it sits in tubs in my garage. I would rather now find a few unique and awesome specimens than buckets full of material. Thanks for the video…it brought back memories of that beautiful area! 😁
I think over time we all get more picky with what we bring home.
I went elk shed hunting where I live in Utah and I brought home buckets and buckets of agates to tumble. A year and a half later I'm still tumbling it. I found a huge 20 foot wide vein in the rock cliff and I loaded as much as I could. And I was picky about what I took! Lol I bought a cheap wet tile saw with a 6" diamond blade for $40 to cut it all up from Lowes! I thought it was funny because just the blades were around $60.
Hello Brother... Thank you for your video... I looked up to see how far Brian Head is from here in Ohio... Lol it's a 26 hour drive... We don't have geodes, lots of fossils though... Would you consider selling a little bit? I watch everyone's channel that I've seen lol If not, no worries... I'll understand... I feel kinda funny even asking... Take care...
If you are in Utah I will take the agate that you don't want,im in salt lake city.let me know and I will get you my number
Wow, the beautiful scenery at the monument is simply amazing! I hope I can make to Brian Head someday, the agate material is fabulous. Thanks for sharing yours, Sara's, and Laika's experiences in Utah.
Doug, you would love it there, so many place to visit.
Those are such beautiful colors. Massive agate field. That's so awesome.
Thank you!
Love your channel and just visited Brian Head this week to look for agates. I’m from Northern Virginia and wasn’t prepared! We bought hoodies at a truck stop as the temps were in the 40’s. We were wearing shorts as we were in Mesquite NV. 😂 The trail was still under a few feet of snow but we went to a lower elevation and found a few pieces of agate. A lot of fun and adventure! Thx
Yeah it's very high up there isn't it.
Thanks for sharing. It's a beautiful place and the Agates are soooo colorful. I appreciate your comment on being mindful while collecting. Excellent advice.
I'm glad you liked it.
Really incredible!! I'm definitely adding this to my bucket list!!!
It's a great location.
Its beautiful. The scenery you're showing is absolutely gorgeous.
Jared, You took the words right out of my mouth when you shared your plea to be
“mindful” of how much material they’re taking away from primo locations. Can’t you rest the camera upon Sara for longer than 5 seconds? Always from a distance?? Get a closer up w/the wind blowing in slo mo for Pete’s sake ! She’s a woman who deserves a frame, not a passing glance❣️ So much character in her face…!
No point in taking more than you can use!
I could do that but wouldn't you prefer a slomo video of the wind blowing through my hair? In this situation I have a wig on.
Those pieces are beautiful! So many colors, and patterns. I hope you will show them to us when they are cut!
It's coming for sure!
I know in a previous video that I said this is a rock hounders dream....but THIS IS!!!!!
Amazing views great show man!
Thank you!
These are stunning and massive in size. Thank you for telling about this video. Very impressed 😊
At 14:50 the agates were really abundant and the colors were indicative of moss agate.
This is very similar material to what we had sent you. Didn't find boulders as big as that though. Pretty cool. Utah is just incredible.
So beautiful, that state has so much to offer. Brian's Head is on my list.
It's a good location to visit.
Can't wait to see the cutting video for these and great message about being mindful and only taking what you need.
I've been cutting away at this stuff and when I'm done photos will be on the website for sure and likely shown in a future video as well.
Thanks for this video and what beautiful finds! I love the colors! I will add this to my bucket list of hounding places in the future. I also love what you said about over collecting and mindful collecting!
It's a great location to visit and you would have a great day I'm sure. Personally I don't find any real benefit in having a ton of rock vs a few really nice ones.
I appreciate your thinking, pick up a few choice pieces and leave the rest for others to find
Having the back up the truck attitude doesn't necessary mean more happiness and I think it's good to point that out from time to time.
Awesome video as usual! You rock bud love the locations you share with us keep bein awesome!
Thank you!
Quality over quantity every time bro 👍🏼Rocks are heavy! 🤔 I’m going to send you a quality Missouri package soon 👍🏼
Agreed, I would rather have one nice rock than a bucket of junk. Thank you man, i'm looking forward to the package. Who know maybe someday we can drive out that way.
Another awesome place to find cool rocks. Thanks for the outing👍👍
I've been enjoying your channel and content. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
Boy, just the smalls are great. Great video, amazing rocks😀
Thank you for sharing 😊
I'm glad you liked it.
Love that spot. Found it last year. I live in Pleasant Grove Utah. I like to build walls and pathways with rocks. I called this jasper, the red white and blue were amazing. It was raining when I collected And I was right down in the stream. These specimens don’t work as well in my building but still fun to get a few. Gave some to neighbor kids. I use quartzite a lot for my walls. And fill cracks with river rocks and polished rocks. I Use gorilla construction adhesive and concrete.
Another reason for not being out east lol. Another place to visit when I can finally make it out west. Thanks again for sharing. The one you picked from the two does look promising. Can't wait for you to show us that one and the rest👍
I have started to cut into this material, its really good.
Thank you
utah rockhound here, and I've always wondered why I can't get that white layer off my agates too haha; I always thought it was calcite but it's not! I always end up cutting it off or tumbling it away. But man, you got me pumped to go out here with the family and check out these massive agates. I've collected hundreds of mossy plume stuff from all over the state, but have not been here yet surprisingly! I gotta get a big one for the yard now, haha. Love the channel man, keep it up.
Beautiful area, life is full of so many lessons for us all , wow huge agates , gotta check this place out sometime , beautiful finds💙😊, thank you for sharing 😊💙
It's kind fun to just look at them and use them as chairs.
I like guys that go for the big ones. That's what i prefer also.
Can't wait to see some of them cut should have some beautiful pieces.
It's coming I have been working away at them.
Oh my, another place I need to visit! What cool findings!
Yes! Time for you to take a road trip!
Great video again, those agates are indescribably bea-Utah-ful! Your friend thinks like I do. Wheels carrying weight. I actually modified an old Golf Cart to carry a bucket filled with rocks so I didn't have to! There is an untold story about Bryan's Head. From the South Rim of the Grand Canyon at 7,000 feet to Brian's Head at 11,312 there is over 4,300 feet of uninterrupted Sedimentary Deposits. And people stand at the rim of the Grand Canyon and marvel at the erosion. The real story is where did all of the material from the South Rim to Brian's Head go and how was it eroded in "sheets" leaving mesas, massive plateaus, etc...
That's really interesting, that’s a geological story I don't know anything about.
Can’t wait to see the finished product!
:D they look really nice cut!
Adding this to my agate hunting bucket list of places in America to hunt.
Amazing 😍 Quality over Quantity love that ❣️
That's the way to do it!
Hello Jared. Great video. This location is on my list now!
Well worth a visit.
Awesome man.
My friend very nice video you made!! Excellent samples, congratulations!!
Thank you!
The colours are amazing!
The red and black are really lovely.
Watching you try and break the big agate chunk with the chisel made me sure I would prefer one of the chisels with a guard above your hand. I don’t trust me to hit the chisel squarely every time!
I used those handles for years and I still have them but recently I took them off cause I was like "I never miss and hit my hand", guess what then happened.... I hit my hand for the first time, I'm fine but it hurt. They then went back on.
That's awesome. some of those rocks looks like the rainbow petrified wood from AZ :) There is a rock shop in Moab that has a lot of this giant agate around their yard and now I know where are coming from.
If you go to the mouth of the canyon at the north end of cedar city, known as fiddlers canyon, you can find agate that washed down from brian head. You can also check out other canyons to see what washed down, for those who can't go up to brian head when it gets covered in snow.
Solid advice, does the material change much from what is up top?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding the stuff on top is definitely better, but it is nice to know there are other places there when the top is not accessible.
I'm going to need a bigger tumbler! 😂
A cement truck?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding That'll do it!
Wow Jared, a mountain of rock candy, that is awesome. You have found some nice pieces there and it will be interesting to see how the look cut and then polished. I tend to agree with your comments about how much you take. So far I haven’t had to worry about that problem. The only thing I found in bulk has been some petrified wood about 18Kg of it, when I visited a location with my wife & grandson. I should have been a lot more picky as at least a third of it is a bit deteriorated. Only some it is good enough cut. Live & Learn. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin
It's a fun location, even to just walk around and look and giant immoveable agates.
For us I think sticking with the small 7 gallon tote bin is a good amount to take for us. With as often as we go rockhounding I think that's more than enough material from a location and more often its not even half full.
Just got back from Brian Head, massive amounts of agates. It did not disappoint. Watching your videos gave me the bug to get there. next time we are going to go look for obsidian near fillmore. thank you for sharing. there are some really large agates right along the road toward the town. (just a hundred yards from the turn off to get where you filmed the video
I'm glad you had a good time there.
I can’t wait to see what you do with all of that!!
I've started to cut into them.
OMG! That is a crazy place! Awesome!
It's a fun location for sure.
There a lot of beautiful rocks in Utah. Have fun cutting! Be happy, safe and healthy. 😷⚒
Utah is a lovely place to go rockhounding.
Go to eureka agate spot. You will find agates that are literal outcrops. its pretty stuff with really clear banding through it. This stuff you got is more pretty, and stable looking.
Cedar Breaks is such a beautiful place and the agates in that area are amazing! We are lucky that Utah skies are so often blue and sunny, glad you had a great day hunting! I think your dog claimed the huge agate! 😄
"Collect with mindfulness" is a great thing to keep in mind!
I'm glad you agree!
Really cool colorations!😎
Dude walking up the hill with a hand jack/dolly 😂
Wow, beautiful agate, cant wait to c what u do with some of it xx awsome vid xx
I think its really nice material for sure.
Cool location, great finds! 👍
I couldn't say it better.
I took my daughter to that exact spot a couple years ago and took a picture of her sitting on one of the agate boulders on the lower dside of the road. Cool spot.
It's a great location.
Absolutely quality over quantity! No sense people taking way more than they would ever use or need. Maybe they see dollar signs and get greedy. Thank you for kindly asking people to be mindful. I liked reading all the comments on this video. Especially the slo mo with the hair and you wearing a wig 🤣
I can't believe the size of that monster agate, so many different colors and hues on just that one piece.
Also, I picked up a book on zeolites. Not the one you've been showing. Amazon had it listed for like 150 bucks or something saying was only one left, little too rich for my blood, lol. But, the book I grabbed is very good and informative. I see there are many varieties there in Washington. Sadly, only one in my area seems to be Thomsonite. Anywho, loved the video. By the time I get done watching all your guys excursions into Utah, I'll be selling my house and moving there 🤣
Hahaha I know the comments are public but sometimes I don't think about other reading them! :D
So you picked up the Collectors Guide to the Zeolite Group book? If so I also have that one and its really good as well. The other one Zeolites of the World if available for free in PDF format by the way.
Oh Utah has me wanting to move as well!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding yes, the Collectors Guide to the Zeolite Group book is the one I grabbed. You know, I think you did mention the other was available on pdf now that you mention it. When I'm finished with the other I will download it. Thanks for the friendly reminder. What was you favorite part of Utah you visited I wonder?
@@outdooradventureswithfayde6832 My favorite part of Utah has yet to come! I can't spoil the surprise.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding lol, ok ok 🤣
So beautiful!
:D
EAUTIFUL AGATEs!! that material looks like it would make good carving materials,,, thank you for taking us along
Thank you for watching. As someone who does do any carving of material what about this stands out to you and makes you think it would be good to carve.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding first those colors are beautiful, second, it might be to fractured to make a 3d carving still be good enough to carve designs/signs in,, third, the chunk of rough should tell you the design in wich would work for it,,, some times before i even pick a rock up i can see the final shape/design in it, for example a fist sized rock might say it wants to be a polar bear not a rose,, that is this just might be my immagination though from spending all my life alone out in the wild country
@@yoopermann7942 Thank you for the insight.
At 13:15 the agate quality was better than the beginning.
Maybe the white host rock that doesn't clean off is Rhyolite?
Under the microscope I can see that its just like really crappy quartz.
Go big or go home?! I can't act like we didn't see the hand truck 🤣 Fortune favors the prepared mind. Beautiful stones. Thanks for sharing.
My friend is just old and can't lift things! (I hope he see's this :D)
At 16:55 the agate looks high quality.
That place is so cool!! Would be a lot of fun picking out a good yard rock. I would of done the same thing just walk around look at the monster's. You collected some nice ones, good video jarred
It's a little hard to be at a location like this with so many good rocks, what do you pick up? It's a good problem to have.
I'm in Spanish Fork / Provo area this week Nov-3 and the difference in the altitude is making some of the repair work I'm doing a little challenging:)
It does sneak up on you, the altitude really can make you suck wind at times.
Nice video man! I’ve been to Brian Head peak multiple times to snowboard but I never knew that there was such incredible and massive agates practically (or literally) right under my feet lol. So rad!
Did you go septarian nodule hunting while you were down there? If not I’d highly recommend it for next time. The quality of the septarian around Zion area is exceptional. Me and my brother had really good luck in Ordervill a couple years ago, we ended up digging for hours but man was it worth it! Finding any hollow septarian nodule is the best feeling ever! We went back once and didn’t have any luck, that’s the thing about digging from a wall, you just don’t know what you’ll get. Supposedly you can find them easily if you know what your doing but the chances of finding a geode septarian is always really rare.
We didn't have the time for the Septarian nodules which was a shame but next time for sure. We would love to find some.
My favorite video of yours.
Thank you!
Love it all!
Beautiful ❤
Where is Brian Head located? I'm in CT and have only been in Utah twice, in the latter 1970's, on two cross-country car trips. Thanks for videoing that beautiful countryside and the rocks.
It's in southern Utah.
I found a hilltop in yellow cat flats that's all a giant agate like those.
Awesome agate
Dang it. I need a rock saw now.
Cool video. I love to tumble the agate that I find in Ceder breaks. Did you go to the rock shop that’s nearby?
I did not visit any rock shops in the area.
It's crazy, the places that have so much cool stuff that it is hard to choose. Yet, I will search gravel bars on rivers in central Iowa for lake superior agates for days only to come home with a few, that would barely fill my pocket and have a great time!
First of all, WOW!
Secondly, such an impressive spot with equally impressive material. I could spend a ton of time there.
Thirdly, thanks for turning me on to a new agate I've never seen. I can just imagine cutting it. You should do a cutting video of this material for sure.
Great episode!😎🍺👍👏
It's really good stuff, and I have been cutting it up!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding SWEEEET!
You and I picked the same one, good eye.
Could the white crust possibly by gypcrust? It would explain why it wouldn't dissolve in acid, but would be water soluble. It would also be very soft and be able to scratched off, so a simple test could confirm that.
I put it under the microscope and its really just crusty white quartz.
Hi, isn't the white stuff on the surface when agates are exposed to the sun and weather for a long time? I sometimes grind it off, but I also once left parts of it on the rock and tumbled it. The white stuff took a very nice shine...
I don't know about that. I will put it under the microscope and try to figure out what it is.
Dude, this place is agate mecca.
It's pretty dang good.
Could it be common opal like what is found in Montana on agates above ground?
It is not. This material is agate.
Good Lord! I wouldn't be able to cary enough buckets
One or two is plenty! :)
Have you cut or tumbled some of this material since the vid was posted? I'd love to see what this stuff looks like polished up
Great video btw, those views were incredible!
I have cut and polished some of it. Lovely material.
😃 hey Jared, where can i get one of those fancy hats youre wearing?
I'm heading to Cedar Breaks and Brian Head next week. Looking for those same beautiful agates
Unfortunately I only have the one hat since it was a gift a viewer of the channel made for me.
Could the agate there be used for Indian arrow, spear, or knife points?
I don't see why it couldn't be used for those things.
What makes this agate and not flint?
The answer to that is a little too big for a comment reply but I will say that they are two entirely different rocks.
I would love to have some of that agate for my rock saw.(I'm a hundred percent disabled Vietnam vet and I can't get out and look for agates like you can. But I sure love going to my garage and my rocks off and seeing what's in these rocks for the first time they're simply beautiful 😍✝️✝️✝️
sir, do you have a dozen of tumbled jasper or agates for sale?
I do not sell rocks and please do not ask anything like that here.
Very informative, thank you. Do you know anyone who might be interested in a huge piece of petrified wood (320 lbs ). Probably Saddle Mountain, based on the coloration and opalization. About 3 or 4 months ago, I called Robert and Lisa Langford at Langford Lapidary in Yakima, and they invited me to bring it over so Lisa could take a look at it. They seemed fairly impressed. Lisa brought her UV light out to my truck and determined it floureces in many colors. Anyway, the short of it is, I'd like to sell it. Maybe you guys know someone who may be interested. I spoke with Joe Cota in Lebanon, Oregon, but he seems to be quite busy. Well, thanks for all the great videos. Kindest regards, Don Wilson, Tacoma, Washington.
That's a hard one, it really depends on the quality of it, and if it is a full round or not.
So what kind of agates are these called ? Love your videos Dan.
I would just call them a red and black dendritic agate.
I may have missed seeing this information, but may I ask for a gps location or detailed directions I live in central utah.
All of the information for this location and others is listed on my website.
This reminds me a lot of a place in New Mexico with the exact same kind of scenario with massive boulders of the material scattered everywhere, places like this are truly special!
I'm not sure where you're talking about in New Mexico but I want to go.
Can someone please direct me how/where to become a member?? I have searched and searched on RUclips and the website. I can’t find it! 😫
It looks like you figured it out! Thank you for joining!
So I had a really cool opportunity to go clean out an old rock shop is rockshop and pick the rocks up out of the gentleman's yard It's kind of funny that you put this video up right now because I think I have 2 giant Aggits from this location I also ended up with about 20 thunder eggs and and a Ton of Is petrified wood there is some small pieces that were already cut that that are amazing that I just somehow ended up with when I was cleaning everything out There's one piece of petrified wood left but it's too big to move I'm gonna have to figure something out for that
The material from here is pretty unique so it could be fore sure from here.
That white is most likely silica rich ash