Rockhounding Washington State: Hunting the Elusive Columbia Basin Agate
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2023
- Sometimes rock hunting is as much about the journey as it is about the finds. In this video, Kate visits Fir Road, a heavily hunted and very cool site along the Columbia River. She is accompanied by fellow RUclipsr Patrick Donohue. The temperatures are high and the rocks are hot as the two of them scour the literal mountains of gravel for the elusive CBA. Rockhounds take note: there are so, SO many beautiful rocks!
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If you want to find some CBA's you should take Sara with you, she has a habit of finding them with in the first 5 minutes of getting there and before I can even turn my camera on and then we find nothing the rest of the day.
Happens to the best of us Jared 😂 I’ve been there
I'd love to bring Sara! I'd even let you tag along. :D
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Lovely scenery i especially loved the green rocks and the one with red banding not forgetting the golden potatoes perhaps a golden potato follow up to go with “I’m a potato” short 🥔 ?
Oh, that's a great idea!
I realy liked the green ones plus the ones jimmy find in 8 something💕
Yep, they were all pretty cool. :)
Liked the green rock too!
Me too!
Don't feel bad Kate, I live 30 miles from Fir Road and have never found one either!
Someday!
A beautiful trip with lots of beautiful rocks. "We don't need no stinking agates!" 😊
Ha!
Those CBAs are as rare as hen’s teeth.😎
:D
Apparently!
Lots of great material in the Columbia river basin, great video and hounding...👌
Thanks, Michael!
Oh biscuits, awesome channel!
Thanks for visiting
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Good video.
Thanks!
It was a nice walk at least, and great to meet you and Kava.
How can you carbon-date rocks? You told Katy they were 3 millions yrs. old.
@@janehelbert7551 The conglomerate deposit is somewhere between 9ish and 3 million years or so - I don't know the exact age, but it's part of the Ringold Formation which comprises that range. The rocks themselves are likely much older.
Carbon dating only works to 50k years or so. Older than that requires other techniques.
What is the crystal called, inside the Porphyry rock, that is rectangular? Thanks :)
@@ccvgems8754 some feldspar variety
I had a great time! You gave me a new appreciation for porphyry. :)
The Columbia is known for its golden potatoes lol. We have so many of them in my yard.
Ha! They're cool, anyway. :)
You will find 1 eventually. It's just playing against the odds. The more you go, the greater your chances. A plus is all the other rocks and a wonderful walk. Nice to have a geologist along. 😊
It was fun - and he didn't find one either. :)
Strike 3? Too bad! They are rare to find and I think you were aiming a bit high, and maybe start looking in the smaller rocks! But some of the rocks you picked up were really pretty! Most were just really common and like some of the rock on the Yellowstone that you wouldn't pick up, that's like all quartzite to us in the PNW! And awesome seeing Patrick in your video, he is very knowledgeable and can give great insight as to what was going on with the rock in that area! He is very smart and I love his videos! Great Collab Kate and Patrick!
Ha, it's ok. One of these days. :D
On the yellow stained rocks you might try some iron out to see if it removes the staining…
I will!
My son Michael lives there. He loves going overto the wall...
It's really a remarkable place.
@@KatyDidRocks just went there again with my son on Sept 21st. Will have to post the video.
You missed one at 6:27. When you grabbed the green one I think.
I bet I missed LOTS of them!
I thought that green was epidote
It sure looked like it - but Patrick is a geologist, so he should know. :)
Hello😀.. Jane from Denmark 🇩🇰
Hello!
Green Epidote?
Maybe?