Me three. Just fascinating watching Dan go through the process of getting the slabs of Dayna Blue and Gem Silica. Evan seems proud of himself finding the nice Boulder Dan and Dayna. I love the ping sound then the pop sound when rock cracks. So beautiful . Thanks for another aweso.e video.
I’m a geologist, rock hound and lapidary. I find your channel addictive. This is very interesting material. I thought chrysocolla as soon as I saw it. Beautiful color.
It's so nice to hear the excitement in your voice as you're mining the Dana Blue. Congratulations! Such a wonderful and prosperous adventure...... Having your family partake by your side.... Priceless
I've spent the last 40+ years painting, and hopefully I'll spend the next 40+ doing the same. If I ever make something half as beautiful as these stones... I'll call it a life well spent. Don't try to compete with nature, you'll always lose. Thanks for your videos!
When you said you've lost a lot of feather and wedges I had this image of an archaeologist in a 1000 years trying to work out what those fragments of metal were used for, and how on earth we managed to make small perfect half circles in the rock 😂 Really enjoy your videos Dan but my faves are your BC ocean picture stone, and seeing you out with your family. Your boys sure have grown! Love that they're involved with your business too ❤ And it's great that you've identified your Dayna Blue! Fantastic.
Hey Dan. Maybe you could paint you feather and wedges a neon or reflective color so they are harder to loose. Part of the paint would wear out but the edges would stay. Great rocks on this adventure. It's wonderful to see your family with you.
Well done all! Great to pick up one of those pieces and meet you your Dad and Eve at the Vancouver show. Keep up the great work with the Show. Stay safe.
Amazing stuff Dan! I would love to see someone take this stuff and make a mosaic picture with a bunch of pieces. Since this stuff didn't really have the white parts in it, I would do a river scene. Like looking at a river running through the forest but from a birds eye view. It's all so beautiful!! Thanks for the great content!
Hi Dan, and family. I am always amazed at the rocks you find. However, as I am sure most viewers would agree, the Ocean Picture Stone is my absolute favourite. Wish we had such amazing rocks here in Northwestern Ontario. Keep rock hounding and making videos! From Karen Hurd Gobeil in Thunder Bay.
I don’t normally leave comments because I know you don’t have time but dam!! This bright blue gemmy silica is just awesome! Good job Dan, love the videos
Brilliantly done as always Hurd family ❤ Congratulations on making ONE MILLION PLUS subscribers! Not surprising since you’re the bestest and most fun of them all 🎊
Dan @12:42 I would try to undercut the seems by at least 3 to 4 inches and 6 to 8 inches deep.(the deeper, the better) Although heavier blocks, the extracted seem has more of the top and bottom layers and feature less cracs. I dug bigger fossils out of quarry cliffs, the rewarding blocks were always those with a previous undercut. It's a lot more work, but so rewarding. Think pressure relief for the wedges ;)
I never get tired of watching this rock mining.but blue is my favorite color.but out with the family and having fun getting it dan your great.nice video
Dan i will be honest with you here i have subscribed to your channel for around 5 years and last year i thought that the content was a little bit to much money orientated the thing is I'm a stubborn person sometimes (all of the time) and what do i know really. I just watched this video of you and your family with smiles on your faces working together to not only share it with the world but to do something you love to provide for your family. Over the last year you thought me i can be wrong 😮 and your 1.2 million subscribers prove that. It seems so long ago that you quit teaching at the high school but now you have a class of millions❤ You deserve lots of Respect Dan as does your family
Hi Dan, I would like to see you get a piece of pure gem silica made into a sphere! Then get Dana to price it up. Love the channel, its odd at how much I hated the rocks part of geography at school but now I find that it's really quite interesting. Especially with your GLOTD.🙂👍
Dan, I enjoy your videos very much. Question: have you ever considered using a gas-powered concrete saw like Husqvarna K770 12" 5HP Gas Power Cutter (there are others that are less expensive) to cut around the picture stone rather than fracturing it with the feather and wedges? The 12" saw allows for a 4-inch deep cut.
I ❤ love your picture stone, and that dark blue, it's gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing adventure . Finding the best one to work on. I'd love to see more of your cut works of picture stones.
Love watching your videos... it would be a bucket list trip to spend some time out there with you and your family... keep up the good work and keep enjoying what you do.
WHOA...how gorgeous is that stone!! There are so many beautiful scenes depicted in different stones...just amazing! Love those thick, juicy blue chunks of the spectacular Gem Silica. Has mother nature done an awesome job here or what?!
Love your videos! With the feather and wedges, more holes means more control. We tend to drill closer holes and use more wedges to control where the cracks happen. But really cool.
That little shard you had in your hand at 10:45 would be really cool cut into an arrowhead or shark tooth. Gem silica is basically opal potch right? Opal without the play of color in it? I've been saying you weren't charging enough for that stuff since you found it.
Chrysocolla is like opal potch in the crumbleness, but gem silica is solid agate, quartz, or some kinda micro cryptoline silica with copper mainly and if nickle agate its Chrysophrase. Only the low grade crazes like opalite when dry.
Have you ever used a concrete saw? Like a gas powered one? No criticism, just want you to get the best of your product. Love the videos. Also if you have used them I would like to know why they don't work well.
Its so wierd watching your videos about gold, minerals, crystals, etc., something ive always been interested in and periodically hearing my own name😂 Fellow Evan over here✌
I have been following your channel for about a year maybe 2 lol , love watching every episode. I have been collecting local Ontario rocks and minerals since I was a kid from the escarpment in Hamilton to north bay . Just checking out old quarries and rock cut roads given away most of my collection to serious collectors aka hey thats pretty can I buy it lol Thank you for doing what you and your family do .
Dan have you considered using sierra blasters to knock of a bunch of overburden all at once or is too uncontrollable? Im certified to use the system but haven’t had an opportunity to do so yet.
Absolutely love your content Dan! And your shop with all those saws is my dream shop! I just recently got my garaged cleared enough to put in some work benches so I can get a slab saw, trim saw, and then some grinding wheels and polishers. I grew up learning how to make cabs from my dad, and he has lots of great equipment that I love to play with when I visit, but I don't have any of my own yet. But soon! I live just across the border from Canada here in WA state near where Jason from Mt Baker Mining and Metals is at, hoping to make it up to a rock show that you're at so I can buy some material!
Such a unique geological formation. The geology of earth is so facinating: from volcanoes that erupt tons of gold per year to ocean picture stone…Amazing :)
Have you thought of bringing up a small compressor for blowing out the dust? I know shot firers sometimes use compressed air to dust down rocks so they can see where the flaws are to optimise your blast patterns. Might be easier for cleaning off your work area. Only downside is you need a full face respirator to prevent any of that silica dust getting in your lungs and eyes.
I’m interested in getting started with learning how to prospect “not necessarily find gold” but just learn how to identify different rocks and potential gems, ore and other things. Any recommendations other than your vids? Books, sites, and vids? Thanks!!!
Almost glacier blue. Glaciers are still in the ocean. Lol I love when you guys do this claim. Its gorgeous. This is something i could all day. It looks like fun to me. Im totally jealous.
This stuff reminds me so much of what woodworkers are doing with epoxy and mica powder to make 'rivers' in table slabs. But the earth has done this millions of years before anyone ever thought to try.
that Dana Blue is an amazing stone. ever since you started on this mine ive always wondered if that blue would make an awesome cut stone. It would look amazing as one of those Shperes...
Of large game animals I've eaten, deer,moose, and elk,i.m.o. elk was great,deer would be 2nd,and I didn't like moose at all.All legally harvested,and not a trophy hunter.Seeing the elk in your video brought back some happy memories.
GO DAN & FAM!!! LIVIN' DA VIDA LOCA!! 💯👍🤗😉💖 Hope to get a few pieces from you if there's any left later!! Just would like a few pieces to primitive shape for some wire wrap necklace or bracelets perhaps!! Have to see more of your site!! Let be your channel and adventures!! Bit envious here!! I miss rockhounding..Some agates and associated pebbles here in S.W. Iowa.. Lake Superior some, carnelian,chert etc...Your B.C. Scenery is Spectacular!! I see a lot on Steve Isdahls' channel ( Van Ild, his Hunting grounds around Interior B.C.) Be Safe Out There and Thanks for the LOL Moments!! Always a pleasure!! 💚🙋♀️🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦
Have you considered using portable diamond saws like they use on concrete? I think you could put some precuts in to help control the cracks as you break out chunks
thank you for making your videos. My head was in a dark place this morning, and you showing your family reminded me of why I still live. God bless you.
I have an idea.. Spray the finished slab of picturestone with gloss clearcoat. Talk about always a superior showpiece! What are your thoughts, a blue feathered avian creature i would presume
As a red green colorblind person. I love these videos. It would be a dream to come help you harvest it. I love moving boulders for gold... this the same ish.
The color looks like a material I used a few times when I was in the jewelry business. Chrysocolla-in-quartz was the material. I bought every piece I found which was only four pieces. It had the color of turquoise but the durability of quartz.
Wish I could spend a day out there with Dan just learning about rocks
me too
Me three. Just fascinating watching Dan go through the process of getting the slabs of Dayna Blue and Gem Silica. Evan seems proud of himself finding the nice Boulder Dan and Dayna. I love the ping sound then the pop sound when rock cracks. So beautiful . Thanks for another aweso.e video.
I’m a geologist, rock hound and lapidary. I find your channel addictive. This is very interesting material. I thought chrysocolla as soon as I saw it. Beautiful color.
It's so nice to hear the excitement in your voice as you're mining the Dana Blue. Congratulations! Such a wonderful and prosperous adventure...... Having your family partake by your side.... Priceless
I've spent the last 40+ years painting, and hopefully I'll spend the next 40+ doing the same. If I ever make something half as beautiful as these stones... I'll call it a life well spent. Don't try to compete with nature, you'll always lose. Thanks for your videos!
great wisdom!
When you said you've lost a lot of feather and wedges I had this image of an archaeologist in a 1000 years trying to work out what those fragments of metal were used for, and how on earth we managed to make small perfect half circles in the rock 😂
Really enjoy your videos Dan but my faves are your BC ocean picture stone, and seeing you out with your family. Your boys sure have grown! Love that they're involved with your business too ❤
And it's great that you've identified your Dayna Blue! Fantastic.
What a great precious stone, so nice to see the family working together.
Hey Dan. Maybe you could paint you feather and wedges a neon or reflective color so they are harder to loose. Part of the paint would wear out but the edges would stay. Great rocks on this adventure. It's wonderful to see your family with you.
You finally broke me down Dan. I ordered my first piece of Ocean Picture Stone while watching this video. Can’t wait to see it in person.
Dan has an awesome team. Have to respect how hard they work together as a family.
Well done all! Great to pick up one of those pieces and meet you your Dad and Eve at the Vancouver show. Keep up the great work with the Show. Stay safe.
Amazing stuff Dan! I would love to see someone take this stuff and make a mosaic picture with a bunch of pieces. Since this stuff didn't really have the white parts in it, I would do a river scene. Like looking at a river running through the forest but from a birds eye view. It's all so beautiful!! Thanks for the great content!
The pins sound musical as they create more and more pressure--- another part of the artistry of these gems!
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE NEW FINDINGS!! THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF PROSPECTING IS FINALLY PAYING OFF. WELL EARNED!
It’s always so much fun to hang out with you and your family!!!
Thank you 🤗
Love that color blue
You are so lucky to be able to be surrounded by such beautiful scenery.
Thanks for sharing with us
Hi Dan, and family. I am always amazed at the rocks you find. However, as I am sure most viewers would agree, the Ocean Picture Stone is my absolute favourite. Wish we had such amazing rocks here in Northwestern Ontario.
Keep rock hounding and making videos! From Karen Hurd Gobeil in Thunder Bay.
around Thunder Bay you should find Amethyst and some Lake Superior Agate. Happy rockhounding.
I don’t normally leave comments because I know you don’t have time but dam!! This bright blue gemmy silica is just awesome!
Good job Dan, love the videos
Brilliantly done as always Hurd family ❤ Congratulations on making ONE MILLION PLUS subscribers! Not surprising since you’re the bestest and most fun of them all 🎊
Very lovely blue to it. Don't often see that colour in nature that vibrant (excluding the sky).
Dan @12:42 I would try to undercut the seems by at least 3 to 4 inches and 6 to 8 inches deep.(the deeper, the better) Although heavier blocks, the extracted seem has more of the top and bottom layers and feature less cracs. I dug bigger fossils out of quarry cliffs, the rewarding blocks were always those with a previous undercut.
It's a lot more work, but so rewarding.
Think pressure relief for the wedges ;)
I am always amazed at what you find. Its a family thing that is awesome.
I never get tired of watching this rock mining.but blue is my favorite color.but out with the family and having fun getting it dan your great.nice video
Dan i will be honest with you here i have subscribed to your channel for around 5 years and last year i thought that the content was a little bit to much money orientated the thing is I'm a stubborn person sometimes (all of the time) and what do i know really.
I just watched this video of you and your family with smiles on your faces working together to not only share it with the world but to do something you love to provide for your family. Over the last year you thought me i can be wrong 😮 and your 1.2 million subscribers prove that.
It seems so long ago that you quit teaching at the high school but now you have a class of millions❤
You deserve lots of Respect
Dan as does your family
Glad you and the family are doing great! Love to see the clear skies. Love the vid. Beautiful rocks!
These sky blue stones are very nice,, I like only these videos of you 😊
Hi Dan, I would like to see you get a piece of pure gem silica made into a sphere! Then get Dana to price it up.
Love the channel, its odd at how much I hated the rocks part of geography at school but now I find that it's really quite interesting. Especially with your GLOTD.🙂👍
I’d be so interested in a geology lesson of this place 😍 awesome video & rocks!! 💜
The Ocean Picture Stone captivates me. Normally, it's gold, and peridot. That get me. Love the green color! The Dana Blue, is beautiful.
Thank you for the wonderful video with your lovely family, the beautiful scenery, and the amazing Dayna Blue.
Dan, I enjoy your videos very much.
Question: have you ever considered using a gas-powered concrete saw like Husqvarna K770 12" 5HP Gas Power Cutter (there are others that are less expensive) to cut around the picture stone rather than fracturing it with the feather and wedges? The 12" saw allows for a 4-inch deep cut.
I ❤ love your picture stone, and that dark blue, it's gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing adventure . Finding the best one to work on. I'd love to see more of your cut works of picture stones.
As an avid cab wrapper, I'd love to see more of the processing after the stones are found, even the cab making process!
Love watching your videos... it would be a bucket list trip to spend some time out there with you and your family... keep up the good work and keep enjoying what you do.
we appreciate you Dan.
WHOA...how gorgeous is that stone!! There are so many beautiful scenes depicted in different stones...just amazing! Love those thick, juicy blue chunks of the spectacular Gem Silica. Has mother nature done an awesome job here or what?!
Love your videos! With the feather and wedges, more holes means more control. We tend to drill closer holes and use more wedges to control where the cracks happen. But really cool.
That was real Dana Blue and nice work!!!; )
Dan, at 13:35 when you were drill more holes, what is the curly thing coming out of one of the wedges?
Thanks in advance, an awesome show as usual :)
That little shard you had in your hand at 10:45 would be really cool cut into an arrowhead or shark tooth. Gem silica is basically opal potch right? Opal without the play of color in it? I've been saying you weren't charging enough for that stuff since you found it.
Chrysocolla is like opal potch in the crumbleness, but gem silica is solid agate, quartz, or some kinda micro cryptoline silica with copper mainly and if nickle agate its Chrysophrase. Only the low grade crazes like opalite when dry.
Have you ever used a concrete saw? Like a gas powered one? No criticism, just want you to get the best of your product. Love the videos. Also if you have used them I would like to know why they don't work well.
Its so wierd watching your videos about gold, minerals, crystals, etc., something ive always been interested in and periodically hearing my own name😂 Fellow Evan over here✌
So Daena gave you a hard time for saying how easy it is to collect and how much you can get for it !🤣👍
I have been following your channel for about a year maybe 2 lol , love watching every episode. I have been collecting local Ontario rocks and minerals since I was a kid from the escarpment in Hamilton to north bay . Just checking out old quarries and rock cut roads given away most of my collection to serious collectors aka hey thats pretty can I buy it lol
Thank you for doing what you and your family do .
Absolutely 💯 Awesomeness! Loved watching this video as my first from your channel.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that shade of blue.
I got my piece of Dayna blue ocean picture stone today in the mail
Can't wait to open it for Christmas.
Dan have you considered using sierra blasters to knock of a bunch of overburden all at once or is too uncontrollable? Im certified to use the system but haven’t had an opportunity to do so yet.
Probably too uncontrolled for small rocks like in this video, I'd imagine.
What a beautiful area,I could just sit there all day,but probably not,because of so many awesome rocks and minerals😊
Damn I love those timber tigers. Cutest little critters there is. It nice of you to bring snacks for the beasties Dan.
Love your channel, you find so many cool rocks and this one looks like a cool ocean dip
Absolutely love your content Dan! And your shop with all those saws is my dream shop! I just recently got my garaged cleared enough to put in some work benches so I can get a slab saw, trim saw, and then some grinding wheels and polishers. I grew up learning how to make cabs from my dad, and he has lots of great equipment that I love to play with when I visit, but I don't have any of my own yet. But soon! I live just across the border from Canada here in WA state near where Jason from Mt Baker Mining and Metals is at, hoping to make it up to a rock show that you're at so I can buy some material!
Such a unique geological formation. The geology of earth is so facinating: from volcanoes that erupt tons of gold per year to ocean picture stone…Amazing :)
pretty cool you followed your passion to the point of it paying you!! looks like thats over in the "Loops" area hmmm...... haha
Thank you Dan for sharing another awesome video
Gorgeous pieces! Thanks for sharing!
This video could be a good drinking game. Every time Dan sprays water on anything everyone take a shot of whiskey 😂
Thanks for sharing Dan, loved it
Have you thought of bringing up a small compressor for blowing out the dust? I know shot firers sometimes use compressed air to dust down rocks so they can see where the flaws are to optimise your blast patterns. Might be easier for cleaning off your work area. Only downside is you need a full face respirator to prevent any of that silica dust getting in your lungs and eyes.
That's pretty rock. Nothing like it in Indiana. What a fun family activity!
Love the blue gemstone. Love your videos. Liked. Great video. From Jordan
That is some really beautiful stone. I know I'd pay some of those prices for the larger pieces. Someday, I will get to Tucson.
Dana is beautiful! One suggestion Dan. Spray bottles for the whole family, so its a fair water fight. 😆 Another great video! Thanks!
Holy crap man what a find, Gem silica is stunning 🎉
I’m interested in getting started with learning how to prospect “not necessarily find gold” but just learn how to identify different rocks and potential gems, ore and other things. Any recommendations other than your vids? Books, sites, and vids? Thanks!!!
There are only a few channels I subscribe to that I hit the *LIKE* button as soon as I open the clip, *Dan Hurd* is one of those few :)
Almost glacier blue. Glaciers are still in the ocean. Lol I love when you guys do this claim. Its gorgeous. This is something i could all day. It looks like fun to me. Im totally jealous.
Wow, that's definitely the best I have seen....gosh it's beautiful 🤩
Ever consider making a set of backsplash tiles for kitchen or bathroon then putting it up for auction. would be a one of a kind and worth a lot.
Ha I didn't see your cuts first time I watched this I really enjoyed your video!
This stuff reminds me so much of what woodworkers are doing with epoxy and mica powder to make 'rivers' in table slabs. But the earth has done this millions of years before anyone ever thought to try.
that Dana Blue is an amazing stone. ever since you started on this mine ive always wondered if that blue would make an awesome cut stone. It would look amazing as one of those Shperes...
That is some of the prettiest rock I have ever seen! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Dan.
Have you ever considered using demolition mortar instead of the feather and wedge?
A video on, the difference between, Feather and Wedges and more standard tools would be interesting!
Headed to shop on your website now. Such a cool find!
Bob Ross of rocks wants a word...
Those are definitely some happy little stones.
happy accident
Looks like auqua marine
Lol....
This guy's easy to listen to 👍
And very interesting information 👌
Your Ocean Picture Stone videos are my favorite!
Of large game animals I've eaten, deer,moose, and elk,i.m.o. elk was great,deer would be 2nd,and I didn't like moose at all.All legally harvested,and not a trophy hunter.Seeing the elk in your video brought back some happy memories.
The rock at 23:17 could be mounted on a walnut burl, and be an art-piece on its own, no work required. Beautiful!
GO DAN & FAM!!! LIVIN' DA VIDA LOCA!! 💯👍🤗😉💖 Hope to get a few pieces from you if there's any left later!! Just would like a few pieces to primitive shape for some wire wrap necklace or bracelets perhaps!! Have to see more of your site!! Let be your channel and adventures!! Bit envious here!! I miss rockhounding..Some agates and associated pebbles here in S.W. Iowa.. Lake Superior some, carnelian,chert etc...Your B.C. Scenery is Spectacular!! I see a lot on Steve Isdahls' channel ( Van Ild, his Hunting grounds around Interior B.C.) Be Safe Out There and Thanks for the LOL Moments!! Always a pleasure!! 💚🙋♀️🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦
Excellent stone exceptional beautiful thank you for sharing this with us six stars
Have you considered using portable diamond saws like they use on concrete?
I think you could put some precuts in to help control the cracks as you break out chunks
Dan, have you or any of your other prospecting friends ever seen Sasquatch? I know there are lots of sightings along the Frasier River.
Congrats. The last slice looks like Peruvian opal. My Wilder Blue is chrysocolla in quartz from Nevada.
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Silica rocks!
My brother and I used the 10" saw like that lots of times. That is beautiful stuff! I wish we still had it😢.
Don't tell Evan? I hope he doesn't watch the video, or you're busted! He's already contributing so much! Good on him! :-)
thank you for making your videos. My head was in a dark place this morning, and you showing your family reminded me of why I still live. God bless you.
You earned my subscription. Hi to you all ftom Australia.
I have an idea.. Spray the finished slab of picturestone with gloss clearcoat. Talk about always a superior showpiece! What are your thoughts, a blue feathered avian creature i would presume
Wow amazing 🇮🇩⚒️⛏️💎💎👍👍👍
Take four rectangular pieces glue together to make a piller ,then put a light inside. A thought ..👍
Yo, your enthusiasm is contagious
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
As a red green colorblind person. I love these videos. It would be a dream to come help you harvest it. I love moving boulders for gold... this the same ish.
Who cares lol.
I love this video. Thanks for sharing
No matter how much I get to see the rocks and when they are cut and I can see what is inside.. I am just amaze 😂😂
The color looks like a material I used a few times when I was in the jewelry business. Chrysocolla-in-quartz was the material. I bought every piece I found which was only four pieces. It had the color of turquoise but the durability of quartz.
It would be cool to see one of these pieces grounded into a sphere 🌎
On his website
You can adopt me and my wife 😂 we love it! We would love to be out there collecting with you!