Staurolite Hunting at Mason's Farm in North Carolina
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You can go to the Blanchard damn on the Mississippi by Royalton MN and find the similar crystals but they are all dark brown and smaller. You can find the crystals in the Micah host rock 🙂
I have seen Thomas from the channel 99 Rockhounding go there. I also found some in matrix in Michigan's U.P. once, but they were much smaller.
These can be found at Fairystone State Park in Virginia
That's what people keep telling me. I hadn't heard of that spot before, but it's nice to have options.
Great video, Rob! I found some staurolite in Fairy Stone State Park in Patrick County, Virginia.
Someone else mentioned that spot. Good to know there’s other places to look b
Another fabulous video! Thank you!
Another adventure for a different type of rock. Very cool.
Yes!
You sure are dedicated to reading and responding to RUclips comments.
I am. I'm doing it now.
Very cool stuff, great finds and cool new things for learning as always. I do so enjoy when a new episode shows up, thanks as always for your content, Rob!
Thanks, Algorhythmz. There's a new episode every Friday and most Tuesdays, so you should be happy pretty often.
Ok, Cicely (sp?) seems like she would be a hoot to collect with!
Those are some fantastic staurolite crystals you found; very easy to dig out which makes it nice.
There is a place near Lake Michigamme where there is an entire field of staurolite in schist. There's no way you can collect them, but certainly fun to look at.
I chipped a couple out of a rock on the side of the road in that area quite a few years ago. Little tiny things, but still fun to find.
Very cool finds
wow what a beautiful jaspers!!! Insane!!! and those boots are incredible I need it for my job!!! Thanks for share it with us!! as always your videos are food for the soul!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I can see where you would want to keep looking for a perfect one. You were smart to bring back a bunch to practice cleaning them up.
They're not all perfect, so getting a couple gallons does give me the opportunity to sort through them to find some really nice specimens.
Bom dia. Adoro seus vídeos. Dá vontade de ir procurar pedras junto com vocês...
Um grande abraço do Brasil para você e sua família.
Fico feliz que você esteja gostando dos vídeos. Grande abraço de volta para você.
They are also called IRON CROSS. People pay decent money for them
I had heard them called fairy crosses, but not iron crosses.
The “Iron Crosses” is the name given to the the + shape, square ones.
Awsome episode!!
Way to go Rob
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Those crystals on the Golden schist is beautiful.
Beautiful specimens! Shivels full...😊
I was going to go there on my way down from Michigan! I just moved to NC New Bern. I hope i can make it another time.
Hopefully. It was a lot of fun.
Fun.
Amazing. Love this 🤙🏼🏵️💚
Oh wow, how amazing they are ❤. Never even heard of those(no wonder since i dont know next to anything about rocks and stuff)
Great hunt👍❤️👋🇫🇮
Now you know!
@@MichiganRocks one never gets too old to learn new things😁
Another interesting rock that I never knew existed !
I found a few of these in the U.P. once, but they were smaller and all in the matrix.
I have never heard of them. I hope you clean them off!
The ones I showed at the end were cleaned pretty well. I tried throwing a few lower quality ones in a vibratory tumbler with just water, no grit. After a few hours, they had rounded off way more than I wanted them to.
👁👁 Happy to drop by …. 17:47
I had never heard about staurolite before, but since watching your video, I’ve seen them like crazy on emails from people I follow for beading/wirewrapping jewelry supplies! Who knew?
It's funny how once you become aware of something, it shows up everywhere.
you should try to tumble obsidian!
I have tumbled obsidian several times. Here's a video showing some finished results: ruclips.net/video/dbIJ8h7-QSY/видео.html
Here's the method I use: ruclips.net/video/aW5UmiYY89g/видео.html
Cool crystals, metamorphic processes create them. Apparently some are found with garnet. What do you think you'll do with yours?
I don't have any plans for mine. I'll start by picking out the best ones to keep, and then decide what to do with the rest.
Pretty sure Cecily was inviting you to race your Jeep, around the farm. I was really hoping to see you going over a couple of jumps in the Jeep. What are Staurolite's?
Ha! I think that would probably have been fun! Staurolite is a crystal that sometimes forms in in a cross, which makes them interesting.
I have never heard of these. Still not quite sure what I'm looking at. My son lives in North Carolina. Next I go visit I'll have to see what they have
It’s just a mineral with crystals that form in a cross. Neat stuff.
Had to look up staurolite online. Really interesting rocks. Thanks for doing a video about them.
Hello! gaming content creator here I love your content alot and I'm quite on time! Just a compliment!
This is a whole lot different than gaming content. I'm surprised it's not too slow paced for you.
I really like the earth tone color they have, but I'm not sure if the shape can be retained if you tumble them
I tumbled a few in just water in my Lot-O to clean the clay off them. It kind of ruined those. Fortunately, I used some of the lower quality ones in my experiment.
@MichiganRocks They're probably low on the Mohs scale. Maybe they can't be tumbled, but I'm sure you'll find a way to shine them up
Y’all talking about our red clay! Iron Oxide!
@@nancymcshane3501 It's beautiful !
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What would the tumbling process do to the starlights?
I agree with Josey. I put some of these in my vibratory tumbler with just water to wash them off. Even though there was no abrasive in there, they got worn down pretty bad in just a few hours. I think these are better left untumbled, and maybe even unpolished in any way.
Does the family charge a fee to dig? Hey brother, consider running some of this material through a tumbler a day or so,see what comes out.
They're not formally set up as a pay site, but Ann and I gave him $50 for letting us dig for the day. I'm not sure if he has set a standard fee yet, that's just what Ann and I decided was fair.
I did tumble a few in my Lot-O tumbler with no grit, just to try to remove more mud. That was a big mistake. They seem to be very soft and I rounded those off pretty badly. Luckily, I only did that to a few.
Hey, I'm in NC! I need to check them out!! I'm thinking they are in or around Brasstown, Clay Co... is that correct?
Near Brasstown.
@@MichiganRocks awesome, thanks so much!!
Very cool finds. Can they be tumbled?
I tried throwing a few lower quality ones in a vibratory tumbler with just water, no grit. I wasn't trying to polish them, just clean them up. After a few hours, they had rounded off way more than I wanted them to.
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Oh okay. So they’re really soft and not a good idea to tumble.
Would an acid bath work well for cleaning them 🤔🤔.
@@kendramanuel1276 No, I think they contain a lot of iron. I read that acid is a bad idea for them.
Off topic a bit...Hi Rob, I have the opportunity to purchase a Lortone ST10 slab/trim saw for $400. It is in good shape and will be used to slab Ohio flint. In an earlier video, I noticed you have one. Are you happy with it? Any problems maintaining it? Thanks.
I am very happy with it. I haven't had many problems maintaining it, but last year a rock got jammed in it and stopped it while I wasn't there to catch it. It's been a little out of whack since then. One of these days I have to figure out what's out of alignment. I think that's a decent and fair deal for an ST-10. I'd suggest picking it up.
I thought this location was closed??
It's privately owned, but the owner said it would be okay to leave his number on my video. It's in the description.
Do u think u could tumble them and would they shine up?
I tumbled a few lower quality ones in just water (no grit) to see if it would just clean the mud off better. It ended up sort of ruining them by wearing the sharp edges off. That was only after a few hours of tumbling.
What if you dipped them in muriatic acid? That’s not there color correct? They have imbedded dirt? Are they a translucent crystal or a clear crystal underneath it? Very curious indeed.
There’s got to be something to get that dirt off of them. Oh, maybe polish it off?
@@jamesskorupa8694 The Dremel engraver was doing a good job.
@@jamesskorupa8694 No, I don't think there's a translucent crystal underneath. I read that acid is really bad for these because they contain a lot of iron.
There is such a thing as being too nice.
Not in my book. I like nice people.
The black ones seem to be younger, the lighter colored are older and have degraded!
Not often find the ones shaped like a cross.
The shapes that I find the most of, I call Little Man in a Boat.
Could be, I’m not sure.
We are hoping to go soon, maybe tomorrow!
Not much Michigan anymore.
That's more of a summer thing. I did a video where I asked for suggestions for my channel and one of the most common comments was for me to travel more for rocks. Since we usually have snow in Michigan, I decided that was a good time to get out of the state.
Those look very similar to the Fairy Stones that are found at Fairy Stone State Park in Virginia. An old file works wonders for cleaning them up and removing leftover matrix.
I haven't tried a file, just the engraver, which also worked well. "Fairy cross" is another name for these, so they're probably the same as the ones in Virginia.
@@MichiganRocks from what I could tell from the video. Even the matrix looked similar. I have used a file to define the lines of the crystals to great effect. I enjoy your videos BTW, and understand from my channel how difficult the RUclips game is.
Don’t tumble them! You know that!
We haven’t been there, but near there we had great luck!
Everything is Staurolite! If you get a big blade, you can carve it with a Dremel. These are more plentiful than at Fairy Cross Park in Virginia. Mostly Bow Tie shapes here! The pocket of Staurolite runs like a mile.
@@nancymcshane3501 Thanks for the additional info, Nancy. I had no idea they were that widespread.
@@firearmsaddictloveguns RUclips is a challenging game. It's fun though.
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I'll take your word for that.
@@MichiganRocks Lol. I looked it up. I know there's a place in France where this can be found. I was just curious after the composition because of the color of the ground where you were digging, It's tied to metamorphose rocks like schist and gneiss and often found together with garnet. Don't mind me, i'm just interested in these things.
Different but another fun adventure. They look way better all cleaned up.. i think my favorite one was the big one at 13:40. Thanks for sharing 😁
They didn't look like much all covered in clay, but cleaning them up really did improve them a lot.
@@MichiganRocks it really did lol
I wonder if the vibebratory tumbler would clean those up. I don't know the hardness of them, but I think that would work.
I tried that with some lower quality ones. I put them in with just water, no grit for a few hours. It rounded them off much more than I wanted.