Hunting the Beach in Marquette, Michigan
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"Pretty rock" plop, "that's a nice one" plop. Rob, your killing me.
Me too...chest pains!
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But at least I don't have more rock than I could ever use stored at my house. I'm trying to whittle my collection down a little.
After years of being a rockhound, our houses and back yards get TOO FULL of average rocks so after a while you gotta high-grade and leave the ok stuff.
Lol this is such a great comment cause I find my self saying hey 👋 what about that one, go back. They just pile up at home, I hv too many
@@mitchgillilan Yep.
Thanks for the videos! My husband and I would have enjoyed looking for these rocks
I'm sure you would have. I sure did.
LOVE seeing Nancy out with you. HI, NANCY! She has a good eye. :) Have a great summer, Rob.
Bring your wife to Leland and Ken and I will show you some spots. The summer is now full of fudges...but the fall and winter is great!
I'll keep that in mind. Are you on Instagram? Maybe you could send me a message there so I have a way to contact you.
Have you ever taken and a few of your "magates"? May suprise you and have a lot more to show inside. Just a thought. Looked like you all had a wonderful day rockhounding. Slag is so cool. Thanks for sharing.
I brought a few of them home. I took home one of the larger ones from the end of the video. It's big enough to cut, which could be interesting. The others will go into the tumbler to see what happens.
I would be interested to see what you end up finding in them.
What are all the dark green stones? I'm always a sucker for those.
I'm not sure. There are a several different dark green rocks that can be found on the beaches.
Some of that slag is pretty cool. Do you collect it too?
I took home a few of the swirly ones.
Where is this?
Right about here: goo.gl/maps/vhDD6fuCKR8XQwUU8
Asphalt pudding stone!
"You're not looking down!!" Non-rock people...just don't get it🙄😅
Yeah, who cares about the other scenery?
Maggots, I like that one. Slag is kinda cool, I’m glad you draw the line at collect asphalt though.
It was tempting, but I had to let it go.
@@MichiganRocks we all need to have limits.😂
Great video Rob. BEAUTIFUL ROCKS.
Never a bad day when your rock hunting 😊💙, agates glow when you hold up to the sun ☀️, always learning about rocks , thank you for sharing 😊💙when I was in Oregon I found a black agate awesome find
I don’t think I’ve seen many black agates. Nice find!
Thanks for the walk along Lake Superior, not many keepers, though. Maybe time for a pasty.:0)
I kept a few and enjoyed the time on the beach. No pasties this time. We did eat at Border Grill and The Vierling.
We were just in Marquette Wednesday! Didnt see this beach, will have to go there next time! Thanks for sharing. I feel I have learned so much watching your videos. I appreciate you identifying the rocks when you can.
I can't identify a lot of them, but I do what I can.
Have you tried breaking up the larger pieces of slag into smaller ones for tumbling? @11:00 That electric blue would be a contender or any of those larger green pieces. Nancy also has a great eye for rocks! @ 17:15 Wow! That flash glass! I agree that last piece of slag was nice.
Generally, I'm not all that interested in slag. The Leland stuff is in high demand for some reason, but obviously the Marquette stuff is not as popular. You can find lots of slag in Christmas, Michigan too. I took a few of the swirly ones home, but none of the large chunks.
Love this! Your family is so good-natured! 💕
I just got back from visiting my sister and mom in Marquette.
Thanks for sharing your family. I hope you kept the lavender rock to figure out what it is. Nancy is great😀
I'm not sure which rock you mean, but I did bring a few pieces of purplish slag home.
Some day I will get to a beach, pick up rocks and say that's interesting, then put the rocks back.
Not happening yet 😀
Keep practicing. It helps to look at your basement or wherever you store your rocks and ask yourself what you're going to do with all of them. That's what I do, anyway.
😂😂😂 I’ve been hunting for close to 50 years- hasn’t happened to me yet, either!
That eyeball rock, all I could think of was, I'm sorry, I can't let you in!
Like Hal 2000?
Lots of cool rocks and not one petoskey or pudding Stone! What?? 🧐😂😂. Eyeball.... cool I like it😂 thanks for another adventure
There are not Petoskey stones here. That's a Lake Michigan and Lake Huron thing (not sure about the other two lakes). I have never found a Petoskey Stone in Lake Superior and I don't expect I ever will. They mostly occurs south of a line from about Harbor Springs to Rogers City.
I’ve found pudding stones on Superior, but not many. My grandmother and I used to find small fossils. Looking back, I believe they were horn coral.
@@MichiganRocks I found a few nice Petosky’s in Port Austin... a few weeks ago... a total surprise
Lovely rocks, sharing your knowledge. Beautiful blue water. Go Nancy, 1st agate. I also like doing 1st chain coral in a high fossil area! MmmmAGATES!
Eyeball rock
I am so envious! You were at my favorite beach in Marquette! I have found many interesting colorful rocks there and some agates. The ones you call “magates”, I call “wannabe agates.”
Your video makes me want to go on a road trip to Lake Superior again.
This was my first time hunting rocks in Marquette, other than a very little time hunting on Presque Isle Park.
What beach?
Such a beautiful shore line. It tickles me silly just to see the water lapping at the sand. We live in WNC and find rocks in our creek. I have a genie machine and love making cabs out of what I find. We love your channel! Keep it up!
That's a nice cabbing machine. It's fun to make stuff from a rock you found yourself, isn't it?
@@MichiganRocks it sure is!
Why would anyone leave a thumbs down? Like if rocks aren't your thing, why tf are you watching a video of a dude picking rocks up? Idk.. some people, side note Michigan is beautiful
I get a few thumbs down on every video. I don't let it bother me.
@@MichiganRocks dont, its probably fake accounts, and if not then sad people, keep up the good content
It takes all kinds.😞
The purple rock is also slag glass, just a different kind!
This beach changes a lot. The water has risen in recent years and leaves for less findings. I used to spend days out there by picnic rocks when the beach was bigger, found so much cool stuff, agates geodes you name it. I still find some nice stuff from time to time but not as much as I used to. But that's also because I don't hit it up early enough. If you go early enough, the water is still fairly low. However I used to go midsummer. There's a lot of really nice basalt pieces. If you look hard enough you'll find the ones that are really shiny smooth. The hunt for the softest shiniest basalt is also fun!
There also used to be a lot of fossilized and crystallized and banded chert. I've got quite a collection. These days I don't find as much... But I have recently found some nice unakite
That slag really tumbled nicely. Banded chert is one of my favorite rocks to find if it's a good piece.
🐞When in doubt. Take it home and cut it. Thanks. 🐞
Thank you guys for the wonderful video😊. Michigan is truly amazing and beautiful.
It really is!
Iam India love jewelry making you amezing
You’re too jaded! (See wut I did there? 😂😉) You need to re-ignite your passion for rocks! You throw too many back! Maybe start paving your driveway with the discards… 🤣👍🏻
Jaded, that's good! I have a passion for rocks, I just don't like to hoard them. When I first started, I brought more home and tumbled them. Now that I've seen what a lot of tumbled rocks look like, I don't feel the need to tumble everything.
So help me understand, what is slag? or slag rock? a by-product from nature? man-made by-product? a mix of other rocks?
It’s a glass like by product from smelting iron. The Leland Lake Superior Iron Company was here in the late 1800s.
I love all of your videos but this one It's "out of focus", Its not clear. 🤔 I just watch other video from you to compare and they are picture perfect. Well... love your videos anyway. Thank you!!!
It looks good to me, and I haven't had any other comments about it being out of focus. Check to see that you have it streaming at the 1080p resolution. Sometimes a video will come in at a lower quality. There is a gear icon that lets you change it. It might be in the menu with the three dots depending on what device you're using to watch.
Yeah, that bright blue slag piece around 17:21? Just before you found the piece of slag you deemed interesting enough for you to take home and tumble? Should have kept that for me!😭😂 Wow!
Glad you got Nancy out with you! Nice to be able to spend time with your sisters, too!😍
I didn’t know Nancy was your wife! Absolutely adorable!
Yep, she puts up with me.
Love that you threw all those agates back for someone else. The m agates are most likely agatized too. We have rocks like this here in CO too. Until we cut them, we never know.
I might have thrown a few agates back but that's ok. I just pulled these rocks out of the tumbler and hope to get a video of them out soon.
Such a beautiful lake! No wonder when I was young I though it was the ocean. Sounds just like our
Pacific ocean only no sharks.
It's hard to tell the difference. They're both big bodies of water that you can't see across. Lakes are less salty.
Great production, but that beautiful beach must have made it easy. Great day on the rocks!
Lots of photo ops there. That place is beautiful.
I just joined, as a teacher they always told us no social media but I just retired so I joined Instagram but haven’t done much with it.
I just retired from teaching too. We were never told not to use social media, but were told not to post stupid things there. Anyhow, send me a message so I can find you there. There's a link to my Instagram account in the description of this video.
I love Marquette. Brought home (Ohio) quite a few stones from the Lake.
Yep, Marquette is a great town. I visit there at least a couple times a year.
We were on that beach 3 weeks ago - picked up a few nice stones - where did all the slag come from. Was there an old factory near there?
No, that's from smelting iron ore. There were a lot of furnaces on Lake Michigan too.
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Thanks for another great vid! I’ve been on that same beach and found the same sorta wannabe agates. The slag surprised me. Wonder if that was dumped there recently to control the erosion on Lakeshore Blvd? Have you ever looked for slag just west of Munising at Christmas?
I brought a bunch of slag home from Christmas one time, left it in my basement for a few years, then brought it back. It was mostly just black stuff that looked like obsidian. I'd rather tumble actual obsidian.
This is the first time I have hunted here, so I don't know what it was like before the road was moved because of the high water. The slag at the beginning of the video may have come with some of the fill that they used to make the break wall. I don't think the slag I found farther down the beach could have moved that far in such a short time though.
@@MichiganRocks There’s some great purple slag along the beaches of Christmas. If you chose carefully some of the pieces tumble up to be pretty spectacular.
@@catthatter I picked some black stuff up there and stored it for several years. Last year I returned it.
Pretty green an blue slag please.
I like it when you drop a stone into the water and it makes a 'plop' sound. It lets me know that you are definitely not taking the rock with you. :) Love the clear water. Nice trip with family.
Most people are annoyed by me leaving so many behind. I'm glad at least one person enjoys the "plop" sound.
That water is clearer than the Caribbean. I really need to get out to the lakes soon.
Colder too.
Have you ever tumbled any magates and does the tumbling reveal if they are in fact an agate?
I have a box full of agates and magates that I really need to go through and tumble just the magates. I remember one agate that I tumbled, not knowing that it was an agate. It was a dark colored rock that was kind of flat. One narrow end had definite banding that I had no idea was there before tumbling. So, yes, I have.
So after you polish what do you do with the rocks? Jewelry?
I do make some jewelry, and I also make a few other things. Most of these will just get tumbled though. Here's a video showing what I do with my tumbled rocks: ruclips.net/video/jZ9Dns9ioX8/видео.html
Here are a couple other videos showing some other things I make:
Turtles: ruclips.net/video/DIOBskqTRDc/видео.html
Beads: ruclips.net/video/EHHLBUEdNgg/видео.html
Pendants: ruclips.net/video/g5YXQiO4XgQ/видео.html
Christmas ornaments: ruclips.net/video/VDoZL4MiPgQ/видео.html
Check out my channel to see some other videos of things I make, there are a lot of them.
Very pretty maggots and slag. Nice beach, too. Already in the 80’s here during the day (VA).
It was hot just before we were there and then again after. Even though it was only 50 degrees, there were four or five girls laying out in the sun, while we were all bundled up.
Was 93 here in the Traverse City area yesterday. Too dang hot! Have seen a temperature difference of 25-30 degrees like that with our Great Lakes. When in the U.P.. we ALWAYS check the wind direction before heading to the Lake before setting out. Have had some (nasty!) surprises before. Like needing (and seeing!) snowsuits on the 4th of July in Grand Marais!🥶😳🥶
@@littledabwilldoya9717 It was 94 here in Alpena today. Marquette was supposed to be hot this week too. I'm heading back to Lake Superior for some rock hunting again on Tuesday. I just hope the stable flies aren't out.
@@MichiganRocks those stable flies are HORRIBLE!!! I remember a time we went up to Grand Marais, and 12 Mile Beach. They were so bad, they actually chased us off the beach. We couldn’t stand it and had to leave! Pretty bad for seasoned and determined rock hunters like myself and my grandmother was!
those yellow ones are Mookite Jasper..(3:24) they are amazing... :) Well just yellow jasper maybe?
I believe that Mookaite comes from Australia. If I'm right about that, then this couldn't be Mookaite. It might look similar though.
@@MichiganRocks oh I didn't know that. Good to know.
Nice ride. Walk, whatever. I like some of the slag, too. TFS 💖🦅🦅
I would say that was a perfect day rock hunting. Seems like you were finding something interesting to pick up every few steps. That was an incredible amount of slag on the beach. Thanks for taking us along !!!
The trick is to only show 20 minutes of three hours on the beach. It looks much better that way. But I really was finding something to look at the whole way.
@@MichiganRocks Ha Ha !!! I love it !
That’s cool. Plunk
That’s cool. Plunk
I just ordered a large quantity of 60-90 today as I can see where I’m going to be using a lot more of that than any thing else.
@@davidhile5363 I buy 46/70 in 45 lb. bags, but rarely buy any other grit. With the Lot-O, I hardly use any other grit.
On average how many hours do you spend hunting a week?
It varies a lot from week to week. Sometimes I don’t go out at all. Sometimes I go on a trip just to hunt rocks, so I can spend 20 hours in three days.
@@MichiganRocks Ok, wondering for future goals, thanks.
Know exactly where you're at today, Rob. Much of what you're calling maygates are likely microcrystalline quartz that should tumble up nicely. Not surprised by all the slag around there; nearby was the site of the Marquette bloomery forge that operated in the early 1850s.
Is microcrystalline quartz the same thing as chalcedony? The problem with tumbling those is that they are very deeply pitted. I can tumble them, but it will require leaving some pits and cleaning carefully between stages. I did bring a few home.
@@MichiganRocks Microcrystalline quartz is just the scientific, catch-all term for chalcedony, agate, jasper, etc... Indeed, they are difficult to tumble to get right.
@@captpaul8827 That's what I thought, just checking.
Nice to see these lovely girls in your rock hunting team 😍 Nancy has certainly got the gift for finding pretty rocks 👍
Yes she does. I’m going to have to stop bringing her along. She’s making me look bad!
She does! Gal power !!!😄
@@MichiganRocks oh no please don’t do that Rob , I like her she represents us gals 👩 👍
@@easterazali9237 You know I wouldn't really do that (I hope). I love when she comes along with me.
@@MichiganRocks 💝
I would say next time you go to this spot you should get a batch’s worth of those questionable agates and either tumble them down a layer or two to see if banding reveals its self or throw them in the lotto just shine up the high sides.
I brought a few home to play with. They're very pitted rocks, so they're never going to look great. They'd be the sort of rocks that you'd have to be comfortable with leaving some holes remaining.
@@MichiganRocks I know what you mean but personally I think agates look great a lot of the time with some vugs or imperfections! Great video! Thanks for sharing!
a lot of slagates in Marquette
Yep.
@@MichiganRocks theres another channel called up north adventures with ccc (chocolate cherry coins) and she finds so much of that blue grey banded slag glass. we don't have that here in the pacific Northwest as far as I've seen.
@@mitchgillilan There is a lot of iron mined in Michigan. Marquette has a big mine. You wouldn't have slag if you didn't have smelting in the past.
@@MichiganRocks for sure. I read that some of the iron containing rocks in that area are almost 1 billion years old. Thats insane!!
@@mitchgillilan Try almost two billion... 😉
Seems like lots of the rocks there are holey???
Not lots, we probably showed you all that we found.
I wonder why so many had holes or deep indents in them?
I'm not sure. All the magates seemed to be like that though.
I used to find slag like that in Lake Charleviox when I was younger. I used to find greens, pale light blues/dark blues. I didn’t know it was slag, because it’s just so pretty. Personally, I think it would be pretty on some kind of jewelry. Thanks for the videos.
Lots of jewelry is made from Leland Blue. That stuff is expensive. I'm not sure why some of this isn't more popular. I guess the colors just aren't quite as good.
Here is something interesting, have you ever heard of Detroit agate? It’s called fordite, if you google it. You guys might get a laugh once you figure out what it is. 😂
@@crystalrenewing I have a small piece in the basement. It's actually really cool. I have a friend who makes amazing pendants from it. I bought my wife one.
@@crystalrenewing my dad worked for Fisher Body in Willow Run when I was a baby. He’s told me about the painting stalls. He said the overspray would get so thick, that they’d have to go in and chip it off of the pipes and the floor. Who knew that would’ve become so popular! Wish he would’ve saved some for me!😍
Dang! So much pretty slag! Had to laugh when your sister brought you the piece of asphalt - figured that one out right away.😄. We have some pretty roads here in Michigan! Literally!!!😂
Have you ever noticed that some of the roads in the U.P. (and maybe elsewhere) are pink?
@@MichiganRocks Yes. We have friends who work at the Schoolcraft Co.
Road Commission. They’ve said they are different combinations they’re (the state) trying out to see if they can find a mixture that will hold up better/longer through the salt and temperature changes. Our tax dollars at work!😄
@@littledabwilldoya9717 Let's hope they figure that one out!
@@MichiganRocks YES! It has been there a while, though... I think that went on when Gov. Snyder was in office. Despite The Gretch’s promise to fix the roads, not seeing any progress on that.🤨😠
Could you tell me where this was in Marquette? Is accessible by a vehicle? Walk on beach? Thanks
It's right in town. It's between Presque Isle Park and Shiras Park (Picnic Rocks). It's closer to Shiras Park. There's a parking lot in between the two parks. Park there and walk toward Shiras Park.
Thank you so much. I’m heading to Marquette tomorrow and hoping to get to look for rocks. Out of 6 I’m the only one interested! 😂🥲
@@nancyvermette2329 Good luck!
Did you keep the blue & yellow glass bit? So pretty.
I did, but I'm not sure what I'll do with it. I guess I'll throw it in the tumbler.
That one was almost a Michigan ‘rock’!
What is all the slag from? Is it melted glass?
The slag is a byproduct of smelting iron. It's a glass like material. different impurities turn it different colors.
What beach is this? I’m heading up to Marquette this weekend!
It’s just north of Shiras park. Between Shiras Park and Presque Isle.
Thanks again! Hopefully I can find some pretty agates! If you’re ever down by charlevoix, let me know! I’ll show you my favorite beaches! Enjoy ☺️
@@Passion4jesus3 Thanks!
Where does the slay come from?
Slag is a byproduct of smelting iron ore. There is a lot of iron in this area. In the past, there weren't environmental laws that prevented people from dumping it in the lake. According to the map on the first page of the article I'm linking, there was a forge right about where I was. It's marked "D" on the map. It might have been one of the other ones too. I didn't read the whole article, by the way. www.industrialarchaeology.net/IAWeb/pmartin/images/iav272522.pdf
Do you ever sell any rocks?
Not online. I sell a few things made from rock at a local shop. They don't have an online store, but will send out things if you email them. I have crosses, guitar picks, heart shaped pendants, and beads for sale there. olivetbookandgift.com
Did you make your rock picker-upper tool? Another beautiful video!
I did. It's just a bent, slotted spoon attached to the end of a piece of PVC pipe. It works really well.
That’s what I guessed...very cool idea! I need to make one for my trip toMichigan later this month.
@@MichiganRocks patent your invention.
Trust me.
@@redhedhik-chik2510 Someday, I'll get around to doing the opposite, showing everyone how to make one. I see all sorts of variations that people have made when I'm on the beach. Kingsley North also makes and aluminum scoop in two different lengths in both a one piece and foldable version.
What is slag?
I should have explained that in the video. Sorry. Slag is a glass material that is produced when iron is smelted. Back in the 1800's it wasn't considered a problem to dump the waste material into the lake. In Leland, Michigan, they have a slag that has been named "Leland Blue". It comes in shades of purple, blue and green. People pay a lot of money for jewelry made from Leland Blue. In other places, slag isn't valued like it is in Leland, maybe because it doesn't usually have colors as nice.
Nancy has a good eye for finding pretty rocks.
Kate from Katydid calls those “near-agates.”
That must be the word for a rock that's close to a Montana agate. Lake Superior agate wannabes are called Magates. I think Agate Dad either coined the term independently or just liked my word for it. He's looking for Lakers too.
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So my wife and I head up to Marquette 4-5 times a year for mtn biking. I've never bothered to look for agates there because I have always been under the impression that there aren't really any agates in that area. After watching your video, I decided to look for some yesterday while we're up here (for a mtn bike race). I scored...found two of the best agates I've ever found!! Who knew?!?! :)
I have only looked that once. I'll be looking again.
That beach gets hit pretty hard. I've never seen anyone show any quality agates worth keeping except small ones (marble size). The agate colors in Marquette tend to have less contrast and are lighter color than what you would find East of Grand Marais, MI. Nice to see your awesome drone footage and see your family.
I figured it would be over hunted, being right in town. I was having trouble finding other spots that were remote, but still had public access. For being so easily accessible, I was happy with what we found.
Love all the maggots and slag. We were just in Marquette a couple weeks ago. We went to Presque Isle Park. My wife likes to call it "steak beach". She thinks the red and white rocks look like steak. Lol
The rocks at Black Rocks look like well marbled steak. I took a couple home from there to tumble once and they didn't tumble well at all, too soft.
Your big slag blue looks to be embedded in the actual pig iron! When I find that in Leland, sometimes is shines up quite silver! Your drone shot included the beach I was telling you about, near the dome with all the round globby slag I keep finding when I visit. There must have been several smelting kilns along the old coal docks. Great visit to Marquette with the fam!
I hunted the closest beach that the drone was flying toward. It's the beach closest to Picnic Rocks. I have some slag with iron attached from Leland. One of these days I think I'll throw it in the tumbler. It's good to know that the stuff with the iron isn't garbage. I thought that it was probably not very desirable.
I would keep the one u picked at 14.47. It's definitely a micro-crystalline silicate, that will polish out nice!
I kept a couple of them. I'm not sure if that's one I kept or not. I could run downstairs and look, but I've been out of town for three days (rock hunting) and I'm way behind on responding to comments.
That was interesting. I'm not so sure everything you called slag was actually slag. I always think of slag as being crusty or glassy like the larger chunks you picked up near the beginning. I think there was a lot of natural rock there that was partially dissolved by a high concentration of acids leaching from the slag dumped into the water. The acidic water dissolved numerous soft spots in the natural rock and/or exposed pockets of natural gas bubbles. I may be totally wrong, but that is my guess. Neat stuff!
Everything I was calling slag had gas bubbles in it. That's my normal way of recognizing it. I could be totally wrong too.
At 15:24 you show us a beautiful striped rock that would have made a nice tumble, I believe, but you throw it back. Extremely Sad
Sorry about that. I did keep a few rocks.
Great video! Love the family affairs. I think you should have collected a bunch of the maggots and tumbled them, although they did have lots of holes...
I brought home a few. The holes prevented me from bringing more home.
If I ever make it back to Michigan (currently reside in east Tennessee) I'll be spending all my time on the beach's ❤️
That is an excellent plan.
I love the levers as much as the keepers.
I get a ton of quartz and granite so I'm liking the limeninite or iron agates.
Some of the maggots won't let you know what they are until you slice them.... or so I've been told.
I took a couple magates home to tumble and one that's big enough to slice, although the slabs won't be big enough to do any thing with except tumble.
I have telatives there...hope you said Hi for me! Thanks for sharing.
Nope, I was too busy talking with my relatives.
Awesome outing that slag pretty cool looking stuff such a beautiful area some real cool finds as for eye catchers score a outing with friends thank you
This beach was a little different than other Lake Superior beached I have been on. It was a lot of fun to explore.
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I love collecting rocks! Thank you for inspiring me!
You're welcome!
The Quartz you are finding...is it like a Rose Quartz or some other?
It’s not rose quartz. It’s just quartz that’s either slightly colored or has some inclusions.
Loved the lilac one, and you found some others nice one too. Some you plopped/dropped :-).
Yep, that happens. I did bring a few home.
“Pretty cool rock...for a piece of industrial waste.” Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Rob!😜 And if people will pay (good!) money for it...🤷🏻♀️. I have a friend that sells Leland blues. Says she makes “pretty good money at it, too!”. I need to do more with what I collect, than to just admire it!🤦🏻♀️
Leland Blue is a big deal. Frankfort is trying to get in on the action too. For some reason, other slag doesn't seem to be in high demand. I took a couple of those swirly ones home.
@@MichiganRocks Becky Thatcher Designs has some BEAUTIFUL jewelry pieces she’s made with LB’s. She’s based out of Leland and has a store in downtown T.C. Her pieces command a pretty price, but they’re one-of-a-kind. Your friend makes beautiful pieces, too, and more affordable! I think my dad figured we have a connection with him, like the 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. 😂 Isn’t he in Ypsilanti?
So many pretty rocks.
So much colour.
Beautiful day out on the beach too.
Love the last piece of slag you found.
That last piece of slag is in my basement. Someday, you'll see it tumbled.
@@MichiganRocks I will look forward to that.
Very pretty rocks on that beach. Slag is interesting.
It was really nice for being right in town.
I had to do a Google search to learn about slag. I knew it was a byproduct of refining ores but the amount on that beach you searched had me curious as to how it all got there. I came upon information about the Marquette Iron Range which has been mined since the mid 1800s. It's a huge deposit of iron and hematite chert was mentioned as an early source. So you definitely found BIFs! I'm always learning something when I watch your videos. Thanks for sharing your outing with Nancy and your sisters. Great fun!
Yes, there's a huge iron mine in Marquette. My nephew works there as a mechanical engineer. There's plenty of banded iron in the area. In Ishpeming, which is close to Marquette, there's a small mountain made out of the stuff right in the middle of town. It's called Jasper Knob. I made a video there a couple summers ago. ruclips.net/video/CW6MotWnCc0/видео.html
@@MichiganRocks Cool! I'm going to watch that now.
You must be tall, or maybe it was the camera angle in the beginning. It was interesting how much slag was there. I had to google it. I thought that the asphalt that your sister found looked kind of like those fossil rocks that you have shown us before. I probably would have picked it up too. I have been liking the striped rocks lately. The glass piece was pretty. Thanks for taking us along.
I'm 6'2". My sisters are not.
I saw asphalt for sale on eBay being sold as "rare black puddingstone". I think the fossil you're thinking of is called cladopora.
@@MichiganRocks Cladopora. That’s the name. It slipped my mind. I hope the people that are selling that asphalt on eBay don’t know what it really is. If they do, that’s sad to be doing that to scam people.
Fun day with your sisters & Nancy! I'd love it if you could talk about how to identify slag.
Slag is a byproduct of smelting iron. It is glass-like and usually has gas bubbles in it. I usually identify it by the bubbles.
Thanks!
"This water is extremely cold"....LOL...cured many a hangover taking a dip!
We had such a huge storm one year, and Marquette really got hit hard....that's why that beach has all that stuff.
This storm? My son was at NMU then and I was thankful that he didn't get too close. ruclips.net/video/JaIuK5mzImI/видео.html
@@MichiganRocks That would be the one.
I hope you took the wishing rock with the agate like vein. I didn't hear any bloop, so maybe. Loved Nancy's slightly creepy eye rock as well lol. At about 8:45, there is what looks like a almost perfect dark rectangular rock. It was neat!
I'm not sure which rock you're talking about, but I took a few magates home and a few pieces of swirly slag home.
The one at 3:15. A wishing rock is a rock with a complete ring around it. And of course Hag stones, or witching stones, have a hole through them 😁
@@carlabythelake8162 I didn't see a stripe on the one at 3:15 and I didn't bring that one home. I think I did bring one of the striped rocks Nancy found home though.
@@MichiganRocks That's because it's at 13:21 in reality...🙄
@@carlabythelake8162 Ok, that makes more sense. That rock is still there, near the really cool green boulder. That green boulder was the best rock on the beach. I took some underwater video with my GoPro, but unfortunately the camera wasn't recording at the time. I did record for a few minutes after removing the camera from the water though. Oops.
Congratulations to Nancy for being the first one to find an agate! Also, the glass you found at 17:16 looks really pretty. I recently found a similar piece while swimming along a small beach in the Thimble Islands area of Connecticut. The slag glass and rocks were very vibrant and colorful .😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Any idea where a piece of colorful glass like that would have come from? I couldn't tell by the piece I found. Must have been some sort of decorative bowl or something.
@@MichiganRocks It might have come from some kind of decorative bowl or vase , but I'm not sure though.😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Ummm it came from the lake, duh. just kidding
@@jmsdvs5 Lol😆👍🏻
@@jmsdvs5 Now that you mention it, I feel silly asking the question.
Hello Rob, big fan of your videos. Have you been to the Sturgeon Point lighthouse in Harrisville? I have been going up there for the past few weekends hunting. Lots of rocky beach and nice scenery, we found many horn coral and petoskey stones. Was looking for a good pudding stone but no luck. Again, great video!
I have been there a few times. I have found both Petoskeys and puddingstones between there and Harrisville State park. Below are three videos from Harrisville and/or Sturgeon Point. I tend to go there in the off season.
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