Amazing English agate finds! We find gemstones in beautiful British river! Our BEST agate finds yet!
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2020
- #Rockhounding #agatehunting #gemhunting Join us on our second agate hunting expedition where we find ourselves blown away by the stunning gemstone finds while rockhounding on the river Cheviot in the county of Northumberland! Who knew there were such amazing gems right on our doorstep here in the UK!
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Wishing you peace, love, happiness and good health,
Gail & Alex xx
If there is a heaven and I hope there is I want mine to be like all the places you go in your video's. I am so in love with your countries scenery. Thank you for helping us escape every week it means So Much.
Aw that's so sweet Steve! We're so happy you feel that way about our videos! Gail & Alex xx
@@NorthernMudlarks from the heart xx
Where is this?
Love this! so true
I agree, and since I have been to Scotland, I can assure you it is beyond beautiful. Something amazing in the light quality.
I feel like I am being transported back in time ... millions of years past. The 🎶 you play is hauntingly beautiful. I get goosebumps. 💞
Wow! It's amazing you feel that way! We love an ancient atmosphere xx
Sheila have you ever listened to Jethro Tull 'Songs from the wood' 👍
Dana Holt ..No I haven’t .. but I will now.
The music, voices are calming and the scenery take the mind to a pleasant place.
Thank you again.
Donald Wright couldn’t agree more, gets me ready for the week ahead.
Aww we're so glad you enjoyed it! xx
Often the music you play brings tears to my eyes. There's is something about it that takes me to a different place. Bagpipes tear at my heart strings, I just turn into a mess.
Hey is there anyway you could make a wax seal out of a piece of your agate? I think it has to be a task that needs doing!
Your finds today we're incredible! Don't be in a hurry to polish and cut them, sometimes the rough stone has more charm.
Love your work! I get a kick out of Alex! The more you find the more excited you get! It is like shaking a bottle of soda as you walk, you can feel it getting closer and closer to exploding!! 🤯😂
Keep bringing this excitement to your show! Always such a pleasure!!
Aw that's so lovely, we do enjoy picking the music for our videos! I (Alex) collect antique wax seals, I would LOVE to make my own but we will need some more advanced tools for the job that what we currently have. Hopeful it is something I can do in the future though 😊
@@NorthernMudlarks I think you could use diamond bits and cutoff wheels on your on your Dremel/rotary tool. Make the first, larger cuts with the cutoff wheel, then use various ball and flame bits to deepen and smooth/round the edges. You could always try on softer stone, like calcite, first.
Try this on you tube", Dance of life soothing relaxation", it'll blow your mind,(well it did mine).
Bagpipes❤️❤️❤️
Bedridden with a back injury, despairing, forlorn, I find healing comfort from you both and your creation, this wonderful video. Ow yay. Thank you guys.
Oh Moo Bear! I’ll say a prayer for you! I hope you feel better soon. Hope for the future and peace to you!
@@mimimitch327 Thank you so much, I'm back on my feet and only have to be careful not to do it again. Best wishes for you in everything, that was very nice of you.
You guys need a big rock tumbler too. It brings out what's inside
This is what I came here to say! Their next purchase needs to be a rock tumbler! 😊
That's definitely got to be one of our next projects! x
watch 'Michigan Rocks' channel
Was going to say this too instead I'll just thumbs this up! Polished agates are GORGEOUS! Tumblers do 90% of the polishing for you.
Actually I have a tumbler and after all the processes there would be a pebble left.
Little rockhounding tip. Bring a hammer to knock a little chip off the larger rocks you are unsure about. As you said, they can look like just any other rock, until you take a chip off and expose the insides 😊
You two are a joy and a great comfort to watch, may you stay safe and well in your quest for beautiful objects, and things of days past.
Did it really have to end? I'm so in love with what you do. The country side and the music playing........I'am there with you. I know it sounds silly but I can't help it. Thank You both for all the work you do for us. I love , love, love the rocks. The sea glass, pipes everything. It is truly a blessing to see. Much adoration and love sent your way. Hugs from OHIO
I love your videos, the music and the scenery, the jewellery making and of course the gorgeous Shwoos .. I'm binge watching your videos to catch up! Lol , keep up with the wonderful videos ladies xx
I love watching your videos. They bring a sense of tranquillity to the soul in these troubled times. Thank you ladies, keep up the good work.
This is one of my all time favorite episodes! The specimens you collected are magnificent. And I love how you are now able to cut the stones to reveal their hidden internal beauty! Please keep making these videos so we can continue to come along on all your adventures!
I was so wishing this one was a live show after I got into it because I was just naming off the types and formations of the agates but you can't hear me from here lol! One bit I wanted to make sure to share is that the purple quartz/purple chalcedony IS amethyst. The different gems are all just silica with different inclusions that give it the different colors and different names. Yellow is citrine and the sort of brownish/grey is smoky quartz and then there is rose quartz and the list goes on! The amethyst usually gets its color from iron impurities so that is a clue when looking for a good location to find more! I read there is a special quartz in Scotland called Cairngorm and found in the mountains there. Could that be another cool treasure for you ladies to hunt?! 😊
How kind of you, too take the time to write all this information . Thank you for sharing ☺️
Erin Reou I heard about the Cairngorms, apparently people have found beautiful clusters and crystallised smoky quartz up there, would love to go there one time
Hello Alex and Gail Thank-you again, for the great adventure! You two are so lovely! I absolutely love your voices and even more your
Smiles!❣😀The excitement and intonation in your voices is wonderful
I have enjoyed coming long on your agate hunt again with the most creative filming and music! Thanks so much! Be safe, happy, blessings
Janice from Sorrento B.C. Canada🇨🇦ps could you post your music as you have previously! TU have a good week!❤️
You have such a great mother/daughter relationship. It’s nice to have a shared interest
I so much look forward to Sundays and the latest video from Gail and Alex. The location you visited this week is absolutely stunning and your photography makes it seem like we're right there with you. Loved the agates you found and the vivid colors and patterns are just gorgeous. There's no better way to get some temporary respite from the madness our world is now experiencing, thank you!
If pick up the rocks and they’re really light & hollow it’s possibly a geode. The crystal collector on RUclips is great for explaining it all!😊
Nature is just so incredibly generous! These beautiful pieces of rock are utterly stunning, and never two the same!
Lovely video and some precious little finds. I love the way you guys always stop to appreciate the magical simplicities of nature in you videos 🥰
I love your relaxing Sunday videos. Great finds!
I enjoy going on the different adventures you take us on .Love the beautiful country sides and music. Your finds are always amazing. Thank you!😄
Anyone else find themselves mooching around rivers lately, dragged out by the wife, now own a tile cutter ? Oh, just me then 😂
Hahaha! it's contagious 😂
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Too funny 🤣
My husband is a rockhound too. lol He drags me out, but now I am looking at it differently.
Yes! this made me laugh- I had to read your comment out to my husband...
Love your videos! You need to get a Chicago Electric dual drum rock tumbler to polish those rocks! That would be a great video or two.
I cant get over how beautiful those agates are! I think if you keep at it, you'll find an untapped area out there!! Plus, I love agate videos 😅 great insulators too!!
We are trying to resist going back or we'll have too many agate videos, lol. One day you should come to the UK for an agate hunt with us! xx
Alex when you dropped that 2nd rock you picked up up - the big green one - I was like "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!"😱🤣🤣🤣
If you noticed most of the rocks you picked up that showed color had that same porous (either like the the the green one or the lighter creamy colored ones) texture to them. The reason I freaked out is I have a a small slab of Amethyst crystals that are dark purple on top, clear as you move down, & then that green porous stone under the crystals. I was wondering if some of the rocks you picked up might have different colored stones inside if cut or broke open.
I also wanted to yell through the screen, "don't throw it away!" I'm thinking they missed a lot of [geodes] thunder eggs while they were there.
I cannot wait to see what you do with all these beautiful bits of agate!!! Some really nice pieces!
Your agates are just poetry in stone, such swirls of color and shapes of every kind. Some sparkle like sunbeams on dewdrops, while others are the color of a blood red moon. How lovely it is to journey along with you on your adventures. The music, ethereal, sweeps us along to another realm. Blessings on your day!
WOW! at 26:08, Beautiful Agate. Wham Bam Nice Agate Mam.
What a fabulous hobby. I can’t think of a more rewarding thing to do that hunt treasures with your best friend. I love your videos it’s so inspiring. ❤️
Cannot wait to see some agate jewelry!!!
Good Lord! My father worked for a provincial power company, and in the early '80's they put the lines under ground. Racks & racks of the crossbars were laying everywhere along roads, ditchers, & dumps. My sister-in-law and I would take our kids and go picking them off the racks. We found glass insulators of every color imaginable, from clear to dark blue. Reds, links, yellows, greens, different shades of each but we found only one that was the color oh an amethyst. Most went into the garden, but the ones that were different came in the house. That was over 35 years ago & 1500 mi.(1850+km) away! Loved to see you rock hounding. I've been a rock hound for years. Took geology in university. You would love BC's Blue
picture stone. Check out Dan Hurd Prospecting for pictures.🇨🇦💕
Wow- I looked him up, and that ocean picture-stone is amazing! Thanks for the suggestion!
I love your theme tune it really uplifts me so I used Shazam to find it
Lovely to hear the haunting music and follow your journey to the river. Wow what some awesome finds you had with those banded agates and quartz. Would be amazing to see some of them tumbled. I love watching your videos, so relaxing. thank you
in the west we have hunted those colors to almost obscurity , most of them now are dyed, you are showing lots of people what they have all around them, from comments I've gotten in the past , I get the feeling not many know you have the stones there , that you are discovering . not many rock hounding vids from your region !! very exciting to see ancient land being prospected for new sorts of treasures, makes sense though all the metals mined up there, of course the gems would be tumbling out with them, I would start checking any old mine tailings also if your allowed, miners always have a focus on the one thing they are searching and toss all else over shoulder. great video thanks for the fun time !! #thefinders - a good rockhounding tag
Thank you again for bringing us along with you. I love rocks. Such joy in the treasure hunt. I wish you all happy adventures. 🙏💗🌸🌼
נהדר לראות שעכשיו הם עושקים בכל מיני סוגי אבנים קריסטלים ולא בשטויות
We're glad you enjoyed coming! Rock hunting is becoming very addictive haha xx
An "Amazing Agate Adventure". Beautiful stones. I can picture some of them as jewelry. 🥰
My goodness -- what reactions! I will agree with some others that you two need a rock tumbler!!! Great visuals also when the sun came out.
I really enjoyed your finds and the beautiful video you made of them. Thanks Gail and Alex.
Our pleasure! Thank you for joining us 😁 xx
I grew up on the Oregon coast and we had a beach named Agate Beach. There were agates as far as you could see, some tiny all the way up to football sized! We never left the beach without a bucket or can full of stones. Watching you guys brought back such wonderful memories for me! That stone you found Gail with the melted look on the inside looks like a Thunder Egg or possibly a Geode. Love seeing your video's, keep up the amazing work!
This was so much fun! You found some amazing and beautiful rocks! Thanks for taking me with you! TFS Hugs!
Gorgeous colors in the agates. Loved the yellow and red one especially 💕
The agates are so beautiful! They remind me of delicious nougat and Turkish delight.
Wow! Just wow! Each one a treasure...you found amazing agates. A wonderful excursion and kudos to you for showing us the countryside flora and fauna.
Hello lovely ladies! Every time I look at your awesome videos my whole body longs to visit your beautiful island! Hopefully next summer I will take my daughter, my son-in-law and my beautiful granddaughter Pim over the seas again. And how wonderful and exciting it would be to try a bit of mudlarking 😄!
WOW 🤩 they are all amazing and gorgeous!! Thank you 😊 Stay safe!! 😷🐝🐿🦟🦋😍
great rockhounding day, your lace agate over there is beautiful
I liked the back and forth when you were on different sides of the river.
Iv'e seen agate hunter out hunting with squeezer spray bottles to wet the stones on the gravel beds to check them out / seemed like a good idea 👍💖
Besides all the beautiful rocks, your shots of nature is splendid! Capturing the sun and rays, through the trees, was a WOW. Perfect. Thank you so much for the lovely trip.
Whaaaaat! Amazing agates❤❤❤
You two are a real pleasure to watch. Excellent finds today.
Thank you! xx
Those are some beautiful agate pieces. Your so lucky to be finding them there. I absolutely love your videos and your music to them. Good job girls. 🌷
I remember I asked for a rock tumbler for Christmas when I was 12. It took forever to shine them....like a month of non stop tumbling. I was so frustrated 😂🤣
AmericanPatriot I bought one and lost interest when it took so long to smooth stones let alone polish them. Now we put nice ones in a container with water outside to enjoy them. I collect geodes or should I say I buy them and have to admit to having a house full of rocks!
@@sharonbennie3294 Ha! That's exactly what I did with the stones I found on the beach. I just put them in jars and add water to the colors look prettier 😉
Your grit might not have been fine enough
I’m a rockhound AND an insulator collector so I was unbelievably excited by this video!
My Husband and I have been watching your videos since the beginning! We love your music and videography Alex. Gail, you are quite the Artist as well. What a gift your videos are to all of us that are spending lots of time at home. Some of these rocks look like they may have been knapped by Natives. Our Native Americans here in my area of the Midwest used practical rocks for creating arrowheads, but when there were more beautiful stones available that could be knapped they used those as well. That nibbled look on the edges is what caught my attention. Could be natural though. Either way I am sure you will create something lovely from them.
Wow!! Another Beautiful Video. I Love your Explores! Hope you guys have a Great day. Can't wait til your next one.!!!
Hi super Agate finds really enjoyed your video.
Thank you so much! 💕
Wow what a hoard. Such a wonderfully serene rock hounding to watch on a lazy Sunday eve. Loved the eclamation, 'The bands, the bands!' like the hunchback of Notre Dam, "The bells, the bells!" I suppose treasure hunting always necessitates a stoop too ha ha 😆 Like miniature works of art. So lovely to see them being found as they fall than being dug out of the ground. Lovely change from larking. Stunning photos at the end - just wow! Love the translutent blue, glows so enchantingly.
Gail what an unbelievable find.
Congratulation👏 Beautiful Agates👍
Perfect Material for Tumbling. Also some great pieces for cut them open and take a closer look inside the Stones, it's a huge fun and super exciting😁👍
Amazing finds. Love the ones that your holding in the end photos,
Since watching you both I've been dragging my partner out to all different places.
Keep safe and well x
Haha! Thats great to hear x
Thanks for the latest video ladies. Love the You Tube heading picture-your best yet!
the intro music gets me pumped every time!!
You gals made me feel as if I was rock hunting right along with you. That is an art in itself, you know. Such beautiful finds and the bacon rock was a fun find, Gail. You are both gaining "even more" expertise with each video. So enjoyable and healing for me. Thank you, Gail and Alex. Hugs from my heart, in Nor Cal in the US of A.
Thank y'all so much for sharing your adventures and beautiful countryside! The music and stunning nature footage are perfect compliments to your expeditions. I just wanted to let y'all know how much I appreciate all your hard work in filming and uploading for us. Good hunting from Ga, USA!
You add some of the most wonderful music to your videos! The drive at the start of the video was spectacular 🌞. Makes me long even more to visit Scotland!
Thank you so much! We were in England today, a beautiful county called Northumberland 😊
Agree with the rock tumbler idea, also for the bigger pieces, they can be cut like a loaf of bread. The slices when polished on both sides look like little stained glass windows. Lovely when displayed on a Light Table. Thanks for another lovely video. P.S. Might need a sliding guide for the saw, to cut slices.
Absolutely gorgeous agates! Thank you for taking us with you! ❤️
Thank you! And thank you for coming along! x
Sunday lark time. Thanks for sharing
Yay! Thank you for watching 😊
I keep falling in love with Scotland! Thanks for your films.
Hooray! You’re back! 😃
The colours of the agates are stunning but the one with the amathyst in the center is so beautifull it would make a lovley pendant . Thank you for taking us with you the music and the scenery are wonderfull.
Holy moly! Another big one! Awesome
I love to see the places you go. When you tell the history of the places visited, it adds value to the videos. But then I am a history buff. The photos of the agate, are wonderful. Very beautiful agate. I can't wait to see the jewelry you'll make from them.
Such pretty stones to go with the pretty scenery. Love them . I’ve never looked for them in Ohio but I’m going to start! Thanks for the lark. Sherry Crane USA
fun fun fun, agate hunting with you both,
Really enjoying your videos!! The landscape. The music. Wonderful! Takes me back to 1998. Was stationed at st. Mawgan near Newquay. A couple of friends an I would take trips to wadebridge an walk around river camel. I believe that is correct name. 🤔. Thank you for the delightful uploads!!😄
Every thing you do is just fantastic but the best is when we get see your country in its own bliss
Beautiful scenery and lovely agate
So glad to see a new video from you. Your introduction always make me smile. Today I realized it reminded me of when I moved from Canada to Australia many years ago with my exhusband and we landed in Sydney. The taxi driver drove so fast and on the (to me) wrong side of the road. I wanted to get down on the floor of the car to keep from seeing how he was driving. it makes laugh now , years later and living back in Canada.
Wow! Some nice examples of agate. Love that yellow piece. Beautiful area as well. Thank you for a nice video.
The piece you found at 18:56 honestly looked like it had been “worked”, the same way flint is knapped. Maybe the good bits have been chopped/ chipped off and that is the discard? I really don’t think you are the first jewellers to go rummaging for beautiful agates there. *sigh* makes me SO homesick for Scotland. I could almost smell the air, the water, the earth. Thank you for your lovely videos and all the care and work that goes into them. 🌺🌺😊🌺🌺 P.S. at 26:01 nooooo not bacon, milky strawberry shake!
Amanda Pitt
I thought it looked worked too.
I thought the same thing about it being knapped.
Love seeing places I know. I've parked in the same spot many times, ill have to have a look under the bridge next time
Want to share the exact spot?🥰 I really want to find some on my first overseas trip, and will only have an hour or two to look, since the rest of my family aren't interested. I'll understand if you don't though. 🥰
Thank you I've been watching you since the early days being unable to go out for myself this is my way of getting to go out and look along with you. It is wonderful and I cant thank you enough! Not being able to get the raw materials ive been learning to use resin and I have been inspired by your designs and ideas. Oh by the way i haven't got any saucers left I keep breaking them up to make pieces then make them into key rings. But you are two of the loveliest people, and your efforts are really appreciated!
The ones with the quartz inside are so pretty, also the one with the amethyst bubble in it!
Amazing what nature can do, such beauty in simple stones we would normally ignore so thank you for the enlightenment, you bring so much joy to our often grey world.
Wonderful, thank you so much☮️🇨🇦
One of the best videos of yours 💕💝🍀
Hi miss beautiful👍👍 I like beautiful agate
Hello!! Thank you so much 💕
agate dad will be so impressed with your finds
They are all so awesome!!
I have 3 blue glass insulators and a lighthouse my friend made with a clear glass insulator as the top and a wonderful beach glass Heinz 57 (steak sauce) "stopplebopper" on the front for decoration. 😊
Your mother daughter relationship is so heartwarming, just watching you two reacting to each other. 🥰 Those are some beautiful pieces of agate. Do you have guys have any plans for some of those pieces? Thank you for sharing your Summer adventures with us. Until next time!! 💕💜💕💜💕💜💕🇩🇰
So fortunate to be able to find so many beautiful stones! Wonderful.
Wow! Just a wonder filled video. Loved it! 💜🧡💛 You need to carry a spray bottle of water next time. I bet you would find them easier. But gosh what great ones you did find. And as always fabulous scenery views and beautiful music. You two are so wonderful to watch. Thank you for taking us along with you on your journeys. 🤗
I am soo glad u guys did another agate vid they r my favorite thing to go hunt xxx so many amazing finds xx l luv them all xx cheers guys xx
My daughter-in-law and I bought a rock tumbler recently and have enjoyed searching our creek for rocks. No agate here, though, so I'm very envious of your beautiful finds!
Today it was particularly nice to listen to you. One of the narrowboaters lost their dog and that was very sad. Also another narrowboater lost his dog last week. From the 3,500 miles that I watch both narrowboaters and mudlarkers from Philadlephia, we watchers become very attached to all of you and your pets so when you sadly lose one, we too grieve. So, your events today were uplifting after a morning of sadness. Best to you both, Jane, Philadelphia
We find our banded agate in driveway gravel and local gravel sources. In grade school, we had a rock and fossil collecting club during recess. Still search during lunch breaks today.
Thank you for taking a look at the hidden treasures in nature with you. Away from home due to the music and nature. Greetings from the Netherlands . love Karin.
Beatiful finds ...Congratulations ....
Thank you for thinking of your safety ....
Wonderful landscapes and nature and music .....very enjoyable video ...💐💗
Well done, you two. Die hard rockhound here, and I live in the same state as AgateDad. The manner in which agates are formed is absolutely fascinating, to me anyway.