I love the eye candy as you call it. Of course my absolute favorite part of your collection is the Petrified Wood. The big burnt one is just amazing. What a story she has to tell! Out of all the many many hours of Rockhounding for Petrified wood that I have done I've only found one specimen about 5 inches long 2 inches thick that has this black burnt look. No Druzy, no crystalization, no crazy cool colors but just as amazing to me if not more. It's the only burnt piece I've ever found and I've found a lot. I'm thinking it's rare but not sure. You have a great selection and your husband did a great job polishing
That’s so cool that you’ve found burnt pet wood too! And yes I agree, in my experience it is very rare! I haven’t been able to find out much about it though, would love to know more about it and if anyone has a collection of it somewhere! Thanks for watching!
Grape chalcedony but so many favorites it’s hard to name one. I was super thrilled when I saw that NM has an area to rock hound chalcedony but I think I want larger pieces than I saw in the video. Lol. I would love to explore in NM but I have so many rocks now that I have to be super picky on what I keep now. Downsized from a 3 bedroom to a 2 bedroom and it was tough letting go of my rocks. Well I have a huge box that I haven’t let go yet but that’s the plan. Baby steps.
I just moved and had to give up about 1/3 of my rocks. It wasn’t easy to get rid of them! One of my rockhounding the Jemez videos I show a very large seam agate that I found, and saw much more out there that was impractical to harvest! Just depends on where you go, it’s pretty fun hounding!
That was fun. I really like seeing rocks of all types. It's a really neat collection. I liked your wormy rotton petrified wood the best. Do you have a section of self collected? Thanks for sharing your time and talent. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
My self collected stuff is all mixed in with the bought and gifted stuff, most of it is in boxes and containers in my garage though! As far as petrified wood, 99% of what I own is self collected! The Arizona, Wyoming and Madagascar wood and a few other pieces were purchased or gifts, but all the local stuff I have I found myself. You stay healthy too, thank you! ✌🏻
What a fabulous collection! Absolutely love your pet wood... that Black Forest from Wyoming...🤤 and your garnets... just wow. The two in the corners had my mouth dropped with their size...absolutely incredible. You have so many wonderful specimens I could go on and on haha😄 Thanks for sharing! Best wishes to you✨
Yeah I have a thing for big specimens, especially garnets! My biggest is an 11 pound Himalayan garnet, it doesn’t fit in the cabinet though! 😁 Thanks for watching, always good to hear from you!
Hey Nira! I love the whole series! Hopefully you’ve been situated in your new digs long enough now to have all that goodness unpacked and displayed. I also have a chunk of the berlin wall. had a chuckle over that. My personal collection favs have to be some labradorite and ammolite pieces i purchased and for a self collected, i have this plain old chunk of coal i found in a creek bed that has this weird webbing on it that glows under UV.
Oooh I love labradorite AND ammolite too! I love that it’s a humble piece of coal you found that’s a favorite too, sounds very cool! Wonder if it’s calcite veining? Anyway thanks for watching!
Thanks man! I knew when I packed to move that I may never have a way to display everything like this again, glad I filmed it when I had the chance! Now I can at least watch these videos when I miss my rocks lol!
Awesome video such a magnificent collection so many beautiful specimens, your hubby sure has polished up some eye catchers, awesome, There is a lot of mixed petrified wood around here ,one I like is a full tree stump and in the middle is burnt cinders of the tree I believe, could be a cypress or redwood not sure the very bottom has some spots that are still coal. Thank you for sharing your collection and your knowledge and the history of some .
That burnt wood sounds amazing! I wish I was better at identifying the species of wood, gonna have to do some research and see if I can do better at that! I’m no biologist so have a lot to learn! Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
I totally love your petrified wood collection!!! Some of my favorites in my collection is the pet wood you gave me! My favorite rocks in general are Montana agates. I also love Lake Superior agates. Huge fan of malachite and citrine quartz too. I'm also partial to the silicified coral I find out here and the cherty/chalcedony stuff that looks like it formed from fossilized remains. I sent you some. You got some really pretty tourmaline too! Always loved schorl....I have some but not watermelon tourmaline which is pretty gorgeous too. Besides watermelon tourmaline if there's one thing I'd like to add to my collection is sunstone with some Schiller effect of some type....oooo and some rainbow obsidian! Hahaha, and you know I'd reallllllly like a Tully monster fossil 😉 I grew up in the famous Mazon Creek area and are supposed to be found there along with some awesome trilobites. I've collected tons of wonderful fern fossils from there. I have one that I'm gonna break open soon in an upcoming video....hopefully something cool in there. I think you need to rent a store front. Set up your rocks and charge a small admission and people can see your fantastic collection and hear some of your stories and learn a bit about geology to boot! Keep posting them stellar videos and I CANT WAIT FOR IDAHO ONES! Rock on, Nira 🤘😁
You’re like me Shawn, so many favorites! I’m with you on Montana and Lake Superior agates, they’re amazing! Anything silicified is generally a good find too, always get a good polish if you want. I ALSO can’t wait for more Idaho rockhounding, c’mon snow, melt already! I do have one video in the works that’s both Idaho and Washington but it’s not rockhounding, it’s a geology tour of some of the glacial lake Missoula/ice age floods features in the area. Ran into some issues with sound though so not sure when I’ll get it done, if ever. I wanna go hunt for Columbia River agates though! Maybe soon. Can’t wait to see your fern fossil reveal, hopefully it’s awesome!
@@GeoRockNerd hopefully you manage to figure out what to do with the sound. I personally wouldn't mind if had a little music and some stuff to read over the sound issue parts.
@@outdooradventureswithfayde6832 That’s a good idea, I’ll see if that’s doable and try to get it done! Trying to keep it short for the fleeting attention spans out there lol!
Was so excited to see you had the new video out! I just love the petrified wood collection. You have some beautiful pieces. That is my favorite thing to collect. There’s nothing better than picking up something that lived many thousands or millions of years ago. I can gaze at it all day and just wonder what the world was like back then. I collect most of mine in Minnesota where I live and out in South Dakota. Have a few bought pieces from Arizona. Hoping to make a Wyoming and Montana trip this summer to hopefully find more. Arizona is on the list to hit as well. I really enjoy your videos and hope to see more soon. Thanks for sharing your collections and knowledge! As a geologist do you have any recommendations on books for learning about rocks, minerals, and fossils. I’m trying to learn about the processes that create these things and it is so hard to find good sources on the internet, and as far as books I wouldn’t even know where to start. Thanks!
I found a book written by Frank Daniels and Richard devault called Ancient Forest the closer look at fossilwood it's definitely the best book I've ever seen on petrified wood it would be a great addition to anybody's Library who is interested in wood
Petrified wood and garnets are my favorites! We have both here in NH but they do not compare what you have in your collection. I'm not sure how old our pet. wood is but it isn't opalized or agatized. We do have tons of granite though! lol (Granite is our state rock) Thanks for sharing your collection with us 🙂
I need to get back out East for some rockhounding, sounds like! Granite is great cause it can be full of gemstones too, if you’re lucky! Thanks for watching!
Where in NH do you find pet wood? I grew up in the North Country and hounded in quite a few places and never heard of a location for it before now. How did I miss that?
@@Ken_G. There is a beach near Odiorne Point that has it. There's also a forest of stumps that shows up after bad storms on the beach near Rye State Park.
@@RuthieH_62 Cool, thanks for the info. Most of my hounding in NH was North of Franconia Notch. I also asked our wonderful host here to help ID a rock I sent to someone that I found in NH. She nailed it off my basic description, I'm quite impressed. This is the same link to the video if you want to see a piece of cool North Country stuff. ruclips.net/video/RR6fTmIrqh8/видео.html It's from the town of Sugar Hill on Ore Hill. Lots of that land was open and there's fun stuff up there if you ever head North to hound. If you ever see the guide books talk about the staurolite at Perch Pond in Lisbon right near there, don't bother. Somebody bought the land and built a house there. I asked permission to hunt but they'd had too many people already and said no. Can't say as I blame them. The pyrite locality in Lyman that is in the old books is tapped out where it's accessible, and the rest of the area is private property.
But what was that druzy looking thing on the garnet shelf?! 😂 Your rock collection is really cool! I started off my channel like this. I might have to do it again my collection has probably tripled since then!
My current desk buddy is a ball shaped druzy quartz with large about 2-3 mm thick iron sporadically across it. I am calling it snowball. Looks like a snow ball with graham cracker bits on top.
Where do you live? Where do you find all that Palmwood? I found a couple pieces the other day but I only have three pieces in my collection. They are all from landscape rock in Colorado.
Most of the wood I have is from Santa Fe County in NM, specifically in the Galisteo Basin. I used to have friends with 40 acres of land and they let us collect on their property, that is where a lot of my wood is from.
I am really weird. I like the big pieces of petrified wood fine but I love just little bits of it. I should love it more as one of my favorite things is old trees and I sometimes is more excited about plant fossils than animals but for some reason I just am drawn more to wood chips not the bigger pieces. I feel guilty for it.
Fun collection. I have a question for you again, I sent off a box of rocks to another youtuber including one that I have no idea what it could be. Could I post a link here for you to look at it and maybe give it an ID? I don't want to advertise someone else's channel without permission, seems rude. FYI, it's little, tiny metallic looking crystals in a schist, octahedral with a concentric triangle growth pattern, uneven fracture with what I think would be called a submetallic luster. I got the best look I ever had at it when he put it under a viewing scope in the video.
@@GeoRockNerd Thank you very much. I have a moderate to semi-advanced amateur's knowledge of mineralogy, so I am pretty much hit and miss with my knowledge base. There's also a piece at the end that I think I misidentified, the purple fluorite. I am now pretty sure it's dolomite crystals and not calcite on it. Anyway, here's the link, I love this guy, his enthusiasm is fantastic, seems like he's just beginning to get into it. ruclips.net/video/RR6fTmIrqh8/видео.html The piece in question is the very first one in the video. I sent him so much he had to do 2, he spent a lot of time with each piece.
@@Ken_G. that first one looks like magnetite octahedrons/dodecahedrons with layer growths and perhaps even a spinel twin or two! Ask him to test with a magnet!
@@GeoRockNerd Awesome, thank you. I've got another chunk of it here, I'll dig it out and give it a test. I hadn't noticed the spinel but it wouldn't surprise me at all, I found several large specimens of it there in matrix. I was going to send him one of those too, but couldn't find it, most of my stuff is packed away now and has been for many years, that's why I am sending out big boxes. I sent another to Montana Rock Mom at about the same time, much nicer specimens and I'm pretty sure I misidentified a piece that went there too as azurite and it was really linarite, it's found in the exact spot I got the piece. I had never heard of it when I found it way back when 30 years ago and didn't even question my original ID when I pulled it out. 3 days after she did the video I saw a piece on a youtube video and my brain went duhhhhhhh. I forgot to mention how much I love your rainbow shelf, that's such a great display. Was that another piece of smithsonite to the right of the sulfur under what looked like moldavite?
Thank you so much, I really enjoyed seeing your treasures. :)
Thank you for watching!
I like the meteorites. The petrified wood has wonderful colors. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful collection. Your petrified wood and meteorites I fell in love with.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I love the eye candy as you call it. Of course my absolute favorite part of your collection is the Petrified Wood. The big burnt one is just amazing. What a story she has to tell! Out of all the many many hours of Rockhounding for Petrified wood that I have done I've only found one specimen about 5 inches long 2 inches thick that has this black burnt look. No Druzy, no crystalization, no crazy cool colors but just as amazing to me if not more. It's the only burnt piece I've ever found and I've found a lot. I'm thinking it's rare but not sure. You have a great selection and your husband did a great job polishing
That’s so cool that you’ve found burnt pet wood too! And yes I agree, in my experience it is very rare! I haven’t been able to find out much about it though, would love to know more about it and if anyone has a collection of it somewhere! Thanks for watching!
Grape chalcedony but so many favorites it’s hard to name one. I was super thrilled when I saw that NM has an area to rock hound chalcedony but I think I want larger pieces than I saw in the video. Lol. I would love to explore in NM but I have so many rocks now that I have to be super picky on what I keep now. Downsized from a 3 bedroom to a 2 bedroom and it was tough letting go of my rocks. Well I have a huge box that I haven’t let go yet but that’s the plan. Baby steps.
I just moved and had to give up about 1/3 of my rocks. It wasn’t easy to get rid of them!
One of my rockhounding the Jemez videos I show a very large seam agate that I found, and saw much more out there that was impractical to harvest! Just depends on where you go, it’s pretty fun hounding!
What a gorgeous collection of petrified wood 💚
Thank you, I'm so glad you appreciate it! It's one of my very favorite things to find! Thanks for watching!
That was fun. I really like seeing rocks of all types. It's a really neat collection. I liked your wormy rotton petrified wood the best. Do you have a section of self collected? Thanks for sharing your time and talent. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
My self collected stuff is all mixed in with the bought and gifted stuff, most of it is in boxes and containers in my garage though! As far as petrified wood, 99% of what I own is self collected! The Arizona, Wyoming and Madagascar wood and a few other pieces were purchased or gifts, but all the local stuff I have I found myself. You stay healthy too, thank you! ✌🏻
What a fabulous collection! Absolutely love your pet wood... that Black Forest from Wyoming...🤤 and your garnets... just wow. The two in the corners had my mouth dropped with their size...absolutely incredible. You have so many wonderful specimens I could go on and on haha😄 Thanks for sharing! Best wishes to you✨
Yeah I have a thing for big specimens, especially garnets! My biggest is an 11 pound Himalayan garnet, it doesn’t fit in the cabinet though! 😁 Thanks for watching, always good to hear from you!
@@GeoRockNerd 11 pounds 😲 (blink blink)
Too cool...
@@MarlainaAtkins I’ve seen a $10K specimen that weighed 80+ pounds on eBay too! Hopefully wound up in a museum somewhere! Crazy!
Hey Nira! I love the whole series! Hopefully you’ve been situated in your new digs long enough now to have all that goodness unpacked and displayed. I also have a chunk of the berlin wall. had a chuckle over that. My personal collection favs have to be some labradorite and ammolite pieces i purchased and for a self collected, i have this plain old chunk of coal i found in a creek bed that has this weird webbing on it that glows under UV.
Oooh I love labradorite AND ammolite too! I love that it’s a humble piece of coal you found that’s a favorite too, sounds very cool! Wonder if it’s calcite veining? Anyway thanks for watching!
Nice collection
Thank you!
I love your collection dude! Pet wood and roygbiv shelf are my favs
Thanks man! I knew when I packed to move that I may never have a way to display everything like this again, glad I filmed it when I had the chance! Now I can at least watch these videos when I miss my rocks lol!
@@GeoRockNerd Good call! And easy content!
@@GeoRockNerd You will have your collection back up and better than ever
@@Cliffwalkerrockhounding I hope so! Thanks buddy!
Favored rock is jasper and love the vid thank you
I love jasper too! Is there a particular kind or color you like best?
Thanks for the tour! So beautiful and mysterious🍁
Love pet wood also, but my favorite is fire agate.
Great choices, thanks for sharing!
Like your petrified wood is one of my favorites
Me too! Thanks for watching!
Awesome video such a magnificent collection so many beautiful specimens, your hubby sure has polished up some eye catchers, awesome, There is a lot of mixed petrified wood around here ,one I like is a full tree stump and in the middle is burnt cinders of the tree I believe, could be a cypress or redwood not sure the very bottom has some spots that are still coal. Thank you for sharing your collection and your knowledge and the history of some .
That burnt wood sounds amazing! I wish I was better at identifying the species of wood, gonna have to do some research and see if I can do better at that! I’m no biologist so have a lot to learn! Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
I totally love your petrified wood collection!!! Some of my favorites in my collection is the pet wood you gave me! My favorite rocks in general are Montana agates. I also love Lake Superior agates. Huge fan of malachite and citrine quartz too. I'm also partial to the silicified coral I find out here and the cherty/chalcedony stuff that looks like it formed from fossilized remains. I sent you some. You got some really pretty tourmaline too! Always loved schorl....I have some but not watermelon tourmaline which is pretty gorgeous too. Besides watermelon tourmaline if there's one thing I'd like to add to my collection is sunstone with some Schiller effect of some type....oooo and some rainbow obsidian! Hahaha, and you know I'd reallllllly like a Tully monster fossil 😉 I grew up in the famous Mazon Creek area and are supposed to be found there along with some awesome trilobites. I've collected tons of wonderful fern fossils from there. I have one that I'm gonna break open soon in an upcoming video....hopefully something cool in there. I think you need to rent a store front. Set up your rocks and charge a small admission and people can see your fantastic collection and hear some of your stories and learn a bit about geology to boot! Keep posting them stellar videos and I CANT WAIT FOR IDAHO ONES! Rock on, Nira 🤘😁
You’re like me Shawn, so many favorites! I’m with you on Montana and Lake Superior agates, they’re amazing! Anything silicified is generally a good find too, always get a good polish if you want. I ALSO can’t wait for more Idaho rockhounding, c’mon snow, melt already! I do have one video in the works that’s both Idaho and Washington but it’s not rockhounding, it’s a geology tour of some of the glacial lake Missoula/ice age floods features in the area. Ran into some issues with sound though so not sure when I’ll get it done, if ever. I wanna go hunt for Columbia River agates though! Maybe soon.
Can’t wait to see your fern fossil reveal, hopefully it’s awesome!
@@GeoRockNerd hopefully you manage to figure out what to do with the sound. I personally wouldn't mind if had a little music and some stuff to read over the sound issue parts.
@@outdooradventureswithfayde6832 That’s a good idea, I’ll see if that’s doable and try to get it done! Trying to keep it short for the fleeting attention spans out there lol!
Was so excited to see you had the new video out! I just love the petrified wood collection. You have some beautiful pieces. That is my favorite thing to collect. There’s nothing better than picking up something that lived many thousands or millions of years ago. I can gaze at it all day and just wonder what the world was like back then. I collect most of mine in Minnesota where I live and out in South Dakota. Have a few bought pieces from Arizona. Hoping to make a Wyoming and Montana trip this summer to hopefully find more. Arizona is on the list to hit as well. I really enjoy your videos and hope to see more soon. Thanks for sharing your collections and knowledge! As a geologist do you have any recommendations on books for learning about rocks, minerals, and fossils. I’m trying to learn about the processes that create these things and it is so hard to find good sources on the internet, and as far as books I wouldn’t even know where to start. Thanks!
I found a book written by Frank Daniels and Richard devault called Ancient Forest the closer look at fossilwood it's definitely the best book I've ever seen on petrified wood it would be a great addition to anybody's Library who is interested in wood
Thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out! I love anything about petrified wood that I can find! Thanks for watching!
Petrified wood and garnets are my favorites! We have both here in NH but they do not compare what you have in your collection. I'm not sure how old our pet. wood is but it isn't opalized or agatized. We do have tons of granite though! lol (Granite is our state rock) Thanks for sharing your collection with us 🙂
I need to get back out East for some rockhounding, sounds like! Granite is great cause it can be full of gemstones too, if you’re lucky! Thanks for watching!
Where in NH do you find pet wood? I grew up in the North Country and hounded in quite a few places and never heard of a location for it before now. How did I miss that?
@@Ken_G. There is a beach near Odiorne Point that has it. There's also a forest of stumps that shows up after bad storms on the beach near Rye State Park.
@@RuthieH_62 Cool, thanks for the info. Most of my hounding in NH was North of Franconia Notch. I also asked our wonderful host here to help ID a rock I sent to someone that I found in NH. She nailed it off my basic description, I'm quite impressed. This is the same link to the video if you want to see a piece of cool North Country stuff. ruclips.net/video/RR6fTmIrqh8/видео.html It's from the town of Sugar Hill on Ore Hill. Lots of that land was open and there's fun stuff up there if you ever head North to hound. If you ever see the guide books talk about the staurolite at Perch Pond in Lisbon right near there, don't bother. Somebody bought the land and built a house there. I asked permission to hunt but they'd had too many people already and said no. Can't say as I blame them. The pyrite locality in Lyman that is in the old books is tapped out where it's accessible, and the rest of the area is private property.
@@Ken_G. Awesome treasures you have Ken! Maybe I'll get a chance to head up north at some point, thanks for the info.
The stone looks very good.
Thank you!
But what was that druzy looking thing on the garnet shelf?! 😂 Your rock collection is really cool! I started off my channel like this. I might have to do it again my collection has probably tripled since then!
Hi Dustin! That’s a grossular garnet cluster from the Jeffrey Mine! I’d love to see a collection video from you, please do it!
My current desk buddy is a ball shaped druzy quartz with large about 2-3 mm thick iron sporadically across it. I am calling it snowball. Looks like a snow ball with graham cracker bits on top.
great collection
Damn did you find all of these PW specimens? You have some really big ones.
Yes I found many of them close to my house! Not all are from NM, some are Arizona and other places too.
Where do you live? Where do you find all that Palmwood? I found a couple pieces the other day but I only have three pieces in my collection. They are all from landscape rock in Colorado.
Most of the wood I have is from Santa Fe County in NM, specifically in the Galisteo Basin. I used to have friends with 40 acres of land and they let us collect on their property, that is where a lot of my wood is from.
@@GeoRockNerd SO LUCKY!!
@@stonedpicker5627 I know it was a sad day when they sold the property and moved away!
I am really weird. I like the big pieces of petrified wood fine but I love just little bits of it. I should love it more as one of my favorite things is old trees and I sometimes is more excited about plant fossils than animals but for some reason I just am drawn more to wood chips not the bigger pieces. I feel guilty for it.
Okay I would love one of the ones with the rotting stuff going on.
I like all petrified wood - big, small and everything in-between, so I understand! Thanks for watching!
Fun collection. I have a question for you again, I sent off a box of rocks to another youtuber including one that I have no idea what it could be. Could I post a link here for you to look at it and maybe give it an ID? I don't want to advertise someone else's channel without permission, seems rude. FYI, it's little, tiny metallic looking crystals in a schist, octahedral with a concentric triangle growth pattern, uneven fracture with what I think would be called a submetallic luster. I got the best look I ever had at it when he put it under a viewing scope in the video.
Sure, you can post a link. Octahedral with triangle growths + metallic kinda sounds like magnetite!
@@GeoRockNerd Thank you very much. I have a moderate to semi-advanced amateur's knowledge of mineralogy, so I am pretty much hit and miss with my knowledge base. There's also a piece at the end that I think I misidentified, the purple fluorite. I am now pretty sure it's dolomite crystals and not calcite on it. Anyway, here's the link, I love this guy, his enthusiasm is fantastic, seems like he's just beginning to get into it. ruclips.net/video/RR6fTmIrqh8/видео.html The piece in question is the very first one in the video. I sent him so much he had to do 2, he spent a lot of time with each piece.
@@Ken_G. that first one looks like magnetite octahedrons/dodecahedrons with layer growths and perhaps even a spinel twin or two! Ask him to test with a magnet!
@@Ken_G. The white bladed crystals on the purple fluorite at the end look like barite to me.
@@GeoRockNerd Awesome, thank you. I've got another chunk of it here, I'll dig it out and give it a test. I hadn't noticed the spinel but it wouldn't surprise me at all, I found several large specimens of it there in matrix. I was going to send him one of those too, but couldn't find it, most of my stuff is packed away now and has been for many years, that's why I am sending out big boxes. I sent another to Montana Rock Mom at about the same time, much nicer specimens and I'm pretty sure I misidentified a piece that went there too as azurite and it was really linarite, it's found in the exact spot I got the piece. I had never heard of it when I found it way back when 30 years ago and didn't even question my original ID when I pulled it out. 3 days after she did the video I saw a piece on a youtube video and my brain went duhhhhhhh. I forgot to mention how much I love your rainbow shelf, that's such a great display. Was that another piece of smithsonite to the right of the sulfur under what looked like moldavite?
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Yes got a nice dark green crystal on my rainbow shelf! Good eye!