You give mom and I the yearn to go rock hounding, but mom's 84 and I'm disabled and just went through cancer treatment. Thank you for bringing beautiful nature into our living room! Thank you too for your beautiful spirit and making us smile.
I'm not religious in the traditional sense of the word but I will send out prayers for both of you!!!! FUCK CANCER!!!!! Please excuse the cussing as my hatred for cancer is unlike any other!!! Stay positive because as we know, the mind is extremely strong and we manifest our own thoughts and positive energy!! ✌️🤘🤙🤙
Honestly Dan, one of the few channels that actually teach me something almost every week.. love it, glad to see you on the road to recovery from surgery...don't get the haters, unless they jealous....
Dan, you are adorable! I'm so glad your health is back and wish you many years of joy ahead. Your wife is a gem too so I think you can say that you've already found the rarest, most valuable gem on the planet!
No joke this is how I fall asleep lately watching rock hound videos and tumbling videos,. I'm waiting on a biopsy to come back and waiting over two weeks for the results is very stressful. Very relaxing ❤
@@BigDsGaming2022 I eat and smoke 1 oz in 5 days trust I know it works . Just some times a certain situation comes about that sends your head for a loop . And not even good green can help that . But the rock hounding video when I can't get out . Great brain bleach lol
@The Mutt with no Butt Mr butt wait you mean if you could make money doing what you love to do. You can tell he is educated on the subject not just some yahoo making money. He says look how beautiful this specimen is not look how much money I made. Jealousy looks bad on you.
@The Mutt with no Butt He pays for it as well. He pays for his claims, maintains the land and leaves it in better condition than what he found it in, and teaches countless people about prospecting and identifying different minerals, metals, and stones so really man your comment was foolish at best and shows what a jealous sad hater you are. Pathetic... Cheers from Southern Cali 🖕
I need some Dan Hurd sometimes. Thank you Dan, you are sunshine on a cloudy day, and I know you rise above your own issues to shine for the rest of us.
A couple months out of open-heart and you're out rock-hounding with the wife on a sunny day, on that beautiful river .... my hat's off to you, sir!! 😅 I was also a slow healer, and just getting up the river bank would have been a minor miracle - not including the trek to/from the truck, mosquitos/biting flies/gnats AND a backpack full of rocks .... amazing job, my friend. I can't think of many sounds more soothing to refresh body & soul than that river. As always, you do such a good job of teaching as you explore. I have a teenage daughter who's drawn to geology, especially looking for/identifying minerals & crystals. University is a ways off yet, but whether or not this love of exploration results in a career choice or not, you've shown how the wonders of discovering the world around us and educating yourself to enable you to dig even deeper, doesn't have to be a profession to enrich your life. We live in beautiful Atlantic Canada, so the formations here are quite tame and weathered down. We send your videos back and forth and appreciate the positivity you show of doing something you enjoy, in an environment you love all while educating us with the experiences you share (good, bad AND ugly!). Once again, excellent video. Love from NB! 🇨🇦
Hi, just happened to come by your video through RUclips algorithm. I live in eastern Taiwan and we can find jade, black jade, and (lots of) serpentine in the creeks here, just not as big because they were rolled down from the mountains. Taiwan used to be the no.1 export country of jades in the 70s and 80s, but large scale harvest no longer exist since the price dropped significantly and it’s much cheaper to harvest in Russia.
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty Rockhound here... I'm living vicariously here! Used to live in Blaine, WA. Jade hunting is so satisfying!!! Thanks for letting me ride along!!!
Dan you are a virtual encyclopedia of knowledge , I learn so much watching your channel that my head is someday going to explode. I hope no one is injured when it does .
Never clicked on a video so fast! I am obsessed with Nephrite Jade. I found some of my own a few hours from where I live in California. Also a big fan of the show Jade Fever so I nerded out hard while watching this. lol. Dan, thank you for going into detail on your methods for Jade hunting. As well as showing them cut and the side by side comparison of Jade vs not Jade. It can be really confusing sometimes when you are still learning. I have been hoping you would do a video on Jade at some point. So glad you did! Thank you!
A lot of people think you can only find it in and around Big Sur in California. I did for a long time too. I guess bigger pieces would more typically be found there, but for pebble-sized, or the size of a quarter to 50 cent piece it can be found much further south. The ocean current is one powerful force and I'm pretty sure I've found jade at Morro Bay, Montana de Oro, Cambria, etc. -- all of the towns through there have it at the beaches. Hard to spot, but super fun to find. So many cool things to find on California beaches. Agates, jasper, volcanic rock, moonstone, jade, petrified wood, sea glass, abalone shells, sand dollars, etc. I guess you could find sharks teeth, but they're very rare through there if at all.
@@tomw.4255 Yes! I have found all of those except shark teeth. I plan of taking a trip to Florida in the future to hunt for teeth. I feel really blessed to live where I do though. So many treasures to find here.
I have a huge green somewhat translucent boulder and some other matching rocks the previous owners of my house had collected. I believe they might be Jade, but I’ll have to use that ping and scratch test to really find out.
Thanks Dan for this one I was lucky to find two baseball size chunks of Jade while gold prospecting glacial drift in Ohio. According to the head guy over that claim he said to his knowledge that was the first and only Jade ever found there. Sure made my day and my best finds to date out digging and poking around.
@@canadiangemstones7636 well it's been authenticated maybe you need to learn more about glacial till. They was also a diamond found in the same area I got the jade. The material isn't native to Ohio is was pushed by glaciers out of Canada and dropped in different spots through out northern half of Ohio.
Dan Hurd, you an ikon. I watch your program very often. Very interesting every time! Please take care of yourself and recuperate fast. I want to see YOU and your guests all the time for ever! Regards....
Wow thanks for the info on jade hunting Dan! Makes me wonder how many polished but "worthless" rocks I have pulled from the fraser but left behind because I thought they were worthless. Love the videos as always, great to see your recovering so well!
I've watched a number of your videos and unfortunately I have to live vicariously through you. I'm glad you're healing from your surgery and doing well. Take care and keep making videos!
That rock that you didn't know is a Basalt Porphyry. We have it on Van. Is. I've always known it as Snowflake Porphyry and is also called Flower Porphyry. It has great eye appeal when slabbed.
Aww dan thank you make me fill so special .im that idaho jade. I love waching an learning from you .i wish my dad was being like you after his heart surgery .. Bless you dan
I love going to Mineral shows as a child and now I'm about 68 and watching you do this makes my back hurt. But it looks like fun and you got a life and you got friends what more can you ask for finding something once in awhile makes it real fun. Take care of yourself good luck, God bless
We're getting hit with similar weather in Colorado, chance of snow in my area even today. I was getting used to enjoying the warmer weather then boom, cold snap lol
I used to be a surveyor so would chuckle at walking sticks but I have a real bad back now and that is exactly the perfect terrain for a walking stick, really helps to stabilize saving lots of extra physical effort, make carrying a load out easier too. Your wife is great! You aren't so bad yourself either. Just found your channel yesterday and have seen several videos, getting totally hooked.
I've been through so much stone and rock over the years... I've seen rocks just like these! Most I have seen are amongst riverjacks used for stone washes in gardens and landscape. I have actually broken one on job yesterday just like that mottled jade... Ihad a few like tgat iver the last 10 yeats or so.. they ways have a seem that breaks and im always like thats so pretty and i toss it behind a wall and cover it in mortar LOL. No longer will I toss pretty stones away... i did find a HUGE hunk of smokey and milky quartz on a job that is sitting to this day on my "rock ledge" (window sill in sunroom) I'm gonna have to pay more attention from now on. I'm so glad I decided to watch your show... I get that ping sound way more than I realized till now... 20 minutes of your videos and I'm already at the next level of "gemstone awareness"... hell I only thought Jade was in China..
We use alot of riverjacks! They call them Delaware River jacks but they come from all over the country... wherever they have access and do any river flow mitigation work...alot of government contracts (from what I was told). They keep some to serve needs if the projects and sell the rest to stone yards and landscape supply yards. Only downside is most is in that 1 to 6" size range. This does however explain why at Badolato stone there us always several buckest of stones and a pile if broken up stuff on the other side of the concrete divider. You think if I find one of those dark rocks in a state park by the river they'd come after me for breaking it &/or bringing it home? Lol. I'm on a new mission this spring!
Yeeessss! Another wonderful video from Dan Hurd! I love all your videos, but the rock hounding are the best! You find such beautiful specimens! I’ve bought a couple from you website. BEAUTIFUL!
For some reason even after clicking to be notified, YT didn't work properly so I missed the premiere. But I watched the replay & found it quite fascinating. Thank you.
Hello Dan, your videos are absolulty amazing. Thank you for your time and effort, thry full of great knowledge i just seen on your other video your extremely busy and dont have time to respond to most comments but if you could please take a few moments id like to maybe send you a few pictures of potential jade i found by prince george. Most of the stuff i find reminds me more of your modled jade but with out so much of the outer layer and is way lighter in color. I dont have a stone cutter or scratch kit as of yet but will be getting one soon. Lol the last 8 or 9 years people have called me crazy for thinking its jade, the best identification i could come up with it besides jade would be a almost adventurine, but would lean way more towards green quartzite or just really cool green stones. Now that ive watched this video a few times you made me really second guessing my thoughts so ive gone through a few of my samples that i have easy access. Now i have come up with more uncertainties about some of them some of my samples. Ive hit a few of them with a hammer and broke some of them. Now when it comes to hitting some with a hammer they wont break or crack but will just knock a little tiny chip off at most, would jade do that? Also thank you for all of the amazing information, I love watching and learning from your videos. Very cool stuff and i look forward to learning more from your videos.
If you'll recall Dan drilling into a large rock and breaking the drill bit? The bit was tipped with carbide and he broke both bits trying to drill into the rock. Carbide is one of the hardest substances on earth. My best guess would be your rocks are not jade. I don't claim to be an expert so good luck in your rock hinting endeavors!! ✌
I love it! There was this character in a book by Loyd Alexander, he survived on just finding stuff to eat and build stuff with, fed his family etc.. This is what Dan does! Great Job Dan! I love your vids, I learn something every time I watch one.
Almost 50 years ago I was exploring streams in the “mountains” of Alabama. I came across a, area of concentrated green rocks. I was certain I had found a pocket of jade (and had no idea that jade in Alabama was extremely unlikely). Carried out two 5gallon buckets of this “treasure” and took them home to my college roommate who was a geology major. He took it to a professor who rendered a learned determination as to the “value” of my “treasure”. “Industrial slag” he said. “Worthless”.😟 Glad YOU are finding the real thing!
@@andriyshapovalov8886 😆 No, he left that sad duty up to me. While I was in university at the time I was still young and apparently at least a little naive. On closer examination and a little research I became a little LESS naive and realized he was correct. It was truly a glass-like slag. My youthful naïveté made me want very much for it to be at LEAST semi-precious, if not wildly valuable. In a way this growth proved valuable to me later in life when I took up gold prospecting. The “jade” experience probably kept me from lugging large quantities of mica around trying to believe it was gold…
@@ssteele1812 it truly looked just like the jade jewelry purchased a few years earlier in the Bahamas. I'm sure it would have made some interesting consume jewelry. Of course, that "discovery" was almost 50 years ago, so it is LONG gone.🙂
hey Dan im back for some more great videos, Im back to catch up on your video channel Ive been giving it a miss for a few months because I had watched all your videos , so time to get my head mashed again with brilliant cont . keep up the great work
Thank you for showing us the Jade cut too! :D 💜💜💜 I love stones in general, their beauty is underrated, I had no clue that there were so many different Jade stones, so, I got to learn something today too :) 💜
I just went jade hunting last week for the first time in years lol hope you were luckier than me, anyways i am looking forward to enjoying your video like always.
I love that your prospecting has expanded to more than just gold. I checked out the jade, noticed a typo, but I'll let you find it. Thank you for showing us your hunt for Fraser River Jade!
Love the Jade show. It’s funny but I was just hoping you would look for Jade and boom you did. I also like that you explained how to know if it is Jade. I have researched it and you are the only one who made it clear and simple to know. Thanks. Keep up the the great content 👍😁
Jade is one of those where I know what to look for, but then some days it's like someone flipped the switch off and I don't know what it looks like again. 😂 This was excellently explained, going to save this for when I need a refresher.
I just found your channel on RUclips and so glad I did. You give so much helpful and interesting information. I've subscribed now and want to thank you for the work you put in to your videos.
I took Geology in college just because I wanted to know what I was looking at when I went hiking here in Colorado. I loved it and I love how informative you are. I have learned so much from watching your videos.
Hi Dan Thanks for the great videos! My grandpa and his brother left the family farm in Saskatchewan for gold in BC for two years. The color was really good at Spences Bridge but trapped in sticky clay so they landed on a bar south of Lillooet and shoveled sand and bucketed water until they could afford a pump. They took logs from the river and built a tiny cabin into the bank for the ground heat. For two years they worked by a big green boulder that had impressed them with its texture. Much later, a picture in the newspaper appeared with a fellow who knew what it was posing by his rock! I love to see the ornamental stones on the saw
You give mom and I the yearn to go rock hounding, but mom's 84 and I'm disabled and just went through cancer treatment. Thank you for bringing beautiful nature into our living room! Thank you too for your beautiful spirit and making us smile.
I hope that your treatment is going well I’m in the same boat at the moment just finished my treatment and going back for more later on in the year
I'm not religious in the traditional sense of the word but I will send out prayers for both of you!!!! FUCK CANCER!!!!! Please excuse the cussing as my hatred for cancer is unlike any other!!! Stay positive because as we know, the mind is extremely strong and we manifest our own thoughts and positive energy!! ✌️🤘🤙🤙
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I'll go for you guys I'm sorry to hear about your condition an wish you the best
take her to arkansas crater mine state park(Crater of Diamonds State Park)
I work in geotechnical engineering and spend alot of time with geologists, your channel makes us all very happy.
Honestly Dan, one of the few channels that actually teach me something almost every week.. love it, glad to see you on the road to recovery from surgery...don't get the haters, unless they jealous....
The haters can get that smooth convertible ride in Texas as well 😉
@@schizzzyjones9966 for God's sake don't send 'em here.
@@roberthouston2684 haha 😂
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Dan, you are adorable! I'm so glad your health is back and wish you many years of joy ahead. Your wife is a gem too so I think you can say that you've already found the rarest, most valuable gem on the planet!
When life is getting you down and you keep having waves of anxiety attacks, thank god for this channel, thanks again for saving my day dude :-)
Get some CBD gummies and it will evaporate into happiness .
No joke this is how I fall asleep lately watching rock hound videos and tumbling videos,. I'm waiting on a biopsy to come back and waiting over two weeks for the results is very stressful. Very relaxing ❤
@@carlasabyan6010 go to MMdistributers.com and buy some CBD , it is legal without a card and will vaporize your anxiety .
No thank Dan for this channel >>> GOD your imaginary friends had nothing to do with it.
@@BigDsGaming2022 I eat and smoke 1 oz in 5 days trust I know it works . Just some times a certain situation comes about that sends your head for a loop . And not even good green can help that . But the rock hounding video when I can't get out . Great brain bleach lol
Did I just find the coolest channel ever? Everything good happens after 4am!!
It's really good to see that even with your many successes, you haven't become jaded.
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@The Mutt with no Butt Mr butt wait you mean if you could make money doing what you love to do. You can tell he is educated on the subject not just some yahoo making money. He says look how beautiful this specimen is not look how much money I made. Jealousy looks bad on you.
@The Mutt with no Butt He pays for it as well. He pays for his claims, maintains the land and leaves it in better condition than what he found it in, and teaches countless people about prospecting and identifying different minerals, metals, and stones so really man your comment was foolish at best and shows what a jealous sad hater you are. Pathetic... Cheers from Southern Cali 🖕
He knows how to rock and roll
i learned more in one video here than years of geology classes in a mining city
Take nefrite place in kiln cook for 16,000,000,000 yrs an wa la gold !
The chinese gold miners of the 1800's high graded the best jade from the Fraser. Good job chasing those green rocks mate!
I need some Dan Hurd sometimes. Thank you Dan, you are sunshine on a cloudy day, and I know you rise above your own issues to shine for the rest of us.
Thanks for the videos. I have a lot of anxiety going on and this stuff helps me to escape.
Honestly, same.
A couple months out of open-heart and you're out rock-hounding with the wife on a sunny day, on that beautiful river .... my hat's off to you, sir!! 😅 I was also a slow healer, and just getting up the river bank would have been a minor miracle - not including the trek to/from the truck, mosquitos/biting flies/gnats AND a backpack full of rocks .... amazing job, my friend. I can't think of many sounds more soothing to refresh body & soul than that river.
As always, you do such a good job of teaching as you explore. I have a teenage daughter who's drawn to geology, especially looking for/identifying minerals & crystals. University is a ways off yet, but whether or not this love of exploration results in a career choice or not, you've shown how the wonders of discovering the world around us and educating yourself to enable you to dig even deeper, doesn't have to be a profession to enrich your life. We live in beautiful Atlantic Canada, so the formations here are quite tame and weathered down.
We send your videos back and forth and appreciate the positivity you show of doing something you enjoy, in an environment you love all while educating us with the experiences you share (good, bad AND ugly!). Once again, excellent video. Love from NB! 🇨🇦
Your enthusiasm is so delightful. I spent half an hour looking at someone collecting rocks. Great stuff.
Hi, just happened to come by your video through RUclips algorithm. I live in eastern Taiwan and we can find jade, black jade, and (lots of) serpentine in the creeks here, just not as big because they were rolled down from the mountains. Taiwan used to be the no.1 export country of jades in the 70s and 80s, but large scale harvest no longer exist since the price dropped significantly and it’s much cheaper to harvest in Russia.
So happy to see the Fraser River again!
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty Rockhound here...
I'm living vicariously here! Used to live in Blaine, WA. Jade hunting is so satisfying!!! Thanks for letting me ride along!!!
I am really glad you are back and thanks for going out there and having fun for us! You sound as energetic as always!!!!
Dan you are a virtual encyclopedia of knowledge , I learn so much watching your channel that my head is someday going to explode. I hope no one is injured when it does .
That green rock with the white “stars” was a type of nephrite. It is actually quite rare and makes gorgeous cabochons.
Prove it show us one cut and done.
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White stuff is bits over on the tremolite side of the spectrum, yes?
Looks like flower jade, some call the little stars
Could it possibly be Grossular garnet in Serpentine it looks like the green is soft in the model White is more dense
Great jade Dan, really nice! Ocean picture stone is just beautiful!! Graham🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍👍
Never clicked on a video so fast! I am obsessed with Nephrite Jade. I found some of my own a few hours from where I live in California. Also a big fan of the show Jade Fever so I nerded out hard while watching this. lol. Dan, thank you for going into detail on your methods for Jade hunting. As well as showing them cut and the side by side comparison of Jade vs not Jade. It can be really confusing sometimes when you are still learning. I have been hoping you would do a video on Jade at some point. So glad you did! Thank you!
I clicked even faster after seeing the thumbnail. I was like "Thanos??" 😮
A lot of people think you can only find it in and around Big Sur in California. I did for a long time too. I guess bigger pieces would more typically be found there, but for pebble-sized, or the size of a quarter to 50 cent piece it can be found much further south. The ocean current is one powerful force and I'm pretty sure I've found jade at Morro Bay, Montana de Oro, Cambria, etc. -- all of the towns through there have it at the beaches. Hard to spot, but super fun to find.
So many cool things to find on California beaches. Agates, jasper, volcanic rock, moonstone, jade, petrified wood, sea glass, abalone shells, sand dollars, etc. I guess you could find sharks teeth, but they're very rare through there if at all.
@@tomw.4255 Yes! I have found all of those except shark teeth. I plan of taking a trip to Florida in the future to hunt for teeth. I feel really blessed to live where I do though. So many treasures to find here.
@@iloveredheads95 I hear ya! Good luck on your future beachcombing! Florida's definitely cool for sharks teeth.
I have a huge green somewhat translucent boulder and some other matching rocks the previous owners of my house had collected. I believe they might be Jade, but I’ll have to use that ping and scratch test to really find out.
Hope your get lucky! I love inheriting rocks!!!
Did you do the test?
That ultramafic rock, if cut into rectangular slabs, would make beautiful tile for a kitchen backsplash.
I love watching your videos. It has actualy inspired me and my son to get into gold panning and looking for stuff down at the rivers where we live
your wife asked all the questions I wanted to know! keep her around! lol love your videos Dan and Dayna
Amazing video🙌 so knowledgeable! Thanks for the adventure👌
Thanks Dan for this one I was lucky to find two baseball size chunks of Jade while gold prospecting glacial drift in Ohio. According to the head guy over that claim he said to his knowledge that was the first and only Jade ever found there. Sure made my day and my best finds to date out digging and poking around.
Highly unlikely to be actual jade in Ohio, alas.
@@canadiangemstones7636 well it's been authenticated maybe you need to learn more about glacial till. They was also a diamond found in the same area I got the jade. The material isn't native to Ohio is was pushed by glaciers out of Canada and dropped in different spots through out northern half of Ohio.
Dan Hurd, you an ikon. I watch your program very often. Very interesting every time! Please take care of yourself and recuperate fast. I want to see YOU and your guests all the time for ever! Regards....
Happy Mother’s Day Dana. Great video thanks Dan had no idea how to tell other rocks from jade
Good explanations on how to find Jade.Learned a lot from you here.Dayna has a good eye too spotting the Jades.
Wow thanks for the info on jade hunting Dan! Makes me wonder how many polished but "worthless" rocks I have pulled from the fraser but left behind because I thought they were worthless. Love the videos as always, great to see your recovering so well!
Collect what you like instead of just what you think's valuable and then that won't happen.
Such a fun and educational channel. Can watch for hours. Thx Dan for all of your hard work pulling these vids together!
Love that u felt the need to justify why you are taking it easy even when Recovering your thinking of dayna she is a diamond dan
I've watched a number of your videos and unfortunately I have to live vicariously through you. I'm glad you're healing from your surgery and doing well. Take care and keep making videos!
That rock that you didn't know is a Basalt Porphyry. We have it on Van. Is. I've always known it as Snowflake Porphyry and is also called Flower Porphyry. It has great eye appeal when slabbed.
Aww dan thank you make me fill so special .im that idaho jade. I love waching an learning from you .i wish my dad was being like you after his heart surgery .. Bless you dan
Great video Dan, and Happy Mother's Day Dayna!!🥰
Dan! You definitely know how to have fun!
I would love to see some lapidary work on the jade you found!!!
Really love the sweatshirt! Hello from the Army in Alaska Love the videos a ton!
Looks like a nice day there. Hello Dan... wish I was there.
I love going to Mineral shows as a child and now I'm about 68 and watching you do this makes my back hurt. But it looks like fun and you got a life and you got friends what more can you ask for finding something once in awhile makes it real fun. Take care of yourself good luck, God bless
Nice to see someone has sun. Cold, wet and rainy for the next week. Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. Liked your jade prospecting show.
We're getting hit with similar weather in Colorado, chance of snow in my area even today. I was getting used to enjoying the warmer weather then boom, cold snap lol
The amount of experience this guy has. It’s so cool how he can look at a seeming normal rock and identify it as an amazing stone! Super cool!
I'm so glad I watched this one.i know a creak ware theres very nice jade.but wasnt sure.i am now.thanks dan
I stumbled upon your channel..n now I'm hooked! Love from India
Beach combing at it's best. Well done matey
Hi Dan, I'm loving my Black Jade- Vibrating high very beautiful!🙏
It is great to see you two together😭 please take care of yourself I enjoy watching you God bless you and yours
Thank you as always Dan, very informative and I have to say watching you and your wife enjoy each others company so well is inspiring. Cheers!
Good finds, sir! I would love some of those really big jade rocks to throw out in the garden!
Thank you for the very informative video on jade rocks we enjoy all your videos and have learned alot about prospecting.for gold and jemstones
Our pleasure!
Thank you for the lesson on jade. Plus coming back from heart surgery like a boss!
I used to be a surveyor so would chuckle at walking sticks but I have a real bad back now and that is exactly the perfect terrain for a walking stick, really helps to stabilize saving lots of extra physical effort, make carrying a load out easier too. Your wife is great! You aren't so bad yourself either. Just found your channel yesterday and have seen several videos, getting totally hooked.
That trick with the sound was amazing
Thank you. I found out today about Red beryl and Mt.Topaz.
Love the new focus on stones and lapidary! Awesome video so satisfying to see the whole journey from hunting to cutting. Love it!!
These are my very favorite ones because it teaches us what to look for when we're Rock hunting.
The timing on this is amazing
This channel makes America 🇺🇸 great again
He lives in Canada smartass
I been sitting on river tumbled big quartz nuggets that you call mutton fat! Can't wait to slice a couple open thanx! I think I owe you one
I've been through so much stone and rock over the years... I've seen rocks just like these! Most I have seen are amongst riverjacks used for stone washes in gardens and landscape. I have actually broken one on job yesterday just like that mottled jade... Ihad a few like tgat iver the last 10 yeats or so.. they ways have a seem that breaks and im always like thats so pretty and i toss it behind a wall and cover it in mortar LOL. No longer will I toss pretty stones away... i did find a HUGE hunk of smokey and milky quartz on a job that is sitting to this day on my "rock ledge" (window sill in sunroom) I'm gonna have to pay more attention from now on. I'm so glad I decided to watch your show... I get that ping sound way more than I realized till now... 20 minutes of your videos and I'm already at the next level of "gemstone awareness"... hell I only thought Jade was in China..
We use alot of riverjacks! They call them Delaware River jacks but they come from all over the country... wherever they have access and do any river flow mitigation work...alot of government contracts (from what I was told). They keep some to serve needs if the projects and sell the rest to stone yards and landscape supply yards. Only downside is most is in that 1 to 6" size range. This does however explain why at Badolato stone there us always several buckest of stones and a pile if broken up stuff on the other side of the concrete divider. You think if I find one of those dark rocks in a state park by the river they'd come after me for breaking it &/or bringing it home? Lol. I'm on a new mission this spring!
Yeeessss! Another wonderful video from Dan Hurd! I love all your videos, but the rock hounding are the best! You find such beautiful specimens! I’ve bought a couple from you website. BEAUTIFUL!
Dan,this is an excellent video done to show us what to look for ! Good job...
For some reason even after clicking to be notified, YT didn't work properly so I missed the premiere. But I watched the replay & found it quite fascinating. Thank you.
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@@adammonahan687 I am ok now, thanks
Hello Dan, your videos are absolulty amazing. Thank you for your time and effort, thry full of great knowledge i just seen on your other video your extremely busy and dont have time to respond to most comments but if you could please take a few moments id like to maybe send you a few pictures of potential jade i found by prince george. Most of the stuff i find reminds me more of your modled jade but with out so much of the outer layer and is way lighter in color. I dont have a stone cutter or scratch kit as of yet but will be getting one soon. Lol the last 8 or 9 years people have called me crazy for thinking its jade, the best identification i could come up with it besides jade would be a almost adventurine, but would lean way more towards green quartzite or just really cool green stones. Now that ive watched this video a few times you made me really second guessing my thoughts so ive gone through a few of my samples that i have easy access. Now i have come up with more uncertainties about some of them some of my samples. Ive hit a few of them with a hammer and broke some of them. Now when it comes to hitting some with a hammer they wont break or crack but will just knock a little tiny chip off at most, would jade do that? Also thank you for all of the amazing information, I love watching and learning from your videos. Very cool stuff and i look forward to learning more from your videos.
If you'll recall Dan drilling into a large rock and breaking the drill bit? The bit was tipped with carbide and he broke both bits trying to drill into the rock. Carbide is one of the hardest substances on earth. My best guess would be your rocks are not jade. I don't claim to be an expert so good luck in your rock hinting endeavors!! ✌
I love it! There was this character in a book by Loyd Alexander, he survived on just finding stuff to eat and build stuff with, fed his family etc.. This is what Dan does! Great Job Dan! I love your vids, I learn something every time I watch one.
Dan, you look good and sound happy for just having OHS. Good luck, Andy
Wow I had no idea that some of the rocks I was finding were Jade way too cool thanks for sharing this🤟✅
Your shows are calming and therapeutic.
Almost 50 years ago I was exploring streams in the “mountains” of Alabama. I came across a, area of concentrated green rocks. I was certain I had found a pocket of jade (and had no idea that jade in Alabama was extremely unlikely). Carried out two 5gallon buckets of this “treasure” and took them home to my college roommate who was a geology major. He took it to a professor who rendered a learned determination as to the “value” of my “treasure”. “Industrial slag” he said. “Worthless”.😟
Glad YOU are finding the real thing!
Did he tell you to leave the rocks so he could throw them away for you? 😅
@@andriyshapovalov8886 😆 No, he left that sad duty up to me. While I was in university at the time I was still young and apparently at least a little naive. On closer examination and a little research I became a little LESS naive and realized he was correct. It was truly a glass-like slag. My youthful naïveté made me want very much for it to be at LEAST semi-precious, if not wildly valuable. In a way this growth proved valuable to me later in life when I took up gold prospecting. The “jade” experience probably kept me from lugging large quantities of mica around trying to believe it was gold…
Nowadays, even slag is useful to lapidary artists. As long as it's pretty we will cut is and polish it. Look up Leland Blue from Michigan.
@@ssteele1812 it truly looked just like the jade jewelry purchased a few years earlier in the Bahamas. I'm sure it would have made some interesting consume jewelry. Of course, that "discovery" was almost 50 years ago, so it is LONG gone.🙂
As a humble minerals lover I may say that was a very informative video....fun and educative, thanks
The lower quality stones would make some cool bookends! Thanks for yet another great video!!
Always something to learn from you.
Go Dan GO ...
hey Dan im back for some more great videos, Im back to catch up on your video channel Ive been giving it a miss for a few months because I had watched all your videos , so time to get my head mashed again with brilliant cont . keep up the great work
Thank you for showing us the Jade cut too! :D 💜💜💜 I love stones in general, their beauty is underrated, I had no clue that there were so many different Jade stones, so, I got to learn something today too :) 💜
really appreciate you showing the whole process, i was excited to see the inside of these stones once you started describing them!
Nice you and your wife have a Outing Dan!!!; )
Thank you for the education Dan, as a guy in his 60'tys I learnt a lot. Great video.
Good morning brother.
Ill bet watching.
Still praying for your heart. Lol
Hope all is well with you and yours.
The beard is coming back nicely. Lol
Looks very similar in composition to the jade we hunt in BiG Sur, CA. Love the channel. Sad it took me so long to find it! Thanks for the good vibes.
I just went jade hunting last week for the first time in years lol hope you were luckier than me, anyways i am looking forward to enjoying your video like always.
I love that your prospecting has expanded to more than just gold. I checked out the jade, noticed a typo, but I'll let you find it. Thank you for showing us your hunt for Fraser River Jade!
22:05 Reminds me of Snowflake Obsidian, but a green version. :P
Nice! Other youtubers usually just plant the stones in the ground
Love the Jade show. It’s funny but I was just hoping you would look for Jade and boom you did. I also like that you explained how to know if it is Jade. I have researched it and you are the only one who made it clear and simple to know. Thanks. Keep up the the great content 👍😁
Jade is one of those where I know what to look for, but then some days it's like someone flipped the switch off and I don't know what it looks like again. 😂 This was excellently explained, going to save this for when I need a refresher.
Amazingly beautified, beyond that I had no idea you could find jade in North America. Thank you for the lesson!
going to have to see if there is some along tranquille/thompson river, i want to go rock hounding now!
Nice to see a new beard growing up! Best wishes rock master!
Ahhhh! I love rock-hounding! Seeing this makes me want to get out so bad.
I just found your channel on RUclips and so glad I did. You give so much helpful and interesting information. I've subscribed now and want to thank you for the work you put in to your videos.
I would quit my job and go work for Dan for just a room and food...no lie!
Yes I agree
Ditto 👍🏼
I'd be willing to sleep in his yard
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@@MOTOMINING ...you get the yard, i got the garage...lol
Better hope he dont see this post dude. Or yer headed for the Fraser lmao!
I took Geology in college just because I wanted to know what I was looking at when I went hiking here in Colorado. I loved it and I love how informative you are. I have learned so much from watching your videos.
Gem hunting is fun, thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom! Inspiring 🙂⛏️
I love playing in and around creeks and rivers...rock hunting is so relaxing, yet exciting!
I live in Wyoming and I’ve found some really nice chunks of jade on my grandpas claim
Rocks call to me too. Oh my goodness.
I'm a big fan of Discovery's "Jade Fever" which I think is filmed in BC? A pain of course because you can't watch all the seasons here in the UK.
Me too! It is in B.C. just outside Cassiar.
VPN my friend, I hate how they block only some episodes of shows regionally but they tease you with every other episode.
@@100GTAGUY Tried a VPN for USA and Canada, still didn't let me watch them.
Dan Hurd is free the world over though. :D
I have never heard of it but as a BC gal...I'll see if I can stream it. Thanks for the info.
Hi Dan
Thanks for the great videos!
My grandpa and his brother left the family farm in Saskatchewan for gold in BC for two years. The color was really good at Spences Bridge but trapped in sticky clay so they landed on a bar south of Lillooet and shoveled sand and bucketed water until they could afford a pump. They took logs from the river and built a tiny cabin into the bank for the ground heat. For two years they worked by a big green boulder that had impressed them with its texture. Much later, a picture in the newspaper appeared with a fellow who knew what it was posing by his rock!
I love to see the ornamental stones on the saw