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I'm the president of a local rock club in New Mexico. We have a number of new people, so at our last monthly meeting I played this video in its entirety for our 50 or so members. It was educational and everyone enjoyed your presentation. Thanks, Teach!

Finally a rockhounder explains the science of rocks, instead of only how pretty they are. Thank you!

Geology the more you learn the more you become aware of the vastness of what you don't know. Great video you rock.

Agates are heavenly. I could happily spend the rest of my life alone on a pebble beach. Even if found a dull quartz pebble, it would still be worth it.

As a beginner rock hunter, with an 11 year old rock hunting partner, this is the exact kind of video that I need!! Subbed.

My favorite quote is “ the waters get muddy “ 😊

I needs lots of videos just like this! I love the explanations of overlapping mineral traits. This was a refreshing and open conversation, thank you!

As someone that is new to getting into rock collecting/finding, this helps immensely. The lines really can be blurred at times so I really found relief in this video. Thank you

I was in a lapidary class that had an elderly scholar of earth sciences. He called the silicate family of rocks weeds. They get in cracks and grow everywhere. He was a fun teacher and now whenever I run across a “weed” out in the field, I fondly think of him

The truth is I love them when when they are pretty ,that is what drives mu passion !

I feel like I can hear my geologist friend now, "It's all SiO2!" Lol That's literally what he says when ever someone brought in an agate/jasper/quartz/chalcedony for identification

The banded clam shell shaped agate on the right is very cool.

I cant tell you how much I needed this video my good sir. Absolutely invaluable to have things laid out clearly and coherently 🙏

Love the video, I'm always learning. Keep it coming. Thanks, Chris.

I think what you have really cleared up for me is why this has always been so fuzzy to me.

I like your bottom line message in the video. A whole plentitude of amalgams out there and stones certainly don't know or care about our naming rules. Lovely array of eye candy as well.

Thanks 😊 I really appreciate you helping me out with the types you shared. I have lots of fun looking for agates, jasper, and buying geods.

Thank you for the great video! I am just getting into the hobby and you helped me learn a few things, looking forward to watching more of your content!

Love this! I'm new and sometimes I get tired of seeing quartz, but this makes it brand new and exciting!

Thank you so much Mr . I'm infatuated with agets i have a large collection such as yours though I was finding it hard to explain to others that they come in so many forms and descriptions. Thanks for your time 😊

Excellent informative video! Thanks for sharing your expertise. 🙂

Your channel came up in my feeds I am a lover of Gemstones. Watched my 1st video of yours and was immediately hooked and Subscribed! I look forward to seeing many more of your Rockhounding Adventures and your viewpoints about this vast topic. As for Agate and Jasper, I love them both. Sadly they are two Gemstones that are vastly underrated by the general public. Their natural beauty oftentimes gets downplayed with dying and overprocessing in the marketplace. I recently Hand Knotted a beautiful natural Agate 32 inch necklace for myself. That's my personal Hobby (not a business of any kind) just for me. It'sa very calming Hobby and let's me enjoy different ways of enjoying my retirement life. At 70 plus years old I don't go rock hunting too often nowadays. Glad to see the younger ones doing that and learning about the vastness and historic values of Gemstones found in Nature.

Good video CR. As I’ve only been back in the hobby a couple of years it’s very interesting to view this information and the context of complexity of just this one portion of rocks. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin

The variety is what makes rocks so amazing!

Excellent video! I watched it while at work shhhhh! 🤫

Loved this video. Wish more people had this open mindedness with these types of stones 👍

TY for helping to sharpen our observational skills!

I'm a happy new subscriber !!! Been rockhounding since childhood when my uncle found a real big amethyst geode near my house. Really got back into it a coupla years ago, I have a bunch of rocks in vinegar, hot water and dish soap. today..the ones i picked on the coast of the Atlantic ocean in New Brunswick and PEI Canada 2 year ago....man they already look amazing after 10 minutes!! Love this channel! Keep up the great work! From Montreal Canada ;)

I really enjoyed that! It was like being back in one of my geology/mineralogy classes in college. I’m looking forward to watching your video about the methods of formation. You are wonderful at explaining things and making things clear.

Thank you!! Finding this video has helped dispel the insecurity of not knowing what I’m holding!! Great info! Thank you again!

For real, everybody knows everything, I love that you teaching and I'm loving it

YOU ARE AMAZING...It's refreshing that you provided this for us NEWBIES. I would really like to see more of these for various rocks and minerals! THANK YOU! Most "rock" channels do not consider the beginner. THIS IS INVALUABLE! KUDOS!

Those jasper stones are so pretty. I love their deep red color. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

Thanks for this video. Very insightful ❤

Thank you Jared. Wonderfully done. I will be watching this several times it is so helpful.

Hello CR, thanks for another great video. I love this topic and it's very helpful to know more about them.

This is the best explanation I have seen. You broke it down so well that even I can understand. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thank u always learning new stuff when I watch ur channel

Nice explanation on how to identify different agates and jasper. It is very educational to someone like me who really interested about the classification of different agates and jasper.

Thank you for doing this video. I struggle with these questions daily because their is so much different stuff out there.

Awesome video with very valid points! I shared this to a beginner's rockhounding page on Facebook. Hopefully it gets to more people and helps them understand better. Thanks Jared!✌😎

Thanks for opening up the door to more fun rock hunting experiences and conversations!

OMG so glad I found you! I can totally relate to your style of explaining. Thanks!

Absolutely loved this video! I shared it with my rockhounding FB group 😃

Love this! As a fellow rock hound this is a great “back to basics” video! Well explained/described and very well done! Just subbed, keep up the great work!

Love the video! and the poetic license for classified the silica beautiful rocks!!!

Beautiful collection shown!

Great video thank you for sharing your knowledge with us 🤙🏼

Vow! Thanks for that simply explained knowledge! ❤

Soo enjoyed this! Thanks bro .. cleared up a lot of questions for me👍🏼🌻

That was the greatest "Actually" I have ever heard. I had to listen to it a few times. I love rock hounding. I love learning a little here and there about what I have. And I now live where it is productive just a quarter mile from my house, which is pretty cool. I'm here to learn some more, to see it differently than I currently do. I always challenge myself that way. And now I have this "Actually" to throw out for humor's sake. Thanks!

Lovely specimens! Personally i love getting to know the different names to Moss Agates, Sagenites, Carnelians, Botryoidal or Microcrystalline features (i often find Cherts looking like yellow or green Jasper and vice versa!) and so on.. but knowing the names/identification of specific rocks, helps me identify gems quicker while hounding and also it helps me build a mental map of where gems may have formed, based on what they are, where i find them and the condition they're in. Although it's all silica, how the silica is expressed is down to the chemistry/environment it was forged in - at least in my view :) Also aren't Picture Jasper's and Rhyolite's techniaclly cousin's - they both have upwards of %60 silica content?? XD

Just found your channel with this video today. Your teaching style is clear and reasoned for looking at things in grey, not black & white, which is the way of most things in life. Instant subscription to this wonderful asset!

i remember the lesson from grade school,opaque,no light comes through,translucent ,light passes through,ans transparent is where you can view through it !

Thank you for this excellent and informative video!

I've enjoyed several of your videos as I've embarked on this new hobby, but this video is the one that made me subscribe. Fantastic stuff, thanks so much for sharing!

WOW...thanks so much for this video. I was hoping I would find an individual who would go further in depth as to how these various stones are formed and what they should properly be called. Look forward to more of your info. Thanks again for posting.

First time watcher, loved the video. Funny how everyone wants to correct everyone else, the deficit of our society. This helped a lot, I will be binge watching your videos now. Would love more videos like this.

Thank you for sharing your information.

Fantastic information with beautiful samples. Thank you for creating this interesting video.

I’m fairly new to the hobby. Thank you for the video. It was very helpful.

The huge variety of examples was so helpful. I feel like so many resources only show one or two really "perfect" examples of the rock, all cut and polished. I wanna see the "ugliest" examples of the rock, because that's what I see more often when rockhounding. However, I actually know for sure that 13:17 is a Starship Enterprise communicator 😂

I enjoyed this so much, thanks

Very informative! Thank you so much!! Great video. 😊

I really like the comparison you made between the Sunset picture jasper and that piece of rhyolite. Good information. I just ordered a new blade for my old Hi-tech trim saw using your discount code. Thanks for that!

I recently had a bunch of contravercy over my rocks on a Facebook group and I don't know much . This video was perfect for my growth in knowledge !! Thank you for a awesome video

That was very helpful. Thank you😁

As a real newbie, I learn so much from following your adventures! You're an Inspiration, keep up the amazing videos Sir! Mike.

Great lecture. I had many questions answered.

Great topic .A few thoughts , the more I learn about rocks the more I realize how little I know. I do know I really really like Agates. Keep up the good work.

Very informative!!! Thanks for sharing 😁

Awesome thank you:) I have a collection of rocks most I assumed to be agates but I was able to pick out the jasper pieces using this video :) Also fun learning about the make up and good ways to pick them out. I’ve got some of the crystalline(?) glad to put some names to my rocks 💜

Outstanding Video, very informative. I learned much from this. Thank You!

You are an excellent instructor/illustrator...great video thanks !

Thanx for being a great teacher 😊

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You rock sir!

Thanks for the explanation and the examples. That was very interesting and informative !!!

I am just beginning to get into rocks. Thank you for the simple well organized explanations.

Thank you! This gave some clarity to a few of the jaspers I have and a few of the agates I have. We have been very busy cutting and shaping with a 7" wet saw. Polishing and tumbling equipment coming down the pike soon! My creek is LOADED.... STL, MO

Watching this again. Thanks. Jaspers and agates are some of my favorites. And quartzite.

I can take a guess on a few but still learning. 😊great video thank you!😊

New to rockhounding, this was by far the best video ever. Going to look at some more😁 TY

Your explanation is very impressive. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 👍

Awesome video man, thank you for this!!! Now I just wish you weren't so cold where you had to record this!!!!

This is very informative, especially in Kansas!!! Thank you!!!!

Thank you for this video my friend I learned alot in my journey starting out as a rock hounder. bless

Very helpful video! Thank you so much! I just came back from a trip doing fossicking for the first time in my life. Your video helped me to identify some of the stones I digged out or found in the river.

Loved this video .. it really helped me understand why I have so much trouble identifying these rocks !!! lol ... keep them coming ! and thank you :)

*so glad I found this channel* cheers mate !

Great help!! Thank you. I learn a lot in your videos.

thanks for another excellent video Jared, I always worry too much about defining quartz rocks so this helped a little to improve my understanding.

Great explanations and cool samples. I learnt much!

Wow, thank you I’m glad I’m picking good specimens, I wondered about the identity of my collection and you taught me what I have. Thank you for the valuable information. Much ❤️

I LOVE this video sand your take on the argument! I have jasper with chalcedony where the bands are formed by the jasper and someone told me it can’t be an agate even though the jasper formed patterned bands over the chalcedony underneath.

Thank you for sharing your amazing knowledge and time.

This was so interesting, thank you for your knowledge 👍💕💕💕💕

I just got back into a gems and minerals and found this very helpful. Thanks and great video!

Some of the banded chert you have here is phenomenal! I’ve got a couple cool jaw breakers and some defined line banded chert but nothing like that in my findings lately, super into jaspagates and eye agates currently but I’ll pocket any bangers big or tiny