I wish I had a teacher like you 25 years ago when I was in school ! Your an inspiration to the kids and doing great work. Thanks for sharing this video.

At 9:33 I am in love with the stone in the top left that has a purple reflection on its bottom left side. We used to pan for garnets when I was 6-11 years old in the stream that ran through the campground we stayed at near Hill City, Black Hills, SD. Got lots of smooth ones I still have, along with a small phial of gold flakes. I was going to be a geologist when I was a kid because of those trips.....fossils, all colours of Quartz, mica, iron pirate, etc!

Dan, hello from Iowa USA. I use to live in the Seattle area and spent time in search of garnets. The location I found enabled me to fill a 5 gallon bucket in 2hrs. I took that bucket and “high graded” at home. I filled a large ziplock bag - I sent this bag to be faceted. Ended up with a sandwich sized baggie full of stones. Brilliant,teardrop and hearts- finished stones. Some over 5cts. If you like I’d let you in on where you too can find this place.

Hey Dan, my daughter and I have fallen in love with rockhounding and are moving into finding different types of gems etc. We're in Calgary and it's pretty limited here. Your videos have really helped and I can't wait to try out what I've learned.

Love the way you always have a perfect rock to sit on while you sift & pan👍

Hey Dan, im a land owner in Oklahoma. My property has a natural creek with no human contanct before me unless natives. Im finding gems similar but stuck to the outside of all kinds of rock like its gem crusted now. Most seem to be ocean life fossils like coral.

oh I love Garnets I had no idea you could find your own this way wow Some day i am gonna do this too! lovely video guys!!

I went to Emerald Creek ID last weekend. You have to pay to play but you can find very big garnets there including star garnets. Its one of only 2 known places they can be found. My biggest was about an inch across but my brother in law found one the size of a golf ball. Most are fractured but some look like they might cut into a nice gem. I will tumble most of them but the nicest I will take to have cut and polished. I am hoping to find some star garnets in the bunch.

Excellent spot!! Cool to see the whole process of sieving.

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you might want to go to the Slocan River between Passmore south to Slocan Park ...garnets up to 5 cts plus in size...the garnet is a Pyralspite...lively colour ...remember...inside bends :) spent over 40 years prospecting in the West Koots

thanks Dan, my wife loves all your videos !

so magical! What a great idea to bring the family!

This was fascinating to me. Thank you Dan. Subscribed.

the effort you put into finding a gem stone was amazing and interesting to see. thank you for sharing.

Lol 5:40 that's the million dollar question. Love your videos. I'm learning alot. You sparked an old interest in me. I can't wait to view all your videos. Stay safe, have fun.

I found these garnets prospecting in Ireland and I thought they were rubies but now I'm quite sure that they are garnets.. I have a video on my channel so Dan if you will ever be bored and so kind to take a look at them and tell me what you think they are I would appreciate that ;-) Your videos are awesome! I watched tones of them! Thanks for sharing Dan!

Sir i would be a happy man if i only had a full hand of the small stuff. Great that you are able to do this, here in my country only clay, sand and dirt, oh and worthless pebbles.

Where would you send the stones to be faceted if you had found a nice one?

Your knowledge and skill amazes me and I see your dyi gem sieve nicely done

you make it look easy ... great work

Thanks Dan, good video on Garnets

i love how you have built that wall around your washing area so that you don't create plumes of dirt or warm the river too much. it's a good habit that keeps the state off rockhounds backs.

In the past I have found some nice deep red 1/2"- garnet here in North Carolina. I found that the best thing to do, was to take all the rough and throw it in a tumbler or vibe with some 800 grit and let'r go ! Checking it after a few hours to see how it's cutting, it will give you a better look after the top layer of crud is knocked off.... It's best viewed by using a pyrex baking pan filled with some water, with a light underneath after first rinsing all the spent abrasive and dirt away ! You can decide from there as to toss or continue....! I would keep a couple of pounds of the small garnet around for future use on other new diggs. Besides, the smaller garnet could be final polished for use as rounds or cob's too !! So... keep the small stuff too, it's great for polishing metal in your tumbler !

That's cool. We go prospecting and that's the ladies favorite part I think, the garnets. Yet, we just find tons of smalls she collects from the black sand. I always think they are coming from somewhere.. maybe larger ones around up further in the canyon.

I've been panning a nearby river for gold, and along the way I've been finding a ton of fine garnets. It's a bunch of fun and I'm wondering what I should be looking for geologically in order to find some bigger pieces.

There are some beautiful little garnets in there-like little berries!

I wished i lived where you live. Gold and garnets cant get better than that!

Here's a thought, How about collecting enough of the smallest ones to create a .5 or 1" layer in the bottom of an aquarium? Some hobbyist may be interested in a garnet bottom for a designed setup. May be too much work for a bag of garnet gravel but I have seen some "micro" setups and someone may want it. That small grate cleanup with the whole top being red was pretty impressive to me. In wake co nc there is a place called 'garnet hill' and we had a couple of fun days rockhounding there and walked away with baggies of near gem quality stones.

We found some really nice sized garnets a couple of years ago and had one gem cut for jewelry. Love these stones they are beautiful.

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We have fully formed gumball sized ones here in Idaho. Cool videos! Keep up the good work.

I want to see you take a pile of those smaller garnet stones and put them into a rock tumbler. You might be surprised as how bright they get with a polish. That would be a fun video

Nice hunt. Oh and we have the same last name too.

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Dope video Dan. Really cool

I know a guy that has a water jet that uses garnet sand to cut through 1" thick glass.

Very good garnets :))

Hey Dan me and my dad watch you think your videos are great, keep them coming!

I hope you keep the little ones. I would love to have any garnets of any size even the tiny ones to make something for my grandbabies.

This is a great video. I have a question, where is a good place to look for gems? What makes one spot better than another? Thanks!!

Oh gosh! When I was 14 years ol I was on a Backpack trip into the Rockies and found an old Rockslide littered with Garnets! There are massive amounts of Almandine Garnets, I think that’s what they are. They are embedded in Basalt Rock! You can find them as big as a kids fist too. All of them are Brilliantly Red! Gosh they Look like Rubies too!

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Hi. Have you ever come across a red grant that goes transparent and has a blue reflect when placed under a whit light? Also looks like black specs inside like carbon build up. Any ideas on what it could be?

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Somewhere, sometime ago those tiny little pieces of semi-precious stone were part of a large formation of giant six sided crystals. Wouldn't it be nice to see some of those!

Cool vid. Thanks.

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The small chips would make a lovely Druzy cab! The lake, river looked like Michigan. I see you're in BC Canada.

The garnets "closest" to me here in New Mexico are North East of the Sandia Mountains, just outside Edgewood. They're on a private claim (Baca Mine) and I was one of the last groups to go there legally. While they aren't the pretty red I'm used to, they are cool looking because they have the neat geometric shapes. The local rock club told me the mine used to turn the garnets into high-end sand paper!

Just rewatched this vid on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Thanks for another excellent video. Even though they didn't end up being facetable, you have some lovely garnets there!

I worked at a tree nut processing plant. The had various separating machines. In 3 years I collected about 5 lbs. of nice garnet and other stones. They would just dump the rocks around the property. Bet there's a crap load of good rocks there.

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Subscribed :P I'm a fraser valley rock hound learning every day

I've been doing pottery lately and all those garnets got me thinking. I wonder how it would look if I crushed the garnets up and used them in a slip and coated a bisqued piece and then glaze fired.

Just received my package of your paydirt a day or so ago...Haven't opened it yet, but did a shake test and seen 3 small flakes thru the plastic...lol.. Waiting for my day off on Friday to classify and pan it out.. Maybe I got some kind of bonus bag, or one you had an oops moment and put a lot of fines in it...lol

I have some that might not go through a 1/2 " classifier in a tumbler right now (didn't check the mesh) any advice should I be cutting instead of tumbling ?

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*gets ruby* *gets sapphire* *puts the two together* AND YOU GOT GARNET!!

Garnet caviar

So many gem shards. So many innocent garnets shattered. Heartbreaking.

Could the smaller, non-facetable stones be tumble polished and used as micro mosaic pieces?

Great fun to watch! And where are Big Silver Creek and Harrison Lake?

Would you bother to tumble these baby garnets or would they get eaten away to nothing? Thank you!

We really want to win that microscope Dan!

that last shot looks like wine grapes, beautiful.

Nice stones dan. I like these. An your peridot mine 👌.. I have one rough ruby in my collection.. It's fairly big and too hard for me to work so I domt know what to do with it. Be a shame to crush it down. Would love to see it faceted. It's at least a few grams. Dono what that is in karats

i love your videos

great video, Thanks

Good luck, gems hunter

Hi Dan love your channel. I facet gems myself. I would love to get a piece of garnet to work with.!!

Awesome!

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Wow amazing

You may want to try the Fraser just below Yale or at emory creek. I have some nice clear red ones from there in schist,

Nice to see how simple physik can do this 3:29 The small red stones u can sell to handcraft people who work creative....

Wow. I need to get a gem sieve. I've got a bucket of dirt from a claim I went on in Ohio, lots of tiny garnets in the soil up there.

very cool

Tons of Garnets on the Fraser & Nechako.

Hey Dan get a 3 dollar bag of pea gravel and sift it look for glassy red purple and blues stones they look like saphures,garnets and possible aquamarine... is worth it if 1 is facatable

I have a huge pile of raw garnets but I'm new to this and how do I clean the iron residue off the big ones

holy cow id love to do this looks like alot of fun

I just bought a 190 ct pyrope garnet crystal. What's something like that worth also what's the best way to carve or polish something like that?

Good video

I’ve found a 1.85 ct garnet but i dont know what to do with it. Any suggestions?

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Makes wonderful sandpaper

Clean garnets between 8th and quarter inch are definitely worth faceting!

I love garnets, I was out just walking one day about 2 years ago after it had rained and step on a really hard rock that I thought went through my shoe. I picked up this beautiful reddish, burgundy stone the size of a gumball turned out to be a garnet.

hey dan,I'm steve from Scotland,iv watched you for years now and ur nolage is outstanding,i work with kids with ADHD and we go camping and do stuff but i no gold could work, don't take this the wrong way but do you have any old slices or anything to help?? you cant imagine wat his would mean for the kids?

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This was really interesting.I really enjoyed it. I may be mistake but it looks like a place where bears might step out of the trees?

god that water is so beautiful. is it cold?

Hi where did you buy your classifiers at online? Also, I am looking to buy a heavy-duty green gold pan with a high banker with an extra-long sluice. do you know any places that sell what I am looking for?

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