Great Gem Stone Surprise! Inside a garbage stone!

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Great Gem Stone Surprise! Inside a garbage stone!

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Removing some low grade stone off the top of the main Ocean Picture Stone seam, I get surprised with some top quality premium stone, where I did not expect it. That is one surprise I am happy to have.
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@shewmonohoto Жыл бұрын

Am I strange? I actually prefer the Gemological content to any of the Gold stuff.... I don't dislike the gold stuff, but...

@cptnkaos5994 Жыл бұрын

That is your choice and I for one will respect it

@danielb27 Жыл бұрын

@@cptnkaos5994your a kind person

@chrisp3231 Жыл бұрын

Strange? Maybe! 😂 But I agree with you. Geo stuff is more interesting to me as a Rockhound and fossil hunter.

@UnholyBe4st Жыл бұрын

O.P.S. content is amzing and i cant get enough of it. Geodes and such (like that star shaped stone) or the jade hunting is for me not so interesting but i still watch it. Just not so excited about it. Gold is gold, its what brought me here but it has drifted in my excitement scala behind the O.P.S. Everyone has their own favourite im sure. All in all, Dan is managing to cover a big amount of different things so i think we all get satisfied and we all probably learned alot about everything that he shows us which i find is the cherry on top of the entertainment that he provides

@CinSpain Жыл бұрын

I agree. I also watch to see the different types of stones and patterns 😊

@joshuajackson6442 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed the real aspect of Prospecting Dan showcased in this video. He did not sugarcoat that using the feather and wedges is the easiest method. He also let us know his personal opinions about the larger feather in the ledges, which is very nice because between the 6 inch and 58 inch they are definitely going to be differences. I also enjoy how passionate Dan is with his content, not just because he is selling this as well, but he is truly content and passionate about what he is doing. So thank you again for all that you do for the community even though you’re also a very savvy business person. Cheers.

@whereswendy8544 Жыл бұрын

Wedges

@mariemoss2475 Жыл бұрын

What a piece of heaven, so beautiful out there. I love when you collect this rock, definitely one of my favourites. Love to you and your family from Wiltshire England 😊💕

@date08 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see a fellow Moonraker enjoying the rocks 🙂

@nevadaminer5977 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see a miner who knows how to extract without completely destroying their find.

@donaldfitzgerald8950 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the beards-up, Dan! Won't miss it....💎👍🤠

@GeneralE1000. Жыл бұрын

I always love the GLOTD, it's fun learning all these cool geology tidbits Dan has to offer!

@TheMacattack66 Жыл бұрын

Love the shop talk on how this was foamed! Keep on the Great Work! Tks Dan

@michaelhayes1678 Жыл бұрын

Great content! As a side note, I noticed these larger feather and wedges are much less "musical" than the smaller ones. Thanks a million and more for all you do!

@shaneandera1409 Жыл бұрын

Now I know this is officially called ocean picture stone, but the third pan of the stones at the end of the video can be called mountain picture stone. It truly looks like you're flying at 35000 feet over cloud covered mountains, with just the peaks peeking through.

@duanedodson1 Жыл бұрын

It is just a marketing name.

@cflwhat Жыл бұрын

I always learn so much during the ocean picture stone videos. My favorite geological channel on KZfaq by far and away!!

@caseybeckner2625 Жыл бұрын

Finally made it home so now I can relax and watch Hurd do his thing

@bretcalobeer5152 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful rich blues. With wonderful new feather and wedge.

@nopelindoputraperkasa5869 Жыл бұрын

Hardwork for the gem stone 💪💪⛏️⚒️ Hope you get very good results ✨🤍💎

@Joe-ir4cd Жыл бұрын

Hi Dan, have you ever thought of using a portable concrete saw ? It's a radial saw that is powered by a two -stroke engine. The blade can be carbide or diamond and makes easy work of cutting blocks or slabs, just add water and go !! I can tell you more, if you want...! Love your videos !!!

@jasonwcoleman250 Жыл бұрын

There's the Viking "Welgcome" intro I've been missing! Thanks Dan!

@JohnarvyAjero Ай бұрын

Idol dan hurd i love youre ocean picture stone...i am in the Philippines..but i like youre content..

@johnnythompson1055 Жыл бұрын

Dan, my wife and I love your videos and especially your geology lessons. Keep them coming and we will keep watching them as soon as the new ones come out. Thanks again from Alabama, USA.

@ericprater4017 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the GLOTD! I'm looking forward to the Liberty Wa. Gold Miners Rally 25-27 where Nick Zentner, Jack Powell and David Green will be speaking geologically! Great Job Dan!

@ScottishGoldHunter Жыл бұрын

It is just an amazing rock to look at🤩Love these vids⛏️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@LordAuric69 9 ай бұрын

Hey Dan, I was in your quarry 30 years ago on a BCLS Rendezvous field trip. I got a beautiful piece of OPS that is my prize collection piece.

@rindapelton5876 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Dan! I Appreciate!

@ann-or6ev Жыл бұрын

Why is it mesmerising to watch you hammering these wedges?😊

@1944chevytruck Жыл бұрын

amazing rock that BC picture stone!

@RustedPioneering Жыл бұрын

Dan amazing footage and the ocean picture stone is outa this world…

@josephcormier5974 Жыл бұрын

Excellent haul Dan thanks for sharing this six stars

@bigbird2451 Жыл бұрын

I work with fused glass and I've been trying to replicate the look of ocean picture stone. I'm not really happy with the results yet. But I'll keep cracking away at it. Thanks for the inspiration Dan!

@shanna74 Жыл бұрын

Love the geology lesson of the day. Very informative

@maemae7497 Жыл бұрын

What a good video! My husband got me some of your picture stone to display, and I actually cried. Its gorgeous. Geology is amazing

@metalhead0274 Жыл бұрын

That's some beautiful pieces... So many cabs and pendants and other things I could make.. Even all those chip pieces could make beautiful earrings and beads and other stuff... Might need to think about making an order

@asherixie Жыл бұрын

I had a great time watching the video. Thanks Dan!

@skeets6060 Жыл бұрын

Im sure you have gotten tons of comments about using the feather wedges. If I may, using more holes between the boreholes you are using for the wedge. They dont have to be the bigger holes, a series of smaller holes along the line where you want the break to go the crack will follow the drilled holes,,,,, mostly ;)

@Gardeningchristine Жыл бұрын

I have a love-hate relationship with ocean picture stone. I love it, but I hate how much it cost me to get any. Beautiful stuff though.

@SistaJaine 11 ай бұрын

Yes, and it's a stone...a rock...a crystal, not gold!...you couldn't trade with it like you could gold or silver...It's pretty but not worth what he's charging for it...Mexican Crazy lace agate has far more to offer in detail IMO.

@marciaslay1149 Жыл бұрын

This color is amazing and I would love a piece of jewelry made out of this

@masamunesword Жыл бұрын

One of the best feelings in rockhounding is finding out what you thought was overburden isn't.

@randombydesign7042 Жыл бұрын

Since it is over 2 years since your heart surgery now, so how is the scar on your chest doing? How are you feeling inside yourself and I hope the family unit is doing really well? So have a epic rest of the year, don't work too hard but work hard enough and keep up the marvellous marvellous content of natural minerals and elements Dan

@melvinroehm821 Жыл бұрын

Love the blue ocean look

@MoePoe777 Жыл бұрын

Sunday morning ROCKS!

@darrellbrixey5341 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Dan for sharing this awesome content

@jonayoung1708 Жыл бұрын

Im glad for your sucess. You deserve it. Cheers to you dan

@desertriderukverun1002 Жыл бұрын

Dan, you might want to consider a portable concrete saw to be able to remove the premium stone without cracking it.

@palmarolavlklingholm9684 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought about that to. There would be less material lost.

@CZ2_Delta Жыл бұрын

One time he said there was regulations against using big tools for prospecting, I don't know if it applies to this area/picture stone!

@duanedodson1 Жыл бұрын

@@CZ2_Delta without permits, he is trying to avoid permits.

@blainesellars1548 Жыл бұрын

Been saying that for years I can’t see why not if your allowed jackhammers a 16 inch husky wetsaw would be fine not only that half his job would be done ✅ you would cut his production time in half but hey what would I know I don’t live in BC no way near it 😅

@jaratt85 Жыл бұрын

the big problem is the water you'd need to run it

@kellyw.1779 Жыл бұрын

Hey Dan! Wow, that ocean picture stone is just so beautiful! Mother nature does her job well. Look forward to seeing you go back and get more of that big blue goodness!

@suemoore1965 4 ай бұрын

💙 WHAT A PRETTY COLOR 💙

@albertballard490 Жыл бұрын

I love your blues. Have a great day

@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976 Жыл бұрын

I live watching videos of you finding this amazing stone. I'd love to put some of that in my rock tumbler.

@brettlejeune7009 Жыл бұрын

Haven't watched anything from you in a while, just busy and whatnot. This morning I have a migraine building up and I figured Dan is the man with a soothing voice that can help me forget about the pain in my head for a bit. Then he breaks out the generator and drill😆. Oh it hurts to laugh

@joanbroadway759 Жыл бұрын

Watching you drill into that rock reminded me that I need to make a dentist appointment. I think my dentist uses the same drill as yours.

@thomasanglin1751 Жыл бұрын

Great video Dan as usual... Those ocean picture stones are beautiful. Great haul....

@marionmclean3749 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful stones and nobody has ever seen them before - it's mind blowing!

@donhoughton271 Жыл бұрын

Looks fabulous. 😊😊

@nicholashowes7375 Жыл бұрын

You should grease the feather and wedges up. They will work better Dan. Less friction. Love the vids!

@slimwantedman6694 Жыл бұрын

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

@robinengbers6089 Жыл бұрын

Just love this video! Really wanted to sneak in and grab a small piece but, my husband says not a good idea 😂 So, ordered 1lb premium, thanks Dan, can’t wait till my order comes!

@monomarino5349 Жыл бұрын

Some people say they can still hear Dan banging away in the hills saying "Just one more piece."

@rogerbeddall9223 Жыл бұрын

Next time you are up Dan I want to meet you and show you some buckets of tiny rocks you might be interested in. I live in rock creek

@martyparsons8395 Жыл бұрын

Spring time is my favorite time!! Great video, thanks Dan!

@danielcarter305 Жыл бұрын

Dans got Ocean Picture Stone fever!

@Silvereagledude Жыл бұрын

Good stuff, Dan

@backtoiron Жыл бұрын

Been watching you for quite a while now.

@rogerdudra178 Жыл бұрын

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Nice place, this ocean picture stone place. It's in Canada!

@markmelody682 Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful shot to start off a video! You’re a lucky man Dan!

@BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm Жыл бұрын

Love the blue 💙

@elisabethe8055 Жыл бұрын

Well Dan! A piece of ocean picturestone is going to Sweden! I am so excited! It is so beautiful and something i have never seen. It will be amazing to have something not only from Canada, but something that is so rare and only from this place. It will fore sure be called My Precious! 😅

@aleta5873 Жыл бұрын

Gorgeous blue ! It's July 30th over here.

@peterwright217 Жыл бұрын

top show Dan.

@donhoughton271 Жыл бұрын

Good looking .I have the same Brody know on my steering wheel and it the same color to.😊😊😊

@FlagPony Жыл бұрын

Gorgeous!

@bobweiss9138 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this with us ❤

@Reglabbe Жыл бұрын

I missed the premier but I am just a hop, skip and jump from BC ;) less than a 10 hour drive tomorrow ;)

@songbirdscreations-MargaretS Жыл бұрын

God, I really need to get some of that stone, it is just too beautiful for words!❤❤❤

@ann-or6ev Жыл бұрын

Wow? Beautiful

@scottmcintosh2988 Жыл бұрын

Dan yry a splitting maul you could get two and adjust the length of the handle you could use the otherbend to split off some rocks very fastbtoo ! Hi from NH.

@kathywhite4547 Жыл бұрын

Gorgeous stuff

@geirbalderson9697 Жыл бұрын

You crack me up Dan!!!!

@sgtgrumpy13 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dan, I'm thinking about GDI.

@geradkavanagh8240 Жыл бұрын

Seen something similar to your ocean picture stone in a couple of small mines and outcrops around the Mount Isa area in Northwest Queensland, Australia. Nothing like the huge veins you have though. Also noted chalcedony veins while doing excavations and cuts around the Gladstone and Rockhampton areas in Eastern Queensland though most were more green from Nickel contamination. Area North of Rockhampton is noted for Chrysoprase deposits.

@andyschatzschneider8286 Жыл бұрын

Good morning all

@chrisholmes8197 Жыл бұрын

What a stunning landscape

@butziporsche8646 Жыл бұрын

Very cool. Had a lapidary shop in junior high in the early 70s and did a lot of agate bit I’ve never seen any of this live.

@keithcunningham7925 Жыл бұрын

Amazing stuff 😍😎

@zGJungle Жыл бұрын

Ocean picture stone is probably the most pretty mineral I have ever seen.

@therustyshoe8958 Жыл бұрын

Dan I watched a video a while ago, on an alternative to blasting. Its something that expands as it cure fracturing the rock. I think its called expando. I saw it on demolition dave blasting and drilling you tube channel. I dont know what the laws are in Canada for using this stuff or if you need other permits. But the way it looks you could start large pieces come back later and feather and wedge them smaller

@Bl4zz3r Жыл бұрын

If you could make those blocks in to circles they would make some neat looking globes.

@bassforgaia5003 Жыл бұрын

Hey now, great channel Dan! Forget about that big sledge, try finding or modifying a bit for your Makita that you could use to drive those wedges. I've got a slightly larger Hilti but I've been able to drive 24" form pins into some pretty nasty rocks with it. 😉

@48thstateprospecting Жыл бұрын

I know you didn’t have much time but in order for you to let the wedges do their job drill 3-4 different sets to break out install your wedges and go from one to the other driving them in by the time you get back to the first set you will have allowed time for the wedges to do their job😬 I also can’t state enough ho much easier it would be to use a 14 inch diamond hand held saw especially on the bottom to great a 5” thick cut so the rock comes of in a chunk instead of spalling away to a sliver. But it’s your claim in the end lol if I was closer I’d bring my demo saw (14”husqvarna ) and show you what a difference it would make. Thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼

@DirtyPlumbus Жыл бұрын

Wow, a pendant or ring made out of that blue would be beautiful.

@likeakite Жыл бұрын

What a beauty of a stone !!!

@negativerush Жыл бұрын

I picked up some 3/4 in wedges on Amazon to break up same very larg chunks on concrete. About a ton a piece. Ther were faster then the demo gun.

@virajgems Жыл бұрын

Great video..

@chrislivingston3213 Жыл бұрын

When you get big chunks of that ocean pictures Stone you should try and cut it so you can make a set of plates out of it like dinner plates

@roykrossin8343 Жыл бұрын

Good morning Dan and Reg

@Mark_Nadams Жыл бұрын

Like you said about the feather & wedges, a good working technique is to hit them lightly many times and wait between. If you ever watch quarry men split marble or granite that is how they do it. Along with tight spacing between sets it helps to pop the stone where you want. It is nice for them they typically work in solid stone, not so for the OPS. The hammer you have is probably just about right. However for improved cleavage I think the thing that needs to get bigger is our patience. You were just having too much fun while making this video with a tight schedule, to take the time to drill more holes and wait between passes for the rock to cleave where you want.

@breannathompson9094 Жыл бұрын

8:00 those would be cool if you polished/sanded the one side with the exposed gemstone, like an ornamental plate!

@debcamp2359 Жыл бұрын

Thx for a great vid!

@buscandooroartesanalmentes3823 Жыл бұрын

genial amigo es una excelente video

@lindafitzwater2745 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Nice

@express375 Жыл бұрын

Demolition Dave mentions using special grease on his wedges

@jonathannorthup5705 Жыл бұрын

At 11.25 you should cut that rock into a big flat piece to show the river scene. It looks just like white water rapids!

@benstradling7615 Жыл бұрын

Hi Dan have you ever thought about taking a gas powered disc cutter up to the claim with a diamond blade you'd be able to remove a lot more uniform material .

@equallawandorder5393 Жыл бұрын

JT want’s everything electric 🤡❗️ Your 4 wheeler needs to be replaced by an electric EV 4 wheeler 🤡🔨🔨🔨