Complete newbie at this but OMG is it addicting! I went rock hounding this past weekend and came across quartz clusters, agate, jasper and a really nice piece of sandstone. Can't wait to get a tumbler and start making my own pendants.

This is so cool i think i found my people. Ive been a rock person my whole life.

Huh...I think I found three agates whole cleaning up my front yard. These were originaly just picked randomly with a bunch of other rocks that my grandma picked way back in the day when she was working on her garden. Its preety fascinating and finally I now know what these are. I have two white ones and one that looked like an ordinary stone until you shine it at a light. Thank you for the information :)

Thank you! I found out a "dull" agate looks like a piece of quartz but now I can see a difference. And I know I have found an agate!

Thanks for the video. I just came back from Agate Creek Queensland Australia with a bunch. Now I have to learn how to polish them up! 14 hour round trip but already want to do it again!

I think you did a nice job. Thank you for the information.

I read about how to make an industrial tumbler out of a rear axle of a big semi truck with the rims and tires in place. You want to cut an opening in the highest part of the rim to load rocks. The article said a cover is not needed but I always thought if I was going to do one I would have a hinged door sealed with inner tube rubber. The idea is to set up a motor geared down so the tires rotates slowly and all the rocks stay in the lowest part of the tire at all times tumbling over each other. Each tire can hold about 100 lbs of rocks and you have 4 tires going at all times each one with a different grit. Always use same tire for the same grit. You rotate the rocks once a week and you have a 100 lbs of polished tumbled stones each week. I have been wondering if you could use quartz sand as grit for the first stage to do the rough rounding off? I am posting this on all videos about rock hounding to spread the idea, if this is you channel and you do not like that let me know. The fact that the tumbling will all take place in a rubber tire should help keep the noise down. The rocks should never touch the rim. I have suggested to people that they make a sound proof shed just big enough to be practical so the noise will be minimized. Plus the rubber in a tire is thick and should absorb a lot of the noise. Also you should have a small fan on the motor to keep it cool. A high quality motor will be a must as it will run 24 hours a day. I am no expert but with the proper gearing the motor should not be under too much stress. I would sell the tumbled stones. Once tumbled, you grade them by quality and type. Some would be really valuable. I bet you could average $10 usd per pound with just good found material and more if you have high grade material. Definitely not for the weekend rock hound but if you sell stones or want to, what a cheap way to start. You could tumble other people's rocks for a fee or shares too. You could make one with car tires for a smaller scale operation. There has to be a lot of people with a 30 year in the making, 3 ton pile of rocks out behind their house. With this they could see results from all that collecting.

Clear and simple. Thanks!

enjoyed the facts on agates ,very informative

Thanks! Very informative!

Thank you for the great examples, these videos help heaps.

Very informational, thanks!

Nice video mate, great information and just good ol rock appreciation. Subscribed!

Awesome video! Very informative!!

Very informative. Thank you!

Very interesting topic

Here in northern Ireland at Carrick Fergus beach there's hundreds of these things. I love walking there I find so much stuff there. Has really pretty sea glass too. Lots of jellyfish

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thank you for this!!!

Hey - great video! One thing though, I've been watching a lot of geologist channels on KZfaq, one channel is JTV and they often mention the mohs scale and scratch testing; I'm pretty sure I remember them saying glass was a 5.5 on the mohs scale 🤔

WHAT I CANT BELIEVE IT IVE COLLECTED HUNDREDS OF THOSE STONES AND THAUGHT THEY WERE JUST NORMAL STONES THEN ALL OF THEM WERE AGATES

Can you do a video of how to identify the different types of agates? Like I have struggle to differentiate crazy lace agates and turritella agates.

use to go to agate beach as child and look for many weekends. watching with one of two rings on. might not be most glamorously greatest rings or jewelry stuff, but they got their speciality.

I found a piece that has this waxy luster that u are talking about and its gray/light pink and the edges are translucent. Im not a 100% sure if its agate but this video helps a lot!

Great info! Thank you very much. Question: At the beginning you aligned the agates from right to left with regards to the "quality" of the agate, and at the end you said that the translucent material in the last agate didn't have any lines in it. Do you mean visible lines, because an agate should have concentric lines to qualify as being one.

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I’ve found some beautiful pieces along the banks of the Bouie river near Hattiesburg Mississippi. Growing up I found mostly amber colored. Here I find white, grayish black, white, gray and a salmon color

Thank you so much. Very helpful!

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Thanks for that. Very interesting.

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HI, nice info bout agate. I am a Geologist. I want to point to you that one of your agates shown here is of the shape of a Canine tooth. SOme rocks are formed by replacement of existing minerals. Like wood opal. Similarly calciam carbonate of fossil bones and tooths is sometimes replaced by silica atom by atom on a geological time span. Just check whetheer that piece wwhich is third from left at the bottom at 0.04 time of your video is a replaced silicified fossil tooth. Just my guess.

I have 2 very similar pieces I found that I think are agates. One in Willow one in Homer. Both pale in color and waxy luster. The only difference is one looks like a very fine glitter was thrown in while forming. Are they the same rock?

Thankyou very helpful

Wait did you polish that quartz?

Just a note: a conchoidal fracture is not a "random" one, instead it is a typical behaviour of cryptocrystalline materials, which upon fracturing form concave shapes

nice , thanx

sir I have the same stones , how much does this stones cost ,where I can sale these stones can you help me

Thank you you helped me emensely

Very interesting I find I have more agates I thought were dirty quarts. Or colored quartz rose and orange hummm

Hello, I need some help in determining whether a black agate ring i've just bought really has a genuine agate or not. The problem is that it looks absolutely opaque to me, its just a flat black stone. I've tried to shine a light through it, there's absolutely none passing through. I would appreciate your help to know ways to check for the authenticity of the stone (if it really is a stone). Thanks in advance

I came here trying to figure out what an agate I found was and it looks identical to the one you talked about tumbling on the beach! Top left one. Would it be worth getting a tumbler and tumbling it? Thanks

I have several rocks I thought were White quartz but they kind of look like what you have. Also I have one with orange crystallization on the front and an orange color all the way through but still is mostly milky white.

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Identified an agate in a box of vintage rock samples I bought because of this video. Thanks Now to figure out if this uranium ore is going to kill me or not...

HOW MUCH DOES AGATE COST

I also have same agates how much does it costs

I was wondering we have a cabin by moose lake Minnesota and is known as the agate capitol although I have never found one. Odviously the north shore is a good place but in landlocked areas where would you look

So is that large piece of quartz an agate too?

Can you help me identify of I have found a paint rock agate? How could I show you

If they shatter like glass does that mean they can be as sharp as glass?

Is there Facebook profile where I can send some pictures for identification?

I didn't know there were agates in Alaska. Personally I think agates are 6.5 to 7.5 in hardness. I do a lot of polishing and some are extremely hard, some grind away really easily.

Glass is a 5 on the mohs scale and quartz is a 7 and can cut or scratch glass.

price of these agates???

Have you tried them under the UV light ???

Hmm...do they still teach about mohs scale these days? Lol hope so

i live in minnesota ive been wanting to go to lake superior but its like 2-3 hours away

how much is a price for agates?

I found lots of agates this week ,at a beach , when a big piece of the mountain rocks collapsed in 2008 they appeared .

I have a big agate. Purple color . Unfortunately I don't know how to make money out of it. I have also fond estimate 18kg white Ang purple agate in one piece. I just use it as a footrest 😎😂😂

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I have some blue ones they are transparent and look dark blue and really light

Microcrystalline, most of those are microcrystalline and the translucent ones of mono colour are chalcedony . For the stone to be called agate it must have bands, must have bands .

holly blue agete

Which price of the 1 gram of ageta?

You can find allot of them in kuwait beaches

In Nicaragua rivers theres alot

For a second there I thought you said eggate. Lol

Price

I was in Alaska for 3 weeks, never thought to look for rocks. Drove 800 miles, from Anchorage, to NWR.

how would I identify monotonic gold?

Mine looked like a tiger eye but then i could shine a light thru it .. so it was agate all along 😂😂😂

some of them could be jades. how do you know they are not jade

I would love to find these, but the geology in my area is not the right kind. Dang it...

This type of stone I have

Can I find them on the shore of the pacific ocean?

Can agate sale ?

How to FIND agates?

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No no no! You must hold the Agate up to the light whether it be the Sun or a lamp or any sort of light if it is a Agate you will be able to see through the stone. In opaque manner. Some are smooth some are rough all will be opaque, and show various colors as well as quartz only quartz is less opaque

Is jade an agate ?

sir i have some stons like this

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And I find them in my backyard

sir there r thousands here but finding difficult sent me ur Emil adree I sent u pic.this is real r not

I found a 65 lb. carnelian agate that i am not sure what to do with. I postd a yutube video Large Giant Carnelian Agate!!! any sugestions wold be apreciate.

Use a LED flashlight to see how translucent it is.

I’m getting a meatale detector on Monday or Friday

Minnesota has the most agates , I mean dont come to Minnesota...I'm just kidding ...har har

Fishermanjake AK, your not gonna believe something for agates. Days ago on Friday at school, drama class 1st period, my friend Daniel was showing me some rocks he normally had from home and soon, I saw a tumbled stone that he had me keep was something surprising, It was like a combination of the silica bands of Agate and the violet purple, light purple and white like the traditional colors of Amethyst. I quickly thought up and decided a new name for this tumbled stone that is like a combination of Agate and Amethyst. I have called it, "Agathyst" It sounded like the coolest mineral name idea I created. My friend English teacher Mrs. Padget I like spending time with was pretty surprised about it and thought I could have that idea in the dictionary of rocks, minerals, and fossils. Today while 2 days ago, I was learning a lot more about how agate, quartz, and silica work. So when I saw your video today, I was thinking and wondering if you know well about this "Agathyst" I've been talking about?

The Kenai Peninsula is part of Alaska I just wanted to give you a heads up it's pretty simple thank you

i have a agates rock how much if i sold it...it is so clear if you put in the water or light...

Still hunting for shines stones and buttons???

I have an agate

CAUTION---AGATE is the only variety of CHALCEDONY which is banded.

I have big agates. I would like to share with u if you can get ahold of me. And I'll tell u where I find them.

The silica percipitated precisely in silence, in a procession salivated over so long perhaps it was silly. Very silly