We Had NO IDEA We'd Find These BEAUTIFUL Blue "Stones" In This Tennessee Mountain Stream!

No video

We Had NO IDEA We'd Find These BEAUTIFUL Blue "Stones" In This Tennessee Mountain Stream!

Рет қаралды 80,483

Күн бұрын

The finds in this video had my friend Brian and I VERY excited! We first stopped at a roadcut to find some fossils, and then Brian took me to a creek that he wanted to explore. We found something very unexpected!
Check out my new song "I'll Never Hang Up My Hat" at these links!
• I'll Never Hang Up My Hat
open.spotify.c...
If you are able to contribute. Consider helping my Mother fight cancer here at her GoFundMe: gofund.me/5f4f...
Follow me on Social Media:
/ zewildkyle
/ kylekellermusic
/ kylekellermusic
Hear my new song "I'll Never Hang Up My Hat" here! • I'll Never Hang Up My Hat
open.spotify.c...
Help support my channel and the creation of more videos at these links! / wildkyle
Venmo: Kyle-Keller-Music
PayPal: kylenathanielkeller@hotmail.com
Business email: the.wild.kyle@outlook.com
HUGE THANKS TO MY PATREON SUPPORTERS:
Seth Carles, Deidre Crouch, Travis Lee, Andreas Ekberg,
Jen, Jennifer Dille, Bradley Slone, Sarah Edwards, Ed Whiteaker,
Carlton Phelps, Cyberfossil, Annie Menard, Clint & Melinda Kiser,
Cynthia Swearingen
#rockhounding #fossilhunting #history

Пікірлер: 352

@catherinewilliams3850 Жыл бұрын

Fabulous fossils and stunning slag glass, those blues and purples are gorgeous . Having trouble typing, I have a 19 year old blind cat I started fostering yesterday, headbutting my hand and trying to climb on the keyboard, bless her😄

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Hahahaa tell your sweet kitty I said hello!

@gafairbanks2434 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a marble making operation. Beautiful swirling

@ianlauhon8760 Жыл бұрын

I live in eastern Kentucky and I did a driveway job once and digging it out we found so much blue slag glass like that it was unreal

@gemstonejudy5900 Жыл бұрын

One man's trash , is another man's treasure!😊

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! 💙

@kellyharper367 Жыл бұрын

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Wanted to share another thought. I always had zen like experiences at fossil beds. I love to sit and pay reverence to the fossilized creatures I'm sitting with and think about millions of years ago... the same sun that warms me... is the same sun that shown upon them...and someday another lifeform will sit here and warm in the sunlight. I find comfort in the continuum of life! Gosh...life is good!

@kellyharper367 Жыл бұрын

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Now!!! That's living large! That beetle was like icing on the rockhound cake!!! Oh! To be able to get out and hunt like that again! Thanks for taking this old fossil along. Brings back many good memories of rockhunts past!

@symonrocks9847 Жыл бұрын

My favourite are coffeeopods, medium are the most common but it's not unheard of finding decaffeinatedopods. The beetle is from Alice, it's a drink me beetle and once you take it you will shrink because you doubled up in pain. The old blue slags are very common, especially in the winter months.

@jfdouvl Жыл бұрын

Those rocks where amazing but your genuine excitement every time is just plan fun to hear.. keep the videos coming always makes me smile.

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend, glad to hear the video could bring a smile to your face!

@jeannettesmith5492 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed his excitement😊

@laurelshugars2866 Жыл бұрын

I have been tumbling slag lately. Love finding the blue, but the greys that I find really polish up cool. The lines are as beautiful as agate. You guys got some wonderful variegated blues!!

@megankimber8772 Жыл бұрын

P.s. that slag is AMAZING! Finding it must have been thrilling! So happy for you! I think it might be once in a life time experience you had that day; so plentiful! It’s now my new obsession, I think.

@pstmeoff Жыл бұрын

Jealous!!! So beautiful!!! Those would make great cabs!

@chrisbgifford7387 Жыл бұрын

Fayetteville TN just north of Huntsville AL. Is the Elk river, way back in the Mimosa Community it is just a creek when I was young I played in that creek and picked up all kinds of rock. There is a 2 lane hwy that has cutouts through rocks for the roads. Your video at the begining reminds me of summers at granny's.

@largent45 Жыл бұрын

That was some amazing fossil finds! The gastropods were amazing and the cephalopods were awesome! And that blue slag is such a bright and spectacular colors. The lines on them make them look cosmic! So beautiful! You guys look like you are having the best time! That slag will look amazing tumbled! So pretty. Even covered in algae they are gorgeous! Just amazing! Thanks Kyle!

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Hey my friend! Thanks so much for watching the video. Glad you were excited about the finds also! We had such a beautiful time!

@crystalslipis1629 Жыл бұрын

The blue rocks were so neat. The patterns were so beautiful. These would make awesome pendants!!! Loved it!!

@weirdmatter Жыл бұрын

I was thinking fish tank rocks

@Wispertile Жыл бұрын

Those two Brachiopods that fossilized together were mates for eternity ♾️

@lynnadkins1079 Жыл бұрын

Loved the blue stones. Each piece was a original, no two alike but equally beautiful. Thanks for sharing such a delightful discovery!!!

@jillvasquez1010 Жыл бұрын

Wow, that slag is amazing! Thanks for introducing me to something I didn't know I needed!

@mandyseay8062 Жыл бұрын

If you cut any of that slag I’d love to cab some. Gorgeous pieces. And I just love your videos. Thanks for being awesome Kyle!

@laurenconradie5328 Жыл бұрын

Another awesome vid, Kyle. I'm so jealous of those gorgeous stones that you found, couldn't help but think that my collection needs a few of those beauties. Thanks for making it feel like I was right there in that beautiful place. Thanks for helping me feel better after feeling sick for most of the day

@utahrockhoundingcouple Жыл бұрын

Wow! That river really was loaded with some beautiful blue slag!

@darlacox301 Жыл бұрын

You ever not have a day? I just love to watch you hunt great eyes.😊😊😊😊😊👍👍👍

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Thank you Darla!

@donaldmalin7487 Жыл бұрын

I’ve found lots of beautiful green slag in New River in southwest Virginia . Love the blue you are finding!

@rockersfromaz3001 Жыл бұрын

I am sooooo jealous right now!! 😂

@deidremcintosh6892 Жыл бұрын

Wow fun times . Kyle vou are so likeable and great to see how much you love nature

@kimconley4679 Жыл бұрын

I would love to see some of the slag glass tumbled or polished. Blue is my favorite color so I think it's absolutely beautiful.

@laurelshugars2866 Жыл бұрын

I've been tumbling some with good results.

@remedyhawke Жыл бұрын

Not slag. Opal potch. If you keep looking you'll find the precious opal (the stuff with color play). Also, the green blue stones were chrysacola with a little malachite (green) and tenurite (black) patches. Similar to turquoise, chrysacola has copper in it making it blue. But it also makes malachite green. And the darker blue patches are azurite. You're geologists? I love the brachiopod fossils you were finding. Within that big vug where you found the white crystals, though, I think that might actually have been opal as well. Common opal has no glitter (play of color) precious opal does. Black opal is actually gray usually, white opal speaks for itself. Pink opal usually has no glitter and reminds me of obsidian a little. Fire opal is more translucent and can come with or without play of color, orange to red.

@MariaCCurry Жыл бұрын

Super Cool! 💙🩵🤍🩶🩵🤍🤎💙💚🩶🩵💙

@terryhuntzicker8474 28 күн бұрын

Put a bunch of the blue slag in a tall clear glass vase to display. They are gorgeous

@hopalstudiosjuliehattis Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! I love the blue/purple one. ❤😊

@JaneEllenMusic Жыл бұрын

No one cares about the cars, we're in it for the brachiotreasure!! Congrats on another great experience. ❤

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Jane! I'm happy you enjoyed!

@gemstonejudy5900 Жыл бұрын

At is slag glass from the iron smelting furnaces. You can also find it in an olive green and a black/ purple.

@leslyeschoenhuth1107 Жыл бұрын

* Oh, WOW ~ The Blue Slag is Fantastic. My Favorite. (I love Blue.) So Cool.. With the Bands those pieces would make Fabulous Jewelry..

@hollyfranks6732 8 ай бұрын

Leland blue stone is beautiful! Definitely slag from an iron ore though. It’s highly sought after for jewelry for obvious reasons 😁 I love it!

@randomactsofhugs 6 ай бұрын

Looked like blue apitite to me. Love you video's. Sending you Airhugs of positive loving energy to you and yours

@MsKindaSorta Жыл бұрын

The commentary on this video is hilarious. Ooooh… aaaah … oh wow… yeahhhh… duuuude… oh wow… 😂😂😂 I love it!

@bethsands7665 10 ай бұрын

Awesome ancient ocean finds !! , as the darn traffic whizzes past oblivious to the history and awesomeness of the area.

@maryoneill5070 Жыл бұрын

That entire day must have been an awesome adventure. Everything you and Brian found was amazing. Stay beautiful (there, I said it😊) ✌🏻❤️🙂🙏

@tinastoddard5411 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful.

@gemstonejudy5900 Жыл бұрын

Welcome to Tennessee!

@tylerlackey8756 Жыл бұрын

I once found a brachiopod that was in the center of a rock, and it still had its actual shell on it,(in a couple of spots) and was very light for how big it was and I was able to open it without damaging it, (I used the seam of the shell) and I found a smaller, case fossilized(shell was fossilized in a way that the brachiopod was not filled in with crystals) brachiopod inside. I sold the brachiopods to a local museum and they credited me on the display plaque for a few years and then they took the fossils off exhibit after someone attempted to steal them and they gave the smaller one back to me and kept the bigger one.

@hellokittykat6940 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of blue malachite. Or maybe just blue agate with bands!

@mariahelenalynch3365 Жыл бұрын

My granddaughter and I absolutely loved your finds !! Beautiful we wish we could have been there finding those gems 💎

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Maria! Glad you appreciated the finds too!

@leannbrown7405 7 күн бұрын

Wow just stopped on the side of the road and found all kinds of fossils! I just started watching your site! Love all your doing! Love to go mudlarking with yall!

@ruthsawyer8867 Жыл бұрын

If you shine the rocks with glistening or craft spray, they will be shiny forever. Then you could display them next to each other to look like a waterfall! Awesome video!

@falseteethrealtarotAllRocks Жыл бұрын

Whoa!!! Excellent… The blue slag rock…

@Wispertile Жыл бұрын

I could hunt fossils with y’all all day! Thanks for the great videos!

@marciajohnson6767 11 ай бұрын

Omg!!! Those blue stones are so beautiful!!! I watched you on Michigan rocks and jumped on your site and subscribed!! I've loved rocks forever!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@beckieg8479 Жыл бұрын

Completely AMAZING! purple and blue is my favourite 😮❤❤👍

@mellomelo119 Жыл бұрын

Wildkyle, what don't you find. I love it. It's never boring my friend !!! You happen upon the most amazing stuff !

@bethsands7665 10 ай бұрын

I love the Tiger-beetle !!! Wow, nice capture on film !!, they are hard to take photos of !!!!

@jeannettesmith5492 Жыл бұрын

WOW, beautiful finds❤

@donnahumphriesallen5805 Жыл бұрын

How do you clean up fossils? It would be a good video if you could show us the cleaning and what they look like afterwards. Love the slag?! ✌️❤️

@karihart2980 Жыл бұрын

Love love love!!! I have some blue 😅slag glass but those are super pretty❤ Blue is my

@lisawells1064 11 ай бұрын

What a treasure trove!!! It was wonderful watching you guys, I am so happy you had a blast and found so many beautiful pieces.

@JenialB Жыл бұрын

Those pods were rockin'! Rocky being the lead guy. Rocks rock! Lol

@TheMurlocKeeper Жыл бұрын

Why can't I find friends like this? :P Honestly though, this seems like an epic day out! Just hanging out with someone, in nature, and finding pretty rocks. To me, it'd just be the best thing ever! :D I loved watching this! Thanks so much for sharing your finds. It was super exciting...at least for me. :P

@ITubetc Жыл бұрын

You should Join a local rock and mineral club, our club has monthly field trips as well as monthly meetings. It's always nice to hang out with like minded people the turn into freinds.

@highrockhoney5033 Жыл бұрын

You should send some of those beautiful blues to Michigan Rocks for him to tumble! Hehehe nice fun vid thanks for the fun content!

@lynnpavlik7253 Жыл бұрын

Oh WOW you hit the mother load just WOW.

@Algoldprospecting Жыл бұрын

I love the blue

@japhyryder66 Жыл бұрын

If you made a drinking game out of how many times you say “brachipod”, I’d be seriously hammered. 😁 Great video, Kyle!

@marybeth6272 Жыл бұрын

First all those brachiopods then... whoa all that blue slag! Really cool! So much fun!!

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mary Beth! That slag was such a huge surprise for us! So much fun!

@lesHanalala Жыл бұрын

Tiger beetle! ❤ 'em!!

@ProspectorAl Жыл бұрын

I love the fossils and glass slag. If I knew where in Tennessee I would go check it out since I am in Tennessee too.

@vickims682 Жыл бұрын

I don’t know where you are, but my husband and I found a whole bunch of that blue slag at KY Lake! 😄

@haze19931 Жыл бұрын

Ditto! @prospectorAl

@savagesquirrel9828 Жыл бұрын

Serendipity! Great fun. It would be hard to stop hunting! Thanks.

@lilalightandlove421 11 ай бұрын

The glass slag looks AMAZING!!! Super banding like agates. Suck cool finds!

@troyprice5068 Жыл бұрын

Nice finds and what a beautiful creek and scenery!✌

@wenditaylor9708 Жыл бұрын

That's was a fun surprise for you and me!!

@mariemoss2475 Жыл бұрын

Blue Slag Agates ...who would have known. 😂

@brose04008 10 ай бұрын

*Slagates?…I’m hysterical.

@chrislawton6947 Жыл бұрын

You should send some to those to rob @ Michigan rocks to tumble. Great vid.

@maxinerowe2925 Жыл бұрын

Blue is wonderful

@kathieruiz5157 Жыл бұрын

Those would make beautiful rings and pendants!

@dearld Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you told me what I found. I've had this stuff for a couple months and didn't know what it was. I thought I found common opal. I found this slags stuff in a gravel drive way. Cool stuff ! Good find !!!

@The1BlackKrow Жыл бұрын

Six spotted Emerald Green Tiger beetle. WOOT!!!

@veronicaperkins8315 Жыл бұрын

This is my first time here, and I have to thank you for an awesome experience! I especially loved your respect for land...quite refreshing. That's how I roll too...I only take what Mother gives❤❤

@deniseanderson2913 Жыл бұрын

Wow, that slag looks like ocean picture stone. So cool!

@stevephillips6973 Жыл бұрын

Those "Tennessee Blues" are amazing! They would make some beautiful cabochons! Awesome vid!

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

I want a bolo tie made out of one!

@stevephillips6973 Жыл бұрын

@WILDKYLE looks like you got enough to make a hundred bolo ties!

@dhogue01ify Жыл бұрын

Where in TN were they???

@jacqulynjohnson653 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for showing this fantabulous video!! I’m from MI and the Leland folks all say, you can only find Leland Blue in Leland. BUT! If you find slag elsewhere, well…Tennessee Blue!! Lol! (If you don’t mind pm’ing me where you were, my husband and I are headed there at the end of the month and would like to know if we’ll be close.) Those are way more gorgeous than what I’ve found in other old smelting areas of MI, and even Leland!!

@metteudengaard8831 Жыл бұрын

Send one of the blue ones to Theo. He can make a beautiful necklace with it 😊

@johnnypalughi1192 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Very enjoyable. Thanks brothers!

@rockersfromaz3001 Жыл бұрын

Your pocket @ min 30:10 😂😂😂😂 hats freaking funny!!! 😂👍

@scottmeacham1738 Жыл бұрын

Nice! Do you ever sell any of the crystals or some of that slag glass you find? Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!

@lynnerodgers4461 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Love the sound and look of the slow moving water at the end. Very peaceful.

@ChesapeakeBayBrian399 Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@Wvnursey Жыл бұрын

Love that blue slag!!!

@goognamgoognw6637 Жыл бұрын

these are just some common stones. But i am spoiled just after watching the most precious gemstones in the world video then your video, lol.

@IndusRiverRock Жыл бұрын

Beautiful sharing 👍

@chucklandry5588 Жыл бұрын

I would love to purchase one of those’blue rocks ‘and cut it on a tile saw

@helgavoorneveld1530 Жыл бұрын

Wow way better than the Michigan stuff I actually watched that one you have to get Michigan rock man down there looks good for tumbling 🧡🧡🧡

@nhrockaholic6038 Жыл бұрын

Some of those blue slag would make beautiful cabs!

@dmc1501 8 ай бұрын

Fun find!

@terryfowler1495 Жыл бұрын

After this one I'm gonna hafta start calling you Not So Wild Kyle bot I still love your guts.. i wanna see a music vid man.

@helenramsdell1959 Жыл бұрын

Its so cool you're finding all those fossils and there's all the cars passing by not realizing the history they are driving by.

@cynthiaswearingen1037 Жыл бұрын

I think you said brachiopod at least 1000 times, Kyle!🤣 That blue slag glass is gorgeous!!!!❤

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Hahahaa I think that is accurate 😂

@robinclemmons7712 Жыл бұрын

Many, many times. It’s properly pronounced ‘bray’chiopod

@maryannhunt4144 Жыл бұрын

That was some amazing finds. I wish my health would allow me to go on rock hounding adventures. Thanks so much for taking people who can't along with you. Do you auction any of your finds off

@nanashouse202 Жыл бұрын

You and me too

@______IV Жыл бұрын

Make that three of us. It’s both amazing to live vicariously through these videos, and a bit wistful. But I am incredibly grateful to these young inquisitive people with an adventurous spirit who take the time to share their experiences with us.

@nanashouse202 Жыл бұрын

@@______IV I agree.

@howardfreeland5595 Жыл бұрын

If you want really good Ordovician fossils, go east of Cincinnati on both sides of the Ohio River. I found 400 complete (both sides) bachiopods in 1 road cut years ago. there are also trilobites and a few crinoids. The bryozoans like you had at the beginning are present by the thousands.

@haseo8244 Жыл бұрын

Minnesota ones are a bit earlier but there are weird crossovers with a few brachiopods being of same species.

@haseo8244 Жыл бұрын

By the way the Minnesota location have one genus of abundant brachipods absent from Cinncinitea - Oepikina .

@steveclark4291 Жыл бұрын

Kyle thank you for the adventure seeing some amazing slag glass and beautiful scenery !

@WILDKYLE Жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@LillianArch Жыл бұрын

Road cuts! Awesome!!

@wmarian5027 Жыл бұрын

Kyle:thanks for keeping your eyes open for us! Safe travels.

@steveclark4291 Жыл бұрын

I have a lot slag glass along the railroad tracks here in Kansas and Oklahoma ! I use to work for Santa Fe railroad as a signalman many years ago ! I was told that some of the slag glass came from the boiler area since burnt coal many years ago !

@manisteerocks7092 Жыл бұрын

I'm totally diggin' the slag!..i find blue and green ones up here in Leland Michigan, and again in Christmas Michigan. Very cool finds!..polish them up!

@awefulwaffle5628 Жыл бұрын

The slag is definitely cooler than the fossils for me because it’s definitely way more rare to find in a creek and if you had 50 of the same type of fossil, they could get a bit old to go through (old to go through.. fossils…no? Well anyway) every single slag piece is different and what awesome colors! Super freakin cool!! I would love to find some! Those would make an awesome aquarium addition! Might have to check some old maps..

@elizabethbamfield6808 Жыл бұрын

I live in Battle Creek MI I wish I had some of that blue stuff the only colors I'm finding are a blackish and a dark green from the iron works And a few odd tinted greenish ones with copper bits