I was supposed to go on this 7th Grade trip but things happened. Finally got to see first hand what I missed. Also nice to see some familiar faces (albeit, almost 40 years ago).

Agate is just banded chalcedony. Banded chert is....wait for it....banded chert.

Good stuff!

First...long time, no see! Good to have you back out rockhounding for your KZbin channel! Your move to western Illinois, close to the Mississippi River, should be beneficial for the collection of agates, jaspers, and banded cherts. I'm not surprised at all that LSA's made their way down the river through millions of years of migration, and found resting places along the ancient banks and flood plains. When I worked in Milwaukee for many years through 2010-2022, we would find Superior agates in landscaping rock all over the area. We found out that much of that decorative landscaping rock was quarried in western Wisconsin, next to the Mississippi, and hauled to rock wholesalers and retailers in the eastern part of Wisconsin. I have also seen a couple of the more productive Crowley agate specialists farther south on the Mississippi dig out occasional Superior agates. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your finds! Congrats on the move, and on jumping back into the rockhound video scene!

Nice to see you finding LSA’s in Illinois. I still pick up some of the small stuff, a lot of times they are nicer than the large ones. Keep looking there are big ones there!!

Fossils, or organic materials that have been mineralized can smell like oil sometimes. Was that the smell you were talking about @7:18? Maybe there was something fossilized inside that one.

@7:19 it looks like a point to the left of the rock you’re holding. 7:17 you can see what appears to be an ear. Also looks like a point top left both by green pieces of grass?

Bloomington, IL or Bloomington, IN? Or is there another one somewhere?

Quality blue chert👍 hard to find in any large quantities on tillite. Bro I have a huge feldspar in half crystal facets some parts glassy & squared. Nice

I just stumbled across this by accident, and my mind is quite literally being blown. Talk about being transported back in time!!

Yep your cool man im subscribed!🤙 hunting the tillites😎❤ i dig it bro!

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You got a pretty nice bounty there. We have a great variety of banded and spotted chert in Indiana. I like the translucent Chert it looks like jelly. I have found very translucent Dark grey and white pieces in the White River. Blue can be found in the White water river, white river, 8 mile creek, and Williamsburg creek. Feldspar with almost labrodite quality is also found at these locations with silver, gold, blue and green schiller. The reds I find in all my spots I have found a two that a translucent so carnelian does happen but very rare here. I found a couple pieces or Red Feldspar marbled with blue spots of quartzite very pretty. More common are the Blue translucent nodules with yellow or brown spots in it kind of look like birds eggs.

My family and I live in blono too, we got rock hunting all over illinois. What area are you looking in this video if you don't mind me asking

Beautiful finds, and I love the crickets chirping in the background!

It might help to have more oxygen in the mix. When the metal is fully submerged, it acts as somewhat of an insulator, and prevents oxidation. Maybe soak a paper towel, sprinkle some salt on top, and seal the container. Maybe open it occasionally to allow more oxygen in there. That's how I give copper a shipwreck patina, but I use ammonia instead of water/vinegar. Honestly, I am not sure that would help anything. Also, make sure your penny is pre-1982. Pennies after 1982 are mostly zinc. 🤷‍♂️

here in the preserves in palos park...in a creek system along worth by the golf coarse....finding glacial till. jaspers, agates, slate with drag marks, basalt, volcanic rock and porphy, chert, quartzite stone, unakite, red jasper and green jasper, felspar, and quartz....ryallite, pumus, and solid green volcanic stone with quartz salting in it like on a pretzel also beach stones that used to be in lake michagan but were dropped by the glacier. finding sand stones where the water cuts into the banks. cronid fossils too. on long beach near michagan city you can find alot of the same things as well.

When you "clean something up", what do you do?

Chert with banding is banded chert or banded flint. Agate will be mostly translucent. Chert is a noncrystalline sedimentary rock, agate os usually a quartz infused metamorphic or volcanic rock

I find sand stones in the small shallow creeks.

I find all of that in Palos Park near Moraine Valley in Palos Park, IL.

Working on a sort of Thesis, on our microcrystalline so called chert, jasper even agate, they contain all the minerals, or many, i.e. calcium, in bone, quartz, as well, our fossil record is intact. Salmon Creek Coprolites, called, Pseudo's, as, "we can't find the fossils." baloney look at your Jasper or even our Cherts; they are the mud fossils superheated by our Washington had many ice ages as well many lava flows. Glaciers mixed up our fossils in, "glacial till, mixed layers of our fossil record. Jaspers are often perfectly fossilized, nearly and some jasper, "cooks a bit longer, maybe cools more slowly, hence our quartz, inside the fossil kidney, spleen jasper cherts, fossils. Douglas Holden. sharing on you tube. peace.

Hope you’re doing well and we see you again soon

Thanks for sharing your finds! Very informative.

Push your Chanel now with a good Video now is the time to grow. I've Seen great work from u. Id Like to see more. The Community now is greater to grow with. Lets go.

Great video. I'm in IL as well. Beginner

Thanks for posting this. Rock hounding a bit myself. I'm interested in getting started in tumbling rocks and possibly getting a wet saw or tilesaw. Any suggestions on equipment would be greatly appreciated. I'm in Downs so I rock hound Kickapoo creek. Many good finds and potential. Hope to see you out sometime.

My girlfriend and I just started and your videos are a great help to us we are in Anderson

I have to say in my opinion from experience so far (colors determine hardness) REDS kills my saw yet YELLOW slabs like butter.

South central Indiana ?

Nice stones!! I love the plume agate! It looks so artistic ^_^

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What do u clean your rock with?

Nice mix of rocks. West Michigan looks alot the same.

What river were you on, please?

Could you name some Bloomington creeks we can go rock hunting in, please?

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Looks great 👍

Congrats on the new job! I appreciate you coming back on with this video, as one can tend to be worried when long absences occur! Take care, and enjoy your rock work in whatever free time you can manage!

Going to moraine view today. Would love to meet you there!

Nice finds! I'm still tumbling some fossil tabulate coral that is pretty solid quartz or silica skin stuff. Found a trilobite a couple weeks ago at a construction site. Fossil coral is always such a fun find. The cell structures tell the language of extinct life in the coral. Much of the Midwest was ocean and that makes for good fossil hunting sometimes.

8:13 picture stone - Clouds Sky hills river lake below nice if you polish it right you will have a nice work of art. I heard from a well known rock guy on youtube he said red Chert is Jasper. Nice finds some look similar to Indiana stuff. We have a lot of great feldspar varieties here. I have pieces I believe are moon stones, microcline, as well as labradorite. The square crystals that have a flat face when you tilt them in the sun they turn silver, gold, turquoise, or blue. There are clear feldspars that have a ghost inside usually silver. 20:40 bifurcated jasper I think.

Thank you for your video with great descriptive narration. I enjoy the way you linger allowing viewer to make own conclusions. I also enjoy your terms of description.

Cool video. I enjoy walking the fields too. That rock with the eyes at 1:53 looks like a stromatolite but I am no expert.:-)

Ahhh yes, grabbing one rock to pry out another rock, my favorite technique personally! Haha fun finds today 👍