BC Ocean Picture Stone - Running Out?

[@funkojones2947]

Am I the only one that likes to hear Dan play the "Stone Xylophone" when he is working the feather and wedges ? I love that sound !

[@amandasutherland626]

I was thinking the same!!!

[@michaeljones3974]

Yes, so awesome!

[@glendadalejones3753]

Perhaps hel knock us a tune next time 😃🙌

[@beansdad70]

Love that ping-boing! I bet he’s good at wack-a-mole too.

[@fungusfinder]

Someone make a Feather and Wedges song!

[@MichiganRocks]

It's so fun watching how you mine. I'm used to just picking rocks on beaches and what you do is so different. Thanks for sharing your beautiful part of the world!

[@Danhurd]

You are so welcome, and thank you!

[@johnbuck5181]

Michigan Rocks! Nice donation! Like your channel too!

[@wyomingadventures]

Nice to see you here Rob! I want to buy some of this for tumbling. Fingers crossed.

[@MichiganRocks]

@@wyomingadventures I was going to buy some too. Shipping from Canada made it way too expensive. I think it was going to be $75 for a pound.

[@robertgorney9408]

Rob, happy to see you here. I love your videos. I hope to be up in your neck of the LP this Fall. Dan is awesome to watch. Such great techniques

[@Panicagq2]

This may be a goofy geology nerd idea, but it seems you could print a small-scale topographic map of just your claim area and mark each vein/outcrop you can find with its Strike and Dip like on a geologic map - basically, a short line showing the angle of the stone layer from vertical and which direction it is running. Once you get a lot of those mapped you'll be able to trace the veins of stone as they run back into the hillside or head toward grassy slopes where you can't see them yet. Google strike and dip, it's interesting when you see what it can do. Just a thought!

[@markpashia7067]

You might also consider paying some young healthy folks to do that lifting for you. DO NOT OVER DO THAT HEART DANG IT. Day labor is cheaper than that hospital bed any day even with Canadian healthcare!!! Down time is costly!!!

[@twostroke350]

Do remember to re-dress those wedges on a grinder or with a file. When the ends of drifts get flattened over like that (like the end of a badly hammered fencepost) small slivers of metal can spall off them when hammered. They can be travelling fast enough to cause a nasty injury.

[@markpashia7067]

Yup, especially good reason for eye protection. I am finding eyesight a problem in old age and cannot stress protection enough. It is really limiting. Losing my driving privileges would end me where I live. And one of those bits of metal at the wrong angle or spot could be major.

[@Hellsong89]

Yeah just last week grab cold chisel from bottom drawer of dead relatives garage and didnt pay attention much... first couple hits went fine, then one little bit in the angle and peace yeeted off like god damn bullet, hitting metal beside me and left nasty mark on there.. After that realized condition of it and grinded it down so it wont happen again.

[@ab01dyl62]

I think it's awesome that you and your wife work together!!! You two are so cool!!!

[@cryipticcreep5586]

I used to watch you on ...fb...but I don't venture there anymore so I'm glad I found you here.

[@doogen5]

There is something so satisfying about watching you hammer the wedges and seeing what is hiding underneath. Keep it up Dan!

[@Danhurd]

More to come!

[@markpashia7067]

If he keeps this up, he is going to have some amazing "guns" with time!!! There is an exercise rhyme that I cannot remember that starts out "biceps, triceps, ......"

[@pattiwagner1980]

Thank you both for taking us along on your venture! That's some beautiful rocks you've freed!!! Now they can show off their beauty to all!!

[@heartproblems2727]

Just bought some of this stone for a Christmas gift. I was amazed when I first saw you work this claim. This stone is so unique. Thank you. Your videos are a great source of info and entertainment.

[@samuelallott2604]

Dan you earn my subscription with every video!

[@nicklasschmltt6959]

Me too,

[@RICDirector]

Me three! They should have a category for 'I love this channel so much I subscribe EVERY TIME'

[@morelanmn]

Dan, You are a very unique man. It is nice to see that you found a very unique wife to enjoy the adventures of life with. It would be nice to see a day of processing at your home shop. Dana (I hope I spelled her name correctly) going through all she does to keep the family business going. Thanks for the enjoyable videos you make.

[@alexa1085]

Her name is Dayna😉

[@morelanmn]

@@alexa1085 Thank You!

[@ashokmehta3593]

You r always so cheerful n happy...enjoying nature n digging some beautiful rocks...thanks for showing..amazing rock colours..wow😊😊

[@Gardeningchristine]

I have purchased a chip bag, a slab, and a large specimen, of this beautiful gemstone, and I couldn’t be happier. Every piece is unique! And I love them all! I wish I could afford to buy more!

[@Misrawardiadventure]

Wow...that's amazing.. greetings from the digger of Indonesia's natural resources..🇮🇩

[@bigthd2044]

Uncle Dan congrats with the new discovery. Hard work pays. Love from South Africa.

[@lioneljohnpilcher204]

I love watching you expose the geological formations you look at. Really very beautiful and interesting

[@beez1717]

The mostly white specimen looks amazing and it would work extremely well for making a scene where there's fog that rolled in and exposed only a few areas of ocean!

[@พิมพันธ์สุรางค์กูร]

You are such a jolly person, you remind me alot like Santa Claus working his summer job. The world needs more happyness just like yours. Thank you for your love.

[@2wahineandadog]

Well helloooo Dan & Dana - you always make me smile!!! I am glad to know you have the only mine for this stuff as i had never heard of it before watching your channel - super happy for the Hurd family to have this great claim!!! The crack is such a fun sound..... Oh wow the piece under the generator...wow just wow - so happy for you. FYI totally worth the minimal price you are charging!!

[@davidmandell1727]

Some of those pieces look like paintings by Van Gogh. So beautiful. I even think that a lot of the white specimens that you think are substandard are beautiful. Your videos also have such gorgeous scenery and examples of the great outdoors. You really know how to make videos, and we appreciate all the hard work you put into them. Thank you for letting me live vicariously through your videos.

[@markpashia7067]

Yeah, I could picture an jewelry artist making carvings like a cameo out of that white stuff or a bead artist cutting that up and tumbling to round it and drill for beads. It has a beautiful quality. Maybe not pictures, but useful and usable for other purposes. Imagine all the shapes you could cut before tumbling to smooth the edges. From dice to balls to eggs to multifaceted stones and then polish edges or tumble. Mix some whites, blues and other shades of pieces to alternate when stringing. Just saying that none of it really should go to waste unless it crumbles.

[@Ashley88.]

I have just discovered you recently and you have COMPLETELY SPARKED THE FRASER RIVER ROCK HUNTING FIRE IN MY HEART! Thank you!!!!!!!

[@Danhurd]

You are welcmoe

[@tombrooks3812]

You are having way to much fun.Im jealous.oh well i guess ill just have to watch.Thanks Dan for bringing us along.

[@debvit2353]

You’re wife is awesome! Happy Mother’s Day to her.

[@dawndixon402]

😁👋👍👍👏👏💕🙏 Thank you for sharing your date day with us. Such beautiful specimens you found.

[@asheddie]

Awesome specimens. Just a word of warning, watch out for mushrooming wedges and chisel heads. It seems harmless but those chips can fly off when struck with a hammer. They have enough velocity to go through jeans and hit arteries, eyes and do all sorts of nasty things! Just grind the burrs off as they form and it'll be a lot safer. Keep up the fantastic content 👍

[@FangBlah]

The same goes for metal stakes, like those used for concrete forms, only in that case the softer metal of the stakes get hammered into a mushroom head with razor sharp edges that can slice you open with ease.

[@lisasimpson4574]

I love the tones you hear when you are hitting those wedge things. Its like music. 😅😊

[@dennismetcalfe971]

I love liking at differnet sites,I stumble upon your site,so I guess I have learned a lot by just watching, plus your narritive is really great, reminds me of years past of some of the teachers I had.. Keep up the great work.

[@oqr2hqo]

Try 1 inch feathers and wedges they got a bit deeper so you will get a better crack to run, we use even larger for Herkimer diamond mining 😅

[@pretzeltime3900]

Hi Dan! Beautiful blue. I’m just amazed at what this earth has created. Just received my piece of black jade from you today. This rock is gorgeous!!! Thanks so much, from Texas.

[@rikspector]

Dan, Nothing is forever, enjoy what you find now while you have regained health. What’s most. Important is your wonderful wife and family. You have uncovered nature,s beauty in that unique seam, sharing it with the world Is the real benefit! Cheers, Rik Spector

[@hailhydra1928]

Such beautiful peices! I could probably mine for it all day and just be amazed by the color and random design

[@Danhurd]

Totally!

[@markpashia7067]

@@Danhurd Yeah, kind of like ALL YEAR and it still amazes at times!

[@yelenalastovkina5681]

The nature is beautiful.Thank you for great views !

[@sandmaker]

It's been a while since I used feather and wedges. Back in the old days I had to use wood and then pour water. It was really slow until I got some metal pieces and the it was off to the races comparatively. Love the stone and hope success for a long time. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒

[@Blessings.429]

When you pull it off, to me it reminds me of very rough Seas bashing up against rocks. You show it cut also it’s not the same, doesn’t hold the same look to me…thanks for sharing 💖💖🇦🇺

[@adamberg2736]

Watching your channel has reignited my interest in panning. I live in Vermont so there isn't much placer to be panned but, supposedly VT gold is some of the purest you can pan. I first panned when I was a teen. I lived next to a river, that unknown to me at the time, was fed from a known gold bearing stream. I found enough to be interesting but very low volume/size. No pickers but, enough to snuff up.

[@TheAl6244]

Dan I've been watching your show for a few years now, I'm never disappointed. New Zealand.

[@TheFurlock]

I am happy that you found the ocean in the BC region, it’s a very important ocean that doesn’t flow anymore.

[@Spudscave]

Dan is your quarry a glass half full or a glass half empty I think it’s half full just gotta keep searching it’s definitely there your site is huge I am looking forward to the show just 8hrs to wait

[@jakeeasterwood3204]

He found the “mother lode”… now it’s time to find the “grandmother lode”.

[@christhomas1102]

Stihl makes a chainsaw that I use to cut 24 inch thick concrete retaining blocks or bin blocks. It has a diamond tipped chain and a water hose connection to keep dust down and prolong chain lifespan. They are pricey and the saw is heavy enough to make its own downward cuts. Thought you might be able to use one while you were waiting on your permits to be approved. Love your videos and your enthusiasm, very inspiring.

[@lynnegackstetter2779]

That is the most beautiful color. I wish I could afford to buy one.I have been a Rockhound since I was a kid. Mostly agates.

[@matthewdroz5613]

Those white and blue stones are actually gorgous!

[@lanakilahilo5339]

Been following you for awhile learned a lot just by watching and understanding about rock formation and what kind of material in it

[@davenik1999]

Just discovered and subbed to your channel a few days ago. I’m really enjoying it! I love your energy and enthusiasm, and you’ve found lots of interesting things to explore and talk about. I think that a wife that supports and participates in your passion is possibly the greatest treasure you have ever found! Looking forward to watching more of your great videos.

[@Bloomcycle]

Wow . I can see the ocean in these stones. Very nice 👌

[@bentationfunkiloglio]

You're living the dream! Nice little quarry there. BTW video is even more awesome at 1/4 speed.

[@nicoleredmond88]

You are sweet entertainment, both you and your wife too. Love that blue stone. I just started learning jewelry making and hope to get into lapidary soon. That beautiful blue stone makes me want to get into it sooner than ever. Thank you both for sharing your talent and joy of mining❣️😁🌸

[@christhompson4270]

Awesome beautiful stones. God bless and thank you for sharing 🙏🥰👏👍💖

[@lann2bme7516]

Love it!! so beautiful!!🌞💕🙏 love the snow! it's in the 90's here in the desert sw!🌵🏜️☀️

[@bethsands7665]

I love your diggy-diggy-digging adventures, fun. You -go- Dana !

[@PaulOsborn]

Nice to see you and your truck last week on the way past YLW!

[@toddkarrick6711]

I think the white pieces are beautiful. Especially the one with a lil blue in it.

[@Goldwaschenid]

Well done Dan , this stones locking so beautiful 👍👍👍

[@khustombuilt2854]

Reminds me a bit of Opal seams. Used to get slabs that artistic types would paint scenes on ...Painted ladies we called them.

[@yelenalastovkina5681]

Its an amazing blue ! Andy you and your wife are so nice energetic people

[@budrohammbone2806]

Nice Work, Dan ! I'll have to get a piece of the BC-OPS. The Mine Forewoman looks to be cracking the whip ! Good Vid.

[@MadMarlin1964]

Another great video! Wonderful to see Dana out and about. Thanks for sharing.

[@Danhurd]

Our pleasure!

[@ant-1382]

19.44 I think thats the nicest piece I've seen yet. Excepting the Dana blue. Got a nice chunk from you in Courtenay a few weeks ago, havn't done anything with it yet. Sits on the corner of my desk where I can admire it. When the slab saw at the club is repaired, will definately be looking to see what's in it.

[@GSProspecting]

Great day out fam. Keep on having fun. Gold Squad Out!!!

[@jkonet1]

Dan, you rock. I love watching you

[@tonyloechte9994]

Gees Dan if you can get a machinery permit you will be laughing and a water source I don’t think you will run out of stone. Great job guys. Hope your heart is doing well. I live in Northern Territory Aussie and I have never seen snow

[@arlascott]

I know you’re looking for that gorgeous blue but, please, that darker and especially the white material is BEAUTIFUL and you should definitely harvest it if possible! It’s all precious 😍😍

[@wdwerker]

Dan reminds me of “ The Crystal Singer “ by Anne McCaffery . Sci fi story about Crystal prospectors who keep cutting and packing in spite of danger from serious storms.

[@amr8457]

You can also "start" the crack line by carrying along a small angle grinder with a diamond blade. Score a straight line across the top, then drill wedge holes! The deeper the score the more you can control the crack! 1/4" to 1" score depth. The idea behind here is you create a path of least resistance! Your brakes will be as clean as you can!

[@paulknight1879]

It is fantastic looking stone Dan gorgeous colors in it 😍 👌 😀 👍

[@Aurasmae]

Time to put in for the permits Dan! If the deposits left can see you through this spring, maybe you can use bigger machinery by NEXT spring if you get the permits!

[@michaeljones3974]

Waiting to get paid then I'm buying some slabs from you. I'm so excited. Wish I had enough to buy the large specimens but maybe one day!

[@Sailor376also]

Dan, I've done a fair amount of stone work. In general do not hit each wedge three or four times, hit each once and then in sequence. Take your time. And I normally use a 2.5 or 3 pound wooden handle hand jack,, sledge. A 4 pounder is too heavy for my tastes (I am only 6'4" and 280 pounds) A 3 pounder hits just as hard, and tires less.

[@Bossdog91]

Hi Dan, huge fan I actually got into prospecting watching you and Pauly over the years today I was metal detecting at a local beach and found a Dimond ring it felt so good. I'd LOVE to come meet you maybe do some work for you, watching you guys over the years and getting into it I've had more time with my wife and kids witch makes it all worth while not only that the knowledge that comes with it I'd just love to thank you and say your videos really made an impact on my life I absolutely love your videos hope all is well and can't wait for more

[@2phonesjones899]

My wife lost her diamond ring at that same beach man , please send it back to us !

[@TurnUpForTheLord]

Dan Hurd ASMR! The tapping is satisfying lol

[@gaylehoff3697]

Love to watch you find beautiful rocks and I love the herd of her the herd of elk they’re truly my favorite. It’s about time you let your wife come out and work with you she must be lonely on the weekends since she make her stay home and do house work. Keep on panning.

[@Intuittogo]

The slice of this stone you thought looked like an island with ocean around it and suggested the brown be a mountain looked like a potential SHIP sailing around it to me.

[@matthutchison4223]

Super excited to see you and some of that beautiful ocean picture stone at the Rock and Gem show next week! Great video as always.

[@chaspetryk9721]

That white piece you said almost but not quite... I like that one!

[@SubjectiveFunny]

Wow the blue is so beautiful.

[@williampendergrass186]

Wow, amazingly lucrative claim! Looks like 10k+ $Wow wow. And the only BC Oean Picturestone claim in the world. Wowwow.

[@imperialwhovian3461]

It gonna lie if you could get enough material cut to piece together a countertop that would look amazing, just polish it then give it a epoxy surface and you’d have the most unique and extraordinary counter

[@shaynehofstetter2869]

If I were a millionaire I would buy enough to pave a driveway with it just so beautiful!

[@FG564GHJU7]

Ocean Picture Stone has awesome pictures per slice. To bad your running low or out!

[@alfieboyd690]

i like that in this video i dint have to wait till the end to see how the rocks turned out.

[@SeniorMoostacho]

Hahaha Love the first few mins of skit. I'm hooked on your knowledge sir. Thank You.

[@glendadalejones3753]

Absolutely incredibly beautiful blue picture stone Dan.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Best wishes sent to you and yours 🙌

[@Krovahn]

That reveal at 19:40. Oh ho ho, what a rock!

[@ruslansh4281]

These stones are so beautiful.

[@4seasonspix]

💙BC Ocean Picture Stone is gorgeous beyond words💙 😍🥰💖

[@FiveStringCommando]

Love seeing Dan Hurd on Sundays. Always enjoy the videos. My Stanley Cup bracket has my Carolina Hurricanes meeting the Oilers in the finals. A 2006 rematch. See your team in the Finals!!! LOL

[@Danhurd]

Dayna is an Oilers fan, oilers better win! Happy wife = Happy life!

[@FiveStringCommando]

@@Danhurd If my Canes don’t make it and your Oilers do, they’ll have my support. 👍🏻

[@bexxy2407]

I only came across your channel recently but I'm already hooked!

[@RockHoundingAdventures]

Hey Dan, I love all the nature scenery and wildlife there. Those premium material is soooo beautiful, the range of blue tones 🤤🤩🤩. Thanks for sharing this with us. Rock on 🤘

[@MoonMunchingCat]

I like that milky blue it would make a nice tea cup or small plate it’s very pretty

[@jamiechittim9797]

I have bought from ya twice for the picture stone! It’s so beautiful and would love more! Keep it up!

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

It's such beautiful stone. Incubated for billions of years in the heart of stars, blown into the universe, by meganovas. Reincubated in the heart of our plant for a fair few million more years. For a ginger dude to discover in Canada's fair land.

[@elizabethh9935]

The cap at 16:40 would be beautiful power washed and finished with resin.

[@michaelwagataff7993]

Ocean picture stone is my favorite, jewelry is where it's at, unfortunately I missed the last auction for a necklace for our 11th anniversary.

[@stefanh1659]

Happy Mother’s Day to Dana!

[@709badwolf]

that was fun! those were some awesome looking pieces! thanks again for bringing us all along! 👍

[@Danhurd]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@cilirhammersteel5515]

I love low grade stones, they make great learning stones.

[@markbottcher2459]

You should buy one of those 2 stroke concrete saws, you could take that cap off easy ,then make some slices , and then drill and use the feather and wedges, I'll bet you'd get some better chunks that way.

[@coloradominingcompany8526]

(“BC OCEAN”) is really Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to iron(III) inclusions. Jasper breaks with a smooth surface and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It can be highly polished and is used for items such as vases, seals, and snuff boxes. The specific gravity of jasper is typically 2.5 to 2.9. Jaspillite is a banded-iron-formation rock that often has distinctive bands of jasper.

[@msandigail]

I will have to keep an eye out for those mostly white pieces today at the show, I didn't see them yesterday!

[@jameschristian8117]

Hi dan love the colour blue on those stones but for a moment i was enjoying the beautiful music u were making hitting those pegs.. i hope to order some of those..love what u doing man.. just love it soo relaxing...👍👍👍👍👍

[@aleta5873]

That blue is outstanding !

[@NVMDSTEvil]

Those white pieces might be interesting to do thin cut plates with to make translucent pieces, depending on how thin they would have to be.