Aventurine // Rockhounding in Northern Washington

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[@debraanchante3661]

Omak is my hometown.. it was nice to see the scenery

[@garyfrancis-ns3kq]

Great, thanks again for your videos and then you are north of Omak! Mayhaps I drove by that dangerous road cut! Hi there Sarah!

[@Shannon_Michael_W.]

That part made me laugh when you snuck that good piece in Sarah's bucket really cool how you go and look for specific types of rock on all your adventures and crazy how your not a expert but your knowledge on rocks always learn something new from you

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The key is to not put too much in her bucket so that she catches on to what I'm doing. I'm really not an expert at all, I just do a lot of reading and research.

[@patriciamckean4186]

Beautiful colors...gorgeous scenery in the second part.

[@Mike-br8vb]

Great green rock!

[@patriciamckean4186]

Nice, can't wait to see it cut. 😀

[@therockdad1]

Amazing video man thanks for the rocks you dropped by. Thay are amazing

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad you like them!

[@thomascovenant665]

i found some of this stuff years ago west of omak by a lake.. i slabbed some and my rockhound buddy called it frogrock (looks like a speckled frogs skin) and we've referred it as such forever.. thanks for putting a name to it!!

[@dorenabellepetty2177]

I just went to this spot yesterday and Wow!! It was awesome!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad you liked it.

[@jaxntax5509]

Very beautiful I have a soft spot for opaque blue and green rocks.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Likewise.

[@KatyDidRocks]

Catching up on my videos - SWEET aventurine! I've only seen it in the river.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@sheetmetalhead]

Great looking specimens

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@2HighNoon]

Good stuff. I was up there back in 2017 fighting a forest fire during the solar eclipse.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a pretty area isn't it!

[@eagle197034]

I was born and raised here and recently moved back. I've driven by that rock cut me times than I can count and always knew it was different, but never realized what it was until this video. I happen to be going to Salmon Meadow above Conconully and decided to stop. WOW wasn't disappointed at all. Great video and thanks for the heads up on it. Still need to get together with you and explore some other areas here in the Okanogan.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That whole area out there is amazing!

[@gwynnfarrell1856]

Always love the greens! The rocks looked so nice polished. What a beautiful day you had out there. Thank you for the aventurine adventure!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you. I don't know what it is but rocks like this kind of call to me.

[@paigelee6321]

Oh cool awesome for tumbling, maybe yellow aventurine, awesome 😊💙✌🏻

[@kylaabegglen1275]

Wow! The aventurine is so beautiful polished up. Love it! Thanks for sharing Jared and Sarah!✌😎

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I really like this location and I would love to go back for more.

[@1sec2midnight]

Hello CR, thanks for sharing the live video. I was intrigued with the Aventurine you found on the Spokane river, but this stuff is amazing.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you. Rivers are nice but really I prefer going to the source.

[@cindyheimdahl227]

Both places had beautiful rocks. Thanks for cabbing!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thanks for coming by and giving it a watch.

[@rebeccaofsunnybrookefarm8469]

Nice finds.... those specimens are beautiful.

[@milesnn]

Awesome adventure sweet sweet finds nice finish great knowledge thank you

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@karlkarlsson1441]

Great! Just good all around presentation and fun! Congratulations!

[@thegatesofdawn...1386]

It reminds me of granite, but it is beautifully 💚 green.

[@RockhoundTreasurehunt]

Very good stuff! I love easy pickings in the great outdoors

[@emmashsu]

You’re one of the least annoying hounders and most help! Especially loved rock identification video! Thank you!!!! Ps marry me! Lol

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad that you think I'm one of the least annoying.

[@QuestForDetails]

oh the greens !!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Oh yeah!

[@kd7ign]

I like the road cut piece better. Both are so nice.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I also like the roadcut material better.

[@GSProspecting]

great hunt fam. keep up the great work. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!

[@ssteele1812]

That cube would have been it for me. I probably would have left everything else there and just taken that one. I agree, the material from the roadcut is prettier.

[@cherylarmstrong6400]

I really enjoy your videos. I learn so much. Beautiful specimens.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad you like them.

[@yoopermann7942]

them were beautiful finds!! thank you for taking us along

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thanks for coming by to watch.

[@jimv.661]

Well, that was fun. I like the samples you picked up at the road cut, but the second location appeals to me more. I think you just identified a couple of green rocks that I took home from my uncle's place when I sold his home here in NE. I know that he went to visit another uncle in Vancouver Canada and traveled thru WA, so I'm guessing he may have picked them up there. I sure do wish I would have been into rockhounding when I worked the Pacific NW as I didn't have anything to do on the weekends, so just looked at the sights.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I think they both have their place, the peaceful hills and the roadcuts. The rocks you took very likely could be, as you can here its not exactly uncommon for the area. Rockhounding is a good way to fill some time for sure.

[@sandmaker]

I would never have known they were both adventurine. Fun trip and great information. No more saying this is sketchy and then doing it anyway. Too many of my rockhounding youtubers have been hurt recently. Be safe and stay healthy 😷⚒

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It really is great material. A little bit of risk can make life interesting and I was under anything too loose.

[@mwilson14]

The sun is both a curse and a blessing. All the blue agate Sarah and I have been collecting are when the sun is highest. The problem with that is all the light coloured rocks blind you after a while. I started picking up pieces of limestone that looked vaguely blue.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Sometimes you really just need to take it home to inspect it.

[@TheRogueRockhound]

Im 30% chromium! Nice camo buddy, I tend to stick with the neon yellow but the orange really accents your eyes HAHAHA

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

This is the perfect camo for standing in front of an orange background.

[@jimellis936]

Might want to buy some hardhats for road cut areas.

[@markattardo]

Cool rocks.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@WorldofRockhounds]

The big ones would make nice yard rocks :)

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I think so as well!

[@valsummers5330]

That really nice square You could have sent it down the slope…just not near the car. Gravity could have carried it! It’s really beautiful stuff

[@biscuitEMT]

Totally joined! I learn so much from these videos. I'm hounding the same terrain on the other side of the river! Thanks for the reminder about ticks. Do you and Sarah wear snake boots in the summer?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

So you're in Oregon? Thanks for joining! I have never seen a snake so I haven't felt the need to get them.

[@biscuitEMT]

Yep, hounding the great state of Oregon. I haven't seen snakes either but I did get boots. Unfortunately they are so bulky I might as well be stumbling around in moon boots! Better to stumble than die in the desert I guess.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

@@biscuitEMT They also look really warm.

[@kastah]

It is`nt much to the eye raw/at the spot, but I have seen worked Aventurine og that is lovely, so yeah, I guess it will we¨nt out lovely, good luck!!

[@genedeahl7453]

Nice new gloves.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Makes me feel like a million bucks.

[@mattrichards1492]

Always enjoy these videos. Good info in cool places (Maybe you should buy a microscope that comes with a free hardhat).

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Someday a Microscope will happen.

[@406findings]

Your aventurine looks a bit different then what I find on the Yellowstone river but it sparkles and is green so it's aventurine, but my next tumble was gonna be just green stuff mainly aventurine and some green Jasper I'm thinking.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Is the Aventurine you find on the Yellowstone kinda pale?

[@406findings]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding some of it is a pit pale but I do got a few pieces that are a real nice dark green.

[@jmsdvs5]

You could have carried that block a football field to your car. Go back and get it. Adventurine is such a gorgeous stone. It makes nice pendants.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I thought about it but we have plenty and we don't really want that much.

[@ZmarleneZ]

at some point i'm sure you will be attaching a backpack to Lica and she will be carrying your rocks too.😂

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I tried to get her to pull a wagon at one point and she freaked out I don't if she's a pack dog.

[@ZmarleneZ]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding i thought of a wagon too - not necessarily for Lica!

[@ambkbero2]

Thank you for the adventure. Could you post GPS coordinates to these awesome locations?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I did.

[@dennissorensen167]

Nice!!

[@BonesFPV]

I really like your life. Cheers.

[@lithicbeads]

You found a piece of saussauritized gabbro , a very nice piece.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It is not that. There is no gabbro around here. Why, would you assume it is?

[@douglasbernick5908]

Hey I just got a notification on my email that there was a new video for members and for some reason it didn’t go through and if it’s just me or if it’s something that was set up in your website all right thanks

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I have a number of new member videos, if you go to the main channel page and scroll down you can see the playlist but it would seem that your membership has expired.

[@mbrown6854]

I’ve small pink aventurine in central Alabama

[@shanecarruthers1394]

I should have given it a proof read...voice texting...sometimes I wonder😊

[@1sec2midnight]

Hello CR, I wanted to collect some Aventurine myself from Washington state so I ventured out to Omak. I didn't have much luck at the second dig site, but I took about 15 pounds from the road cut. So here is what I think of it. I wasn't sure by looking at it if it would tumble nicely, but after getting it home and giving it the primitive hardness test of breaking it with a sledge hammer, I have to say it is definitely very very hard stuff, very dense. Some was softer, some was black throughout so not good, and I got some red which I am assuming is red Aventurine. I like the red. How much longer will they allow people to chip away at the road cut until it becomes a danger of collapsing?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad you were able to get out and do some collecting at the roadcut. Roadcuts really are a thing that can change with time, there has been some really good ones that I have suggested people go to, and then a year later I return only to find the whole thing untouched.

[@kristipinger6106]

Not long.... It's the edge of private property, & due to liability the owners aren't thrilled about people digging there.

[@1sec2midnight]

@@kristipinger6106 hello there, thanks.

[@mwilson14]

Diopside?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I don't think so but I would likely need a microscope to tell if any is in here.

[@waywardgeologist2520]

The sample cut at 14:30 on the right looks like serpentine with chromite inclusions and the stuff that is cut on the left looks like aventurine.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I believe you are correct and the website was updated to reflect that.

[@waywardgeologist2520]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding the road cut where you collected your first sample looks like it's near my aunt's place. I collected a few pieces years ago, polished them up, and wish I had large enough piece to cut into a countertop!

[@DanFarrar]

Great finds. You need a hard hat for that cut-out area sheesh 🙄.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

At some of these cuts that might not be that bad of an idea.

[@shanecarruthers1394]

I am a gemologist and have been a collector, investor, and jewelry designer for 15+ years now, buy have never worked as a gemologist or even in the jewelry business itself ever in my life. Not until quite recently that is...I am still in start-up mode of what will be named VanNat Jade & Gem Resources , Inc. Aventurine is a bit of a nemesis to Jadeite, and even nephrite at times, because dishonest jewelers, and distributors try and pass it off for jadeite. I believe jadeite is one of if not the most counterfeited if not the most counterfeited gemstones in the world. One, because jadeite is so rare and valuable, and 2...there are a lot of minerals out there if you don't know what you're doing that can easily fool the amateur collector. However; that's not what I'd like to discuss with you. I was hoping we could talk in private, one on one I'm some way of your choosing. It has to do with precious fire opal, not common, and what I would like to discuss can not be discussed in an open forum. My name is Shane and I hope to hear from.you soon.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You can shoot me an email at [e-mail]

[@EDLaw-wo5it]

I wanted a good picture but could not find it in any of my books. Looks like it might polish well. Be careful out there. I would wear my hard hat, not that it would help if one of those Biiig rocks hit ya. Havagudun Jared and Sarah.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Sometimes the best thing you can do is keep your eyes and ears open and just limit the time spent at roadcuts.

[@davesontherocks9938]

aventurine is a quartz based substance, But isn't serpentine basically the same stuff?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

They are two different rocks. Aventurine is Quartz with Chromium and Mica. Serpentine is a subgroup is separate from quartz.

[@thomasott5899]

Serpentine/Serpentinite is a metamorphic rock from an igneous source rock (possibly Basalt) that contains olivine and pyroxene. The metamorphic process involves hydrothermal (fluids, pressure and heat) to alter the igneous rock to serpentine. The Aventurine is interesting with the flat cleavage surfaces which is a feature obtained from the mica.

[@waywardgeologist2520]

The stuff from the road cut is serpentine, the other one from the hillside is aventurine.

[@Gregory47342]

👍✨✨✨✨✨

[@jimlancaster6120]

Very nice but I hope you didn't make Sarah carry all the rocks.

[@rockhoundingeasternwashing5308]

The stone along the road cut is actually serpentine, not aventurine

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I know that and it has been updated on the listing on the website.

[@FoxTheWingedHussar]

I have a ✝️Chain out of Aventurin

[@mwilson14]

Don't throw the crusty rusty garbage looking rocks away. I find the neatest stuff in those.

[@Rocktwister]

I want I want lol.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a good location.

[@jamespiel946]

You should have just rolled that big one down the hill, but then again, it might have gained momentum and destroyed your car. That would have been my luck.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Hahahaha that would of also been my luck.

[@geoffreyreuther5260]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding that's why you don't park your car next to a gully. ;)

[@TheRogueRockhound]

gators

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Will Crocs work?

[@TheRogueRockhound]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding lul oh you