The High Noon Roadcut

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

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[@kellyharper367]

Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: Great video! I love rockhounding places like that! To pack a lunch... take an old logging road... hike a little to a rock outcropping ... breathe fresh forest scented air... listen to nature... see all the beauty... makes for the perfect day! I miss them so much! Seeing this video brings back such precious memories! I ❤ mother earth... she does beautiful work! We must take care of her!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you! Places like this on days like we had make me delighted!

[@rachaelb9164]

CAD… I love it. I’ve heard of the BBQ lids but that’s a big piece of equipment to lug around with you.

[@ceceliacochran2156]

Aww, feeling all nostalgic, i remember when you brought the container in & enjoyed watching it grow & evolve - but what a great move, can't wait to see the new shop unfold, congrats - you earned it!

[@ceceliacochran2156]

Lol, comment should have been under the shop move - KZbin got ahead of me 😂

[@GeoForge]

I love seeing granitic pegmatites. Really nice outcrop with a good variety of samples to collect.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thanks buddy!

[@CanvasJules]

What an incredible place! I have a beach along the Merrimack River in NH that I find so many different minerals. I don't believe any other Rockhounds in the area search there, so it seems like my own private mineral Paradise. I spent a few hours there today and scored the most beautiful clear gem quality quartz as well as some amazing agates and even a few sapphires. I love watching your adventures. Your fur baby rockhound companion is so precious ❤ Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us! Stay safe out there. I am looking forward to watching your next video.

[@mikelouis9389]

Your area is pegmatite paradise.

[@CanvasJules]

@mikelouis9389 I have a lot of Pegmatite from the merrimack river. They are all spectacular! One is even shaped like a heart ❤️

[@jonlangford7622]

I really like how the different light wavelengths allow you to see tiny trace amounts of minerals...whatever the mystery mineral turns out to be. Its just not something that was in my wheelhouse of possibility 5-10 years ago. Love the roadcut videos. Thank you.

[@charlenecastaldo3602]

Really fun material!! Thank you! 😊

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@largent45]

Such a beautiful place! And what a dramatic road cut! The debris field down that one side is really cool but does not look safe to be climbing around on! What cool specimens! And I love seeing the mica books in it! Mica maybe a rather worthless material but I think it's pretty and super pretty. I would love to find a place around here to collect big thick mica books! And the mystery minerals are cool! I lock forward to you further exploration into what the glowing yellow mineral is! Thanks Jared and Sara, for your wonderful exploration of the road cut and your explanation of what we are looking at!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It really is a cool location to go walk around and collect at, and I'm sure someday I'll be able to figure out what the little glowing bits are.

[@chrishince8947]

Awesome vid! I've got lots of glacial tile around where I live and lots of it has a white/yellow crust on the bottom that glows under UV light. Haven't been able to find any info about it. Looks amazing! Keep rocking!!!

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@anthonyscalzi7110]

Back east, a strongly yellow fluorescing mineral in a pegmatite would instantly be identified as apatite, but we also don't have carbonate rich pegmatites.

[@coffee19837]

Very cool finds Jared. That looks very cool.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@mindseyeproductions8798]

0:17 ah wow that intro was epic. ❤

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@lafayetteparker5340]

Really enjoy y'alls channel !

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@phillipcooley83]

Subaru's are great in the snow, but for these road trips, something with a frame under it, and some tow hooks would be priceless for pulling fallen trees out of the roadway. I've done it countless times with a Ford Explorer, and now my Suburban. Those kinetic ropes are also awesome

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

While there are more capable vehicles than an Outback they do just fine for these trips. We have gone to hundreds of places across the western U.S. in a 2012 Outback and then in this new Outback. For rockhounding adventures they are great, for off-roading, not so much.

[@micheleslaughter1324]

Could that seam be marble? Pretty. Adventures yield the best learning! You've truly developed a high integrity scientific approach. I would definitely accept your findings as valid.

[@leahmarie9278]

Rub a dryer sheet on your clothes then tuck it into a pocket and have a bug free rock hounding day❤

[@patriciamckean4186]

Ehhh....bugs! I feel your pain. Mica is beautiful. UV makes for colorful and interesting samples. Good day for a hike. Pretty little garnet, that yellow is nice. Definitely more interesting than a singular colored specimen.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The bugs just love me it seems.

[@darthmalius]

Wow lots of people saying it’s pegmatite like that’s a substance, Pegmatite is just a classification of phenocryst size, if it is a granitic rock then some amount of feldspar is to be expected, but this guy have proven time and time again that Calcite is one of the few Felsic rocks there that reacts to the black light like that so I’m inclined to believe his prognosis of the white crystals. Also thanks for the vids keep em coming

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@zx10chewy]

I like the drone footage!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I should break it out more often but it always appears to be too windy.

[@AllenManor]

Great location!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It sure is!

[@johnsaucerhunter]

Jared. Always enjoy your episodes. I liked your ingenuity in trying to use the UV during the daytime. This has probably been asked many times (so apologies), but are you 'stacking/layering' your static UV shots? Thanks for the virtual adventure.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you! The images I share of UV shots are not stacked.

[@lindaschaefer5499]

What's more fun? Going out to explore in the great outdoors is like one big Easter egg hunt. It's great to find a rock that is beautiful for it's shape, color, or just the uniqueness of it. Then, to get home and figure out exactly what mineral it contains is like solving a mystery and as much fun, if not the most fun. Right now I am figuring out a rock I picked up in AZ that I joked was petrified ironwood. After cutting it in two, it's a sedimentary rock that has grayish silver running through it. At this moment, it appears to be selenium. I will be getting more opinions from people smarter than me to find out for sure.

[@UncleBildo]

I should have you guys out to go hunt rocks on Lake Roosevelt. All summer we hit the lake off an on, every time we stop so my dog can run and take care of his accounting business etc, I stagger around looking for cool rocks. After one trip last summer up near Kettle with my kids and grandson, had like 600 lbs of rocks in the boat on the way back to camp. Often have my gold pan along, shake around some black sand here and there. Occasionally AU flecks are found.

[@UncleBildo]

Also interesting rocks. Will be cool to find out WTF ya go!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I appreciate that gesture, but I think it's important to point out that Lake Roosevelt is managed by the NPS, and it's illegal to remove rocks from there. That's why we have never gone there to make a video.

[@UncleBildo]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding was not aware! Thanks!

[@DanFarrar]

So odd how loose and aged looking the rocks are. The big seems on the granite is so cool!

[@RnFfishy]

Looks like a Pegmatite seam to me. Those big white crystals are probably a feldspar. No idea what that yellow uv reactive mineral is, but it's cool!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The white you see in the seam is calcite. :)

[@2HighNoon]

Hello my friend, I wanted to comment about the yellow reactive bits. Zooming in I see that the calcite structures seem to have a more crystallized bit to them where that yellow is popping. 🤔 Is there another form of calcite, maybe calcite crystal reacts differently because of its structure.. 🤔 Anyways those little bits seem more developed than the vein itself. Maybe it’s another sub-mineral or something like that too. 🤔

[@MidnightMinerals]

I think the green you are seeing in the rock may be Hyalite opal vs it being Autunite. I wonder if the yellow is zircon.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Why do you think that? This is location is in an area with abundant Autunite, and mines all over the place, it would be considered a common find for this area.

[@MidnightMinerals]

From the photo and you described that you didn’t see the normal small platy crystals. Does the specimen glow mostly under shortwave uv? Or does it glow equally well or brighter under 365bn longwave. If you look close at it under the scope, can you see a thin coating that may resemble the sugar on Frosted Flakes?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

@@MidnightMinerals Currently this stuff is still all packed up after we moved, so I can't go and check it with ease right now but I can assure that I'm 100% correct in my identification here. Under the optical microscope you can see clearly the small plates of stacked autunite.

[@MidnightMinerals]

@ ok if you see that then I would agree. I watched the video last night and thought I heard mention of not seeing crystals. So, my bad if I missed some detail there.

[@ocklawahaboyrocks]

Turns out there's enough cell service at White Fir Springs to watch a video while you eat your PB&J.

[@CanvasJules]

I love bringing a PBJ on my adventures. It's light to carry and tastes just as good even if it gets squashed. Lol!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That is also my go to adventure food!

[@travishurd7619]

You can see the cut up wood pile I left in the intro😅 I was there last month camping and went up to the triple h mine and high noon mine plan on coming back in july

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You should stop by here as well.

[@64puma64]

You’re speculating that the yellow/white fluorescent mineral may be cerussite? I found a specimen of what I’m guessing is the same thing in the Conconully Mining District. The sample had about five inclusions arrayed like a constellation. Very hard to see in daylight-only one appeared above the rock surface. Love your CAD device. Too good not to copy. Getting caught staring into a Priority mailing box in the middle of nowhere is a good way to minimize interactions with strangers.😂😂😂

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That is my best guess, but I don't really have any legit way of testing that out. Ha! If I didn't know better, and I saw someone staring into a box in the woods, I would also keep going! :)

[@jscottchrist5178]

What happens if Liaka gets off leash?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Then there will be no more Laika in videos.

[@rocdoc6]

The UV yellow may be wollastonite

[@jonsdigs1]

Zircon?

[@cptnkaos5994]

could it be moonstone ?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I doubt that.

[@bhutjolokia6990]

👍😎👻🌶 cool!!

[@midnitesilverrun8631]

It’s easily solved by visiting a professional.plenty of places to take it and not have to guess.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I strongly disagree with your statement here for a number of reasons. The number of mineralogists with full labs willing to do SEM / microprobe / XRF / XRD / raman spectroscopy work for free is just about zero at this point, and this is well beyond what a college geology professor can do or have a student do. We're talking about trace minerals in calcite, it's not just a quick little thing to solve, if it was, I would have already done it with the basic methods I already have access to. If you know someone willing to do these things, I would love their contact information.

[@keithwood6459]

Dude - It's pegmatite! I'm gently chiding you for not knowing one of the most common igneous minerals. The white is feldspar. Probably not much, if any, calcite there.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You know these are my least favorite comments to read. After 600 videos, maybe give me the benefit of the doubt some. The large seam is calcite, which was a little unexpected for this location and 100% not feldspar.

[@keithwood6459]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Fair. I didn't watch the last 4 minutes. My apologies to you.