Big Agates at Brian Head

Seeing how this area around Brian Head, Utah is packed with different kinds of agate, let's hike around and go to some areas rarely visited to see if the material changes at all.
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[@upperpeninsulabeautiful]

Hey Jared....UPB here! Its been a while ...ive been absent for many months! Its great to be back! I really like your videos....this one is no exception! Awesome landscape, beautiful huge agates! Love you explore where many dont venture! Thank you for taking us along on your adventures! Our channel just had our one year anniversary and our 1k subscribers milestone. Thank you Jared for a great video!!!

[@jscottchrist5178]

OMG...I'm drooling. I wish I lived closer. So many pieces for my tumbler. It would be non stop for tumbling for years. I need a place like this in Oregon.

[@roman11469]

Nice finds! I love how that material changed as you moved about. Looks like you got some mossy material too!

[@melissastott8191]

Just visited here for the first time Saturday. We did the basic hunt everyone does but it was amazing! Already have the tumblers going

[@DonohueLabs]

Looking forward to when you get around to building an agate shed like those petrified wood pueblos in Arizona with all these huge Utah agates.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Ha! That would be a fun project.

[@orion84037]

Great content. My wife and I found some great specimens while there in early summer of this year, great colors and big unfractured piece. I have had limited success with tumbling the material, as it does not seem to polish up as well as other agate from nearby, such as agate hill near Panguitch. Lots of material left to play with, hopefully will find the right formula. We have had better luck with the yellow jasper containing pieces.

[@largent45]

I just love the material from Brian Head! That colorful dendritic chalcedony is so beautiful not to mention huge! That stuff is beautiful and yes there are some fractures but some not or not in serious places and for tumbling, it doesn't matter. It's just really beautiful colors and so abundant, you are sure to find something!

[@ocklawahaboyrocks]

That pinkish piece that Sara found ~11:50 was really pretty.

[@coffee19837]

Hi Jared and Sarah great video with your dog Lika very cute dog. Great finds you both picked up. Keep up the awesome work

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@kylecduncan]

Excellent walkabout near Brianhead. Some of that darker material is not dissimilar to the large agates found nearby in Mammoth Creek.

[@RaymondMosier-cp6pn]

Holy cow those are huge

[@adventuresofshadowdog]

Great video! ❤

[@Mike-br8vb]

Very awesome specimens! That is a beautiful area, great views and a tremendous amount of great material. Did Laika get a lamb chop?😂

[@patriciamckean4186]

Can't wait for the intarsia designs with those color combinations.

[@michaeltrimble7680]

Utah seems full of places to go!

[@DanFarrar]

Dang, those are massive! Pretty though 🎉🎉🎉

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

They are impressive to see in person.

[@forttreehouse6450]

I'm so glad you guys moved to Utah!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

We are also thrilled to be here.

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad you liked it.

[@geoffjohnson6555]

i will say, since i was just there last month, that your camera does a great job of showing pretty realistically what it looks like in person. i know you talked about that a little while ago in regards to different cameras and colors, but now i now personally and it's pretty cool. brian head is such a blast and totally beautiful. i've been polishing some pieces recently and i love the crazy amount of dendrites with the blues/greys the most. thanks for the video, take care

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you so much for mentioning this. I do the very best I can to show these different materials as best I can.

[@kellyharper367]

Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: That's some beautiful color. I would loveto see it slabbed.

[@nazzakashieern]

Nice place I wish I were there😊

[@BackcountrywithShaughn]

What type of land is that? Looked like would be excellent summer pasture land for cattle. Anyway, Thx for sharing. Lotsa stuff to choose from is always a good time in my book! Thx again for the post. Much appreciated. Have a great rest of the week!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm not really sure what to call it. It's a mixture of grassy areas that they publicly grass sheep on and aspen trees.

[@sandmaker]

It's beautiful and the varied rocks are cool. Just no air for us. Why doesn't Mica have saddlebags to help carry rocks for you. When we had dogs they all loved it. Keep having fun!

[@fennynough6962]

8:30 is rainbow chert, so many colors here. Me likey!😊

[@pumpkinhold]

A beautiful collecting area, even if the oxygen's a bit thin. On your previous trip three years ago, did you ever look in that gully that is off to the right of where you parked the car? Or is the soil too loose & slippery there? Thanks for another great video!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

We never really made it up there.

[@j.ericswede7084]

Thanks for putting us on your strong, young legs and showing us the upper reaches of Bryan Head. What a beautiful area. Do you still have the huge chunk of agate you brought back to Spokane from your trip there in 2021? Looking forward to more of your Utah Adventures.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That big chunk ended at a friends house in Spokane as it was too much to take with me.

[@Silasposton]

That green and yellow chalcedony is sweet as a Wi packers fan. Would love to make some cabs outta that. 🤌🏻

[@BenPetty5]

The orange and black Jasper my uncle would call chicken scratch Jasper there is a good site by the town of Eureka where I picked up quite a few

[@tenaedmonson1213]

Beautiful place.

[@BenPetty5]

Wanted to show a few of the zebra stones I found rock hounding and few of the many slabs I got from Uncle

[@Joel-McConnell]

Lots of big agate there! 👍 You should bring a water bottle to spray the rocks with instead of carrying them back to water. Makes for good viewing for us as you find them when they are wet.....

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

We do when it makes sense to pack around but that wasn't the case with this location but maybe next time.

[@HighSocietyHobbies]

Hey Jared! Super random but just watched this documentary on how quarts was used for radios back in WW2, nothing new we all knew it but first time I’ve always seen the process on video and it reminded me of the local spot hansen creek because I believe (at least I’ve always been told) that it was originally found from the US army for using the crystals for their radio development but I’ve had trouble finding any research online to prove that! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqa9nYqNrN18hrMsi=af4q13cJi7vWAyFO great old documentary tho I thought you may find it interesting as well! This video also peaked my interest extra cause I heard recently they are now using quarts again but for AI microchips, quiet fascinating.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That video was pretty good, I love seeing things like that. As far as Hansen Creek goes, I believe Bob Jackson discovered it. You can always track him down and ask him as he answers his emails.

[@fennynough6962]

So, before you cut open, any of these man made Chalcedony hand tools, knives & cutting blades; see if they have been worked to fit in your hand, please. PLEASE PROTECT OUR ANCIENTS HAND TOOLS, at 6:08, 6:29, 9:00, 9:20 10:20, 10:40 12:15. These are 100,000's of years old & pricless as well as the hardest, enduring cutting tools. Thanks yall are the bestist rock hounds!

[@ragnarocks9121]

None of the fragments are man made hand tools.

[@fennynough6962]

@ragnarocks9121 That's why they are fragmented. Quite obvious. When you see pecking points, handheld cutters (notched to fit to each digit), & the different tools, (from hocked blades to scrappers).🤷‍♂️

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm sorry, but you are not correct here, just because something is a broken rock doesn't make it an artifact, these are just rocks broken by the natural process of fracturing.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Agreed.

[@fennynough6962]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Thanks. And if you can prove they have been knapped, then these would be some very expensive artifacts!😋