BIGGEST Gemstone EVER found on Peridot claim!

[@adobephotoshopcs6857]

I just found my first gold ever so happy and you helped me with your videos so I can pan now And I am 13🤩

[@Snootyboss]

I felt that I just had to comment. I came across the channel by accident but have been glued to it since. Love the humour as well as the presentation style. I'm hoping that at some point you might do a basic geology lesson for us numpties who know nothing. I must admit to looking at the website and toying with how I would work a claim.... I'm a hotelier in the Cotswolds in the UK, so quite how I thought I could make that happen is beyond me. My dream moment was short lived but if you ever did a working learning break for people I'd love to learn more. Its absolutely fascinating.

[@davidvilla3243]

Rock hounds are the solid people to know.The beauty of good old mother nature for her to share her gems is awsome in deed.

[@sueydakillaboo]

Dan, I feel a good idea would be to put something underneath the rock where you’re working on it like a small price of tarp or anything to catch the extra! I think you’d net a lot more in a shorter time! Just an idea :))

[@stephanievineyard2249]

Peridot is my birthstone! It's really cool to see where they come from.

[@TheMacattack66]

Great job Dan! Looking forward to the Christmas bags. Another great vidio!

[@aleta5873]

Thank you Dan and friends..fascinating !!

[@Danhurd]

Our pleasure!

[@6812155]

Looking forward to buying one of the Christmas pay dirt bags!

[@Danhurd]

Have fun!

[@6812155]

@Pull Myfinger My kids will get a kick out of panning and getting some gold, I’m sure you’re dirt is trash but thanks anyway for the invite. 😁

[@Brewersprospecting420]

Watching Dan's videos makes me want to meet this nice guy in person. I have had a lot of brief conversations with Dan and he has been extraordinary nice, helpful and friendly.Dan is a type of person that makes you want to meet new and interesting people all over the world. With the good Lord willing hopefully someday I will be able to say I met Dan Hurd in person. Not because of his Fame. Just because he's a good person!!!

[@Danhurd]

Thank you so much for the kind words.

[@leighanncronin6905]

Yes Dan...FYI...you're on my "Bucket List", of AWESOME people to meet!❤

[@robertjones9364]

Dude dan is awesome love his videos the one's with Paulie are great lol

[@strangerwildernessoregon3164]

A couple hours picking dans brain would be priceless. Not a lot of people around like Dan anymore !

[@Brewersprospecting420]

@@strangerwildernessoregon3164 I agree totally with you!!! I would love to have a sit down with Dan's dad. If my guess is right the Apple didn't fall far from the tree😉😉

[@bobpace5464]

That was a great video. I hope I win the bid on the one you are auctioning off. Dan you and your family have a safe and great day

[@HeidiConanGoldProspecting]

Cheers Dan, love the olivine m8. Great electrical properties as well, in the electro magnetic field they are used in some very interesting experiments and are believed to play a critical role in the earths crust and mantel for creating viscosity changes during times of higher OLR emitions due to solar activity. Cheers, HnC

[@seantilson6330]

🤜🤛😁👍💯

[@recepyigit5556]

🙌 WELCOME 🙌 TAHANK you 🌹

[@DetectaBull]

Awesome man!!!

[@sjbolton72]

pretty peris and prettier Sarah she's a keeper

[@agateindia7056]

PERIDOT IS THE MONEY GEM...I WANT ONE NATURAL PERIDOT...

[@jackiequilter2388]

fascinating i love it!!!

[@Dlepey]

found your channel last night, subbed today! all that geography looks quite familiar! is this the okanagan?

[@TheZeeebull]

The Okanagan has tons of basalt with peridot.

[@tuledude89]

Im finding little, (0) info for peridot in my area. Im surrounded by basalt , we dont have and columns like your claim... We do have vertical faults with big long cliff faces that big chunks spall off of in the winter...Or is it only found in certain areas of the world

[@jay-d8349]

Pronounced parri-dot ! We have a mine on San carlos apache reservation..we can fill a five gallon bucket within a week .

[@roy8460]

I suppose you cut and polish them up?

[@georgeday4917]

Dan, where do you get your pins and feathers? I've been looking to split some stone for quite some time now and haven't been able to find them. Thanks, in advance, for any info. Love the channel! Keep up the good work!

[@okay7325]

She is not a Billygoat. She is the dream you just had. LOL

[@kevintulak9987]

That was great. Do you ever find jade here in the south? Thanks for sharing.

[@rjpropertymanagement5163]

Hey Dan I'm new to the channel where are you located what state or country thanks your friend Rocco from Connecticut

[@spazimz724]

So how much is Sarah bring totally worth?

[@lilbankaccount757]

Who else saw that he missed some huge dark green crystals

[@lizarrrdbeth]

I honestly think I would cry if I pulled something like that out of the Earth with my two hands. It's just amazing! He amazes me every single video!!

[@ambsquared]

I would love to see one get faceted, and then see a jewelry maker set it in a piece. It would be a nice series to follow it from the rock, to the gem, and final piece.

[@BenisGaming]

I agree! That would be so awesome to see the steps it takes to jewelry

[@bretthoomana2541]

@@BenisGaming pull out your pocket book, it will get done.

[@alyssamichelle4273]

Kind and happy like Dan Hurd is what I want to be when I grow up.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

Dan is the grandfather I want to age into.

[@adobephotoshopcs6857]

So do I he is such a kind and Nice guy

[@screamoXable]

If that’s the case you’re already halfway there, only gotta get old!

[@bretthoomana2541]

He does have one heck of a hobby.

[@CADsAnonymous]

You can do it! I believe in you 😄

[@Arianacccosta]

I highly respect those who mine these beautiful gem stones. As a jewellery maker, I even appreciate the natural stones more!!

[@camc7416]

I love everyones enthusiasm in these videos, getting to chill outdoors looking for precious stones and metals. Nature sure is a thing of beauty

[@SkyLabZaamslagtheNetherlands]

Hi, i’m New here and Subbed my Friend. Like your Content!

[@BarrieDornan]

I'm curious! You said that the olivine turns red or rusty when it close to the surface of the bedrock. My question is does it matter if the bedrock you are cracking open does it matter if it's in the sun facing south. I'm finding it all being rusty in color. I'm also curious if I remove the top layer of boulders to get down to less exposed bedrock if I might find better clusters sockets of olivine? And peridot. Also the bedrock is an old deposit, there are no catacombs above the bedrock field I'm working.

[@donbird7598]

hi n always enjoy watching your videos, so plz keep up on your great work for us thank u

[@Pollyanna..]

I would love to have chance to buy ur Christmas give bags wit peridot s ruby and gold nuggets... please who I should put money on oder please don't havecards so m please as

[@WowplayerMe]

Hi Dan, I'm interested to know why you said you'd have to send these gemstones overseas to be faceted, why can't they be done in country?

[@jpmarx660]

Hey Dan love your videos... Sorry about the scummy claim jumpers. Wish they got a heavier fine... Also was upset to hear about your heart.. As far as I'm concerned you'll always have a heart of gold... Lol

[@MUDSWAT]

That Christmas special is going to sell out quick! You have some nice claims! This was awesome, great job on the filming!

[@arcade822]

Very cool! It dawned on me that that would be a great instance to have a small tarp underneath to catch all those crystals! Pay dirt!! Haha. Keep up the videos Dan!

[@JeffKilgour]

New drinking game, every time Dan says "pocket", take a drink.

[@bigdaddy4432]

Alcohol poisonings incoming

[@tomkzinti2760]

Or 'gemmy', or any of the other words he's been overusing to death.

[@momentofchaos5559]

I love Dan’s energy and interesting look on the world!

[@almister999]

How you gonna clickbait Sarah like that?

[@omegaseamaster1550]

what a score of an idea, the Christmas paydirt bag of festive colours.

[@Danhurd]

Ya!

[@skippythefossilfreak]

love it my freaky friends so cool

[@FraustByte]

Dan you need to do a video with the crystal collector

[@stevenrowlandson4258]

Dan next time you are drilling Basalt vacuum up the dust and mix it with water and put it on house plants, fruit trees and the vegetable garden if you have one. The point to this experiment is that basalt is rich in the trace elements plants need and it is very good for plant growth. You might find that it could be a new source of income if you could crush and grind basalt to a powder.

[@kristinatowell5122]

Dan Hurd love your videos all are great

[@frozenpann]

Sara is the real gem on your video!

[@szbyzan]

One of my favorite crystals, though I cringe when you say facet them, I also know jewelry makers need to make a living too.

[@MikkellTheImmortal]

Hi Dan. I'm telling everyone I know that I want one of your Christmas bags for Christmas.

[@alvaroferreyros8711]

I love watching your videos. Great energy, dope vibes! Keep searching for these hidden treasures 🙌

[@ashtonfitzgerald]

I visited a spot on the Island of Hawaii years back that is famed for its green sand beach. The basalt sand was so loaded with olivine that it truly looked green. Hiking the bank all around that beach revealed olivine crystals everywhere (though none as big as in your haul). It is a magical spot.

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Im Defininatly buying myself a Christmas paydirt bag!!🤠👍 I love these uploads!! But in the UK its pretty poor for rockhounding and gold prospecting!~Unless you can travel a great deal!(*which I cant !) So LOVE these videos Dan!! Its like being there with you. Your enthusiasm is infectious!💕xx

[@midasmarkprospecting7698]

Oh and nice job sarah and bryson (VIKING TAYLOR youtube extrodinare) so lucky to be dan hurds trusted companions what an honor

[@VikingTaylor]

Hahaha I love the compliment! Thanks a million mark!

[@TranTheClever]

It's the only sub of its kind to let people rant off about things they probably don't know anything about and totally disregard a different perspective or view letting themselves swim in their own justice juice.2:05 🍎 🍊

[@Projectoxcart]

My friend Geoff Notkin Has Space Peridot found in Meteorites.

[@Projectoxcart]

This shows them kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqK8YamurbqceZI

[@bobpace5464]

I ordered one Christmas bag I had two nieces see me do it and I asked where there’s was so I have to go back in order two more I hope that’s OK but that’s a great idea

[@tuledude89]

HELLO DAN, Hope you are feeling better.. i was hoping you could tell me more about where i can look for Peridot in my area., I live in Southern Oregon & I am literally surrounded by basalt. Hundreds of square miles.. where do i start looking?? When i type peridot into google it just basically says Rare,with a pic of you lol.., is it specic to your area only??

[@arthurgolddigger7336]

I'd love to see some of them faceted. Very cool 😎

[@helenaziegler6005]

Destroying precious mantle xenoliths, those you call clusters....I cannot watch!! 😢

[@ausjay5574]

DAN MY BROTHER ..I'm in Australia if I was to buy some pay dirt bags for presents would they even make it threw our customs ?? Do you have a Facebook man? I'll try find you Be good if we heard back huge fans , have a good day thanks for today's video

[@goldbunny1973]

Is anyone else wondering if Bryson is my cousin's grandson? He looks SO like David & Christopher!? but that's twice I've seen you say Pauly cancelled last minute. Ooh. He needs 5mins on the Naughty Step..

[@colbyaherin9700]

You should hit up my friend Evan at Gem State Crystals in Moscow, Idaho USA. They make beautiful jewelry with a focus on the “Idaho Star Garnet” but they make all kinds of different things. Way over my head but it is a family owed business of 30+ years and they make quality products. Happy hunting and stay safe out there.

[@TheJonesyfamily]

Do you not really need Good size 1's to cut for jewelry? Is this just more fun, searching for the Good 1 & helping with the grabbag fun income? How many claims do you generally have at 1 time? Something with the garnets, hope for the big 1 & keeping open price points & fun for tall - a long with income? Thanks Sir, Jonesy

[@menow.]

"LIKE literally LIKE a half-inch thick....." So sort-of literally sort-of?

[@biancalemay4840]

Wooouuu we went to rock climbing in that place before is amazing to see what you guys found. ❤️❤️❤️

[@scottgrafton5086]

Hello From Gold Bar Washington! How did your X-mas bags work out? Love your representation of prospecting and the videos.

[@mattmoore1311]

You're kind of strange, but it's ok, because the use of a shop vac with a rotohammer is brilliant! No waste, you catch everything. I'm impressed. I'm kind of strange too, so what the hell.

[@jacksonlaframboise6257]

Bruh. I remember when I got into rocks. Me and my dad were at some garden stone place to get a big ass rock for our front lawn. And there was just random rock. Just looked normal. But, coming out the side was this perfectly transparent, 3 inch long, forest green crystal. And I was like, “my god. Those just exist in nature. I wanna find one.”

[@tomkzinti2760]

Dan, you really need to consider what you're doing when you oversensationalize everything you find over and over and over. It's that good old story of the boy who cried wolf - except that now, it's a man crying 'gorgeous crystal!' or 'huge nugget!' or 'super gemmy' or 'unbelievable treasure'! After a while, it gets old. When you really have a good look up close at the stuff you're crowing about, it usually ends up being fairly vanilla and underwhelming. Let's face it, peridot is one of the cheapest, boring gemstones out there and the ones you're picking up here resemble boogers more than birthstones. Crow about coloration when you find something grass-green and super rare, not these mildly straw-colored granules! Calling something beautiful isn't wrong, but when you call everything beautiful, what really is? We're not all third graders and you're not our teacher. Can we get a touch more realism and less exaggerating? I think you can do it without reducing views or sales, just give it a try. Thaaaank yooouuuu

[@ThatOpalGuy]

How do you classify the peridot, from the garbage vacuumed up, when you get home?

[@michaelrobinson8915]

Maybe a dental exploración pick to help in those pockets of gems...blessings...m

[@stinkyfungus]

That fine grained blue basalt looks familiar to me. Basalt is pretty much THE host rock of the Hawaiian islands. In a'a or pahoehoe flavors... Hawaiian lava is basalt. Peridot (olivine) is the only thing I can find here on maui...land is too young, and the central Pacific hotspot doesn't vomit up the same stuff the west coast mainland did. plenty small olivine crystals - larger gem quality is pretty rare. I do have a few nifty blue basalt samples with embedded olivine crystals in them, Amazing what you find when digging around here and a jobsite is using using a hoe ram on a backhoe to break up old lava flows for construction. Kinda like your feather wedges, only not as precise... oh... and commerical blasting - I found some pretty cool olivine bearing basalt after blasting the foundations for the second phase of the windfarm I work at. Jumped down in the holes and had a look when they blasted and excavated the holes. Found some cool stuff. The scientist in me couldn't pass up the opportunity. Also, We do have a ton of iron rich magnetite nodules all over. Makes me wonder - had we left the hawaiians alone alone long enough, would they have figured out they had basket fulls of iron rich ore just laying around on the ground? Someday I might try to make a knife blade in the Japanese tahmagane fashion using these nodules to see if i can...

[@natalieg90]

Dan can I set you a challenge? You have hear of Jason from Greek mythology and his golden fleece. Only a story It's lost knollage. Well it's actually reference to mine techniques. Can you test this theory on your channel and see if it works. Experimental archaeology. Place sheepskin on the bed of steam/shallow river. Then place rocks on it and around it so the flow of the water goes over the skin naturally panning out any impurities . Any gold should get caught in the hair giving you a golden fleece. Can you see if this actually works on one of your claims. I watched a very old documentary about old mine tricks and this technique was used briefly for the cameras on a mountain stream in Wales UK and they got flecks of gold out of it

[@jjbentley9]

I love peridot so wish I could come along your very lucky sure theres all kinds of rockhounds who would love to of been there. Very cool finds😁

[@jdrhoads4426]

one day my friend we will all stand in front of God and he will judge us all. Those who have faith and choose to believe and repent and to not be of this world we will Live forever with HIM in HIS kingdom and those who choose not to be with Jesus Christ will be thrown into the lake of Fire and die in pain forever. Open your heart towards Jesus Christ my friends and repent and let him guide your ways AMAN!

[@204_mod_shop]

Hey Dan! Just learning my gems and where they naturally come from, can peridot be found in or around Manitoba/Ontario? Would be pretty awesome to find my birth stone!

[@stianthebear]

Me and my wife is going peridot hunting this spiring/summer. There's a dumpsite in Norway from a mine. Hopefully we'll find something that is worth keeping

[@jasonteddy5302]

Hey Dan, how about slicing it off and freezing it in a vaccum chamber box, it would split it.. along the fissures, and can they sonic bath it or set off a fire cracker in there ? That splits a beer bottle. Pop it in a sonic bath and then freeze it solid.. make the water cloose to freezing and then run a liquid nitrogen around it and sort of flash freeze inner out ward so it splits and not compresses.. inner bottom up. Might be a real time saver on that one in many ways, as well as clean it maybe and the dust would be off them , be able to tell the gem quality ones and sections really quick. Hey, we shatter kidney stones . And it's already been freeze separations if we Xray and tap to the Big crystals without crushing them in a rock crusher.. ya know? And putting them in the sonic bath would pop them all off the surface , And if we depth charge them after a small bore.. or slice , a brake press with a wedge like a log splitter on a floor jack something or other would cut it along the saw score line? High sonic variant will have them fall out like sand when split too maybe? It already has air space in there huh? Yeah ice after the split off .. stone hydraulic splitters and a scoring saw.. press it down to a few hendered pounds and then whack the pin.. lots of ways. Electro bonding.. as long as the metal is sort of within the spaces.. ya know? ? So.. even a paste would sort of be cool too. And it might give a shimmer depth look too depending on crystal size .. when polished off.. If the crystals were all touching, vaccum tight, it would probably show light from the weirdest ways. Very pretty I'm sure, and a layer can be done too maybe since the metals will be fusing... Anyway. Making drill bits .. we ever think of that? High pressure, easy to pour and form, and magneticly quench bond them.. the problem is the bots and such.. and I can already tell we have a lot and need to polish a bunch of them.. And if we have the right clay, and the right depth on the two plates, we can even get a semi uniform bead side. Squares even possibly. Lots of stuff can be done with it. And it will look and be fairly smooth polished.. a microscope to see which kind of sand silt mud it is.. Diamond or what not... wet it and put the other larger crystals and plate roll but not crush it like flour and roll it around under the plates. The powder would be lubricating, use olive oil or vegetable oil since it's viscous and thick if need be and can be boiled out easy, steam spray it off the stones and there you are, tell all what you're dealing with..

[@b_uppy]

Get the harmonics right and the crystals will free nicely You need a big cloth underneath when using a chisel. Save some work an possibly big crystals that'd get lost otherwise. Otherwise if they fall they maybe impossible to find...

[@mattmoore1311]

On a more serious note, I suspect you'd like your chisels much more if they were about half as long. A short chisel is counter-intuitive. You feel like you're going to hit your hand, but the reality is it's easier to control, usually you can rest your hand on the rock, and if you have a glove on, can usually control the spalls with the palm. Give it a try. :)

[@foleydave26]

You should offer a guide service or maybe hold a raffle on win a chance to mine with dan. I would buy a few raffle tickets.

[@cowboycool1501]

Dan my daughter's birthstone is peridot. I'd love to have the opportunity to purchase a decent gem stone from you for a necklace or a ring for my wife. My sons and I share the same day in may for birthday, but I have dont think you have our stone to mine (emerald) my wife's stone is is aqua marine which I have not seen either. I would like to gather all raw stones and have cut to a kneckacle or ring for her.

[@williamogilvie6909]

Its really wasteful to scrape the cluster off with a screwdriver. None of the peridot is usable. Better to saw the whole cluster off and you have a nice mineral specimen.

[@glennmurphy9297]

HEY DAN, BUST THE ENTIRE CLUSTERS LOOSE WITH HOWEVER MUCH ROCK ATTACHED YOU NEED TO, AND DUMP THE WHOLE THING IN A BUCKET OF VINEGAR FOR A WEEK. EVERYTHING WILL BE LOOSE ON THE BOTTOM, AND YOU WON'T BREAK ANY LARGER CRYSTALS...ALSO ANY FREE-MILL GOLD OR OTHER PM'S WILL BE LOOSE ON THE BOTTOM.

[@theycallmemrclean1901]

If I ever got Dan Happy I hope I would just go to sleep cause it is too hard for us normal humans to find someplace any place as beautiful as he surrounds him and his. Keep ticker ticking.

[@jeeess9979]

DAN! I bet you got a bad temper BUT you earned my sub. Fantastic fam biz.

[@erikanovember9485]

Glad I found this vid. There is a huge basalt spire about an hour from our house. We are going to go crystal hunting next weekend. Shout out from Colorado

[@Pollyanna..]

Peridot is my birthday stoned would love to have options to purchase ur Christmas special bagwit apayday

[@tvanwho]

where do I get one of your cordless hammer drill chipping tools? Price, weight, how long does it run for per battery?

[@robinbarnett1772]

how do peridot form, do they cluster inspecific stone? I am interested in rock hounding, did a lot when I was a kid at Pridee ranch for thundereggs and moon stones I think they are called. I live in washington state and used to go with the parents to Mount Baker. are there areas to find stones in NW washington, I live in Anacocrtes.

[@armadilllo]

After watching this I never want to hear the C word again. 59 times, yes I counted.😉

[@cyndym6566]

Are you still teaching during the pandemic or are they making you do virtual classes?

[@tylerogrady495]

Dude this is awesome. Your videos make me really want to get out and do more prospecting. Love seeing your finds. Give a person lots of hope to be able to find treasures like this. I'd love to go on an adventure with you and learn anything you can teach me.

[@keithstubblefield9089]

The way you're taking those out they must be full of pressures I don't see how it's possible to have any good gemstones

[@charlieB69]

Do you cut your gems yourself for sale or keepsake? It is a tedious process of facteded stones. Just curious as you are so good at collecting them I would bet you do the same or better if you cut your own stones. If you do want to cut one who do you go to or suggest for others. Good videos Sir and thanks for sharing.

[@CADsAnonymous]

It’s Christmas Day and I’m watching this thinking about how cool the Christmas bags sound!! I hope people are at home (or wherever) enjoying them at this very moment!✨

[@Ccw__777]

I wonder if you put those cluster pieces in a tumbler, if it would separate the crystals that are in the cluster…. 🤔

[@jimmybelcher6503]

Your vidéos give mê hart palpitations keep your good vibe

[@beckyluvstoscrapnsew]

Maybe take a drop cloth or sturdy fabric to pop around the area to avoid losing those lovely gems