GARNETS in the desert!

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

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[@thomasbarr1962]

Please help a rock picker needing a hand friend me ! And ill make u rich ! Can’t send pic to this

[@thomasbarr1962]

Start a rock hound’s club . For real hound’s of world 🌎? Meteorite’s & special stone’s $ buyer from all over the world 🌎 . With no con-artist selling fake’s ? That we all need a safe space ! In life you know this is truthful

[@sydneymckay9953]

I live in southern Arizona south of Tucson, my family owns an old mine that happens to have green garnets! They’re my favorite

[@paraglidingprospector]

Get outta here! That’s amazing! Would ya have Elley out for a tour?! 👏🏻

[@dduke2368]

Do you give tours by chance? I'm in tucson area myself and would LOVE LOVE LOVE to come see those green garnets!!!!

[@daelyn263]

@@dduke2368 that’s what I was thinking too!

[@brendaschindler596]

I would love to see that!!

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

That’s awesome. I bet you have a lot of fun hunting for them.

[@sbruce899]

I really like it when you describe how the rock was formed, something other channels don't do. I also can then impress my geologist daughter by talking to her in her geo language. Thank you

[@HighrSelf]

4:09 "So this is the ground"! Only chuckling.😂 Being physically disabled I totally enjoy this Channel as well other outdoor adventure content as well. Thanks Elley!!!!❤

[@paraglidingprospector]

Garnet is also used to cut super thick sheets of metal, such as steel. It’s a great alternative for plasma cutting, but very expensive. I once worked at a shop where they had a giant 10x20 CNC water jet with high-pressure water, mixed with garnet sand, which was then fired through a ruby nozzle (because apparently ruby is stronger than garnet). The machine could cut through 4 inches of steel like it was butter. The ruby nozzle needed to be replaced regularly and most of the garnet was captured in the water bed and recycled through the machine. Stand back and wear eye protection around those machines because you’ll get blasted by garnet sand while it’s in operation. Would be cool to see you tour a machine shop to cover the journey of industrial garnet! Thanks for taking us on another great adventure Elley!✌🏼

[@janjohannessmith7033]

Wow sir! This kinds of details appreciate in the comments and your experience in life I can't wait to read your comment to my 80 year old retired machinist civil service and army veteran

[@paraglidingprospector]

@@janjohannessmith7033 Thanks for the feedback! I’ll bet your gramps has got some great stories to tell about his years of machining! I’m always fascinated by the precision machining companies which have come and gone over the years, such as The Illinois Watch Company, which later rebranded as Elgin American Manufacturing. They were founded in the late 1800’s and were known for making watchcases, buttons, lockets and more. During WWII, they had to pause all civil manufacturing and instead made stuff for the military. (Specifically notable regarding rocks and Elley): The Elgin American Company manufactured sapphire bearings for use in aiming cannons! Check out Elgin American cigarette/lighter case combos if you want to see some wonderful metal work and fine-machining too! ❤️‍🔥 Talk about craftsmanship and elegance! Garnets are used to cut steel. Rubies: used for water-jet / cutting steel. Sapphires are used to aim cannons! And all that metal and semi-precious stone was mined with the help of geologists like Elley! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Also, shout out to your Grandpa. If he’s anything like my grandpa (hardy, tough, and well-weathered too), then he’s surely got some great stories to tell! 🫡✌🏼

[@tbenedict6335]

Love to go after some gem quality ones. Idaho Montana have them i just havent looked for them lol

[@nickp.2432]

Meteorites as well.

[@sandmaker]

1. Best directions ever. 2. You actually found some. 3. It was easy pickins 4. You educated us as always. Thanks for taking us along on your adventure and I'm glad the jeep is fixed and you brought a few tools along. Have fun, be safe and stay healthy!❤ 😷⚒

[@seanyancy1809]

Love the green jeep and the red dyed hair.

[@jamesblake7338]

Lord it! I live in North Carolina and we have some pretty nice garnet hunting here , plus other cool minerals. If u ever get to this side of the country I’d love to hunt with you guys! ❤from the east side!

[@WarrenBaker-j9p]

Elley fascinating adventure marvelous video content enjoy your enthusiasm thank you for sharing

[@carltuckerson7718]

Such a cute channel. I'm also jealous because I'm an inside geologist that grew up in the desert and never get to go anymore. Haha. But in all seriousness, I enjoy the content!

[@carltuckerson7718]

Also, there are garnets in the Casner Marble in the Franklin mountains. I'm sure you already know that. But they are pretty cool because they're found in discreet bedding layers.

[@danwalstrom2210]

Just 3.5 miles east on 40 is Franconia Rd. and 8 or 9 miles up the road there are fine gold found in the washes and lots of small garnets. I picked out half a bottle full as they were clogging up my recirculating sluice box. Love learning from you!

[@ConsciousConversations]

I have, hundreds of times, just wandered off into the desert and just played in the dirt for hours.. quite similar to this❤❤❤❤

[@davec9244]

ALMOST to the Bunker bar, jest up the road a peace. Rocks go with beer, at less that's how I see it. Thank you ALL stay safe!

[@macmcabee328]

Absolutely amazing. I have seen a couple of your videos in the past. I must say I have become a fan and am subscribing. I would like to see what those particular garnets look like polished. And let me say that although I polish all kinds of rocks with my machines, there is nothing wrong with letting a tumbler do its thing while you are doing something else. They are all beautiful. Thanks for this video. Mac

[@RichardAUstin-i7k]

Fairly easy to find locality with your description. The pole with the switch is the key. Just recommend January rather than August but I was already in the area. Thanks for sharing the location. Love your content.

[@kimberlydlapp3441]

Found small ones in a white matrix in a wash between Quartzite and Phoenix I believe.

[@ssteele1812]

In a wash between Quartzsite and Phoenix? That's 129 miles. Could you possibly be more specific?

[@kimberlydlapp3441]

@@ssteele1812 my apologies, I just mentioned it because garnets are all over Arizona apparently. I found them before GPS was a thing, 1997.

[@avionfr]

Green Garnet on wah wah mountain Utah...my next expedition 😊😊

[@haze19931]

Excited to see them tumbled!! Please share, when completed 💜

[@karlbarros2849]

Use them for cheap grit in the tumbler. Not the best grit but great on softer stones.

[@joeoutabout2947]

You should plan a trip to Garnet Hill outside of Ely, Nevada.

[@karenjones7111]

I love tumbling. I also cut and polish. Love Love Garnets and your videos. I learn something from every video I watch. ✌❤

[@carolyndixon7263]

Love garnets! They are so interesting with all their sides and sparkles!

[@JoanieBC]

This was so fun! What a gemologist would consider worthy of keeping and what I would consider worth keeping are pretty far apart, which means I'd love each of those specimens like they were my own babies.

[@jeytex3161]

Hope you will do a short and show us the tumbled product.

[@scottschenk5456]

Thanks!

[@jannevik4253]

Thank you. New fan❤ Love from Norway ❤❤❤

[@seanh28]

Wow! I totally want to go here now.

[@paulblack1799]

Hey hey, Elley. I was there with the Quartzsite rock club a few months ago. I hope we left some for you. 😊

[@stephaniebehrens7317]

Thanks for sharing your info. ❤

[@StevenMilliken-m8s]

You could have told me!❤😂

[@tarahrebollo1119]

We love your videos!!!

[@jimmiesavage437]

that's right about the border of chemehuevi valley

[@reednelson490]

Your glasses match your Jeep 😊

[@stevenspain6850]

You rock no point intended

[@ronrehkopf2664]

I live in Kingman cool rock's everywhere. I took a drive between Kingman and Oatman found cool stuff everywhere. Next week I'm going to Havasu for a little rock digging.

[@humbledbyHisgrace]

Do you know Jack Norton on 66 between Kingman and cool springs? Great guy, has a few fire agate claims he'll take ya out on for a small fee.

[@drobertsmithjewelry]

You might want to grind a bit on some of those, to see if there’s asterism. They could star possibly.

[@toddeftsadams5909]

Have you found Meteorites in franconi wash? I get Garnets in my con's over at the Havasu Gold Seekers claims.

[@henrymuzgay1023]

elley love the hat great stile

[@rachelramonedonlan8697]

I love this so much

[@stevenspain6850]

Garnet is my birthstone

[@dawgfather6345]

Just took the wife and daughter to that spot, and we got 3 buckets full of garnets just from surface picking. Thanks for the video!!

[@stevenspain6850]

My color as well all color green

[@charlesurrea1451]

The garnets were so bad Northeast of Tucson that I had to put a lard board before my sluice box. I was getting nothing larger than a a pea but they were all nice red and good clarity

[@steveperson167]

They use crushed garnet for enhanced erosion cutting

[@7teven8onn]

I was just there last week.

[@maryseeker7590]

Can these be polished or cut? What is everyone doing with your finds?

[@Brixbury]

Novice question: why would it be bad to tumble though?

[@triple_A_rockhound]

🤔 red garnets hardness 6.5 to 7.5 hense y there heavy 👍

[@gregwiesneth3137]

Please share after tumbled!

[@chasecarlson4900]

Aren’t color change blue garnet the most rare? Andradite and grossular have green varieties and I heard blue garnet cannot be found anymore

[@_TONY_Az]

Hi newbie for you i live on az garnet is my birth stone

[@jimmiesavage437]

Positive that's tribal land

[@roseapple8786]

🥰👍👍👍👍👍

[@njanderson4342]

That could be trucked in road fill.

[@dannyr.edwards4721]

I can see why some to miss ......

[@deacargile1055]

I can see my house in the background

[@tedanderson463]

Hey Elley......

[@billywhitehorn6397]

now take some to tumble and polish so we can see the results

[@greedygringoprospecting6941]

kind of like a extrusive. rock.

[@karlbarros2849]

Did Dan really take your screwdriver?

[@dannyr.edwards4721]

Cherish???

[@dannyr.edwards4721]

Shure.... long,aswe share???? I'd, know???

[@markgarin6355]

Need some ant guides....

[@jaredmeeks4491]

So is this a pseudomorph???

[@dannyr.edwards4721]

Don't, wiggle out ??? W.t.h.