Gemstones in the River Just Waiting to be Found!!

A select few Vermont streams contain precious minerals, on this adventure we're after the Vermont State Gemstone!
Original music by Brad Martin
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[@GMMD]

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[@kimberlyclark4508]

This looks like a blast for yourself and Chris! With the temps, the perfect Brad adventure! Thanks for bringing us along, I certainly enjoyed it!! Be safe!🐸

[@triggermancustoms1670]

Y does Chris look like Post Malone

[@bethbartlett5692]

I look forward to visiting Vermont. '!!!" Please share after Tumbler. Thanks! Tennessee, USA

[@wendyalza6544]

Dónde están los diamantes y esmeraldas o algún rubí?

[@pattimessenger6214]

Bigger garnets may not fit through the holes of your classifier. Rather than throwing the rocks aside, if you flip the classifier upside down carefully and examine the heavies that had been on the bottom, but when flipped over are on the top, you may find some big garnets.

[@sissinoklahoma2057]

Brad, I know you have protection, but I'm always so glad when you have a trail bud with you. So glad you and Chris have reconnected since he moved back. Best wishes to y'all.

[@deborahhatch1856]

I am really enjoying the variety of your videos and the joy you find in all of them.

[@petalpusher]

I found a few last week while rock picking along the Mad River, but had no idea they were garnets. Thank you for this most timely post!

[@dwatson4]

In case you don’t know, Mercury is everywhere. I coats gold and makes it look silver. If you get a piece of gold with mercury on it and put it in your bottle it will quickly cover all the other gold. The only way to get it off is to heat the gold until the mercury evaporates around 400f. Do it outside, don’t stand downwind. Just keep an eye out for stuff in your pan that acts like gold but looks silver.

[@kimstone7287]

@uncletigger Mercury is a naturally-occurring chemical element found in rock in the earth's crust.

[@keithfagan5424]

Try to find a curve in the stream, dig at the outside bend of the curve, that will give you the best chance of finds, that's why the old timers would call it "High Banking"

[@brycem9180]

Yes it’s inside bend and dig into the bank!

[@vtpower123]

@@brycem9180 you can be fined digging into the bank

[@steveclark4291]

Thank you for the adventure and seeing some amazing finds ! Take care , stay safe and healthy wherever your next adventure takes you ! Doing well here in Kansas .

[@erikcomstock7359]

Glad you have made it back up this way! Love to go out with you guys again sometime!

[@jamiconroy7841]

I live in central Arizona..... and the sound of the stream running just makes my mouth water.... haven't had any rain in over a month.... the water you have there itself is such a treasure....... nice....so very nice..... thanks....

[@kellyhawes8901]

Had an old boyfriend bring me back a piece of granite from Greenland that was studded with garnets. Cool finds all over the world. Garnets are 7.0 on the Mohs scale and were used along as an abrasive grinding agent.

[@richardwarnock2789]

Them Garnets were big hey some gold too!!! Not to shabby!!!; )

[@bestgrams3951]

How fun is that! Love hearing the joy in your voice and the seeing your infectious smile. So happy you found some treasures. You will have to bring your boy out to enjoy this type of adventure too. Lots of fun memories with the children, and lots of excitement for show and tell day with the findings at school. Thanks for sharing :)

[@inhishonorinfinityx3961]

Wld be so beautiful, peacefully fun to live there. What a beautiful treasure of nature!

[@zw5509]

Nice dig in a beautiful location. Interestingly, Si-Finds and other Thames mudlarks find mysterious garnets on the foreshore. No one knows where their source is. Si and others use them in crafts.

[@fiberotter]

I got my garnets from Simon and had them set in a ring and pendant.

[@Steve-Pitt]

Counting down the days to Autumn and prime relic hunting season!

[@Snarkapotamus]

Yes! That, and I'm waiting for it to rain a little. The ground's so stinkin' hard that you need a jackhammer just to get a hole started...

[@kayesdigginit1519]

Bring on the cooler temperatures please Lord. I'm so sick of this heat already 😰

[@joebrown1382]

Amazing how they're all shaped like that with many facets. Looks like a lot of fun wish I was there.

[@danielburgess7785]

My maternal grandmother's given name was Garnet. She had a whim of iron and clearly recalled her grandfather getting together with his comrades, drinking Pennsylvania whisky, and telling horror stories of the War of Southern rebellion as she hid behind the entry staircase. Yeah, I'm kinda old these days myself.

[@BrendaHoward411]

I really enjoy you and Scott. Both of you have a calm, kinda boyish personalities and fun to watch. Keep up the searchin’’

[@wagr9824]

Brad, thank you for taking us along on another great adventure. Keep up the great work, we definitely appreciate it.

[@donazzopardi8747]

I have never seen your hands so clean LOL!

[@daleneff89]

Ha, thought the same thing.

[@iamrichrocker]

you and your mates are all charismatic...smiles and good vibes abound..uplifting from the incessant pandemic bummer struggles..thanks Brad..

[@johndodson4527]

Staying cool anyway.as always.dig.thanks for your efforts.

[@carolcrain6839]

Love the video! Garnets come in different colors too!!

[@jlocey87]

Here in Maine, an old quartz quarry (100 yrs closed now) has a nice spot for garnets. Side of rocks are pink when wet. I have at least a dozen nice size garnets that I popped out. Mt apatite it's called great video guys. I love the adventure.. 👍😷👍

[@asheyeakin545]

That glassy piece Chris had at the end looked like some beautiful smoky quartz.

[@NathanHassall]

after watching this I got super inspired and went into the river near my house with a bucket and spent a couple hours scooping out mud and rocks sifting it with screens hoping to find garnets...what I noticed when I came back to shore was my legs were covered in leeches! Im not talking about 2 or 3 leeches...i mean I had around 30 giant blood sucking leeches deeply attached to me...I won't lie my voice is pretty high pitched even during my most masculine times and I let out this scream of terror quickly attracting a group of people who were presumably there to save me. Then a 14 year old boy imitated my scream and laughed at me...needless to say I found no garnets and contracted erysipelas from the leeches. Cool video though! Cheers!

[@NathanHassall]

@Anonymous Anonymous Thank you for the tip my friend :) When I find a nugget Im taking us out to Dairy Queen ..my treat!

[@kayesdigginit1519]

Great time out for the both of you ☺👍

[@GilAcee]

I have treasure hunting in my genes. Love your videos. Every Friday is a day to look forward to Brad! Thanks for all the work that goes into this!!!

[@wadehendryx7378]

Thank you. Beautiful area. Very relaxing. I really like your friend Chris. Seems to be real easy going. Nice finds. Hope you and yours are doing well. Stay safe. Enjoy life.

[@Carolbearce]

Very cool to be able to find garnets in your creeks. Love watching your adventures.

[@peedeesanddigger4862]

Great finds, thanks for sharing.

[@donallen2752]

I was born and raised in CA. Live in NH now. I did a lot of gold panning. I'd bring a very small paintbrush with me. It picks those finer pieces of gold right out of the pan, then just touch it to the top of the water in your vial and it falls right in.

[@MikeMcInroe]

Thanks for posting another awesome northern adventure Brad. Enjoy the warm while you can my friend! Mike in wet and sunny Florida

[@pinecorey]

Enjoy just watching you guys hunt .❤👍❤

[@AgateAngler]

Awesome day out on the river. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@waxman68cards19]

What a beautiful way to spend the day!

[@2H80vids]

Loved the shots of the shovel, digging under the water - very cool.👍👌

[@rondaschmidt9641]

Always a pleasure watching your videos. Most relaxing time of my week...Hi Chris!

[@marknowak6683]

I live in Vermont, and I found a garnet the size of a gumball in my driveway this summer.itss good quality as light shines through it.

[@bethbartlett5692]

That is too neat! Vermont, 1 of 7 states I have yet to visit. (Vermont, New Hampshire, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Hawaii) I've had options to visit the latter 2, but sent a younger Peer, so I could go to Philly. But Vermont and New Hampshire, then Washington and and Idaho I must get to these. Vermont is up next. I'm so charged. Fall 2021

[@NeonCicada]

VT has a ton of almandine garnet in mica/chlorite schist. They even come in different colours, depending on which area they came from.

[@laroyreidel7734]

U R A MASTER OF SHOWING PEOPLE HOW TO ! Thank U .

[@mick_1949]

Very cool guys. 👍

[@UncleBob369]

Awesome adventure guy's!

[@memorylaine]

Always enjoy! Yay

[@packratqueen]

Yee haw!! Another segment!!! Looks good👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@rikspector]

Thank you guys, that was fun. Can a garnet that small be attached to a dop stick for polishing, or maybe a cluster of three or four , that might work. Cheers, Rik Spector

[@daianmata5945]

I love GARNETS! All colors.

[@steveclark4291]

I wouldn't mind having a few of those Garnets for my collection of gems and some beautiful stones ! I use to try make jewelry but gave it up because of the cost of the equipment that I would need ! Thank you again for the adventure and seeing some amazing finds !

[@coloringwithd]

This was fun, I liked watching you and your friend panning. I have a garnet ring with at 7^ Garnet that a friend of my mom's found and had it made for my graduation present. It is such a beautiful stone. Thank you for sharing ♥♥♥

[@DigginWithDeej]

Looked like tons of fun

[@kathylincoln8917]

You're searching for my birth stone as well... Broken, whole, little or hugh..They have their own beauty.. Awesome video

[@RelicHuntingSouthTexas]

Looks like so much fun! Great video:)

[@RemoraTrading]

Good one! My wife and I used to prospect Vermont and with fairly decent success in fact when the market crashed back in '08 we were broke! No work, no nothing! we took up prospecting in Vermont while we lived in Albany NY, it is true, you will not get rich digging gold in Vermont! But if you know where to look and how to look you can find some pretty decent gold. Garnet is my birth stone as well and we found millions of them! Most are not clear and not really gem quality but some are! Out of the ground they are about 10 bucks a carat but clear ones faceted can get some pretty good money! Garnets are are for the most part fairly round which means that the will roll along the stream bottom. Being that they are fairly heavy they follow the gold. The gold there is in flake form and will fall out of the water flow pretty quick the Garnets will roll farther. So when you find a bunch of them in an area start heading up stream looking for larger rocks. Upstream and downstream of them start at one side of the creek dig down a couple of feet and go right across the stream looking for the gold line and how deep it is from there just follow that line of gold until it runs out or gets better. There is a lot of overburden in those creeks and you can find more then one gold line at different depths. If you look up "Ask Jeff Williams" on youtube he has a video of a stream that he made up and dumped a bunch of gold in to see where the gold would settle out, the results were very interesting! Good luck out there!

[@michaelguinn5736]

Hey Brad, great video, Garnett is my Wife's Birthstone too, your video was a pleasant watch in regards to all of the garbage going on in this Great Country.

[@WeDigIt]

That is a lot of work! Great episode, have a great weekend!

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Brad & Chris, wow congrats you guys, you found some pretty awesome Garnets between you. I would love to see a follow up video of after the tumbling/polishing phase to see how they came out. Thanks for sharing your day, much love. xx💖

[@dogmosatchmo]

Brad is very respectful. One of the many reasons I'm a fan.

[@wildbutterflytiedye]

*I love Garnets! It's my birthstone too. My first(and favorite) piece of jewelry was a 14 kt gold ring with a Garnet gemstone.* 😍💖

[@802OutdoorAdventures]

When you are ready Brad ole buddy we will take ride a little further north and get you some bigger garnets, with a side of gold of course.

[@debbrabossier7284]

Congrats on your finds.

[@elgato1013]

Just added this great video on the FB site I run “ Metal Detecting Massachusetts “. Great job!!

[@runwillrobinson]

Very nice video today! Thank you. I usually feel like washing my hands after watching you dig up treasure, but not today.

[@ericcorse]

A great video takes me back >50 years playin the the cricks in the southern tier of NY

[@coloradoprospecting1034]

right on right on cool video

[@paulmullins160]

Your vids are very soothing

[@fairyGrandmother]

Well that was fun! Thanks for taking me with you! TFS Hugs!

[@nanlee1960]

Did some panning when I lived in Colorado... Glad to know I'm not only one who gets so excited about the garnets lol

[@tinman9263]

I have gold dredged the buffalo brook long before it was outlawed. I found lots of gold as well as garnets and spinal crystals. Magnetite and hemitght!!

[@yankeetimeline]

Great video! I'm a prospector and Lapidary artist in Tennessee. Those Garnet are some time " gemmy" because they cooled quicker. The slower they cool the grainier and cloudier they will be.

[@McChrister]

J S Do you watch “meMiner”?

[@brycem9180]

I prospect all the time Brad. Pick an inside bend and dig into the bank. Sometimes even higher up the hill out of the water. As others have said bed rock cracks are excellent since they trap gold. You have to discover where the old river channels once were. love the channel and great job! I have watched your channel since the beginning!

[@keithnorris803]

The "glass" that was found could likely be Rhodolite Garnet, commonly found (in NC, at least) alongside Garnet. Also, the cloudiness seen in gemstones is referred to as inclusions. Happy hunting, guys!

[@fiberotter]

Garnets are my birthstone also. I just had a ring made of Thames garnets and a bright blue star sapphire I have had for decades.

[@daleneff89]

Man, that was nothing but fun. Thanks. It is in the blood. All about the hunt.

[@marktompkinstreasurehunter4363]

It looks like the two of you had a great day. I hope to get up that way and try my luck someday. GL&HH.

[@johnbeasant7475]

We find garners and sapphires in sandy rivers here in Australia specially sandy river banks

[@johnbeasant7475]

That should read garnets lol

[@Laura-vv6cf]

Northern Mudlarkers, a beautiful inside and out mother daughter from Scotland had a video on Sunday searching gemstones. Alex, the daughter, cast a ring using some of the gems she found. Really a great channel. Please check it out.

[@jimconnell8994]

Lovely mother and daughter who make some interesting videos 👍

[@RunningGrass-we7tm]

Yea I saw that too

[@joanneturnbull5640]

RUBY BAY💗

[@ryders_mom]

I love their channel, too! They find the greatest things, and they live in an amazingly beautiful part of the world.

[@Snarkapotamus]

They along with Si-Finds and Nicola White @ Tideline Art are all interesting UK channels...

[@deeurban4098]

Thank you Brad! Been watch you for a minute! Love love love your videos!!! Your eye for video/photography is spot on! The things you find are so cool and interestingl! And... Helllloooo Chris! What's this? You're 4th video with him?

[@McChrister]

I love the way you guys are dressed looking for gold and garnets...Just in your regular clothes and shoes...Not even rubber boots or a wetsuit? LoL...😂 As long as you are having fun! 😊 Great video guys, with some nice finds! HH and GL on your next adventure...Blessings send from Canada 🙏🏼🍀♥️👋🏼🇨🇦 Btw, watch “Pioneer Pauly” videos when it comes to looking for gold...He does pretty well for himself!🙌🏼

[@ArcLightLifeLove]

I love garnets ♦️

[@rogerdempsey7227]

Awesome day.

[@e.fifield9034]

sometimes you can find garnets in a black slate like stones ,used to find them all the time before they got into the rivers

[@rossetheredge4098]

Great substitute for a day of metal detecting! I’d love to give that a try one day. To bad Florida doesn’t have any gold!

[@RiverDocs]

cool video. I enjoyed it.

[@woodsweezell7596]

I have been there. We did get some gold until the skys opened up and drenched us. Good job.

[@121dough]

Garnets were one of the first gemstones ever fashioned into jewelry. I still think they're beautiful. Have a display piece of N. Carolina Schist w/ Garnets spread across the whole face of it. I have so many different specimens but that is still my favorite. Even beats the ruby and emeralds from the Carolinas.

[@AcrossthePlains]

Digging in that creek with your jeans on is killing me Brad lol

[@michaelpetersen6721]

Here in Oregon we have lots of rivers and streams. Lots of old homesteads up in the Oregon Cascades. The diversity rocks !!!

[@namritannbung6412]

Interesting video.

[@robertforrest7956]

Now that you've got the gemstones, all you need is to cut and polish them. Lol😂 one of my old hobbies. There are many types of Garnets too. My favs are Rhodolite garnets.

[@CoinandRelicOntario]

Look like Almandine garnets your finding there Brad, some nice faces on some crystals as well. Looked like a fun day!

[@bettym.6766]

They pull garnets out of the Thames in London.

[@sandischmidt5028]

I would’ve loved to be at the river panning with you guys!

[@ronniecardy]

Nice information on how to pan for such gems and gold

[@Kellijoy1213]

That was different!!!😀

[@briantremblay9157]

You boys need to build your self a tamarack to find your gems. Vary easy to make and cheap! But 100% is the best way to pan for gems. There is even a chance at Dimond! Cheers gents from BC Canada.

[@lisasspott6884]

I can see you making green mountain jewelry with your garnets.

[@maxsands3861]

Nice video Brad and congrats on reaching 80k subs, your vids have great content!

[@sharonbartlett4307]

I used to find garnets while I was looking for arrow heads here in Arkansas.

[@SmallWonda]

Glad you found a few garnets - hard work with all that overburden - guess it helps to find areas with bedrock, if possible then search the crevices...?! Beautiful spot to spend a few hours.

[@dalerash6285]

The closer you get to bedrock or hard clay, the better the gold. For already exposed bedrock, check the cracks and crevices.

[@NeonCicada]

I thought it was illegal to dig up the river beds in VT for panning like that