In search of LARGE GEMMY Garnets!

My new friends Celeste and Evan took me out to their secret garnet site to see if we could find some nice large gemmy garnets. Come join us on the adventure and see what amazing gemstone finds we recovered. _______________
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[@timsimons3918]

I cannot thank this channel enough, you guys are the reason I was able to become a geologist and I’m so happy you guys are still posting

[@werbly]

I know it's quite a gold focused channel, but I personally always preferred the gem videos.

[@EnergyTRE]

he does good mixing them up but agreed.

[@eugeniaq8875]

Me, too!

[@FISHUNTREECOUNTRY]

I fourth that notion. Garnet, Topaz, Corrundum and Spinel me all day.

[@amberandrews6842]

The people who prefer gold videos, think he spends too much time on gems, and pretty rocks. Personally I love pretty rocks. Dan does an amazing job of showing us variety!

[@EnergyTRE]

@@amberandrews6842 that's why i like the way he does it already. 👍🏼 mixing it up. if it isn't broken dont fix it

[@CitricAciid]

The amount of good-natured envy I have for what you get to do is great. My favorite piece in my collection is a garnet in matrix. Thank you for letting me live vicariously.

[@vasuirian]

I used to collect garnets as a kid on my summer trips to the North Carolina (Appalachia) mountains. Always a good time but of course I was never as careful extracting them with claw hammers and the like. After going through a lot of geology videos and lectures I find it fascinating how very similar rocks can occur on the other side of the continent and now I know they've formed in very similar ways only millions of years apart. Its crazy to me learning that these rocks initially formed on the ocean floor and metamorphosed before being exposed millions of years later. Awesome stuff Dan, love your channel.

[@johnstuart8511]

Dan: You sure know how to get subscribers. You have that magic touch. "Introducing is a masterpiece" And Dayna just adds the magic more. ( Loving the connection ). You rock my world Dan. Regards South Africa 🇿🇦.

[@chuckster6513]

Hey Dan, After seeing that beach that was just covered with Garnets, I figured they were all small and easy to remove from the host material. Now you show me what mother nature had to of done with some of her gems over years of tumblin, crushing or grinding. Simply fascinating ! Thanks Dan. Take Care

[@TylerDollarhide]

I still love the super high quality garnet paydirt that I got from you recently. I used them in a ring for my dad for Christmas and he loved it. I tagged you on Instagram on the post with photos of the ring and of just the garnets. Those tiny garnets that you pan for are perfect for inlay rings. If they were bigger, like the ones in this video, I would have to crush them, which would introduce microfractures in the smaller pieces.

[@Dhuffman96]

Black crystals are hornblende most likely. Love the channel. Been following along since 2021 thanks for all the education and sparking an interest in a great hobby of rock hounding and gold panning.

[@rambozo_fpv176]

2:35 Love those schisty rocks!

[@nopelindoputraperkasa5869]

Very good find,, very exciting to see your adventures, Good job 👌👍⚒️⛏️👏

[@radioactivebirbchild]

11:10 this is one of the rare times the term "boys will be boys" is used correctly. Lovely video as always Dan!

[@PausePlaySoundTherapy420]

That was a great day Dan! Loved the fact we got to really chat in the truck for the long trip. Hope your truck is ok! We almost lost 4 wheel drive right at the most crucial spot. Glad it worked out and we made it in and out no problem ❤❤ and to finish the day at the hot tubs was a real treat. Nothing like fresh and hot spring water! 🤩

[@ChadOfTheChad]

I’m so jealous! You get to find gemstones while that gorgeous view is right in your sight. Love from Norway! 🇳🇴❤

[@jt7783]

I enjoy your channel so much! Your enthusiasm for what you do makes watching your adventures so fun. The garnets are beautiful. Makes me want to go walk around the mountains to see what I can find.

[@chrisbocker2255]

Great video, I love your steel toed safety slippers. I need a pair of those.

[@amberandrews6842]

Nice I have some very similar chairs! 😂😂 Thank You for the wonderful video, I love the scenery, I love Pretty Rocks, I love your sense of humor.

[@WaltHaas]

GREAT VIDEO Dan love watching your channel whether it's gold or gems. TREASURES IS TREASURES here in Michigan I to recreational gold prospect (they call me the 70 year old prospector), rockhound an metal detect. Cuz TREASURES is TREASURES an there's gold to be found in them there creeks 😊

[@green-stone-designs3390]

19:07 use iron out! Works beautifully

[@YOUTUBECOUCHSURFER88]

Lovin some of your soundtracks these day's. Never a dull moment... Hello from Ontario!

[@travispaquette7018]

Thanks for the upload dan hope you and your family are doing well always love watching your videos

[@BenjaminEsposti]

Dan, you ought to go out there sometime while it's dark, with a UV flashlight. Might help you spot the big garnets!

[@davidlewis9068]

Awesome gems. And the scenery rocks, too. My birthstone is Blue Saffire so I enjoy watching you find the gemstones a great deal. Garnets are awesome, too.

[@debcamp2359]

Thx for taking us on your adventures.

[@zenflow4life]

I love garnet hunting ❤ There is a little sweet spot not far from me and they are everywhere 🎉 there is a boulder about half the size of car that is full of them too ❤😮

[@MarcoAntonioNieto]

Hi Dan! It was a pleasure to meet you at AME Round Up. I wish you success in your endeavours.

[@Danhurd]

Glad to meet you too

[@JulieGarrett-w2t]

There's never a dull moment when You are around Dan!! I absolutely love to watch all of your videos!!🪨💎✨💖

[@greatitbroke]

Beautiful stone Dan keep up the great work bud. Love what your doing.

[@smb5655]

Dan I think if you alter the frequency of the vibration you can alter the vibrational frequency through the water to change and alter the speed in which the vibration is goes to the water. it will alter the pattern in which you process your material. a simple dimmer switch in line with your machine should work

[@joesutherland225]

My favorite valley along with a few others but this one kicked off my love for rocks.

[@williamogilvie6909]

I like those big, gemmy red garnets. When I was growing up, in a small town outside of Montréal, there was a large glacial erratic sitting next to a road close to our house. It was studded with garnets. I sometimes wonder what happened to that rock. Did it get blasted apart, or is it still sitting beside the road?

[@joelbrim4jesus]

This episode was the schist! ….what?…… As always, Dan is so much fun and I learn something amazing every time. Thanks so much!

[@julieinthedesert420]

That pitch will become amber in a few thousand to millions of years. So it's kinda a gem, in transition. 😊

[@RedHotMessResell]

That’s what I was thinking about!

[@Janer-52]

Love those garnets! Years ago when I found your channel, I went back and watched EVERY one of your videos, including all the first "smartphone" ones when your kids were small. I have great respect for the success you have worked so hard for, and will continue to watch. That being said, I refuse to be on social media, so I will never be able to see the results. Would you be willing to add a few stills at the end for an old curmudgeon like me? Thanks.

[@kelsey-prudhomme]

I liked seeing the process with the tumbler, you should show more of the lapidary side of things

[@jongordon6132]

So so gorgeous this place❤

[@thetinkerist]

yeah, that cleanup is the topping on the cake, great video thx

[@EddieSchirmer]

i was thinking it might be interesting if you could use an air- abrader machine to uncover the garnets by removing only the surrounding rock. is there a way to check the hardness of the garnets compared to the schist and choose an abrasive that would work? i would love to see that done, as here in vermont are tons of garnets too, i find them in the rocks in the local river here. once of which has garnets 3/4 inch and some may be larger.

[@JakeDanczyk]

Absolutely cracking up at putting on the lid. Thanks Dan.

[@michealklonowski5267]

yes to find gemstone or garnets that are gem quality is rare thank you for sharing the adventure and information

[@jfk64kennedy95]

6:45, the first big Garnet, holy cow, that thing is huge....that thing 15 carat + and if few inclusions, good color....worth a good sum, wow

[@frostypreppersk3593]

G'morning Dan! I miss Harrison lake! It's a beautiful place!

[@d.andysprospecting]

What a beautiful shot of harrison lake in the beginning !

[@martineastburn3679]

I know of an outcropping in OroGrande N.M. an volcanic upcropping that gold, silver, garnet, and other gem and metal was found. Even big mine trains on one side. The Granite was weathered and oh boy. Twin Feldspair and garnets galore. I have a tumbler just like that. I got it for my metal shop but it has ceramic shapes and grit now. The rocks came out well.

[@benmieg7778]

how cool would it be to drill a hole from the back trough the host-stone inside the gem and put a small LED inside so it glows. i would love to see that on my office desk or so !

[@patchvonbraun]

I remember back when I was 10 or so, found a 10mm-sized garnet in the rock-cut at the side of the road on our way back from the Bancroft Rock&Gem show. It was my prized possession for years....

[@Alondro77]

There are some very large garnets in Maryland. Unfortunately, most are heavily fractured from the numerous plate collisions and rifting events in the Appalachian region. I've found a number of these that were cherry-sized worn out into the gravels of small streams.

[@petepal55]

You should get yourself a Mohs hardness tester/kit, I'm surprised you don't already have one. You might also consider a vise with an anvil head, very handy as a working surface. I used to play with rocks doing lapidary and specimens, especially geodes, for a fleamarket stall. I needed everything to fit in a small area so I built some heavy tables using 6x8s right there in the stall. It was great being able to attach whatever gizmo I found to play with on the rocks w/o being concerned if the tables were strong enough.

[@brucedymock6635]

Fantastic thanks

[@sc-gy3te]

We have a red sand beach , on the lake I live beside, that I have been told are millions of tiny garnets

[@zagrososhkosh6105]

Lol love the video Dan, you've got some big garnets there, looks awesome.

[@josephcormier5974]

Excellent video awesome content thank you for sharing this six stars

[@armandbourque2468]

Would a set of stone chisels and a masonry chisel be of use? M chisel is made to split stuff, and the point and rake chisels are good for digging stuff out.

[@ryanfriars545]

Pick up some old conveyor belting for your shop floor. It works great to beat the rocks on too. Save your concrete floor.

[@jacobwilson6296]

Just as a bit of advice for your sanity. A small sand blaster (for glass etching) is great for cleaning those up. Hope that helps.

[@CedarStoneCreations]

Need to get out and find some garnets in the Black Hills, though there probably won’t be any this big. Really cool stuff, thanks for sharing!

[@joeandsueoffgrid]

Love you’re enthusiasm

[@Olgierd185]

Gretting from Poland, You are great!

[@firefirefire.3956]

I filled coffee cans full of garnets with a small pocket knife as a kid in Westchester County NY. Mica outrcropping as well, made death frisbees.

[@kevinreno8436]

You can find large garnets in shist at the Sedalia Copper Mine outsidevSalid, Colorado. I have a sphere made of one.

[@levvy001]

14:24 those sandals... are the schist.

[@susanturcotte3176]

Oh Dan! My beautiful birthstone! I love that you are going to leave some as specimens. I think that would be amazing because the whole "history" of the garnet forming is right there to see. I do have one question though. How hard is a garnet in comparison to other gems (not diamonds, of course)? As I watched you hammering and chipping the bigger rocks, I wondered about damage to those. Thanks for sharing and great to see a smile on your face. 😁 By the way, during the "rock bowling competition," I couldn't pick up a big one just like you. Your bowling 'boulder' was exactly what I would have picked! 😂😎 Warmth and blessings from Alabama ❤️

[@copaley3796]

Garnets are comparable in hardness to a runner-up to diamonds. Industrial uses for garnets are cutting, polishing materials or things like large scale sand blasting as the healthy, harder replacement for silica.

[@andreamichellelopez5600]

Aye take it easy 😂we have the sock thing in common. 😂 I keep my 🪔PAN in My VAN 🙏🏼😍Cali Life☘️👋🏼

[@kaboom4679]

Id guess tourmaline on those black crystals , but could be staurolite or a dozen other minerals . The pinolite chips are a nice solution for a buffer . If you didn't have any a few big handfuls of marble chips would work just as well . Almandine garnets have a ridiculous amount of iron in them and tend to weather quite quickly , literally rusting away and staining the rocks . I have seen plenty of rocks with the tell tale garnet shaped holes , after the garnets weathered away . It's common with pyrite as well . For those in the Southeast US , the area around the Copper Basin in Southeastern TN , has some fantastic examples of schist riddled with cubic holes left by the pyrite weathering away . These are very pronounced in the bed of the Ocoee River and the patterns are very striking . The old copper mines are long gone , but there is a pretty good museum in Ducktown , which is worth a visit if you are in the area . The Ocoee also has some nice white water for those that like rafting or kayaking . Banjos are optional .

[@rogergriffin9893]

So Dan, where exactly is this spot?! Ha ha ha. When I lived in Idaho near the Bitterroots, I knew of some springs that had exceptionally large garnets that were totally loose not trapped in rock at all.

[@julieinthedesert420]

Also, being a January baby, I love me some Garnets! Thanks, Dan! ❤❤

[@susanturcotte3176]

Happy Birthday, Julie! Mine was the 14th, so I love garnets!

[@julieinthedesert420]

@susanturcotte3176 happiest Birthday to your as well. Mine was on the 3rd. 🎊🎉🎈🎁🍰🥂🕯🥳🎂

[@jcsky9168]

Hey Dan!! Love your videos! Always dreamed to go out to places like where you live and find gems and gold. Have you ever found hematite? It's my favorite. I would love to know how to find that.

[@bigbird2451]

Rolling big rocks down hills is called trundling. I've heard tale of a half day of digging and a large fir tree turned to tooth picks.

[@richardwilliamswilliams]

Good morning from Copperhill Tn.

[@LauraWilsonExists]

Call me a weirdo but a perfect day would be getting to tag along and find cool rocks with Dan Hurd.

[@copaley3796]

that is what i said too when i first found his channel...fast forward and heres my wish come true! He is awesome 2 go rockhounding with...😊

[@artfact2]

Goldpanning videos are cool, but I *love* gemstone video!

[@IPWCsInTheory]

Hey Dan, Im from Michigan and Im wondering if youve ever heard of our state stone, the Petoskey Stone? its a fossilized coral but idk much more about it than that. Ive read that it can be used as a gemstone. Curious if youre interested in finding someone in michigan with some land that has some petoskey on it and coming here to film a video. Id be super excited to see a video about our state stone.

[@Fir3Ba77]

The black ones are amphibol crystals. They cross in 60° / 120° increments and thats how to identify them in the field

[@ghostprepper5859]

1.25 million viewers and only 5k likes? @DanHurd they have to hit that like button you're too good of a teacher too not get you're video's out there! Question ⁉️ Can we make a gold hunting/gem hunting game for us disabled people so we can have fun too? Disabled railroad engineer here! I would love to bring my two grandsons up there this summer. I told them you said we could find Gold on the Frasier river. Besides i want to visit Canada and bring my teen grandsons up not just for the Gold but the absolute beauty and we can make it very educational

[@terrminatoragain461]

Beautiful garnets Dan

[@zachcarney3910]

Always great to get content from Dan. If not subscribed I highly recommend!

[@1944chevytruck]

Awesome!

[@mikeconnery4652]

Nice video😊

[@darntootin6423]

I call my broken garnets the Darnit Garnets. Another great video Dan.

[@rikspector]

Dan, You couldn't say it, but I'll be careful) That's a lot of Schist... hehehheheh the devil made me say that! Cheers, Rik Spector

[@michealklonowski5267]

that chair pails in comparison to others. lol😂😂😂😂

[@cptnkaos5994]

those garnets were amazing Dan

[@gnomespace]

Yeah, boys and rocks. I hucked a round one at a flat one one day back in the day. It pretty much exploded, and I still have a small chunk of rock in my chin. First day of 3 week camping trip, so naturally mom freaked out. Good times.

[@tobiasfrey2793]

5:24 - Could it be Kornerupine or Prismatine? From what I could see it could of course also be Tourmaline, but I know a location somewhat close-by where I live where you can find garnets that also offers Prismatine, which looks a lot like what you've found there. I know that for those minerals, there's only few areas known if the world where you can find it but it really does look a lot like Prismatine, also because that can be found mainly in granulite, which is the host rock of the garnets you found (at least of the ones that weren't in schist).

[@OpenSpaceWellness]

Very pretty 🙏❤️🌲

[@timothydiggins2206]

Nice gems Dan,thanks for all the tips with the vib machine ⛏️💎❤️

[@ilcattivo13]

Great video. BTW. Dan, have You tried using ultrasonic cleaners?

[@danielcunningham2394]

Affindi, might I suggest a stone mason hammer? Better shaping, less host rock haulout.

[@allingrant5858]

Black tourmaline Dan also known as Schorl !!!

[@wingnutbert9685]

16:02.......Dan: "I'll keep my thumb on it to protect it" A phrase not only never spoken before, but also just asking for that 3 lb. Thumb Detector to whisper: "Hold my beer..." LOL!

[@jenniferbutcher8393]

Can you facet those garnets? Or are they better to cab? If they cab, do they star? Awesome mining trip😊

[@nhrockaholic6038]

What was the black crystal? Thanks. Nice garnets!!

[@georgeconnon7272]

They are huge!!!!

[@Mrjoshuasjourneyzzz10420]

Great video, nice garnets!!!

[@mikeyjones618]

What about using a small drummel on those unique host/garnet.....

[@Denpachii]

Is it odd of me to be more interested in the King George coin you are using for reference in the photos than the garnets?

[@dontkilImejay]

My favorite part of a Sunday.

[@XCF33t]

That was a hornblende garnet schist with the long black minerals

[@mikeblair2594]

I knew that was pitch on the stone and then you went and made me question my brain by calling it a stone. Just remember, if it drips it's likely pitch.😉

[@marniesquires3281]

Unrelated to today's video but my husband and I are coming to bc on vacation the summer do we need to get a permit to metal detect

[@Kris_at_WhiteOaksFarm]

I collected some garnet in schist in Athol, Massachusetts, many long years ago. Never did identify the type. Any Idea what kind of garnets you're finding?