Is this another beach with MILLIONS in Garnet?

[@snailspace3938]

Another jaw dropping show. I think how many times I strolled down a path, walked a stream & never thought of the gems I was stepping on. Thank you sooo much for your educational & fun videos. My strolls are changing

[@zachcarney3910]

Really like that you've been adding the geology lesson of the day. Thanks!

[@debbiefox6846]

Great video. Garnet is my birth stone so I appreciate them. Garnets can actually be naturally blue. The blue ones were found as far back as the 90's in Madagascar. 😁 Love your videos. Keep up the great work. 🫶

[@frankleepower2333]

It would be really neat if you had an aquarium full of those stones. I had the same thought with your video from Hawaii and the peridots.

[@jas57264]

Dan, I learn SO much from you. Thank You for what you do!!!!

[@robertsomerville320]

Thanks Dan for another wonderful video out in B.C's beautiful natural landscape. Love the garnets they are fantastic and oh so beautiful. Missing my home province today and the beauty of the creeks and rivers flowing through it.

[@erroneous6947]

I’ve seen ant hills made of garnet sand before. Very cool.

[@AJShiningThreads]

Yup, learned something new today too! I do hand embroidered goldwork using real gold (silver and copper gilt) incorporating real gemstones such as garnet and peridot. Your videos make me appreciate more the beautiful materials I work with and I'm thinking about people panning like you are showing here as I'm stitching on the gemstones today!

[@susanturcotte3176]

What an incredible use (and talent] of garnets and other semiprecious stones! I know that using gems add value, as well as 'magnifying ' a particular look of an item (like wedding dresses). I posted that I also learned from Dan's geology lesson about the different colors and names of the garnet family. I had no idea. Warm hugs from Alabama ❤️

[@SheriLynNut]

When I was a kid, my family lived in Wrangell Alaska… we used to find really big garnets on the beach there. My papa said they came down from the Stikine River. That’s when my love of round/gem hounding began!

[@douglaspohl1827]

Specific gravity of garnet is 3-4 is relatively light compared to leads near 7-11 while gold's are 14-19... shows you the power of a pan/operator to separate minerals/metals etc. Thanks Dan.

[@sydres]

It really just requires it to be of higher specific gravity than more common minerals like quartz 2.65. it's the little tricks that are impressive like moving the garnet down to a smaller area in the concentrate!

[@gmap1400]

Dan that is so beautiful. Wish I was there with you. Thank you for sharing.

[@hankakah4180]

Have you seen the Green sand beach in Hawaii? Made out of Peridots. It's on the Island of Hawaii or the Big Island. There is a red sand beach in Hana, Maui, but that is made up of red volcanic cinder which is what the side of the hill is made of.

[@carlthorpe5538]

Great video Dan... Greetings from the UK, a new subscriber here, geologist by training, archaeologist by trade, thoroughly enjoying all that you post :)

[@susanturcotte3176]

Glad I'm one of the first to welcome you to the Hurd Herd! Dan is extraordinary and a great educator. Just like my Masters degree in nursing education, Dan explains things in such a way that anyone understands and can put the knowledge into action. He helps so many around the world! Be blessed my new friend and be sure to join Dan's Sunday morning premieres! We will 'talk' your ears off about everything! Hope to see you there! Warm hugs from Alabama USA ❤

[@RICDirector]

Say, any relation to Jaques Turcotte and his lovely wife of rabbitraising fame?

[@Not_That_Guy9]

This man’s beard is more beautiful than any gold nugget he could ever pull up

[@seanelliott7796]

It's true, Dan's beard is awesome. I'm jelly😊

[@Chance-ry1hq]

Beautiful? 🤮

[@Sekrery073]

His beard is what you see at the end of the rainbow

[@jpvoxdawg]

He reminds me of the prospector on the Where's the Gold slot machine I used to play.

[@manjulagupta1997]

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[@abbyh8678]

SO informative!!!! My garnet came from a ledge....but from watching your videos, can't wait to get mining!!!!

[@Alex-Exercise]

It’s amazing how garnet can gather up in places and eventually there is millions of it there.

[@kaboom4679]

Denser minerals will tend to form placers , especially the more resistant ones . Diamonds , corundum , garnets , zircon , spinel , topaz , even peridot , form placers in the right conditions , just like gold and platinum .

[@susanturcotte3176]

​@@kaboom4679 Excellent point. I knew that what Dan has already said before that garnets are heavier and can be panned.

[@tannerpaisley-ve6dq]

Most Interesting is a California beach that use to have round rocks galore packed with thousands of crabs in the 1980's. All gone due to rising waters

[@tfodthogtmfof7644]

Small garnets make good bead blasting material for blasting particularly hard metals.

[@timdavis3249]

Great video Dan!!! Love those geology lessons of the day. Wish all the best on your travels.

[@bravomikesierra]

Finally another dan hurd video. Time to zoom out from the regular social media BS. Thanks Dan!

[@mikeblair2594]

I bought one of your Christmas bags with a few flakes in it, but I was really happy when I found a little garnet in there. Its not worth anything, but I love the look of garnets, so its nice to find a little extra treat. Thanx Dan

[@knoester7714]

Thank you Dan for sharing your adventures

[@lorenrobertson8039]

Oh you are in my dream place Dan! I love my birthstone better than all gems other than Lightening Ridge Australian opals preferable cut by our buddy Justin from Black Opal Direct. My parents bought me a garnet ring as a child and it was so beautiful I always got comments on it, and most thought it was a ruby since it was a rich dark true red. It got lost over the years...but it had a bad scratch on it from the asphalt playground we would play on at school. It broke my heart that day because it also scratched the real crystal on a very special watch I always wore. I never got to replace it or have it re-polished to remove the surface scratch on the garnet. I had planned to have it set in a platinum setting (in my family all the women wore platinum rather than yellow gold) when I grew up. Oh well. I have no children or anyone that cares about me or my family history to pass things down to. And I'm getting old. Unlike you I'm disabled and home/bed bound. I would still like to have my garnet back...we had some of out jewelry stolen, what a shame. It's just earthly stuff though...it's dirt once I get to Heaven.

[@candyontherag8248]

Beautiful garnets Digger Dan !! Thanks for sharing them. WHOO HOOO FROM CALIFORNIA JOHHNY AND CANDY WHAT !!!

[@jonathanmiller6381]

It's actually funny because my Birthstone is a Garnet. I have a big Garnet Ring as well my school ring. That'd be cool if I got an actual Garnet stones as well! Great work! Keep up the hard work! Can't wait to see the next one! :D

[@jaratt85]

You should try high banking for garnets sometime. I know in the Yukon they often have to run hydraulic riffles to keep the garnets out of the sluice box because there's so many that it clogs up the riffles and most of the gold washes right out... so that tells me that regular steel riffles over miner's moss likely would catch you tons of garnets with little work.

[@fredbuchanan2560]

Dan, good to see you doing well.

[@biowolf8333]

Not gonna lie Dan, I still want to cover the bottom of a planted aquarium with a big bag of those garnets some day if I can ever afford that many lol.

[@nickf.2871]

My last job had one of those million dollar water tables for cutting plates of metal i kept it clean and unloaded the pallets of garnet usually was two tons of garnet ground to a fine sand the bags were like regular sand bags but a little heavier it was a good workout.

[@derekirwin513]

This could be a good way to learn. The bright garnet makes a nice visual for the stratification action, making it easy to see how long to shake and how much to pan off before each restratification.

[@bobriemersma]

I keep wondering if clean small garnets might be sealed into a glass tube with mineral oil and mounted as a desk ornament you can flip to watch them slowly fall with light behind it. As concept trials I'd probably test a standard test tube with stopper and a tall skinny olive jar.

[@jamesbrowne1325]

From New Zealand, always envious of your gem selection over there, keep up the awesome content.

[@jennyjansen754]

You have jade.

[@1111stones]

I get my garnets from Salmon River State Forest here in CT..always pockets of it..endless supply 😊

[@artfx9]

Great video!

[@MushroomMagpie]

Do you check your coarser materials as well, for larger garnets?

[@MikkellTheImmortal]

Hi Dan. Garnet fun fact; Garnets are magnetic. If you have a decent quality neodymium magnet they will jump to the magnet.

[@HomeBoy798]

Cool adventure finding garnets!😁

[@JohnSmithoriginal1]

Can't wait to come back there and collect all those Garnets again..

[@heathergundry7059]

I have seen garnets like this however didn't know what I was looking at. Now I know. And to think their could be sapphires or gold in there too... Wow!!

[@ThatOpalGuy]

I'm glad you started putting the "filmed on" date in your videos.

[@kcstevens7532]

Dan, I found that I can use an electromagnet to extract garnet from dry gravel. It appears some (not all) garnet is paramagnetic and will be modestly attracted to a very strong magnet. It's also wicked cheap to do. (hmmm ... work on iron sulfides?)

[@oliverclothesoff5397]

I like how you dumped the garnets on your camera, great idea lol. Thanks for the great content !!

[@ionutsusan7145]

Vă salut din România,și vreau să vă spun că respect munca dumneavoastră care este în același timp și o pasiune.

[@wrxs1781]

They were used years ago in sandpaper manufacturing, have a few specimens of marble size I found walking a in a creek.

[@mikewinings4120]

Dont forget to mention tat when you drain the sieve,do it at an angle to prevent suction that can mix it all up again

[@CuriousEarthMan]

My first Dan Hurd video. I subscribed :) Thank you!

[@ericlubben]

Hi Dan I am pretty sure I have gone gold panning the on the Fraser River . Great spot to do a few things

[@bainsworth8853]

I found it easy to classify material buy putting water in a hole of rocks and removing larger ones, scooping out handful of material when it accumulates. dug a 5x5 4 foot deep hole without a shovel

[@dartmart9263]

Wow, those look really nice! They almost look like caviar

[@abbyh8678]

Dan, I love the fact you make such an issue about this little gem.....largest I found was the size of a quarter at Mt Apatite in Maine.....I heard someone refer to it as a junk gem... I said that's an oxymoron 😂😂😂can't use junk and gem in the same sentence....THAT hushed him up.....LOVIN your videos in New Hampshire USA

[@RoxnDox]

Looks like you have a really long hike to reach this new spot! 😂😂. Nice to find value easily accessible. 👍

[@WingmanJohnny]

It's nice to have back up. Keep up the great work

[@js7un165]

Looks like fun being out in nature and in the water.

[@pattijohnson997]

Thoroughly enjoyed your content in today's video. The earth 🌎 has been so generous to us.

[@agatebeauties]

This looks likes like a blast! I would love to do this! Awesome video

[@1984Skynet]

So satisfying. No wonder you have so many fans.

[@algernoncalydon3430]

Those kind of garnets are good for the eyes on wood and antler carvings.

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

Mineralized salmon roe! Fun video with panning techniques too.👍

[@RICDirector]

🤣🤣🤣😝

[@OpalholicsAnonymous]

12:39 blue garnets.. lol they are used as a simulant for Alexandrite. Blue garnet is a pyrope-spessartine garnet renowned for its color-change, which is very like that of alexandrite. Even though rare, they lose some value because they are used as a simulant. One of the rarer more expensive garnet colors. And having the Color change Alexandrite effect is quite special! Its in the rarest Garnet catagory with colorless garnets or Tsavorite or Dementoid. Or even Uvarovite.

[@destickert1307]

love the GLOTD Dan!

[@jdspeed99z]

It's so cool that you can find such neat stuff all around you. Don't get much of that in South florida. I do have a question, would it be possible to fill a tumbler with them and polish them up to shiny little gemmy spheres as opposed to the river run opaque stones? Would be interesting to see what they look like.

[@barbarakennedy2667]

Always up for learning something new from Dan.

[@Dadvictr]

I love garnets by the way! I use them in my jewelry making.

[@keegan773]

We used to collect these on the beach thinking they were jewels. Turned out to be bottle glass worn by the sea and sand.

[@Herknungr]

Just discovered Dan's channel it's awesome! Subbed.

[@CyAA-ri2us]

Hi Dan! Hope you have a nice weekend!

[@donaldbush5404]

Garnets are a birthstone aren't they? They definitely look nice in another video you were finding some gold with Garnets in I'll keep an eye out for Garnets this summer might run into you somewhere this year happy trails

[@KCoda1248]

Fun video Dan! Hope you are feeling well.

[@ZagelMedia]

Hey Dan! I know you focus more on rocks, minerals, gemstones and things, but I'd love to see a video of you going shark tooth hunting, either in myrtle beach or in some creak with other cool fossils on someone's private land. Anyways, love the content!

[@RICDirector]

Try PaleoCris and DiggingScience,both are excellent and inthat area.

[@uhhsam7013]

That would be awesome but Dan is from BC that’s a long way to go for shark teeth lol

[@jameslanning8405]

Hi Dan! I always see you panning out these tiny garnets and other small stones. But where would you look, to get the big, 'pendent and ring sized,' garnets? I'd pay for a good sized garnet or two. Maybe to bedeck a pendent necklace, or in the royal crown of my kingdom! LOL

[@Danhurd]

Should check out my hard rock garnet video and also my sapphire video, both have bigger garnets.

[@geosobservations9496]

Your paydirt is only an hr away from me now. I can't wait to poke around in it and find all the little gems. I love watching your videos, love the microscope shots, but I need some in hand to really appreciate it... sorry it took me so long nab some. ❤ Ovens park in Nova Scotia is open this year so hopefully I'll get to go practice what your showing us. Thank you Dan😊

[@geosobservations9496]

If ok I'd like to do a little video of an amature going through your paydirt just to show how much fun it is to play with a bag of "dirt" ❤

[@geosobservations9496]

I'm surprised the gold dirt made it through Toronto 😂... hope that was insured 😅

[@richardland9668]

I always love seeing your videos Dan

[@susanturcotte3176]

Beautiful birthstones for me! Tee hee! Thanks for sharing, Dan. Your geology lesson was interesting because I didn't know there were so many different names and colors of garnets. I do learn something new every day! I had a thought that might increase your sales. Can't these be used for fish tanks and similar products? That surely would add some awesome features! Warm hugs from Alabama ❤️

[@ETr4d3]

would love to get some for my turtles. Recently paid 20$ for a Chinese pay-dirt with pink garnets and my 4-yo kid spent the day separating them and he loved it. And keep asking me to buy more stones for the turtles.

[@세모글램핑]

You're rich. It's a fun hobby. I'm watching you! korea

[@NewNormac]

Always love your shares Dan, and my brain is loving the #GLOTDs. Thanks ~Smile oN

[@cyclonicsilver2773]

Very cool!! It would be Awesome to meet you in Tucson next year

[@Confused_Philosopher]

The classifier you recommended needs to have the handle like a bucket so it drops to one side so it doesn't get in the way or the shovel.

[@M4RTiJNTJE]

nice camera shot with the sieve put atop the cam :)

[@erwanmoreau6357]

I don't know if it's always the case but there is also a beach made with grenat in l'île de Groix (island of Groix) in France.

[@pavlovssheep5548]

if you shine an ultra violet light over the garnets if there any stray rubies hiding they will glow bright red , best to do in a darkened room

[@Baronstone]

Now looking at those closeups are the pink stones sapphires or garnets? I only ask because they are clearly different from the run of the mill garnets they are mixed with. Also, do you pull out the larger garnets and have them cut or do you not know anyone that is into cutting gems?

[@Danhurd]

Just different kinds of garnets

[@AnxiousStacker]

Beautiful. I'm wondering though, are garnets able to be found in big crystal form instead of after they've ground down into the small pebbles? Definitely a beautiful dark red color.

[@kaboom4679]

Absolutely . However , the bigger the crystal , the more opportunity for flaws and cracks to form and for these big crystals to be broken apart over time . These garnets Dan is collecting were mostly larger crystals or aggregates of crystals that were broken apart by erosion , and , since they are denser than quartz and feldspar , will tend to form placers making them much easier to find and collect .

[@AnxiousStacker]

@@kaboom4679 awesome. Thanks for the informative reply. Id love to see him go excavate some bigger ones and see how big they can get.

[@richinoable]

Well, dang. Good content is worth subscription.

[@shaquanakinsete8218]

Nice vid I also need to tell you that I found a orange geode like crystal to day it was in a giant stone great video by the way

[@brobasticbroham446]

Get outdoors people around startup near Steven's pass you see this some years it's fairly common looks awesome

[@christuttle3980]

Sorry I missed you at the Courtenay Rock Show Dan I live in Campbell River just North of Courtenay You coming back anytime this year?

[@1COMIXMAN]

I grew up in san diego and walked the outter hills and valleys many a time in san diego county.mostly the lower parts. Lots of dry riverbeds finding stones. We would find broke eods lots of amethyst and garnet. But the one mineral we would find strangely was copper.these was a neighborhood I lived in whee their was huge amounts of green oxidized powdery rocks. I always wondered and took one to school to ask geology teacher. He took one look and says high copper content. This stuff was everywhere in th3 valleys. If copper was as expensive then as now mid be processing that shit lol.

[@jimmymcgill2557]

as someone from the UK who's lucky to find a handful of small corn sized Garnets this is INSANE! 💎😮

[@_Jitterbug]

We're lucky enough here in New Zealand to get Grossular and Hydro-Grossular Garnets. They're hard as ever, normally come in nice big palm stones/boulders, and are an absolute pleasure to carve with :) However our Almandine's are few and far between, so i really appreciate seeing such a large collection in your videos Dan! Ka Pai!/Cheers!

[@RICDirector]

If you find a few extra, I would be happy to take them off your hands .. lol

[@thecanadianhillbilly]

Hey Dan Maggie had an idea. Have you ever put a gold pan under the gem sive to look for any gold?

[@Danhurd]

It is a good idea, but both sites where I get garnets have very little in the way of gold.

[@John-PaulMartin]

Hi! Thanks for the garnet lessons! I have noticed that your camera has a hard time focusing in you close ups! Are you using a fast HD camera to compensate for the motion!

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

Wishing you luck Danman!

[@Sergium46]

you should visit italy , we have a river in the nord where we look for garnets as an indicator tor gold deposits

[@forg0tten]

I really want to get out to Silver river and collect enough Garnets to use as substrate in one of my Show Aquariums.

[@Anonymous-vr9hp]

Years ago I found a football size rock that was made of a thin layer silver mineral, it was full of what I'm pretty sure were garnets. They were nice and round and for a while I thought I was rich

[@josephcormier5974]

Awesome content thank you for sharing this six stars

[@seasonallyferal1439]

Have you considered using the gold drop system to concentrate your garnets?

[@Davidh02]

I see a lot of very clear crystals, like glass, in amongst your Garnet's, what mineral are they?

[@kaboom4679]

Most likely Almandine , but , since nature does not have a clean kitchen , what he most likely has are intergrowths of several garnet species , such as Almandine / Pyrope , in the same stone . This is very common with many minerals and makes exact identification a frustrating exercise , even with modern analytical techniques . Garnet is.a large family with the various species defined by a certain range of compositions . Garnet , can incorporate a wide range of elements in its molecular composition , so , the presence and percentages of iron , aluminum , calcium , etc .. , are not only what define the various species , but , are diagnostic of the geological and mineralogical environments they form in .

[@stephenfowler4115]

Garnet also comes in black and lavender and purple

[@joesguiltyguitar]

That intro was different lol I like it .. Dan what else could be done with those garnets , I'm really thinking there's something else in those garnets that maybe used to absorb some other minerals or made to help with some other processing things unknown..?