Montana Ringing Rocks

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

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[@Rickzolla]

Been there, done that. Great area to visit. I've got a place about ten miles south.

[@Baldgol4]

Pennsylvania has a state park called Ringing Rocks State Park. Same type of rocks which ring when hit with a hammer. Strange.

[@pookiec111111]

Check the frequencies brother....

[@GravelBarHopper]

Dude we could start a Rock Band!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I absolutely regret not saying this in the video. I will forever pin your comment on this video.

[@GravelBarHopper]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding 🤘

[@KatyDidRocks]

Did you ever get the rock to ring once you removed it from the host? I think the sign must just mean that whatever forces are making them ring don't exist offsite.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I have not but I plan on trying some of the things people said in the comments.

[@MontanaRockMom]

Always so informative. I love your videos. Thanks for the time and energy you put into them🥰

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you! Have you been to this location? I know your a Montana local but Montana is a big place.

[@patriciamckean4186]

Awesome....you rock!

[@KatyDidRocks]

AAAAAAH, I totally wanted to go there this summer - maybe next year!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Its very worth it.

[@watsisname]

That is so cool. Love the sound as well as those shiny blue flecks of pyroxene in your slice. This will definitely be a place to stop by next time I'm crossing country that way. Thanks for sharing! :)

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You will not be disappointed if you go here.

[@dennissorensen167]

It seems like the flatter ones resonated the sound better. Cool!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It did kind of do that didn't it.

[@horus2779]

Thanks for that video mate, there are a few people now that take a slab or block of granite and put slices it and play it with a stone or wet hand, can you maybe make a small version of this one day.

[@mwilson14]

This is insane! I had no idea these rocks even existed. That is really cool man!

[@pseudokowski]

There's ringing rocks in Pennsylvania also.

[@milesnn]

They are so cool here in Saskatchewan south east corner I have found two rocks that ring identical to them as long as they are laying on other rocks they still rang not as good and the metal detector rang high in zinc when some was crushed a very beautiful silver metal is what I got out of it thank you for the adventure

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

This whole topic of rock harmonics is pretty neat.

[@milesnn]

I bet it is there is talk of them in Africa where they are used for communication at one time between tribes

[@Seasonschangeillchangewiththem]

Is this near the Montana megalithic rocks? If you KZbin search “Montana megalithic” you’ll see areas full of rocks that look similar to the location he visited with the ringing rocks. Curious if all this is connected?

[@themacz1671]

😁👍very awesome content on your videos thank you for sharing

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@chrisandrewoutside1560]

Cool location! Thanks for the vid, I'd never heard of this site before. Just for laughs, try suspending the slab you cut from a string, and then striking it. It's small enough that the table or your hand may be muffling the harmonic vibrations... On another note, we've found petrified wood at saddle mountain that rings like this, too!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yeah its a really interesting location for sure and we do plan on going back. I do plan on taking some of the advice and ideas here in the comments on how to get it to ring and trying them. Also I'm going to run outside now and test my saddle mt petrified wood now.

[@chrisandrewoutside1560]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding The pieces of wood I have that ring, are only some of the tan and brown agatized pieces. AND some of those also fluoresce pink under a black light!

[@KatyDidRocks]

Haha, I'm watching this on headphones, and your sound/voice changed drastically when you went into the shop - it made me jump because I thought someone was talking to me.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The downside of a shipping container workshop.

[@paigelee6321]

Interesting, very cool 😎

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@andrewstroud782]

Sounds like you folks had a lovely time. Excellent, good place for it. The large dark crystals that you saw in the slices are not olivine, they are the orthoclase (potassium) feldspar. The crystals are dark due to perthite exsolutions, which makes the rock look much more mafic than it really is. The olivine crystals are very small, usually have rusty brown oxidation coronas around them. The blue flashes are smaller crystals of the orthoclase which cooled very fast to form cryptoperthite. Earlier researchers thought that it was labradorite, but they didn't test the crystals. Usually orthoclase cryptoperthite only forms in volcanic eruptions because the crystal has to cool very fast. There are two MS theses on the Ringing Rocks Pluton from UM in Missoula, see the Wikipedia page for references. They were both geochemistry students and in my opinion did good work but missed the whole concept by not working out the geology first.

[@OnTheRiver66]

I have never heard of ringing rocks. They are amazing. I think one clue is in the thesis where the rock is described as extremely dense. I’m sure the rock is very strong and stiff (high elastic modulus).The size, shape, and how the rock is supported will all have an effect, like the bars of a xylophone. Lay the bars on the ground and they don’t ring. They remind me of something I read once about anvils. Anvils are traditionally made of cast iron faced on top with steel. When hit with a hammer they ring like a bell. In modern times some anvils have been made completely of steel but they don’t ring like the cast iron anvils do so cast iron anvils are preferred because of the sound they make when used. Of course in the right shape, like a bell, steel will ring as well as iron. With the rocks I think it is the mechanical properties of the rocks that allow them to ring, like the difference between cast iron and steel anvils. There are devices, a James V Meter for example, that measures the speed that sound travels in materials. My guess is that sound will travel faster in a ringing rock than most other rocks.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

This comment made me think of a lot of different things. The idea that the sound will travel faster in these rocks is quite interesting.

[@pennyhoward3438]

Wow that's awesome

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yeah it's a fun location.

[@mtlogger]

Will a motor home make the drive in?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I really don't think it will.

[@eitanengel8259]

I wonder if the pyroxene crystals can be found bigger

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That's a good question, I think it would be an area worth walking around and checking out.

[@eitanengel8259]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding I definitely would if I lived there. You know some geology stuff, is there a type of crystal that can not grow big at all?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

@@eitanengel8259 Not that I know of, I mean in theory all crystals if given the right conditions could see an unlimited amount of growth.

[@judym1128]

That’s really cool. If you get your rock to ring you’ll have to video it so we can hear the tone. Nice

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Will do!

[@sachiweaver5886]

Also, if you polished the slab would you be able to see the blue like a sparkle? or only when wet?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I have polished them and they still have the blue sparkles, I sent them off to a friend with a microscope he took some photos which I shared in a follow up on the weekly Saturday video I make.

[@rockinwitht9948]

Very cool place!!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yeah it was a neat place to visit.

[@eitanengel8259]

Also did the rock keep ringing offsite?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I was not able to reproduce the ring on this chunk that I took home but I have some stuff that I plan on trying to see if I can.

[@carinanderson8239]

Its the same as Ringing Rock Park! All the good Ringing boulders have marks on them from where people have been hitting them! It’s against the law to take the rocks from the park. I am so glad you found that place. Very cool. I hope someone discovers the cause other than the stones have been blessed by the fairies.😄

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yeah I think it's something that can be solved for sure.

[@virginiarocks]

I was thinking about clamping some rocks together at one end. But the wind chime idea seems good too. You need to be able to setup vibration or reverberation (not my field either). I await the results of testing! Very interesting

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yeah I think there is something to this, I just need to figure it out.

[@QuartzCowboy]

Someone needs to make a music video from this location. #artofnoise

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That would be pretty funny.

[@butterflycreator]

Very interesting. There are ringing rocks in South Africa as well. Wonder if they have similarities 🤔

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

There are number of places with ringing rocks. Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, United States Ringing Rocks Park - Lower Pottsgrove Township, Pennsylvania, United States Bell Rock Range - Western Australia, Australia Musical Stones of Skiddaw - Cumbria, England Ringing Rocks Point of Interest - Ringing Rocks, Montana, United States The Hill of the Bells (Cerro de las Campanas) - Querétaro, Mexico The Hill of the Bell (Cerro de la Campana) - Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico The Ringing Stone - Tiree, Scotland Singing Stones - (Immenhof Guest Farm) Omaruru NamibiaT The ringing stone ballater - the lecht Scotland Nand Rishi Temple, Tambe Gad Dhanori, Jalgoan, Maharashtra (India) Kanchanagiri Hills, Ranipet ,Tamil Nadu (India)

[@butterflycreator]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Wow, that’s super cool. Apparently a student did a thesis on ringing rock in Montana. scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8758&context=etd

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

@@butterflycreator I didn't just find the paper and I have been working my way through it, but its about 200 pages to it will take me a bit with everything else I have going on.

[@butterflycreator]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding I tried reading it. Much of the terminology I didn’t understand. It is interesting though. I’m just past the map and locations.

[@therockdad1]

Holy cow thats cool

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yeah its a neat location.

[@chalcedonyclapper1216]

Thats really interesting.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yeah I thought it was pretty cool.

[@WorldofRockhounds]

That's neat. Would be cooler to get a sound sample of each one and have someone make rock music with it. Just saying. Lol

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I do like that idea, maybe that will be on my next trip out there.

[@cherylwiddiss9032]

Pretty cool!!!! Big difference in appearance with water on the rock, I’d be interested in knowing what the blue nodules are!!! Keep us posted if you find out please 😁

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

As soon as I can get microscope photos of them Ill share them, likely on a Saturday video.

[@mwilson14]

I was just able to finish watching the video and I agree you should definitely get a sample over to your friend with a microscope! :)

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I didn't want to put you on the spot but I also kinda did, I know you have a lot of pots in the fire so asking you to send me photos of stuff from your microscope over and over seems a little bit of an over step but if you don't mind!

[@mwilson14]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding I don't mind at all. I take any chance or any reason I can get to look through my microscope. I would love to put more focus on micrograph photography and videography. I spent some time today trying to get better results with the camera software, and I did improve the image quality by changing some settings. However, I think the new stereo microscope is going to be a game changer due to better lighting and better suited equipment for gems and minerals. It might be here before the 20th.

[@TheRogueRockhound]

Aliens bro Edit* Bring extra large drumsticks if you go

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Hahahaha

[@normanschmidt8075]

Thanks man, fascinating! And thought provoking. It's my thought that exact proportional composition and crystalline alignment (including distribution and diffusive homogeneity of the minerals) will have much to do with the resonant properties and quality of those stones. 🤙Shaka braddah. (Hawaiian 'thumbs up')

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The resonant properties of rocks is something that I have only now started to be interested in. I think I need another life time to learn all this stuff.

[@sevenirises]

Thank you for showing the rocks at the park and the cut rock up close. The blue crystals inside are amazing. If your friend identifies what it is I hope you let us know. Nice video.

[@sachiweaver5886]

Hey I'm new to your channel and Im in Western WA. But I found this video interesting because it seems to maybe have something to do with ancient indian architectual technology, or at least it could maybe. Check out Praveen Mohan's video on the singing pillars. Basically, in ancient india the architecture was way advanced. they had floating bricks (like float on water) no one has yet figured out, but the pillars are amazing. All made out of the same material, all seem to be identical in every way yet these pillars make different tones. The old texts say they were specifically tuned to harmonic tones relevant to the temples belief system. But how do you tune a rock to sing when Struck? Some people think they were heated to molten temperatures and cast rather then carved And yes, some one has cut one open, despite this being terrible, they are solid. No one knows how they work. I'd LOVE to hear your theory on it, and i'm definately gonna mention on Praveen's channel that he should look into the montana ringing rocks. Blessings and happy thanksgiving :) Sachi

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Welcome to the channel! I was unfamiliar with Praveen Mohan's channel until you said something here in this comment. I think from a geological stand point the harmonic tones of rocks are quite understood at this point and if you send me an email I would be happy to send you back some papers I have found on the subject. Happy late Thanksgiving to you as well! -Jared