Ordinary Rock Found In A Target Parking Lot Turns Into a Unique Gemstone

In this video I go to Target, while visiting Montana, to do a little rockhounding in the parking lot. I was worried at first that we didn't find anything interesting but boy was I wrong!! Come along and see for yourself!
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[@phillockwood8414]

I immediately clicked on your video when I saw the picture of the rock you had in the picture. Why? Because I am a 74 year old flint Knapper from Indiana (land of the Indians). The silicate rock you chose was also chosen by another human to make a hammering tool. The concave depressions on the larger end of the stone don’t happen in nature. But you can find them everywhere among the stones you collect on your rocking adventures. So look for them everywhere. Also, don’t forget ancient people also needed sandpaper. These artifacts are still laying around everywhere. Pick them up, and you will have an. amazing collection in no time. When I came home from college after taking several geology courses, my mind began opening up to the incredible rock work that was being done by our ancestors.

[@TheLindagdetroit]

Lol I carry a bucket of rocks in my car I call "swap rocks" 😁

[@pretzel2272]

Great idea! 😃❤

[@Grandmasrockin]

lol. Me too!

[@Tinker876]

I’m sure you don’t carry around this particular mix that stores have a landscaping company put down. If you want these types of rocks buy them. Stop stealing them.

[@greyferguson9319]

Hahaha! I've done that😀 Menards is another good place to swap rocks....get stoned 😊

[@brianholcomb940]

Awesome cab! You know you never can tell what's inside a rock until you cut it. Thanks for sharing.

[@RockhoundingLife]

You got that right!

[@csm5130]

Wow this looks awesome!!!

[@elizabethboffoli913]

Laughing!!! Omg I thought I was the only crazy person that does this where ever I see rocks!!!❤️

[@nicholasnewton6775]

You are definitely not alone on this lol

[@panPan-kj4vz]

😂❤❤❤

[@anitaname1]

I'm right there with ya!

[@mamm7223]

That's gorgeous. As I looked at it, I saw a snowy day, a pine tree in front of the setting sun. I just think it's really cool!

[@RockhoundingLife]

So cool!

[@leslietheriault8821]

Way more beautiful than I thought it would be. 😮

[@RockhoundingLife]

I know right? I was second guessing myself there for a minute until i slabbed it

[@nancyhainline2517]

I used to pick up landscape rocks, too. One day my friend, a retired policewoman, admonished me. "That's stealing you know. Those businesses have to buy those rocks." OH my gosh, I'd never thought about that. So now, I pick a rock or two and carry them into the store and ask the customer service desk, "How much?" So far, have not been charged anything, but am no longer "stealing". Something to consider....

[@RockhoundingLife]

If you watch the whole video you will see me address this

[@danhughes6373]

The cab is cool, but I like the petrified potato at 4:50 lol. Cheers

[@TJC1315]

Turned out beautiful. I love rocks.

[@nikkibranigan7888]

Very nice!! I’m glad to know that I’m not the only person who looks in parking lots etc!!

[@shannel318]

You’re not alone!! You asked permission, that’s more than I do, I'm always checking lots!😀⚒it looked like a tree from the Montana forest, beautiful work!!

[@shinykazzadragon]

Defilly a neat set of rocks.

[@karencole1623]

Every time I go to my local Walmart I want to look through as the rocks, but it's always so busy!

[@RockhoundingLife]

Just go for it!

[@patopfer4355]

I love looking through the rocks everywhere I stop. I will add an extra ten minutes to my trip time just to make sure I can have a quick little search. I’m in Western Pennsylvania and the number of fossils I have found leave me amazed. The only items that have eluded me are arrowheads. Hammer stones are abundant and once I found a larger sized white quartz with signs of pyrite/gold(?) flecked through the center. I have to admit that as soon as I notice a new business being built in my area I put it on my ‘Birddog list’. I want to be the first one to find the good stuff! Happy hounding!

[@MADGUNSMONSTER]

@@patopfer4355 Same here! Before i knew what "Rockhounding" was, i thought I was weird collecting hundreds of lbs. of rock.

[@nicholasnewton6775]

Beautiful turned out great.

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thank you! 😊

[@adventureswithgypsy6489]

What a cool find!

[@Edelstones]

Fun cut! Keep on hunting those parking lots 👌🏼

[@soul_adventurist]

Good choice!❤

[@irenewoolsey926]

Thanks for sharing

[@RockhoundingLife]

My pleasure

[@RockyMountainBear]

I love it! I have found very similar stuff in my backyard. It's beautiful stuff, and I think you're right about it being some type of brecciated chalcedony. It might even meet the requirements to be called an agate. Super cool parking lot find. Well done. 😂 "We have rocks in our parking lot?!" ...and you say you're the manager of this here store? Okay... Thank you! 😬👍

[@RockhoundingLife]

I totally agree!

[@MontanaKat1912]

My childhood home.

[@kimrees2206]

One of my best agate find was at the parking lot of my grocery store 😊

[@LindaWarner-n2o]

Pretty cool cab, I like the bits of red, & the dendritic markings look like a tree and make a nice unplanned focal point. I hope to see the finished product. Thanks for the educationa

[@helenak.5762]

It's a beautiful cab. That dendrite material makes it special. Nice polish too. I liked the back also. Maybe you could polish the back and leave it open with a band around the outside edge only?

[@user-pd2gu6li2n]

I was eyeing up that particular area of that stone. I would have done heart shape with that line and called it broken heart.😂 👍🇺🇸

[@jonnsgirl]

Hooray for parking lot rockhounding! LOL That's a really pretty and unique stone, it turned into a beautiful cab. I love dendritic features, they look like trees and ferns 😍

[@RockhoundingLife]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@deniseview4253]

All are very pretty inside. The cab is beautiful.

[@lynnwilliamson9117]

I'm from Billings, MT. This was great to watch!

[@MADGUNSMONSTER]

There must be amazing rock out there!

[@annleroux7201]

Lovely

[@heyalicia2551]

Yes, very pretty!

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thank you! 😊

[@Rockin_in_Kentucky]

Beautiful cab! Great job man!

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thanks for watching!

[@davidlzzfilmzeditzTV]

If i had money i would buy, very cool rocks,

[@davidlzzfilmzeditzTV]

Do you sell these rocks?

[@RockhoundingLife]

Yes. We sell them.on our etsy store. Link in the description of this video.

[@davidlzzfilmzeditzTV]

@@RockhoundingLife those exact rock in the video did you sell it already?

[@tinaanderson7283]

Cool!

[@karencole1623]

I think that turned out great, and seems silly to me about you "stealing rocks!"

[@cjgia4898]

Gorgeous! Bumblebee Jasp, maybe?

[@RockhoundingLife]

Got all the colors for it.

[@thisaccount4321]

​@@RockhoundingLifewhat are you cutting them open with. I saw it but I don't know what that is or the blade type. I'm. Unschooled in that area. Thank you

[@mp194801]

IT's really, really cool!!!

[@kirsiselei8703]

Beautiful😍

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thank you! 😊

[@monicaalberts8130]

Beauty...❤

[@lynng8856]

WOW a petrified potato, and a moldy sammich?? And shrimp.... sorry am a big hangry. Oregon has lovely river rock suprises.

[@anequee]

Great find!

[@lorrik.7341]

I brake for dendritic patterns. Nice find!

[@UsernamedJory]

🤔 Well, you solved an age (mine) old mystery of what those yellow rocks actually are… there’s lots of them on the beaches of Chicago, and I always wondered what they were with the yellow & always seem to have a flat side 🙏🏻

[@pegflanagan6996]

First time viewing. Very interesting. I love rocks too. I have picked up a couple of rocks at our Target in CT..... Beautiful polished rock!!!

[@pretzel2272]

It's absolutely beautiful! Who'd have known... 🤩🤩🤩

[@nicholasnewton6775]

You'll find something good there for sure

[@artifacthunter1472]

That first stone is granitic quartzite with iron staining, and it is metamorphic not igneous. Basalt is igneous.

[@RockhoundingLife]

First rock was way too soft to be quartz. It cut like butter. I am 100% sure it is feldspar. Of the three it was the easiest to identify. If you cut it you would feel the same. Thanks for the comment and for watching?

[@karyndekeiser-moulton1213]

Very pretty!

[@rebeccaryderagreetotally.5895]

great find and super end result.

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@maryhelton-ek4mt]

I liked your Billings rock.

[@SanjaMicic-ib2cf]

Свугдје и у свако време сакупљам "каменчиће",баш ме одушевљава да видим да истински заљубљеницу у кристале и минерале раде исто!❤

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thank you! I'm so happy to connect with other rock hounds!

[@jules-marcdavis6843]

I agree with you on the one you chose. I'm hooked on parking lot stones i don't drive so i see much more walking down a road. Recently a credit union opened up on a corner by me and the Landscape rocks are so cool. I've found some with Mica and some transparent ones with the pretty blue and golden inside. I sure wish i had a saw like that! I use sandpaper and a diamond bit handled stick sander. I take them home and wash them off and it's fun to mess with the rocks just get taken back to where I found them and I've not been asked to stop, lol I bank there now and was talking to a teller one morning when i had to wait for the cu to open.

[@greyferguson9319]

I asked our vet's office if I could trade rocks...they looked incredulous....like that hadn't happened before 😊. Due to bad knees, I can't rock pick at the beach anymore....so parking lots it is!

[@NickAcker2019]

It's pretty cool that you find less sought after rocks and manage to make them appealing. You definitely hit the Target with that cab!😉 (So cheesy haha)

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thanks!

[@arasagyb]

Muy bonita! 👏

[@butchthebullbro]

really nice work

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@SanjaMicic-ib2cf]

Чаробно у рукама чаробњака!❤

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thank you!

[@JoeC-q6j]

I also bring rocks home and then immediately wonder why I picked them

[@flyingardilla143]

The dendrite is manganese oxide not magnesium.

[@JulesUS8386]

Looks like a pseudo morph (sticks) on the outside.

[@thisaccount4321]

What tool are you using to cut them? Thank you

[@RockhoundingLife]

Im using a lapidary saw

[@thisaccount4321]

@@RockhoundingLife thank you

[@michaeltrimble7680]

Are the brownish stains oxide? Would acid eat that off?

[@sisbugstreasures7094]

Family vacation in Nova Scotia, May 2025, I would like to rockhound as much as possible and I really love agates, where should we stay? Where should we hunt?

[@RockhoundingLife]

Anywhere arpind the cape split area. Scota Bay beach, blomidon beach

[@nicholasnewton6775]

I'm surprised you didn't find a agate

[@RockhoundingLife]

Was hoping too!

[@Llamassu218]

I found a meteor in a bed like that at a strip mall

[@RockhoundingLife]

Dream find!

[@Llamassu218]

@@RockhoundingLife there all over where I live

[@fuzzd0rk]

I found a septarian nodule at Target in Buffalo the other day.

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thats cool!

[@themama3633]

The first rock is an effigy.

[@goholmes2510]

it's not you are going to take the rock to another planet.

[@MADGUNSMONSTER]

I can understand people getting bent out of shape over shoplifting, but selective outrage over 'Rocklifting' has got to stop. The price of your groceries isn't going up over some Rockhound helping themselves to a few rocks, rocks that you don't give a damn about, i might add.

[@valeriehilbig9363]

I always worry about your fingers when you cut those rocks

[@RockhoundingLife]

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[@sandramays795]

Lapidary saws don’t cut like wood saws. In fact, they don’t cut at all. They grind material away. They won’t cut your fingers.

[@AmjadIraqBasra]

حجر شجري جميل

[@justinberry3991]

How to shoplift outside of Target

[@foxecarpentress4964]

People, people, people, somebody PAID to put rocks in these places! It is STEALING, unless you ASK IF YOU CAN HAVE THEM. Which this guy did in a previous video and I was hoping he was going to ASK again, but was disappointed………😩 We are going to be accountable to GOD, Who made all the rocks and us, how we used the life He gave us, for Good or for Evil. Stealing anything from someone else, no matter how small, falls under evil.

[@RockhoundingLife]

You didnt watch the whole video.... If you did, you would have known that i did in fact ask for permission.

[@davidlzzfilmzeditzTV]

Shush

[@Tinker876]

I’ve priced pretty round rocks to put in my yard. They’re not cheap. Stop stealing rocks.

[@RockhoundingLife]

Didn't steal. Watch the whole.video.

[@birdofparadise1068]

you should consider stealing rocks for your yard. very cheap highly recommend.

[@RockhoundingLife]

@birdofparadise1068 I have videos where I do that as well.

[@lasker31]

Hit up the landscaping rock beds after a light rain when the sun starts to poke out and those agates will pop.