Rockhounding for Agates Near Moab, Utah!

[@galendonaldson3095]

We went there yesterday! Found some really nice pieces! Thank you

[@Patrickroche1]

The dark ones are great, always a pleasure to watch your video!!

[@theruggedrockhound]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@largent45]

Wow there were so many agates just laying there! Well once you got a little farther away from the road, that is! And they may not have been of real high quality, and many were just translucent chalcedony, but the ones with that darker , almost blue inside, were really nice! And the red and orange ones too! Too bad that they were all so fractured up, but that's what happens to rocks in the desert. The intense heat during the day, and the night time temps, in the same spot, is surprisingly cold! Deserts are weird! But that is what causes all the fractures and and even if you dig, chances of finding a piece without fractures is really slim. But the pieces and the smaller ones you were finding would make great tumbling rough, and I bet they would turn out beautiful! Thanks for showing us the gemmy material that Moab has to offer!

[@theruggedrockhound]

Thanks! Yeah, deserts are great for finding stuff but they sure do take a beating. Just have to take the good with the bad!

[@andrewohst2430]

I dragged my wife out to that location last year on vacation. Of course anything we found was nice since we don’t have anything like this back home. If you’re going to see Wilson arch you might as well drive a bit more to see what you can find there. We did check out Yellow Cat as well on our way home and as you said there are nicer pieces out there. Thanks for the videos.

[@theruggedrockhound]

That is awesome! Hopefully you found some good stuff out at Yellow Cat as well. Difficulty with Yellow Cat nowadays is how many claims are in that area...

[@savagesquirrel9828]

Did you have to climb that fence? I think many of those would be nice, tumbled. Thanks!

[@bbss8439]

Wow gorgeous. We will be coming end of spring from grand junction and I thought a great start to the trip would be to find some agates! It sounds like you preferred looking around green river or Yellow cat. Which area would you suggest if you only could go to one?

[@markrouse2416]

Great areas around Moab but you do need a little help from nature in the form of lots of rain like the 10 inches or so in 24 hours a few years ago.

[@theruggedrockhound]

Haha that is true, and there is a lot of protected area around Moab and tons of claims, so it can get a bit tricky.