Visiting the Panaca Agate Beds

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

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[@mariemoss2475]

Even though I live in England, watching your channel has opened my eyes to the beauty of the US. You are both so lucky to live where you are, the abundance of rocks and minerals are truly amazing. 😊

[@roman11469]

Sarah killed it!

[@lorrik.7341]

I love rocks with white banding in them. I, too, collect specimens wherever I go! Great finds you two!

[@lindaschaefer5499]

Thanks for taking us along on your jaunt. It's a little too cold and icy in Mt. for older folks. It is surprising that one of the spots that is marked for rockhounding really does have some finds. They have usually been picked over. The expanse, population and summer climate might have left this place overlooked. Such fun.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I would say from the hundreds of locations we have visited that it is very rare an area gets picked over.

[@Harkart59]

I lived in Nevada as a little kid (60yrs. ago) and we used to find very pretty jasper chunks with pretty quartz inside. My mom had them in the front yard and a couple of them were left at their place in Lebanon Or. Nevada is a fun place to look for rocks, and shanks too apparently😳

[@erichanson7293]

Some of those quartz pieces look like the remnants of thundereggs destroyed by the freeze/ thaw cycle. There are other places in the Western deserts of Utah and Eastern Nevada where very similar pieces can be found. Really cool stuff you found there!

[@Uvada-d1t]

Just remembered, Pioche has a nice rock collection in its museum. Black light room. Nevada rocks, posted what they are and what part of Nevada they were found.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It does! We went there and it's now listed on the website as a place to visit.

[@DeeDeeDIY]

Enjoyable time watching you enjoy collecting. Thanks for sharing.

[@Uvada-d1t]

Panaca ….pa nac ca. you should visit treasure hill in Pioche, not far from Panaca. Mine on the hill side, mountains of tailings in the end of main road. Also many small abandoned mines all though the hills between Pioche and Castleton. ( Pea oh ch) good luck.

[@connorkilleen2856]

I remember reading an old forum post about this spot. So cool you guys went and found it. Great finds!! I might visit once it warms up!

[@granduniversal]

Finding stuff like agates is so much fun. I found a big agate hunting area on BLM close to where I live. I literally found so many big agates that I think the best thing to do with them is put them in a cement mixer with some grit and see if I can get any really big polished stones. Might take a while, they are very hard.

[@jillgallinatti1925]

i REALLY enjoyed this and ALSO, got a lot of learning out of it. You two are adorable and I love hunting with you! I live in Northiern Nevada and you show a good amount of spots in NV. I'm glad, as I'm not able to venture out much. In fact, as you know Nevada, it's huge and I can't even get to where I'd love to go, just due to circumstances. Doesn't stop me from learning and hoping for an opportunity. So, Yeah, TY and All The Best! I Just subbed. Been following for a while and always find you relevent to my interests, desires, hopes, and maybe needs, at some point. You give me options, smiles, and education. TY so much 🌹💯❤🙏

[@tanyastava9698]

After watching this video (as I watch most of what you post), I decided to make the trek from central Utah to the location(s) you identified. Wow! To say the least! A 7hr round trip drive and found nice specimens of agate/jasper/ unidentified items as well. Nice getaway and ya you're right, not a soul around. I walked most of the washes and found real nice pieces along with finding unidentified items as well. Some of the banded rocks look like candy blocks! ❤ Anyway, thanks for the location as I probably will not take this long haul again. Great therapy! Keep your awesome videos coming as I really enjoy what you guys do! Great hound! 😊😊😊

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That makes me very happy to hear. I'm glad you got out here and had a good time.

[@markattardo]

Looks like an interesting area. Your finds are a very nice bonus👍👍

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@RickSmith-kp3sy]

6:05 Amygdoloidal rhyolite? Love the Darkling beetle! Thanks for showing. Critter geek as well. Great video as always. Serious suggestion. Consider a drone. The places you and Sarah go can be given even greater beauty with some elevation in your videography. I know you have the technical skills for flying one Jared. And I'm even more sure you could patch together a world class drone for less than a $100!😅😂

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I have a drone which we do use at times, however it's the very first DJI Mini and the camera quality isn't good as it doesn't shoot 4k at all. The new DJI Mini 4 is like $1000 so that not in the budget right now. As for a world class drone being less than $100, I don't think thats a thing.

[@RickSmith-kp3sy]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding l meant that you would have the mechanical wherewithal to pull it together Jared! We believe in you sir!😉

[@Mike-br8vb]

🔥Great video🔥 You guy's got a nice haul! Personally, I'd probably bring a shovel and start digging that hillside, I'm sure there are some bigguns in the ground. I guess I just like digging 😅 Looking forward to a UV night hunt, I think that would be awesome to see. 🍻

[@MrTurtleMontana]

My dog Cookie (Blue Heeler & Siberian Husky) does the exact same thing with her leash. No matter how much leash she has, she will always pull herself to the very end of it and just lay down. It looks like she's choking herself!

[@TH-ui7yr]

"Thats the biggest.... yet." Foreshadowing, she always finds the better ones and she knows it

[@absolute___zero]

9:56 after I watched lots of sulfide deposits in quartz videos, every rock looks like sulfide deposit to me now

[@aprilkurtz1589]

I'm jealous of all the cool rocks you guys have out West. There are no pretty rocks or minerals or shanks in N. Illinois!

[@manisteerocks7092]

@10:28 whoa!!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

:)

[@AllenManor]

I watch another channel ("Gonagain") with an older couple who explore the desert a lot and he is always finding chirt and obsidian that he says Native Americans worked into arrowheads as they walked. I don't know if that is what you found or as you said just a naturally fractured stone. Thanks for the video as always!

[@ResortDog]

Besides fitting your hand or fingers perfectly, the cutting edge from that hold will show micro fractures from wear other sides dont have on artifacts, Any new place had old people before.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That is very much so a misinterpretation of it. Plenty of rocks fit your hand perfectly, with a sharp edge, and little fractures. Pareidolia is the only thing I see when I hear others attributing nature marks on a rock to those made by a person. Even if they were made by a person, you have no way of knowing when that was the case. It might be very modern.

[@ResortDog]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding If you have held a few thousand artifacts and many thousands of just rocks, you would see what I mean. A ginsu knife does not look like a stick. The weathering on the work dates the rocks. Obsidian ages at a set rate. Sure i takes a lab. The statiography can date them with carbon, but on the surface might have been from anywhen. People were around here 15000 years ago and ? You can tell a hammer flake nature flake from a chosen flake that was used on a single edge. Thas all I was saying. PS the modern ones somebody puts in th hot springs are usually obviously modern.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

@@ResortDog Your experience does not invalidate what I said. The facts are simple. It's just a broken rock unless there is beyond a reasonable doubt to say otherwise and in this case, the likely answer is that it's merely a natural broken rock.

[@spetkovsek57]

Missed opportunity! You should have kept the knife and put agate scales on it. You could have made a knife restoration video. KZbin is full of them. That area reminds me of hounding for Pink Limb Casts at Congleton Hollow outside of Prineville, OR. Chips all over the ground, but you've got to touch each one because you never know how big it really is until you move it. I once found a 14 lb. piece that was buried and all you could see was about 2 inches of it.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Why are you trying to add more projects to my plate? :) It does kind of remind of Congleton Hollow as well now that you mention it.

[@future_me_6067]

15:17 Look for a bulb of percussion.

[@jimcooper4578]

i saw one

[@jimdavidsmith4374]

I agree. I've been flint Knapping for more than 30 years. That is an artifact.

[@jimcooper4578]

@@jimdavidsmith4374 20 for me

[@jimdavidsmith4374]

Not to say it's a finished point. At this time, it's ready to be made into a point.

[@jimcooper4578]

@@jimdavidsmith4374 debitage or a flake tool was my thought

[@RaymondMosier-cp6pn]

I use the small jiff peanut butter plastic jars for my little specimen jars. Just have to eat the PB first

[@sandmaker]

Anpthher cool place!

[@swaffordlaura7]

Was that brown rock a lava bomb?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It was not, lava bomb need to show ejection marks and cooling in the air which this doesn't display.

[@DanFarrar]

Maybe the shank with nails was an ancient artifact? 🤔 From the ancient aliens I’m thinking lol. It’s always good to be safe before licking your rocks…Safety first!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Ancient prison weapon!

[@merricasem1964]

Sarah wins!!🎉

[@Amanda-yf7vj]

Does your dog run off? How come you don't let her run?

[@ssteele1812]

Watch his last video with the mine shafts. Very good reason to always keep your dog leashes when out in the desert.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The list of why a person should keep their dog on a leash is pretty long, but to name a few things would falling down a mine shaft, getting attacked by another animal, showing interest in a snake, eating something they shouldn't or getting lost. Letting your dog run free in the wilderness is a foolish thing to do if you care about that animal.

[@danielkarczewski2467]

Sweet finds. Do you have the GPS coordinates ?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

All the information is on my website.

[@roberteldridge7100]

But the real question is....did you find me a chunk big enough to make a sphere from?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Maybe a little tiny sphere. :)

[@margosaunders5705]

Oh, gee, I just have to say: 14:44...NO! Keep it! And 15:00, hagstone, if nothing else!

[@fredwilson3525]

Your fingerprints are now on the weapon- you are now the lead suspect.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Good thing it was found on video.

[@zioncardman18]

Hey! I met you guys at best buy last week. You've found some good banded agate, better than what I've seen in the area. 14:30 ive found allot of that stuff out there more common toward Utah. 15:10 for sure not an artifact but it could have been a flake from the manufacturing of tools, I've seen some cool artifacts out there. I've always pronounced it pah-nah-ca. It was nice meeting you guys.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It was nice meeting you as well!