We Had NO IDEA We'd Find These BEAUTIFUL Blue "Stones" In This Tennessee Mountain Stream!

The finds in this video had my friend Brian and I VERY excited! We first stopped at a roadcut to find some fossils, and then Brian took me to a creek that he wanted to explore. We found something very unexpected!
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[@kellyharper367]

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Wanted to share another thought. I always had zen like experiences at fossil beds. I love to sit and pay reverence to the fossilized creatures I'm sitting with and think about millions of years ago... the same sun that warms me... is the same sun that shown upon them...and someday another lifeform will sit here and warm in the sunlight. I find comfort in the continuum of life! Gosh...life is good!

[@jfdouvl]

Those rocks where amazing but your genuine excitement every time is just plan fun to hear.. keep the videos coming always makes me smile.

[@WILDKYLE]

Thank you my friend, glad to hear the video could bring a smile to your face!

[@jeannettesmith5492]

I really enjoyed his excitement😊

[@symonrocks9847]

My favourite are coffeeopods, medium are the most common but it's not unheard of finding decaffeinatedopods. The beetle is from Alice, it's a drink me beetle and once you take it you will shrink because you doubled up in pain. The old blue slags are very common, especially in the winter months.

[@megankimber8772]

P.s. that slag is AMAZING! Finding it must have been thrilling! So happy for you! I think it might be once in a life time experience you had that day; so plentiful! It’s now my new obsession, I think.

[@laurelshugars2866]

I have been tumbling slag lately. Love finding the blue, but the greys that I find really polish up cool. The lines are as beautiful as agate. You guys got some wonderful variegated blues!!

[@lynnadkins1079]

Loved the blue stones. Each piece was a original, no two alike but equally beautiful. Thanks for sharing such a delightful discovery!!!

[@crystalslipis1629]

The blue rocks were so neat. The patterns were so beautiful. These would make awesome pendants!!! Loved it!!

[@weirdmatter]

I was thinking fish tank rocks

[@chrisbgifford7387]

Fayetteville TN just north of Huntsville AL. Is the Elk river, way back in the Mimosa Community it is just a creek when I was young I played in that creek and picked up all kinds of rock. There is a 2 lane hwy that has cutouts through rocks for the roads. Your video at the begining reminds me of summers at granny's.

[@terryhuntzicker8474]

Put a bunch of the blue slag in a tall clear glass vase to display. They are gorgeous

[@randomactsofhugs]

Looked like blue apitite to me. Love you video's. Sending you Airhugs of positive loving energy to you and yours

[@gemstonejudy5900]

At is slag glass from the iron smelting furnaces. You can also find it in an olive green and a black/ purple.

[@jeannettesmith5492]

WOW, beautiful finds❤

[@Wispertile]

Those two Brachiopods that fossilized together were mates for eternity ♾️

[@leannbrown7405]

Wow just stopped on the side of the road and found all kinds of fossils! I just started watching your site! Love all your doing! Love to go mudlarking with yall!

[@MariaCCurry]

Super Cool! 💙🩵🤍🩶🩵🤍🤎💙💚🩶🩵💙

[@beckieg8479]

Completely AMAZING! purple and blue is my favourite 😮❤❤👍

[@chrislawton6947]

You should send some to those to rob @ Michigan rocks to tumble. Great vid.

[@mellomelo119]

Wildkyle, what don't you find. I love it. It's never boring my friend !!! You happen upon the most amazing stuff !

[@maxinerowe2925]

Blue is wonderful

[@highrockhoney5033]

You should send some of those beautiful blues to Michigan Rocks for him to tumble! Hehehe nice fun vid thanks for the fun content!

[@donnahumphriesallen5805]

How do you clean up fossils? It would be a good video if you could show us the cleaning and what they look like afterwards. Love the slag?! ✌️❤️

[@lynnerodgers4461]

Great video! Love the sound and look of the slow moving water at the end. Very peaceful.

[@ianlauhon8760]

I live in eastern Kentucky and I did a driveway job once and digging it out we found so much blue slag glass like that it was unreal

[@The1BlackKrow]

Six spotted Emerald Green Tiger beetle. WOOT!!!

[@jacqulynjohnson653]

Thank you for showing this fantabulous video!! I’m from MI and the Leland folks all say, you can only find Leland Blue in Leland. BUT! If you find slag elsewhere, well…Tennessee Blue!! Lol! (If you don’t mind pm’ing me where you were, my husband and I are headed there at the end of the month and would like to know if we’ll be close.) Those are way more gorgeous than what I’ve found in other old smelting areas of MI, and even Leland!!

[@LillianArch]

Road cuts! Awesome!!

[@Greatesttreasure]

Love blue rocks

[@stevephillips6973]

Those "Tennessee Blues" are amazing! They would make some beautiful cabochons! Awesome vid!

[@WILDKYLE]

I want a bolo tie made out of one!

[@stevephillips6973]

@WILDKYLE looks like you got enough to make a hundred bolo ties!

[@dhogue01ify]

Where in TN were they???

[@lesHanalala]

Tiger beetle! ❤ 'em!!

[@mirkatu3249]

WOW! Loved the slag glass! 💙

[@lisamills-wv6nc]

Love those blue rocks!

[@j.b.4340]

Cool vid. The gravel I collect here in Louisiana, originated in Tennessee. That boggles my mind.

[@awefulwaffle5628]

The slag is definitely cooler than the fossils for me because it’s definitely way more rare to find in a creek and if you had 50 of the same type of fossil, they could get a bit old to go through (old to go through.. fossils…no? Well anyway) every single slag piece is different and what awesome colors! Super freakin cool!! I would love to find some! Those would make an awesome aquarium addition! Might have to check some old maps..

[@tinacluff2793]

Love the slag glass especially the big one and the purple/blue one and all the fossils.

[@WILDKYLE]

Thanks Tina! I really enjoyed getting a nice variety of stuff!

[@chucklandry5588]

I would love to purchase one of those’blue rocks ‘and cut it on a tile saw

[@ccccarriemchardy9216]

Rob would love that slag (it has his two favorite things in it), its blue and has strips.

[@terryfowler1495]

After this one I'm gonna hafta start calling you Not So Wild Kyle bot I still love your guts.. i wanna see a music vid man.

[@IndusRiverRock]

Beautiful sharing 👍

[@howardfreeland5595]

If you want really good Ordovician fossils, go east of Cincinnati on both sides of the Ohio River. I found 400 complete (both sides) bachiopods in 1 road cut years ago. there are also trilobites and a few crinoids. The bryozoans like you had at the beginning are present by the thousands.

[@haseo8244]

Minnesota ones are a bit earlier but there are weird crossovers with a few brachiopods being of same species.

[@haseo8244]

By the way the Minnesota location have one genus of abundant brachipods absent from Cinncinitea - Oepikina .

[@thegatesofdawn...1386]

Love the blue slag glass! ❤

[@maryland9987]

Awesome!

[@HokieJuju]

I was just reading about different types of Native American pottery in SW VA as I’m trying to distinguish some shards I’ve found. One of the main ways to distinguish between pottery from different areas is what they used to temper the pottery when they were making it. The stuff I’m looking at was tempered with crushed mussel shells & sometimes gastropod shells (w/particles ranging from fine flakes to large chunks 6-8 mm long). Some native groups here used just gastropod shells & sometimes added some crushed limestone as well to temper. It’s so cool knowing what they used to use to make stuff & how u can determine stuff by what they used that was available in the area at the time. Cool stuff!!! I love all the blue slag - so pretty!!! I love creek walking but wish I had the knowledge u have!! There’s no telling all the stuff I pass over b/c I just don’t know what I’m walking over!!!

[@metteudengaard8831]

Send one of the blue ones to Theo. He can make a beautiful necklace with it 😊

[@beckyjo8745]

I have some blue, and some green Slag glass it's prettier when wet and I put some clear nail polish on it to keep it looking so pretty.

[@jeriboswell1336]

Shoot, now l think l am also obsessed with blue stones.

[@connienelson1515]

Loved the blue slag!

[@SRHS83]

It's a Six Spotted Green Tiger Beetle.

[@force4200]

So nice the blue we have a slagg place in our town in Sweden. Love your channel have the best day to you!

[@WILDKYLE]

Thanks so much Robert! Hope you've had a great day also!

[@oculusangelicus8978]

That slag is so beautiful that you could turn it into cabochons and make jewelry out of it! women like beautiful colors like that, they'd buy it but just don't call it slag glass. call it "Custom manufactured mineral glass".

[@bonnieestucker4805]

Bleautiful!

[@connienelson1515]

The blue Slagle reminds me of blue picture jasper.

[@tls81484]

I was going to say Leland Blue right before you did. My mom lived near Leland for years and dialy hunted Leland blue. Next time you are in Michigan, message me. I run dive charters and have a AirBnb you can stay at. There are some insane fossil areas near Alpena MI. I know a few beaches that can only be accessed by boat and definitely the best Petoskey stones that you will find in Michigan. The puddingstones are crazy too. I use to captain a boat out of Wilmington NC for Magalodon teeth dives. Love your videos and all the great stuff you find!

[@timgleaves9496]

Be mindful of rocks falling. Anytime you have a cliff side like that you always have that risk. Great video! Making me home sick. I will be back up there at the first week of May.

[@WILDKYLE]

Thanks for watching Tim! I try to keep an eye open for that always. Safety first! I'll be heading up to Michigan the first week of May!

[@timgleaves9496]

@@WILDKYLE Have fun and keep up the great vids! Always entertaining.

[@gafairbanks2434]

Have you ever taken a map and placed where the oceans critters have been found? Big area for sure! Would be interesting

[@netamorton4832]

I just found your channel and I love it! I’m crazy over rocks and the blue ones are amazing!❤️

[@PPMAK777]

The blue 💙

[@chacha8585]

put those blues in the rock tumbler that would make colors pop

[@gladlawson61]

Hey yall

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@WILDKYLE]

Thank you for watching! 🙏

[@DasOhneEnde]

Like Ocean picture stone💎

[@hallbjornthefirebreather8376]

I used to have a bunch of Tennessee blue rocks, picked them up on a trail ride when I was kid. Most of them roughly baseball sized. But thanks to my great aunt being a terrible woman, I lost all of them because they were at my mawmaws house and was sold in the estate sale

[@CindysGems]

I ❤❤❤ THE BLUE STONES

[@fishinwidow35]

I found some of that blue slag glass in Western Tennessee.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

The one with the crystals inside is awesome! Lots of fossils have crystals inside but you never can tell. I bet a lot of the larger brachiopods there have calcite crystals inside like that. Ordovician lots of the US was underwater.

[@haseo8244]

Quartz crystals are more common in Minnesota. Usually in cavities like cephalopods but sometimes brachiopods. Rust are more common in Minnesota.

[@midnitesilverrun8631]

In Colorado a lot of the creeks are full of aluminum oxide which is turning everything white in and around the creeks.

[@robchilders]

Wildkyle, you need to carry an Estwing Gad Pry Bar with you. They work so well when searching most fossiliferous limestones. Always have fun watching you get excited over finds.

[@WILDKYLE]

I'll have to grab one of those! Thank you!

[@laurelharris9406]

Now you have me excited to go fossil hunting and slag glass hunting. Where were y'all??

[@midnitesilverrun8631]

I always find it hilarious when people ask Like someone’s gonna give up there hunting spots so other people can trample them

[@TravelingTreasureFinder]

Hi Kyle! Just found your channel via one of my followers 👏🏻 Great adventure! As a Michigander and rock hunter, I love the blue stones! Looking forward to checking out more of your videos! I am also a gemini so I got a chuckle out of the green beetle comments 🤣

[@WILDKYLE]

Thanks for coming to check out my channel! Fellow Gemini haha. Our time is coming soon! Mine is June 9th!

[@TravelingTreasureFinder]

@@WILDKYLE Yup - June 14! A fellow twin! I just finished watching this and am so stunned by this slag! Having lived in Leland for 15 years, I never thought you could find slag as good. This is better! Amazing!!!👏🏻👏🏻

[@WILDKYLE]

@@TravelingTreasureFinder I love the slag from MI but I also enjoy the TN stuff more I think! Looks like agate! I'll be up in MI this summer and plan to try and snorkel for some Leland Blues though!

[@TravelingTreasureFinder]

@@WILDKYLE Oh fun - I'm planning on that too! I've never snorkeled for blues but I plan on it. I also metal detect so I am going to snorkel with my handheld. I'll be there in July so maybe I'll see you at Van's! 👏🏻My sister still lives up there so I am lucky to visit anytime👏🏻I'm Kris by the way - nice to meet you!

[@helgavoorneveld1530]

I would "flod" my boots for that anyday 😅

[@salonohana3089]

brachiobuddies!!

[@elizabethbamfield6808]

I live in Battle Creek MI I wish I had some of that blue stuff the only colors I'm finding are a blackish and a dark green from the iron works And a few odd tinted greenish ones with copper bits

[@SmallWonda]

Lovely finds - did you get to polish the slag glass?

[@crossgrainwoodproductsltd9230]

Is that road cut you were picking through Shale? I live in the North East and there is a ton of. Granite and slate in this area. I'm a complete novice but started creek walking for antique bottles and rocks. I found two shark teeth completely fossilized and I'm hooked! I have a great place to find arrowheads and farmers, now I want to know what to look for when it comes to fossils. ANY ADVICE you can pass along would be greatly appreciated. I love your genuine enthusiasm when you find a fissile. It gets me excited for you!

[@gaqxwp]

Awesome finds! Did you keep all the slag you picked up? They were really gorgeous!

[@vickieeh1]

I know this is an older video, but six spotted tiger beetle ❤

[@lyvmyk9988]

That was a Green Tiger Beetle from the family Cicindelidae

[@tommytaylor4458]

Bet rob at Michigan rocks would love to tear into that blue slag!!!neat stuff!!

[@yurimartin4972]

A drink for every time you say brachiopod, good luck😂

[@johnscamardo2145]

howdy from west Tenn

[@ChadNoell]

My family and I will be heading to Tennessee in the near future. Might l ask what highway was that?

[@sherriewhitehead7279]

Beautiful slag glass. Will you slice any of these pieces? Wondering if the color goes all the way through or if it would be translucent.

[@WILDKYLE]

I'd definitely like to cut some pieces! I dropped a piece at the river and it broke and the color went all the way through!

[@nancycouch4419]

We have those iridescent bugs here in Indiana. They eat ants.

[@connienelson1515]

So, did you drown your boots?😊

[@creepycast]

Those are damn beautiful and I can’t keep my eyes off of them and now I want to go. I will walk all the way to there from California just get those but yeah that looks like obsidian. We live in a volcanic area but you never see that color. Oh my god it’s beautiful. It’s just amazing I would hold them all and never sell or give them any way. I would not tell anybody I had a bike inside of that they wouldn’t get taken lol cause I do that with all of my collection so I have like literally tons of rocks at my house. Oh well at least it’s not illegal and it’s I could be a smoking crack you know it’s a good addiction, right?

[@marjakeizer9580]

Chalcedony, blue version of agate.

[@themcgeefamily7514]

❤️ 💙

[@sergiitkachenko8976]

I would like to see this stream with my own eyes, I think it is not difficult, you just need to know the name. great trip and a very beautiful stream. if possible tell me the name

[@bethsands7665]

does the slag still contain high levels of lead and arsenic ?

[@kiyarnmyers2429]

what would the age of the slag be ..would love to know please

[@WILDKYLE]

Most likely around the late 1800's!

[@leviticus8930]

where did you find the slag?

[@kathleenmorabito4477]

Curious about the creek and surrounding area. I had planned to locate some land for camping on and my dream would be a creek/river running through it. I live in FL and have to escape the summers here. About what area would that be? Not exact if you don’t want to say. Just county or general area in the state. Love your treasure hunt. I’m a massive rock hound and understand the lure.

[@sheilaholden8467]

Kyle did you ever send any of the blue stones to your Mom?

[@caseymichelle1497]

Where in Tennessee is this located?

[@whycivilequalsinsane]

Blue chalcedony

[@marthagriffin7468]

What do y’all do with the fossils once you find them?

[@hopegeoghegan4184]

Can the blue slag be polished?

[@maryleonard6381]

What do you plan to do with the stones that you found?

[@chrisstaylor8377]

Rail way line ballast, they use slag for this

[@kelliwichita5012]

Yo, you absolutely missed that boss arrowhead. Nice point. Blined by the plethora of Brachiapods. I'm interested to know if you rewinded the video to see it. Lookity, me showing my age. When was the last time you had to be kind , rewind?

[@mcchuggernaut9378]

Out for a walk to appreciate the outdoors and natural world. Finds man's industrial trash. It's the prettiest thing on the river. The irony...