Wyoming Stone Ranger Rainbow Banded Iron Rockhounding

[@saralynn518]

The one Max helped you find looks like a painting. AMAZING!

[@melaniebutters4826]

It is absolutely stunning, isn't it!😍. What a heavenly place to rock hound😍🥰

[@TinaHyde]

MAN those are so gorgeous! I can easily see how taking home too many could be a problem! For every one you picked up I saw at least 2 others I wanted to see close up. Need to add that spot to my bucket list of rockhounding sites! 🗺️📍

[@kellyharper367]

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: I'm a new subscriber...looking forward to riding along in your knapsack. Thank you for helping me stay connected to a lifelong hobby that brought me so much joy and enrichment. Beautiful banded iron formations. Happy, safe, and blessed trails to you and your family!😊

[@saralynn518]

Hi! I recognize you from Rob's and Kate's videos' comment section. Great minds think alike to end up here!

[@tedpreston4155]

Decades ago, a friend collected a 55 gallon barrel full of BIF from the hillsides above the river, near Miracle Mile. He traded the barrel full of rock for a new 18 inch slab saw! I've collected there myself, and you could fill a 55 gallon barrel pretty quickly! It's lovely stuff, but awfully dirty when you cut and grind it! Thanks for sharing!

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

I would love to trade rocks for a saw that would be amazing. Are you from Wyoming?

[@tedpreston4155]

@@wyomingstoneranger2920 Yes. I lived there for 45 years. Rock River, Yoder, Torrington, Laramie and Cheyenne. But my favorite place in Wyoming is the Sweetwater Rocks, and the rest of the jade fields.

[@ModernProspector]

Last I knew that whole area is claimed. Be sure you aren't claim jumping because the claim holder owns all of the minerals.

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

@@ModernProspector I definitely do not want to step on any ones feet Thanks

[@georgem7965]

@@ModernProspector Often true but a valid claim has to have corner posts and a discovery monument to be valid and to put the public on notice that a claim has been filed. Also, lots of folk may file a claim but fail to do, document, and file their annual assessment work. It takes a fair amount of work at the state BLM office to determine if any particular claim is valid or not. If someone has not placed and maintained their corner posts and done their annual assessment work it is considered an invalid claim and open for reclaiming under the 1872 mining law.

[@muzikhed]

Lucky you to live near a place like that.

[@MontanaRockMom]

I'm loving the Wyoming banded iron/jasper layering! Thank you for sharing ❤

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

Thank you so much I watch your videos all the time. One of these days I got to get to Montana search along the Yellowstone River

[@MontanaRockMom]

@@wyomingstoneranger2920 likewise...one of these days I need to get myself over to Wyoming 💗

[@mrfxm55]

Remember you can modify a masonry saw fitted with a diamond blade to cut up your rough materials. Good video and great finds.

[@upnorthadventureswithccc]

I find banded iron in Michigan but nothing like what you find. The rainbow banded iron is amazing looking ! Thanks for taking us along 😊👍

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

It is so fun to make the videos

[@wyomingadventures]

Nice to see that there's some banded iron jasper in our beautiful state. I need to come down there and look for some of those. Great finds!

[@steve.masingale1452]

Love the name ! Awesome !

[@philhills01]

Thank for another great video. Your posts are both entertaining and informative. Since we are also from here in Casper we look forward to each one. Keep up the good work!!

[@judyhobday4760]

My mother was raised in Wyoming. Sadly she is gone now or I would ask her if she knew this area. The ones you are collecting look like petrified wood, would look great in my aquariums. really striking. Glad I found your channel.

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

I have some banded iron for sale on ebay. Search seller kitsch22! If you are interested thanks

[@Lisa.Sparkman]

I was thinking the same thing but concerned about iron leaching into the tanks. It does look like pet wood for sure.

[@mistytaylor4434]

One of my favorite spots!! I have some on the last stages in the rock tumbler. Thanks for the video!!!

[@AgateAriel]

What a gorgeous area!! Great finds! I love seeing other rockhounds beauties!

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Beautiful stuff, let’s see it cabbed or tumbled!

[@dougreed9843]

That is some pretty rocks you got there.

[@juliemckenna514]

Wow! Beautiful stuff! Thanks for sharing 😊❤️

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Awesome material, I bet that it would make killer cabs!

[@saveriospadone6757]

Great stones

[@agustinusaris2452]

Amazing MANTAB BROOOO, I LIKE

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

I'm glad you like it

[@delfic1108]

Wow. These rocks are beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[@rockersfromaz3001]

Omgosh! Those are all AMAZING!!! I’m hoping you have an Etsy store! I sure would love to purchase some! Just beautiful!

[@juliekinner5566]

Incredible yet again Stone Ranger!!! Love the banded iron!!!! Looking forward to the time you ride again!!

[@chetalger873]

Great stuff.

[@deniseview4253]

Gorgeous stone!

[@brianmontgomery6184]

Gorgeous! I wish we had banded iron by me.

[@michelleangers342]

They are beautiful!

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Amazing video my friend!! Congratulations!! I just subscribed to your channel!! Have a nice time!! Greetings from Greece!!

[@mikemarley2389]

Had a claim in Arizona with a dike of that stone running through it.Sold the claim to pay for a funeral.We even found gold in some samples.We sold truck loads of material .Huge boulders we had to break to load.Tiger striped orange and yellow.Rainbow colored also.The buyer would turn spheres and eggs .They looked like small Jupiters and other planets.

[@TinaHyde]

Such a shame you had to sell the claim. My sympathies on your loss.

[@mikemarley2389]

@@TinaHyde Yeah it was my partners son.I still have access to the claim.That area is rich in dolimite and other minerals and there is a river close by the feeds a lake .It is around the Bradshaw mtns where lots of gold is / was found.I miss Arizona and its rocks and old mines.

[@olmilfishrock]

Great video!! The only banded iron I have ever seen is the kind I find in Minnesota. It’s red and black . None of the yellows or other colors you found . Thanks for taking the time to make these videos and sharing them with the rest of us! Keep rockin!!👍😎

[@gichigamigems4220]

love me some banded jasper and hematite and jaspelite :D

[@Cherrycola14]

Wow! what a view! Way to start a video

[@wilbondcajunrockhound5758]

that is some cool stuff never see any that color

[@dandickinson1003]

Really cool rocks!!

[@karlkarlsson1441]

Thanks for the great video! Wow!!!

[@darrylmoser9458]

awesome finds , wondering how well they would tumble?

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

I’m going to head back out and specifically look for rocks that would be good to tumble from my banded iron hole

[@vernsrocksstuff5989]

Beautiful pieces

[@bigmoney3405]

Love it! Keep em coming !

[@stephenblyskal5666]

When I bought a bunch from you in 2017 at the Miners Co-Op you told me these were collected from an exposed dune field. They are ventifacts, wind polished. These are water tumbled. So they occur in both places?

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

That was not me. You have the wrong guy n

[@diggingwyoming7498]

Fantastic

[@judyzapf1706]

WOW!!! I'M NEW HERE. I LOVE YOUR VIDEO. DO YOU SELL ANY OF YOUR FINDS? I'M FROM PA. BUT WAS AT YELLOWSTONE PARK. WHILE I WAS THERE I PICKED UP A LOT OF COLORED ROCKS. HOW CAN I FIND OUT WHAT KIND THEY ARE? I LOVED WYOMING. THANK YOU - JUDY

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

I have some rocks for sale on eBay under the seller name kitsch22! But if you have some pictures I may be able to help identify some of them

[@robertthiry9712]

Did you do any fishing while rock hounding?

[@Lori71264]

Coming to Wy, will you share your location?

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

What part of Wyoming?

[@Lori71264]

@@wyomingstoneranger2920 we are driving from Utah to SD, so from Evanston to Lusk

[@Lori71264]

@@wyomingstoneranger2920 also, are these ones magnetic? Enough iron that you could pick them up with a magnet? We keep giving our banded iron to friends that have pain, and it is helping so we then end up w with none. So looking for nice flat pocket sized ones and some really pretty ones like the fire colored ones!

[@savagesquirrel9828]

I can’t find good directions! Lakeshore Dr. Or Pathfinder rd..? Help!

[@botryoidalbishhh3150]

Hey 👋 new to the channel! I hit that follow button right away, great video guys 👍

[@saralynn518]

Oh, and why is the water that shade of green in the canyon?

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

Algae I believe

[@saralynn518]

@@wyomingstoneranger2920 It's such a milky sage. Do you know what color it is normally? The little girl singing is a huge treat!

[@sharonpape4343]

Banded iron looks a lot like petrified wood? Are they similar 🤔

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

Very different

[@bangdull8177]

Mantap batux👍👍👍

[@MrBelair216]

Pathfinder?

[@lelandgoff8103]

I am now obsessed with those banded Irons. Do you sell or maybe open to Trading. I am in Salt lake City and would love to open corespondence with the Wyoming Stone Ranger

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

I sell on Ebay seller name Kitsch22! What do you have for trade?

[@lelandgoff8103]

@@wyomingstoneranger2920 I have seem agates malacite azurite pet wood , utah wonder stone

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

@@lelandgoff8103 send me your email

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

@@lelandgoff8103 Send me your email address if you’re OK with that.

[@daizamaker-jerrybraswell1997]

Do you sell or trade the rainbow banded iron stones?

[@elaineflores6947]

could you tell me were i could get some banded iron

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

Do you have anything to trade?

[@bigmoney3405]

Beautiful material, do you cut it ?

[@wyomingstoneranger2920]

Unfortunately I don’t cut anything yet. I’m hoping one day to own a good rock saw. I have put some in the Tumblr and many of the pieces come out amazing. I will tag those in a video soon

[@bigmoney3405]

@@wyomingstoneranger2920 I bet they are spectacular, look forward to seeing them!

[@lloydstamper5705]

Please, use another microphone. The wind noise at the start of the video was bad. Still enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@Cherrycola14]

#thefinders

[@iballlp]

It's so unfair. We dont have that kind of rock in europe

[@daizamaker-jerrybraswell1997]

Are you on Facebook?

[@MAGAmerican]

Call it “The Pride Stone” and sell it to a Kalifornian for $1,000!!!🤣