Rockhounding For Pink Opal In The Washington Scablands
Rockhounding For Pink Opal In The Washington Scablands
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0:00 – Intro
0:40 – Rockhounding
12:16 – Back At The Shop
Very cool finds! Thank you for sharing!
Hi Friend..Its good aventure..I like the pink colour..Hope you success to your chanel..
The dog is a baby and you’re a good daddy.
What is your method for dissolving calcite?
You guys are so lucky you get to stop on rural roads and highways, not in CA since cops and highway patrol have a 21 ticket quota is an easy ticket if people stop on rural roads or highways and if is not an emergency you are busted.
Will you be cutting that big piece parallel to the lines for a different pattern?
That chunker is impressive! Beautiful material. Should polish on the lap very easily✨
Thank you
Very nice finds. Thanks for sharing
Omg that huge piece is beautiful already. I haven’t finished the video yet but I hope you show them all cleaned up at the end. Do you have videos of some of the stuff you find all polished up? I’d really love to see that aventurine all polished.
just subscribed to THE ROCKHUGGERs channel, have you ever tried/thought about making beads out of some of them smaller rocks? if you do do it is a chalange to do so as i found out!! great video!
That big one rose quartz?
Great Rockhound trip! It took me about 7 minutes to find where you were digging! I should have majored in Geography as I love Google Earth. But, respecting the efforts of Rockhounds like yourself and The Rock Hugger, who have come before me, I will divulge it to no one. On the other hand, I will be traveling there to find my own opal treasures of Central Washington. #MumIsTheWord
Very cool video
Great video. Is any of the material you collected good for tumbling or polishing? Keep up the great work. Always appreciate fellow Washington rockhound videos!!
Good fun but why do you call the Pink Opal, opal?
Great finds! I’d like to see one of those slabs you cut polished!
Lots of cool info 🙂
Rad video man, happy I could share a spot with ya!! Cheer from The Rock Hugger
You are right The Rocker is a totally righteous dude very friendly I love his videos and I love your videos to Jared
At 3:05, I’m pretty sure that’s carnelian.
I believe that’s hyalite opal..the clear opal at the beginning
Great location, great stuff you found. Another place for my growing list of rockhounding locations that I want to visit.
Lika is such a sweet dog. I loved getting to meet you, Sara and your dog. I obviously love animals and they love me too. 🙂
Awesome adventure sweet finds cool area thank you
I found a beautiful irridescent pick opal on the Eaton ranch south of Ellensburg. I gave it to Mrs. Eaton andshe had a pendant made from it. It was quite stunning and looked like the opal that comes from Australia.
Wow…that was quick. Amazing that it is pet wood…so jewel-like!
Can you share the location of this one?
Wicked good stuff man
Loved the glances of basalt. Columbia River Basalt formation covers areas of Oregon and Washington usually 15 miles deep. Sarah with your sweet dog tied to her is so patient. Well trained dog!!
It’s beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing!
I enjoyed your enjoyment of some great discoveries! Almost felt like I was there with you. Those pink colors are really something. The common opal I’ve found in the Oregon desert have been yellow and root beer brown. So funny to watch you haul Laika across the bridge! Thanks for a great time!
I have a rock I Can’t identify yet. It’s an emerald green, and red speckled crystal of some sort. It’s a vein, has what looks like Potch on top and bottom, definitely white. But the green is insane. I’m scared to work with it. Yeah it’s from Oregon
Cool finds. Thanks for sharing. Happy thanksgiving to you and you family
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Love this video! I want to go here. I think with those little “red” pieces, they could be polished and wire wrapped and make some nice jewelry ❤️❤️
Oh wow… I’d live to work with the common opal in the lapidary shop..
Super envious
This looks like my towns surrounding areas. Love it!
That big chunk looks like it has wood grain. Really neat stuff!
How can you tell opal when you see it? To me it just looks like another shiny rock. Is opal always small? Love your videos
Love your videos very much so much great info an dI truly appreciate you share so many locations. Sara seems so cool, you are a lucky man to have her along on your outings to the middle of nowhere…treat her like a queen man!!!
Well the wind isn’t blasting, so I know you aren’t in Ellensburg Washington.
wow that was a great day out fam. keep up the hunt. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!