Rockhounding, cutting, tumbling, and polishing. Welcome to my world of rocks.
In this week's video I'm cutting Graveyard Point plume agate with marcasite and other colorful inclusions, plus a galaxy stone and two random rocks. The plume agate came from Richardson's Rock Ranch in Madras, Oregon, and microscope photos show the beautiful mineral stowaways carried in the rock.
I was pretty sure this was a petrified pine cone. But when I cut it, it had a different and unpleasant odor. Could it be a coprolite?
I visited Jeweled Rose, a local lapidary shop in Forest Grove, Oregon, to see what rough rock I could find, and it was great! I purchased a carnelian, a blue agate, a white agate and a piece of petrified wood, and I cut all but the white agate in this video.
I went rockhounding in southwest Washington for carnelian agates with a new friend, the carnelian queen! Let's cut open the carnelian agates I brought home and see what's inside them.
In this video I cut a piece of petrified wood from Hampton Butte, Oregon. It has pores, and during the polishing process I got cerium oxide in there. Do I need an ultrasonic cleaner to get it out?
In this video I cut 4 rocks and a little slab: a quartz nodule with little vugs, a strange rock with micro minerals I need help identifying, petrified wood from Hampton Butte, Oregon, and a red sedimentary rock with small minerals that are visible on the microscope.
I cut three rocks from rockhounding the Oregon coast. The Rock Identifier app says they are tree agate, serpentine, and agate. Let's find out!
In this video I cut four more rocks from the middle fork of the Snoqualmie River in Washington state. Our dog Lola is terrified of fireworks, so we went to Rockaway Beach on the Oregon coast for New Year's to see if that would be a quieter experience.
Cutting 5 rocks from a trip to Issaquah. I rock hounded on the middle fork of the Snoqualmie river and found banded chert, petrified wood, and more.
