I cut my 4th rock and my first slab: polka dot agate from the Polka Dot Agate Mine near Madras, Oregon. It’s outrageously beautiful! This is a pay to dig site, and I show the thunder eggs I dug that day as well.
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Transcript
hi nice to meet you you can call me Betty this is my fourth Rock it’s a chunk of polka dot agate from the polka dot agate mine near Madras Oregon this is a pay to dig site you’re pretty much guaranteed to find incredible things here it’s pretty accessible as well make sure you check their Facebook page to
be sure that they’re open before you head out there the people here are really nice make sure you listen to them they’ll tell you exactly what you’re looking for and what layer to dig in I still have one Thunder egg that I didn’t cut open this is what they look like here’s the inside of the Thunder eggs
that I dug up that day some of the Thunder eggs here have very delicate formations in inside of them so try to remove your thunder eggs whole and treat them carefully this is a big chunk of polka dot agate but I fell in love with it and had to bring it home now I get to cut it
open and see what’s inside this is probably as large a rock as I can cut on my saw I was really focused on trying to cut a straight line through the rock I was so focused that I didn’t notice that I was pushing way too hard I pushed my saw across the floor a few feet as I
cut the Rock beep beep coming through this material is really pretty you can see how it got its name I love the way this rock looks stood up on its cut ends I want to display it just like this I think it looks like Mount Hood I decided I needed to cut a slab off the bottom here
it is it’s not perfect I definitely need to practice but holy cow I think it’s amazing and I can’t believe how beautiful it is I can’t wait to cut the next Rock see you later
