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@Sarahmatlock-tw1sn

8 ай бұрын

Nice stars! I have a diagram for the late 60s. I can cut 50 stars in a row! I love to show you how to open up the star. The chips and big chunks are what make the better stars they have already broke on the fracture!

@Donaldperson7

7 ай бұрын

As Americans the national parks belong to all Americans! We pay taxes for maintenance and wildlife control! We shouldn’t have to pay anything to use these properties! This pay every time you go should be illegal! I want trump to fund the national parks more and eliminate any fees to use Federal lands! And State lands in the USA!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

7 ай бұрын

@@Donaldperson7 Your comment really lacks insight into the situation. Go back and re-read your comment, you don't even make sense. This is not a National Park, it's USFS. If you think the taxes you pay should 100% cover everything, then get ready to be paying a lot more in taxes and getting very little in return. USFS posts all of their budgets online, what they spend on what and where all the money comes from. Go read it.

@Donaldperson7

7 ай бұрын

Just follow the stream outside the gate you probably will still find Gems there!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

7 ай бұрын

@@Donaldperson7 The comments that you're making here make you sound a little dimwitted. The point of the fee dig is to allow people a means of getting the garnets in an area that is protected and they do not want people digging in the creek, which impacts the habitat. The USFS is pretty clear about that with all the signage that is up.

That was informational and if you are a rockhounder, I could see this as being a lot of fun with the possibility of finding some good material. Thanks for letting us tag-a-long with you. 👍

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

I think it's a great stop off place to visit.

Very cool location! Looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing! I am kinda tired of people finding rocks and asking how much is it worth. It’s not about finding rocks to make a profit. It’s the love of rocks and exploring the outdoors.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

It does get old but I mostly just see it online as we don't really interact with people in real life very much.

@775Rockhounding

8 ай бұрын

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Well nowadays that’s probably for the better! Lol. Hope you and Sarah are having a good thanksgiving!

I really appreciate seeing and hearing your partner in your videos. You are so lucky to have someone who shares your passion. That said I love all your videos, I can relate to so much of what you say,the walking ,the scenery-view, the work and the friends you make. Of course the rocks.❤

Thanks for the shout-out! Others have undoubtedly experimented more, but few are willing to share their experience other than to tell you you're doing it wrong. If you want to really clean out the dirt from those cracked ones, muriatic acid did the trick for me. You can also bring un-powered sifting equipment to Emerald Creek. When I went this year, someone had a 4x2 foot sifter that they propped up. They got their limit well before the time was up.

@DrewMorrill

8 ай бұрын

When I go I usually bring my own classifier that is just shy of 1/2". I've limited out every time when I bring it since they started using the new source for the material. The old source was literally scraping bedrock and you could be there all day and not find any good whole garnets. You can definitely tumble the garnets to get a better polish on them and use a bright light source to find your rays in the stones. My tips are to bring multiple ziplock bags, one you keep on your person for each run to the sluice and one to keep in your backpack so you don't have to pack around all the garnets. Keep an eye out while walking around the mound of dirt/gravel for any garnets on the ground. I've found my largest whole garnets just laying on the ground. Definitely sift until you fill your bucket of rocks to wash before going to the sluice. When washing I go through my material a couple times before discarding so I make sure I don't miss any good ones.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Next year I will go back and bring my own tools but it was good to have and show the experience of using their stuff.

I live in Spokane and have been eyeballing that emerald creek dig for a while now, this was a great little informational video and now I know kinda what to expect when I do go. 😊 you guys got some beautiful pieces and for 15$ you can’t beat that! thank you for another great video

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

You should plan on going next year.

What a blast fam. Great day out there. Loads of great info. Keep on having fun and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

Great Timelapse showing the process with shaking, washing, and picking. While it’s not illegal to film kids…best not to IMO. Fun outing!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah I just want to be respectful of other around me in situations like this.

@DanFarrar

8 ай бұрын

@@CurrentlyRockhounding It sometimes works to inform the parents you are filming and you would rather not film their kids. Most are appreciative and others don’t care. Either way, it’s nice to have open space without people at all when filming a project. I thought you guys did great with the time lapse as an option.

Jason says, “I like rock people”. I agree! Ha ha! Good video!

That looked like just about the perfect fee dig if I've ever seen one! Wow! You got some pretty material! The color is gorgeous! And if you are just polishing pieces for jewelry or faceting, you aren't concerned about locating the stars anyways. But on those big beautiful whole garnets it may be fun to sphere and find the stars. I just love garnets! Its my grandma's and my son's, birthstone so it's very special to me! Thank you for this awesome video! It will go on my must do list (before I die) and I can actually do most of it by myself in my motorized wheel chair! I'm so excited to be able to get back out and do things, rockhound again! Next year! Thanks Jared and Sara!❤

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

It's a pretty good location and its very accessible for people as well. You could 100% go here and do this.

My wife's wedding ring was made from this same garnet that we dug together here, super cool site. I had it cut and everything down at Gem State Crystals in Moscow, ID. Found your video looking for rockhounding in Eastern WA (I'm about an hour south of Spokane myself.) Good stuff!

I worked with a few guys in Wyoming who used to go out by Pathfinder Reservoir to hunt for garnets. Being a Wisconsin guy I didnt quite know what they were talking about, Im just a Laker guy, but wow are those ever beautiful pieces.

I prefer to dig alone. Neat finds!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

I hear you there but that's not always going to be an option.

@1erinjames

8 ай бұрын

@@CurrentlyRockhounding indeed. Good to know that spot will have people so if we ever go, we know.

Garnet is my wife’s birth stone. This would be a great dig for us.❤ thanks!!!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

You should plan a visit for spring 2024.

Wow! I love Sarah's intelligent input. Jared, y'all make a admirable team. The rocks are cool, but I'm more impressed with you guy's. Great work.

Thank you for sharing your adventures. Looks like a fun day. A hike, some digging, and then discovery. Good day together. 😊

Awesome video, garnets are very cool!! We have a spot in Ontario called the River Valley Garnet Occurrence that produces some monster garnets. It's hard to collect there now bc the property owners closed it down to the public and a local mineral club now is the only one that can set up trips there, though I believe if you're part of another Ontario mineral club you can still get in by scheduling with the local club.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Are they getting them out of host rock or are they loose like this?

@Ontario_Rockhound

8 ай бұрын

@@CurrentlyRockhounding mix of both, the matrix is a mica schist that I think has high concentrations of chlorite present but in certain areas there are pockets of heavy decomposed schist and there you literally can just dig them out, the largest I found was probably the size of a base ball, but I have seen much larger examples, think large grapefruit sized. You can also find staurolite there too but that Is much rarer.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

@@Ontario_Rockhound Now that's somewhere I would like to visit!

@Ontario_Rockhound

8 ай бұрын

@CurrentlyRockhounding well if you ever come up I know a couple folks around there so I could maybe try and pull some strings.

Wow, those are some amazing geometrically shaped specimens you guys found sitting in those perky display cases. They are still in that signature dodecahedron form that we all know and love about garnets. Great video!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Years ago you paid $5, could dig in the creek, and stay all day. The current set-up is better. Best we're clean golf ball sized garnets sold by a local on the road in. $10 ea. The rangers actually recommended her and allowed her to sell on premises.

We did a family outing to the emerald creek site when the kids were little. Yesitsa long walk but it’s beautiful. Lots of good memories!

HOLY COW! Those are NICE garnets from that location in 3 hours! I was there pre-Covid and dug for about 4 hours (before reservations were required), and I wound up with a fraction of what you collected, and not nearly anything that big or nice. Congrats!! Like you said, results vary from year to year based on what they dig up to sift. I hope you find good stars in your garnets and post a video on it.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I have heard similar from other people that they didn't have the best luck in past years.

Great area. In the creek at the parking area, you can reach in the water on the downstream side of a rock and grab hands full of coarse garnet sand. I found a hellgramite that covered itself in garnet. That was cool. Small garnet in the mica matrix is absolutely everywhere. Thanks for the vid.

On a side note, love seeing your sleeves showing. You have some really good work done there.

@mrimc

8 ай бұрын

The garnets are fantastic. Grind em , polish em and set them on some gold..January birth stone

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

I think I'm around 25-28 hours of tattoo work. A little painful but I'm happy with my work.

I am so bummed I missed you, I would have loved to have been there when you were. Parents bring their kids for a cheap outing, and it is annoying. Most of the time, kids are pretty good, though, and "dig" right in. I have been every year for the past 3 yrs and love it. It is a lot of work, but I love my prizes at the end. Last year was the change in the rules. It was 5 lbs, and they did not limit you to once a year. I think we can thank the people who make jewelry out of them. They practically have people at every station doing a job. I had some garnets finished in Moscow, Idaho and came out with two, four ray stones 😮

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Over all I think it was worth it, we learned a lot and will surely return next year, but we will aim for a weekday.

love this place i go every year i have always found at least a couple of 4 star garnets and this year i got a 6 ray

I think you both did really good. I usually tumble them and look for the asterisks, then cut if I find some. Yup, I'm lazy. If I get one I'm happy. If I get none I'm less but still happy. Heep having fun adventures. 😷⚒

Used to go here all the time as a kid!

Great way to spend a morning. Thank You for sharing. Nice garnets and color. I like your thumbnails. Plus you two got a nice downhill walk back.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! :)

It looks like you came away with some nice finds. I agree that places like that seem like a tourist trap for those who know very little about rocks, butit can be an opportunity to educate for any willing to learn. BTW, with each video, Sara seems to be a little less shy about being included. Happy Thanksgiving from Oregon!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

I think if you know what you're doing and know what to expect you can come here and find some really good stuff but otherwise it seems a little out of place for most people to go to.

I'm near Boise and want to go here so I'm very thankful for this video. I think it'll be fun and I hope I find the stars 🤩

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

You should plan a trip for next year.

I'll qualify my statement by saying "I'm in no way and expert when it comes to finding the stars". However, I was told the star is in the center. You would cut the Garnet in half, then cab it from the middle out. I've not had success with that though, so who knows for sure.

OMGosh!! This is awesome!! My birthstone ❤️

this is so fun looking. i want to do this, as well as the emerald mine in N.C. Both are on my list of places to go see and hunt. Great vid bud!..Thanks for sharing.

@diggingappalachia954

8 ай бұрын

Hope you’re doing good, do a little research on the emerald mines, some of them are seeded

@manisteerocks7092

8 ай бұрын

@@diggingappalachia954 emerald hollow mine is the one I'm interested in?..know anything about it?

I've been wanting to do that garnet dig site for years and years! I'm so jealous!...LOL. great video for sure!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

It's fairly good!

Looks like a fun dig, very nice color for the size of some of them

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

It's pretty good I think.

Looks great. Thanks for the video

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked it.

Cool experience! Interesting garnets.

Very cool!

If you get a chance the huckleberry garnet dig is just up the road and has fossil's also. He ia also building his own sphere machines. Real nice couple that runs the place.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

I'm not a fan of his policy that you have to buy what you find from him even if you don't want it.

@billlisakinzner8655

8 ай бұрын

@CurrentlyRockhounding never had that happen to us. He sorts through what we find and sets the duds aside and we buy whats left.

Well thats awesome

Fantastic video. Been there many times. Lots of fun

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

It's a good location for sure.

That looks like so much fun!!! Would love to do this some day!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

It's a good location for sure.

I really need to explore Idaho more. If I could just pry myself away from Prineville.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Idaho has lots of places to visit but figuring out where to go is an issue.

This may be an unreasonable fear, but I would be constantly on the lookout for flying rock picks & buckets, digging around so many people.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Yeah there was a lot of people just having at it.

Awesome video! Maybe collaborate with Lapidary Dave to get one of those beauties polished. It may workout for the both of you?

We were told, you have to make your reservations a year in advance. Is that true? That’s why we went to the other dig site.😄 And those are amazing! You found some perfect star garnets! 🙌🏼 Oh! I’m jealous!😄

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

I don't think its that far out but all of the information is on the website for the site.

@brendadahmen9147

8 ай бұрын

You do not have to a year in advance. But they only release a month in advance from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Hey Jared, do all Garnets contain this star pattern? Also you have a great collection! 👍🏻👍🏻

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

All garnets do not contain the star pattern unfortunately.

@Mike-br8vb

8 ай бұрын

@CurrentlyRockhounding ahh ok, so it's just a lucky find thing, kinda like the search for Iris. Thanks Jared!

That looked like a lot of fun though I would try it I think garnets are pretty cool

Me wanting to go get that. 😊

Very nice

@CurrentlyRockhounding

7 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked it!

Nice garnets, I would love to just find 1 natural.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

They are very nice.

Hello, Jared and Sara! The screens seemed to have large openings. Do you think a smaller screen mesh would of yielded more material of better quality?!? 🤷🏻‍♀️

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

I think the 1/2" screen is pretty good however you will lose smaller garnets but I think they are mostly looked at a useless.

Question. I also live in spokane. The misses & i went there a few years back & collected a bunch, dont know what yo do with them, can i tumble them? Great video

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

You could tumble them but in many ways they will go to waste in that process. The Spokane Rock Rollers club has a lapidary shop you could use to polish some of them up.

@philmcdonald693

8 ай бұрын

Thank you. I'll look into them

I'll probably try to go to Emerald Creek for my B-Day. Is the site usually open in April or is there still too much snow at that time of the year? And since I live in the Tri-Cities, I'll have to take what I find over to Patrick, who happens to be the leader for the loval gem & mineral club.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

They have there hours up on their website. Sometimes in early April that area can still get snow.

Could you tumble a few to find the orientation?

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

It's not really easy to tumble a few of anything.

Sorry if this was said already and I missed it, but where is this emerald creek dig? I live out near Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helen's, any good known spots for rock hounding?

@CurrentlyRockhounding

7 ай бұрын

This is in north Idaho. There is a link in the description box of the video with all the details.

This is near Spokane? Is there gold in the screenings possibly

@CurrentlyRockhounding

7 ай бұрын

It is near Spokane! There is all the information you need in the description box of this video. I didn't check for gold.

Those are great. I’ve wanted to go and just never made it yet. Has anyone ever just tried tumbling them?

@CurrentlyRockhounding

6 ай бұрын

I wouldn't recommend tumbling for anything you really care about.

@user-sp1gw8gz3o

6 ай бұрын

@@CurrentlyRockhounding bummer. Lol. I’m big on tumbling things. But thank you for the heads up.

I have a dodecahedon garnet a similar size to the one you have, I would love to polish the sides. I dont have any means of doing this, would you recommend I do it by hand with an assortment of grit sand paper.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

7 ай бұрын

What kind of lapidary equipment do you have access to?

@mariemoss2475

7 ай бұрын

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Zero 😭.... Was hoping I could it with grit paper, but I know it might be impossible.

Noob question: can garnets be tumbled?

@DrewMorrill

8 ай бұрын

Yes, you can tumble pretty much any stone. I've tumbled some garnets from before they got their new source and they turned out great!

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

They can but generally its not the best idea as you're kind of throwing some material away in doing so but people still do it.

Whoever named those garnets missed the chance to call them 'starnets'.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

8 ай бұрын

Ha! That would have been a more amusing name.