Some observations. All of the fossils you're finding are from the Hudson Bay region and were brought down by glacial ice. Your blue chalcedony was likely encased in dolomite which is why it didn't bubble vigorously. However, that really reminds me of something you'd find in the desert southwest, not along the shores of Lake Superior. Your red "mystery rock" at 11:30 could be several things, but very likely something silicified. Would have to look at it in person to hazard any reasonable guess.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Paul. It's always nice to have an actual geologist checking our work! I knew the fossils weren't from right there since there's no limestone bedrock like in Lake Huron near me. I had no idea they came all the way from Hudson Bay though. That's a fun fact! Thanks for the guess on the dolomite. It looked like sandstone or limestone to me. I wasn't aware that dolomite doesn't react strongly to acid. The only dolomite I'm really familiar with is Kona dolomite from Marquette. That mystery rock is the number one rock I'd like to have identified. I doubt there's a name for it since no one has every told me one, but there should be. It's very recognizable and very common in the eastern U.P. Everyone I go up there with picks a lot of them up, wondering if they're agates. They're clearly not agates, but they have some translucency to them that really grabs your attention. They also have several layers of what I assume are different minerals.

@captpaul8827

Жыл бұрын

​@@MichiganRocksWe'll take a look at em in a few weeks.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

@@captpaul8827 I'm looking forward to that.

@mr.giggles4995

5 ай бұрын

The agate at 20:15 is an agate 😊

@joane.landers9151

Ай бұрын

Pretty banding on that red pebble.

I'm constantly wanting to say: "stop, a little to the left (or right), up a little, THAT one, what's THAT rock? " vicarious rock hounding, with you, is a blast. 😊 ThankYou ❤🎉❤

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I have thought about doing a live video, but I don't think I'd make it ten feet down the beach! There's also no cell reception in this whole area.

I'm glad you love rocks and not just agates. I cross paths with so many people looking fire just agates. They miss so many other incredible rocks.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I'd have a pretty sad day if I only looked at agates. Agates are the big prize up there, but there's nothing wrong with a nice piece of unakite, epidote, banded iron, etc.

@laurieowen8696

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks exactly!

@jessicaanderson4748

10 ай бұрын

We see the other rocks, admire than move on. Trust me...we don't miss anything

@laurieowen8696

10 ай бұрын

@@MichiganRocks I could never look for just agates. Even up here, there's way more to see than just agates. 😊

Michigan the land God kissed with all goodness… happy rock hunting

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I like that! A big smooch from God.

Wow! That is a colorful beach right now! Gorgeous rocks you are finding!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Looks better when it's wet. It was nice to be able to hunt up on the beach since is was so rough that day.

I like the epidote also. That was a nice one about 19+min in. You both found some nice little agates. Love that area up there for hunting

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I never get tired of seeing a nice chunk of epidote or unakite.

Nice finds 👌

It's good to see you and Sam out looking for rocks again. Thanks for the video. Thanks for sharing your trip.

Wow, all those agates look really cool! That monarch butterfly was really pretty. 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Sam saved a few monarchs that were getting splashed by the waves.

3:12 looove the half & half 4:45 😍 7:44 looks like a brick wall ❤ 9:50 cool stripey guy 15:40 that’s a beauty 20:45 wow!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Gotta love the stripey ones!

Nice to see your home beaches again! Really enjoyed your vacation (and my virtual one!). I hope you can do an episode featuring a few of your finished vacation finds.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I'm working on tumbling my rocks from out west now.

I am making my first trip to lake Superior in a week I've never been there in the summer, I am so excited to see what I can find, great video, really looking forward to see if I can find my first agate, ❤

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Good luck!

Really beautiful agates and other stones! I do enjoy seeing you back in your home state finding gorgeous rocks!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Trips are always fun, but I always enjoy getting home too. I love where I live.

Hi Rob, Thanks for this nice video !! to much stress here in France, we had a crazy week .... Watching ur video make me relax a lil

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could calm you down a bit.

Nice to hear the sounds of the shoreline again.

Go to Lake Superior for agates. The other stones you guys found were worth the trip. The one with brickwork was awesome. The fossils and other rocks were much more interesting than those tiny "maggates."😁

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

You're right. Agates are our favorites up there, but there are so many other beautiful rocks that you're not going to go home disappointed.

Thank you for showing us that there are so many beautiful rocks out there 😊

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Is that a quote from another rock lover?

@4061earthabcdesong

Жыл бұрын

@MichiganRocks Yes! Rocks are so so beautiful ! Will keep watching your channel for some amazing finds 😃

Wow, stunning stuff 🎉

Sam just had some amazing luck! He found quite a few really awesome agates! And you had a few too, but not as many as Sam found! There were quite a few not agates but were really cool and interesting looking rocks! The whole beach was covered in all different colors and types of beautiful rocks! I'm so used to our beaches and lakes here in Oregon, where 95% of the rocks are basalt so all you see is ugly dark grey to black rocks. Your beach is just an array of beautiful colors and patterns and not hardly a plain basalt rock out there! It's gorgeous! And I know the vast majority of them are granite, but they sure are a lovely granite! And they all are just so colorful! So it's no wonder that even your agates are that beautiful red! Great hunting, even though it was cold and wet, I'm sure the finds kind of made up for it, at least for Sam anyways! And that weird Rick Sam found and cut, was just strange! And it even has a weird reaction to the acid! I've never seen anything like that before! I have no idea! Thanks for sharing!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

The variety of rocks we have is just amazing. I have been to beaches where most of the rocks are the same color and it's just not as much fun. Cold and wet is just one of the things you have to deal with in the U.P. It's not a place for wimps. The great rocks make up for it. Sam is not just lucky. He consistently finds more than I do. I think he's just more focused than I am, plus he has younger eyes. He deserves credit for his skills.

Loving all these different locations and being able to see what you can find wherever you go… awesome video brother

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I love seeing and learning about all the different types of rocks you find! Congrats! Super cool host agate find!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

You Two have truly have become friends, Rob, your doing a great job . Your show has improved a lot, I love your family bonding. Keep it up, and keep on tumbling. 👍🏼

I will take all the Rocks you both throw back. That Lake has millions of outstanding Rocks.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I left three of them by that big pine tree for you.

@ROCKINWHEELERS

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks I can’t trek that Terrain hehehe.

I like the fact that you appreciate pretty wet rocks ❤️

Love all the “pre-tumbled” rocks.

Awesome, greetings from Finland 😇

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Hey, that's awesome that I have Finnish viewers. There are a lot of people in the Upper Peninsula of Finnish descent.

@phu303

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks That is super to hear ✌️

Thanks for your videos. I was quite the rock hound in my youth, and your informative and fun escapades are luring me back to the hobby. Best from California!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you're getting back into it. You have some interesting stuff in California. I'd love to go to find Lavic Jasper sometime.

Awesome Rob!!!!!!! Great work guys

I've only been in eastern Michigan once in my life, in mid-1960's, a trip to see my mother's 2nd cousins. Didn't know anything about Lake Superior Agates at that time, I've learned quite a bit since those long ago days. By the time the early 1970's came around, I had read articles in The Lapidary Journal, Rock & Gem, and least another non-technical magazine that I could understand w/o degrees in chemistry and geology. On a trip to Wisconsin, I located a rock shop and bought a bag of LSA. Cut a few pieces which have red banding and eyes. Beautiful stones. I'll bet you have found some interesting stones along those shores. Wherever I've traveled throughout the U.S. and eastern Canada I've always picked up stones: landscape stones alongside motels/hotels, gravel side-roads where I might have pulled over to take a break or eat a bite. Dug by fingers in the dirt, interesting looking stones. Can only guess what the mineral make-up is of these stones. Glad I've found your YT channel and will happily follow as you find stones to 'share'.

@MichiganRocks

Ай бұрын

Lakers are some of my favorite rocks.

Y'all found some really cool different rocks this time. I know how you feel about the mosquitos! They are some vicious insects. Keep the videos coming!

Awesome video again Sir- and I just have to say, that green and white rock was a star lol GO GREEN GO WHITE. Cheers

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I left that one on the beach for you. Go get it!

Exelent

Loosing blood to the mosquitoes… 😂😂. Sam is very good at finding agates. Nice!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I should get a blood donor pin or something.

Great hunting! The best hunting is when it's cold out. Sam said about his jacket "It's waterproof to a point." Yeah to the point it get's water on it! Great video guys!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I think "water resistant" is about as much as you could say about his jacket. He was pretty wet. I wasn't.

@samcook1413

Жыл бұрын

I was dry for maybe the first 45 minutes. Then slowly it soaked its way up my sleeves from every time I picked up a rock as well as just the general rain

Great job Sam good agate finds. Learning alot here thanks guys

Thanks for the video Rob!

Love the stash. One of these day I,m going to find one.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

No one has reported in on this one yet.

Nice weather.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, just lovely.

I'm no expert but I'd call that one at 19:58 an agate! Great finds!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

It's close, but those bands just weren't as sharp as agates usually are. Nice rock either way.

@jamesferry6717

Жыл бұрын

If I admit that, I'll have to declassify all the ones I've found just like it. hehe.

@skalvar

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks they dont have to be crisp, the "lines" can be made of tiny tiny individual dots as well, making the lines look more diffuse. Check if its translucent and test the hardness with a little knife. Really looks like lower grade agate to me.

Awsome episode!!!!!!

Blood donations, those mosquitos are evil. Great finds. Thanks for braving Michigan's crazy weather.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

They're just thick in the woods up there. It's enough to just about drive you crazy. After getting in the Jeep, we spend the next ten minutes rolling the windows up and down and smacking them.

Cool video, thanks for sharing with us

I love that part of the up. You guys did well😊

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I love that area too. It's not as picturesque as the western U.P. but I love how remote it is. The rocks there are great too.

@greatnorthernviews3052

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks It’s all good up there I am going up this weekend!

🙋‍♀️❤ so many colors on this beach!

We’ll take the rainy cold too!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Nothing worse than those flies.

Oh wow! Nice finds.

It'g great watching ur videos. Looks like youve had a grand adventures this spring. Thank you for sharing and inspiring me to rock hound

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I've had a great spring and summer. My trip was fun, but I still love Michigan.

Nice to see you back on your own turf again or should I say surf ! And nice to see Sam again. The lines and divisions on the rock at 7:41 almost remind me of a stone wall. Beautiful agates !!!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Surf _and_ turf! That brick-like rock was pretty cool. If the pattern had been smaller, I might have kept it. A big pattern like that disappears when you cut it into crosses or pendants or something.

The rock at 20:00 is absolutely an agate. Nice find!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Probably, but it was weird how the bands weren't as crisp as usual.

I have a son named Sam. We also love rockhounding. He's about your Sam's age.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Sam isn't my son, though. He's my neighbor. He's lived across the road almost his whole life, so I've known him like he was my son.

Those flies are no joke! Was up there a few weeks ago and got ate alive at vermilion point!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Do you have a bug suit? I carry mesh pants and shirt with me whenever I'm up there in the summer. I have the one I use listed in my Amazon storefront in the description. It's not perfect, but it keeps most of them from biting. Where the mesh touches your skin, they can still get you.

@KFairchild77

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks No I don’t unfortunately. I had on shorts and tshirt with no bug spray lol. I later used about a half can of deep woods off but it didn’t seem to help much lol

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

@@KFairchild77 What we call "Off" the flies call "seasoning".

@KFairchild77

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks I believe it!

You both found some really nice agates and some cool other rocks.

I love that Lake Superior!

I think heaven is looking for rocks in the UP of Michigan! I have so many rocks decorating my yard in SC, now this is a pudding stone, a Petosky stone, and here's an agate! Love your channel, almost as good as being there.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mary. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.

Awesome finds. I was also drooling over all the black sands on that first beech.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I was on the second beach with Wild Kyle last week and we walked all the way to Muskallonge Lake State Park. We saw a guy with a Gold Cube set up there. He was finding some gold, but hadn't done his final clean out to see just how much.

@firechicken455adventures

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks That is where I go😁

24:03 mins Monarch butterfly I believe and I watched a show once and they migrate across the Great Lakes on their way to Mexico. (I think I got all that right).

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

They migrate a long ways. Sam saved several that were soaked by waves by carrying them up to the woods or at least farther from the water.

Wow u got some amazing finds today.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Yep, it was a good day.

“Not my favorite colors together.” 🤣 I need that great piece of driftwood for my yard!😍

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I loved the grain in that stump. I wonder how many people understood my joke about the bad color combination in that rock? There are a lot of people from outside of Michigan who watch.

I enjoyed almost every minute of this video. Up until Sam went to stash the rocks by the tree. his actions and the look of the day made me itch and scratch all over. I don't have one mosquito in my house, but I'd swear they were carrying me away as the video ended. 🙂🤣😂

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

That was absolutely miserable. The mosquitos are just horrible in the woods. We even had a few on the beaches the days we were there. Mosquitos are usually not a problem on the beach. The mosquitos were just as bad at our campsite. We had a Thermacell that helped. We knew we weren't going to get a shower for four days, so neither of us really wanted to put on a lot of bug spray. The second night, we both headed to our tents at 8:00 because of the bugs. On the third night, we moved to the mouth of the Two Hearted River campground and there were no bugs at all.

You are so lucky.. I live near southern end of lake huron.. only once have I been able to visit the UP.. Manistique. That was 20 years ago.. I've always wanted to go back.. some wonderful beaches and driftwood finds there.. maybe someday.. 👍👍

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

If you go back, consider going to the Keweenaw Peninsula. That's my favorite part of the U.P. My favorite rocks are probably in the eastern U.P. though.

We get alot of green jasper in OR like the unknown green rock. One of my favorites. Also it would have been cool to see the rock with the pink stripes cut. Manganese?

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what makes those pinks stripes. I left that one on the beach, so there won't be any cutting pictures.

Wow ! That butterfly!

There was a pretty peach or pink colored rock with stripes at the 3:15 mark i was hoping you would pick up,can u go back and find that one to show us lol. Love the vids

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I think I see the one you're talking about. I'll hop in the Jeep and head up right now.

So interesting to go along with you on these adventures! Sam has beautiful hands!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I have never stopped to appreciate Sam's hands, I guess. They just look like hands to me.

nice stones

Really beautiful agates, so cool to just find them by eye like that. Wet rocks are much easier to see at least, worth braving the rain certainly. Making the best of some inclement weather for sure haha. Awesome episode.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nice to hear waves again❤.really pretty finds(and ofcourse i would have take home all those ones what u didnt😂)👍

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Of course.

Okay, I'm drooling 🙂 Lake Superior + rocks = heaven!! New sub here. Great video - thanks for sharing!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.

Nice rocks!!!

Beautiful. Drove 9 hours up there last weekend for Agates and yooperlites ✌ I need better eyes , or glasses tho

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. I usually don't wear my reading glasses, but sometimes I do. It's hard to tell which way I should go.

Like all the colors and strpes/patterns on stones. A nice but cold trip it looked like.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

It was pretty cold and wet for the four days we were there. Before Sam started coming with me, I'd just watch the weather and go when it looked like it was going to be nice. Since Sam started coming, we have to go after school gets out and now that Sam has a job, he has to ask for time off in advance. That makes things a little more unpredictable and exciting!

@kastah

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks Ok, it is very nice of you to take this neighboors young rock-loving boy with you, but, it is also nice to have company even though he finds more Agats then you That I think is because of his eyes, the youth have better eyesight then we have after fifty sixty, unfortunately. Very nice that you took time to explain too. Better luck next time, must be exciting to go and wondering about what you will find. I had loved it and I am stone-crazy, but nothing special here, but, I find sometimes lovely rocks or old "crafted" rocks because I am digging in my garden. So I have found tools from the stoneage etc. sometimes special things. 🙏👍

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

@@kastah I have never found any artifacts. That would be a thrill.

Nice finds, and its the perfect type of weather to go hunting in. So many beautiful stones, I reckon if you dig down into the stobes, you would find tiny Agates.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

A warmer drizzle would have been a little better than the weather we had. A dead calm, 65° day would have been welcome too.

@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks we have had awful weather. So much rain, and all of our beaches are covered in wood. When I saw the giant logs on your beach, that's what ours are like after the cyclone. I made a video of it.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976 There are always huge logs on the beaches up there. It seems like they get more logs on the beach there than we do here on Lake Huron. Lake Superior is bigger, but Lake Huron is huge too.

I am Joseph, the older brother of gravel, bar hopper. B.J. Is my inspiration . I forgot to sign the last comment , sorry about that, like I said keep it up, I enjoy seeing your shows.

@MichiganRocks

11 ай бұрын

Oh, I've watched a couple of his videos. He hasn't been posting much lately, has he?

Great finds! Good times rockhounding with family. I understand frustrations with waves lol. I was just at lake MI in Charlevoix and it was windy.. hard to see anything

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Waves are a mixed blessing. On one hand, they stir everything up and expose new material. On the other hand, you can't see much if the waves are there at the same time you are.

46! It was 114 here yesterday. Fossil! If you want jasper you're welcome to rockhound my back garden, it's full of the stuff. You found some lovely stripey rocks. I love the sound of the waves. TFS ❤️🏏🎸

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

This was on June 13. We were there for four days and it never got much warmer the whole time.

@icatz

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks Envious

Yes! Been waiting for you to get back to the mitten

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Did you enjoy the videos from my trip? One of the reasons I did that is because a lot of people suggested it when I asked for suggestions for my channel around Christmas time. I worry that I'm getting in a rut with videos that are all very similar. The videos from my trip did okay, but didn't get any more views that my Michigan videos do.

@Kyle.Wynsma

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks I did watch and enjoyed them, Katy and Theo are great. There is just something better, to me, about the water and the waves and the fact that I am a Lake MI hound and hope to get to superior in the coming years. Pier cove is where I usually hunt and hit Antrim creek when I visit family.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

@@Kyle.Wynsma Thanks for the feedback. I think maybe that's how other people felt too.

I love rock hunting awesome 🧲⚓️👍

Those are beautiful rocks even if they aren't agates I also love Jasper myself

Thanks

That's a good dad. Letting the boy win like that. I do that once in a while myself. ; )

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully I'm a good dad, but Sam isn't my son. My son is older and has a full-time job so he doesn't have much time for rock hunting. Sam is my neighbor who I've known for his whole life. He's kind of like my replacement son.

@karlsjunior466

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks well, ya did good just the same!!

Love the drift wood!!!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

It wouldn't' fit in my bucket.

@debbieneel8344

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks 🤣🤣🤣 oh well!

I'm a Duluth MN native. I thought you would prowl around Thompsonite Beach, south of Grand Marais. I've never been and want to make the trip up there, myself. Thanks for the fun videos!

@MichiganRocks

10 ай бұрын

It's not really that far from Duluth, is it? I drove as far as Beaver Bay this spring. I didn't have time to go much further.

I'm brand new to your channel - looking forward to watching! I'm from Nebraska so haven't been to Michigan yet, but it's definitely on my list!

@MichiganRocks

9 ай бұрын

It's a beautiful state.

Great finds, Sam really has an eye for em. I bet he'd be a wiz at minding Morel's. (something else you could add to your channel would be a mushroom hunt, I'd watch it for sure) I had to smile when you hid the piece of magnatite, when you tossed it down at the first beach my first thought was, Nooo... that it would make a great stash rock and also that I didn't want to be That Guy, who complains about the rocks you don't keep. LOL I'd put it in my rock garden, I have a Yin Yang symbol and those look great in the dark part. I find some stones, once in a great while, with that same type of pattern, (that looks almost like hieroglyphics if you know what I mean), but they are made out of black chert that is super waxy. I'm not even sure that black waxy chert is chert but I can't think of what else it could be.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I didn't want that magnetite, but after dropping it, I remembered my little game. I'm glad I picked that one back up, it's a cool rock. Nancy and I started to make a morel hunting video one year but we didn't find many at all. Last year we had our best season ever (not that we're big morel hunters) and found enough to fill a frying pan. Unfortunately, I didn't bring the camera that day. This year, I missed morel season because I was on my big rock hunting trip. Maybe next year.

I am a wee bit of a rock hound. I couldn't tell you the names of half the rocks I find. Its like "Oh! Look at the pretty!" Lol! I am more of a fossil and artifact hunter. I met WILDKYLE the other day down here in southern Mi. I have watched all his videos and always thought, I would like to meet that young man. I was in one of our local stores and was checking out when to my disbelief, he walked in to the store. Very awesome young man! He got me started watching your videos. You find some very interesting rocks and fossils. Thanks for sharing.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

Kyle is great. It's quite a coincidence to run into him in a store like that. We have run into people on beaches who recognized both of us, but that's a lot more likely.

@patscnr

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks It was so awesome!

I live within 2 hours of three of the Great Lakes, but heading to Northern MI this month to cross Lake Superior off my list. Probably won't know an agate if it bites me in the a**, but I'm going to binge on these videos just in case lol.

@MichiganRocks

11 ай бұрын

If you find a really good one, you'll know it.

I think I was there at the same time! It never hit 50 that day... was so weird, but it was nice with no flies. Hardly anyone on the beaches I went to, but I didn't have as good luck as you guys did. Awesome finds!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

This was on the 13th. We were in the area until the 16th.

@joolzbohr

Жыл бұрын

Yep! Same time. I went from whitefish to Marquette. I may have found some.... but I'll have to cut them to be sure and I haven't rigged up my tile saw yet. I think I just need lots of practice on what to look for because I just never have much luck. I've only found one or two with clear agate bands and they were really small. Gonna keep trying though!

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

@@joolzbohr It takes awhile to develop an eye for them. Sam caught on right away. I'm still learning.

16:40 is an interesting one. The lighter particulate is sometimes more scattered like stars in an agate, but I have some Mottle Agates that it groups tightly the same way. It gives it a cherty look at first glance, but lacks the slight abrasiveness you would expect to feel in the rub. Personally I think it's a great find. Even if it is not a LSA, it is really a beautiful and rare blue Chalcedony, but i believe it's a agate.

@MichiganRocks

10 ай бұрын

It's a weird mix of chalcedony and whatever that tan colored stuff is. Not a typical rock from that area.

I cannot believe it is 50 degrees and it is the middle of June. It has already been 100 degrees here in South Texas. Did Sam miss you?

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

You never know what to expect in the U.P. We were there for four days and it was cold the whole time. I'm not sure what you mean about Sam missing me. Do you mean when I was in Montana? I don't think he missed me. He came over to check his tumbler barrels while I was gone. Nancy was here, so I kept the tumblers running.

Go Sam... GOOOOOOooo

@MichiganRocks

4 ай бұрын

You could root for me just a little bit.

thumbnail looks like sushi! great rocks & agates you found there - some are sort of like combo rocks

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I didn't think of sushi when looking at the thumbnail, but I suppose it sort of kind of looks like it, maybe.

I second every other good comments. I love Lake Superior… after Lake Michigan.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I have only picked rocks in Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan. I'd rank them in that order. I think Lake Superior has the highest percentage of beautiful rocks, great variety, and you can find agates. I like Lake Huron for the puddingstones and Petoskey Stones. The reason I rank Lake Michigan last is that it seems to be more picked over. You can find Petoskeys, puddingstone, and agates in Lake Michigan, but agates and puddingstones are more rare there. Honestly, I haven't hunted Lake Michigan as much as the other two, so I might just not have enough experience to know how good it is.

@I_wish_I_knew_something

Жыл бұрын

@@MichiganRocks as for rocks, Michigan is tough for us Michiganders. The eastern shores are quit sandy. And the rocky areas are picked over. Superior is Superior, enough said. I enjoyed a trip last Fall to Hoeft State Park and liked it quite a bit. I even found one of your rejected Puddingstones. The two places I went to on Lake Erie was sandy. Lake Ontario (Toronto) was sandy.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

@@I_wish_I_knew_something I really want to get to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie someday, just to be able to say that I've hunted all the Great Lakes.

Nice.

Wooo another video

I just love banded churt so pretty

@MichiganRocks

6 ай бұрын

Lake Huron banded chert tends to be even better than Lake Superior banded chert. Check this one out: kzread.infojxLKJeropwI?feature=share

that one you put in acid would make some really cool pendants.

thanks for entertaining me with all these colours love rock or fossil hunting or anything weird and rare from mountains and beaches and where ever my electric car takes me or bike motorcycle electric

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

I don't think you should probably go here. I doubt there are any charging stations close by. I have to always remember to fill up with gas while I have the chance so I don't get stuck down one of the long trails without enough.

IT IS A SKIP ATOM. I am going far out on a limb here, but I believe 99% of Skippers are some variation of brown, so long as they are banded. I don't know why that seems to be, but I do have one Blue that is a Skipper. It's the only exception. I REALLY love the Brown Paint of that one. That is an EXCEPTIONAL FIND in any size. I call them Dinosaur Teeth Agates because they remind me of T-REX teeth. Also one of the most optical illusional of LSA's . If you notice when you get them wet they seem 3-dimensionally layered. I sometimes think that it's the result of possibly cooling faster than normal quartzy agates. I think I think too much about the formation of the Lake Superior Agate sometimes. 😄

@MichiganRocks

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the confirmation. Skip an atom is one I haven't quite figured out yet.

Great weather for June! Have you tried to make marbles out of the rocks? The small black and red stone, reminded me of one

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

No, but I might try that this winter. I have my eye on a sphere machine that makes tiny spheres.

Seems like it was pretty chilly on the 15th of June when I was in Grand Marias. Some of the coldest camping I’ve don’t in June.

@MichiganRocks

Жыл бұрын

This was on June 13, but we were up there until the 16th. It was cold the whole time. The sun made an appearance on the 16th, but the wind picked up too, so the temperature felt about the same.