Wow amazing gemstone there

@RadicalRocks

4 ай бұрын

Lots of fun. Thank you for your comments

Both the rubies and Lapis are up Cascade Canyon. There’s a lot of bush wacking involved to get to both. The lapis is harder to get to though.

Cool. I didn't know they glow with us light. I shall try it out with the rubies I found

@RadicalRocks

3 жыл бұрын

Yes a UV light I had one that has both short wave and long wave “black light”

I live down the street basically and im glad I don't have to go far to get me started on this new hobby .

@RadicalRocks

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing

Nice video...that's a great spot, pulled out some great Rubys in Matrix...they actually glow under UV light! Also, the green that you saw is actually Tourmaline!

@RadicalRocks

3 жыл бұрын

Ryan Thanks for your input

@patrickkeegan8107

3 жыл бұрын

The green mica fuschite is present. It’s easier to see the dravite (tourmaline) with UV.

@mattmanzano51

2 жыл бұрын

More than likely it is Diopside. The canyon has a pretty healthy deposit of diopside in it.

@ryanripple7106

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmanzano51 That is a true statement, there is Diopside present in the canyon...I also read a report written many decades ago that mentioned a green tourmaline (which I thought was weird)...I love minerals!

Nice video! My 12yr old son and I go hounding up in Mt. Baldy Cyn. all the time. We still can't find the Ruby Corundum area. We have panned some tiny bits about a mile north of Shinn Rd. Looks like It's up further by Stoddard Canyon Rd. from the looks of it. Thanks

@RadicalRocks

2 жыл бұрын

Ok, on the way up just after the tunnel on the right side your going to see a dirt brown outcrop, park alongside the road and there is a old road cut that goes to the bottom of the canyon then you have to back track a bit and cross the river. Just head to that dirt brown outcrop and below it is lots of material you can break up and find purple and red Rubys basically corundum specimens

@bryantespada659

2 жыл бұрын

@@RadicalRocks Thanks for the Info. We will be heading up there soon. A few weeks a go my boy found a nice piece if lapis at the bottom of Cascade canyon.

@liliv-vn4rj

2 жыл бұрын

@@RadicalRocks Is that near the Joatngna Trail at all?

@RadicalRocks

2 жыл бұрын

@@liliv-vn4rj I’m not sure where that trail is but after you drive up and go through the tunnel you look to the right hand side of the road and you’ll see a brown outcropping the road goes down to the stream kind of a dirt road you can’t drive it you have to walk it and then you go down stream a little ways and you will find that brown pegmatite pieces of it coming down the hill to the edge of the river

@liliv-vn4rj

2 жыл бұрын

@@RadicalRocks Thanks! We were there yesterday. Didn’t find anything special but we also weren’t sure what to look for. We ran into a man named Patrick that has a cabin down the trail. He was a very nice man. Pointed us to the waterfalls and rock slide so we didn’t have time to hound. Ah well, next time!

I haven't been rockhounding up in Mt Baldy yet but this video makes me want to go. I recently went to Big Bear Lake up in the San Bernadino mountains and found an absolute ton of calcite, quartize, jasper, agate and a lot of massive quartz. There has to be better stuff up there but i didn't find it during my first trip but im aching to go back.

@RadicalRocks

2 жыл бұрын

We used to go to the lucky Baldwin mine and dig through the tailings and I could always find a piece or two with visible gold just spending a half hour to two hours lotta great stuff to see up there in the big bear area

@PhiberOptik1979

2 жыл бұрын

@@RadicalRocks Indeed. I really only hunted the lake and immediate area, but i'd like to take a hike up there and see if i can find a quartz vein or something.

@RadicalRocks

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhiberOptik1979 Yards of finding a vein would be pretty tough but there’s definitely quartz pieces that have visible gold in it around the lucky Baldwin mine I just checked the smaller pieces turn them around and look at them if you find an area where are you start finding one or two with some visible gold it might be worth cracking open the bigger pieces around it I did not have much luck cracking the bigger pieces open in finding anything just sorting through the little ones that were already there

@ryanripple7106

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhiberOptik1979 I know a place in Big Bear where you can find gemmy quartz points and clusters...hit me up and I'll send you the info.

@PhiberOptik1979

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanripple7106 Please do, i fully intend to go back there probably in July. Cheers!

Where did you find the Arastra? That's really cool.

@RadicalRocks

Жыл бұрын

As I recall the arastra was just up the road from the pegmatite out crop. Where the out crop is there is not great parking but up the road from it to the right there is parking where people pull in. There’s a lot of parking in the arrester was in that area as you pull into the parking I believe it was to the left side of the parking area fairly close to the main highway more so than to the river down below if I recall correctly.

Going there on the 8th of September can I get the pin the overgrowth is so thick and the water was so high the last two times I went I couldn't see the deposit or even get across to it all I've found is boulders of silimanite with corundum in it down stream

@RadicalRocks

9 ай бұрын

Nice I wish you the best!

@MojaveMineralMiners

9 ай бұрын

@@RadicalRocks How can I contact you guys for more info or potentially a collab/hounding trip

@RadicalRocks

9 ай бұрын

I’m not posting contact info here. However I’m active on MeWe Radical Rocks, or Twitter /X it’s radicalrocksusa, also on my podcast I give the list of contact/social media. You tube has bots that collect information and pimp it out to the universe

@MojaveMineralMiners

9 ай бұрын

@@RadicalRocks I messaged you on Facebook

@RadicalRocks

9 ай бұрын

@@MojaveMineralMiners OK I almost never go on Facebook anymore. I’ll check it tomorrow when I get a chance hopefully thanks

How do you clean the gem

@RadicalRocks

11 ай бұрын

Rubies generally are cleaned with a gem and jewelry cleaning solution or just warm soapy water, sometimes a dental pick will help clean up a spot of matrix on your gem stone

I found some rubies but I am unsure on how I should break down the rock

@RadicalRocks

2 жыл бұрын

You have to be careful. I used small pick like a dental pick.

@RadicalRocks

2 жыл бұрын

A Dremel could help to get some of the material out-of-the-way and then pick the rest off with a dental pick. I like to see my samples sitting in the matrix so for me just cleaning up around Ruby exposed is most desirable

Any gem quality ever come out of the area?

@RadicalRocks

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I did finally pull some decent Rhodonite out of Wrightwood and I did a video on it

@dgafbrapman688

3 жыл бұрын

@@RadicalRocks nice ive only found tiny somewhat gemy garnets in the creeks

@RadicalRocks

3 жыл бұрын

At Baldy we found purple and red Corundum not really gem quality more specimen grade

@dgafbrapman688

3 жыл бұрын

@@RadicalRocks why type of matrix do u look for, for the better quality stones

@RadicalRocks

3 жыл бұрын

OK if you look at the video you see that reddish brown stone that’s the pegmatite if you drive up to Baldy you go past the tunnel you go through the tunnel it’s going to be on the right hand side you’re going to see a reddish brown out crop it’s gonna look like it’s probably 20 to 40 feet wide by 60 to 100 feet tall you’re going to see that on the right side of the road you’re going to park wherever you can park and there’s a makeshift trail and you cross the creek it’s on the other side of the creek where you go down the trail you usually have to go downA little ways and then some tart looking for the pegmatite

can't hear your sound

@RadicalRocks

Жыл бұрын

Sorry I checked there is sound, some parts are not super loud, but that’s how it goes out in the field

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