Why Are There 96,000,000 Red Gem Stones on This Beach!

[Music] well hello everyone dad here with dan hurt prospecting here welcome back to my channel and if you're new welcome i hope to earn your subscription today we are back here on big silver creek in search of the big jimmy garnets i'm looking for a gemstone today i want to garnet big enough to fasten to make a real jewel out of for jewelry we hope to find something big but we know we're gonna find lots of smaller gems wish me luck and i hope you enjoy [Music] now if you watch my older videos you may have seen a video or two taken at this site before this site is known for its garnets up in the hills just up there you can actually find garnet still in the host rock but down here on the river bars there are garnets everywhere and lots of them everything from you know microscopic powder up to the biggest i think we found was about three quarters of an inch across that being said it wasn't a gemmy one the gemmy ones are typically the smaller ones but we're hoping to get lucky i got the boys here today wave boys dana's walking up from below after some scouting and of course i'm here we're going to be using the gem sieves in the river and seeing what we can find alex has already found his first treasure that one there is oh not quite an eighth of an inch across but a nice jimmy garnet now walking around this beach the sands between the big cobbles are just loaded and i mean loaded in garnets i probably have a thousand garnets in my hand right now most of them are small some of them are mid-sized the odd one is big we're gonna dig buckets and buckets and buckets of that stuff we're gonna sift it out to different sizes and then use the gem sieves to see if we can find that one gemstone that's nice and big and beautifully [Music] jimmy so dana and the boys will be filling up buckets for me using the quarter inch arbor fabricating classifier the world's best classifier linked below for 10 discount once they bring me the buckets quarter inch minus i will be separating the material with a 1 8 inch classifier so i have minus 1 8 and plus 1 8 and i'll be using the gem sieves separately with those two classifications hopefully we find a good one in the quarter inch size now dana and evan are digging some buckets for me i'm gonna find a nice rock there's one and set myself up with the gem sieve now my gem sieve also known as the saruka here has a screen that's about a 1 16 inch mesh in it so i'm going to put the 1 8 inch classifier on top i'm going to pour the material in [Applause] that's not quite enough sit down so that the eighth inch plus is still in the classifier the eighth inch minus is in the gemstone i see big ones in here already that's not enough material to sieve so i'm gonna go back and get some more okay i got a good gem sieve full sitting right on top right now oh i'm liking it okay so with the gem sieve it is important that you have it mostly full that helps you when you're flipping it i like my gem sip have a bit of a loose sieve on it a lot of people like them right tight we have a high volume of heavies here so i don't mind it filling into a bit of a bowl at the bottom the trick with the gem sieve is we have to concentrate all the heavies on the very bottom of the sieve the way we do that is we put it in the water and we pulse it up and down as you pulse it water gets forced through the sieve from below opening up all of the sand spreading it out letting the heaviest stuff fall first the heaviest stuff ends up on the bottom but it's on the bottom all the way across the bottom we now need to concentrate it in the middle we do that by rocking it right at the height of the surface right at the surface of the water we rock it side to side and then pulse again rock it and pulse rocket and pulse rocket and pulse then we're going to rotate it 90 degrees and do it again rock it and pulse rocking it brings it into a line in the center pulsing lets those heavies fall in that line we then rotate it 90 degrees and do it again and it takes that line and condenses it to the center one thing i'm noticing is there's far too many gargets here i'm just gonna have a red bottom right all the way across i'm not gonna have a concentrate in the middle there's just so many garnets okay there we go it should be all the bottom i can now go flip this now you need a big flat area so i'm going to use this rock to flip on and the more times we flip on one spot the better area you get for flipping it so hopefully over time we get a perfect spot here this sieve didn't have enough material in it i should be much fuller than this so i really should have had more but we're gonna start off with this one make sure you drain out any excess water before you flip it and here we go it's important you flip it towards you too not away just like that and there we go an absolute red bed i could have done a better job getting it to the center but hey that's still pretty good nice garnets we can now take carefully that layer of garnet and just that layer no more there's a handful of garnets later on i'll take the leftovers from this this bottom part here and i'll throw it all back in the gem sieve and do it one more time because i only got about 90 of those garnets out of there and if i do it again i can get another good load out of the stuff that's left over let's go do the bigger stuff now now we're going to work with the eighth to quarter inch material this is where the big garnet should be again i should have more material than this this isn't quite enough to fill my gem tip but we'll go with it anyways i see one right now sitting on top ah it's brown it's not jimmy it's important to tip it outside when you uh are done and drain out that water so it solidifies so when you flip it over it all stays together i need a new rock for the bigger stuff and here we go kind of sloppy because of where i was there's the area of garnets the bigger ones are mostly brown or black garnets you can see that little area i need a better spot that's a terrible spot to flip but i do see a few gemmy ones in there grab that area we'll put it in a bucket to go through later and find out how many like that one are jemmy that's a terrible place to flip i need a better place dana just called me over to have a look at her shovelful it is insane it is a shovel full of red nice spot let's hope there's some big ones in there just looks like uh salmon grows fish eggs exactly i brought the camera over for this flip because it could be incredible what i saw going through wow one two three where's the reveal it broke up a lot on me but i'm gonna have to do this one two or three times to get it all there's so much it migrated everywhere but i'll take the majority of the middle put it all back in we'll probably get three flips out of this before we get most of it that was what we were doing over there yeah we'll get the rest we'll flip it again you hold this as right there and here's flip two of that same load look at that let's do a third flip of this one lip number three getting a bit better at getting them all in the center this was a nicer one one problem is when i have just so much material with so many garnets the center ring often just migrates outwards it's just so much of it but there that was a a lighter load and we got it in the center nicely i can just harvest that little bit and any others that sort of migrated out will get when we redo the pile now as i said earlier i like that loose mesh when i'm dealing with high volumes of garnets but when you're only dealing with small amounts you're trying to get just the very heavy like just a small amount of heaviest out of gravel a rigid screen like this one does work better so for the course stuff on this one because there's not as much in the course material the quarter to one eighth i'm going to use my coarse screen and see if it does a better job [Applause] i saw some big ones go in there and they look jimmy much nicer job let's see what the little bullseye in the middle of that looks like and here we go nice little bullseye here some of these are amazing let's get that on the other camera so here is the eighth to quarter flip and you can see there are lots and lots of oversized garnets in this one these are all bigger than 1 8. and around here we also have lots of these brown garnets the big big ones are mostly brown and opaque oh look at that guy uh but they are still garnets nice [Music] look at that one that is incredible right from one side to the other all red and in the center of this it's garnets down an inch inch and a half there we go we got an inch an inch of garnets in the center here that's a feature of my domed screen is that it concentrates this center bit really thick in the heavies that's why i like it for taking these volumes because we want volume today if you only had like half a dozen little garnets that you want to get a rigid screen would be much better nice elf you having fun yeah yeah totally totally there shows you the perfect bull's-eye in the center all the heavies right in one spot look at the glow on that guy wow that's amazing [Music] so we had a pretty nice spot there that we were digging and we just took a lunch break during our lunch break i'd walk down and do a bit of scouting so i'm going down to the point down here to see if possibly out on the point we see higher volumes or maybe even bigger ones but i'm seeing them everywhere i walk right now such a beautiful august day out here love getting to spend time with my family gym hunting like this they're not so much into the gold hunting that i can't do on my own but they love the gem hunting [Music] now just because i know people are wondering why gem sieving works a lot of gems like garnets and diamonds and peridot sapphires those things they're all generally heavier than the surrounding gravels and sands so because they're heavier when you're pulsing the sieve in the water the water coming up through it loosens everything lifts everything up and the heaviest things the gems fall first so they end up on the bottom of the sieve the rocking is just a way to bring it all into the center the pulsing brings it to the bottom then you flip the gem sieve over and you reveal what was on the bottom of the sieve because now it's on the top of the pile if you're wondering why gem sieving works there you go [Music] so we decided to move and dig closer to the water's edge the digging is more difficult because classifying wet yeah it just takes a bit more energy but look at what we got the entire bottom was covered and there are some big ones in there like we got way more big garnets than any other sieve we've done so far there's massive ones in there and this is still just the 1 8 minus and i assume that's deep at least an inch deep of garnets wow you excited yes i'll do some more of the hard digging you'll do some more of the hard digging that is impressive we should have been doing that all day so even though there are bigger garnets here we've been doing mostly quarter inch classifying today i decided for this last bucket uh alex has the half inch classifier so that we might get a few of the real big ones the problem with the big ones here is they're not gemmy they're all fractured they're brown they're not great it's just a quarter inch and smaller that get really gemmy but let's see if we can find something in the bigger stuff today and dana is on the richest ground we found so far i got a gems tip to flip are you guys almost full of that bucket [Music] here we go it's gonna be a good one oh yeah one big handful of garnets and i'll do all of this again and this is a rock full of garnets that's the host rock it's a schist careful how you say that word and garnets throughout i think that will be up for auction on my website when this video comes out okay this is gonna be an amazing flip i know it see if i do it right uh excess water off here we go oh yeah it's gonna be good oh yeah look at that red there's big ones too and it's really deep in garnets nice work alex digging this one oh handful of big garnets okay and let's just do my whole pile one more time to get everything else out of it and here's the last quarter inch flip of the day we have some nice garnets in there not all that many all of these black things in the middle are actually garnets but we're looking for the gemmy ones they're red jimmy ones and there's only a few of them into the bin they go so we figured for the last bucket here we actually put in the half inch stuff to see if we can find anything big there isn't very much big here that is any kind of quality but let's see let's hope we gotta make a bigger flat area [Applause] and [Applause] so in here i see a chip of garnet that can go in i see another oh it's falling ah another big garnet but not really gemmy sort of an orangish garnet over here nothing really jimmy here's one a garnet a lot of these big black things are garnets but just absolutely brown opaque nothing special there's one yeah there's a chipper girl in it well i got one more flip to do of the bigger stuff and we'll [Applause] see and the last flip of the day wish me luck i lost a lot of it over the edges oh well okay there's a nice one oh there's another nice one a little bit jimmy a little bit jimmy they're not great though [Applause] there's one what's this nope that's nothing there's a nice garnet no no no no no big jimmy guys though there's garnet got one there yep maybe maybe thirteen yep oh i missed it and that be it there's a garnet still in its host how pretty now if you want to purchase some of our garnets you can on my website www.danherdprospecting.com in the store [Music] thanks for coming along on our adventure here if you liked the video please leave that thumbs up leave a comment below i love reading them big big thanks to my patrons out there because of you i get to make these road trips and make these videos you guys are awesome and if you haven't subscribed already i hope you like what you saw enough to subscribe until the next one everyone what a beautiful day [Music] [Applause] bye you

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Keywords: gem hunting, gem hound, gemstone hunting, gem stone, gem stone collecting, gem collecting, rock hound, rock collecting, gems, garnets, rubies, ruby, garnet beach, saruka, saruca, gem sieve, jig, big silver creek, harrison lake, video, prospecting, gem quality, gemmy

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Length: 22min 9sec (1329 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 20 2020