An Awesome Found

Apr 22, 2018 7:20 PM

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???? an awesome found.

Aww look at the rock dork.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That’s one of the biggest dad boner smiles ever

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

wtf, it's just a rock, show me more of that sweet ass towel.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

is it me or was this much longer than it needed to be?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I didn’t know Ed Helms was a geologist.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I too act like the zodiac killer when I hold up rocks next to my head

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

Jesus Marie!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

One of most satisfying things a rock collector can ever do.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Geologist sorcery, finding gem stones in random rocks

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can’t wait to show this video to my son! Crazy how the earths crust do dat!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Rock candy!!!!!

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

GEOOODEEE!

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

where i'm from it's illegal to do this

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thank you. I was hoping someone would mention it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think it may be a big ass smoky quarts cluster.

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

What it looks like to me too.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Science and tech tag might be a stretch.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 9

Geology

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Geology is a science, hammer and chisel is technology.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Hammer and chisel are technology yo

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

v

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Nice rock

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Marie

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Was looking for someone that posted this!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That really is an awesome found

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago (deleted Aug 26, 2021 10:06 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

But the two look alike.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It has a towel underneath it. Fake

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 8

That was obviously placed there to protect it when it fell away from the giant boulder it was attached to.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

What he was chiseling wasn't attached to it either...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I thought that at first, too. But looks like he couldn't pull it out unless there was more clearance in the hole. (That's what she said.)

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why do you think that?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

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8 years ago (deleted Aug 26, 2021 10:06 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

............. You wouldn't place a towel underneath the crystals while cutting them down?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

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There has to be a better way!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lol, was looking for this

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That was 90% gravity.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Where is this from? A movie, skit or what?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Arrested Development, tv show.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thank you!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Am I the only one that thinks kissing random rocks is a bad idea?

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Maybe unlike the rest of us he knows what that is and this that it's harmless.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was thinking more bacteria

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I didn't consider that. Fair enough.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was thinking the same thing. I’m pretty sure some minerals are deadly when they come in contact with your skin.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure this dude is knowledgeable not to kiss deadly rocks....

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

@ilookfuckingcool

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wanna do this so bad, I love smoky quartz!!!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Then let’s gooooo

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Okay whereeeee?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dunno. Where should we go first? Chinese artifacts in the Grand Canyon? Or somewhere round here? Anything in the high desert?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm sure there's tons of rock deposits here...even the trails up in the mountains have quartz...mainly rose tho

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Guy looks happy, So how much is that rock worth ?

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Bout three f... oh nvm..

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a raw material probably not as much as you would expect.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

$3.50

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Best me to it

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How do you find those?

8 years ago | Likes 127 Dislikes 4

By digging.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

they find you when it's time

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Knowledge of how they form, looking for lava tubes maybe? IDK just guessing.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Amazon

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, first you have to craft a stone pickaxe. Soon you'll find some iron, and you can make a better one. Then there might be some lava.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There’s a place just outside of eager Arizona in the mountains by the volcano ruins that you have a very good chance of finding them. 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The trick is to find a few that have the same look, then you’ll find them all over like candy in a shop. Found a 70lbs one with the cousins

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

with your eyes probably

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

How do you found those?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He found it, put it back, and then found it again for the camera.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

No, it's "How do you *found* those? Didn't you read the title?

8 years ago | Likes 148 Dislikes 6

Can't you see that's the guy's name, Mr Found

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

How do you found those.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just turn on your geodelocation.

8 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

Made me say "God dammit." Take your upvote and get the hell outta here.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ok u little shits listen up, there are 3 ways to find these puppies. 1) finding abandoned mineral mines (or active ones NOT FREE) 1/3

8 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 1

Technically the abandoned mines aren't free to use either. If it's available you could stake a new claim on it for a few hundred bucks.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

There's also a chance the shaft you found was abandoned, but still has mining going on underneath.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

2) Earthquake and fault lines are real good places. 3) volcanic tubes (yes like the one from the movie to the center of the earth)

8 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

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Very carefully

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Looks cool although I have no idea what I'm looking at

8 years ago | Likes 628 Dislikes 8

Looks like a stagmite, maybe onyx? Font know to much about rocks but it looks black like an onyx

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

Rock candy

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

They're minerals, Marie.

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It’s poop. And he kissed it.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

A Boeing bomb!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nerds

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That’s kinda the beauty of this though: no idea what it actually is, but he’s happy and I’m happy! This must be what dogs feel all the time.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It’s a dildo if he’s brave enough.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think it's the lovechild of Stephen Colbert and Ed Helms

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ed helms holding his new pet alien.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Its a ZPM. The ancients use them to power their advanced technology. Looks like he will finally have enough power to dial Earth.

8 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 2

I always upvote Stargate

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Indeed.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

6th Chevron... Locked!

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I wish I didn't know what you were talking about. But I'm a giant nerd. So I do.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You don't really wish that. Stargate is amazing and you're glad you've gotten to enjoy it! ^^

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Who’s downvoting Stargate????

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

This needs more upvotes lol

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I. Love. This.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He found a huge cluster of smokey quartz all in the same piece of matrix. It's a rush for every gem Hunter to find something so awesome.

8 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 0

Serious question. Can people just go around chopping pieces of rock anywhere to take home?

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I mean, I have no idea how many people hunt these things and how hard they are to find, but I imagine there are regulations?

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Looks like some nerd going down on a rock.

8 years ago | Likes 191 Dislikes 10

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I do believe that is what it was. And that nerd is going down...town on a scirocco of mineral mining glory baby!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That nerds got manlier hands and forearms than all y'all

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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I always felt like Hank severely over reacted and that it was just the easiest way to end the series.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

So Steven Universe Rule 34?

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Looks like Smoky Quartz, that chunk alone would go for $600+ easy

8 years ago | Likes 320 Dislikes 2

Damn

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago (deleted Aug 26, 2021 10:06 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

$600.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

I'll give you five bucks.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can anyone tell us what this is? From his reaction, it’s got to be valuable.

8 years ago | Likes 1216 Dislikes 1

Uranium.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Looks like smoky quartz

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Geode.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Jesus, Marie!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

it’s the kryptonite from batman v. superman

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You could sell that rock for maybe 80 dollars or so to a collector.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I too would like to know

8 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Money doesn't have anything to do with it. I went hunting for pink halite once. Found a beautiful piece. Halite is salt. Road salt.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We call them....rocks

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Definitely more fun than value.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If it is smoky quarts its probably worth 200 Canadian

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a Geode, dude.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Smokey quarts

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Brown Sugar https://imgur.com/Gt1LViw

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The mineral isn't important, the quality of the specimen is what makes it a great find! Smoky quarky though but could be wrong.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That Boulder was pregnant and he helped it have its baby!!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Its KRYPTONITE

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

That or he's just a geologist. They can get irrationally excited about rocks

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There’s nothing more valuable than knowledge my friend.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It could just be valuable to him.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not everything is about money, my friend. Smoky quartz isn’t very valuable. He’s probably proud that he found something.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

It’s actually a rare Smokey bookend :)

8 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 2

Plutonic quartz. All we need now is some cesium and bottled water

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

You can’t just go around posting the recipe for concentrated dark matter!

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It’s Vibranium

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's the face I made when I thought I was out of candy but I found a twizzler in the sofa. It's probably worth like a nickel.

8 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

Considering all the stores that would sell it for about 150 at least, it's probably worth a decent dinner.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This made me laugh more than it had right to. Have my upvote.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Like 50$ valuable from a museum

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

youre missing a 0 at the end of that, size like that goes for an easy $500 +

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

more like $500 - that's a huge chunk

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

Based on a quick lookup on Etsy, doubtful. Single crystals that size are going for less than $200.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just bare crystals? Nothing extra? Time to clean out Grampa Jacks closet!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep. You could probably make a few hundred bucks if your grandpa liked collecting quartz.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Kyber crystal, they are rare, Force-attuned crystals that grow in nature and are found on scattered planets across the galaxy.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

this guy ddos

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Why is the open crystal part of the rock sitting on a towel if it was not removed yet ??? You know what I mean ?

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

He could feel by hand that there were crystals and wanted to protect it.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He probably shoved the towel under there so he wouldn't damage them while he broke the whole thing loose.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Money isn't the only thing that makes people happy.

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This

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BJ's work too

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Geologist, can confirm

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ask any rock hound. Pockets full of rocks, gardens full of rocks, houses with sills full of rocks.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

They call'em hound 'cause he's horny.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This. I found it odd that comment OP made this association.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 9

Money makes people happy?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Depends. Money can buy forms of happiness, money can even buy forms of love/affection. It cannot buy unconditional/true love though.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

if you lived your whole life without money then Yes, if your parents are super rich and you are super rich your whole life then no

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Up to about 70k/year, yeah. Past that it just makes you more stressed. Already at 70k a year, so I guess its all downhill from here.

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It's odd how you assume that. I guess people have different priorities. I assumed he was just happy because it's pretty.

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But it’s not odd.

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He likes that boulder. It is a nice boulder

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THE BOULDER is pleased to receive such a compliment from a pancreas.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They're minerals, Marie.

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?

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

They're minerals, Marie.

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This is what I was looking for.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

looks like smoky quarts. not worth a ton, but fun to hunt, and a find like this is pretty stellar.

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Super fun to find it yourself! I love rock hunting as soon as it gets warm. If I found that I would probably cry happy tears

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hunting Minerals sounds like a great passtime, but I live in western Iowa. All I can find are corn cobs and pig poo.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

It's all in knowing what to look for :) http://www.gatorgirlrocks.com/state-by-state/iowa.html

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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Pott co represent

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ha you haven't been to many gypsy shops or earthbound have you, probably sell that for 300+

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

It's actually worth more in the rock it formed from, mineral and gem collectors dream for something that big.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How do you hunt this? Does it leave footprints or a trail of dung?

8 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 2

Want to know too

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Geological surveying and visual markers of the surface stone, as well as chemical sampling of substrate.

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Most states have geological maps of the types of rocks, and there's a science on rock formation to study. Geology! \o/

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Dung, mostly, in my experience.

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Also, I'm not very experienced.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep some sort of quartz geode, probably a vughy infill in a lava. Chaotic crystals which means something about to formation but I forget

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Geology! Mineralogy?

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Gemology

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What?

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Yes

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If you can collect all seven something really super happens.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yes - you get your virginity back.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Like when a lava bubbles, some of the bubbles freeze when it cools down and then quartz grows in the space.

8 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 2

But where did the quartz seeds come from?

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Ohhhh. That’s neat! Thank you for taking the time to explain it to a simpleton

8 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 1

Did somebody say Smoky Quartz?

8 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 8

This is what I came here for.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wot in XXXtentaction is that?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Of course you would know

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You say not worth much, you've obviously never been into a hippy crystal store, something that size would sell for $500-$1k here

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Which isn't much in the gem and mineral world...

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Factoring in that you've got to fund hunting it down, if that's all you get, odds are you just lost money. Maybe a lot.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It’s a hobby isn’t it? Finding gems. Kinda like metal detecting from my understanding (not 100% sure)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For some people sure. But given how many of the new age type shops sell geodes and related crystals, there needs to be some profit in it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Smoky quartz is my jazz name.

8 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

"jazz" meaning "exotic dancer"?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I’ll smoke your quartz..

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0