A Better Way to Hunt for Leland Blue

Loved this video! All three of you did an excellent job exploring, explaining, narrating and recording. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.

Awesome Blues!!!

I have wanted a rock tumbler since I was a kid loving the look and feel of smooth polished rocks. I bought what I could afford, a two barrel Harbor Freight, and ordered supplies from the Rock Shed and started tumbling rocks I found locally. While they don't turn out perfect all the time since I don't lave a lap grinder to take out bumps and dips, I have used your patient approach, with multiple runs in the same grit, and long 2 week polish phases giving me very satisfactory results. Thanks for your very helpful tutorials.

How could I get a real blue piece??

This realy very nice video well done my dear friend thank y for sharing

Nancy that rock was definitely cute. My husband says we don’t buy or take things home because they are cute. I said then I wouldn’t have brought him home to meet my parents 28 years ago. 😂😂 All three of you found some great treasures.

Do you sell these?

Tennessee is pocked with pig iron furnaces, and I have some very glassy blue slag from Montgomery County. I see that Leland Blue can be gem cut. I don't think my slag can be cut; it's pretty brittle.

* Lots of Petoskey stones ~ funny when you are looking for Leland Bl

Just getting to see this (been out to Denver for GSA conference), but great finds and nice narration by Nancy on this one.

So what uses are there for this Leland blue ?

Happy hunting friends, hope you find the best stone.

55 is about my limit for going in the water.

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You look ready to do some diving in Kona now. 👍

Have to get that on my list for next year

🙋‍♀️❤ Lol, Nancy. "Swamp things!" WOW One of Cody's Leland blue was as blue as a hunk of play dough! THE Beaches and the day was gorgeous! Cool and Artsy for sure!

Thank you ,thank you, great content .Always an education ❤

Milwaukee area beaches are covered in the light blues.

Wow! How pretty!

I'm going to sound like a fool here, but what is Leland blue? Maybe I accidentally missed/skipped an explanation? Is it a jasper or some kind of silicate?

Nice Leland boys but the wife was finding some beautiful fossils and chirt!

Great review and info on the Leland Blues! Thanks so much!

You guys can send me the yooperlight rock you find...im from MI but I live in TN now. I can send funds to mail...use a 1 price ship box...

Snorkeling in Hawaii is more colorful but there is always the possibility of something coming out of the depths and taking your leg of, so lakes are my preference

* WildKyle & his mother went to find Leland Blue stones last year (I think).. It is Very Interesting to find out exactly why it is there.. So Cool.. THANKS!!

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Awe. I love the closeness of the hunt. How can we tell the difference between mudstone and that grey banded churt ? The waxyness or thickness of bands?

The old iron smelter slag we have here in Tennessee comes in those same shades of color .
The bright blue is often swirled with white much like an agate .
There is a dark to pistachio green which typically is full of bubbles and charcoal pieces .
Then there is the amethyst purple stuff .
Finding boulders with all the colors is pretty common and they used the slag for road metal and general fill so it is spread everywhere , not just around the old limestone furnaces .

It looks like the rocks underwater have some kind of scum over them now that it's pretty neat the end, you sur did find some pie es though!

We find a lot of nice samples out in the water like that as well. I have found some areas that are quite heavily loaded with Leland Blues and Frankfort Greens that we like to visit. I am hoping to make jewelry out of them one day.

Beautiful slag...I found green in a creek in SW Michigan???? Need to do research to find out if there was a processing plant near by.

Olá Amigo excelente trabalho são maravilhosas as azuis 👏👏👏👏🤗

How magnetic are they?

My first time visiting the Great Lakes area I was amazed at how huge the lakes are. I grew up on the west coast and was used to the ocean but the waves at our beaches are so much bigger. I really want the explore Montana someday.

What a beautiful place and what beautiful finds! Now do you polish those by hand or just leave them?

I am really enjoying the back and forth.

Can you please tell me where and what kind of goodie bag Cody is wearing. Great blues!

Boy Oh Boy! I'm learning. Leland Blue-I didn't know it is Turquoise? I'm I misinformed or is it Turquoise, and If so, How can we Obtain a few of those Stones?

this inspired me to snorkel for rocks! Lol Great video, Ive watched twice now!

Yeah they got the same thing in New York state I lived in the Adirondacks 45 years ago there was this antique- blue iron ore slag tons of it everywhere they paved the roads with it. We found some of the old iron ore mines from the time of the civil War when there was a big demand for iron to feed the war effort for the north
Some of the iron was used to build the USS monitor the ironclad ship in the battle of Hampton roads against the Confederacy.

Great video as I always learn more from you and your colleagues knowledge. The history and formation of slag glass is interesting. I'll never snorkel so enjoying live vicariously through your adventures. Nancy did a wonderful job keeping me interested in all the beach finds. I always enjoy rockhounding and gorgeous lake videos. Thank you!

Shine your UV on the pale purple glass. Some of it fluoresces bubblegum pink!
Another spot to find lots of green is just over the bridge to the UP on the right at the Kiwanis park!

You did not mention tumbling leland blues. We suspect not good... the glassy stuff would just break up?

I just opened my first geode! Even after knowing what I can find it blew me away... like opening a diamond and seeing a thousand diamonds 😮

He did a great job on explaining how these form.

Nice video Rob.

I have spots where i dig the slag up because it was used as fill, then tumble them.

there from meteor impact, n the factories were melting that blue glass down.. cuz do that too stone in the first place is impossible..... I run a glass smelting furnace, n nope.

The green ones are usually called Frankfort greens. There was a foundry there at one point, also. I found a small pure purple one there in Leland , once.😊Nancy, those small bright Lelands would make really pretty post earrings.