The Day it Rained Lake Superior Agates

Join me as I slowly make my way up the Wester Upper Peninsula of Michigan while hunting for Lake Superior Agates. Eventually, I make my way North into the Keweenaw Peninsula in search of where to find agates in Michigan.

Everything you see in the thumbnail, I came across at this location - which I am hoping to share with you all soon. (Ongoing project to make that easier)

Among countless agates are pieces of prehnite, an intriguing mineral that is impossible not to come across when rockhounding in the Upper Peninsula.

We also find a giant chunk of shiny copper ore hidden in the dry rocks along with your favorite… spiders.

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[dustinfindsrocks]

That's super cool that you scored from a random guy. Something to think about! Our collections are going to outlive us all.

[mellomelo]

Fun to watch, Love to see and hear what the rocks actually are.

[jesseellis]

This is wild. Swedish death cleaning...

[sarahmcdonough]

Those are some of the most beautiful rocks I have ever seen!😍

[upnorthadventureswithccc]

Nice find on the copper in matrix rock and the agate. Oh wait a man put down his collection of agates~wow his tradition is unique but understandable. Glad you got some and did what he wanted. I would of had a very hard time returning them to the Lake. Good job on your part 👍Your finds are amazing !

[lighteningbird]

I’ve met so many great folks in 40 years of rock adventures! Hounding, shows, clubs, knap ins… very glad to have found your channel! Looking down is looking up these days!

[gary]

How awesome! What a unreal amount of luck for you! All of us rockhounds wish we had your luck!

[Dr.BG_]

Yes, that big red and white one is a quarts ball agate. Beautiful

[SRLGemstone]

It's amazing that the Edipot turned out to be copper. And someone left you a nice present. It's a very lucky day. Nice video.☺

[Stacy-bp]

Love the catch and release agate more people would take pictures of agates and release them....

[Pampnaylor]

I am new at rock hunting in fact I’ve only been once or twice here in Florida, but I’m learning so much from all these YouTube videos with these amazing people that we know so much about rocks. thank you all for your videos.

[ravend]

I am completely terrified of spiders but still put my Brave face on for the sake of the hunt. 💪 A couple weeks back I was looking through some rocks at the bottom of a dam and saw a beautiful find that was behind a net of webs. My throat tightened and i squinted my eyes so i could barelyyyy see, (thats the brave face lol) then I grabbed it quick, threw it, screamed and flailed my arms everywhere for 30 seconds or so. Until I realize that across the river, 2 fishermen had appeared and one let out a fake scream lmao. All I could say was "my bad. Spider. I'm good" lol 😂

[jimknarr]

Had a similar situation of someone letting go of some great rocks in Petoskey. Someone seeded two big Petoskeys directly in front of the stairs where everyone enters the beach. Best large Petoskeys I had ever seen.

[jamesrich]

Looking at the pile of agates it looked like mostly low grade agate that he didn't want so he was just throwing it back into the lake, I saw a few with good banding I'd have picked out.

[AsaTrenchard]

Michigan rockhound hotspots: Agate Beach (west side of U.P's Keweenaw Peninsula), Rockport state park (north of Alpena), Sturgeon Point state park (south of Alpena).

[spaghettimonsterruns]

Wait a minute....! I know that lighthouse!!! So cool!!!

[kirbycraft]

Dude, i I was Agate hunting on my favorite creek in south St. Louis county ladt week, and I came to a place where I found about 12 agates that look like they were tumbled; all smalls with a decent nodule that wasn't. STTRRRRANGE!!! They were in an area about 50 square feet. I really don't know what to make of it. They had been there for a while because some had a decent amount of moss on them. I've never found that many in an area that close to each other, so they definitely seemed seeded.

[billclisham]

You can increase your fun on Superior by bringing a gold pan with you and going through some of the black sands, granted you will only find flour gold but then gold is gold.

[savagesquirrel]

I think they are agates. Though there may be quartz and other rock, I think those fortification bands = agates. I love that you helped that man. Likely others will delight in finding some of them.

[spaghettimonsterruns]

Good on ya for holding your end of the deal.!