I'm in Washington state I find them all over the place. But when I lived in Arkansas I used to find some crystals that had red and yellow streaks on the inside. They were pretty cool.
I was born in New Castle Pa, and spent most of youth in the Beaver Valley. As a kid back in the 1950's I was always fascinated with the gravel they mined in this area. It was deposited by the glaciers. This gravel contained substantial amounts of agates, rose quartz, clear quartz and other colored stones. Distributors soled in in various sizes., from as small as marbles and up to about the size of a walnut. Every once in awhile I would find a nice piece of quartz wit a small thread of gold. When I showed them to my father he would tell me they where nice for my rock and fossil collection, but it would take a bushel basket full of them to be worth 5 cents. I left Pa in 1965, and went to sea. I have never spent more than 30 days in total in my home area since then. But I have encountered gold all over the world. In 2011 I started prospecting here where i have my home. I have come to the conclusion that if I had kept those pieces with sliver of gold in them, they would definitely be worth alot more than a nickle. Please note this gold that exists in the gravel was brought down with the glaciers from Canada. The glaciers only came down as far south as Lawrence and Beaver County.
There are gravel pits all over Beaver and Lawrence county. I believe one of these pits was around Darlington. This gravel was filled with agates, pink and clear quartz, there was all kinds of beautiful small pebbles. These were brought down from Canada by the Ice Age Glaciers. The glaciers stopped their southerly slide in parts of Beaver County and mostly in Lawrence County. Try to find topo maps of Beaver and Lawrence Counties from the 1950's, they show the locations of the different quarries, The US gov has a free data base for topo maps it list the years i have some in my hard drive from 1907, You can download them in many different formats and zips I save them as PDF's and take them to a print shop that can print large PDFs (in Color). I would lay on my stomach as a young child in some parking lot or drive way that had this placer gravel dumped on it. I would examine every one that was in front of me, I liked the sizes that weere about the size of almonds(in shell). The pea sized ones were too small, but I did find a few nice small ones back then.If I knew then what I've learned over these past 60 some years, it would have been nice if I would have asked my dad to buy a half yard of that gravel for me. Good Luck, have fun, lay on your stomach and just let each stone/pebble talk to you. If you like it , save it, someday you just might enjoy showing younger people around you the some wonders of nature in Western PA.
That's really cool! I live in Mercer county and I've been finding a whole bunch of glacial deposit stuff at my parents place. It's cool to hear someone else rockhounded the area! Most content seems to be focused on places out west
Hey Shane. I’m originally from the Scranton area and your hunt for quartz and fossils in the PA woods brought back such great memories of my youth. Thank you!
Nice video. If you had a neighborhood coal dump and old breaker you played there. Whether you were supposed to go there ever, or not. Places like these were where neighborhood legends are made as kids.
Yep! I knew all the trails and strippin pits, swimming holes and old breakers. Almost died more times than I can count, but totally wouldn't trade that childhood for anything.
Nice haul. I'm down 81 from hazeleton in Williamstown..just outside of Schuylkill county but the mountains have a lot of anthracite mines. Surely there must be some nice quartz around here. I just haven't found the honey hole like you have. I'd really like some good clear terminated pieces. Maybe some pyrite. Anyway nice job!!
will be watching for you to come for Christmas. I'm into rockhounding. Besides the crystals and shale, or slate, I'd love to see pretty, colorful, and unusual Pa. rocks in your area and more towards the Lehigh Valley that are easily accessible.
I went to "Crystal Cave" in Kutztown on two different class trips in elementary school. I'm from Clifton Heights(Delco PA) and I guess because I was so young I thought Crystal Cave was so far away in a different country or something and thought it was the coolest place ever!!!!
@@Klesh that's awesome!!! Like I said in my other comment on this post, It is a small world out there. Crazy that three random people went to some thing when we were like 8-9years old and somehow connected later in life from watching a person pan for gold in his house. And one of those people are right down the street and some how we never met or anything even though it looks like we have some shit in common and the other person is across the country in Colorado panning the gold in his house...... Amazing!!!!
Hey! I'm in Shenandoah! I go crystal picking in Hazleton often! Actually in the background of this video I saw my husband's hoodie that he forgot on a rock about a month ago! Great to see you out doing what you love in our homelands!! 462 da fk!
@Klesh I was wondering if you could shoot me a private text. I just have a question about the quartz, and a picture of a piece I got yesterday where you were.
Diamond Miner Ivins had a funny TH-cam video tonight with your paydirt while out at Cache Creek. It's hilarious! Loved watching the quartz crystal hint. I can't believe you didn't bring any tools!!
i used to spend some time in Nanticoke...Wilkes Barre and Scranton. That swimming hole looked like it would have been a good place to camp overnight. Video was fun to watch.
I’m from Pittsburgh. Grew up in Plum. Live in Delmont now. Ty for sharing this. I have no clue where to go digging for crystals in western PA. I go to Colorado every summer. Mom bought a house in Black Hawk. So I dig out there. Not in PA.
My favorite place to look for crystals is the "San Diego Gem belt". Tourmaline , beryl, quartz, garnets just to name a few can be found. It is cool because it runs from the inland valleys through the mountains and into the dessert so you can have a little diversity from weekend to weekend. Plus there's gold in them hills.
Great video. I remember many days exploring old coal mines in western PA. The coal from PA is the best coal in the ground. Low sulfur and high energy output. I never found much for quartz crystals but frequently found fossils.
Looks like a great place to go for Crystals hope they are not all gone when I get there, I know a place in Pa where I use to get fossil as the kid mount Zion Rd catawissa Pa.
Dude!! Nice finds out there! Love the double terminated pieces 😎 I wish you had tools lol. I woulda been crawing in the spaces there and tryin to pull out some of the bigger points 😆
Great video man, I’ve never been around coal. So could you literally take a lighter to the anthracite and it would sustain a flame or does it have to be processed in some way. Also for the record, I’m so pumped as tomorrow my very first order of any paydirt arrives. Of course I picked klesh gold for my first experience. So looking forward to it. The nearest gold I am aware of is 4.5 hours away from me so yes I know I lose some money but it’s my way of saying thank you to Klesh for all the hours of enjoyment watch his awesome videos and being a honest person. My bs detector is finely tuned being retired from emergency services now. Time to start a new passion. Thank you for all you do man. I got the big combo kit plus one more bag. Come on mr mail man! I got some panning to do. Guess I’ll have to get my own crusty rusty set up! God bless and stay safe out there!
I use to live in the Valley of the Lakes, where Eagle Rock ski resort is located. Man I miss that place, use to feed deer every morning right outside my bedroom on a deck. Sometimes if I slept in the deer would wake me up by jumping around on the deck. If you are looking for an awesome place to live check this place out. Now it has a 27 hole golf course designed by Arnold Palmer maybe, could be wrong on who designed it.
Shane on your next trip to Long Beach on the Washington coast you should plan a few extra days and hit Fossil, Oregon. There are several places in town where you can go through piles of rock and find fossils of leaves and insects. Worth the trip for a fossil lover.
It’s good to see you out and about again mate love the exploring videos. Hope you get on the river soon and do some more panning. I miss them uploads bro
Mcadoo is where I go lol. I have jars filled. Some fossils too. Ever find that rainbow colored coal up there? I actually have some aqua I've dug in a different part of pa as well. Yes, it's faceted too lol
You can also use anthracite as a gemstone. Whitby Jet is just lignite, a lower form of coal, after all. I have always wanted to poke around the old coal mines in Trumbull and Mahoning county that made the area into the steel belt (before it became the rust belt). Briar Hill coal was famous for being unusually pure. There's also glacial gold in the creeks and rivers. If you ever pass through NE Ohio, take a day to poke around. Grab some dessert at Mocha House in Warren.
Wellllll, my mind went crazy with "wow, that looks like:" ice, salt, snow that's been peed on, etc; AND I watch you frequently BUT my heart about quit when you walked on that cliff! Down is a long way to fall.
I clicked this very fast. I'm sure this is where my dad used to go. I have at least 100 pounds of these large, natural crystal formations in my front yard. Maybe I should watch now.
Nice finds Shane me and my dad used to go like to look for rocks we found one I'm almost positive it's about a 3-lb meteorite and he found a it was called Texas topaz and it's a very light blue and perfectly clear he had my mom and my grandma two big rings earrings and stuff made out of it and that was always cool
Yo Shane, My favorite place to pick crystals is in a small town called Wilberton (where my mom grew up) just north of Centralia. We are from Cressona, just south of Pottsville. Been watching for a while, never knew you were from Hazelton. So cool. You got at least one Skook fan representing. 👍
Thank you for a different place to look at. So much easier than the Herkimer Diamond areas in upstate NY. Do you find any placer gold around there? I know that there's some on my side of the state. I'm around Binghamton, NY and PA placers within an hour to 1 1/2 away. Great video 😊
@@Klesh Thank You for the reply. I see that you were in an area I've been before. My 2 favorite rivers are on either side of your town. Thank you again for your time
Nice. I've worked in the coal mining industry from 2008 to 2012. Spent lots of time in the coal region specifically drilling core samples of old coal banks and testing for BTU's, also lots of fly ash pit sampling and testing. Dirty job but somebody had to do it 😂
You are always a "insta like" vid person, (love all that you do) I really liked this one Shane, great finds!! I'd love to know how that smoothe flowing rock formation came to be? Looks like lava. Coal and lava don't mix;)
These formations are uncovered during the coal mining process , they just follow the vein and leave behind these big rock formations, they’re pretty common along coal veins
Hey Shane, I was thinking about getting some paydirt from you next year when work picks back up but I was thinking of a new paydirt for you to put on your page, all black sand none magnetic with only flour gold
It's like a half mile from the parking spot, a tricky incline on the way out but totally doable even for a bunch of drunk teenagers in the mid 90's not like I'd know
Just a quick question if you grew up in Hazleton, how did the Wyoming valley form, was that from a glacier? Because I am from Wilkes barre in the Wyoming Valley, and I always wondered how the valley was formed. And it looked like it was a big lake at one point
continental drift caused the mountains to raise and form which also created valleys... glaciers and water erosion did help carve out gorges and valley's to become more pronounced . as a Rockhound and learning from others and reading and research it took some time to wrap my head around how deep these crystals and the pyrite etc.... was when it all grew 350-450 million years ago and how the uplift and Earth's movement got it from a few hundred feet to 1 foot below the surface . quartz crystals here in pa required a slow cool down of magma for the water clear quartz to grow
Them dirty Quartz chunks will clean up fine. Look up here on TH-cam "TheCrystalCollector" he talks about how they clean up that stuff. Dan Hurd was on his channel pulling out giant Crystal's.
So, how did the deer hunting go? I've done reclamation on abandoned coal mines in western PA. but I worked at a sandstone quarry and found ferns all the time. The best find was the base of a fossilized tree that I had cut 16 inches thick on a rock saw. After the first cut on the splitter, we saw the face revealed. I told him to snap it back 8 inches, then turn and snap the remainder of the tree off. It became the base of a coffee table with a burl top. I'll try to send you pix on your website.
As always good video bro it's cool seeing where you grew up it's a lot like my area we swam in the quarries that were created by the granite mining industry spend summer days jumping off cliffs one of them someone named "ballsy" it was close to forty feet hence the name lol is there history of gold around your spot or ever find Indian artifacts? And one more question did you get a deer yet? I hope so I've heard Pennsylvania deer are just about jumping on you there's so many I've never hunted there but got some big deer here in new Hampshire for sure!
My dad always said the moss always holds the crystsls on a north slide slope which is always true for some odd reason and were gold miners anyway that place has very interesting geology great video klesh
You were close Crystal Ridge is it a mess to song you got nice specimens, but weren’t quite exactly in the right spot. I have a video on location when I was hunting it just as well as going back to it to harvest outstanding Crystals
What's your favorite place to find crystals in your state?
I'm in Washington state I find them all over the place. But when I lived in Arkansas I used to find some crystals that had red and yellow streaks on the inside. They were pretty cool.
We have the selenite fields here in Oklahoma and the rarest of 🌹 rocks. And I did find 4 specks of good in the north Canadian river which was cool.
Up in Alma, Colorado I got permission to go through the tailing piles of an old gold mine and crystals galore.
The rail trail in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Theres an Old Lead mine by my house, wulfenite, malachite, Chrysochola, varieties of quartz crystals ive found there, quite awesome 👌
I was born in New Castle Pa, and spent most of youth in the Beaver Valley. As a kid back in the 1950's I was always fascinated with the gravel they mined in this area. It was deposited by the glaciers. This gravel contained substantial amounts of agates, rose quartz, clear quartz and other colored stones. Distributors soled in in various sizes., from as small as marbles and up to about the size of a walnut. Every once in awhile I would find a nice piece of quartz wit a small thread of gold. When I showed them to my father he would tell me they where nice for my rock and fossil collection, but it would take a bushel basket full of them to be worth 5 cents. I left Pa in 1965, and went to sea. I have never spent more than 30 days in total in my home area since then. But I have encountered gold all over the world. In 2011 I started prospecting here where i have my home. I have come to the conclusion that if I had kept those pieces with sliver of gold in them, they would definitely be worth alot more than a nickle.
Please note this gold that exists in the gravel was brought down with the glaciers from Canada. The glaciers only came down as far south as Lawrence and Beaver County.
Could you tell exactly where are you used to look? My 11 year old would love that and I'm not that far away. 👍
There are gravel pits all over Beaver and Lawrence county. I believe one of these pits was around Darlington. This gravel was filled with agates, pink and clear quartz, there was all kinds of beautiful small pebbles. These were brought down from Canada by the Ice Age Glaciers. The glaciers stopped their southerly slide in parts of Beaver County and mostly in Lawrence County. Try to find topo maps of Beaver and Lawrence Counties from the 1950's, they show the locations of the different quarries, The US gov has a free data base for topo maps it list the years i have some in my hard drive from 1907, You can download them in many different formats and zips I save them as PDF's and take them to a print shop that can print large PDFs (in Color). I would lay on my stomach as a young child in some parking lot or drive way that had this placer gravel dumped on it. I would examine every one that was in front of me, I liked the sizes that weere about the size of almonds(in shell). The pea sized ones were too small, but I did find a few nice small ones back then.If I knew then what I've learned over these past 60 some years, it would have been nice if I would have asked my dad to buy a half yard of that gravel for me. Good Luck, have fun, lay on your stomach and just let each stone/pebble talk to you. If you like it , save it, someday you just might enjoy showing younger people around you the some wonders of nature in Western PA.
That's really cool! I live in Mercer county and I've been finding a whole bunch of glacial deposit stuff at my parents place. It's cool to hear someone else rockhounded the area! Most content seems to be focused on places out west
Very cool !!! Used to bring the ATVs here and have a blast !!! You can no longer do that !!!! They ticket and tow now so be careful 😢
Can you walk in there for crystals without getting trespassed by the cops
The random gun shots in the background really sell the environment
Hey Shane. I’m originally from the Scranton area and your hunt for quartz and fossils in the PA woods brought back such great memories of my youth. Thank you!
That is awesome!
You had a very adventurous children's playground there. And now a paradise for geologists. Well done, Shane. I liked that very much 🤠🇩🇪👍⚒
Nice video. If you had a neighborhood coal dump and old breaker you played there. Whether you were supposed to go there ever, or not. Places like these were where neighborhood legends are made as kids.
Yep! I knew all the trails and strippin pits, swimming holes and old breakers. Almost died more times than I can count, but totally wouldn't trade that childhood for anything.
No wonder you have an infinity with gem's, gold, fosils and paydirt. What am awesome spot to hangout at as a kid. Thank you for sharing Shane. Cheers
Thanks for the wonderful discovery/explore.. I felt like I was right beside you.
Howdy from Harrisburg….! Just down 81 from there…! I have found some great crystals along the Lehigh river while kayaking….
Nice haul. I'm down 81 from hazeleton in Williamstown..just outside of Schuylkill county but the mountains have a lot of anthracite mines. Surely there must be some nice quartz around here. I just haven't found the honey hole like you have. I'd really like some good clear terminated pieces. Maybe some pyrite. Anyway nice job!!
Thanks man - 462 butt, heyna or no?
I grew up in hazeton. Love the new video. Found crystals growing up right where you were. Thanks for the efforts you put in to make these.
The discovery of the Pennsylvania Quartz Crystal, very interesting friends.
Very Cool!!! I grew up in Pittsburgh and never thought of looking around for crystals until I moved to Florida
Pa native here! Glad I found this!! Hope to see some new videos of local.finds!
Where do you park to get here?
One of my fav channels on youtube! Just organic and amazing content!
will be watching for you to come for Christmas.
I'm into rockhounding.
Besides the crystals and shale, or slate, I'd love to see pretty, colorful, and unusual Pa. rocks in your area and more towards the Lehigh Valley that are easily accessible.
I went to "Crystal Cave" in Kutztown on two different class trips in elementary school. I'm from Clifton Heights(Delco PA) and I guess because I was so young I thought Crystal Cave was so far away in a different country or something and thought it was the coolest place ever!!!!
Ya me to I’m from Wilkes barre and went there when I was a kid but now I reside in glenolden pa delco brotha lol
I also went to Crystal cave for a elementary school field trip!
@@justinjustin9297 crazy!! You're right down the street... Small world man!!!
@@Klesh that's awesome!!! Like I said in my other comment on this post, It is a small world out there. Crazy that three random people went to some thing when we were like 8-9years old and somehow connected later in life from watching a person pan for gold in his house. And one of those people are right down the street and some how we never met or anything even though it looks like we have some shit in common and the other person is across the country in Colorado panning the gold in his house...... Amazing!!!!
DELCO RULES !!! RIDLEY PARK HERE. And my middle name is Justin! Whoop whoop!
AWESOME spot!! That first cluster of quartz at the frozen waterfall was KILLER!!!
Hey! I'm in Shenandoah! I go crystal picking in Hazleton often! Actually in the background of this video I saw my husband's hoodie that he forgot on a rock about a month ago! Great to see you out doing what you love in our homelands!! 462 da fk!
Haha 462 yep you’re definitely on chendo da fk! 🤣⛏
Sure am bot! Beautiful pieces you found! Rock on!
@Klesh I was wondering if you could shoot me a private text. I just have a question about the quartz, and a picture of a piece I got yesterday where you were.
Diamond Miner Ivins had a funny TH-cam video tonight with your paydirt while out at Cache Creek. It's hilarious! Loved watching the quartz crystal hint. I can't believe you didn't bring any tools!!
i used to spend some time in Nanticoke...Wilkes Barre and Scranton. That swimming hole looked like it would have been a good place to camp overnight. Video was fun to watch.
Yeah we have spent many nights down there camping as teenagers drinking and partying and swimming of course
I’m from Pittsburgh. Grew up in Plum. Live in Delmont now. Ty for sharing this. I have no clue where to go digging for crystals in western PA. I go to Colorado every summer. Mom bought a house in Black Hawk. So I dig out there. Not in PA.
Black hawk nice area I almost bought a house there last year myself 👍
My favorite place to look for crystals is the "San Diego Gem belt". Tourmaline , beryl, quartz, garnets just to name a few can be found. It is cool because it runs from the inland valleys through the mountains and into the dessert so you can have a little diversity from weekend to weekend. Plus there's gold in them hills.
I'm a fellow Rockhound from Hershey pa and spend a bunch of time in white haven , Hazelton, McAdoo area searching for quartz points
Very very very cool I love to rock hunt great stuff buddy glad you got to relax and visit home for a minute.
Nice swimming hole! By the looks of the waterfall, no swimming today 😂 keep up the great work Shane 👍
Great video. I remember many days exploring old coal mines in western PA. The coal from PA is the best coal in the ground. Low sulfur and high energy output. I never found much for quartz crystals but frequently found fossils.
My favorite place is an outcropping up quartzville creek in oregon where you can find plenty of pyrite crystals with ease.
Looks like a great place to go for Crystals hope they are not all gone when I get there, I know a place in Pa where I use to get fossil as the kid mount Zion Rd catawissa Pa.
Awesome video! PA is my home state. I grew up close to where you were!
I definitely need to explore my home state more. Awesome find my friend. Awesome video and thanks for giving me a summer goal.
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awesome Klesh :) great walk around with you :) and for you to find and pick up all them crystals for free is amazing :)
Dude!! Nice finds out there! Love the double terminated pieces 😎 I wish you had tools lol. I woulda been crawing in the spaces there and tryin to pull out some of the bigger points 😆
Very interesting thanks for sharing
That is a great video thanks for sharing a part of your childhood
Great spot, I would have been looking for crystals while everyone else was swimming. 😂 Thanks for sharing your adventure!
Great video man, I’ve never been around coal. So could you literally take a lighter to the anthracite and it would sustain a flame or does it have to be processed in some way. Also for the record, I’m so pumped as tomorrow my very first order of any paydirt arrives. Of course I picked klesh gold for my first experience. So looking forward to it. The nearest gold I am aware of is 4.5 hours away from me so yes I know I lose some money but it’s my way of saying thank you to Klesh for all the hours of enjoyment watch his awesome videos and being a honest person. My bs detector is finely tuned being retired from emergency services now. Time to start a new passion. Thank you for all you do man. I got the big combo kit plus one more bag. Come on mr mail man! I got some panning to do. Guess I’ll have to get my own crusty rusty set up! God bless and stay safe out there!
It will catch fire and burns a long time ⛏🔥
Awesome to see you in PA, I have no idea you were from Hazelton, I am a little south of you in Schuylkill County! Great watching your videos.
Yep lived in Hazleton (and surrounding areas) until I joined the army
I use to live in the Valley of the Lakes, where Eagle Rock ski resort is located. Man I miss that place, use to feed deer every morning right outside my bedroom on a deck. Sometimes if I slept in the deer would wake me up by jumping around on the deck. If you are looking for an awesome place to live check this place out. Now it has a 27 hole golf course designed by Arnold Palmer maybe, could be wrong on who designed it.
I have friends that live out there at Eagle Rock, the deer still come up to you and eat out of your hand.
@@Klesh I lived in the round house. The only one shaped like a cylinder. Only bad part was sometimes getting out during winter.
Shane on your next trip to Long Beach on the Washington coast you should plan a few extra days and hit Fossil, Oregon. There are several places in town where you can go through piles of rock and find fossils of leaves and insects. Worth the trip for a fossil lover.
Cool idea
Hello from Reading, Pennsylvania! Awesome video and can’t wait to see you pan out the NY sludge 😝
Hey 👋
It’s good to see you out and about again mate love the exploring videos. Hope you get on the river soon and do some more panning. I miss them uploads bro
Good video 📸 injoy watching it keep it up!!!
Very cool! Thanks!
Mcadoo is where I go lol. I have jars filled. Some fossils too. Ever find that rainbow colored coal up there? I actually have some aqua I've dug in a different part of pa as well. Yes, it's faceted too lol
Cool! Yeah I've found peacock coal out by Shamokin. That's what I always called it
Your content always looks like hard work . Always enjoy your videos !!!
amazing beautiful rock
Awesome hello from quakertown Pennsylvania about and hr and a half away from there! Wish I could meet you!
Hey Shane that's awesome you were in my neck of the woods!
Crazy my dad grew up in Hazelton , currently in the lehigh valley PA area ,small world bro
You can also use anthracite as a gemstone. Whitby Jet is just lignite, a lower form of coal, after all. I have always wanted to poke around the old coal mines in Trumbull and Mahoning county that made the area into the steel belt (before it became the rust belt). Briar Hill coal was famous for being unusually pure. There's also glacial gold in the creeks and rivers. If you ever pass through NE Ohio, take a day to poke around. Grab some dessert at Mocha House in Warren.
Wellllll, my mind went crazy with "wow, that looks like:" ice, salt, snow that's been peed on, etc; AND I watch you frequently BUT my heart about quit when you walked on that cliff! Down is a long way to fall.
This is awesome video bud. Different but really interesting
I think I'm liking this place better than McAdoo. Can't wait to go.
I clicked this very fast. I'm sure this is where my dad used to go. I have at least 100 pounds of these large, natural crystal formations in my front yard. Maybe I should watch now.
That wall of rock above you seems more than dangerous, it looks like an inevitable cascade of pain. Be safe out there!
Yeah it’s probably not the safest spot on earth but we grew up playing down there and only a handful of us got hurt, but zero deaths.
@@Klesh It's still likely safer than when you asked the meth-head in Times Square if he'd found anything on the sidewalk! Oof.
WOW!! Awesome!! ❄🇺🇸⛄🌨
Those look like Herkimers! Very cool vid!
Nice finds Shane me and my dad used to go like to look for rocks we found one I'm almost positive it's about a 3-lb meteorite and he found a it was called Texas topaz and it's a very light blue and perfectly clear he had my mom and my grandma two big rings earrings and stuff made out of it and that was always cool
Yo Shane, My favorite place to pick crystals is in a small town called Wilberton (where my mom grew up) just north of Centralia. We are from Cressona, just south of Pottsville. Been watching for a while, never knew you were from Hazelton. So cool. You got at least one Skook fan representing. 👍
P.S. I giggled every time I heard a rifle shot off in the background. Yep, that's where we come from.
Hey 462 yep I’ve done some coal testing in Wilburton, never looked for crystals down there.
Pine grove here. New to area but I used to come up to macadoo. I found a spot at swatera falls that has some decent ones.
Thank you for a different place to look at. So much easier than the Herkimer Diamond areas in upstate NY. Do you find any placer gold around there? I know that there's some on my side of the state. I'm around Binghamton, NY and PA placers within an hour to 1 1/2 away. Great video 😊
Yes there’s glacial till in spots
@@Klesh Thank You for the reply. I see that you were in an area I've been before. My 2 favorite rivers are on either side of your town. Thank you again for your time
This is the first that I knew you were from around hazleton area I live in Mount Carmel and I'm right by Centralia and in the heart of the anthracite
Nice. I've worked in the coal mining industry from 2008 to 2012. Spent lots of time in the coal region specifically drilling core samples of old coal banks and testing for BTU's, also lots of fly ash pit sampling and testing. Dirty job but somebody had to do it 😂
You are always a "insta like" vid person, (love all that you do) I really liked this one Shane, great finds!! I'd love to know how that smoothe flowing rock formation came to be? Looks like lava. Coal and lava don't mix;)
These formations are uncovered during the coal mining process , they just follow the vein and leave behind these big rock formations, they’re pretty common along coal veins
Hey Shane, I was thinking about getting some paydirt from you next year when work picks back up but I was thinking of a new paydirt for you to put on your page, all black sand none magnetic with only flour gold
That’s too easy - My Impossible bags are all black sand (both magnetic and nonmagnetic) with crushed pyrite, garnet and tungsten dust.
Hey this is great! I live in Philly and love adventures. How much walking is it? Can I find it with GPS?
It's like a half mile from the parking spot, a tricky incline on the way out but totally doable even for a bunch of drunk teenagers in the mid 90's not like I'd know
Berks County, Pennsylvania has a few spots.
I live in Dorrance, wish I knew where you were looking
Crystal ridge
Cool stuff😁👍
Hey klesh we trying to plan a trip to pan maybe Colorado any place you would suggest where we could have a good experience
I’d suggest the book “Finding gold in Colorado” by Kevin Singel - all different places to go with directions 👍⛏
Hey klesh ! Ever think about taking the puppy out metal detecting? Train him to find things ??
I do plan on training him to sniff out morel mushrooms
I didn’t know you grew up in hazleton, I grew up in Wilkes barre maybe 20 to hazleton
nice stuff you found ;)
I live out by Greensburg, and I'd pay good money to go hunt crystals with you in that spot!!
Holy crap Shane I didn't realize you're originally from PA! I live so close to that
Yes sir lived there until I joined the army in 97, them moved back and forth from there until 2016
This will be fun
Was absolutely fun
Did you get Senape’s Pizza? I used to live near there…Hanover township…Miss the old forge pizza…
Haha no I didn’t stop in Senapes but I bought a box of it at pantry Quik at least!
Titanite Hill Ontario. ..Did I miss part two of the sidewalk diamond sludge? Don’t see it.
Still in production
Excellent adventure. Where did you say this is and the name too. Thanks….
Crystal ridge
T.U - Love yr work 👍🤠👍
Tons of quartz here in massachusetts, but never found crystals. Any luck on the deer hunt?
Saw two doe, no buck
Just a quick question if you grew up in Hazleton, how did the Wyoming valley form, was that from a glacier? Because I am from Wilkes barre in the Wyoming Valley, and I always wondered how the valley was formed. And it looked like it was a big lake at one point
Yep glaciers
continental drift caused the mountains to raise and form which also created valleys... glaciers and water erosion did help carve out gorges and valley's to become more pronounced . as a Rockhound and learning from others and reading and research it took some time to wrap my head around how deep these crystals and the pyrite etc.... was when it all grew 350-450 million years ago and how the uplift and Earth's movement got it from a few hundred feet to 1 foot below the surface . quartz crystals here in pa required a slow cool down of magma for the water clear quartz to grow
Them dirty Quartz chunks will clean up fine. Look up here on TH-cam "TheCrystalCollector" he talks about how they clean up that stuff. Dan Hurd was on his channel pulling out giant Crystal's.
Yep I was invited to that dig/video but had covid at the time
Are you still in PA?
I'm in the Poconos. I've been a fan for a couple years.
Back in Colorado now, was only there a little while
the good days of hazleton
happy holidays
In Georgia. Pink quartz . Arrow heads
So, how did the deer hunting go? I've done reclamation on abandoned coal mines in western PA. but I worked at a sandstone quarry and found ferns all the time. The best find was the base of a fossilized tree that I had cut 16 inches thick on a rock saw. After the first cut on the splitter, we saw the face revealed. I told him to snap it back 8 inches, then turn and snap the remainder of the tree off. It became the base of a coffee table with a burl top. I'll try to send you pix on your website.
Nice find! Saw a couple doe no buck.
Could you tell me were the sand stone quarry is? My 11 year old would love to go searching I'm in Coraopolis.
@@getrealgeteducated3813, just North past Renfrew on the right on rte. 8. I don't know if they're even open anymore.
Shane did you finish panning out the stuff you got the second time in New York City😮
Been experimenting with ways to process it all at once. Only failures so far
Hey klesh, im local in pottsville pa, id really like to join you on a crystal hunt if possible
Man, I haven't been up there in years and I only live like ten minutes away
Good variety content. Who'da thought?
Didn’t know you were from Nepa, I’m from Kingston/ Wilkes-Barre area
Yep! Best pizza ever
@@Klesh yeah buddy! My favorites are Angelo’s and sizzle Pi but they’re all pretty good lol
@@SteelCity570 if I'm up in that area I like to make it over to old Forge and hit up Arcaro and Genell
@@Klesh those are good, there’s a place nearby in Scranton called Maronis it’s really good. You should try it if you haven’t already.
As always good video bro it's cool seeing where you grew up it's a lot like my area we swam in the quarries that were created by the granite mining industry spend summer days jumping off cliffs one of them someone named "ballsy" it was close to forty feet hence the name lol is there history of gold around your spot or ever find Indian artifacts? And one more question did you get a deer yet? I hope so I've heard Pennsylvania deer are just about jumping on you there's so many I've never hunted there but got some big deer here in new Hampshire for sure!
I saw a couple antlerless deer but no buck to harvest this year
My dad always said the moss always holds the crystsls on a north slide slope which is always true for some odd reason and were gold miners anyway that place has very interesting geology great video klesh
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those gold nuggets are huge!
You were close Crystal Ridge is it a mess to song you got nice specimens, but weren’t quite exactly in the right spot. I have a video on location when I was hunting it just as well as going back to it to harvest outstanding Crystals
That's right Crystal ridge PA, down the road, before the shooting range turn left, down the hill and right under the cliff.
CRUSH IT
Have you ever metal detected your old swimming hole? That area definitely looks sketchy at times.
No I haven’t detected down there. Lots of bullets, bottle caps and beer cans I’d guess
Be advised you cannot take any material from Pennsylvania state game lands,you will be fined