Crystal Mining: PA's Abandoned Coal Mines
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Today I visit my hometown of Hazleton PA and scout the abandoned coal mines for quartz crystals - points and clusters! Double Terminated Quartz Crystal and quartz crystal clusters found!
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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 👌
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!
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
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.
The discovery of the Pennsylvania Quartz Crystal, very interesting friends.
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!!
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
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.
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.
AWESOME spot!! That first cluster of quartz at the frozen waterfall was KILLER!!!
Thanks for the wonderful discovery/explore.. I felt like I was right beside you.
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!
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.
One of my fav channels on youtube! Just organic and amazing content!
Howdy from Harrisburg….! Just down 81 from there…! I have found some great crystals along the Lehigh river while kayaking….
Very Cool!!! I grew up in Pittsburgh and never thought of looking around for crystals until I moved to Florida
I'm a fellow Rockhound from Hershey pa and spend a bunch of time in white haven , Hazelton, McAdoo area searching for quartz points
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.
Pa native here! Glad I found this!! Hope to see some new videos of local.finds!
Where do you park to get here?
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 👍
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
My favorite place is an outcropping up quartzville creek in oregon where you can find plenty of pyrite crystals with ease.
Nice swimming hole! By the looks of the waterfall, no swimming today 😂 keep up the great work Shane 👍
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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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
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.
Very very very cool I love to rock hunt great stuff buddy glad you got to relax and visit home for a minute.
That is a great video thanks for sharing a part of your childhood
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 ⛏🔥
amazing beautiful rock
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!!
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.
awesome Klesh :) great walk around with you :) and for you to find and pick up all them crystals for free is amazing :)
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 spot, I would have been looking for crystals while everyone else was swimming. 😂 Thanks for sharing your adventure!
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
Awesome video! PA is my home state. I grew up close to where you were!
Hey Shane that's awesome you were in my neck of the woods!
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.
Crazy my dad grew up in Hazelton , currently in the lehigh valley PA area ,small world bro
Very cool! Thanks!
Your content always looks like hard work . Always enjoy your videos !!!
Hello from Reading, Pennsylvania! Awesome video and can’t wait to see you pan out the NY sludge 😝
Hey 👋
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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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
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 think I'm liking this place better than McAdoo. Can't wait to go.
WOW!! Awesome!! ❄🇺🇸⛄🌨
Good video 📸 injoy watching it keep it up!!!
Very interesting thanks for sharing
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.
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.
T.U - Love yr work 👍🤠👍
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
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
This is awesome video bud. Different but really interesting
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.
In Georgia. Pink quartz . Arrow heads
Those look like Herkimers! Very cool vid!
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.
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
Awesome hello from quakertown Pennsylvania about and hr and a half away from there! Wish I could meet you!
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
This will be fun
Was absolutely fun
I live out by Greensburg, and I'd pay good money to go hunt crystals with you in that spot!!
Berks County, Pennsylvania has a few spots.
CRUSH IT
It's a shame what's happened to Hazleton
nice stuff you found ;)
Cool stuff😁👍
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Nice
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.
the good days of hazleton
I've been dying to get here and the echo for years.
I didn’t know you grew up in hazleton, I grew up in Wilkes barre maybe 20 to hazleton
The constant gunshots LOL
Home sweet home
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 👍⛏
Man, I haven't been up there in years and I only live like ten minutes away
Man you were close enough to my house to have a beer and a steak.
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
Good variety content. Who'da thought?
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.
I live in Dorrance, wish I knew where you were looking
Crystal ridge
Oh gosh, sorry, this camera hurts my eyes. Though, I'm determined to watch it because this sounds cool.
Some cool finds, and a nice place!
not to far from me. sometime i like to go pan for small gold, yes Pa has small traces of gold.
The glacial till Gold I’ve found in some of my earlier PA videos is a project to mine but always fun 👍⛏
Hey klesh, im local in pottsville pa, id really like to join you on a crystal hunt if possible
Not crystals, but there are some amazing examples of tree fossils east of the Chinese wall/Boxcar Rocks off of Goldmine Rd. south of Tower City. You need to know where to look, but some are quite large. It's all State Game Lands so harvesting of them is illegal.
happy holidays
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
those gold nuggets are huge!
That one quartz crystal has citrine .
Titanite Hill Ontario. ..Did I miss part two of the sidewalk diamond sludge? Don’t see it.
Still in production
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.
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.
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!
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