It's me again I'm sorry how did you come across that number for how old the rock is I'm sure it's extremely old but how can you tell when that was formed?
@@Scapularbore Its been answered. Herkimer diamonds are always found in ~500 million yr old rock formations usually near Herkimer county. Whatever geological processes happened back then, produces these types of quartz crystals. This has been established through various dating methods. Google: Herkimer diamond.
The only thing I’d say is: make sure you grind off all that mushroomed steel on your chisels. That stuff turns to shrapnel when it breaks off, and it will imbed itself in anything in its way, you included. Be safe.
@@rod1499 In retrospect it's kinda funny. Lithium is what they use to make rechargable batteries. Dilithium would be something which had two lithium atoms in it. Two lithium crystals on their own could not be pushed together to form a single molecule, but with the use of one or two other simple molecules you could get a reaction which would yield a molecule which could accurately be called "dilithium". It wouldn't be powerful enough to power a starship, but depending on what you combined, it might be usable to power something. Star Trek coming true in a small way? It would be like dihydrogen oxide, which is a fairly common molecule, also known as water.
When i moved to Switzerland back in 2018 there are areas so remote especially in the mountains where we actually found a small bunker that was used for WW2 where weapons, gold and ammunition was kept.
It's kind of a professional guessing game. Rocks that could potentially have vuggs are what you're trying to find. The void space is where the crystal can grow.
It’s not a guessing game at all. They know exactly how old a sample of organic matter is within 10 years using carbon dating and radiometric dating. Science
Here in central Montana, we have Dobe Diamonds(smokey quartz), or also known as the Montana Diamond. The one and only place in the world you can find them is in the Judith Mountains(Lewistown, MT). They are double terminated smokey quartz and you can walk around, and find them literally sitting on the topsoil...perfectly cut. It's pretty special and one of the things my town is famous for. My area here in central Montana is also the only place in the world you can find Yogo Sapphires. One of the purest sapphires on the planet
Here in Nebraska were I live, if you look around a bit you can find entire fields full of loamy clay loess. It's not worth anything, but it will grow a crop way better than diamonds, quarts, gold, or any of that fancy hard stuff. If you start a successful business in a city or town near farms, you can fleece farmers for all they're worth, and by not working very hard at all, you can get really rich. You don't have to worry about the farmers getting angry with you because they always blame the government or the weather for their hardships. It's pretty slick. I made enough to retire at age 36, and I'm not coming anywhere near running out of money now that I'm in my 70's. Most of those farmers will be working when they drop dead. It's what they get for being suckers and always voting Republican. As long as they never figure that out, my kids and grandkids will be rich rich rich just like I am! Trump 2024! A fool's born every minute, and that's my story.
I'm gonna make a video making fun you you guys..this is ridiculous how uneducated people are, stop commenting if YOU DONT KNOW WHAT A CRYSTAL LOOKS LIKE.
When you don't know that crystals naturally form into flat sided shapes due to the arrangement of molecules that defines a crystalline structure, or that a Herkimer diamond (a quartz with specific qualities) is defined by its naturally occurring double termination and 18 flat facets, but pretend to be an expert on the internet anyway, publicly embarrassing yourself in the process. Also - as a basic observation, there's not one 90 degree angle on that crystal.
Yep. they do. You don't even have to know nothin'. I recommend that you give up your job and start breaking up every rock you come upon. You won't get rich, and you probably won't find anything unless you study minerology first, but heck, when you figure out how many rocks you could bust up in the time it would take to learn about minerology, you could break a lot of rocks and maybe find a penny in a parking lot somewhere!
@@Jay-md6fkit matters when a global institution like the Catholic Church protects offenders. Point out where this happens with atheists, if you can. But we all know how much priests love the little children. Get em while they're young, right?
This is not a raw crystal. Raw crystals look like rocks. My uncle has an uncut sapphire, couple diamonds of different colors, some less rare opals and topez. They look like rocks, not clean cut crystals that you would buy at a store.
@@thinnestgeckowell maybe their poor quality with a lot of impurities in which hinder the crystalline structure from forming properly. Look at a picture of salt granules under a microscope, you'll notice they're almost perfectly cubed, same applies with pure-er specimens, cutting just makes them the shape you want and remove veins of impurities
@thinnestgecko Only if they're weathered. Minerals have a property referred to as their crystal habit which is the form that the crystal naturally forms due go chemical structure. Every mineral would look like a perfect crystal if it had space to form and was unweathered.
@@Henock-ov8wo he was referring to the name of the crystal "Herkimer Diamond" which is, by definition, a double terminated quartz crystal specifically from Herkimer New York.... He wasn't claiming that double terminated quartz is only found in New York. Relax Bubba and take another dip in some hot springs
@@S.Parrow While a big sheet of it is really cool, it's not as rare and amazing as a double terminating one. To my knowledge, there has not been a double terminating one found in Arkansas. I found one double terminating one in Colorado not far from Pitkin, and apparently a lot of quartz is found there since there is a creek there named Quartz Creek, but most of t he quartz I found there was broken or single terminated. It's surprising that I found any at all there since it used to get mined pretty heavily by the Indians, who were going after it for making arrowheads. I've never found an arrowhead in that area, but I sure have found a lot of flakes, indicating that they were finding lots of quartz there, and were working it on the spot, or at least dressing it to get rid of the bad parts so that they could work it into a tool later. The workmanship of those Indians never ceases to amaze me. Even during the periods when they weren't putting their all into it, they did some pretty amazing things with stone. You just have to respect that kind of knowledge and workmanship whenever it occurs and wherever you see it. The same with the pots and baskets they made. Those folks managed to make a living where none of us today could have.
@@Chompchompyerded again... Double Terminated Quartz crystals are not found ONLY in and around Herkimer New York... But the ones that are, are called Herkimer Diamonds because they are specific to that region... Find one anywhere else and they are not called Herkimer Diamonds. Sparkling White Wine is made all over the world, but only the stuff made in Champagne France can be called Champagne.. All Tequila is Mezcal but only Mezcal made within 40 miles of the city of Tequila can be called Tequila. Same thing
Herkimer Diamonds are double terminated quartz crystals with natural facets and a high clarity. They are only found in the Herkimer county of New York and surrounding areas. They form in little pockets in the dolostone rock called vugs, and there are multiple places where that rock is exposed and broken up, either naturally or left behind from previous miners or machine digs, so people can hunt for them at public mines. Decayed dirt pockets naturally occur throughout the dolostone and thats why the crystals come out muddy/dirty sometimes.
Maybe 40-50$ and at that price..I'd much rather admire its beauty and formation lol. And the fact it formed all by itself was a bit strange, but pretty cool lol
@@mattparker1078 It was 😭 I never got the chance to find out exactly what it was but it had clear, yellow, brown and what looked like air bubbles and dirt flecks inside some of the crystals .. it was a massive lump of Iron, two hands needed to hold it and very large different shaped crystals coming out from the top.. the lower crystals were almost Black.. I lost it when I lost my last home during the move and kick myself for it. I am sure someone now owns it proudly, somewhere and the only thing that gives me a little peace about losing it is the fact I found it in a skip myself a few years before. I planned to have it fully analysed as I have not been able to find a picture anywhere of anything that even remotely resembles it 🤷 Enjoy your piece 🙏
@BrodyLuv2 thank you I will .I understand exactly how you feel .my grandpa had a massive collection of super rare fluorite cubes ..Metallic Clusters...etc ...I helped donate some great pieces to it .three years ago a fire swept through and destroyed his entire property along with some very rare lapis lazuli that is illegal to mine now but wasn't in 2000 and a huge collection of semi precious crystals with aquamarine inclusions , pyrite , Amethyst...so.many ...completely cracked and destroyed by the fire . I'll make sure I cherish the crap outta this one !
Just drill a hole in a bolder and stuff it in there with some mud, then grab your camera and bust the bolder open, and TA DAAA christal/diamond or whatever you want it to be👍
Not a guess at all. With science we can prove things on paper and with determining the age of an organic sample, they used carbon dating in radio, metric dating to tell the exact age of something within 10 years.
You need to get them into cold muddy water quickly and let them come up to temperature very slowly or else they crack up inside. According to the pro quartz crystal hunters of Herkimer, NY. They lay in cold mud pockets under overburden. A lot of hard work.
You need to deburr your chisel. All that metal peened over at the hammer end is very dangerous. One of those pieces is gonna break off it can take somebody's eye out.
@@DiscoveringMineralsYep he's quite correct, those burrs can fly off at ridiculous speed. Get it on a grinder, remove the burr and grind a nice bevel around the edge.
He didn't and neither did anyone else. Just like the idiots that showed how amazing their false religion of science was when they found out their precious science said that newly formed rocks from the 1980 Mount Saint Helens explosion were 2.5 million years old. This was literally just a few years after the eruption so they knew exactly how old the Rocks were and tested science against actual human knowledge and of course, precious false religion science got its ass handed to it along with the idiots that continue trying to push this on the people. Anyone who actually understands all of the incredible assumptions that must be made for carbon dating to give a result knows they are ass clowns and arrogant yet uneducated jackasses.
@@WaspMedia3Dand how did they come to that conclusion? Because of their false religion of science. I already explained to the original commenter science has showed its ass to the world with the Mount Saint Helens experiment of them testing rocks that they knew how old they were based upon the eruption, yet their precious testing tried to tell them they were 2.5 million years old. What a joke. And so is this.
@@FaithnGod1558 There's nothing in the bible (written by men) that gives any reliable time-frame on anything - especially if you analyze the original texts in Hebrew before men bastardized the crap out of them for their own personal gains. I've been there and done that, and none of that belief stands up to any scrutiny aligning with the original texts. But you wouldn't know any of this because you just believe what you are told without further investigation. Why don't you spend your time feeling gratitude, praise, and appreciation, instead of spreading judgment on the internet. If all you see is lies, that means you are full of lies. As without, so within. Have a great day.
I bet they have something sorta similar, but nothing exactly like this, you are right! I've found thousands of herks..some look super similar..but never ever quite the same exact dimensions
I went Herkimer Diamond hunting when I was a kid. Went to the Science Center in CT and we did a two week geology trip and one of the days was at a Herkimer Diamond mind in Herkimer NY. I found a really nice one that was small but all one piece facets on both ends with a small inclusion near one end. I found a few big ones but they were only partial crystals broken in the middle or embedded in another rock too small for me to get them apart. Not bad for a 12 year old! Always wanted to go back there. Maybe someday.
Do you know what a rock is? It's mud and dirt compressed into a hard aggregate.... rocks do have moisture inside.. have you ever cracked a rock open? Probably not so how would you know what it's supposed to look like inside...
NO WAY!!! Thank you!!! You are the first person on my channel to send me a super!! Thank you so much!! Everything sent to me goes toward more mining trips/videos ☺️
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I used to have me a big crack in the rock and then one day got tired of the crack in the big rock and told Ms. Rock I'm tired of the big crack and left!
Don’t people ever get tired of the amazing find buried for milenia that are perfectly clean but a slight muddy film. Street magicians pulling a coin from my ear are more believable than these tic rockers pulling stuff from the earth.
Do you know how crystals form? This is literally what Herkimer diamond is supposed to look like in its natural state... maybe you should try Google sometime cuz I'm not sure where you think gems and minerals cone from if someone isn't digging them up.. or us it just so unbelievable because they happen to be recording while they found it..
Just a word of advice buddy. If you were to hold the end of the handle and use your shoulder, not elbow, to swing. You will get 2 benefits, 1st is leverage, if you use both suggestions. Makes work easier 2nd is less fatigue or possible injury
Cleavage planes are not so mysterious when looking at table salt, which breaks into tiny cubes. All crystals have preferred cleavage planes, and Herkimer Diamonds are a a specific quartz crystal known for its hexagonal shape and double termination. This specimen is far from the cleanest I've seen fall out of a rock. I've personally found jewelry grade Herkimer Diamonds trapped in the matrix, which almost make them museum grade quality. This one needs lots of love before someone would wear it.
I guess you’ve never seen a crystal. A crystals structure on an atomic level is arranged in repeating lattices and they have natural facets. It’s what makes crystals different from other stones. I’m just going by what I remember from grade 11 science class. You could probably Google it and get a much better understanding.
If you’re an accountant in training you must have gone to school- were you picking your nose when the teacher was explaining how you can age rocks by looking at certain minerals etc in year 6.
@@andersdottir1111 you can also just look into stratigraphy charts made by others for the places where you are planning to hammer around. if its some lone boulder (erratic boulder) you can still get info without doing it yourselves. some basic understanding of geology is enough to look that stuff up , no magic involved.
@@juk0lliradiometric dating requires us to guess how fast the carbon molecules were depleted in the past. It's a total guess and unreliable. No one can say.
That swipe though!! Literally the best feeling! And then after Cleaning!! 😳😍💖 I find them almost every time I go to Diamond Pointe in Payson, Arizona, US!
@@DiscoveringMinerals I feel like this will be a lifelong pursuit for me. I envision traveling in my future to distant digs. Payson is definitely a site to see. May you find many more treasures, and keep posting great finds. 🙂
Let's carbon date that sledge hammer, shall we? Probably only 200 million years old...disappointing...those work gloves are probably only a couple of million years old...
What's your point? Do you think moisture doesn't exist inside a rock? Or that crystals can't be found in rocks? Because both of those things would be pretty stupid to think 😅
found my first enhydro agatized coral fossil with druzy and botryoidal inclusions a few weeks ago. i cut it open and there it was. immediately spotted the bubble moving around and was already having a good look at the rock because it was already gorgeous even without the water pocket but that made for a truly special piece for sure
Used to love going there as a kid to mine herkimer diamonds, you could just walk around and pick up little small herkimer diamonds all over the place, great stuff!
A friend of mine grew up around Herkimer. These quartz points were so plentiful there, they were found along roadsides in the gravel used for road resurfacing. This was probably 1960s--70s time frame, when roads were resurfaced with tar, then a layer of gravel over.
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Guys, if you dont know, dont comment, im getting tired of all your nonsesne 😂
Where did you mine this? We have been to Herkimer a few times and love it. I think we went to Ace mine? Looking for new places to try out.
It's me again I'm sorry how did you come across that number for how old the rock is I'm sure it's extremely old but how can you tell when that was formed?
But how else will uneducated and indoctrinated "know-it-alls" ever be able feel smart, if not by commenting BS in the youtube comments sections?
@@Scapularbore Its been answered. Herkimer diamonds are always found in ~500 million yr old rock formations usually near Herkimer county. Whatever geological processes happened back then, produces these types of quartz crystals. This has been established through various dating methods.
Google: Herkimer diamond.
Stop crying Karen it's the internet
PLEASE, KIDS! Stay away from crack rock, and don't get stoned! Don't take your life for "granite". You are meant for something far bolder.
Ha hahaha nice
nice, wise ass!! lol
OK how long did it take u to come up with that?
for granite? are you a rock person?😅
@@sammiller5509 definitely am
When it fell I thought it was an animal scurrying away that had lived in the rock... 🙃
Hahahah
U must live under a rock 🪨 haha
@callen.6371 lol u stoopid bro 😄
Me too!
Did you know frogs have been found???.still alive!!!
I remember when that rock was only 350 million years old
You too? And here I was thinking I was the only one.
😂@@Chompchompyerded
They grow up so fast 😢
I like how people know exactly the age of rocks
I like it how he dropped that rock in there and then it goes ooh look what I found
😂😂😂😂Nobody knows the age of rocks , more Psuedo science.
@@Heracles_FE just because you have no education doesn't mean everybody else is as ignorant as you. 😂
It had Fred Flintstones signature on it 😮
Agree.@@Heracles_FE
I got one of those with a petroleum inclusion. It has an air bubble that moves, and the inclusion glows under UV.
That's sound really interesting. Can U show me thah Beauty ?
Thats a very valuable gem stone. A few weeks ago one went for 300€ at auction
No way can I see it please somehow show me
@@blubbytheblobfish1582300 is nothing tho
@@TrueIndependent Sure, I'll make a video of a few cool rocks I have. I'll post another comment when I upload it.
"Crack in the rock", he says. Suddenly two crackheads comes running by. 😅😅
😅😅😅😅😅
Tyrone Bigguns? Maybe?
Lol..... Too Funny..😂😂😂
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The only thing I’d say is: make sure you grind off all that mushroomed steel on your chisels. That stuff turns to shrapnel when it breaks off, and it will imbed itself in anything in its way, you included. Be safe.
Quick!
Get it to the engine room!
Scotty needs more crystals!!
or a barillium sphere..
Dialithium crystals?
@@rod1499 plus that grain.. quadroquiddecalie..!
@@rod1499 In retrospect it's kinda funny. Lithium is what they use to make rechargable batteries. Dilithium would be something which had two lithium atoms in it. Two lithium crystals on their own could not be pushed together to form a single molecule, but with the use of one or two other simple molecules you could get a reaction which would yield a molecule which could accurately be called "dilithium". It wouldn't be powerful enough to power a starship, but depending on what you combined, it might be usable to power something. Star Trek coming true in a small way? It would be like dihydrogen oxide, which is a fairly common molecule, also known as water.
When i moved to Switzerland back in 2018 there are areas so remote especially in the mountains where we actually found a small bunker that was used for WW2 where weapons, gold and ammunition was kept.
That's so crazzyyy!!!
if you made a video about exploring that place it would be so crazy! a piece of history right there.
Why would there be gold left in an army bunker ?
🤣👍🤡
Beautiful
We discovered that bunker earlier, but at that time there were nazi soldiers in it. We hardly managed to escape
I would have assumed it to be 497 million years old
You'd only be 2 years off!!!
@@DiscoveringMineralsstill that's only 499m not 500m, your still 1m years off, forgot to put the m in for Mr technical,
@@brentweston4788learn how to count
@@brentweston4788tbh, you're wrong as well. He would be 3 million years off, not just 3 years. 😅
@@BrodysBettasits more like 5,000 years old not even close to a million
Phantom crystals, love it! Great find.
That rock might be the oldest time capsule ever.
Amazed how much rock is around the crystals
Tons of rock everywhere lol
Cool
Sometime wholle mountain :)
It's kind of a professional guessing game. Rocks that could potentially have vuggs are what you're trying to find. The void space is where the crystal can grow.
Yes yes!!
It’s not a guessing game at all. They know exactly how old a sample of organic matter is within 10 years using carbon dating and radiometric dating. Science
ive been to Herkimer a couple times. i loved it. have 2 jars full of em
No idea what those words mean, but it looks cool. And if you're excited, I'm excited
Here in central Montana, we have Dobe Diamonds(smokey quartz), or also known as the Montana Diamond. The one and only place in the world you can find them is in the Judith Mountains(Lewistown, MT). They are double terminated smokey quartz and you can walk around, and find them literally sitting on the topsoil...perfectly cut. It's pretty special and one of the things my town is famous for. My area here in central Montana is also the only place in the world you can find Yogo Sapphires. One of the purest sapphires on the planet
Here in Nebraska were I live, if you look around a bit you can find entire fields full of loamy clay loess. It's not worth anything, but it will grow a crop way better than diamonds, quarts, gold, or any of that fancy hard stuff. If you start a successful business in a city or town near farms, you can fleece farmers for all they're worth, and by not working very hard at all, you can get really rich. You don't have to worry about the farmers getting angry with you because they always blame the government or the weather for their hardships. It's pretty slick. I made enough to retire at age 36, and I'm not coming anywhere near running out of money now that I'm in my 70's. Most of those farmers will be working when they drop dead. It's what they get for being suckers and always voting Republican. As long as they never figure that out, my kids and grandkids will be rich rich rich just like I am! Trump 2024! A fool's born every minute, and that's my story.
Yep that's how Herkimer diamonds are in Herkimer NY! IT'S AMAZEBALLS isn't it!!!!
& Lake Superior is the only place to find Yooperlite Also Glows under UV Black light
I love how crystals in 500 million year old rocks have perfect 90 degree cuts😂😂😂
My thoughts exactly 💯 fake
I'm gonna make a video making fun you you guys..this is ridiculous how uneducated people are, stop commenting if YOU DONT KNOW WHAT A CRYSTAL LOOKS LIKE.
When you don't know that crystals naturally form into flat sided shapes due to the arrangement of molecules that defines a crystalline structure, or that a Herkimer diamond (a quartz with specific qualities) is defined by its naturally occurring double termination and 18 flat facets, but pretend to be an expert on the internet anyway, publicly embarrassing yourself in the process.
Also - as a basic observation, there's not one 90 degree angle on that crystal.
@@DiscoveringMinerals make a video with nothing but big women. Remember, she ain't a lady if she ain't 280.
@@DiscoveringMineralsI wouldn't even waste my time replying to these idiots!!! Great video by the way, thanks for sharing!!!
Honestly, so amazing! I grew up in Maine and used to find pretty cool rocks
Let’s see the whole inside of the geode please.
I love when a crystal starts to heal itself!
Woo woo
Dude that's nuts. Nice find
Thank you!!
Gemstones literally tumble out of rocks! Cool! 👍🏻
Yep. they do. You don't even have to know nothin'. I recommend that you give up your job and start breaking up every rock you come upon. You won't get rich, and you probably won't find anything unless you study minerology first, but heck, when you figure out how many rocks you could bust up in the time it would take to learn about minerology, you could break a lot of rocks and maybe find a penny in a parking lot somewhere!
This is exactly how I became addicted to crystal.
Dang
I remember going there with my grandpa… good find and great memories.. thanks!
What an amazing Creator!
Geology, I assume you refer to.
Well if he didn't put so much into rocks he might free up the time needed to protect children from priests.
@@hazedpixel3823 what about protecting children from atheists? I guess it only matters when priests do it.
@@Jay-md6fkit matters when a global institution like the Catholic Church protects offenders. Point out where this happens with atheists, if you can. But we all know how much priests love the little children. Get em while they're young, right?
@@hazedpixel3823 he didn't put any time into it, just spoke it. Devil puts all his time into that evil. Pope does nothing.
Legend has it an alien visited him later that night and thanked the man for finding his wife’s wedding stone
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You can literally see him drop the crystal in and then go after it again in the next cut 😅😅
if you don't know how actual raw crystals look, then don't comment
This is not a raw crystal. Raw crystals look like rocks. My uncle has an uncut sapphire, couple diamonds of different colors, some less rare opals and topez. They look like rocks, not clean cut crystals that you would buy at a store.
@@thinnestgeckowell maybe their poor quality with a lot of impurities in which hinder the crystalline structure from forming properly. Look at a picture of salt granules under a microscope, you'll notice they're almost perfectly cubed, same applies with pure-er specimens, cutting just makes them the shape you want and remove veins of impurities
@@JPTumbagahe did drop it in the you absolute helmet
@thinnestgecko Only if they're weathered. Minerals have a property referred to as their crystal habit which is the form that the crystal naturally forms due go chemical structure. Every mineral would look like a perfect crystal if it had space to form and was unweathered.
A double terminating quartz crystal is the technical description, unique to New York.
@@Henock-ov8wo he was referring to the name of the crystal "Herkimer Diamond" which is, by definition, a double terminated quartz crystal specifically from Herkimer New York.... He wasn't claiming that double terminated quartz is only found in New York. Relax Bubba and take another dip in some hot springs
@@S.Parrow While a big sheet of it is really cool, it's not as rare and amazing as a double terminating one. To my knowledge, there has not been a double terminating one found in Arkansas. I found one double terminating one in Colorado not far from Pitkin, and apparently a lot of quartz is found there since there is a creek there named Quartz Creek, but most of t he quartz I found there was broken or single terminated. It's surprising that I found any at all there since it used to get mined pretty heavily by the Indians, who were going after it for making arrowheads. I've never found an arrowhead in that area, but I sure have found a lot of flakes, indicating that they were finding lots of quartz there, and were working it on the spot, or at least dressing it to get rid of the bad parts so that they could work it into a tool later. The workmanship of those Indians never ceases to amaze me. Even during the periods when they weren't putting their all into it, they did some pretty amazing things with stone. You just have to respect that kind of knowledge and workmanship whenever it occurs and wherever you see it. The same with the pots and baskets they made. Those folks managed to make a living where none of us today could have.
Not entirely unique to New York. I found one in Colorado once.
@@Chompchompyerded again... Double Terminated Quartz crystals are not found ONLY in and around Herkimer New York... But the ones that are, are called Herkimer Diamonds because they are specific to that region... Find one anywhere else and they are not called Herkimer Diamonds. Sparkling White Wine is made all over the world, but only the stuff made in Champagne France can be called Champagne.. All Tequila is Mezcal but only Mezcal made within 40 miles of the city of Tequila can be called Tequila. Same thing
Oh good ole Herkimer NY…. My roommate in college was from there. We went crystal hinting a time or two….😂🤷♂️🤦♂️
Awew! I love that!! That is so awesome! Try going once in a while and clear the mind ☺️
Aren't "herkimer diamonds" just literally quartz crystals?
Herkimer Diamonds are double terminated quartz crystals with natural facets and a high clarity. They are only found in the Herkimer county of New York and surrounding areas. They form in little pockets in the dolostone rock called vugs, and there are multiple places where that rock is exposed and broken up, either naturally or left behind from previous miners or machine digs, so people can hunt for them at public mines. Decayed dirt pockets naturally occur throughout the dolostone and thats why the crystals come out muddy/dirty sometimes.
@@DiscoveringMinerals yeah I heard about them thanks to Dan Akroyd and his crystal skull vodka 😅
Long winded answer for yes it's literally just a quartz crystal.
looks like you found your light saber crystal
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Is it worth a lot of money or is it more of a hobby because you appreciate the beauty of what you find?
Maybe 40-50$ and at that price..I'd much rather admire its beauty and formation lol. And the fact it formed all by itself was a bit strange, but pretty cool lol
Herkimer diamonds are pretty much worthless but it fun looking for them.
Recently obtained a beautiful large Prehnite and Peridot cluster.
I lost a mass of Iron with recrystallized Quartz growing out of it 😭
I will miss that wonder Forever
@BrodyLuv2 man that's an amazing sounding piece too
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It was 😭
I never got the chance to find out exactly what it was but it had clear, yellow, brown and what looked like air bubbles and dirt flecks inside some of the crystals .. it was a massive lump of Iron, two hands needed to hold it and very large different shaped crystals coming out from the top.. the lower crystals were almost Black..
I lost it when I lost my last home during the move and kick myself for it.
I am sure someone now owns it proudly, somewhere and the only thing that gives me a little peace about losing it is the fact I found it in a skip myself a few years before.
I planned to have it fully analysed as I have not been able to find a picture anywhere of anything that even remotely resembles it 🤷
Enjoy your piece 🙏
@BrodyLuv2 thank you I will .I understand exactly how you feel .my grandpa had a massive collection of super rare fluorite cubes ..Metallic Clusters...etc ...I helped donate some great pieces to it .three years ago a fire swept through and destroyed his entire property along with some very rare lapis lazuli that is illegal to mine now but wasn't in 2000 and a huge collection of semi precious crystals with aquamarine inclusions , pyrite , Amethyst...so.many ...completely cracked and destroyed by the fire . I'll make sure I cherish the crap outta this one !
For half a billion years it had been patiently waiting for you.
Awsome find...you Go man..Show US more findings😊❤
Thanks brother, you're amazing ❤️
How do you know what rock to split open and where can these be found?
They're in the right region for Herkimer points.
Are the jetliner diamonds worth anything
@@johnreed9050 not a lot? About as much as for regular crystal points. Maybe a little more.
Just drill a hole in a bolder and stuff it in there with some mud, then grab your camera and bust the bolder open, and TA DAAA christal/diamond or whatever you want it to be👍
How do you find a more or less cut & polished crystal in a rock?
There was wet mud on the crystal not exactly embedded in the rock so to say!
Very cool!!
I love the way they throw a 5 million year guess out there
Not a guess at all. With science we can prove things on paper and with determining the age of an organic sample, they used carbon dating in radio, metric dating to tell the exact age of something within 10 years.
You need to get them into cold muddy water quickly and let them come up to temperature very slowly or else they crack up inside. According to the pro quartz crystal hunters of Herkimer, NY. They lay in cold mud pockets under overburden. A lot of hard work.
You need to deburr your chisel. All that metal peened over at the hammer end is very dangerous. One of those pieces is gonna break off it can take somebody's eye out.
Thank you for letting me know!!!!! I did not know this!!
@@DiscoveringMineralsYep he's quite correct, those burrs can fly off at ridiculous speed. Get it on a grinder, remove the burr and grind a nice bevel around the edge.
Bunch of bollocks you sprouting here
Next you gonna tell us to not hit two hammer against each other or they gonna explode lol
If that rock could talk it would Rock your world! 😉
If that rock could talk, he wouldn't have cracked it open. He would have kept it and sold tickets!
If that rock could talk, he wouldn't have cracked it in half. He would have taken it home and sold tickets so that people could hear it orate!
👍 Wonderful video! Five million years of rock work!
Thank you!
How did you date the rock to 500 Million?
Herkimer diamonds almost always occur in rocks that are ~500 million years old.
He didn't and neither did anyone else. Just like the idiots that showed how amazing their false religion of science was when they found out their precious science said that newly formed rocks from the 1980 Mount Saint Helens explosion were 2.5 million years old. This was literally just a few years after the eruption so they knew exactly how old the Rocks were and tested science against actual human knowledge and of course, precious false religion science got its ass handed to it along with the idiots that continue trying to push this on the people. Anyone who actually understands all of the incredible assumptions that must be made for carbon dating to give a result knows they are ass clowns and arrogant yet uneducated jackasses.
@@WaspMedia3Dand how did they come to that conclusion? Because of their false religion of science. I already explained to the original commenter science has showed its ass to the world with the Mount Saint Helens experiment of them testing rocks that they knew how old they were based upon the eruption, yet their precious testing tried to tell them they were 2.5 million years old. What a joke. And so is this.
Every single bit of it is all lies.
@@FaithnGod1558 There's nothing in the bible (written by men) that gives any reliable time-frame on anything - especially if you analyze the original texts in Hebrew before men bastardized the crap out of them for their own personal gains.
I've been there and done that, and none of that belief stands up to any scrutiny aligning with the original texts. But you wouldn't know any of this because you just believe what you are told without further investigation.
Why don't you spend your time feeling gratitude, praise, and appreciation, instead of spreading judgment on the internet. If all you see is lies, that means you are full of lies. As without, so within.
Have a great day.
Probably a dumb question but how do you know which rocks to break?
Most of these rocks in New york have a chance to find crystals in them. The more mineralized the rock, the better the odds of crystals inside
@DiscoveringMinerals ok cool! I live in Texas so I'm going to have learn about our geology
Check out mindat.org its the worlds largest open database for minerals. I guarantee you'll find something nearby 😊
What a beautiful find. It looks like there's more to retrieve too. I suppose a good payday as well if you decide to sell.
Yes!! I need to make a full video of the rest 😊
Awesome find!!!
Hey thanks!
Damn! A unique find! No one in the amount of 8b+ people have a precious crystal like that!
I bet they have something sorta similar, but nothing exactly like this, you are right! I've found thousands of herks..some look super similar..but never ever quite the same exact dimensions
@@DiscoveringMineralshow much this stone price?👍🏻😍
Finally a good video to watch that's not harassment. Thank you. And that's an amazing crystal. Keep up the good work
Beautiful! I’ve I hadn’t become an artist I would be a geologist! I love your videos!
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Aww man it's super fun!! Thank you!!!!
I went Herkimer Diamond hunting when I was a kid. Went to the Science Center in CT and we did a two week geology trip and one of the days was at a Herkimer Diamond mind in Herkimer NY. I found a really nice one that was small but all one piece facets on both ends with a small inclusion near one end. I found a few big ones but they were only partial crystals broken in the middle or embedded in another rock too small for me to get them apart. Not bad for a 12 year old! Always wanted to go back there. Maybe someday.
How come you have muddy dirt with crystal inside the rock?
Where lol
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Literally all over the crystal before you swiped it with your thumb. Is that not you in the video?
Do you know what a rock is? It's mud and dirt compressed into a hard aggregate.... rocks do have moisture inside.. have you ever cracked a rock open? Probably not so how would you know what it's supposed to look like inside...
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@@DiscoveringMineralsAwww, that's awesome!! Thank you @bethstafford7450 💜🎉
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Beautiful find
Thanks!!!
Rip 500 million year old rock. We barely got to know ya.
Funny
Just do us all a favor and dress your chisel. The mushroom you are forming on your chisel is extremely dangerous. Please!
Thank you!!! Someone else commented something similar lol
I used to have me a big crack in the rock and then one day got tired of the crack in the big rock and told Ms. Rock I'm tired of the big crack and left!
I thought the thing falling was gonna be a frog with a cane and top hat “hello my baby hello my darlin…”😂😂😂😂
Wow! That frog would have been caught in there since the 1910's at least!
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Don’t people ever get tired of the amazing find buried for milenia that are perfectly clean but a slight muddy film.
Street magicians pulling a coin from my ear are more believable than these tic rockers pulling stuff from the earth.
Do you know how crystals form? This is literally what Herkimer diamond is supposed to look like in its natural state... maybe you should try Google sometime cuz I'm not sure where you think gems and minerals cone from if someone isn't digging them up.. or us it just so unbelievable because they happen to be recording while they found it..
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They don’t get found in 3inches of mud and clean.
Just like the buried jewellery and tools that these scammers keep posting.
Just a word of advice buddy. If you were to hold the end of the handle and use your shoulder, not elbow, to swing.
You will get 2 benefits,
1st is leverage, if you use both suggestions. Makes work easier
2nd is less fatigue or possible injury
He just happens to find a crystal with perfect 90 degree angles 😂
It's funny how that crystal was perfectly cut on all sides.
was thinking that myself?
Cleavage planes are not so mysterious when looking at table salt, which breaks into tiny cubes. All crystals have preferred cleavage planes, and Herkimer Diamonds are a a specific quartz crystal known for its hexagonal shape and double termination. This specimen is far from the cleanest I've seen fall out of a rock. I've personally found jewelry grade Herkimer Diamonds trapped in the matrix, which almost make them museum grade quality.
This one needs lots of love before someone would wear it.
Funny?
I guess you’ve never seen a crystal. A crystals structure on an atomic level is arranged in repeating lattices and they have natural facets. It’s what makes crystals different from other stones. I’m just going by what I remember from grade 11 science class. You could probably Google it and get a much better understanding.
Crystals be like.
Did the rock tell you it's 500 million years old?
If you’re an accountant in training you must have gone to school- were you picking your nose when the teacher was explaining how you can age rocks by looking at certain minerals etc in year 6.
@@andersdottir1111 you can also just look into stratigraphy charts made by others for the places where you are planning to hammer around. if its some lone boulder (erratic boulder) you can still get info without doing it yourselves. some basic understanding of geology is enough to look that stuff up , no magic involved.
Radiometric dating told him, I recommend reading more about geology.
@@andersdottir1111must have missed where the Bible tells us the age of the earth.
@@juk0lliradiometric dating requires us to guess how fast the carbon molecules were depleted in the past. It's a total guess and unreliable. No one can say.
That swipe though!!
Literally the best feeling!
And then after Cleaning!! 😳😍💖
I find them almost every time I go to Diamond Pointe in Payson, Arizona, US!
Yess!! The swipe is such an amazing feeling!
Omg!! I've always wanted to go out there and find some of those!!
@@DiscoveringMinerals I feel like this will be a lifelong pursuit for me. I envision traveling in my future to distant digs. Payson is definitely a site to see.
May you find many more treasures, and keep posting great finds. 🙂
I just love nature’s bling!!!❤
Let's carbon date that sledge hammer, shall we? Probably only 200 million years old...disappointing...those work gloves are probably only a couple of million years old...
Read about radiometric dating. Carbon dating can’t be used to date a rock
You can't carbon date any of the things you just listed but thanks for sharing you intelligence level with us
"Herkimer" is the sound i make when picking up something heavy.
For me it's Joblots. For my sister it was always Magillacutty.
Lemon yellow...how pretty...!!!
Muddy crystal inside of a 500 million year old boulder? Huh?
Yes do you have any questions?
What's your point? Do you think moisture doesn't exist inside a rock? Or that crystals can't be found in rocks? Because both of those things would be pretty stupid to think 😅
That’s so cool first time Iv seen a crystal look like a crystal on tv
It's just an average crystal. Worth about $4
Well done bruv 🙌🔥🏆
Stunning piece! Must be fun swiping that dirt away to see a smooth clean point ❤
Super fun!!
@@DiscoveringMineralsI like the shape...
Love watching this
Great video man ❤
Thank you!!!
I can't believe it comes out with those facets like that! Amazing.
Wow that's awesome. 😮😮😮😮😮
Thank you!
found my first enhydro agatized coral fossil with druzy and botryoidal inclusions a few weeks ago. i cut it open and there it was. immediately spotted the bubble moving around and was already having a good look at the rock because it was already gorgeous even without the water pocket but that made for a truly special piece for sure
Dude no way that's an absolutely insane sounding piece!!! Good work!!!
Jackpot! Bingo! Can't find that in the jewelry store.
I grew up in middleville this was always a fun weekend event when we were kids
Wow look at that Al perfect lines and polished
Used to love going there as a kid to mine herkimer diamonds, you could just walk around and pick up little small herkimer diamonds all over the place, great stuff!
That's so cool❤😊
Nice. Love hercamore diamonds my favorite gem!
Absolutely perfect point
That's cool. I live about 35 mins from Herkimer. Been mining many times. Not quite like this though.
Oh my gosh, that is glorious. I am dying now to go there. I’m gonna have to make a trip this summer.
That's beautiful!
A friend of mine grew up around Herkimer. These quartz points were so plentiful there, they were found along roadsides in the gravel used for road resurfacing. This was probably 1960s--70s time frame, when roads were resurfaced with tar, then a layer of gravel over.
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It's so crazy that it came out polished. I have one of those.
It’s not polished. If you look closely you can see the characteristic texture that quartz have
All of the Beautiful striations, lovely growth marks ❤️
Crystals naturally form that way 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Nice find, an already cut and polished crystal 🎉
"How could the Egyptians have cut the rocks so straight?"
Who's quoting that lol
Rolled that Bish right in there… slick buddy. Almost magic.
Very cool find. I haven't seen this before.
That would make a awesome ring or pendant absolutely beautiful
The wonky piano really sets it off 🙏
Lmao
Fun fact! Herkimer diamonds aren’t actually diamonds but double terminated quartz. How’s that fun? Because it ruins someone else’s fun!
This dude just let it fall from his hand 😂 he planted it
hes gotta be trolling.