Sunstone Crystal Mining | Spectrum Public Mine in Oregon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- OPEN TO PUBLIC LOCATION!!!
This is a wonderful experience that you will want to do over and over!
Sunstones are a variety of feldspar, they are very gemmy.
Sunstones coming out of Oregon are very unique with their size and colors!
This location is open to the public, check their website or their facebook page! - บันเทิง
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Wow, what an amazing place to dig! My 85-year-old father has been a rockhound forever, but can't walk very well anymore. He lives in Oregon - this would be a great place to take him for a little bit of rocking fun!
My wife and I went to that same mine and dug in a virgin pit and in an hour we got close to 2 thousand sun stones and we only dug about 1/3 of our pit. A pit size is 36"×36..If you dig the whole pit you should have ALOT OF SUNSTONES. It was 100+ degrees when we got there and there was no breeze at all and we had to leave after awhile. My advice is to get there early and bring a large outdoor table umbrella and lots of water, a long flat head screwdriver that has a 1/2" thick shaft thats about 18" long and a 3 pound hammer. Good luck and happy hunting.
What did you do with 2000 stones? o_O
Oh wow that’s a great hit 🙌💎💎💎⚒
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The spectrum mine has beautiful stones and many options for customers . I've been going there for years and met people from all over the world there to dig sunstones
What a beautiful stone! They would make such pretty jewelry.
Brilliant video, stunning finds and looks like such a great time findin the gemy goodness! Thank you man!
Thanks so much🙌
I love the crystal collector I wish I could go to all those places. But I enjoy watching him showing me places I could never get to.
I love your videos. You get me excited about digging in the dirt! And I love it!
I have no words for how amazing these sunstones are
❤ I love the colors, and that little one with the green right in the middle. All of them were very awesome. Thank you for sharing your experience with us 😊 Thumbs-up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤😊
Wow beautiful stones great video thanks and will spread the word
Beautiful thanks for sharing with us!
My son gave me a ton of big “ rocks” full of sun stones. I haven’t got them put yet. I’m really excited to see what’s all in there
I plan on doing a treasure hunt trip in June and Spectrum Mine is definitely on the list! Good job! 👏💯💥
"So I gotta carefully"
*smacks it with a hammer*
😂
I've never seen sunstone in person, but I love feldspar and would love to visit Oregon one day
😍where has this channel been all my life
Man, I would get down and dirty. Mother Earth is the only way to rejuvenate for me😄
So clear, with Beautiful splashes of colours 🌝💜✨
Really enjoy your channel, mellows me right out. Those stones are so mesmerizing, how clear they are and such pretty colors.
Thanks so much for watching! I’m glad you’re enjoying it
And now I know where were going for our next road trip! I knew it was there but I wasn't sure if it would work for us. Thanks!
Wow! All the way out here in Oregon. I live in southern Oregon, but have yet to go for sunstones. I’ll just have to do it this next year, looks like a fun time. Thanks for the video and the info. Well done like always.
I'm from Southern Oregon also and have never been to dig sunstone but that's gonna change this year! Looks like alot of fun!
You r really having fun Bryan! Thanks for the video, enjoyable to watch it too🌈✨
🙌🙏💜💎
Wow such pretty colors and clarity.
AWESOME!! And, living in Washington, it's actually close enough for my wife and I to go check out! Thanks for the video!! 👍😎
Yeah this place is super cool, it was really hot and smoky a month ago when I was near enough to go. I didn’t make it, got bummed out but I guess next year I’ll get there early! Yeah I should check it out for sure, it’s a awesome location!!
Thanks for sharing even more coolness! It makes my day!
Those Sunstones that you found are nice!
This video made me smile. Thank you.
Whaaat I am in Oregon I love your channel you're great thanks 😊
Okay, I'm sold. I'm planning a trip there.
When I was living in I Idaho there was a man who sold them. I never got a chance to buy one as he died. I had heard the government had closed off the area. I'm glad your digging some maybe I can get one from you next month. Ms Michal
Are all medrites iron, and can they be glazed as they inter the atmosphere looking as glass glazed greenish?
So beautiful you should check out Liz kreate she lives in Australia but she digs a lot of rare gems
Liz is absolutely amazing lol
Amazing stones .. thank you man for amazing vids you made
I can't believe how beautiful they are! I haven't been to Oregon since I was a kid so maybe it's time to plan another trip (if the CAD/USD exchange rate ever improves, that is.)
Very nice sandstone.Hopping to visit 1 day.Nice videos keep it up 💎💎⛏⛏
Really cool! Thank you for sharing this.
Couldnt help but notice the game songs. Your probably a gamer on your time off huh. When your not collecting crystals, your playing fallout. 🎮😎 Keep it going though. I Enjoy your vids. Makes me want to go collect some crystals too
Thank you 😊 much love ❤️ first time this summer was at Oregon coast gotta check this out
Great video,you are an inspiration.cant wait to try my luck at finding some crystals.What a fun teacher you are
Sooo cool! I havent heard of them before. So pretty! I love them
Almost had my chance to go to Oregon this past July. My husband had a business trip but our work was being weird about it. I wasn’t going to bother him much, really! I was going to rent a truck and take off for glass butte for a day or so. Wanted to bring back my son all the different types of obsidian. I admit it. I’m a bit jealous! 👍
Yes, I never got around to the obsidians places either but next summer I’m hoping to make it out again! I hope you make it out there one day
I’m digging your videos man...brilliant stuff
Love the old-school video game music. N64 Zelda Nintendo Mario. 👍👍😂😂
I love your vids!
These are so lovely, they deserve a made up word. Beautimous!
I was watching your newer stuff with my daughter and thought, I wonder if he has been to Oregon for sun stones. Wasn’t disappointed.
I’m hoping to go back in a couple of months or less! Maybe spend a bit more time this round, it’s such an awesome area!
I AM from Brasil ,but i love your TH-cam Chanel ! Tankyou
Thanks 🙏
Cool job guys!
They are just so beautiful 😍 I would love to get my handy on some of that for my jewelry
I’ll be finally having some of these ready to sale here in the next few days I think, probably will do a Facebook show in a few days
Native Oregonian since 1959. I have a friend that has a sunstone mine too. Your accent sounds like you are from Iowa or Nebraska. My uncle has the same accent. Lol. I stunning stone.
Yes, originally from South Carolina
I can't wait to take my eldest son here. He loves digging as much as I do. Best to you hon. :)
amazing channel,,,thank you
I love sunstone. I will have to check it out. Hope you do one for tourmaline.
Oh my goodness I love these! Never heard of that place. Not to far away.
I had no idea it was a plagioclase feldspar!
Me neither, for along time I thought it was a type of quartz
I've been a rockhound, and especially a crystal collector since I was a little kid. Well, I'm so glad I've been going back through your videos. This one called to me because of the image you used for the primary photo of this video. I was amazed, and a little upset. See, several years ago I got interested again in rocks and crystals, as I was about to retire, and ready to spend some time doing more things I enjoyed, not just so much dumb s*** I had to do for 20+ years on my job.
I bought some rocks that I thought sounded cool, and some awesome quartz crystals. But I also bought a couple of "sunstones." I had never seen any, and really should have Googled it. I got two rocks, but seeing the images of the sunstones you are digging out of the ground, well, oops.
Somebody sent me a couple of nice tumbled...orange rocks. Some kind of agate-ish quartz.
Thanks for this nice lesson in checking things out better and a learning experience in how awesome is sunstone!
Yeah the some stones are really cool, super unique and I believe the Oregon location is the best in the world!
very good
Love your videos!
BEAUTIFUL lot!!!🌞🌞🌞
What an awesome place! They remind me of fluorite. Do you ever find any really big pieces?
Curious.
They don’t get too big for this location or anywhere
Great video
Hmm. Me thinks I should visit my neighboring state. So pretty!
Beautiful I want some😍💓
Very cool mine!
Awsome stuff
Looks so fun
on the 6 min.mark what were those green stones? all rocks are treasures to me! cool finds! great video
Those are Sunstone! The scene look particularly green hued for some reason... but the green and red are a play of colors due to the copper in the Sunstone!
Great video!
Beautiful
I saw all your interesting videos and Im waiting for new video with impatience
I just got back off a trip out west, I have footage for about four or five new videos, I’ll be putting them out very soon
@@TheCrystalCollector cool .. I can not waiting
Hi there! This is probably off topic but years ago we used to get Oregon Beach Agates by the small bagful. Apparently they were easier to find after big winter storms. Do you know anything about what they are, where they came from and why we don't see them anymore? I grew up rockhounding in the sixties and never really got over it. Thank you!
I’ve heard of them too, I’ll have to do some research and maybe get out there next summer when I’m in the area again
Brian enjoy all your video's, did you get a higher definition camera, the quality to me looks better then ever. have you ever shot video hunting Oregon thunder eggs, say like at the Richardson Ranch? l would love to watch a video with your take on a thunder egg dig in central oregon. Rock on
Didn’t get a new camera, just learning new techniques and learning to speak a little louder too. Yes I want to go to some thunder egg locations next summer, I’ll be hanging out for a while there then. This last trip was kind of a rushed one
YAY! First view, first comment and first like! I love this channel!
I was refresh it
@@ainsleehowlett7760 no actualy he was his comment is at the verry top so get ur fact straight kid
Love sunstones.
Love his hand...😚😚
great vid
Missed this video, is this close to Eugene? Did you go for Thundereggs while you were in Oregon?
I got here very late in the season it was 9° that night that I slept in my van, only stayed there one day and got out of there, need to get back and do more
The rocks are so pretty, I've been there.
I love it
great video thank you
It makes sense to be Feldspar. Moonstone is a Feldspar, my favorite by the way
Merry Christmas '18
Amazing!
Nice
Very nice🙏❤
You could Buy Sunstones from miners & have it Cut into Artisticuts from Gem cutters and set it up into Jewelries
Just wondering, Brian, when you dig with other people, like "ThatCampingCouple", for example, how do you determine who gets what? Or how you divide up your finds?
The belt runs are only for the family or the couple that pays for the run . Sometimes staff is there to help so nothing goes over the edge . Some times Chris runs it for rock clubs and members all just stand around and trade places throughout the runs
I know this is going to be kind of a dumb question but when your there getting dirty digging for all the different crystals and you get tired or completely exhausted do you ever fall asleep in the mine.
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I have a very bad back and when I'm working under my truck I don't fight it I'd waste energy going inside the house so yes I have fallen asleep working underneath my truck why not !
I regularly work so hard moving rock that it’s a bit of a slog getting myself and my gear back to the vehicle. But, aside from a sunny meadow, there are not that many comfortable places to sleep in a mine.
thank you!
Those are beautiful,...I'm disabled and couldn't make it out of Florida let alone there. Do you sell them ? ...if so how much....if you don't would you make 1 deception 😏
Yes I actually do sell everything I find, a lot of it can be found on my eBay store, google search ultra rocks eBay
The mine actually sells gravel on their website for you to dig at home! We had a blast going through it in our own backyard, and the owners/operators of the mine are fantastic and helpful. We found some really great pieces.
beautiful! 😍❤
Hello I was hoping you would look at a few rocks for me if I send you some pictures of what I found and tell me if you know what I have found
Yes sure! Send them to my Facebook crystal collector page
I hope you got a chance to hit Richards ranch
Brian how many different types of stones do you have and what do you do with them chris
i am so gonna go there. i love sunstone and i so wanna get these
Is this sunstone the same as the vikings used? The Vikings here in Norway used Sunstone to navigate the ocean when it was cloudy or foggy. The stone "glows" when held in the direction of the sun.
Btw Thank you so much Bryan. The king of crystals. (And now I also know Jason, through his videos. Great videos.)
Kenneth Prospecting Norway.
I think that stuff was different maybe but similar . Crazy what all varieties are found
Hi, the stone the Vikings used is called Iceland spar.
Not sure if it's the same but that's the name :)
@@TheDolphace Thank you so much. You're probably right :)
@@MrInsaint sure, I find it fascinating. I hope I can find some next time I'm in Iceland :)
The Viking Sun Stone is actually calcite, AKA “Iceland Spar.” Doubly refractive transparent cleavage rhombs of calcite have been found in Viking shipwrecks.
Like be all the hound spots you cover! In the future could you include the contact info in the info section, or like a reference ID? That way if the mines get business, they know it came from you.
Thanks, that would be a great idea
Another pin in the map of places to go digging.
How do you know what to look for. Should it be like near clay or rocks etc. For all stones
For the sun stones, they form in a bout a 2 to 3 foot later, once you get below that it turned really red clay and you’re done digging at that point
Every location will be different as far as what you’re looking for
The Crystal Collector hmm thats interesting.
All the best places to mine are SOOOOOOOO FAR from me, living in Florida 😩. This mine looks great!!!!!
Yeah, the coastal areas don’t have too much for Crystals, although there are some things in Florida I just have yet to make mini videos on it, check out the clam videos with calcite, they come from lots of areas in Florida
I'm from Florida now in California on vacation with the family for a week and a half, any suggestion on where to go in California Oregon or Washington to find something to dig?
are these found in volcanic rock sediment ?
It’s something to do with that and a big lake bed where everything settled on the bottom