These have been submerged in the water table for millions of years. If you think soaking them in water will get them clean... that is what got them dirty in the first place. Go get some sedimentary clay and try to clean it away...... good luck!
I wish I could send these keyboard warriors a ball of clay fresh out of the water table. Then they could soak it in water for a year only to have it be exactly the same as it was when they put it in.
It isn't just about soaking them, you have to have water movement too! The clay formed through "sedimentary" formation! Layer by layer! Circulating water will reverse this process!
I love Ark. crystals thanks for that recording. I met a woman who owned a rock shop close to Mt. Ida. It is closed now and she is in a care center, her husband died, it was left to them by their friend who died. Her name is June and she was so nice to me. Being the rockhound I am I asked her how much she wanted for the place and all the beautiful crystals and she said 200 k. I told her I would love to buy it and live there if I could sell my house here in N. Ca. My house didn't sell and it is one of my biggest regrets. The collection she had was huge and many were placed on the ground with paths running between huge crystal clusters like you show here. It was a beautiful setup she had
Now that's beautiful piece of nature. Amazing that its probably millions of years old. I'm not an expert by any means but very cool to see. Thanks for Video!
Back in the early 1990's, I took my 2 kids for a weekend camping on Lake Ouachita; the lake by Hot Springs, Arkansas. I knew there were quartz crystals all around the area and I wanted to take my kids crystal hunting. We were at a small state park on the lake with only 1 other family camping there. This family spent all day at one of the Coleman quarries where they paid to sort through some tailings that the place uses a front end loader to dump big piles around. They were given buckets and had a cleaning station where they could wash off the clay from whatever they found. As for me and the kids, I rented a little fishing boat from the small Marina that was at the end of that particular finger of the lake. I was told that just a couple of hundred yards away and on a steep hillside that went down into the water that there were decent little crystals that were just sitting on top of the ground. So off we went to that spot and I tied off the fishing boat to some rocks. Now let me tell you, that hill was steep...real steep...I bet it was 60 degrees...and very scary as the footing was very loose and scaly and if you completely lost your footing, you would very quickly go tumbling down and onto some big rocks at the bottom and could get really hurt. But we were very careful and found some real nice crystals, a few about as long as a man's thumb and many were perfectly clear with no damage to the point(s). After we got back to the campsite, we went across to the other side which was not but maybe 40 or 50 yards away and found lots of smaller crystals just laying on the shore. These were also very clear and many in perfect shape. Well...later that afternoon the other family got back from all day at the Coleman quarry. They had clay from head to foot, worn out from digging in those piles, a funny sight to behold. And the crystals that they did find were not near as big and nice as what we found just waiting to be picked off the ground and almost no clay needing to be washed off. I haven't been back since...but I sure do want to. And I live here in Arkansas..so I have no excuse..LOL..!!
Wow! Magnificent specimen. It amazes me the beauty of the stone and the various colors in this particular cluster. Excellent work - would like to have seen the final, cleaned piece, though - that would have been very cool. :)
This is a nice business. The investment in equipment, heavy machinery, storage, and transportation as well as mining permits are worth it for professional prospectors. Average folks can not afford such large scale investments. Still worth the entertainment value is there with the quirky commentary from the show host. Cheers~
You are truly fortunate! I have always dreamed of being able to take a vacation where I could go somewhere to dig clusters like these. In fact, I don’t live too far from Herkimer, New York where the Herkimer Diamonds Mines are located. But I have since become disabled so my vacations are just limited to watching videos like yours. I stopped buying crystals online since I never get what is pictured online and I get tired of having to send them back because of the old bait & switch, sadly. It’s disappointing to see a beautiful crystal online then get something completely different when you purchase it.
Try getting a large plastic storage container,like for storing stuff.just soak the crystal in it ,might have to change the water once or twice but won't take long for the mud to just melt off.
Beautiful. Me and my daughter are going to be in the Hot Springs Village area next week mining. In April we found a few really nice crystals at Ron Coleman's Mine. Plus we fill up two five gallon buckets with smaller points. I also brought back quartz rock to charge my other stones I collect. I am re-searching and mapping our visit on an Arkansas map. Do you have any working mines or mines that you would recommend while we are there? We spent approx. 6 hours there that day. It was a detour stop on the way home from Northeast corner of AR. We plan on spending five days.
Normally my gig is clay, and what we do is sort of a mix of the suggestions here. You're spot on letting it dry first, maybe go even longer. Then it may be easier to just put the whole thing in a bucket, upside down. Completely dry clay actually 'dissolves' faster than moist, and then it will want to settle. Would be safer on finer crystals subject to breaking. OTOH - probably a lot more fun to watch your find emerge...
:) I like seeing comment from people saying "I'll take what you're throwing away!". I understand how it is when you got a spot for a certain material. While I pick, I leave what I call 'gift shops' all over, usually on the nearest flat rock to where I'm digging. You know, the stuff that's nice, but not nice enough to take home as the 'winners' of the day...
Very nice video! Takes us into the process or revealing crystal beauty. Hard to understand the snarky comments unrelated to the mining and cleaning. Appreciate your efforts.
one tip you might want to start hosing it off while the mud is still wet when you first get it home the mud while drying and shrinking may dislodge some of the stones just a thought
I came to post that something is obviously wrong with me and I need help, for wanting to critique how some one washes dirt off a rock. Then I read some posts. At least I now feel better about me. Thanks guys.
Wow, this piece is drop-dead gorgeous. Can you imagine having that on a welcome table when you walk in your home? Do you have any videos of it after it was totally cleaned? What became of it? I think Arkansas has some of the clearest, refractive quartz that is so beautiful. I've never seen a piece like this.
I live in Arkansas, I know how difficult clay can be to wash off. Just a small word here.... let it soak in a water tub for three days. The clay will be very soft... after that gently wash off with small amounts of non pressurized water. I cleaned a lot of them today from a vein of skeletal quartz, had soaked them for three days and they turned out beautiful. I hate to see you wash away a few hundred dollars of value with a hose... just a thought.
Really really nice,I don't know how you contained yourself.I search for fossils mainly but do have a mineral collection too.This is beautiful, my problem is I have to keep everything. oh oh bigger house Crap!! :o0
+RPM Blues I use to hoard everything until I was layed off from my job and started selling to earn a living. A old timer told me... sell it...you'll dig more!
What you call clay, used to be Feldspar. Quartz and Feldspar crystallized at the same time. Increase the water pressure and you get a clean plate of Quartz without useless crystals.
An amazing piece but I would be thrilled just to find something similar to your discards!! Haha I find chalcedony but unfortunately there is nothing close to a point, but I do find the occasional piece of druzy which I love. Congrats on your find and hope all your future finds are similar.
I have no clue about quartz and the like. What does one do with a cluster like this? What are they used for? How much is a cluster like this worth? Thanks for any information to help me learn.
* Question : Are you just going to toss the points that came loose? Not box them up & sell them to Crafters?? It doesn't all have to be Museum quality..
@KingofQuartz Sir, after the mud is removed, before the oxalic acid, how do I remove that layer of (I don't know the name) iron looking stuff that almost has to be scrapped off? I have small crystals (boy, i really thought I was finding awesome stuff.. SMH) and I want to get them really clean. I am going back to arkansas in November. This time I want to hunt large crystals. I will not be going to the touristy places.
My favorite crystal is an angel aura crystal if you dont know what an angel aura crystal is its a clear quartz bonded with a coating of platinum and silver
Hi, i'm kinda new to this and have never looked or dug for crystals, but could you gimme some beginners advice on how to get started, searching and digging? I live in N. Florida Anything good around here to dig and find? Thanks! :)
You can find interesting stuff just about anyplace. Best place to start is in areas where all the topsoil has been removed so you can see virgin rock layers. A good way to start is driving slowly down dirt roads and checking the ditches or along the shores of lakes.
Looks sort of like a futuristic cityscape after an earthquake !!!! lol !!! What do you do with the loose bits? I am learning how to wire wrap and would love to purchase a bunch from you. Thanks...I'm a new subscriber.
I set some of the nice ones off to the side. These big clusters will have a lot of loose quartz shards or points with incomplete tips. Thats what I'm chucking on the ground.
Nice piece! I'd like to see what it looks like after cleaning is complete! Any double terminations? Oh, lol, btw, unless you extract ore to process, you're not technically mining; you're quarrying.
I have a few videos showing different steps of the cleaning process. Usually when I'm spraying the clay off I cant do videos because I get all wet and covered with clay.. this piece was so big I decided to try putting the camera on a tripod. Once the clay is completely removed I put them into a huge vat of weak oxilac acid that dissolves the iron deposits on the surface of the crystals. To speed up the process I heat the vat of acid by building a fire under it.
Sure, if you are willing to come pick them up off the ground! I get tired of stepping on them ;^) There has got to be thousands of little incomplete or damaged points laying on the ground in my cleaning area.
so sick, I have always had the fever for rock hunting and never did I ever get a load of rock like this, but didn't get to go any further than my back yard ny state.
All these crazy folk in the comments acting like they know wtf they are doing but they aren't doing shit besides watching a youtube video... Our civilization is doomed, social media killed it, lol.
These have been submerged in the water table for millions of years. If you think soaking them in water will get them clean... that is what got them dirty in the first place. Go get some sedimentary clay and try to clean it away...... good luck!
I wish I could send these keyboard warriors a ball of clay fresh out of the water table. Then they could soak it in water for a year only to have it be exactly the same as it was when they put it in.
Hey! have you ever stepped in shit? did you soak your shoes in water to get the shit off?? If you did... you are an idiot
@@kingofquartz No, no soaking, a stream of water from the hose! And if you let the dog shit on your shoe dry first, you are an idiot!
It isn't just about soaking them, you have to have water movement too! The clay formed through "sedimentary" formation! Layer by layer! Circulating water will reverse this process!
@@kingofquartz this whole argument Is just funny asf
I love Ark. crystals thanks for that recording. I met a woman who owned a rock shop close to Mt. Ida. It is closed now and she is in a care center, her husband died, it was left to them by their friend who died. Her name is June and she was so nice to me. Being the rockhound I am I asked her how much she wanted for the place and all the beautiful crystals and she said 200 k. I told her I would love to buy it and live there if I could sell my house here in N. Ca. My house didn't sell and it is one of my biggest regrets. The collection she had was huge and many were placed on the ground with paths running between huge crystal clusters like you show here. It was a beautiful setup she had
Ummm that was satisfying, such a beautiful cluster slowly getting tickled from its Mud bed. Just stunning, Thank you for sharing
Now that's beautiful piece of nature. Amazing that its probably millions of years old. I'm not an expert by any means but very cool to see. Thanks for Video!
Slightly more exciting than watching grass grow.
Back in the early 1990's, I took my 2 kids for a weekend camping on Lake Ouachita; the lake by Hot Springs, Arkansas. I knew there were quartz crystals all around the area and I wanted to take my kids crystal hunting. We were at a small state park on the lake with only 1 other family camping there. This family spent all day at one of the Coleman quarries where they paid to sort through some tailings that the place uses a front end loader to dump big piles around. They were given buckets and had a cleaning station where they could wash off the clay from whatever they found. As for me and the kids, I rented a little fishing boat from the small Marina that was at the end of that particular finger of the lake. I was told that just a couple of hundred yards away and on a steep hillside that went down into the water that there were decent little crystals that were just sitting on top of the ground. So off we went to that spot and I tied off the fishing boat to some rocks. Now let me tell you, that hill was steep...real steep...I bet it was 60 degrees...and very scary as the footing was very loose and scaly and if you completely lost your footing, you would very quickly go tumbling down and onto some big rocks at the bottom and could get really hurt. But we were very careful and found some real nice crystals, a few about as long as a man's thumb and many were perfectly clear with no damage to the point(s). After we got back to the campsite, we went across to the other side which was not but maybe 40 or 50 yards away and found lots of smaller crystals just laying on the shore. These were also very clear and many in perfect shape. Well...later that afternoon the other family got back from all day at the Coleman quarry. They had clay from head to foot, worn out from digging in those piles, a funny sight to behold. And the crystals that they did find were not near as big and nice as what we found just waiting to be picked off the ground and almost no clay needing to be washed off. I haven't been back since...but I sure do want to. And I live here in Arkansas..so I have no excuse..LOL..!!
Do you remember the name of the park by chance?
Wow! Magnificent specimen. It amazes me the beauty of the stone and the various colors in this particular cluster. Excellent work - would like to have seen the final, cleaned piece, though - that would have been very cool. :)
👍👍 very beautiful Quartz 👍👍👍👍👍❤👍👍👍
What a score!!! Just beautiful ! I would pass out from joy if I ever found one of those !
Couldn't wait that long.. had to see what was under the clay ; )
This is a nice business. The investment in equipment, heavy machinery, storage, and transportation as well as mining permits are worth it for professional prospectors. Average folks can not afford such large scale investments. Still worth the entertainment value is there with the quirky commentary from the show host. Cheers~
Beautiful piece, lots of nice colors!
It was like magic watching those crystals appear out of the mud! Thank you!
WOW!!! LOOKS LIKE FUN!!
Wow... Beautiful. Love it
Nice find that's a beautiful piece of crystals
Wow! And you where just chuck'in crystals left and right! Wow! I have never seen such a beautiful piece! God, is so amazing! Prays the Lord! Amen!
You are truly fortunate! I have always dreamed of being able to take a vacation where I could go somewhere to dig clusters like these. In fact, I don’t live too far from Herkimer, New York where the Herkimer Diamonds Mines are located. But I have since become disabled so my vacations are just limited to watching videos like yours. I stopped buying crystals online since I never get what is pictured online and I get tired of having to send them back because of the old bait & switch, sadly. It’s disappointing to see a beautiful crystal online then get something completely different when you purchase it.
Like a fairy castle! X
Wouldn't u think if it was wet to begin with it be much easier to wash off !...??😂
Really wonderful ! Thanks
Try getting a large plastic storage container,like for storing stuff.just soak the crystal in it ,might have to change the water once or twice but won't take long for the mud to just melt off.
Great way to pack a cluster for shipping!
What an awesome piece. makes me want to go up try my luck digging.
I'll take those throw aways in the future dude ;)
This was very satisfying to watch! Incredible find fella!
What a beauty!
Beautiful. Me and my daughter are going to be in the Hot Springs Village area next week mining. In April we found a few really nice crystals at Ron Coleman's Mine. Plus we fill up two five gallon buckets with smaller points. I also brought back quartz rock to charge my other stones I collect. I am re-searching and mapping our visit on an Arkansas map. Do you have any working mines or mines that you would recommend while we are there? We spent approx. 6 hours there that day. It was a detour stop on the way home from Northeast corner of AR. We plan on spending five days.
Wegner crystal mines or sweet surrender
This is not a rocket scientist on this side of the hose. Very nice find
Normally my gig is clay, and what we do is sort of a mix of the suggestions here. You're spot on letting it dry first, maybe go even longer. Then it may be easier to just put the whole thing in a bucket, upside down. Completely dry clay actually 'dissolves' faster than moist, and then it will want to settle. Would be safer on finer crystals subject to breaking. OTOH - probably a lot more fun to watch your find emerge...
Stunning! Congrats on finding this beauty.
Y'all are so ungrateful and obnoxious online. This channel and his family are great folks.
Wish we had stuff like that around my neck of the woods!
😮beautiful!
wow...now thats beautiful.....nice
That was great! like slowly opening a present :) It is beautiful.
Thanks
:) I like seeing comment from people saying "I'll take what you're throwing away!". I understand how it is when you got a spot for a certain material. While I pick, I leave what I call 'gift shops' all over, usually on the nearest flat rock to where I'm digging. You know, the stuff that's nice, but not nice enough to take home as the 'winners' of the day...
Ohh yes.. I do the same. Let someone else who will enjoy it come along and collect it
+KingOfQuartz Hi
GREAT find!!!
Very nice video! Takes us into the process or revealing crystal beauty. Hard to understand the snarky comments unrelated to the mining and cleaning. Appreciate your efforts.
one tip you might want to start hosing it off while the mud is still wet when you first get it home the mud while drying and shrinking may dislodge some of the stones just a thought
That's not just a thought that's the way you do it I know RockHounds and I know how to do it
Stunning
nice display piece for sure .
I came to post that something is obviously wrong with me and I need help, for wanting to critique how some one washes dirt off a rock.
Then I read some posts. At least I now feel better about me. Thanks guys.
what a beautiful piece! Great find!
Wow beautiful!!! :)
Wow, this piece is drop-dead gorgeous. Can you imagine having that on a welcome table when you walk in your home? Do you have any videos of it after it was totally cleaned? What became of it? I think Arkansas has some of the clearest, refractive quartz that is so beautiful. I've never seen a piece like this.
oh my gosh, I'll take those you're throwing off....haaaaa beautiful
Frankie Cowsert SAME
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Frankie Cowsert : I know, was thinking the exact same thing!!!! LOL.. Here, wait...let me give you an address 😉😆👍
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Beautiful!
I live in Arkansas, I know how difficult clay can be to wash off. Just a small word here.... let it soak in a water tub for three days. The clay will be very soft... after that gently wash off with small amounts of non pressurized water. I cleaned a lot of them today from a vein of skeletal quartz, had soaked them for three days and they turned out beautiful. I hate to see you wash away a few hundred dollars of value with a hose... just a thought.
What a beauty!!
Amazing smoky cluster
Are you willing too sell that
Really really nice,I don't know how you contained yourself.I search for fossils mainly but do have a mineral collection too.This is beautiful, my problem is I have to keep everything. oh oh bigger house Crap!! :o0
+RPM Blues I use to hoard everything until I was layed off from my job and started selling to earn a living. A old timer told me... sell it...you'll dig more!
WOWW! KRYPTONITE !!
oh, how lovely!
Stunner!
What you call clay, used to be Feldspar. Quartz and Feldspar crystallized at the same time. Increase the water pressure
and you get a clean plate of Quartz without useless crystals.
An amazing piece but I would be thrilled just to find something similar to your discards!! Haha I find chalcedony but unfortunately there is nothing close to a point, but I do find the occasional piece of druzy which I love. Congrats on your find and hope all your future finds are similar.
beautiful crystals
That will be beautiful when it is done.
very nice plate for sure mate.
I have no clue about quartz and the like. What does one do with a cluster like this? What are they used for? How much is a cluster like this worth? Thanks for any information to help me learn.
That is awesome!
Interesting beautiful crystal
Just love ur work...I appreciate 😊 and i like yellow sepphire stones....
* Question : Are you just going to toss the points that came loose? Not box them up & sell them to Crafters?? It doesn't all have to be Museum quality..
Beautiful
@KingofQuartz Sir, after the mud is removed, before the oxalic acid, how do I remove that layer of (I don't know the name) iron looking stuff that almost has to be scrapped off? I have small crystals (boy, i really thought I was finding awesome stuff.. SMH) and I want to get them really clean.
I am going back to arkansas in November. This time I want to hunt large crystals. I will not be going to the touristy places.
a beautiful piece
Digging these things must be a lot of fun. What do you do with the crystals? Do you have a buyer? Where do you look for these clusters? Thanks.
So majestic and buitiful CX
why dont you just leave it inside a bowl with warm water and wait to dissolve
Take a chunk of modeling clay and put it in water... see how long it takes to "dissolve"
@@kingofquartz take some clay used to make stoneware , just gorilla glue those back on , make sure it's the clear , it doesn't foam up.
My favorite crystal is an angel aura crystal if you dont know what an angel aura crystal is its a clear quartz bonded with a coating of platinum and silver
Which ruins the mineral specimen.
Hi, i'm kinda new to this and have never looked or dug for crystals, but could you gimme some beginners advice on how to get started, searching and digging? I live in N. Florida Anything good around here to dig and find? Thanks! :)
You can find interesting stuff just about anyplace. Best place to start is in areas where all the topsoil has been removed so you can see virgin rock layers. A good way to start is driving slowly down dirt roads and checking the ditches or along the shores of lakes.
Looks sort of like a futuristic cityscape after an earthquake !!!! lol !!! What do you do with the loose bits? I am learning how to wire wrap and would love to purchase a bunch from you. Thanks...I'm a new subscriber.
Interesting, but I know nothing about them. I DO KNOW you sure pissed a bunch of folks here good & proper. You sure got them hopping. LOL!!
Ultrasonic with some sort of solution to break down clay?
Table top art
So what did it look like all finished up and dried ?
What a Beauty
Damn it man your taking forever already
i need this in my life lol loveeeeeeeeeee ittttttt
I set some of the nice ones off to the side. These big clusters will have a lot of loose quartz shards or points with incomplete tips. Thats what I'm chucking on the ground.
Breathtaking beauty. Another great video. Thanks for sharing 💙☕😉Ms Michal
omg that is so cool!
Like watching a campfire.👍
Nice piece! I'd like to see what it looks like after cleaning is complete! Any double terminations? Oh, lol, btw, unless you extract ore to process, you're not technically mining; you're quarrying.
Wrong, mining is the process of removing natural minerals from the earth, be it limestone or gold...
Fantastic.🤩👍🕉
Wow! Looks like Manhattan skyline...
+TheJimford Now that song by A-Ha is in my head! :-)
How much is a find like this worth?It's amazing.
I wonder: if you soaked it in oxalic acid (instead of high pressure hosing it) could you have saved a few of those from breaking off?
You don't want to soak in oxalic acid with so much clay still on it, some clays will etch quartz when treated in acid.
The pieces coming off are just floaters stuck in the clay. They where never attached to the piece.
Bliss Cat that is the best way to do it i feel dont waste water and it def cleans it better or you could do it like this kook lol
Thirst Fast maybe if you use miriotic acid but not oxalic never had it harm a crystal in my life but to each their own
KingOfQuartz Hi Mike were you at these days, do yo have your own website? I brought a few pieces from you maybe 6/7 years ago on eBay. Sue Marrison
I have a few videos showing different steps of the cleaning process. Usually when I'm spraying the clay off I cant do videos because I get all wet and covered with clay.. this piece was so big I decided to try putting the camera on a tripod. Once the clay is completely removed I put them into a huge vat of weak oxilac acid that dissolves the iron deposits on the surface of the crystals. To speed up the process I heat the vat of acid by building a fire under it.
Beautiful!😃
What do u do with the little pieces?
Would a pressure washer work better or would it damage the crystals?
Beautiful !!! God is a wonderful artist !!
Patricia Melton the best artist
It was earth that made it! Nothing to do with god!
Gaia created them
Sure, if you are willing to come pick them up off the ground! I get tired of stepping on them ;^) There has got to be thousands of little incomplete or damaged points laying on the ground in my cleaning area.
Cool!
so sick, I have always had the fever for rock hunting and never did I ever get a load of rock like this, but didn't get to go any further than my back yard ny state.
nature is amazing..
All these crazy folk in the comments acting like they know wtf they are doing but they aren't doing shit besides watching a youtube video... Our civilization is doomed, social media killed it, lol.
how can that be easier than submerging the whole thing in a tank of water for 24 h?
Here in Georgia we like to use a product from the plumbing department of Home Depot called Super Iron Out; works as good as oxalic acid...