One MILLION DOLLAR crystal pocket!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2022
- We were called back to the same crystal pocket we were digging yesterday, because the pocket of world class quartz crystals went from epic, to OUT OF THIS WORLD. And the miners said we had to come back and see what they found. And they were not joking. the amazing quartz crystals coming of of this private dig site are beyond words. This pocket of crystals was estimated to hold over one million dollars worth of world class collector crystals. Appraised by the experts in the industry, not me
Huge thanks to @The Crystal Collector for inviting me out for this trip and @Avant Mining for hosting us at their amazing facility and mine sites.
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Brian "The Crystal Collector" - @The Crystal Collector
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Frank and Kyndal "That Camping Couple" - @That Camping Couple
Derick and Bri "Rocks for the Spirit" - @Rocks for the Spirit
All the great people at Avant Mining - @Avant Mining
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I absolutely adore how the more excited Dan gets, the more he goes full Canadian!
Lol I gotta watch for that.
Eh? What are you talking aboot?
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excitement drool... how you know someone is losing their marbles
These are white diamond not crystal i do know a lot about diamond
Now *that* - is just stunning! And the enthusiasm of you all, just makes my daughter and I grin! Very many thanks Dan for bringing us with you to this spectacular crystal mine! Best always, Wendi and young Molly.
Now that is EXCITING!! Just being there to watch them come out of the earth and into the light of day for the first time in millions of years. A chance of a life time!
Hi Dan 👋 😁..I want thank you,Brian, Jake and Paulie for posting ur videos for every day that y'all were there!! I'm a huge fan of all 4 of you..it was awesome to see all of you together on a fantabulous dig, the size of the crystals are astounding!! Luv y'all ✌😁
Thank you so much for allowing us to share in the excitement! Quartz is my favorite and the only thing better than this film would be actually being there and holding those magnificent crystals.
Love it! This is like watching a bunch of kids opening an endless mountain of Christmas presents.
Wow, this is sooooo amazing! I'm in awe of these gorgeous crystals. Thanks Dan for the outstanding video, the content is out of this world !
Absolutely stunning! CONGRATS! 🥳
It's like a crystal collectors dream !!!
They just keep coming out & the wall is glistening with a seemingly endless bounty.
Way to go guys & gals !!!
THE most exciting video I’ve seen ever. Mother Earth has given up her bounty on this day to some very happy crew members. Thank you Dave Hurd for being in the right place at the right time.
Dan this is amazing 🤩 loved it! Thank you for bringing us along
That was a gorgeous find! I’m so happy for everyone involved! 💛
Wow, those are a bunch of Epic Quartz Chrystals. I know I have never seen anything that Big. Absolutely Astonishing finds.I can see how you guys had so much fun.
Incredible Pocket! Wow!
A great day for sure!
Fun to see all the TH-cam miners together!
Looks like so much fun. Thanks for producing these all you guys and ladies. Good wholesome stuff. Hope I can find something like that here in the mountains. Cheers!
Dan, you never fail to surprise me with your videos. I am 100% disabled after my last deployment and a stroke after returning home. I cannot get out and do these things anymore.
Would love to visit that site, willing to even pay a fee to dig a few of those crystals. I do want one of those big ones for my display shelf.
Thanks for another great video.
You know this is a big deal when you see all these fine folks together! This made my day and made me want a very large crystal quartz!
@@DiamondMinerIvins what are you laughing about???????
@@DiamondMinerIvins I cannot take people who make fun of others how disgusting 😡
We NEED to see them CLEANED UP too…… please make a video about that too Dan
That's them all cleaned up on the tables right at the end of the vid - I'd love to know the value of them all though, some huge crystals there!
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Exagerated value or real value?
How many did they find total?
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What an amazing find! Thank you for sharing!
Such an incredible video. I've been watching Brian for years before I found you. It's soo cool seeing a collab of sorts with Pauly, Brian and the great Dan Hurd!😀 Love it! 💛
What an amazing experience you all had.👍😁
Yay a midweek drop! Thanks Dan!!!
That is absolutely amazing, heck of a pocket. Thanks for sharing Dan👋👍👍👍😃
Amazing, nice to watch everyone having fun.
Man these are absolutely incredible museum quality pieces! What a dream being able to see such gorgeous pieces revealed from the earth! As a disabled mineralogy lover it's mostly a dream of mine to pull something like that myself haha, I can hardly get around my own backyard these days. The real tragedy imo is how I doubt most anyone could afford these lmao; I feel all you fellas deserve a freebee for helping pull so many out :P
I feel you every day is agony, it's even harder accepting limitations. I keep pushing my self to get a little adventure in here and there. just make time for stops and rest, some of my best finds are from my own yard 😅 but I still try to get to the river and let the wife and kids do the looking they grab whatever looks out of place. then I lose myself in the wonder of how they formed!
Hey Dan, could you please do a bit of a geology lesson about how these crystals form? Really curious about why there's such big ones down in Arkansas?
Awesome find, gorgeous! Thanks for sharing this.
What an Epic find! Congratulations to all!
Xabsolutely brilliant Dan, pleased you were called back to see them pull those wonderful crystals out of that clay. Graham🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
always love Dan's energy 😀
That big old pocket(s) of crystal is the most incredible I've ever seen. Each one was a miracle of nature...and so many. It was a joy to see all you all so excited and overjoyed. So amazing.
It is amazing! I am excited just watching. Thank you for sharing.
Overwhelming Dan! Thank you…. haven’t felt this way in awhile.
What I wouldn't give to get to meet up with all of you guys and go on an amazing Rockhounding adventure! In Arkansas I went to the gym Coleman mine and got to dig through the tailing piles. One of the greatest rock hunting memories of my life. I'm not exactly sure where you guys are now but I have a blast when I was there!
I almost jumped out of my chair when that big cluster broke into 3 huge pieces!!! So glad everyone was there to help and experience such amazing finds. Thanks Dan!
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Dan, I was amazed at the absolutely beautiful crystals. This video was WONDERFUL!!!
Thank you for sharing that. What a privilege and joy to be part of that harvest!
The size of these crystals are amazing! Can’t believe how clear they are⛏🏴
Alas, they were creating a crystal resonance chamber that was imprisoning an ancient wendigo! NOW IT'S FREE!! :O (And this becomes the new B-movie horror flick plot from Blumhouse, lol)
Perfect for chi amplification and purification
Where u in scotland pal?
@@Alondro77 dan and blumhouse could be amazing unheard of combo
This trip is going to be hard to top!💜
*Breathtaking ! NO other words really needed 🙌💎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻*
Loving these videos! Every time someone pulls one it’s just like when fireworks go off, Oooo, Ahh….. these crystals are amazing.
Hi Dan, This was amazing and I love to see you all working on digs together. Would be great to see the biggies cleaned up too. Watching from Birmingham, UK ... you absolutely earned my subscription, seeing as I've been binge-watching your channel.
They are only worth as much as you can sell them for. The crystal collector came and set up at a big flea market near me. He was trying to sell large quarts crystals for $100-$150 but everybody is like why? What good are they? He ended up selling a lot of little $10-$20 crystals to get gas money.
The truth, bro. That pocket is not worth 1 mil. He has bombarded TH-cam with many videos trying to hype those crystals, he seems desperate, lol. He would be very lucky to get 20K, for that pocket.
WHAT AN EPIC TIME!!!
Thank you for this video...
.love love love it. I have dug Herkimers and was excited can't imagine pulling one of these beauties. Thanks for sharing.
That moment at 23:29 when all of them are cheering, and then suddenly they remember to call out their catch phrases, lol. It's such a beautiful coming together of content creators, celebrating the "birth" of that monster crystal. :) So happy for all of you that you could be there to participate in this awesome event.
"Whaaaaaat", "Hey, Can you dig it!", "Noice!", "Just incredible".
HOLY CRAP Dan. Quartz is my favorite gemstone. My 9th grade earth science teacher had a smokey quartz cluster in a display case. It was amazing. Loved them ever sense
Woohoo great video, thank you for sharing. God bless, take care and stay safe and well 🙏🥰👍👍👏👏💖💖
That was amazing seeing those crystals come out of the wall like that. Thanks Dan!
I’m wondering if the use of a water jet hose wouldn’t make things easier
That's insane wow in believable pieces for sure out of another world great job getting this out to us I will speak for everyone lol we all love the content . Woo Hoooooooo. It's like grown men in a hobby store love it
They are not that expensive ...
@@yaykruser I don't care about the price it's the find. Simple people I tell ya
Beauty after beauty!! This has been an epic collab Dan.
Wow, that’s unbelievable!
Loving this mini-series on the quartz, it's really inspiring and educational to see the wide variety of crystals, minerals, and other valuables you extract and collect!
I was wondering, would it not be a little easier/more efficient an extraction of these crystals if you were to use water to wash away the clay between crystals and simultaneously rinse them to see their true form?
Also, is the crystal more valuable if it is completely clear and glassy, or are they more valuable with phantoms, or sandy parts, or other inclusions?
Hydraulic mining is incredibly destructive.
@@jonlavigne3270 As Jon says hydraulic mining is environmentally destructive and would also result in more damage to the crystals. So what you may gain in productivity, you will loose far more in lost value and therefore lost money.
Ye it’s not just gold or diamonds
Dan, I'd like a video explaining the "hows and whys" of crystal formation.
@@pinned_byxrpchiz3339 I don't believe you are Dan. He doesn't push his whatapp under his main account
@Eric Williams, make sure you report Spam. It will get removed.
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Having had a couple of geology courses in college, I would love to be able to go crystal hunting once or twice, but I have goats and chickens to feed. I have purchased small crystals over the years and just looking at them makes me happy.
LOL, bulls in the crystal shop! GREAT DIGS!
Such electricity, more than even the crystals thank you for sharing your excitement and knowledge everyone.
There is a limit to the demand for quarts crystals. The more you flood the market the less valuable they become.
Right, Bob. It's simple supply and command.
@@evilknot5667 supply and demand is the economic phrase!
@@markfryer9880 Mmm, nope I'm pretty sure its supply and command.
I’ve never bought one. I’m 60 years old and I don’t think I’ve missed anything. 🤷🏻♂️
Looks like Orrefors might be getting a call. $$$
I’d really like to see more of the clean ups as well after the video. It’s cool to see them pull it but it’s a let down when you don’t get to see the end product.
That's freaking awesome!!!
Well done!!
Already subscribed.
Can't wait for the next Dream Claim or Pickerton video! 😁
*Your videos that you make are worthy of the 1 million club Dan 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻*
These guys said Crystal more times than a Alabama trailer park.
Lmao
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This seems like a cool trip. I've enjoyed a few other vids from other creators. The one thing I really don't like is how everyone fixates on the price of each crystal. Everyone jokes about taking one they like or worried about dropping them. I don't know if that's the actual vibe going on out there but I sure hope everyone got to take some really nice crystals for free. These vids feel more like a commercial for their mine than anything else.
True
Yeah, honestly it saddens me knowing a lot of these pieces will either sit in a warehouse or only be affordable to those with a loooot of spare money because the mine owners won't share- especially since there's so much quartz in general! It can be argued it's the cost of labor to mine these out, and it being their livelihood to sell them because the mine price, but that doesn't mean it isn't disappointing! (not to mention a lot of value in crystals is highly inflated/made up if you get to the bottom of it all lmao. I hope the people digging actually got to take something for free)
I felt as if I was watching the Olympics of crystal pulling, how amazing and I'm soooo happy for all of you, COOL!!!
Wow. Wow. Wow. I was hollering right along with the rest of you. Just amazing!
Doesnt showing the general public how big the crystals can be and their abundance depreciate the value of the smaller crystals??
I think the point of the video, is an attempt to inflate the prices. 1 mil.? I am still laughing at that whopper, hahaha.
Value is a pretty speculative thing... quartz isn't exactly rare so I have my doubts.
Depends on the structure of the quartz, quartz rock is not worth much but crystalline structures this large are rare, plus all the variations, Phantom, lamouriam, double terminated, clusters these add dollars 💸
This would be an absolute dream day for me ❤ amazing. Thank you for sharing with us in the UK 🇬🇧 😊
So awesome. Thank you for the video.
These valuations there throwing around just don’t seem right to me. I mean if they were these people must be billionaires. Seems like they are just too common out of this out for them to be worth the 30-50-100k evaluations that are being thrown out.
I just am having a hard time believing these are woth more then things like black opal and diamonds
You are correct, they are not worth that much.
You know Dan I am a big fan of your show. I like you and all your family, good people. But what me and a lot of other viewers don't understand since we've been hammered every day with this quartz crystal mining is the supposed millions of dollars that are being pulled out of the ground by a couple of people here with a track hole on a daily basis, how can these basically low life quartz crystals be worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars or the millions of dollars that these videos are climbing? Quartz is very abundant and just left laying on the ground everywhere in some places in other countries including the United States. What and how makes this so valuable all of a sudden. I know quartz is used in the faces of watches and in the mechanism for keeping time but only a small sliver, but I can count on one hand the number people I know that we're watches these days. I thought diamonds and gold and other show called precious minerals or what were worth a lot of money? Is it all a lie, because all minerals no matter how low they are on the popularity scale all of a sudden seem to be worth millions and millions of dollars out of nowhere. Just for example, the diamond industry. Advertise for their rare beauty when actually they are so freaking many that they are in everything, from rings to drill bits to who knows what. And have you ever seen a jewelry store that you walk by they didn't have a sale going on? And now they make them by the boatloads and labs artificially on top of what they find naturally. Everyone is starting to see that anything to do with shiny objects is all artificial value. People have been lied to about so many things all in the name of the dollar bill and none of it is important. 🤔
Yeah, well, y'know, that's just, like, your opinion man
No, it is not worth anywhere near a million. I hate the fake marketing strategies some use in the mineral business, like making over the top "estimated values" to try and jack up the prices. I live in Montreal, some of the mineral specimens from Mont St. Hilaire, that the big dealers give ridiculous prices such as 45k, at Tucson, I can buy , a couple of hundred dollars at the local gem show... The other annoying marketing strategy, a few are trying to do is to give names to their specimens, thinking it will brand the piece. When they do that it becomes "cringe worthy", and often buyers will tell them that.
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Dan so excited he is drooling on himself.... LMAO And in my Backyard at that...
1 million dollar pocket? Not even close. Until they are done with the lies I will keep telling the truth. Those crystals are NOT worth $50-100,000. They go for what ppl will pay for them. They are not rare but the land they are on is rare because it’s owned by people that sometimes do not mine for this 247. Similar crystals are a few hundred dollars for the huge ones seen in this video
You speak the truth, bro.
I personally am not a fan of the recent run of these crystal videos and seeing so many discovered doesn’t seem to indicate any kind of rarity in them to fetch any sort of high market value, if anything the market is likely being flooded with them if they are that ripe for the picking. If gold wasn’t rare it wouldn’t have much value and would just be an alloy for something else more rare and precious or it would be used as the primary metal for all our household items and the made in China dollar store items. I just don’t see the appeal and all the fuss about harvesting something that seems so plentiful, and don’t understand why it’s so valuable.
There's nearly 8 billion people on the planet. If only 0.1% of us (1 in a thousand) want to buy a big crystal, that's 8 million big crystals. In the video, they unearthed maybe 10 or 20 of the really big ones. I think they made it plain that this was a highly unusual day, so they're not getting ones like that every day. Those 8 million people will bid up the price for the few big crystals available, so yes, they will likely be really valuable.
I wouldn’t pay a red cent for em
@@joseywilds3133 That would make you one of the 99.9% that don't want them. I'm part of the 8 million that love them. But I don't need to own one at this time so I won't be buying any either.
@@craftsmanwoodturner respectively speaking here, I would dare say that far less than 1 in a thousand would be interested in purchasing an expensive crystal, especially in our current economy. The only crystals that appear to be trending or even remotely mainstream are the gimmicky, healing crystals and those are $5-$100 depending on the craft idea that the crystals are incorporated with. I am likely being narrow minded because I don’t have any interest in crystals, gemstones, etc, therefore it just may be difficult for me to understand the appeal. But you can’t deny that something doesn’t seem rare when it’s being harvested out of the earth like a seasonal vegetable crop.
Crystals are admired first and foremost for aesthetic beauty, and sometimes it's not some people's jam and that's fine! With crystals like these it's less about amount and more about how hard it is to get to and finding something that fits the quality scale that makes it 'rare'- i.e. finding pieces that aren't damaged, the way they grew, and how 'quality' they are- they care more about how dazzling people see them visually. It's like a lottery of nature harboring the right conditions to make them 'valuable' because the shape and formation is what can be rare; certain types of growing rates, conditions, inclusions etc. are the rarity factor- but not always!
long story short, it's mostly a perceived value over actual 'rarity'- there's hardly any real rarity with a lot of materials when you get to the bottom of it, it's just hard to get to it which makes it expensive.
That being said, imo the amount or lack thereof isn't what makes something special, it's the unique qualities of every piece; scarcity is often manufactured for most materials anyways!
Straight mesmerized. That was so very cool!
Just wow! What a find for you all! 🤗
Very Nice video Dan!! Thx for Sharing!! JJ
Unbelievable. I am so happy to see something this joyful happening with all the negative stuff going on these days. Hi from a fellow Canadian on the East coast.
Wow i just cant believe the size of those cystals just simply amazing you are one lucky man dan thanks for sharing
What a find, love the sharing of unearthing these
Passionate amazing people
Thank you
From Australia
LOVE your videos Dan. Such a warm hearted happy go lucky guy on every video.... 24:30 "While they are over there on the big on imma pull this small little guy. No one seen me pull this... I'm RUNNIN! Oh, never mind... Theres the boss..." lol
It was fun watching you all get high on rock crystal. Absolutely fabulous pieces. I had a client that had a 4" by 8" by 5" quartz crystal. Inside the clear was a castle like inclusion including a winding path up to the castle. The most fascinating rock I ever was given the privilege to hold..
I'm going this weekend. 3/9/23. I'm so excited. We are going after a huge rain these past 2 days. I know what I am getting every time but it never gets old. Covered head to toe in mud is just the sprinkles on the cupcake!! Happy digging y'all!!
It’s very exciting finding large patches like that .
Came across some in Western Australia had lots of fun .
DAN , YOUR ENTHUSIASM IS INFECTIOUS MY FRIEND.!! LOVE PANNING AND LOVE GEOLOGY AS WELL.!! TOO COOL.!!! 💯💯💯
I even showed my wife! who agreed how amazing that find is 🌟 congratulations, nice work
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
That's stupendous find!!!!
All I can say is....WOW, what a candy store!! Such gorgeous crystals, how exciting!!
Great video Dan! Crystal after crystal.
So hard to even keep track of how many were pulled out.
Just amazing!! Wow, never seen anything like it
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Those crystals are gorgeous!
Probably the most awe-inspiring video I've ever had the privilege of witnessing.!
Y’All look like you are carefully delivering babies!! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my gosh I am so jealous, for a rock hound, you have to be going crazy! Just amazingly beautiful. I have loved interesting rocks since I was a little kid. If I could walk I would offer to help you dig. Yes I watch him on his diving videos all the time.
Impressive spot for sure. Some amazing finds.
Awesome find.... good job Dan...
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On my bucket list... I'd love to come play in the dirt with you awesome folks for a few days.... The SPIRITUAL ENERGY at this mine must be out of this world.
What a treat to get to see all of this!!! 🤩🤩🤩