Washing the Clay off a Giant Museum Cluster - Huge Arkansas Quartz Crystal Cleaning - Mining Video
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2012
- Sharing the surprise of seeing whats under the clay with everyone : ) This is my favorite part of the mining business.
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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
It was like magic watching those crystals appear out of the mud! Thank you!
Stunning! Congrats on finding this beauty.
What a score!!! Just beautiful ! I would pass out from joy if I ever found one of those !
Ummm that was satisfying, such a beautiful cluster slowly getting tickled from its Mud bed. Just stunning, Thank you for sharing
Slightly more exciting than watching grass grow.
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
This looks like a lovely cluster of citrine smokey quartz crystals. What a great find! Thank you for sharing this inspiration!
Actually all clear quartz that is iron stained.
Couldn't wait that long.. had to see what was under the clay ; )
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, 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.
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!
what a beautiful piece! Great find!
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.
Beautiful piece, lots of nice colors!
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. :)
Wow... Beautiful. Love it
Nice find that's a beautiful piece of crystals
Breathtaking beauty. Another great video. Thanks for sharing 💙☕😉Ms Michal
What an awesome piece. makes me want to go up try my luck digging.
WOW!!! LOOKS LIKE FUN!!
Great way to pack a cluster for shipping!
I'll take those throw aways in the future dude ;)
This was very satisfying to watch! Incredible find fella!
Really wonderful ! Thanks
Wouldn't u think if it was wet to begin with it be much easier to wash off !...??😂
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.
Just love ur work...I appreciate 😊 and i like yellow sepphire stones....
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!
nice display piece for sure .
That was great! like slowly opening a present :) It is beautiful.
Thanks
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.
Wish we had stuff like that around my neck of the woods!
wow...now thats beautiful.....nice
👍👍 very beautiful Quartz 👍👍👍👍👍❤👍👍👍
Wow that's amazing
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~
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.
Wow! Looks like Manhattan skyline...
+TheJimford Now that song by A-Ha is in my head! :-)
a beautiful piece
oh my gosh, I'll take those you're throwing off....haaaaa beautiful
Frankie Cowsert SAME
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beautiful crystals
What a beauty!
GREAT find!!!
very nice plate for sure mate.
What a great cluster. Do a bit of fossicking myself here in oz but ive never pulled out anything that big. Boy i'd love a dig there.
That is awesome!
Beautiful!
Stunner!
Amazing smoky cluster
Are you willing too sell that
Wow beautiful!!! :)
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
😮beautiful!
omg that is so cool!
Stunning
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...
What a beauty!!
Would love to see it after its cleaned !!
Beautiful
Like a fairy castle! X
:) 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
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...
Nice pieces! There is a diamond field in Arkansas, have you dug there?
oh, how lovely!
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.
Was hoping to see it finished and all polished up.
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.
This is not a rocket scientist on this side of the hose. Very nice find
Did you ever try putting it in an old dishwasher outside hooked up to all Garden hose it might workPretty good for you
Interesting beautiful crystal
i need this in my life lol loveeeeeeeeeee ittttttt
Would you make a video on how to get those clusters totaly clean?
That will be beautiful when it is done.
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
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...
nature is amazing..
Would a pressure washer work better or would it damage the crystals?
We have lots of clay sediments here BC, Canada I believe. I think the clay is at the bottom\lower point of mountains mostly. How far do you have to dig for finding this kind of thing, is this from a deep mine? Please respond.
@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.
amazing
Yikes!! Yeah that would be a long trip to pick up my left over pieces
So majestic and buitiful CX
Damn it man your taking forever already
Beautiful!😃
What do u do with the little pieces?
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's so cool. n yeh just dig I'm out n clean
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!
So, how far are you from Glenville and Dequeen? I have family in that area...
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 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
How much is a find like this worth?It's amazing.
Yea, i saw that video after this one lol. Thank you so much for the info. I do find a bit up here, they are very much covered in alge and mud. Quite hard to get rid of when its inbetween those crystals. Iam not sure i can get oxilac up here. Do you think vinegar acid would do it too?
Greetings from Iceland :)
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.
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.
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.
So what did it look like all finished up and dried ?
WOWW! KRYPTONITE !!
So, is there any monetary value in those crystals, if so how much
good job
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.
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.