we're here near Hot Springs Arkansas
we're in JesseVille and we're at the
Jim Coleman mine this is a quartz mine
that you can come and you can fee dig
and you will find quartz as soon as we
came we started finding small quartz
crystals in nice clusters and you know
they're not big but they're really
beautiful little quartz clusters that
only Arkansas produces I mean they have
some of the best quartz in the world a
very high clarity material and that's
what we're here looking for we're trying
to find a piece that's three inches in
diameter which is very big they don't
have it in the shops here but we're in
search of it and we hope to find it
today we'll show you some of the little
clusters we found within one hour and if
you look here as we walked up to do this
video we just walked by this and it's
got a beautiful cluster on top I mean
they're not really well formed but
they're just really this big hunk of
quartz that that has very nice clusters
and we just walked up here on it you
know and it's ours for free so come here
to Jess evil and you find your own
quartz so so this is what we found
within one hour you know like I say
they're not big but really really well
formed crystals looked God find that one
again look at this little cluster you
know this we're of large size would be
worth a lot of money and instill these
smaller crystals have some value little
bigger piece not quite so well form but
with the interesting pieces and like I
say it's within an hour of us just
looking and find them pretty much and
very near the surface so we're back from
our trip we drove about 2,000 miles that
we had another purpose a class to go to
and this was just kind of a side trip
and really was a lot of fun we got all
these crystals you know we were there
for hours it was hot as can be 95
degrees high humidity which seems to be
every mine I go to seems to be in the
middle of a desert or something it's
just was a little bit difficult because
of the heat but we found a lot of
crystals just some cool clusters I mean
this little cluster is just a little
beauty beautiful terminations there's a
doubly terminated piece now a lot of a
lot of nice clusters here many of these
still have the iron staining on them you
can take oxalic acid to it and it'll get
rid of that and make a much clearer
looking piece so we had a lot of fun and
found a lot of little points you know
there's very little value here but
everybody can have fun finding things
I've been to many mines that you there
all day and you don't find anything at
least here every few minutes you're
finding a crystal and you spend more
times maybe you'll find pieces this size
they do exist there we didn't find any
these are a couple we found in a rock
shop just really nice crystal a nice big
piece for us and be a nice saleable
piece and then I've got this piece at
another rock shaft this one to me is
just amazing yeah there's like 10,000
crystals on here and then just look at
the formation of the one that's growing
out of it looks like some kind of
natural symbol or something but it's
it's just a piece I just find amazing
and if you look close at all the
crystals that are in there they're just
all beautiful little quartz crystals you
know this one in the middle here is
doubly terminated just kind of makes a
cross and my wife thought it looked like
a butterfly just a really cool piece
that we found
Rock shops so well worth going these
were we went to a couple of comon mines
that were in Arkansas there's others by
Mount Ida so if you get down that way
you know take some time take the kids
they'll just have a great time looking
through the dirt okay if you have any
questions about the the mining or about
parts in general we do cut a lot of
quartz not a lot of the clear material
but we're doing amethyst and citrine
spray-z lights so we've got a lot of
material and that's all available on
more jams calm
