 We are out here at Topaz Mountain and that's a secret location we're gonna show you guys today and this is what the roads like and this is what the roads like to get into it. Hello and welcome back to the Rugged Rockhound. If you're new welcome I hope you subscribe. Today we are out at Topaz Mountain. Most of you are familiar with the main bowl area. That's it over there. Let me get there you go. Now you can sit. So that's the main bowl area over here. This is the backside of it. Most people will enter from the other side. We're north of it today at kind of a secret location that I found years ago and we are gonna go ahead and show that to you guys. So like always I will post the GPS coordinates right up here for you guys so you know how to get here or know where it is. I need to show you guys maybe how to get here using them but anyway so this is the spot. What we're gonna do is we're gonna search this area. So over here traditionally I found a lot of good topaz crystals. You can also find some pseudobrokeite up on the ridge there. I think any further than about here I haven't really seen anything and I don't find much here. It's mostly a zone but it's relatively untouched because we discovered it years ago and I usually find pretty good stuff up here so we're hoping to have a good day up here and I'm joined with Tim and Utah Rocks. The other YouTuber that I've been out with a few times. So I brought him along with me we're gonna look for some topaz. He drugged us along. Drugged you guys along huh? I also without our knowing. I'm also gonna kind of show you some of the tools we're using. So pry bars are really helpful at Topaz Mountain because you're gonna break a lot of hard rock. So hammers, chisels, wedges, the handpick I don't use as much but yeah tools like this we definitely use. Also it's nice to have like little bamboo sticks and stuff to dig into pockets to get the topaz crystals out when you find a pocket. And yeah oh and little containers like this and maybe some tissue paper to wrap your nice stuff in. Those are some of the tools we use. Yeah so let's get up there and find some topaz. Yeah this place has not been hit very hard. So here we are. So we're just parked down there you can probably see the vehicle. So we've walked what 300 feet. There's the main topaz mountain and this is our special spot that we found. So this zone has event structure right here that we've been working. And this is what I was working on last we're sitting. I want to try and move that rock because I think the vent structure is digging under it. As you can see you have little pockets that are the air bubbles but then you have these much larger ones like his bag sitting in that are just a series of chambers that dive into the rock. These are called vent structures. This is what you're looking for because that's where you're gonna find most of your topaz. Because you can find topaz in pockets all over. But here you just find topaz after topaz after topaz following event. Anything on that Tim? Okay. Oh no it's actually a big one. Oh good. I found a big one sticking to the rock. I did bring spray bottles if you need them. Here Tim I'll toss you a spray bottle. Oh it's a nice one. Alright we're gonna have to get down there and take a look. Let me get the macro lens on so we can see this. Okay Tim let's take a close-up of that beautiful little cluster he's found on the rock there. Nice nice little cluster. It's still kind of dirty. Yeah. Might have to take it home and clean it off a little further. Maybe we'll try and break the rock down a little bit. Yeah. Just get some of this stuff off. But yeah look at that. Tim just found a pocket in the back so we're hoping there's some crystals in it. Yep there's some right there. Got a little bit right on the edge. That little crystal. Okay. Oh I can see stuff down there. Yep. So we have a pocket. We got a pocket. We got a pocket. Tim is extracting a crystal. Load it off a little bit. Nice little triple. Oh there's a crystal right there. Yep. It's a little one. There's a crystal. Nice little thing. Fresh from the mountain. Oh nice. So the Turox has got his first nice crystal. Woo. Excellent. Just trying to go over to him. Tim just pulled this one out. His pocket. Very nice. Look at that pocket. Look at all that good looking stuff. We got topaz crystals on the edges. Yep. Here's another little thing. So we broke into more pocket right here so you can see a bunch of crystals down in there and then right here there was a bunch that fell out. Yeah tiny tiny. Oh hold on I got the best one in my hand. Okay are you ready for this one? Okay. That one looks like it was a little exposed to the sun but overall pretty nice still. Trying to get you in there so you can see it. I got a nice cluster on the side there. Some nice crystals. Just this is a really nice pocket. It's lined with crystals. Okay Tim what did you find? Just pulled it out right there. Yeah right in there. So clean it off a little bit. Nice good sized one. Unfortunately a lot of sand in it but overall still pretty nice. Look at what Tim just pulled out. Look at this thing. Look at those topaz's in it. Wow can you imagine when we get it cleaned off? Topaz is all through where the white is. Nice. It's in and out of the white. So cool. Just a quick update of where we're at. Here's what we've found thus far. Just stuff all over and then here's the pocket as it is. We've got crystal clusters still all over the edges of it. So you can see we've managed to get a lot of stuff off the edge now. Still quite a bit to get. But let's take a look at it. What do you think of our haul so far? Look at those things. Lots of matrix specimens that are really nice. Like this one right here. Look at that. Just tons of stuff. Just so nice. Tim's just going at it over in this pocket. I came down this way and I found this little pocket and I've been digging a while and I got a few things out but then I finally got a really good one. Look at that. Look at that piece. Look at that cleaned off. That'll be nice. So after a bit of digging, that's what happened to that hole. This was the hole I dug. That's what I ended up getting out of mine. And then Tim got all of this. So we're going to start boxing everything up, putting it in containers. We've got a ton to go through. So we got everything packed up. We got it in the bucket. So we got a nice amount of stuff in the bucket. A spray bottle of water. A crowbar to the head. Okay. So yeah, we are cleaning up here. It's starting to get pretty warm. We'll be heading out in a bit and I'll get home and get all those cleaned off. So the next video you'll see is going to see all these specimens cleaned off. I just wanted to quickly show you everything we came back with. So we got a ton of things. You're not going to be able to see it very well. Because it's in the shade and I don't have the macro lens on. But yeah, this is full of topaz and I've just got water in these because I'm cleaning them all off. But yeah, that's what we got quite a lot. Now I'm going to go ahead and mount this and then we'll take a closer look with the macro lens. But we're just going to look at the really good ones because there's just too much to go through otherwise. Let's get started. So this is a little hard to show. Try this. It's a little double terminated crystal. We ended up getting quite a few double terminated crystals. Got this one right here. Very nice. Got this one, which also ended up being another double terminated crystal. And then we got this one right here. Also very nice. There's this nice little one. There's this nice little one. Click clear the top of that is. Very nice. This is that first nice one that Tim found. Another nice little one. A larger one, but not quite as nice. This is one of those what you call sandy crystals where as it was growing it incorporated a lot of little grains of sand into it that were on the edge of the pocket. Got this nice little one. There's a really nice one. It's actually double terminated. You can see the edge of it going there. There's a really nice one again. Nice little cluster. Nice two crystals coming off of each other. I guess you could call it a twin. There's that nice large twin that I found in my pocket next to Tim's big pocket. That was the best thing I found in mine. Really nice. Good quality. Here's a neat little piece growing off the matrix. You got that nice purple. I'm not even sure if it's fluorite or fluorapatite. It's hard to tell because it's so tiny. But look at that nice crystal with the tiny little one coming right off the side of it. This is the large crystal cluster that came out of Tim's pocket. That crystal right there is beautiful. Just a nice cluster. Now we're moving on to the specimens that are on matrix. So we've got a nice crystal in there. It's on matrix. Got this nice crystal right here on matrix as well. Got a little crystal right here on the edge of this one. This one was one of my favorite. All that purple. And then look at that double terminated crystal beautifully perched there in another one. Just a beautiful specimen. Now we're getting into the larger specimens. They're still kind of wet. So you've got that nice cluster right there. And this beautiful, just overall specimen. You've got little topazes all over the place. And then you've got this little white botanical probably calcidone. That's right here on the top. But yeah, neat stuff. In this area you get a lot of hematite blades. Those little black things in case you're wondering are blades of hematite. Here's the final one. It was the big one. And I really liked this one too. So you've got that purple all over. And then just a whole series of crystal topaz right through here. And a whole bunch of the white calcidone. But I wonder, it might be calcite or something else. But I think it's calcidone. Look how you've got these crystals nestled in here. Like that one. And there's one there. And I wonder how many more are just hiding underneath. It's just such a cool, cool piece. So yeah, kind of the biggest high quality specimen of the dig. Very nice. Let's end it on that beautiful crystal right there. And that was our dig at Topaz Mountain. Weren't those beautiful? It was a wonderful day. I got out of the park finding the continuation of the event structure. And Utah Rocks found some great stuff too. You'll have to go check out his channel to see what he found. And it was a fantastic day. And now you guys know where it is. So you're welcome to go check it out yourself. Now, at the time I'm filming this, I'm on the verge of hitting a thousand subscribers. And by the time you guys see this, I will probably have already hit the thousand subscribers. So yay, thank you guys so much. And that means I'm going to be doing a video next week for the 1,000 subscriber special. So what I'm going to do is do a giveaway. I'm going to give away some of these specimens and awesome things I've collected as gifts to you guys as a thank you for your help in getting me to where I am right now to hit the thousand subscribers. So yeah, a huge thank you to you guys. And I hope you enjoy. I'll do that next week. And then we'll get those meld out after we determine who the winners are. Anyway, have that to look forward to next week. So stay tuned. And remember there is treasure everywhere.