 Hello and welcome to the Rugged Rockhound today. I'm joined with a good friend say hi Joel and Owen And Owen you've seen before we're out here at Joel's and Paul's private claim So I'm not gonna tell you any information about it other than we're out here collecting cello night So here we have some beautiful cello night crystals. Look at that pocket right there large big beautiful crystals Maybe get into it later today. Mostly. We're just trying to clear some stuff off So we're gonna well, we should be able to break into some really nice stuff over here in this area This area we were into earlier last year and we have potential of some really good stuff coming out of there That's what he says and I believe him So we're gonna I guess get over here Where Paul's at and dig down into that right there sounds like a lot of fun Amazing with just hand tools and some jackhounds basically amazing Just wanted to show you some of the nicer crystals. They've been pulling out right here Beautiful things as they pulled out a while back Just sitting right here. Let me get taken down for that big thing Beautiful big Cellulite crystals and these have phantoms in these little yellow phantoms All right, take a look tell me if you can see any cello night Let me know if you see any cello night anywhere I See some of the growth patterns in it and so many of these have these beautiful yellow phantoms. I Was over in the other the part of the claim over that way. Sorry. I can't show you the area. I don't want Anybody to see this is supposed to stay private But over on this side, it's a little different. So where we're digging over on the other side You're getting a larger more traditional cello night crystals What people typically see when they see a cello night crystal And of course they have cool phantoms over here though at the other edge of their claim. They have fish tail formations so down in here the Cellulite crystals are forming fish tails Sure, how well you can see that? They've got a few pieces. They've put up on top here I'll show you later, but I thought this might be a great opportunity. Ah, there you go You can see some good fish telling going on right here. See how it's got mult That's what it is is a bunch of smaller crystals grow off of a center axis in two directions So you've got a crystal going one way Chris go in the other way and sure enough it makes a fish tail At least that's the shape because cello night normally has a curved edge to the tip of the crystal That's why it has that shape. Okay a little bit about the geology So we are in what is known as the moan coping formation. This is a formation that is all over central and southern Utah huge formation full of Gypsum how did it get there? This is what is known as a sobka environment. This is an environment where a long time ago you have kind of a Deserty sandy Muddy beach That extends for quite a ways and then comes to the actual beach where the ocean is and you get this big area in The back where you have large storm events in the ocean that bring a bunch of water over and then it has nowhere to get out So it just sits there and slowly evaporates and it makes a Temporary little lake that is full of salts and as the water evaporates it leaves the salts behind Most people are familiar with table salt, but table salt is actually not a very common salt Gypsum is one of the most common salts There you go gypsum is actually a type of salt and What happened is there was a hot water Spring or whatever in this area that came up and it brought all of this gypsum with it as it went through the moan coping layer and it redeposited Wherever there was open spaces as you get closer to the surface you'll find more open spaces And so this deposited near the surface see how it's Just creating Selenite little selenite crystals all through any little crack You could find and of course where you get the bigger cracks you get the larger crystals So that's what you're trying to find big cracks big crystals Now let's go take a look at some of those close-up and I'll put the macro lens macro lens on too So you can see those a little better. We've got the macro lens on. Let's take a closer look at some of these fish tails Look at that These are absolutely beautiful. They've also got some little black Specs in it. Um, I think I was talking to Joel and I think he said that the black is Biological stuff like microorganisms or something that got trapped Or that found little fractures and actually grew in or on them. It also could be some kind of iron mineral I'm not entirely sure this is beautiful stuff. I'll just take a quick look at some of these Here we are back at the main day they're digging away down here Ah, there's a good bit of dirt here. Hey, you're on YouTube now. You're famous Oh, look at that and that's not even starting to get into something right there. Did you guys bury this? This looks like tailings. Yeah, I think it is Yeah, it looks all it knows. I don't know what the heck. No, I don't think that's tailings It might be just be fractured rock. Let's see here. No, that's selenite. That's a big chunk right there Yeah, that's going on here That's a terminated crystal. Oh look you just pulled it out see that that's a terminated crystal That's one crystal like that is a nice big crystal and you can see the phantom right in the center of it. Yep There's a second yeah, that's there's two of them there and you're right I think it's been weathered because look at the yeah the weathering pattern on it So that's a that's a piece from erosion. Yeah, kind of hard here because they're hammering but We dug into this a little bit more and here's some nice stuff coming out Take a look at some of these We're off a bunch and we are hitting some pockets right there The pocket a little bit and it goes deep You can see down in there, but it goes deep the plot thickened This is where the original vein used to outcrop along this side here and look at some of the pieces just sitting here thick chunk of gypsum And they used to dig it out all along this and just see it everywhere. So what they're doing is creating an Edge to try and get that one whole piece out There's just no way to get around not damaging something. It's just the way it is because they're just big players So yeah, that's what we're doing there Cutting out a section to try and keep that section as much intact as possible So that's what they're going for It's like thickened berries on the mountain Pretty tasty It's a nice split our goal is to get it about the clusters beautiful big one right here See if they can get it out in a nice cluster. Yeah, we can probably cut that right there Crack any legs. Yeah crack it right there Get this all out one piece or whatever it comes out to but if we can get that being the main piece That'll be nice I'm gonna let some help with that Let's just get cut right there. Yeah, it's got that smaller Beautiful Good look at that. It's beautiful. Look at all those crystals all stuck together. Oh, yeah, gorgeous. I'm done holding it Wait, wait, I wanted to come on another 15 minutes strike a pose there partner Beautiful there it is Oh Yes, I'm coming look how deep that goes there is an there's a gap And I can't get my hand back where plastic plate. Oh man, I can't get my hand back far enough I'll get a light on there and see you can let me see how well the GoPro does on its own Oh, look at that the GoPro actually I've got a light on it. Oh, yeah, that helps a lot. Yeah There it is Wow, look back there. Look at all those big crystals. It goes back to the left, too Look at that. Wow No Yeah that Nature of the beast it is. Oh, that looks nice right there. Yep nature of the beast What goes goes and what doesn't great Yeah Another big cluster I'm glad that big one's Yeah, the wedge was too deep. Yeah, but I got it. Look at that thing. That's what I was aiming for That's a goodie I like those that come to a point Yeah, put those off this side they get wrapped up. Those are nice. What three times the rest of the way Those are nice plates Is that crystal on the top of the Lucifer? This one? Yeah That one right there? Yeah, that's a nice one. That is a nice clean crystal. You know when they're squealing Oh, that is nice. That needs to be mounted Good cluster. Yep. All right to save time on bringing stuff down the hill and Wearing us out. You just sit down here at the bottom of the zipline and zip the buckets on down All right, we're back from the dig. I got everything cleaned up. Let's take a look at it. All I did was wash them off With running water and occasionally a toothbrush. You want to be very careful because selenite is very soft You can scratch it with your fingernail. So I washed them off. Let's take a look So we're just going to take a quick glance I will put the macro lens on So you guys can get a better close-up look of just how beautiful these crystals are So these are the ones I decided to keep All right, let's take a look at them Here's the first one Look at that beautiful crystal Nice beautiful termination on it Very nice other nice Little crystal you can see right through it Little cluster cluster Okay, this one I really like because it's slightly fractured through the crystal so you can see the fractures through it But it gets this beautiful prism effect That it's just kind of neat So I like that one this beautiful crystal right here now sometimes if it's been exposed near the surface to the elements for a while The dirt will get caked on to the point where it actually grows into it because Gypsum or sunlight will continue to grow near the surface and or dissolve based on water from rain And other sources There's another nice one got this beautiful one right here about two terminations at the top. That's nice crystal too Got clear that is right there on that face Also about fracturing them such beautiful stuff Beautiful so once again, it's got some dirt on it. Look at the size of that crystal beautiful Now this might look big but Compared to the stuff they were pulling out It's a small crystal Now this is neat. These are the fishtail twins that they had in another area Unfortunately, a lot of them don't terminate because they run into the other side of the wall But look at the core of them The core of them starts as this kind of a yellow Or at least it's got a yellow rim to it where you know iron or Microbial stuff was going on and then right out of that is the black The black is probably hematite. It's probably an iron Mineral of some kind Pretty stuff though. So it was a nice pocket of crystals Just loved it Some more fishtails, but these ones were exposed and so you can see how the mud kind of got Grown into the crystal at the very edge and couldn't really wash it off That's too bad. It happens Another nice little pocket With the fishtails going through it. I like this one Because it had three crystals kind of supporting this upper Just kind of looked cool It's kind of but it is kind of breaking apart And the last one more of the fishtail those really cool cores There you have it that's some selenite from the orange creamsicle claim a huge Thank you to paul and joel for letting me come out to their claim. It was a fantastic experience I highly enjoyed it and I hope to get out there again sometime If you would like any of that material for yourself I'm going to include down in the description a link to where you can go ahead and purchase some of that material yourself From paul and joel. So if you like that stuff and you'd like to purchase some go check it out Once again a huge thank you to paul and joel and remember there's treasure everywhere