 Hello and welcome to the Rugged Rockhound today. I'm here with quite a few other people. Say hi everybody We got Utah Rocks got my friend Tim We got some of Utah Rocks kids and his dad and we are gonna go Up here. It's a private mining claim We're gonna go meet the claim owner and we're gonna have a fun day digging for topaz big spy Whatever else they have here pink topaz So this is gonna be a lot of fun So here we are we're here with Jeremy the claim owner. How are you doing Jeremy? How are you guys doing today? Great? You have the big equipment up. Hey, look at that. We're gonna be digging in here. Okay. What are we looking for? So we're looking for big spy and pink topaz So what's special about solar wind is you get pink topaz instead of the clear So when it the normal topaz fades it'll fade to a water clear This actually fades to pink and it's pretty special and the reason is it has trace Amounts of manganese inside and the manganese is a coloring agent So when you actually collect the topaz it'll be like a peachy color and actually got a piece here to show you guys That we got yesterday. Oh great. I'll get it out of my pocket here And then you also get the big spy, so that's great. Here's a Okay, it looks the colors very close to that it is close, but it'll fade to a pink And then it's stable color, so so we actually are getting these cut and they make beautiful beautiful cut stones How long does it take to fade to the pink about two weeks? So about the same as it takes for the other things They're identical. That's big spy. You found a big spy and then pink topaz was on the side of it There's a little bit of a topaz. Oh, yeah, look at that Bad piece right there Got a new work Exactly, that's a beautiful piece. That is nice. So that's what you're looking for and what's neat about the big spy out here This is a world-class location. This is the best big spy in the world. I'm excited. Yes, absolutely. It's number one So what do they do with this case? It's a specimen Basically have just my specimen and then you actually have something you don't cut it No, it's it's specimen only when they come out what's neat Is they have a tetragonal tris octahedral modification on the edge the normal Cubic is a cubic form for Vixbyite. That's a new normal crystal form for Vixbyite But these ones are very neat. Let's see that piece again. I show you so instead of being cubic On the edge you can see it kind of looks like almost like a Mercedes Benz logo on the edge there Yeah, that's a tetragonal to tris octahedral modification It's very special and the reason why it forms that way is you have pressure temperature drops when they're forming and They don't form the full cube, but they make this beautiful Modifications on the edge though. So that's what makes it really special here So there you have it the solar winds claim so I'm gonna leave a link in the description if you would like to go and Schedule a time with him. He loves to bring people out here And you can schedule it doesn't cost too much and you can come out and dig for some stuff yourself So go check out his webpage take a look at the link So what we're looking for is Vixbyite pink taupe as pseudobrook guy and you'll also see purple standing on the rock That's fluorite. So when there's excess fluorine fluids, it'll come up and create the floor fluorite On the rock Basically the primary ways we screen we do screening here But you also work the rock you guys have been to topaz mountains. So, you know similar They're all good. They're all good. They're every one of these are good But I almost recommend down here yalia. John's wife was digging down here on the side here Right here this hole and this hole and she did she got some great topaz and some nice big spii combos You can see these seams. They're vertical seams And some of them are not quite vertical, but they they trend vertical Like people like that's not vertical. It's trending down. It's still going down. Yeah, basically these but it'll branch out So you got a picture kind of like Trunk of a tree that comes up and then a branch is off So what we're looking for when we mine is the trunk of the tree if we can get it Or at least at least a big branch. All right, here we go. Come on Nice get beneath it and catch anything that might fall. Oh my gosh. Look at that Oh, beautiful. Okay. That's purple. Yeah, that's the fluoride. Oh, look at that specimen right there. There's pseudobrochite Yep, I just found a okay. Let's bring you in close here Tim just opened exposed a vein of beautiful topaz You know what can you hold it just a minute? I'm gonna get the macro lens. Let's look at this pocket. He just poked Topaz all through it fluorite pseudobrochite Show them that one piece you found Oh this Look at this piece of pseudobrochite. He just found Yeah, look at that Beautiful And look at all this stuff coming down. So there's the other side of the vein That we broke into. All right. You can see pseudobrochite all over topaz all over fluoride Beautiful Tim Oh, there we go Right there You tie rocks just knocked another piece off. We've got a topaz loose right there. Actually a couple I'll grab them real quickly before they fall few this topaz there But right here on the other side We got that nice And look at that pocket. All right, let's expose that So that pseudobrochite right there That is a big bixby-eyed Look at that You tie rocks just found a huge bixby-eyed Oh, that's a beautiful specimen Right in there Wow Right here, Jeremy and his partner found this really really nice bixby-eyed. Look at the size of that thing Yeah, pseudobrochite and pink topaz for skill So he finished jackhammering all of this out. We've been clearing out. We've pulled some nice things out here We'll have to clean them up before we can see where they are We're gonna go ahead and just keep digging into this Zone through here and just see what we can pull out. Hey They go right there Very nice. All right, we're gonna screen through. I'm gonna go through the screen now and see if I can find anything We found that thing There's so many little topaz crystals in here All right, it's been a little while since I took a took any video. I was we didn't find anything for a while and then I went up over In kind of a hard spot Up there found some pretty good stuff. We'll have to clean it off for you to be able to see it pretty well So that'll have to come after after this video Well, let's go see what this Poor soul over here has been finding When I say poor soul it's because he's been finding all kinds of good stuff Look at this pile of amazingness just all over Yeah, it's been good. He's had a he's had a good day. It's a good spot It's a great spot Okay, we are sifting through some of the tailings here that came from the excavator behind us And we're definitely doing better out here than we were in the pockets Tim found this rock that had a nice pocket on it right there Got a few things. I've already found a few good crystals myself Right over here I found that crystal So I'm gonna screen that right now and see how it goes Nice little cluster Got a new pocket Hey some for it Big speed That pocket Yeah, we're definitely having much more success up here So the excavator do the work More top edge Oh, what did Tim find? Oh, okay, we're we're gonna take a look at that one That one That's a nice one. Well done Tim All right, let's take a look at his nice stuff So I'm in here. Here's a nice gemmy gemmy topaz here, but there's one even better. He's got one here So, I mean that's not huge for pink topaz, but that I'd say that's on a larger scale So on the bell curve, it would be on the right side of the bell curve um big speed this is about a Uh push in large it's not I mean we get them up to an inch. This is probably about Six tenths of an inch is my guess maybe seven tenths of an inch, but we get them pushing an inch But that's a big big speed and you can see the modifications on the edge It's a tetragonal trisctahedral and see how it serrated there. It almost looks serrated So that's very unique Uh for this mine You don't really find like the rest of the bixbyite in the range Is not modified like this. It's perfect cubes. So if you find bixbyite in the cove It's going to be a perfect. Well, it should be a perfect cube Sometimes they're a little bit off, but most of the time they're perfect cubes. Wow We found this yesterday unwrapping. He doesn't remember what it is. And there's a lot of toilet paper So it's got to be good. All right, better be better not be anti climatic here. Oh, yeah, this is a good one Oh, yeah, be careful with this one. Oh, look at that See how it's almost uh, so you got three topaz. It's got a little pseudo brook eye horns or ears. What are you going to call? I call them horns. Yeah There's actually three topaz. You got one here one here one here and that's rare We get some that have and this will all clean up too real nice There's a pseudo brook eye off the side of it. Oh, I see that This this one's big money Do the topaz go through it or see the cross to on the face Yeah So do the topaz go through the big sp8 or yeah, so uh, they they form at different pressures and temperatures So the topaz actually forms first And then the big sp8 forms second. So it's just uh, How they form, you know, so they don't form at the exact same time We're getting ready to head out. It's getting chilly little lindy and sun's going down. So We're getting ready to head out And I didn't film quite a bit mostly because a lot of the stuff I I did a lot of screening And the stuff was so covered in dirt. You just couldn't see it And so I decided to just forego filming for the most part and wait until I got home So I could clean them all off. So yeah, I didn't film a lot of things and I got a little excited a few times But you'll at least get to see it cleaned up So we're gonna head back now and I'll get all that stuff cleaned up. All right. I'm back from the dig It's actually been a couple weeks It's been about two a little over two weeks since I actually got back from the dig where we found all the cool topaz and big sp8 other cool minerals And it's winter now. It's getting cold out here winter is just setting in and we're supposed to be getting some snow in the next several days so Yay Rock-hunting season maybe over soon. Anyway, let's go ahead and take a look at the specimens we found and see what we got I'm going to start with the specimens that I found So here's a nice rock. It's got some topaz and some pseudo brookite crystals. You can see right there Very nice Some more topaz on a rock Here's my big sp8 crystals I like their shiny surfaces. We've got some fluorite right here Here's a nice little combo That's got topaz pseudo brookite and big sp8. So big sp8 is the black square cubic Well cubic like crystals with An interesting shape The the pseudo brookite is these long black thin crystals. And then of course the topaz is yellow Here are my topaz crystals now. I'm only showing you the nicer specimens the ones that turned out A little better We actually found quite a few in fact Yeah, we've got a lot of stuff A lot of good stuff. I'm just kind of showing you some of the bigger ones So here's some of the better ones tim found now tim definitely did better with the pseudo brookite No, not super kite big sp8 Getting my things mixed up. He found a lot of good big sp8 crystals. This was my favorite nice big one With some other things on it. So yeah Tim got really good big sp8 He also did pretty well with the topaz Like I said, I did a little better with the topaz And pseudo brookites hard to keep intact. So not much survived just kind of showing that off So this is one that I found that has a crack in it And you can see a nice large big sp8 in there some pseudo brookite I'll probably just leave it as it is maybe try and chip a little bit of this away to expose it a little better I don't know trying to decide exactly what to do with it right now And the find of the dig for tim and I which we kind of found together tim was the one that pointed it out though He's the one that suggested the area. So most of the credit goes to him but it's a nice vein that was full of fluorite topaz crystals some pseudo brookite and a few big sp8s Just there's a really cool vein That ran through this large rock Those are the specimens we found we found quite a bit a lot of topaz a lot of big sp8 It was great tim and I had a wonderful time out there So once again a huge thank you to jeremy fuller for letting us to come out to his claim in film It was fantastic if like I said earlier But if you want to go to one of his claims jeremy has several claims out in the topaz mountain area If you want to go check out his claims, there's a link down below Where you can go to his website and you can schedule to go out to his claim the price is very reasonable The stuff I got out of it was easily worth two or three times what I paid It was fantastic Actually kind of let us out free this time next time I go though. I'll have to pay but totally worth it I'll I'll be more than happy to pay the price going out again And I plan to go out in the future and again Thank you to you to rocks for joining me on another adventure and for kind of getting the whole thing set up So it was a wonderful time and remember there's treasure everywhere