 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound. Today's been actually kind of an interesting journey already So originally we were trying to take a road that took us down off the plateau Looking for petrified woods. So you got the Colorado River down there. We're in Utah actually Colorado's over that way and The LaSalle's are back that way. So this area apparently is known to have some old fluorite Prospects and mines. I think they also found maybe some copper ores and stuff Not entirely sure. Anyway, it was Eric who did the research on this one. We weren't actually gonna come out here These were just some pins he had on his map to Hopefully as a backup because we couldn't get to the wood. All right, so we tried to get to the wood We couldn't get there because there's enough runoff that a creek that's normally pretty dry was a river We couldn't get across so Here we are here just hoping so you've got these sandstone cliffs above us and then below us We've got a bunch of granite a lot of it's darker color But every now and then you see some lighter color veins of it And I'm just hoping We can find something out here. Anyway, if we do end up finding anything though, here's GPS to this area You can come out and give it a try as well. Well, I might be off to a better start than I thought I just right here saw this sticking out and I was like, oh some nice felled spar and quartz on it And I picked it up and look at the bottom of it So either that's some really weathered biotite or possibly tourmaline. I'm gonna Spray it off and see if maybe there's tourmaline. Okay after spraying it off for the good I think it's just weathered biotite But that's cool because these are large crystals So maybe indicative of a pegmatite somewhere around here, which is good because then you can get terminated crystals of quartz and felled spar and maybe larger books of Micah And who knows what else so okay, that's exciting Just found this one nice large crystals of pink felled spar some good quartz That looks like it's trying to turn into crystals and what might be tourmaline It does have the look of tourmaline small little crystals of it, but I Now I need to look at it closer to be sure I'll take it home What you're looking for while you're out here you'll get to this granite and it's this light color There's a dark colored granite That's out there. I'd have to put the other lens on to show you What you're trying to do is find little spots where the crystals were allowed to grow a little larger Kind of like that. See you got the granite and then you got a spot Where the crystals are able to grow bigger? And in those spots What you're hoping for is to find so in this case it looks like we got a little tourmaline there Yeah, I think we got some little black tourmaline crystals going through some of this quartz But what you're hoping to find is a pocket where there was actually Empty space where the crystals could actually fully Terminate and give you really nice crystals Here's this cleaned off wanted to look at it a little better Take a look at that cool tourmaline that's in that quartz Really cool. That's a cool Micah book there Yeah Not too bad. I'm not gonna keep it kind of cool these beautiful sections where it's massive quartz Felt spark But as of yet Found any more tourmaline coming down this way And I haven't seen any fluoride that Was mentioned That's a pretty cool spot and see this Spot where it's just massive crystals of feldspar and quartz all growing together But I as of yet haven't found any terminated crystals that were exposed no fluoride and Up there or that way was the only spot. I found any tourmaline was just a tiny bit So I think what we'll might be do is just Head up throw it a little further and go check out one of the one one of the other areas. He's got a pin for for Other stuff. We'll go see and we're at spot number two So here is an old spot that's supposed to be an old copper and maybe fluoride mine So we're gonna go take a look and see if there's anything there It's supposed to be down below us here somewhere close to the river So just gonna have to hope that there's something good here because we didn't find much over there Except for some small black tourmaline. So yeah, let's hope this is a little better here. Oh and GPS Well, we found the mine Here's the old band and mine And it looks like mostly was fluoride. We've already been looking over there and we found some that are definitely fluoride So we're parked up there. So you have to walk walk down this old mine road across the river But there it is the old mine Don't go in old mines dangerous So I found this one this one's really cool. So you got these cool veins of fluoride and right here. We've got some nice Crystals of the fluoride. Hopefully you guys can see those. They're pretty cool though Yeah Okay, yeah, hopefully we can bust some rocks up maybe and find some better ones ones that haven't been out weathering Some of these pieces have another mineral growing on it, which looks like blades of buried so Yeah, I think that's buried. It's possible to gypsum, but I'm gonna go with buried This one looks pretty cool. I might have to clean that one off Here's this one cleaned off. This is a good example of that. I think buried that's on the top I mean gypsum makes this form too But I can't scratch it with my fingernail. So I'm pretty sure it's buried And you can see how the fluoride formed first underneath and then the buried formed on top Okay, so we've been pulling stuff up there and I decided to start digging some finding some darker colored stuff But I just pulled that out. Look at that Beautiful cubes all over it nice green color in there That's a good fluoride piece Here's this one washed off covered with fluoride crystals Really cool So many Just pulled that piece out. Oh, that's beautiful Really nice color Good at good crystals there. Yeah, I think we're gonna find a lot of good stuff He's also pulled out some good stuff already. I just pulled this out. It was really dirty So I couldn't tell but then I sprayed it off. Look at that beautiful translucent green. Oh That's pretty Got a few cubes on the top, but I would love it if those were big cubes, you know Well, maybe there's more of that down here. Here's this one washed off Nice band of green right there There's these interesting black inclusions in a lot of these Not sure what it is probably some kind of iron mineral. He just found some Though look at that. You got beautiful cubes here and he got the nice green band going through just like mine. Oh That's nice. Yeah, that green thing right there. Oh Yeah, it's a good day So Eric was digging and a toad jumped out of his hole It was in a hole apparently a toad had his hole there What are the chances? Yeah, cuz you don't get toads out here in the desert very often Look what he just pulled out. Oh, there's some good crystals on there once they're cleaned up. Oh, that'll look nice awesome Just pulled out another good piece. It's got some of that buried on top, but underneath it's got that nice green so Yeah, we're pulling out lots of good pieces Here's this one washed off bunch of little Cubes all over it and then some what I think is a whitish bearite As I continue to pour more pull more cool stuff out. I just got this one. Look at the color in that one Beautiful deep green It's really nice here right there Here's this one washed off. I love this one because right in the middle. There's a little bit of blue Don't know how well you can see that But in the middle there is blue fluoride and then you got the green on the top and bottom I've been digging this hole. I just pulled this chunk out and I think it's gonna be amazing So let me clean it off clean it off as much as I could here It's gonna need to go home to get a better cleaning But look at that. Oh This one's probably gonna be amazing probably Crystals all over beautiful green color Here's this one washed off Get some good green color right there. I just got fluoride all over a lot of it's broken Most of the crystals are small Still though, it's really cool Look at that Eric just pulled this one out. Look at that Crystal right in the middle is pristine That's a nice piece Good find Dug a whole bunch decided to kind of stop filming because you just can't really see it And there's all these decent-looking stuff. I'm leaving behind so I filled my bag We'll just have to wait till I get home or we can finally see it all and find out what we got Yeah, they're just too dirty to really see So I'm gonna have to really clean them off well so that we can get a better look at them. Here's this one washed off Very nice green in this one Here's this one washed off That's a little cubes on it A bit of green in there Here's this one cleaned off It's nice green in there. Here's this one washed off Good green color in the middle there Some colorless fluoride on the top with some barite And then here's that good green vein again. Here's this one washed off Had a nice green color on this side And some good green right there on the bottom. Here's this one washed off Some crystals on it there Like the ones right there. Here's this one washed off A bit of green there so a lot of crystals on this one that are broken Unfortunately Here's this one washed off Not a lot of color in this one But the whole thing is just covered in fluoride All over it Here's this one washed off. This is a great one to look at the rock. It was growing off It's this really interesting granite Large pink felt sparse Here's the fluoride nice and green Here's this one washed off. This one had a great green color to it. Here's this one washed off Until little crystals Here's this one washed off. I lived the green right in the middle. It's Really strong green color. Here's this one cleaned off Once again nice green and that bunch of crystals on the bottom Here's this one cleaned off Nice big crystal Right there that is the single largest crystal we found over out there Here's this one cleaned off Really nice green right there Kind of just a bunch of stuff going on Crystals all over here and there Here's this one cleaned off Not much color in this one. I'll say it's just we've got some good cubes here. Here's this one cleaned off Bunch of little crystals on this really nice little ones Here's this one cleaned off Bunch of little nice crystals on it. Here's this one cleaned off Lot of stacked crystals on this one a lot of broken ones too Right there had a nice little pocket. Here's this one cleaned off Good vein of green down in there. Here's this one cleaned off Some nice crystals right on the surface there. Here's this one cleaned off. I Love how this crystal came through. That's just there All by its lonesome above the bear right. It's pretty cool. There's this one cleaned off Whole bunch of little crystals Here's this one cleaned off. I love this formation there too bad the crystals are really small and Kind of hard to see So after we had pretty much cleaned everything up and we decided to do a little bit of hiking around before leaving We went up higher and found some better Crystals not really green, but they were more yellow But here's an example of some of those Better looking crystals. Here's this one You can definitely see better quality of crystal But more yellow and here's this monster Look at all those crystals all over it I can't wait to get back out there and Really kind of maybe dig into the seams that are further up To see if we can get some really nice crystals coming out of some of those And we're back in the vehicle So after we actually dug We were down there. We realized There might be more we hiked up and sure enough. There's more mines dotted up there All with fluoride and some of it looks better and there's some veins we can dig so next time we come out here We're gonna go up there and see if we can get some better stuff. I think I think there's some good potential for some better stuff up there Yeah fun Anyway, it's time to go. We're tired and it's a bit of a drive back. So until next time remember there is treasure everywhere