I like to dig for gold and gems and aim to show you places you can go to find your own rocks and crystals to dig. I found out about rockhounding and how it goes hand in hand with traveling and camping. I enjoy finding new places and meeting new people so this has been a fun adventure so far!
If you find any of the places from the videos please treat them with respect and realize these are opportunities that are specific to the many enthusiasts so don’t ruin everyone’s time with bad behavior.
I sell some of my finds to enable future diggings so leave a comment until the store can be linked if interested in anything! Buy my rocks at www.ebay.com/usr/philbilly_rocks
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@@harrymcguire4790 yes. There’s a large geode belt that runs along the east edge of Illinois and up from there. It will take some homework. Vickers geodes may be close to you
@@petal_lane03 this is gone. But there is a farm in central Ohio. The owner recently passed. I talk about the site in one of my first videos. I’ve never seen another pocket like this
@@diggingappalachia954 they sure do. I was told a kiln at 400’f temp walked up slowly and then back down. And yes it’s the flint ridge region east of Columbus. There’s a museum in the area with some very neat pieces on display as well as neat history on the area that I do recommend checking out to add to the experience. You can walk through a path where the natives used to mine their flint for arrowheads and other such tools from what I understand. It is incredibly sharp I will say that!
See me too iv been a gemstone hunter for many years now do all kinda of hunting I love by the Ohio River like my back yard is the river lol. But over the years iv found a few incredible things as in minerals gemstones Etc but I would love to know where I can find big pockets and larger crystals. I do have one incredible find it weights ruffly 80 to 90 pounds. It's a mineral but I'm honestly not too sure what kind of mineral it is tho. It is crystal form I can take my flash light and see completely thru it. And it's white not a see thru white irs like milky only it's a giant 90 pound chunk if crystal. I know it's worth a good bit. I'd even be willing to sell it if someone knew what I was talking about and knew how I could easily sell it as I have minerals of value including the ultra rare finds Ohio Diamonds. Iv found a couple over the years but ya wish I could find stuff like this down here in southern Ohio by the Ohio River..
Sorry about the pile of rocks I left on the trail 😂😂😂. If you are going back or still there I will give you the location where you can find that original river channel where you can dredge it. The last 6 inches to bedrock is pretty ok.
You can get bismuth by the pound online then melt it down and then let it cool. After that you can pull formations out as the melt cools. Another commenter explained it thoroughly in another short I have up on this.
Dude, im not trying to be mean but you didnt do it right at all. You didnt get the crystals to form right. You want bismuth to cool as slow as possible. The crystal will form out into structures. I have done it myself many times. There are plenty of videos for you to watch and see how its suppose to look.
You are right. I’m trying again because these did not go right for the first time. I’m going to try the slow cool like you mention. The vids I saw didn’t go into wild specifics with cooling times etc. so I have to try again. Hopefully the next one turns out better.
@@Philbilly_Rocks my experience is this. You want to get to at least 15mins of cooling. I would first leave it in the original pot and around 15, start removing the pieces at the top. Before it solidifies at the top. You want to extract with some sort of haste once the top starts to harden. After you have extracted a few specimens, wait again for the top to be about 50% solidified, then pour into a new container and what’s left in the original should have amazing crystals. To get clean box structures the metal needs to be poured out as quick, but safely as possible. The movement starts adding unwanted layers and will then round out the sharp corners ruining the crystal formation. Basically you want to avoid excess movement as you pick up the original as slowly as possible and let the pour be one motion, don’t let it go back and forth. The pour shouldn’t take more than 3 secs. Once you have figure out to get crystals to form, then you can figure out how to pour it directly into other containers for the 15min cool down. That’s is quite a process cause you wanna heat up the original containers before the bismuth is poured. And of course anything can be remelted over, except the slag. I guess I need to make a video 😅
@@Philbilly_Rocks yeah I had some that came out like yours. It's all learning. But it really fucking fun. 😅 I should make a quick short of some of my specimens so you don't think I'm just trolling you.
@@coreymacgregor176 I used your advice and made some cool ones just now, I’m grateful no worries man. They are small so I think I need a larger apparatus and more metal
