Best way to clean Crystals, Remove Calcite 

no wirries, she was dumping muriatic acid inti the ground without being neutralized.

It’ll be ight

My chem teacher always said, “do what you oughta, put the acid in the water.”

I need to make it up there some day....All around the lake or just in certain places?

@@nancygaxiola5412 if you are on the end of town that Walmart is on, and craggy wash would be on your right hand side as you go out of town like you are headed towards The Bunker Bar, up the hill/ highway on your left is a guardrail with a entrance, it is a little hard to find but it's the first driveway after craggy wash on your left and it is blm land, that blm land has chalcedony, red jasper, and agate all over the place. I searched at craggy wash and I didn't find anything. It's super weird that just a mile away has all that other stuff lol, I found a little bit of chalcedony at Sarah's crack as well but it's such a big park I didn't have much time to look. Good luck I hope this helps!!!

@@fenderfox5080 I'm way I'm another part of AZ. But want to make a trip up there....I'll save your info and when I get there I'll know where to look!

@@fenderfox5080 Probably somewhere waaay down that wash is the gold mine of all the remnants of the rocks you mentioned!

@@nancygaxiola5412 awesome for sure, this was our first winter away from WI and we drove to Lake Havasu in our skoolie and ended up staying from Nov till May, we spent many hours hiking and checking out the town and the lake it's so beautiful there. Have fun and I wish you the best of luck, just remember it's up the hill from craggy wash on your left, blm land

Stupid right they will be sooo yellow hahaha

No, I just completely neutralized it with water after I was done soaking them just clean them off with water and they’re fine

And/or caves. Read the story about out how Kartchner Caverns was found. That is a heck of a story. Also walking around in a hilly part of a mountain close to the same area, I bent down to pick up a rock and there was air coming up from out of the ground from just a small hole. I went home and looked on my topo maps and found out it was owned by someone, a mining claim. Never looked into it any further though...also up there were fossils....I don't know fossils well but they were there! A round metal plate that it had been excavated (or I don't really know what they called it), by the USGS. Lots of cool stuff up in those mountains...we call it Crystal Mountain because there are a lot of quartz crystals all around that one side of the mountain. Unfortunately my body is in no condition to climb up that mountain anymore. Lots of stuff up there to find though. I saw what I'm pretty sure was blue lace agate in the ground that I could not dig out though.

Wow! Interesting info, but I doubt I'll ever be in those areas of the West again. My parents & I did 2 cross-country auto trips, back-to-back years after my dad retired from teaching. One year we followed parts of the Oregon Trail, from WY to OR stopping in different locations & deviating at times from the trail. Picked up random stones, anything that had color or patterns I could see, in various stops along our way.

Thanks for your video on cleaning the calcium crystals and ? crystals. Never having taken Chemistey in either high school or college, videos on cleaning minerals is especially important for me. I have used Iron Out in the latter 1990's for cleaning Herkimer diamonds some of which were in vugs of dolomite and had small calcite crystals also on the dolomite. Not knowing how long to soak the rock/crystals, I probably left dolomite in the acid too long as the rocks' surface changed from smoothish to really rough. Wearing long rubberized gloves, removed dolomite from acid soak to another bucket with baking soda/water mix to remove acid, and finally a plain water soak. Several years later, when I was on Facebook on a Great Lakes Superior Agates site, learned about using CLR for cleaning LSA. Have also used this method for cleaning agates and other semi-precious stones.

I think muriatic acid will take off the sandstone too, but I'm not as knowledgeable as Elie is. Hopefully she will see.your question

@@nancygaxiola5412 thank you.. might have to try that.