Crystals of Arkansas | Optimizing Crystal Vista, Pockets, and Prospecting

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TLDR: Comprehensive crystal field trip to see how abundant quartz crystals are in Arkansas. First, finding a fresh pocket at Crystal Vista. Second, prospecting within the same geologic unit but a few kilometers away (video correction: not 8km, actually 3km). Third, full send on the first tailing pile at Crystal Vista.
Actual description: I heard someone say, “Go to Arkansas, put a shovel in the ground, and make a bet with someone about there being crystals in the dirt that comes up. It will be a fair bet.” Needing to test the veracity of this statement, I picked up my feral chinchilla friend and away we went.
Somewhere between the lush mycology, waterfalls, and rolling Ouachita range, we found a forest floor that overflowed with geometric dew drops. Compared to Colorado pegmatite prospecting, Arkansas turns back the hands of time, making you feel like you are the first person to ever see the area. Yes, there are crystals everywhere, but you must be in a good zone.
Crystal Vista is one of those zones and it lies within a principal geologic unit: the Quartz Mountain Sandstone formation. In fact, we noticed that many of the largest Arkansas quartz crystal mine operations are near this public dig area. This Ordovician formation exhibits complex stockworks of quartz-filled fissures, deposited after the orogenic events that deformed and disassembled the strata. Structurally, stresses imparted on the Ordovician units were unevenly distributed, producing more fissures in some areas such as the Crystal Mountains. Topographically, a correlation is visible between the pocket-bearing zones and the east-west trending ridgelines in the southwest portion of the state. Notably productive regions fall within Montgomery, Garland and Saline counties, which is where Megan and I concentrated our efforts.
Venturing into the misty backcountry of Montgomery county allowed us to see that Crystal Vista is only one of the many productive zones. Evidence of crystal-lined stockworks appeared with regularity as we wandered through the Ouachita temperate woodland. Since five high-potential zones were marked and only one investigated, Arkansas beckons a second exploration.
Video Chapters:
0:00 Launch: Crystal Vista
0:13 First Impressions
1:54 Let’s Find a Pocket
4:31 Backcountry Prospecting
6:19 Crystal Vista: After the Rain
10:13 Mine Tailing Fever: Strategies
11:35 Afterparty: Crystals & Kittycats
14:21 A Dive into Blue Phantoms
16:10 Crystal Giveaway
Beats by Arcane
1. Elven Faerie Ball
2. Moonlit Rendezvous
I encourage everyone to venture into the forest to see what curiosities lie within the earth. Knowledge of active claims and regulations in your area will permit you the freedom to explore. Always reclaim your dig sites to keep the future of prospecting bright and beautiful.

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@miak6859 3 месяца назад

Some very nice Crystal finds Thank you for sharung

@moon1111rises 3 месяца назад

Had a fantastic time thanks for making the video 💎 happy hunting hunter

@EverythingIsSpirit 3 месяца назад

Thank youu for making the dream work and being a chinchilla with me in the earth of Arkansas. It was an honor to collaborate with you.💫

@SamwiseDuderino 3 месяца назад

Murfreesboro AR is south of Ouachita and theres the commercialized crater of diamonds as well as some public lands, but you seem to do your research. I found lots of milky blue quartz as a child (not like your phantoms) that I was told are a good indicator of a diamond source... sadly id find these towards the end of our day trip and then we wouldnt go back for a while and then others already stripped the area I was in. Also, just day hiking some of the natl forest trails around the lake yield lots of wash out finds In my youth, my father would drop me off on one of the island in the lake and while he fished in circles around the island, I dug through the red clay banks of the island that were exposed by the rise and fall of the lake. Found many beauties in those days Best time to go is when the lake is looow as the water traffic will be lower and the banks will be super exposed, take a canoe or john boat and your camping gear, the lake weeds will be dense, and do a little island hopping/camping. Oh, if you have a bug shirt, I suggest this as well. Just look on the map and pick an area pocketed with islands and in some cases you can wade through the water between them. Lots of shale, but in some of the areas there are hidden pockets of pebbles from topsoil and clay erosion that get trapped in the shale below the water line and are fully exposed or easily accessible, sometimes they are in areas that catch the constant lapping of the water which is just a natural rock tumbler, regardless you can pan through the pebbled areas and find crystals as well Those islands are all essentially "Crystal Vistas" as they are all the same mountain range. Just dont look like obvious prospectors, lol Enjoy!

@EverythingIsSpirit 2 месяца назад

Thank you for taking the time to write such a thoughful and informative comment Samwise, I copied it to a document to keep for the next journey to Arkansas. Island hopping by small boat and swimming in search of crystals on the banks sounds like a fairytale. It's genius you thought to use the force of the water as an erosion-style backhoe for finding pockets in the clay banks. Thanks for the super practical tips for success on this as well; I can't wait to start mapping routes with topo and geologic overlays. My first experience in Arkansas was quite rainy so it will take good timing and a bit of luck for us to catch it when the water is low. ( : About the blue quartz. Everything you're saying checks out. One of my geology classmates is studying kimberlite pipes, such as the one that generated the Crater of Diamonds. She studies minerals that form in kimberlites as proxies for pressure-temperature conditions and uses that info to hypothesize origins for the structures. One of the kimberlite minerals that she most frequently studies is ilmenite, an iron-titanium oxide. Titanium is the trace element inclusion that often gives quartz the diffuse blue hue that you described. Thus, finding milky blue quartz would absolutely be an indicator of diamonds in the immediate vicinity. What an excellent deduction you've made. I'll share anything we find.✨ Cheers, Hunter Frith

@Biohacker24 3 месяца назад

Amazing video! Best one yet for sure... Crazy how many clear high quality crystals y'all found. Also my vote is option 3

@scottpeters5624 3 месяца назад

Epic hunt,, well done both of you,, And option 1,, track a pocket,, is it Japanese law?

@wombatb4094 3 месяца назад

Option 3 Megan's tree looks promising and I think its Dauphiné law.

@EverythingIsSpirit 2 месяца назад

You know what? If Option 3 gets the most votes, Megan's tree will be the first place to check subsurface for a pocket. In Colorado, that layout on the surface nearly garantees a pocket right below. I know you know. Looking forward to sharing how it unfolds.🌿

@2DEKAY 3 месяца назад

You are a great prospectoring channel i love your videos

@EverythingIsSpirit 2 месяца назад

TYSM!! Always open to requests for specific minerals, topics, and locations. 🤙🏼

@Ontario_Rockhound 2 месяца назад

Awesome video

@EverythingIsSpirit 2 месяца назад

Thank you bro and right back achyu!! Let's keep the endless hunts going^_^)>

@Ontario_Rockhound 2 месяца назад

@EverythingIsSpirit yes for sure, good luck and happy hunting!

@kathidouglas9287 3 месяца назад

I think it's Brazil twin law and I would like to know more about the Blue Phantom quartz. I love the iridescent ones too. Thanks for this video.

@markwilliammann 3 месяца назад

love the video, hunter! option 1 and is it a brazil twin law?

@Ontario_Rockhound 2 месяца назад

Option 1, and Dauphine twin law is my guess.

@JimHerbertOutdoors Месяц назад

Just found yalls channel. I spend 2-3 weeks down there every spring and fall with my dog. I found your RU-vid thru the girl in the videos facebook page, it says Adrian Irvin is mutual friends, I grew up with him. Do yall know him?! I'm from IL. Anyways happy hunting ✌️

@anthonyscalzi7110 3 месяца назад

Could the brown dirt in the tailings pile be the original ground level before the tailings weer dumped there? Nice Dauphine twin in the end there. (confidently incorrect maybe) I'd like to see a backcountry prospecting video as the next topic.

@EverythingIsSpirit 2 месяца назад

Anthony, that's an excellent observation. The only thing that throws me off about it being the original ground level is that large (>brick-size) blocks of sandstone were occurring in both colours of soil and there were air gaps between these blocks in both layers. Still, it could very well be ground level and that explanation makes the most sense. It would also make the most sense for why there are more crystals in the clay/dump section.

@floppywafflezzz4631 3 месяца назад

Option 2 Dauphiné law & Great Content

@EverythingIsSpirit 8 дней назад

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3 месяца назад

Option 3 and Brazil twin law

@ypcomchic 3 месяца назад

Did you guys go inside the mine?

@EverythingIsSpirit 2 месяца назад

We were so mesmerized by everything leading up to it that we didn't even make it to the mine.😅 If the option for finding a big pocket at Crystal Vista receives the most votes, we'll definitely head to the mine on our next trip. ( :

@2DEKAY 3 месяца назад

Option 3