Graves Mountain Rock Hunting 101 - Crystals and Minerals

This is a privately owned mineral location that allows groups of 2+ to reserve permission to collect there and twice a year has free collecting events and rock swap. Donations recommended. For more info (at the time of this video) go here to learn more: www.exploregeo...
If you have a crew and want to hammer off tons of rock, you can share the load of carrying 8lb sledges, 4lb sledges, and chisels and pry bars etc. I would have found just as good stuff probably surface hunting through tailings, but skilled hounds can try to reach pockets with the heavier hand tools. Carrying my tools in a backpack and using a bucket for rocks was my best chance at the long walk. Also there are plenty of individual small rocks and boulders that you may want to split to reach the rutile or lazulite crystals.
You can find nice examples of many minerals here including turgite (rainbow colored irridescent goethite and hematite), fuchsite, and pyrophyllite as well as nice crystals of quartz, lazulite, kyanite, and rutile.
Thanks to Neil Carroll for some of the info, specifically about the fuchsite and a guy Adam who should be the guy featured in this video instead of me.
Music Credits:
Cats and Gats - Dyalla
Chasing Down a Vision - Bail Bonds
Fun Kid - Quincas Moreira
Home - JHS Pedals
Positive Fuse - French Fuse

[@footbalrocks4850]

Holy shit this is crazy that this is being recommended to me. A couple years back my rockhounding buddy was super hyped about going here, when he went he got crushed in cave-in while digging in one of those small veins people dug out. HIS BODY WAS NEVER RECOVERED R.I.P Timothy Yankovsky 1999-2019

[@polgarian2024]

Great video. When I was a younger, older man, I visited this place often. My entire backyard was landscaped with football sized specimens you showed. Not rutile , however. Fist sized, yes.

[@findingrocksdotcom6475]

Sounds like you took part of the mountain with you over time. Sounds amazing!

[@joedadbod8450]

Great video, Scott! Looks like you did pretty well out there. I really, really want to make it out there one of these days. I would love to stay for a couple of days and just really work a spot or two. Those colors are all amazing! Did you bring home any of that yellow you showed in the cave wall?

[@findingrocksdotcom6475]

Staying a few days would be the right idea. THere's a lot to explore there. The yellow I saw was powdery. I tell you lately I do about the worst of anyone for my finds. However, it is still a good time.

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[@renharvey7984]

thank you for the video, its on my list