How to Find a Crystal Pocket from Scratch (Comprehensive) | Crystal-Ray Vision

How do you find crystals in the ground when you have no leads? This video is designed to answer that question in great detail. Yes, follow the float, but what does that really mean? I’ll show you and help you to identify the textures in float that lead to crystal-filled pockets. Moreover, we will decipher morphological trends that lead to additional crystals on the subsurface level.
Setting out from an arbitrary pull-off in the South Platte area of Jefferson County, Colorado, we search for signs of pegmatites in an intrusive igneous pluton complex known as Pikes Peak Batholith. In other words, granite bedrock. Equally as important as how to interpret and follow float to a pocket, there is also an example of when float is not good enough to pursue to the source.
When I started prospecting, I searched everywhere for a detailed video that showed how to find a crystal pocket. None existed and I didn’t know anyone that could teach me. I haven’t forgotten that, so it is with great pleasure that I present this video. I hope this serves to expedite your learning curve so you may unveil the beautiful secrets that lie dormant within the earth. Let’s develop our crystal-ray vision.
Video Chapters:
0:00 Purpose and Prerequisites
2:22 Tracking at the Surface (Step by Step)
7:02 Tracking at Depth (Step by Step)
7:29 Pegmatite Signatures: Graphic Granite
13:23 The Heart of the Pocket
17:27 Following the Pegmatite to a New Test Site
19:23 Case Study: When Float is Not Good Enough
21:23 Another Pocket on the Same Pegmatite
25:57 Post-Cleanup and Notes for Mineral Seekers

[@jimedgar6789]

Bro! This video totally transformed my understanding of how to find these veins, pockets, etc. WOW!!! Good job on the backfill, too. So many people leave their shit a real mess.

[@blackpowder4016]

This is an awesome presentation, much better than I was expecting. I'm impressed. I'm used to a lot of mystical new-age metaphysical word salad and the occasional divining rod. You never said Lemuria even once. Your video editing skills are superior as well. Well done. Very well done.

[@charlesbegley1350]

Fantastic! Very informative! It makes me want to run off to the hills right this second

[@Carebearritual]

This was so insanely helpful. I evenjust moved to jeffco and have been traveling to pikes to rock hound every weekend that isn’t too freezing

[@xSKASKSx]

Sick vid 👍 Love all of the information here - Good stuff!! Looking forward to the next one 😸

[@kb432]

hey man I live in the Loveland area and i've been looking for information like this. Been trying to learn more because I really enjoy this kind of thing

[@canyonbird1]

Fantastic. Thanks!

[@sdbanks6690]

Nice vid! Exactly what I like to do, finding my own pegmatites is way more fun and requires more skill than visiting a known deposit or mine.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Another great video!

[@blackrockcrystalco]

Sweet video! i love learning about geology, it helps so much in prospecting and understanding deposits. while my deposit is more of a altered hydro system, it was initially a weak pegmatite.

[@NWRockExplorer]

Really like your vids!! This was a super informative video, definitely learned a few things. How did you learn all this stuff, it seems you've got lots of experience or do a lot of reading!! Still trying to find a good consistently producing site to dig crystals at myself, fingers crossed I'll find one this summer. Thanks for sharing!!

[@EverythingIsSpirit]

I'm delighted to hear that it is having the effect I strongly desired: to inform & inspire.✨ How I learned: just a rabbit hole obsession with crystals. After filling every vacant shelf in my house with minerals and converting my kitchen into a semi-lab to observe how they grow, I got curious about how the earth was generating them and if there were patterns to discovering them. Coloring outside the lines and walking off trail in areas where I read online that crystals had been found prompted the discovery of a few crystals and at that point, I began to realize that they were more common than I initially thought. About a year ago, I met someone who showed me many of their big crystal pocket projects. The biggest thing I took away from that experience was again, seeing that untapped pockets were abundant. You know, there is an education element but there's also the element of experience and just getting out there, playing with the variables, turning over rocks, and scratching the surface. I'm not gonna lie, I don't have very much experience and feel like I'm only just getting started. I just have a furious curiosity for what's out there and think curiosity is the best learning tool. Almost finished with a bachelors degree in geology and honestly, there has been a few classes that were helpful, but where I learn the most is mineralogy and geology articles online (written by mineralogists and accomplished prospectors like Maynard Bixby and anything from Mark Jacobson), spending time roaming through vast forests and cliffs in search of crystals, and the three prospectors that I've met in the forest a handful of times in the past year). It's my goal to bring everything I learn to KZbin so others may find harmony with the earth and discover beautiful crystals.✨ Mb, lotta words. 😅 This summer is ours, both of us going to discover a big, consistently productive pocket. I feel it. Your channel is in on point and I love your sun and moonstone prospecting videos! &BC is some next level natural beauty...

[@NWRockExplorer]

@@EverythingIsSpirit Thanks!! I've learned most of what I know the same way. There aren't really any known crystal digging sites around here but by chance I stopped at an old quarry one day and found it was rich with all kinds of minerals and after a few trips I found my first pocket of quartz crystals. There are a few prospectors In the southern parts of BC that I've talked to through Facebook that helped me along the way with identification and what I should keep an eye out for. I've learnt a lot just looking at pictures of their adventures too!! On top of that researching rabbit hole after rabbit hole and exploring anywhere I could. Now after a few years of serious rockhounding I'm still just getting started haha. This year I've got some big adventures planned. I've been researching a ton of areas over the winter, now I just need to get back out exploring again!! Best of luck this year, I look forward to seeing more of your videos!!🙂

[@user-ez7wx6uv8x]

1:17 thats exactly what im doin rn in southern maine

[@jlr3636]

When you say “healed” does that mean the crystal had broken off the matrix but was still in the solution and the crystal continued to form over the broken surface.

[@fpinkston3042]

great

[@brandonskerbetz4574]

Love all of your content! I'm a wildlife biologist and spend a lot of time hiking, which allows me some minor finds. You've been a great source for learning, so thanks!! P.S. - if ever near Saguache, CO I'd love to tag along for an adventure! 🤞🏻

[@EverythingIsSpirit]

Thanks Brandon, I'm thrilled to hear that. Crystal hunting and wildlife photography go so hand in hand bc the best opportunities for both take place off the beaten path. As long as you don't mind me filming the entire time, I'll keep you bookmarked bc I'd love to expand to Saguache area. 😃

[@brandonskerbetz4574]

@@EverythingIsSpirit Very well said! I wouldn't mind that at all 😄 lots of really cool archeological finds out this way also!

[@moon1111rises]

First comment 😇 thanks for sharing your knowledge & passion! 🔥 💎 💫 ⚒️ 🌿

[@EverythingIsSpirit]

😚 You are so welcome! The high definition version is still processing but the video quality should improve within 30min. Thanks for the love, love. ( :

[@keithwood6459]

One billion year old crystals in the Pike's Peak batholith. Hard to beat!

[@EverythingIsSpirit]

That fact never gets old bro; there's something inexplicably magical about touching something three times older than dinosaurs.

[@keithwood6459]

@@EverythingIsSpirit Yeah I worked at the Stillwater mine. 2.7 billion year old rocks. I have beautiful platinum minerals from there, more than half the age of the earth. Hard to believe!

[@JamesHarden-gx7gj]

Thirak watching this video for the second time. Full of knowledge and resource🎉 🌿🌿🧝🌿🌿