How to find diamonds! Crater of Diamonds State Park.

[@thefrenchgunsmith6488]

I love how pauly is eating clay and no one is reacting, normal day with pauly haha

[@FinalFront]

Is that something he does for a reason or just as a goof for the audience?

[@mordinkainen1844]

hahahah just getting his breakfast?

[@bring6not12]

@@FinalFront try it and find out :D

[@thefrenchgunsmith6488]

@@mordinkainen1844 might be ahhaha

[@thefrenchgunsmith6488]

@@FinalFront Both, pauly is pauly ahha

[@desertshadow6098]

Love this state park. Three decent diamonds and lots of gem quality miscellaneous stones. Not bad for 10 bucks and several fun hours in the outdoors 💎

[@williambradley611]

Did you know that rubies, morganite, sapphires, emeralds, opals, jadeite, beryl, tanzanite and alexandrite are actually way rarer than diamonds

[@Alb410]

@@williambradley611 Yeah, but its all fun anyways :D

[@youknoweverything7643]

​@@williambradley611yup I think everyone knows that. But the diamonds that are high quality and natural are what is rare. There is more and tons of non jeweler quality diamonds found then clear and beautiful diamonds that are worth a lot of money. So actually high end and quality diamonds is what's more rare then anything else.

[@cjpham6614]

It's $15 for adults now.

[@dereklamphere2774]

A friend of mine found the diamond known as the esperanza diamond there. I guess it was on the surface less then a 100 yards away from the entance. They were there less then 15 minuts. Talk about luck!!

[@wil950]

Dan im from Berryville Arkansas and my best friend back in my working years found one of the biggest yellow diamonds ever found there 💛 ✨

[@PenumbralBehemoth]

I used to visit this park a lot when I was younger. Made for great camping too! In elementary my mother and I found a 10th of a karot diamond imbedded in the mud on our boots. That was our only one but man what a blast.

[@corvusheller328]

I went there once back in the summer of 2014. BTW, my maternal grandmother was from Van Buren. She was born there during the Great Depression

[@4thgenfarmer371]

We were there in 2019 during the summer. It was ungodly hot and we didn't find much at the creator of diamonds. However we bought some dirt in bags and took it home and found chocolate diamonds in that.

[@michaelaldredge-greenwell1692]

Dan, you’re such a wonderful, fantastic, lovable, inspiring, kind hearted, adventurous brilliant man!! My buddies & I truly enjoy your channel & all the adventures you take us on!!

[@CanadianGoldMining]

Thanks for the surprise Saturday morning premiere Dan !!!.. Nothing makes the morning more enjoyable then chatting with you guys and another great Dan video to start the day !! Spring is coming .. soon well all be out looking for treasure !!! Take Care aLL

[@holleylafary6594]

Hope you had fun diamond panning here in my back yard and the locals were southern sweet, like our tea. You should also have a dig right after a rain. Next trip...arrowhead hunt as well.

[@Moved2Rumble]

This place has been on my Bucket List for years. One day maybe..

[@pennyberg2204]

Excited to see if Pauly found a diamond!

[@timwilliams990]

I have been there several times, going back to about 1993. Never found anything, but had some great family vacations and made memories. It is really nice now, with the water park and concessions. In '93 there was nothing there but the visitor center and two troughs with hand pumps.

[@motherhubbard3428]

I can’t watch any of my favorite channels anymore without seeing the glomming glamping couple. They horn in on every channel on my subscribe list.

[@alexdacat]

I have never gone gem hunting, but it looks like so much fun. I may have to try it some day! Thank you for all your content Dan!

[@slmchnce4lve]

You are so knowledgeable and i'm grateful for it. The enthusiasm and love you have for what you do shows everytime. I have lived in Arkansas almost all my life and have never been i think im going to try and take my boys.

[@jcouch1993]

As an Arkansas native, I went once when I was younger. Before my real love of rocks, minerals and crystals began. All we left with were pretty rocks lol. But I did fit a 6ft pit someone dug and played in it

[@benjamincobb1024]

Loved it, can't wait for the next video no matter what it may be

[@markmckeown5855]

Everyone loves "Pauly ".... I do!!! He is just Pauly!! Good character!! All you rock hounds are good people!!! That's what I see!!!

[@Everything.On.Wheels519]

Pauly at 5:00 mins in has me cracking up 🤣🤣🤣 What a guy lol

[@sharonmckenzie3594]

This is a dream of mine, I love searching for "treasures" thank you for all the amazing videos

[@susankaempfer8427]

I’ve been there! I was there literally 45 years ago on a family vacation! It was a fun day.

[@madelinerose5326]

It is decievingly hard work! Be safe, watch your back. Good lesson in minerals and gemstones.

[@johndavid1611]

Dan Hurd is in the land of my people!

[@chadf1034]

I love watching you on the gold. But watching you play in my backyard is really cool too.

[@blackopal3138]

The close up shot of your first flip, at 14:0. You are talking about the clear quartz in the center, but there is a diamond right beside it, to the left, it's touching it actually. there is another clear one in the background as well. peace

[@Derekdichiara1]

Never saw a diamond hunt video before but it popped up on KZbin and within the first 10 seconds of this video I subbed. Your happy outlook is what I need in life right now. Thanks a lot :)

[@dennisreed7181]

Only from MY experience - I am NOT a doctor. I have 3 ruptured disks in my lower back. That was diagnosed 20 years ago. (I am 65 years old.) It started with 1 herniated disk. But after the 3rd rupture, I started stretching over backward and a little to each side - before and during lifting or bending forward. I seldom have any back pain - only when I forget to stretch. Dan, I enjoy your enthusiasm.

[@WORKERBEEFORCNY]

I've been wanting to get there for YEARS!

[@upperpeninsulabeautiful]

Hey Dan, I've done the diamond mine f😃or years... Found 57 total including a 6 karat that made world news. Love your channel and love this episode!

[@jonibarnett2138]

What size sifters should I use? I'm going for the first time next month. What brand do you recommend?

[@upperpeninsulabeautiful]

So I use a quarter inch fallowed by a sixteenth inch fallowed by a fine window screen type mesh. The park rents the quarter inch and window screen. I would recommend buying the 16th inch screen for better classification. Best of luck to you!

[@JabeGabe]

Yum nothing's better than a good bite of diamond gravel

[@michaelpass2176]

Pauly is the best goof off all around. Without Pauly there is no fun!

[@Unbridled13]

I have been to the Crater of Diamonds and it is a blast. Enjoyed the day even if we didn't find a diamond. Kids loved it. Bring extra clothes for the kids and yourself for the ride home or to hotel.

[@denisemessier2815]

A friend lived close to that state park. She use to bring her children when they were young. She never found a diamond and called it the crater of mud lol lol. The kids had a blast in the mud.

[@PowRKord]

This is a nice surprise. It's been over 20 years since we've been at the COD. Spent a fair amount of time up there in the mid-latter '90s when entrance fee was about $3.50, camping was $12 or $13 with hookup -- and before the slide was built. It's pretty neat when watching, knowing exactly where y'all are in the field.

[@alvenatgolden1781]

Coming Soon I believe.where can you park your RV there. Do you need a reservation? They do have guides available?

[@caseysconcepts2012]

Never thought to see you here in AR Dan. Nice to see a local video made. Welcome. Swing by through Flippin sometime

[@sierrah4299]

You made me stop doing dishes with one of your "stop, looks!" You were just kidding, but it made me smile.

[@georgecuyler7563]

One day I was up checking on our cattle on the range and I found what I thought was melted glass about an inch and half long. My foster parent took it away from me and gave it away. I keep thinking I should either borrow a horse or rent one to go back to the area that I found the said melted glass. It was clear, super clear. The thing is where I found it never had any buildings in the area ever.

[@TylerSmith_WX]

In arkansas? Invite me ill help ya 😂

[@sedland7955]

Go back! That was so mean of your parent! That could have been your chance of becoming wealthy. God bless you always.

[@Wreckz_Tea]

Gave it to who?? Why would they give suspected glass to somebody?

[@georgecuyler7563]

@@Wreckz_Tea because it was heavy glass and in a volcanic valley. It was given to one of our truck driver's. He retired within a year of getting said piece. I listened to the old timers stories about said valley and one has to be physically fit to go hunting in there. And the goats are said to be larger than anywhere else. We didn't go in there without firearms or some sort of protection. Especially if we were going to go deep, grizzlies and wolves are plenty in there. We lost some cattle. By the time I aged out we could drive up and I'd get out and give one of my whistle's and give them a day or two and the cattle would come out to the gate. Through the summer they would only go about half way into the valley. But one day I'll go back in there and see what I can find. Lot's of old lava rock.

[@youknoweverything7643]

​@@georgecuyler7563your comments and story is so confusing why would they give a object that looked like a piece of smooth glass to their truck driver. What would he want with it. And maybe it was a diamond worth lots of money who knows but I wouldn't expect to find any diamonds in that area again even if it was a diamond your chances are very slim of finding another diamond. And that is messed up that your foster parents just gave something away that their kid found. I found a nice sized ruby playing in the creek near our house lookingbfor cool rocks and showed my mom and dad and they didn't know if it was a gem or just a really pretty rock and they took it to a jeweler and we was told it was a bright red ruby worth around 1300 Dollars. I still have it to this day in my safe and it's been 21 years since I found it by luck

[@steven_ewen]

The suspense! Thanks for sharing your adventures. Looking forward to the next one

[@erroneous6947]

The stream bar gravels downstream are the place to look if you could legally. I have an old survey that showed some analysis of the streams bed gravels. Pretty interesting.

[@erroneous6947]

Definitely smart to let nature and water do your work for you.

[@Deadpool_collector247]

Dan is being super serious and Pauly is chewing dirt XD What a pair XD

[@alanmccrum4646]

Please take no offense, in this video, watching you move, you remind me of the "miner 49er" from Scooby Doo. One of my favorite characters and episodes, btw. I can't get enough of your instructional videos. I've been a rock collector for almost 45 years, and you are living my dream. Would love to be a pack mule for one of your BC picture rock adventures some day.

[@andywellborn]

You guys are having tons of fun in Arkansas, my wife's home state. I've been there a couple of time, no diamond yet..

[@radialwavellite5310]

I am from Arkansas but have never been to Creater of Diamonds state park.I would really like to go through.Arkasas has giant quarts crystals and other gems as well.My favorite is Radial Wavelite.It looks like frozen slices of limes! Look it up,its beautiful 💚

[@connormclernon26]

This place is one of my bucket list items to visit. If and when I do make it out, I hope to find a diamond, even though I know odds are long against me.

[@CabinontheHill]

We live just up the road, would love to know you was here. Would have came to say hello and meet you.

[@marisagomez7292]

I've been there a couple times. I love this place. It's a fun place for the family. ❤

[@FinalFront]

Did you find any diamonds? I've always wanted to go, but it's about a 14 hour drive from where I'm at so it's a big trip. I've been wanting to go on some kind of gold panning trip somewhere. Where I live in West Virginia it's all sedimentary rock so there's no placer gold to be found.

[@bobinmissouri]

@@FinalFront Coker Creek Tenn there's gold there and in NC Georga and other areas out east

[@delizard523]

what a great place i did not have any luck my first trip i will be back. awesome content please keep em coming dan

[@AuthorJenniferNAdams]

It started out being a fun visit, especially for the kids. It's over an hour's drive for me and have been 12 times. Yet, the only thing I've ever gotten there was a sunburn, lol!

[@tonyennis1787]

Pauly is insane.

[@bongjamesbong3245]

Ty for ur videos 😀 enjoy the humor n professionalism 👍

[@homesteaderwant2b]

I love that place. I have plans to go back for my 3 time.

[@feraldrop1634]

Oooh, I went on Valentines Day, :D My First Time Ever being there. I probably found a few Diamonds but didn't know what they were or what I was doing and out of the hype of being my first time, threw them out to mock myself :P I only just started following you about a month ago.

[@mrpuggerson]

I love this group that he’s with

[@Phoenix_Enterprises]

I got to go dig the mine there about 12 years ago. Miss digging.

[@cottonhiker]

Love the channel! For those of us who are “color blind”, maybe use a pointer to point out the object of interest on the close ups!?🙏👍🏻

[@fishingfun5071]

Yah I doubt see blue

[@Ironman829]

How about you figure it out? You have a disability not an attention pass..

[@edpaslaski9477]

maybe purchase the glasses that help instead of making someone else do something for you. 🤷

[@danialjaved4265]

@@edpaslaski9477 maybe mind your own business instead of helping them

[@edpaslaski9477]

@@danialjaved4265 go ahead

[@shaunhall6834]

Fishing comes to mind.... You might catch something but it's fun while you're doing it.

[@chriswertz1438]

Looks like so much fun, and an ice on the lower back.

[@goldnoob]

Thank you for doing this one! I've been meaning to go there for 14 years and haven't made it yet!

[@mariacarter6954]

Go! Have fun😘

[@scotttrujillo363]

Awww I wished I had known y’all were comming to my state , I would’ve loved to join y’all. Maybe next time!!

[@TacticalPeace]

Was just think of planning a trip here this and part 2 will be a huge help!

[@dakotahicks6725]

That's awesome I use to live not far from there it's an awesome place our school took use there on a field trip once

[@MetalDetectingDonna]

This was so Informative! Now I feel I can try it! So much fun!

[@seanparchim9165]

Ok I had to pause it I'm laughing so hard at pauly photo bombing your video I'm so glad you left it in🤣🤣🤣🤣now back to the video✌️ Napa California

[@disturbedK0]

5:20 okay buddy in the background ..

[@jellyfish1433]

I went there when I was younger and had a blast! Found a diamond, or at least what I’m almost 100% sure was a diamond, but sadly I put it in the paper bags that they had free and it fell out. It was a super small one and wouldn’t have been worth anything, but it was still super sad to lose. Plan on going back either this summer or next with my family

[@TheHarknessMonster]

Hi Dan. Love your videos in general and been really enjoying your Arkansas adventures. You mentioned you live green and blue gemstones, have you been to the Benitoite mine in Coalinga CA? It’s someplace I’d love to go to personally. Benitoite is a nice blue gemstone found only in this one location in CA in case you are unfamiliar with it.

[@mccarleychristoph24]

Duuuuuuude!!! When are you coming back to AR! I would have loved to been able to shake your hand. Love the channel man, keep it uuuuupppp

[@stivjoz476]

Been there done that! Fun week in the mud Found jasper & agates no ice...

[@robmurphy806]

As a diamond driller, it's cool to know how the diamonds in my bits are sourced.

[@charlesjames4947]

pauly is my spirit animal! love your videos!

[@mattgreen2559]

I've enjoyed everytime I've been there. I dated a girl that worked there for a few months and used to get some breaks on rentals. Lol. Never found a diamond, but always find some interesting minerals. I'll find one this year.

[@EddieRobertsRiverGypsy]

Go after a rain and not after a couple weeks of drought. That's the hardest field I have "tried" to dig. I was raised farming. That field gets like concrete chunks.

[@jtswhitewater4940]

Another great video Dan and I was having a great time until you told us about the warm Temps and I am stuck in the depths of winter in Canada. Bring back some gems and the warm weather too 👍

[@ChrisWilson999]

Hey Dan! I watched two local guys work for about 4 hours and got 8 diamonds, so 1 per 500 people is the tourist rate. Haha.

[@johnnycrafton2106]

Wish I knew when yall were here in my home state of Arkansas would have came down to visit. I hope you did some Arkansas crystal mining also.

[@Rlsmith2002]

The round green/aluminum sieves they are using to flip the gems over with, what brand are those? I've been looking for something like that.

[@chrisfrench2130]

You prospecting group are amazing keep up the great content.

[@ssteele1812]

Not sure how I missed this video when it was uploaded. My wife and I were just there a few days ago and just did some surface kicking. We ended up in the exact same place. We didn't find any diamonds, it had been almost a month since the last plow. I took home a couple nice jaspers and even an agate that looks to have some purple in it. I'll cut and polish them later.

[@realbigdeals2048]

I have been meaning to go there for years. Love your channel! I haven’t watched the video yet but I hope you find a diamond!

[@andrewbarker4719]

Arkansasan here, been there more time than I feel conformable admitting, but I love the place, I typically go to get really, really nice Quarts points

[@cuzick42]

I've been there twice and I plan on going back someday

[@TheArkansasDiamondMiner]

Very nice! You’ve got some good help there!

[@DavidJones-vh5py]

Came here twice as a kid on school field trips when I lived in Dekalb Texas

[@KH-sv3bk]

I'm reflecting on what a great God we have, that the waste and byproduct of his creation is precious and beautiful. His creation process produces our gold, diamonds, gems and all other natural minerals held dear. The perfection of all that is physical is a witness to His existence, knowledge, wisdom, power and love. I have much respect for those scientists brilliant and passionate enough to realize through their studies that there must be a creator of such perfection. Peace be with you all.

[@Martins_Guidelife]

hehe pretty funny when the red tophat dude ate gravel at 5:10 :D

[@arsonarson8364]

Guy in the background eating dirt off his shovel at 5:07 hahaha good one.

[@pappaspoko]

Having weird friends is amazing! Pioneer Pauly around 5:15 is my future best buddy!

[@jareddietrich2345]

Dan, I really enjoy watching you all work outside, digging in the dirt, excited for your next exposure…while I sit at my work desk hammering out reports and presentations…ugh, I chose the wrong profession

[@antnewbon2673]

Not fair Dan, not fair........ love it cya tomorrow

[@caren7441]

Where too next. You should try and meet up with @Jeff Williams. That would be a cool video. This was great to watch

[@partypetedjkaraoketravelco834]

As an African cichlid aquarium enthusiastic. You have a lot of beautiful throwaway stuff there. They should see possibly see about bagging up the stuff that doesn't have the diamonds in it it's selling it to the fish store for the gravel and substrate. Aquatic Design here in Plano off of Highway 75 would be a good place to start.

[@gemstonebrad4481]

Dan what kind of camera you have , i love how well it focuses in on things?

[@patrickmay4489]

The old timers from the crater all used rounded bottom serucas like your homemade one about 20 to 15 years ago they just gradually switched to flat bottom. That’s pretty much the normal now, but I bet many more CT’s were found with the rounded bottom.

[@dr.fruityboots4706]

these gem hunting vids are my favorite though i love the gold videos too. always learn something new on yhis channel.

[@testickles8834]

been there several times. It's a beautiful drive

[@chrisbush714]

When you were there did you prefer your saruka that you made from 5 gallon buckets in your classes or the commercial saruka that you borrowed?

[@francesco3207]

Was here Saturday driving from Dallas to Memphis. stopped for 3 hours. Didn't bother looking for diamonds. I walked the entire park and filled up my pockets with amethyst, quartz and gorgeous jasper's with stripes

[@joeinthekitchen6783]

Hello. Do they supply the the material you are using or do you bring your own?

[@stevenlaxton3618]

You tryna make my heart catch up to yours.....you can't dukes of hazard us like that lol great video Dan love the content

[@cleggsadventures]

I like your screen Dan, it gives a bit of a cone shape with a deeper pocket.👍