Searching Caves For Apache Tears Obsidian Crystal Gemstones - Rockhounding Superior Arizona

[@vabulldogg]

A friend just shared this video with me and now I REALLY want to go see this, thank you for sharing!

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Thank you for watching. Hope you get a chance to check out the location in person.

[@sagitta.ra19h26m]

Beautiful collection...

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Thank you. I appreciate you watching.

[@kenmerriman4112]

so cool I used to live in Superior way back in like 1956 or so Dad was a doctor at the Copper Queen Hospital if i remember correctly we used to find Apache Tears all the time. the cliff in the background was called Apache's Leap man that was a long time ago

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. Apache tears are definitely abundant in the area.

[@naomimakin1908]

New Subscriber, fascinating subject thankyou from chilly UK 🥶

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching and the sub. Mighty chilly here in the AZ desert today as well.

[@CrowSpirit1977]

Really cool place🖒

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching and commenting. 👍

[@kslinaz5668]

This brought back memories; I remember being able to pick from a giant mound right there off the road just as you entered town, (Superior), on the east/right-side..., no hiking. About mid-1950's. Thx.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Interesting. The area is covered with them if you know where to look.

[@JhonDiamond2021]

very great search friend. the discovery of extraordinary rock crystal.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching.

[@Derekmartin20]

I still have a box full from when we lived in Arizona in 1974 to 76. Good times 😌

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching and commenting.

[@graemero5532]

Interesting video and nice dug, cheers

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Thanks for watching. Katana is a great hiking partner.

[@waynereneaujr4978]

Cool vide

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Thank you.

[@shellyscott4822]

I love obsidians energy!!

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Obsidian crystals are considered powerful energy gemstones.

[@graff324]

My father grew up in Superior Arizona. As a child we would go out by Picket Post to look for the tears as well as Indian pottery pieces. We mostly found the clean smooth ones in the creek beds below the caves. According to my father, the Indian jumped off of the high Scarf wall to the east of Superior rather than Picket post. If you know where to look, you can find the grave of Wyatt Earps common law wife, Mattir Beylock out on the Desert between Superior and Picket Post nere the site of the old Town of Penesquitoes (sp)

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Very Interesting. Appreciate the comment.

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

Obsidian is very interesting to me...I like the arrows I found in a location years ago....the knife was beautiful 😍.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. Apparently some obsidian artifacts date back to the Neolithic period.

[@happygolucky1100]

I have faceted a few of those they turn out beautiful.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Interesting, I might try that with a couple of the large ones. Thanks

[@greatnorthernviews3052]

Apache tears are beautiful 😊

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

I agree 👍

[@greatnorthernviews3052]

@@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown I just tumbled a bunch of them they are the transparent ones. They look good 😊

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

@@greatnorthernviews3052 Bet they look great.

[@greatnorthernviews3052]

@@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown thank you ☺️

[@greatnorthernviews3052]

@@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown They are

[@AbbycatComics]

I have an Apache tear from a creekbed over in Globe, also found over 300 carats of Garnet that looks jet black until lit from behind it turns blood red.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Very interesting. I will have to keep an eye out for that.

[@bigkings.8804]

Pretty awesome video. Small lesson on family's grief of their loved ones. I don't doubt the story one bit.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate the comment. Thank you watching.

[@desert-walker]

Cool place I was there a long time ago like 15 years ago before I started making videos very interesting cool place to say the least😊

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. 👍

[@toddrodgers5108]

Great day. Thank you and hug that dog . Blessings

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. Katana gets a lot of attention.🐺

[@joetrueblood7663]

I was their in the 70s, my dad took the family out their and we got a few of them, still have them today👍

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Wow, amazing you still have them.

[@georgetippner7940]

my Dad & I dug some up in 1966, we ended up with a large bag of them, some are nice size, still have the bag of them, great memories

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Amazing you still have them.

[@jessiet3569]

14:36 looks like you are trespassing thru a hole in a barb protected fence.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Did not see anything posted.

[@mooonie6634]

I'm wondering if that was on tribal land or culturally protected.

[@davidmoats625]

@Hadenuf22 Ask who?

[@Proteus41]

It is privately owned. I ventured out there and turned back when I saw the fence

[@sheilam4964]

Fascinating.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. Thanks

[@AlexandersLostTomb]

Picket Post Butte. I used to hike there when I was a kid in the1960s. My grandmother lived in Superior and I played on the ruins many times. Queen Creek runs right in front of one of them.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. The apache tears can be found in queen creek does in the area.

[@AlexandersLostTomb]

@@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown Whats funny is that you can walk across Queen Creek right there and it is perhaps an inch deep. Go about 25 miles downstream and it is a deep canyon.

[@greg6235]

You were standing the middle of Pinal City, once one of the biggest cities in Arizona in the 1880's. The cliff dwellings used to have wood frame windows and doors when lived in by miners. The mill processed the ore from the Silver King Mine about 15 miles NE.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

I was aware that the structure where the drone took off from was part of Pinal City but I did not know miners inhabited the caves.

[@gcr1]

Wasn't Aquachigger just at this same area? Beautiful country nonetheless! Great video and new sub here..

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate the sub. I think Chigg was further NW around the CA AZ borders...

[@priscillaross-fox9407]

I love that you are able to travel to these places. I'm certain as you gain more experience with your camera the videos will become better and better. Wondering what you will do with these??? Are you adding to your collection or do you have a plan for doing something with them? Thank you for a very nice video and I'm sharing it.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. I am definitely looking to improve my cinematography. I will be keeping a couple for my private collection but I will be giving the majority away (perhaps some to KZbin subs).

[@debraparker1550]

Where is this trail to get Apache Tears. I am aware of the perlite mine. Is it before the mine from Santan Valley ? Directions please. Looks so cool if really love to see it in person.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Google Maps Location: goo.gl/maps/8Rww2x3TohCuVAV78

[@ryanhubbard1756]

"Their spider eggs, rrRUUNNN!!!"

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Now that is funny 🕷

[@shaynejenkins446]

How often do you ignore no trespassing signs when you go out?

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

I almost always obey the signs.

[@johnbricker2169]

Everything past the 2 boulders at the top of the trail is private property. Belongs to the mining company that is working all the perlite.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate the info. Unfortunately, I did not see anything posted. Seemed to be a busy area as I did several groups hiking into the area and couple of people on horseback.

[@kimberlymoore28]

The fence and barbed wire weren't a clue? There are signs posted you just didn't look.

[@GoldenBoy-et6of]

Hey John I'd it's a mining claim made after 1984 than people have the right to walk on the claim they just aren't supposed to take minerals. Also claims are required to have claim markers , if it's private property there needs to be private property signs and there's not a single one.

[@GoldenBoy-et6of]

​@@kimberlymoore28there is no signs and no fence and it has to be posted as no trespassing with signs every 100ft or if it's a mining claim made after 1984 than people have full rights to walk through and around it they just don't have mineral rights , I'm a gold miner in southern oregon with my own claims and claiming laws are the same everywhere in the west of America.

[@johnbricker2169]

@GoldenBoy-et6of well, you can contact the Globe District Ranger and you will find out it is private land, not Forest.

[@jairdabrini]

I didn't know helicopters could cry until I saw this video...

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Their oil is a similar color and translucent...

[@josephdaiglejr8509]

Well you got the legend correct but the mountains south and east of Superior are called Apache leap for that reason. Their skeletons were still there in the early 1900's

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching and commenting.

[@josephkerley363]

Just a quick note, the flag on your backpack was upside down. Either that or the camera was off.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. The flag was upside down.

[@sdavis7916]

I noticed that the American flag on your backpack was upside down?

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. Yes, it was upside down.

[@markheld995]

When I was a kid me and my brother went there they charged by the bucket we found a lot of them on the ground rather than trying to pick them out looks like the place is shut down.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Pay by the bucket load. Interesting.

[@Adventuresfromabove]

What drone are you using?

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

DJI Mini 3 Pro

[@johnbricker2169]

😮they are currently mining a different ore vein due to value of color and texure.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Looking at google earth it looks like there is mining operation is to the east.

[@tashacano3324]

One tip for the camera work it doesn't focus as well as our eyes do so try to pan slower. I got motion sickness 😅

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. Agree, my camera work does needs work 👍

[@tashacano3324]

@@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown A gimbal would help some too. 😁

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

@@tashacano3324 Have been looking at them. 👍

[@tashacano3324]

@@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown Good luck with future vids!

[@kirstendiede4797]

Just thought I would let you know that those caves are under claim by Imerys.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Interesting... Will have to do some research. Thanks

[@smsrowe3462]

How nice... are you willing to sell a pound or two of the ones in the matrix??

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching. I do not have that much and most of what I have I will be giving away (would not feel right selling).

[@randylarkin1230]

I know we're you can pick up bu ket loads lots laying in the roads all around Eastern Oregon

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

That is interesting. Must have been a highly volcanic area.

[@phillipjacobson4457]

I am from Oregon. Obsidian at Glass butte between Bend and Burns. ALSO NEWBERRY CRATER. But it's a national park, no picking stuff up.

[@phillipjacobson4457]

So strange to me to see them rounded and smooth, like they were in a river bed, oregon obsidian is jagged and ready to flake into points.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

@@phillipjacobson4457 That is unfortunate you can collect rocks and gemstones for recreational purposes or personal use.

[@shaynejenkins446]

Doesn't stop you lol.@@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown

[@davec.1045]

Misleading title since obsidian has no crystal structure; it's amorphous volcanic glass.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Not trying to mislead anyone as I am not a geologist and only sharing my adventures. Apparently these stones are not actually tears cried by Apaches either 😉

[@johnnynephrite6147]

Whenever someone puts their hand to their chest when they say "Im so in so" I always feel like maybe they aren't too sure about who they are.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching and commenting.

[@susanhp6690]

Thousands of A.Tears around Los Alamos. We got tired of collecting them.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

They do not seem to be very rare.

[@johnbricker2169]

Markers are all vandalized or stolen, just like the fences.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

It appears abandoned and seems get a fair amount of visitor but might be under claim...

[@mastermo5aic]

Why the leash

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

For her safety and the safety of others. 🐺

[@ruthpallais8238]

I always wonder when I see these types of videos why nobody ever warns you of rattlesnakes?

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

It is important to be aware of the wildlife you might encounter when you venture into nature.

[@charlesurrea1451]

Taking tears is taboo.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Something to consider. Appreciate you watching.

[@_TONY_Az]

Wickenburg. In. The river. Bottom. Much nicer ones.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Interesting, appreciate the info.

[@stephenwade8093]

The drone shots at the start were drawn out and boring, a waste of 4 minutes

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching and commenting.

[@moon39466able]

chem trials every where holy shit do you all see them?

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Did not notice them...

[@austin4018]

"search cave for Apache tears" ? I'm half way thru it and decided it should be called "guy walks his dog while guessing about things and filming landscape" then I gave it a thumb down quit watching.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Apparently the dog has a longer attention span than you. You might want to check out KZbin Shorts.

[@austin4018]

@@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown watched half of it and nothing in the title was happening. I watch long video but only it they stay on topic and don't make half the video landscape and dog shots. You just need to relabel this as "me walkin my dog" you have 24k views when someone comments about what they didn't like about your video maybe you should take it as advice instead of trying to making insults.

[@Gator_miller]

20 minutes I will never get back . So boring.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Appreciate you watching.

[@angiemitchell280]

I have several of those I live in Southern Illinois.

[@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown]

Did you find them in IL?

[@angiemitchell280]

@@AdventuresIntoTheUnknown yep I sure did sir.