Trilobite Fossil Hunting Extravaganza!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Thanks for watching y’all! This is a cool location if you can get out that way! Huge crystal dig event coming up, join “The Crystal Clubhouse” on Facebook for more info and giveaways!!

[@bandsupmell]

Take me on some of your private digs in South Carolina please I live near diamond hill mine

[@markzinzilieta8927]

Fun video looking forward to the next one. Stay safe and have fun!

[@DigDigDig]

Purple Heart Mine? 💜

[@wooper_woops8871]

I loved it but as of now I need to finish college but I love to collect crystals and today I purchased my first fossil

[@wooper_woops8871]

Do you know of any good fossil cites located in Newyork city?

[@kennethnew3075]

Hey!! I just bought my little 5 year old girl, who just LOVES fossils, a trilobite at my local rock shop after she saw it on Nature Cat. Can't wait toI show this. Shea going to freak. So cool thanks so much. Be safe out there

[@TheCrystalCollector]

That’s so cool! I’m sure she loves it

[@haileycohen8180]

Ooh I'm never this early to a vid!! I was at the Gem Fair in Costa Mesa, CA this weekend and all I could say was "Man the Crystal Collector should be here!!" Anyway love your vids stay groovy friend!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Oh yeah I would love to be back in California! Especially at a gem show!

[@aleta5873]

Fabulous fossils and they seem so delicate and perfect...ancient and amazing ! ...Thanks for the ride Bryan, Dylan and sweet Matrix..xoxo !

[@dmozonnersepicoutdooradven3524]

We are from W Nevada. I have driven through Delta a dozen times over the years, (Usually at night, coming back from road trips) but we have never stopped. Great video.

[@michellebrewer9373]

That was a great video! Loved how you just popped out those trilobites:) and Matrix, he's so funny:)

[@lann2bme7516]

Hi!! 🎼💃❤🌞 yay!! More reggae! Wooohooo!! Rain and cool trilobytes! So cool, great times!! Oh man! Love it!! Thank you!! Have a wonderful labor day weekend!!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yes I love the reggae too! I need to add a little bit more every now and then! Thanks for hanging out!

[@lann2bme7516]

@@TheCrystalCollector !!! ❤🙌🐦🌞🌵🙏🌻😄 I always enjoy your channel!! You bring a smile to my face, great giggles, as well as you warm my heart with your genuine good guy self!! Plus I love rocks, sticks, pinecones....and more!! 😄 HurrAH!! Have a blessed weekend! Hi! Matrix!!❤

[@williamj.rieger8965]

Fun spot, trilobites are better in matrix rather than popped out . Eve if you keep the negative and put them back. Fun video. Bill

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yes I agree, really like them in the matrix!

[@mezellenjohnson2753]

What delicate fossils though I went down to the South of England and found two fossils of shells which I gave to our sons many years ago, I had such fun finding them and Terry found a very large one that we wouldn't take from its matrix in case we damaged it and left for someone else, the whole thing was too heavy to take back up to the car. I couldn't help but think that if I could I would go there and spend time enjoying myself just looking and it I were younger I would lol. I love it when Matrix speaks, that is so clever and is hilarious thank you for making my day lol. The rain helps a great deal when you are looking for surface finds though that was some downpour judging by the way the water was streaming down. Matrix certainly enjoyed racing around and getting rid of so.e pent up energy. Thank you for ta⁹the time to make your videos Bryan, they are so good for those of us who cannot enjoy the freedom to take part in hunting for the earth's beauties like many do. Good luck and happy fossicking my friends God bless you all love and hugs to you, Matrix and Dylan Mary-Ellen UK

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Oh wow, that reminds me of a story where I had a group of people come to the mine one day that I was caretaker of years ago. I left early and came back the next day and apparently they found a piece and they couldn’t carry it out of the pit, it took me all day to roll it up the hill and get it, 😆

[@heathercarter9741]

I live in southwestern Ohio and we have loads of trilobites here. We find them in creek beds near our home when we go rock collecting. You found some absolutely perfect specimens. Super nice.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Oh wow, I had no idea they were trilobites in so many locations! That’s too cool!

[@TheRandomAdventurerVeteran]

I found small Trilobites in central Wisconsin a couple months ago. We also have em here in Minnesota, but they're much more rare.

[@johntorrington2672]

Which area and location in Ohio?

[@MaxwellPlayz.]

Did bro just say “Ohio” 💀🤨

[@skyeloveamen]

Those are some great finds!! I think its super cool how they just pop out

[@prospectorpaul1]

Nice finds Brian, the folks at Topaz mountain talked highly of you. Next year on my way through I will hit the U dig fossil place and Topaz Mountain again. Thanks for taking us along

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yeah they are awesome people too! Always had fun times at the Topaz spot! Thanks for hanging out!

[@jamescobb9459]

Fantastic Boys!! Y'all go to the coolest places... sure wish it wasn't 1400 miles away. Great video guys!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

We try to hit some good spots! What area are you from? We’re gonna be doing some digging on the East Coast soon

[@jamescobb9459]

@@TheCrystalCollector Around St. Louis Mo. Right in the dang middle. Haa!

[@susansmith6680]

Trilobites are so cool. It was nice after the rain. Matrix loved it.

[@tonywild1963]

Wow, those trilobites are amazing. Would be so cool to find them. Thank you Bryan for sharing

[@OH.A.M.]

I watched an hour long advertisement video not so long ago, is the best I can do to support this awesome channel.

[@dontworry4945]

My hour long ads are Medicare robits I wish i got ads like this

[@zakkmon123]

The experience and spirit of exploration! ☀️🇺🇸! Thanks for sharing.

[@silverback5033]

Hi Bryan, great video on obtains these fascinating fossils. As a young kid (over 50yrs ago) I had one of these which was about 6” long or more, unfortunately it along with some other pieces are gone. I would love to find a place down here in Australia to find another one. A story for another day. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin

[@pandemicgrower4212]

Wife put me into food coma, woke up at 1am to a new crystal collector. Hmm not a bad thing 🍻. Man what a spot! Very nice finds!!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

😂✨💎⚒✨💎⚒💎

[@fartbox5089]

gollie i love your videos! thanks for posting

[@MeargleSchmeargle]

That seems like a neat place to check out. I've gone Cambrian Trilobite splitting before, but here in the east coast because here in Georgia we have a really good Cambrian formation called the Conasauga formation, and it's been described as "the Wheeler or Burgess Shale of the east coast". I would recommend being a tad bit more careful with your collecting method IMHO, as a couple of really good specimens were dinged up from some rough handling.

[@komangayu1646]

Love that cracking sound while digging. It's like ASMR

[@danielnevins6915]

My buddy and I just got back from a trip to Penn Dixie fossil park in New York looking for trilobites and it's cool to see the difference between those trilobites and the one's you're finding in Utah. All the ones you're finding seem so flattened compared to the ones we found. I definitely want to go to Utah and look for some of these!

[@cathycasuccio3227]

Hey! i live right near that site. Grew up there and hunted the pit a lot - before the historical site took it over. Didn’t used to have paved trails, fences, or buildings and they knocked down the few hills that were in the pit. Ours are definitely more thick than the Utah ones and not brittle. Did you get to hunt the shale stream area, too? Glad you got to see the Penn Dixie site.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Oh wow, that sounds like a cool place! I’m actually in New York as of today!

[@MeargleSchmeargle]

Also a huge difference in terms of age. The fossils here are about 510 million years in age from the middle Cambrian, whereas Penn Dixie's sediments are roughly 380 million years old from the Devonian period, a difference of 130 million years.

[@Itsmeangie13]

Great fossils you found! Love the looks matrix gives you! Sweet dog!

[@zenertia]

Such a coincidence- - I was out trying to find fossils tonight! I've been trying to figure out what to look for, and this helped me a lot! Awesome stuff, dude!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

That’s awesome, glad you found us!

[@MeargleSchmeargle]

A lot of finding fossils is knowing where/what to look for. I 100% recommend checking scientific literature on the geology of an area to get an idea of what fossil-bearing formations are around and where you might find them exposed. Then you could use Google Maps as a way of filling in the blanks (and of course, it's a way of saving your favorite hunting spots so you can come back to them).

[@Hexoari]

15 minutes into the post! Also maybe one day I can come here! That would be awsome!

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Great fossils you found!! Nice video my friend!!

[@jenyce]

So fun! My favorite part was when Matrix told you big deal 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheCrystalCollector]

😂🐶😂✨💎

[@asholesmith2014]

Love this intro 🖤 want to hunt for these guys here in Oklahoma!!

[@dustinfindsrocks]

🌧🌦🌤💎👀💪 Awesome dude!!! The universe wanted you to find lots of trilobites 👍🏼

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yeah it was pretty wild after the rain we actually found a good many!!!

[@KRUDDYMUNGUS]

Hahahaha Matrix is all hyper after the storm. Hahahaha

[@linkscrazylife]

I love all your videos especially when you do the digging it's so much more fun!!🌝🌝🌝

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Thanks so much for watching! Will have a fun Colorado video up Soon

[@dennistwitchell2550]

I have hunted this site many times. Really like it.have taken one of my trilobites and made a cast of it in gold.

[@Theshizlenizle]

No way! Nice finds ✌️here on the Isle of Wight we don’t find many crystals but loads of fossils but iv never found any trilobites

[@vickimeyer8610]

My absolute favorite fossil!

[@RGYT86]

I've been loving all the Utah vids lately.

[@valiantwarrior4517]

I remember that rainstorm. Almost always end up with flooding when it rains that much.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yea it was a good one!

[@valiantwarrior4517]

I’m pretty new to your channel, but I’ve really enjoyed watching your videos. I’ve learned a lot! I’m hoping to plan a fun family trip to Topaz Mountain or maybe even the U-Dig Fossils place. Or maybe the dirty gypsum diamond place at the Great Salt Lake. So many cool places I never knew about, and I’ve lived in Utah my whole life!

[@Peace_Maker]

your videos will echo through the walls of eternity

[@TheCrystalCollector]

✨💎🙌

[@hestheMaster]

Paleozoic adventure in western Utah. There was a deep ocean here way back then.

[@terrafirma5327]

I went here as a student back when I was in the geology club. I got bored of fossils eventually and wandered off. Ended up finding pyrite crystals to the surprise of my professor who was with us. I saw limestone/shale (trace sulfur) and iron staining so I figured at the time the right elements were around. Now I know its because there was hydrothermal fluids that deposited them but my newbie geologist logic was sort of on point with the elements.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Oh well, that’s really cool! I seen traces of pyrite in a couple of pieces that I had cracked open, that’s neat you found some actual cubes!

[@lechatvenere]

It's one of my dream to find some trilobite, in France it's more complicated than the USA ^^ Nice findings and great video as always ! :)

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yes I’m finding out we have several locations in the USA to take them, good luck on your search!

[@jimlancaster6120]

That was some cool finds.

[@tinakaranson6964]

Awesome video! I ordered a Trilobite😁

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Thanks 🙏

[@Stefan-fv7yj]

man, you my friend are living the life!

[@sticustom]

Love trilobites. Don’t have any but I still love them.

[@Ginger_Sweet]

On a field trip in grade 4 we went to the beach to search for fossils we used regular rocks to break open all the shale rocks we could find and we got to keep everything we found I went home with about 60 fossils which I still have in my closet today

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Oh that’s so cool, what a awesome trip!

[@Ginger_Sweet]

@@TheCrystalCollector our teacher also got us all ice cream on the boardwalk before we got in the bus home .

[@ruby2678]

Let’s go man love the vids keep it up

[@ivermectin3191]

I have a trilobite I found in Canada ... BUT , the trilobite itself has turned to crystal inside the rock over millennia ... HAVE YOU FOUND ONE LIKE THIS?

[@annettmccullough4193]

Did you move from Oklahoma to Wilmington? Give Matrix a hug and kiss for me. Love the little guy. He's so precious.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

I grew up near Greenville South Carolina, then moved to Wilmington, started surfing around 19 years old and couldn’t get enough of it so I had to just moved to the beach!

[@annettmccullough4193]

@@TheCrystalCollector oh cool. For some reason I thought you lived in Oklahoma. Have fun surfing.

[@SugihStone]

Beautiful my friend....

[@marychace1011]

There's a place near me called "The Rock Shop" and I could spend hours in there. Getting a wonderful collection. I found a brecciated rock on a walk about a month ago. Believe it may be jasper. Very, very heavy for its size.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Anything called the Rock Shop sounds like an awesome place for me, LOL, that’s cool !

[@btdarterschannel112]

Beautiful trilobites! You've been lied to, though. They're a few thousand years old at best. Creation is not a myth! 😃🦀🐚+👍

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Hey who knows what happened on this earth over the years, I’m open. Yeah they are really beautiful either way, thanks for hanging out and watching!

[@davidcarey8611]

I love the 🐕 Dog

[@seanwarren9357]

It is my understanding that they're eyes were rocks. Weird, huh. The evolution of eyes is a pretty amazing thing.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yeah the evolution of an eye is pretty crazy, I remember looking into that several years back

[@seanwarren9357]

@@TheCrystalCollector I *see* what you did there. LOL 🐒

[@sterling8298]

You should come to austin texas to dig for both crystals and great fossils. I find them all the time here.😃⚒️💎 There's no place in austin to pay to dig so you'll just have to dig get your own free will.

[@icatz]

Fossils are my favorite. These are great. Is this slate or shale? Thanks, Bryan. ❤️

[@TheCrystalCollector]

I believe this would be shale stone

[@lindawolffkashmir2768]

Yes, This is shale.

[@TheArcadeLink]

I hope some of the places for the Crystal Clubhouse will be a bit closer to TN! I'd really like to participate in a dig.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yes I will be back in that area soon! Will be doing lots of digs in the Carolinas this winter

[@summer.shortcake]

Do you have any suggestions for places to mine near in South Carolina and Georgia?

[@TheCrystalCollector]

There’s not too many open sites, but diamond Hill mine is a really great one and Jackson’s crossroads when it opens only a few times per year. I’ve done a couple of videos on other locations in the area, check out my older videos from a couple of years ago

[@gracemanker1991]

I live in Wilmington,NC too. Do you have a shop in Wilmington?

[@TheCrystalCollector]

I’m actually about to open up a shop somewhere in Wilmington, maybe for the first year it will be near my home in Castle Hayne which is just north of there.

[@Soapartisan875]

Sea armadillos 😂 it’s amazing you are holding a piece of earth’s first creatures it blows my mind ..

[@sandrajones1609]

Absolutely aWeSoMe ❣️

[@cawschwarzraben359]

Eye protection, yo!

[@zakeemsworld6619]

Just wondering how much is it to do this?

[@walidtrako315]

nice work

[@christianhunter473]

Marry Christmas Buddy happy Holiday

[@diannameyers7160]

Holy freakin catfish. I lived just off Gordon rd and Market st. So awesome to have lived that close and never known!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Oh wow, I know exactly where that intersection is! I live just north in Castle Hayne, but moved there years ago for the surfing !

[@diannameyers7160]

@@TheCrystalCollector Small world..lol Gorgeous area though, and great people. :)

[@DigDigDig]

I want those ones in your hand...last time I hadda buy em on eBay from someone else 🤔

[@TheCrystalCollector]

I am in New York now! Come on up I’ve got some trilobites for you!

[@israelbean1350]

I live in NC and I have three in my collection

[@kanethechokeslam470]

I want to go someday!

[@tomsmith2215]

you guys rip waves too or what? year around rhode island surfer here. stormchaser style, yewwwwww!!!!!!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yes that was my first passion, all through my 20s I surfed nonstop! Still enjoy it so I carry my boards around especially when I go out west to California was hoping to hit some surf this fall but didn’t get back in time for the East Coast

[@tomsmith2215]

@@TheCrystalCollector so rad dude. if you know, you know!!!

[@dashing105]

have you ever been to ladonia fossil park

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Not yet🙌

[@dashing105]

@@TheCrystalCollector and family member found a mosasaurus tooth right next to me

[@dashing105]

also here a little tip for finding the fossils is look for more black pieces found a lot of finger joints and small shells

[@dillonsrecreations8725]

I found one of those fossilized in quartz it was only half in tact but it is one of the rare ones. I keep it in my safe.

[@byronleatham1183]

Did you find my buddy Bevin are you guys out there working in the trilobite

[@ШриОмХари]

i like this super ancient animal!! good!!

[@robduzza5159]

they look like little scarabs from the mummey

[@Nxactly]

Nice!!

[@HernanToroA]

Trilobite breaking and cracking extravaganza.😮‍💨

[@struggle375]

lmfao

[@elbadrkh7888]

What kind of rocks are these?

[@mujtabaahmed-6193]

I'm from Iraq, I follow the KZbin channel. We have beautiful stones, including precious ones. May I know how to contact you? ❤✋

[@pandemicgrower4212]

You can probably get ahold of him through his ebay store or fb page buddy.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

I’m not interested in purchasing any of your stones unfortunately but I would love to come dig them out one day and make some video! I could help promote your sales if I ever work to do something like that

[@timebong8366]

Ide like to smoke a bowl with u...whhhhhhaaaaaaaatttttttt😂

[@sandramartin5155]

Fun would love this a shake splitting

[@beff1015]

wish i could do this. The place i live had like no fossils :(

[@DebVit]

“body parts” 😂😂😂

[@TheCrystalCollector]

😂

[@JSees]

Is Dylan Brian's son?

[@TheCrystalCollector]

He is my nephew actually

[@florasastrealfaro90]

Que maravilaaa

[@florasastrealfaro90]

Genial!!

[@florasastrealfaro90]

JAJAJA el perro que graciosooo

[@florasastrealfaro90]

The dog is fantastic!!!!!😍😍😍😂😂

[@newyorkrockheads8995]

Not big into fossils although I do like the tribs

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Hey bro, coming into New York today!

[@newyorkrockheads8995]

@@TheCrystalCollector Yeah??? Where?

[@danielfmyers]

4:14 🐶😂😂😂

[@patmccrady6063]

We can find pieces of tiny trilobites in Missouri

[@Mothy_the_Furry]

Hello in Sweden we have bigger trilobites😅😅

[@RG-rl6hj]

Matrix saying big deal hahaha

[@TheCrystalCollector]

🐶😂

[@lann2bme7516]

Too bad I don't do facebook!

[@GuyBelievesInWorldPeace]

Please don’t get flooded lol be safe

[@VincentsVideoVisions]

4:13 nightmare fuel

[@connexionInternet]

Great video!

[@MarkOBrienmarkspage1]

Maybe 5,550 years old but that's about it!

[@benitagrattan193]

💗 trilobites....good video

[@garylinnane917]

The first hammer is called a brick hammer

[@unknownadventures369]

Awesome

[@andromeda9948]

Bos, boleh minta koleksi fosilnya 3 atau 4 biji, karena di Indonesia tidak ada fosil seperti itu, .....Thank You..

[@SnarkNSass]

Cool