Large Clusters being dug by Bobby Fecho at Bear Mountain Crystal Mine in Mount Ida, Arkansas

Eliot didn't stay together bless that's a plate hahahahaha I told chance moving yeah holy cow I might be bigger than you think I might go further back up into that rock that's facing off clean the rock off on one side of the pocket so you can get them out without hurting them this little thin plates like this right here is called backing when you get a bunch of them in there it's always on the outside or the inside of the pocket will make just show where your pocket is leaving you tooth and you can see that's a cluster right there but that cluster is holding that cluster in the way I've got to do you got to move all this to free up this and sometimes that's easier said than done you've been doing this for a long time a little pee that holds it all together that'll free up everything this is all full of jewelry and that's just cold fast reflection gotta have that don't want one of these little rocks on the wall coming down and banging you in the shin edges and my shins are like saw blades and having little chipped a bone knocked off of them Rock see what we did we took the tie out of it that's in the bottom of it now you can see these big old plates the big points on them it's hard to see them with the clay on it but I've done that enough just like an imagine where it is this is a big plate that's a good one right there here you can see the points all over little rosettes all over it so that's definitely gonna be a nice one too that one don't go in the bucket

Channel: KingOfQuartz

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Keywords: arkansas, quartz, crystal, mining, mine, cluster, point, mount, ida, rockhound, mineral

Id: gupfQE0KGfI

Length: 5min 38sec (338 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 17 2010