These are the highlights of a quartz pocket that I found. Everyone asks how I found this exact spot. It's no secret, I will tell you... From visiting parks and walking in the woods a lot I found signs of quartz crystals in multiple locations where they had been mined in the past, where they were scattered around on developed land (thus the dirt was all blended up), or where someone told me they had found them before. I mapped out each point and drew a line between them which revealed where a major mineral vein travels in almost a straight line through Gwinnett County. (There are other locations way off the line too btw). Even with this map it was still very difficult and searching is a slow process, land is vast, plus this is a very populated county so there are developments all over. Id spend many hours contemplating how the land had moved over the years, either naturally or by humans, to try to understand where the source of the crystals is. Eventually I found the vein exposed at the earth's surface and full of crystals waiting to be extracted. Except the vein itself is full of quartzite rock which contained scattered pockets of fully terminated crystals. Thankfully the landowner was very cool and allowed me to dig there but he had the property for sale so I knew my time was potentially limited. Then it happened... Crystal after crystal started coming out of the hole. I finally struck a huge pocket after searching for for years! It was such a thrill. I named it the Willpower Pocket. I spent as much time there as the owner would allow and I mined out a few thousand crystals. In the videos I'm only showing the best ones.
The cleaning process took a lot of work too, but you can see I got them pretty clean. The black you see on some of the crystals is Manganese. If it looked cool I didn't remove it but it was very patchy on most of them so I removed it with muratic acid.
I hope you enjoy this video. I feel like it's a little piece of mineral history. Hopefully won't be my last mark in the world of minerals!
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