The Crystal Collector & Rockhound Rob Geode Hunting Jacobs Mine
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- OPEN TO PUBLIC LOCATION!!!
This is a location called Jacobs Mine. Its actually in Hamilton, Illinois.
It is open to the public year round. To get into the mine is free, you are charged by the bucket, right now $20 each bucket you take out. There is no limit, and sometimes you can find alot! The geodes have quartz crystals and other amazing minerals lining the walls of the geodes! If you would like to visit this mine, call the owner at
This is right up my alley. Very earthy, relaxing and fun. I have a nice Spirit Quartz geode. The set is mounted on my Living room wall
Thanks for watching and the support 🙌🙏
Let's get a rock tumbling video soon lol! Just kidding bud, love your enthusiasm and the beautiful gems you pull!
May do one soon! Need to do all sort of videos to keep it interesting!
Just saw the shots of my brother Bill from Walcott and his find at Jacob's Mine. He brought a lot of the smaller ones he found up to my place yesterday and we had a ball cracking geodes and finding "hidden treasures" together!! Who knows, he may have turned me into a Crystal Collector (my wife's already hooked)!!
Great shooting and for me, very educational. I'll be sharing this with my grand-kids!
This is great! Yes, Bill was getting some nice looking geodes out of the wall! So great you tuned in, check it out one day, you will enjoy digging! 🙌💎💎💎
Geez Louise! They’re just fallin outta that wall! Looks like such a good time dude! And the blue chalcedony one!?! Beeeeeeeeautiful brother!
Thank you for the video! Love em all!
Oh and great info from rockhounding Rob!
Yes it’s such a great place! Easy digging mostly! Whaaaaat!
The geodes and nodules from there are so beautiful. Our youngest son has a shop where he sells crystals and I love to go and just look at them. We have a few he has given me as gifts but the huge amethyst geodes are my favourites but our cottage is too small sadly. We go when its quiet as my wheelchair takes up a lot of room in his small shop, he set it out so I and others can see everything. You have made it easier for me to be able to talk about his stock which has really pleased him. Thank you for teaching me as I'm never to old to learn. Bless you my friend Mary-Ellen UK
Oh how great is that! Your son has a shop!! Maybe we will all meet one day!
Hey Rob and Brian. I was up there last month and had Rob as a guide. Found some great geodes.
Yay that’s awesome! Rob is a great guy and guide!!
Let me know where these quirries exist and the prise of crystel.
Geodes remind me of a Christmas surprise..you are excited just dreaming of what could be inside.. lol. Those were beautiful! love your videos!
🙌 thanks
Your happiness when the geodes pop is magical dude.
Thank you for coming to this area and it was nice speaking with you in my Verizon store! Ty again for the Amethyst!!!
Yes great meeting you bro! Thanks for the info on things you shared 🙌💎
Boy am i ready to make a trip!!! Look out here i come!!! Awesome finds. Your Chip he is Dale!!!lol 😄😄
Beautiful geods, and this video is so fun
Reminds me of a vacation I took 20 years ago to Keokuck. Such a fun vacation. Nice video.
Beautiful....would love to see a video of when they are getting all cleaned up👍
The cutter dude really knows how to find the top and bottom! Almost all the geodes he cracked, each side looked different.
Those are very sparkly and very decorative in your home. Mother Earth has some really Beauty to offer, everywhere we look. I have a small set, where the edges are kind of thick, but with perfect Quartz crystals inside, the edges were, polished to a beautiful shine and display a beautiful pattern. I love them💜💜
Loved this video, Amazing💜🙏💜
Oh yea! It’s so interesting how the quartz formed inside the geodes! And fun fun cracking them open to see what’s inside!
I believe it would be fun😃 like opening a present at Christmas, Luv it💜
Another fabulous video....just bummed that Chase and I weren't there with you on that day.
Love your videos. When you got to the honey hole, I thought it was like going to the hen house picking eggs out of the nests! Such fun!
I would love to be able to do this. I can't get to these places to dig because I'm disabled. I have collected rocks minerals and gemstones for years but mostly by buying them from other people. I love watching your videos it almost as good as being there. I live in Kentucky and I would love to hunt geodes but I have never been that lucky to get one
I have a geode from the original Mt St Helen eruption in 1980. a friend of mines uncle was a ranger there and gave it to him as a present and i traded a pencil box and some crayons for it =) . I was 8 years old and still have it to this day..
Oh wow! That’s piece you have sounds awesome!!
@@TheCrystalCollector wish I could post a picture, it's a very nice smokey quartz. Very small crystal structure. It looks like glitter inside
Another great video!! Thanks for giving me something good to watch after a long, stressful day 😊
How cool UA-cam is for people to contact you and have you check out their mine claims and help them get discovered with their mineral finds!
Yes it’s becoming a great thing and resource!
Amazing!!! I get so happy when there’s a new video on your channel! Great job, you’re one of my fav youtubers!!! Keep up the good work ✨
Thanks so much for watching 😊🙌🙏💎💎💎
I highly suggest coming down to Perryville, Kentucky, and digging around the sides of the creek in baril park. Ive dug some amazing ones out, and i could give a link to some photos if youd like. Its a 50/50 chance they will be hollow or solid, but its all worth it for those hollow ones. Ive found one at least the size of my head! Its amazing geode country down here.
Sounds like I need to check that out! Will do!! Thanks for the info, maybe we can go out digging !
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I cant wait to go!!
Although I prefer the cylindical quartz crystals estedically, I've got to go there and dig some day soon with Rob as my guide also.
Chicago Papi hey this is rob my youtube channel is digger dawgs aventures.come on down .i also come to Chicago alot and sell geodes.kane co.fleamarket.Rosemont & Greayslake
Love your videos. The geodes I got from Oregon were more like those nodules, solid and usually had some sort of design in the middle. I have one that looks like a butterfly, and one that looks like a shrimp. Those have to be cut open with a diamond dust saw blade and usually takes 24 hours or more to open. Keep up the good work. Oh yeah, when digging with a pitch fork, reminded me of digging for potatoes. Thanks, from an arm chair miner.
What beautiful finds. 💜 whaaat?! 😘😉
Been to Jacobs Geode Mine numerous times, love the times there, nice variety of minerals found at this location, wish i was there now :)
Wow, those are some nice ones! That one with the blue barite crystal, what is that velvety dark rust red next to the barite? Love that! How cool, and $20 per bucket is pretty darned reasonable.
Dawn Hernandez the rust coloured mineral is dolomite.most geodes with barite crystals have dolomite.and are coveted.by local colectors..i am aka Rockhound Rob
The rust stuff is decaying dolomite Crystals ,. Yes the rates are great for collecting! It’s a great spot! 🙌💎
Amazing adventure some sweet sweet geodes and so plentiful thanks and will spread the word
Im disabled and was wondering i this place is easily accessible? I walk with a cane. I want to be able to walk up to it, sit on the ground and just dig. Im a crystal freak and have tons of them but my dream is to actually dig them myself. This place looks great and I live in Missouri so its not too far from me.
I'm sure you can. I think you just pull in and get put and start looking and go wherever you can. I've got bad back problems but I'm gonna take my grandkids there at some point and I will crawl around if I have too hahhahaa. I'm in oklahoma
Im gonna look into it more. Its on my bucket list! I will dig crystals before I leave this earth :)
I just got back from there. You drive right up to the site (If you have a truck or if the creek is low, otherwise it's a short minute walk), and the layer that the geodes are in is in the lower level (no climbing needed). I would say go for it! They have tools that you can use and everything.
Enchanted Reveries yes this site is easy to access you can drive right up to it.my site the borrow pit is verry easy to acces ad well.
Yes you should be able to get to a lot of sections here. You can pull right up to the pit in car. Some hills but many areas you can go right up to easily💎🙌
I love Geodes I live down near the St.Louis area and found a crazy interesting geode this year , when I cracked it open it looked like it was full of coal with crystals grown all around it
I would have given you my wife, to follow you on your ..... sorry .... my life, I meant my life to follow you on all your crystal rides, Sir.
Sorry for my little pun, but you give me so much happiness with your YT videos that I'm highly inspired, You see ;-)
I have 5 precious crystals in my home in Norway, wife and 4 children. And it's just my wife who does not share the same joy of collecting / prospecting gems / crystals .... However, she likes to look at The Crystal Collector videos, so I think we have something going on ;-)
Oh sweet! Hopefully we can do some digging together one if these days!
Whaaaaaaat!!
- Now I get something wet in my eyes. First because you answer me so nicely. Secondly, because I can not travel by plane before 3 to 4 months, "said the doctor." She found out that I have a "rabbit heart". It's too fast and irregular too often. " (I'm only 48.)
- However, now, my wife and I have planned a US trip next summer ;-)
Thank You Of All My Hart, for all the good work you do for us who are watching. You are the one and only Crystal Collector!!!
looks like a great spot, I will be going there soon. thanks for sharing
DUDE! I have a question,What do you do after digging those awesome stuff?
Do you sell them,or do you just keep them as a collection?
I sell and give them away, have an eBay page at ultra rocks, you can Google search for it
My friend phoned me after I left his house to notify me that this video was uploaded. Instantly went to search it up.
That’s so awesome 👏🙌💎🙌⚒👋👋👋
I didn’t know you could find marcasite in them. A lot of my vintage jewelry is marcasite. Love it! One of my favorites was the one early in the video - you kind of always get 2 for 1 - but it was blue on one side and white/clear on the other. So two different ones.. Are they very difficult to dig or would it be easier if it was a little muddy? I love them! Nice video.
They are pretty simple today, you just have to dig into the wall at the right level. I don’t think it would matter if it was wet or not at this location, it’s a fun place for sure!
@@TheCrystalCollector I sent you in Messenger a 10 second skateboard video I think you’ll like. Thanks for the info! 💛
I picked up something similar from Morocco with purple crystals
Looks like fun....Would love to go hunting for crystals someday
Looks like a genie was living in there. What do you know I'm subscribing today.
Go to Lebanon Junction,Ky..Lots of nice geodes..a few are even a light lavender..And some are geodized fossils..I want to help other fellow rockhounds..
Oh heads up always ask for permission..Ya could get shot at otherwise.. ;)
I go to Perryville and junction! Its amazing geodes you find down here. Ive only ever found quartz. I hope to find something else soon
Sweeet! Will have to try that spot!!
Today i got a beautiful amethyst crystal i ordered from ebay. Thank you Bryan. It was fast Amerika-Slovakia only 13days :).
Oh great! Wanted to send a bonus but he global shipping company that ships out will not do that.. sometimes I can sneak one in though, but they usually repack and only send what’s been sold! So glad it made it there fast💎🙌🙏🙌
Wow! What a fun hunt with amazing geodes! Great video!
Beautiful Geodes! How awesome!
Thanks so much for doing these videos!!! I love them!!!
Another awesome dig Bryan! Get da itch each time I watch a new vid of yours. They are always good.
I received that beautiful double terminated crystal last Friday that I bought from u off of ebay ... thank u for the bonuses ... very kind of u!
Would u happen to know of any mines in Florida or Georgia that u could suggest that I can drive to and dig?
I’ll be doing some public digs near Okeechobee Florida around first of December! Be sure to check those out, watch my Facebook page or Instagram for more info when it’s upcoming.
And thanks for the purchase! It all helps me out greatly to keep making videos and things 🙌💎
Thank you ... will be keeping an eye out for this.
:-)
I love geodes
Quartz is my favourite
Lol im taking my kids here soon. So thank you for the video
Realmente te envidio y te felicito por tener entre tus manos esas obras de arte de la naturaleza. Te mando un saludo y un abrazo desde Córdoba argentina
لاكن مابل اليد حيله
That looks like fun!! Happy hunting!!!☠👻👽👾🤖👿😈☠👻👽👾🤖👿😈
This is a nice business. The investment in equipment, heavy machinery, storage, and transportation as well as mining permits are worth it for professional prospectors. Average folks can not afford such large scale investments. Still worth the entertainment value is there with the quirky commentary from the show host. Cheers~
I think the geodes are beautiful and it kinda reminds me of an Easter egg hunt but I love the larger crystals, they are my favorite. Sparkle, Sparkle!! 😜
Hello crystal collector ! I love geodes !
They kinda look like potatoes 😹🙌🏼
Sarah Vella thats y my favorite digging tool is a potato fork.
Thats what i thought, when they were digging so many in the soft dirt!
Lol yes crystal potatoes 🥔💎🤣
Yeah they do but eat these potatoes you’ll break your teeth
His intro is the best gem...
Is cracking geodes the preferred way of opening them? Here in the northwest we have "thunder eggs" that are mostly solid, and they are cut open and polished.
I find them geodes in southern Illinois all the time, we even find rose quartz geodes sometimes
was in Hamilton Illinois on Sept 28th through 30th 2018 at a privite undclosed spot got around 200 pounds of geodes didn't cost but my labor lol
Oh nice!’ Sounds like your spot is amazing! Congratulations 🙌
thanks for the great video , I am going to the mine soon.
Planning my camping trips as I type.
The campground Wildcat Springs in Hamilton is really nice. We stayed there twice this summer🤩... the locals we met were novice to expert geode hunters. All were willing to tell us what they knew.
Another awesome vid keep them coming! 😎
Daniel, thanks for the info. Can you fine crystals there?
I'm over by Kansas City in Mo and I find them all time!!
what a magical video, I loved it 😀💎💎💎
just opened one of my geodes today, lots of cool formations inside. i need to go hunting for more
Awesome video! 👍💛💛💛✌
"Right off the rip!!!" This video was facet-nating!! ❤
Hey crystal collector your vids are awesome!
As far as Enchanted Reveries question, if the creek is not high, generally able to drive across a small creek along the last short lag to the mine, if you drive all the way into the mine, you would not have much problem, getting around.
It's like digging for expensive potatoes...nice.
Looks like a lot of fun!
Whaaaaaaat 🙌💎🙏👋👋👋👋
Shine that nodule up and use them as bookends
i love your content! i must admit having a hard time with audio though. Thank you for sharing
I go creekin all the time in Missouri and i am pleased to say i have found many. I tell my sister at least i dont gotta go spend lots of money on these cuz i find them at the creek for free lol
Cool video! Very informative
I have one with smokey quartz inside...😳
I’ve been watching your vids for a few months now, I love crystals, but I live in Minnesota which isn’t near too many sites. I’d love to go digging one day. I also have a question, what is the most money you have ever gotten from a crystal/gem?
Oh yah I was thinking about meeting up at emerald hollow mine because I know a Lot of people there and u can dig up emeralds and crystals
I'd call the "solids" bookends!!!
Have you been to the gem show in Arizona? If not, I suggest that you go there that's time I went I saw some good pieces of bismuth at it
Yes, go every year to Tucson show! Actually doing a bismuth video very soon!
Really that is so cool I will definitely see that video
❤ AWESOME dig guys!
I'm totally going to visit
cool stuff! what was the soil they where in?
The solid as juts the decayed rock layer that decayed onto dirt over time
Mike R shale warsaw layer
Hoovin Shmoovin
how much crystal do you have now
As a kid we would fine them in a ditch next to the house this was in Tennessee
Hello from texas.I am so jelous.
Whaaaaaaaatt!
Have you seen the new raspberry sphalerite from Missouri?
It's beautiful isn't it?? I have a specimen growing on a big marcasite covered druzy quartz. It's unbelievable.
I picked up a small one at a recent St. Louis show. I was amazed.
@@patmccrady6063 so did I! We're you at the crystal fest last weekend?
@@jalynisawesome i was for a bit
Yes I have, that’s stuff is awesome!!’
My daughter amara love's geodes.
And her nickname is Rockhound.
6 th.
Also would love to do that
Nice videos
Big rock very light
I think I'd be in paradise there
Oh wow, it's free? Well I wonder how often people go visit at that mine.
Yes, there is no cost to get in, but $20 per bucket on your finds, a very good deal!
Fred Flintstones bowling balls .lol
I have a bucket of thunder eggs from central Oregon. I still haven’t opened them yet though.
We would call them dinosaur eggs
At 7:16 that little crystal looks like Falkor the luck dragon from the Never Ending Story.
Hey... what does the ancient air trapped inside smell like?
Zac Alleywalker Lowing i have never smelled anything from the air.but sometimes the water that is in them smells like sulfer.
Gorgeous!!!!
Very interesting Love it 😍