Montana Diamonds & Phantom Smokies! Hunting, Prepping, & Faceting Gorgeous SMOKY QUARTZ Crystals!!
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- In this one, we move away from the river and head up to the beautiful Judith Mountains to search for Smoky Quartz crystals! Judith Peak is home to a very unique form of smoky quartz, double terminated squat crystals that form inside of porphyry referred to as "Montana Diamonds"! These crystals are very similar to Herkimers in structer, though they do not quite have the same ice grade quality as herkimers do. That being said, they are an immensely unique crystal specimen that is only found in the tiny radius around Judith Peak! As if those weren't good enough, however, we headed over to a different site nearby to search for beautiful pure black smoky quartz crystals! By splitting veins of quartz you can expose beautiful micro specimens of amazing smoky quartz crystal spires and crystal clusters! To add to the awesome, every one of those crystals happen to be phantom quartz! It was a blast of a day! After getting back to the shop, we go ahead and facet a Montana diamond and use the air scribe to excavate each specimen! I hope you all enjoyed this one and definitely look forward to more crystal hunts coming soon!
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Yayyyyyyy! Rock Nerd Time! 🤓🤓🤓♥️
Those mountains are absolutely breathtaking. I’ve never seen mountains or the ocean except on television or online.
Someday I will be blessed to see them in person. I’m sure i will cry like a big ole baby! 🤓♥️
Hiya Theo, hey I have made pendants out of the long little clear quartz crystals, the smokey quartz would be very beautiful. Love the Montana diamond's, so beautiful. Awesome video.
I hope you and yours have, a awesome blessed day.
Cya!
😺🐟 hiya
* WOW * Love those & appreciate your panning of the Views. I miss that.. Interesting to see the Black Crystal turn into a Champagne faceted finished gem. Love them.. Can't wait to see you find BIG Crystals.. Lots of Luck...
Wow Theo, what beautiful finds! My favorite was the one made up of all tiny crystals! Good to see Alexis and the pups!
Sparkle, sparkle everywhere. I loved Alexa's crystal manufacturing pouch. She just kept pulling them out. I liked them prepped and not prepped. What was the host rock? Woof to the doggies. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒ 🤠
Those would be so cool to go hunting
Great finds!
Such beauty in that state! It definitely lives up to it's nickname! Gems just out for anyone to find. Incredible!
What an awesome hunt! Those Montana diamonds are cool! Really neat small smokey quarts crystals! That faceted one is very nice! And again I am very jealous that you can just drive somewhere near you and get all this great stuff!😥 I hope you do a video where you prep a whole piece to show what is actually hidden inside! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful Stones!!👍👍
Beautiful specimens! I gotta agree, that chunk o’ smoke is my fav too. Hope the weather cooperates with you for Monday! Good luck in Bear canyon!
Those are awesome. I love quartz!💛💛🪨🪨
Those are so beautiful. I love them. Those would be so cool to go hunt for. I would never be able to climb like you do to find them. The dogs are nice to see out having fun too. I love when they get in your space. Too funny. I will have to find their Instagram page now.
@Angie Ball no im not in Montana. I'm in Michigan. Thank you for the tip. I plan to go to Montana someday and do some rockhounding and crystal hunting.
The flat face & phantom crystals are my favorite.
So amazing. Smokey quarts is a powerful healer. Heading to Arkansas on Wednesday to do some quarts digging myself! Rock on!
Montana is so beautiful 😍. Great finds. Nice to see the pack together.
Lot of work for one video, it is very much appreciated.
Thnx 4 anotha gr8 video. My fave is the cluster of sparkly crystals. Keep rockin
Wow I love sparkly
Love all the quartz crystals. The Montana diamonds look like dirty versions of the Herkimer diamonds here in New York that I've been hunting yearly in the lower Adirondack mts. Love all the rocks you have in Montana though. So much color and beauty in the geology everywhere you go in your videos.
Tiny thin smokies would make great pendents.
Amazing how much beauty the humble quartz shows us. BTW, digging the bluesy background tunes 🎶
Beautiful place.
Beautiful finds.
Outstanding fun!
Man do I want to visit Montana. Beautiful 😍
Hey Dante, don't lick rocks. I was liking the feldspar crystals on the prepped pieces almost as much as the quartz. Cubic crystals are like seashells. You should like them.
I would think a small sand blaster would clan those crystals 🔮 right up to a lovely finish. Dimond pads on your wheel would allow you to polish up your crystals 🔮 to a shimmering finish.
What a neat hunt! Looking forward to learning along with you and MRM!
There are 3 others Besides Theo and MRM... Agate Angler, Katydid Rocks, and 406 Findings! The best 5 Montana rockhound channels!
My favorites were the first large crystal specimen on matrix & the one around 21:43 😁
This video was very enjoyable. Thanks
Great looking smoky quarts! I like that rock that was full of smoky quartz it reminded me of a castle. I just wanted to say I hope everyone is safe with that river ripping everything up.
Wow those are some little beauties! Smoky quartz is my favorite and those pieces with a million little perfectly terminated phantom smoky points are so beyond amazing! The montana diamonds were amazing and i cant believe how many you and alexis found just loose! Thank you for sharing your little expedition with us. Man, montana has just every cool mineral in abundance! And i cant thank Alexis enough for making the dog pack their own instagram page! So perfect! You guys are awesome! Thanks for sharing your lives with us!
Man I really miss Montana
Holy smokies! I think the tiny phantoms are so great, especially that glob. Beautiful shots of the Montana mountains.
Beautiful
Dam so nice!!!
Great video as usual Theo.
Thanks so much!😄
There must've been crystals just everywhere there! But great finds!
It's an awesome place buddy.... Top of the Judith mountains..
Absolutely! Those hills are crazy rich with them😁
Nice work
I love those li'l smokies. The scenery is stunning!
Awesome video Theo! Amazing finds out there, incredible. Great video! Thanks for sharing your passion and hard work!
Beautiful thank you for sharing 😊💙
Loving those crystals
Start lookin our finds....lol
I’d love to see one of the little chubby doubles spiffed up. Are they as pretty as the smokies? Great hunt. Thanks.
You went back, cool.... Material across the road too... Seen some geologists over there and they showed us their findings...
Did you guys hit the ghost town on the bottom area?
Yessir! We make a point to go up there at least once a year😄 ill probably be h3aded back in a month or so once the mountains are thawed more. Definitely a lot of amazing geology in those mountains and id love to do some more exploring! We have not actually ever been down to the ghost town but we always want to; we'll have to head down and check it out when we go back next😄
You need to get up to my place near the Rader Creek area.
Oh man! I would jump on that opportunity!😄 the smokies in the boulder batholith are just incredible; love that area! We are actually going to be in that area sunday through tuesday(headed to crystal park monday and then well be doing some exploring the other two days, but were staying in butte), hows the snow up there yet?
@@TheoKellison From the pictures I just received from a neighbor, ( I'm currently in Southern California. ) All the snow in the area is gone. Rader Creek Road should be fine all the way to the dig site. Wish I could be there to show you 'round. Good Luck if you get up there.
Hi Theo have you ever found any sasqautch footprints or signs while out out rock hounding .also I love your videos .
Indah sekali .. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Hi Theo, love all your videos and the rocks you collect
But have a question have you ever Rock hounded the Big Horn River? If you have what have you found there?
will you do some more stone carving with rotary tools
Definitely will be doing more carving soon!😄
You can talk to the crystal collector, how to find the crystals 😉
The music you played at the end of the video was great who is it Theo
kecil kecil sekali om batunya
Batu itu kalo masih ada dasarnya tanah/ batuan lembut, Kristalnya bisa tumbuh besar jika diberi air seringkali ga perlu direndam diair, cobalah dia itu hidup lho bro
hey Theo how can I send u some of my awesome finds heaps of water lined agates I live right near a old volcano so I find almost everything 😊
I was wondering about the run off, how long does all that last.
I'm from New Zealand.
Its gonna be a looong one this year😅 usually its about 4-6 weeks, but the mountains are still absurdly packed so it may nit be done until the end of july at this rate🤦🏻
@@TheoKellison well there will be lots of treasure waiting when it all recceds.
Really enjoy your videos.
Where were you finding the smoky crystals
Could you tell me what the tool is you use to scribe the Montana diamonds? Where to get it?
What kinda drill and bits are you using on the rock? Got some rocks with crystals I wanna do the same on
Theo is there anyway that I could buy a few of them off of you
What tool did you use to prep the diamonds?
I was using my chicago pneumatic air scribe👍 its actually for fossil prepping but it works great on a whole slew of other stuff too😄
Thank you. I have been trying to use Dremel(👎)
I'll have to get it.
Actually us locals call them Judith diamonds
Is this the place that crystals identify as Diamonds