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I know your not but you sound like a robot lol

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Beautiful finds❤

@@TheCrystalCollectorHi there, great video btw. I just curious that where can i sell these kind of things. I have a massive quartz crystal that weight over 1.2 tons bought from Tucson Gem show several years ago. If you give me some advice, that would be much appreciate. Thank you very much.

You should check it out one day, there open to the public

Did you watch the entire video where I explained exactly why this is? As a Mine owner you can’t let people come in to your location and just dig everything up for nothing. He’s offering a lifetime experience that others mines this size don’t even offer.

I can see why it would seem like paying $1000.00 would seem steep to pay but after collecting minerals for many years the moment of pulling it out of the ground is more valuable than keeping it on display and the mine owner dedicates his life to chasing these pockets and puts you right on a world class pocket. It may seem steep but the amount of money he spends unearthing these is pretty high.

@@TheCrystalCollector when it was Stanley mines (Ocus Stanley) on Fisher Mt.(Mrs Stanley was a Fisher by birth) They charged peanuts and we could keep everything we found. I'm curious about the backhoes you use. Do you work for Avant? Ocus' son told me who was buying up the mines back in 2001. We had hand tools not the equipment I see in these videos. Clusters, tailings etc...were more than abundant for us rockhounds. I also met Ocus when he was still living.

I get that - at first, I recoiled at the idea, but if you read on the website, they *guarantee* you will leave with $1000 in wholesale value in crystals, if you found more than $1000, I'm sure you could buy more, but the retail value is quite a bit higher, so if you're looking to find & flip, you'll be virtually guaranteed to come out ahead. I would even venture a guess they would help you pick the best $1000 bit(s) if that was your desire. I think that's fair. It's not public land. This mine could easily be closed off and run as a completely private enterprise. Worst case scenario, you paid $350 to cover the costs associated with the mine in the time you spent there, and that's only if you refused to take anything with you, but you've had a day of unearthing some of the best stuff ever. I think this is probably the best of both worlds, because you're being given access to something truly rare and special, and you aren't having to own the land, deal with mining regs, OSHA, etc. You just pop in and out, and are virtually guaranteed to be paid for your time.

@@TheCrystalCollector 1000$ isn't taking for nothing.

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I agree- so Walmart gets us to scan our own groceries....next we’ll be paying to stock their shelves. I’m not working my butt off to make the mine owners money...that’s just asinine. I’ll stick to the honest, hard, and exciting work of prospecting my own crystals, even if they aren’t worth thousands.

sounds like you would want to go to Fisher mountain. Then. you can find crazy finds there. For a daily fee. 30 bucks.

its all bullshit and lies.

Yepp. But so many nice ones in such a small area is fantastic. I dig for free, so I never find clusters like this.

@@stephaniemccloud5021 same here, I dig on my property and state, I can see the worth because it’s so easy and convenient. I’d pay some money to have an experience like that.

I think it might have been for the pocket, not the typical $50 per day all you can find fee, but i have no idea.

Sure there are, I’ve made lots of videos on places like you’re talking about. But at the same time I do like to mix it up and show people their options.

Grace, I can feel your pain about not being able to travel to some of these sites due to health, as I suffered a major heart attack 5 weeks ago and had to go through a quintuple bypass. It's going to be a while at least before I'm able to resume things like this. Really frustrating as I live only about 100 miles fron the Mt.Ida area. Best of luck in your recovery, and sorry to hear about the stolen mineral specimens.

i was thinking a few thousand but not 100k

I'm confused by the pricing, honestly. I'm in Arkansas. Where should I go?

@@leafslut Nowhere Avant Mining owns in my opinion if that helps.

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Good one! They'd sell!

I don’t know, but I like the sound of your thinking

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A cluster of that size with zero damage is almost unheard of, and when that happens, the prices get pretty crazy outrageous.

@@TheCrystalCollector we found them often when it was Ocus Stanley and then Stanley mines. We cherished what the earth provided. Kept most. Traded some. Never $. Fisher Mountain is being destroyed in my opinion.

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@@TheCrystalCollector do you have any advice to people to do the things you do?

I was really interested until I heard this.

Imagine not being able to go to world class location like this, it cost lots of money to operate and dig out a whole to open up crystals. There is no greed in what they are doing, they’re just being smart and not giving away their product for free. The point of this video to try to get this across the people like yourself that has no understanding in what’s truly happening.

You have no understanding… there goes a lost subscriber 🥸 ps I’d love to know if you paid or did you get to dig for free and just use your following as a promotion for this place lol and then going to lecture us….

@@TheCrystalCollector - I find your comments condescending and protective. There is no greater danger than that combination be used when SELLING/PROMOTING a product. To say to someone has no understanding is an arrogant statement at best and just rude in any other context. Lapidarists and rock hounds have done 1000s of hours of research and reading as they traverse their geology of interest. I find you sounding like a spoiled child. You got what you want so we are whiners because we don't agree with their sliding fee scale beyond the base fee? You are propagating dishonesty and disinformation that will only create a greater divide between greedy you tubers out to make a buck and sincere rock hounds in search of an experience . I am glad you got yours! You failed miserably at what the video should have covered and only glorified what makes the mine money. Shallow. I do believe, if I have ANY understand, there are more than one crystal mine in Arkansas. Dude is a Dud!

I had no idea until I saw what is "really happening." I've seen crystals as big as you though, and I can tell you they didn't cost that much, even being dug and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain. GTFO with this shit. I'm glad I found out before I gave into their scam, so thanks for that, at least

I was there in 96 too! And many other occasions.

Yes, the pockets are opened up by large machinery, machines that cost half million to purchase. Then you have mining expensive. Besides, the machine cost, claim cost, employee cost, all kinds of money it takes to dig these crystals out at this level

These crystals are found where they grew, the reason they are in dirt is because the dirt is the granite that has decayed into dirt after millions of years. These crystals form within just a few inches or feet from where we are finding them.

The experience of digging up the stuff, certainly only something people with a good amount of money can do. Like paying $800 dollars for a shoe that cost $10 to make