How to find diamonds! Crater of Diamonds State Park.
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- The only public diamond dig site in North America, the Crater of Diamond state park in Arkansas. Join us on our adventure in the start park looking for those elusive diamonds. And along the ay I will teach you all the hows, whys and what-fors of diamond digging.
Please Check out these other amazing RUclipsrs I got to spend time with on this trip:
Frank and Kyndal "That Camping Couple" - @That Camping Couple
Brian "The Crystal Collector" - @The Crystal Collector
Paul "Pioneer Pauly" - @PioneerPauly
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I love how pauly is eating clay and no one is reacting, normal day with pauly haha
Is that something he does for a reason or just as a goof for the audience?
hahahah just getting his breakfast?
@@FinalFront try it and find out :D
@@mordinkainen1844 might be ahhaha
@@FinalFront Both, pauly is pauly ahha
Love this state park. Three decent diamonds and lots of gem quality miscellaneous stones. Not bad for 10 bucks and several fun hours in the outdoors 💎
Did you know that rubies, morganite, sapphires, emeralds, opals, jadeite, beryl, tanzanite and alexandrite are actually way rarer than diamonds
@@williambradley611 Yeah, but its all fun anyways :D
@@williambradley611yup I think everyone knows that. But the diamonds that are high quality and natural are what is rare. There is more and tons of non jeweler quality diamonds found then clear and beautiful diamonds that are worth a lot of money. So actually high end and quality diamonds is what's more rare then anything else.
It's $15 for adults now.
A friend of mine found the diamond known as the esperanza diamond there. I guess it was on the surface less then a 100 yards away from the entance. They were there less then 15 minuts. Talk about luck!!
I used to visit this park a lot when I was younger. Made for great camping too!
In elementary my mother and I found a 10th of a karot diamond imbedded in the mud on our boots. That was our only one but man what a blast.
I went there once back in the summer of 2014. BTW, my maternal grandmother was from Van Buren. She was born there during the Great Depression
Pauly at 5:00 mins in has me cracking up 🤣🤣🤣 What a guy lol
We were there in 2019 during the summer. It was ungodly hot and we didn't find much at the creator of diamonds. However we bought some dirt in bags and took it home and found chocolate diamonds in that.
Dan, you’re such a wonderful, fantastic, lovable, inspiring, kind hearted, adventurous brilliant man!! My buddies & I truly enjoy your channel & all the adventures you take us on!!
Thanks for the surprise Saturday morning premiere Dan !!!.. Nothing makes the morning more enjoyable then chatting with you guys and another great Dan video to start the day !! Spring is coming .. soon well all be out looking for treasure !!! Take Care aLL
Dan im from Berryville Arkansas and my best friend back in my working years found one of the biggest yellow diamonds ever found there 💛 ✨
As an Arkansas native, I went once when I was younger. Before my real love of rocks, minerals and crystals began. All we left with were pretty rocks lol. But I did fit a 6ft pit someone dug and played in it
I have been there several times, going back to about 1993. Never found anything, but had some great family vacations and made memories. It is really nice now, with the water park and concessions. In '93 there was nothing there but the visitor center and two troughs with hand pumps.
You are so knowledgeable and i'm grateful for it. The enthusiasm and love you have for what you do shows everytime. I have lived in Arkansas almost all my life and have never been i think im going to try and take my boys.
Excited to see if Pauly found a diamond!
I have never gone gem hunting, but it looks like so much fun. I may have to try it some day! Thank you for all your content Dan!
I can’t watch any of my favorite channels anymore without seeing the glomming glamping couple. They horn in on every channel on my subscribe list.
I'm reflecting on what a great God we have, that the waste and byproduct of his creation is precious and beautiful. His creation process produces our gold, diamonds, gems and all other natural minerals held dear. The perfection of all that is physical is a witness to His existence, knowledge, wisdom, power and love. I have much respect for those scientists brilliant and passionate enough to realize through their studies that there must be a creator of such perfection. Peace be with you all.
Never saw a diamond hunt video before but it popped up on RUclips and within the first 10 seconds of this video I subbed. Your happy outlook is what I need in life right now. Thanks a lot :)
Everyone loves "Pauly ".... I do!!! He is just Pauly!! Good character!! All you rock hounds are good people!!! That's what I see!!!
This is a dream of mine, I love searching for "treasures" thank you for all the amazing videos
Dan is being super serious and Pauly is chewing dirt XD What a pair XD
This is a nice surprise. It's been over 20 years since we've been at the COD. Spent a fair amount of time up there in the mid-latter '90s when entrance fee was about $3.50, camping was $12 or $13 with hookup -- and before the slide was built. It's pretty neat when watching, knowing exactly where y'all are in the field.
Coming Soon I believe.where can you park your RV there. Do you need a reservation? They do have guides available?
I’ve been there! I was there literally 45 years ago on a family vacation! It was a fun day.
I love watching you on the gold. But watching you play in my backyard is really cool too.
Only from MY experience - I am NOT a doctor. I have 3 ruptured disks in my lower back. That was diagnosed 20 years ago. (I am 65 years old.) It started with 1 herniated disk. But after the 3rd rupture, I started stretching over backward and a little to each side - before and during lifting or bending forward. I seldom have any back pain - only when I forget to stretch. Dan, I enjoy your enthusiasm.
Love the channel! For those of us who are “color blind”, maybe use a pointer to point out the object of interest on the close ups!?🙏👍🏻
Yah I doubt see blue
How about you figure it out? You have a disability not an attention pass..
maybe purchase the glasses that help instead of making someone else do something for you. 🤷
@@edpaslaski9477 maybe mind your own business instead of helping them
@@danialjaved4265 go ahead
Dan Hurd is in the land of my people!
I've been wanting to get there for YEARS!
It is decievingly hard work! Be safe, watch your back. Good lesson in minerals and gemstones.
This place has been on my Bucket List for years. One day maybe..
Hey Dan, I've done the diamond mine f😃or years... Found 57 total including a 6 karat that made world news. Love your channel and love this episode!
What size sifters should I use? I'm going for the first time next month. What brand do you recommend?
So I use a quarter inch fallowed by a sixteenth inch fallowed by a fine window screen type mesh. The park rents the quarter inch and window screen. I would recommend buying the 16th inch screen for better classification. Best of luck to you!
Loved it, can't wait for the next video no matter what it may be
Yum nothing's better than a good bite of diamond gravel
Hope you had fun diamond panning here in my back yard and the locals were southern sweet, like our tea. You should also have a dig right after a rain. Next trip...arrowhead hunt as well.
Pauly is the best goof off all around. Without Pauly there is no fun!
A friend lived close to that state park. She use to bring her children when they were young. She never found a diamond and called it the crater of mud lol lol. The kids had a blast in the mud.
I have been to the Crater of Diamonds and it is a blast. Enjoyed the day even if we didn't find a diamond. Kids loved it. Bring extra clothes for the kids and yourself for the ride home or to hotel.
The close up shot of your first flip, at 14:0. You are talking about the clear quartz in the center, but there is a diamond right beside it, to the left, it's touching it actually. there is another clear one in the background as well. peace
You made me stop doing dishes with one of your "stop, looks!" You were just kidding, but it made me smile.
I've been there a couple times. I love this place. It's a fun place for the family. ❤
Did you find any diamonds? I've always wanted to go, but it's about a 14 hour drive from where I'm at so it's a big trip. I've been wanting to go on some kind of gold panning trip somewhere. Where I live in West Virginia it's all sedimentary rock so there's no placer gold to be found.
@@FinalFront Coker Creek Tenn there's gold there and in NC Georga and other areas out east
One day I was up checking on our cattle on the range and I found what I thought was melted glass about an inch and half long. My foster parent took it away from me and gave it away. I keep thinking I should either borrow a horse or rent one to go back to the area that I found the said melted glass. It was clear, super clear. The thing is where I found it never had any buildings in the area ever.
In arkansas? Invite me ill help ya 😂
Go back! That was so mean of your parent! That could have been your chance of becoming wealthy. God bless you always.
Gave it to who?? Why would they give suspected glass to somebody?
@@Wreckz_Tea because it was heavy glass and in a volcanic valley. It was given to one of our truck driver's. He retired within a year of getting said piece. I listened to the old timers stories about said valley and one has to be physically fit to go hunting in there. And the goats are said to be larger than anywhere else. We didn't go in there without firearms or some sort of protection. Especially if we were going to go deep, grizzlies and wolves are plenty in there. We lost some cattle. By the time I aged out we could drive up and I'd get out and give one of my whistle's and give them a day or two and the cattle would come out to the gate. Through the summer they would only go about half way into the valley. But one day I'll go back in there and see what I can find. Lot's of old lava rock.
@@georgecuyler7563your comments and story is so confusing why would they give a object that looked like a piece of smooth glass to their truck driver. What would he want with it. And maybe it was a diamond worth lots of money who knows but I wouldn't expect to find any diamonds in that area again even if it was a diamond your chances are very slim of finding another diamond. And that is messed up that your foster parents just gave something away that their kid found. I found a nice sized ruby playing in the creek near our house lookingbfor cool rocks and showed my mom and dad and they didn't know if it was a gem or just a really pretty rock and they took it to a jeweler and we was told it was a bright red ruby worth around 1300 Dollars. I still have it to this day in my safe and it's been 21 years since I found it by luck
I am from Arkansas but have never been to Creater of Diamonds state park.I would really like to go through.Arkasas has giant quarts crystals and other gems as well.My favorite is Radial Wavelite.It looks like frozen slices of limes! Look it up,its beautiful 💚
The suspense! Thanks for sharing your adventures. Looking forward to the next one
This place is one of my bucket list items to visit. If and when I do make it out, I hope to find a diamond, even though I know odds are long against me.
Having weird friends is amazing! Pioneer Pauly around 5:15 is my future best buddy!
I would pick a bright sunshiny day cause the eye doesn't lie when u see that beautiful diamond staring at you from that pile of mud n undesirable rubish lol😂❤😊
Woohoo! My First Dan Premeire! So Amped!
Thank you for doing this one! I've been meaning to go there for 14 years and haven't made it yet!
Go! Have fun😘
Pauly is insane.
Hey Dan! I watched two local guys work for about 4 hours and got 8 diamonds, so 1 per 500 people is the tourist rate. Haha.
Please take no offense, in this video, watching you move, you remind me of the "miner 49er" from Scooby Doo. One of my favorite characters and episodes, btw. I can't get enough of your instructional videos. I've been a rock collector for almost 45 years, and you are living my dream. Would love to be a pack mule for one of your BC picture rock adventures some day.
I love this group that he’s with
Another great video Dan and I was having a great time until you told us about the warm Temps and I am stuck in the depths of winter in Canada. Bring back some gems and the warm weather too 👍
Ok I had to pause it I'm laughing so hard at pauly photo bombing your video I'm so glad you left it in🤣🤣🤣🤣now back to the video✌️ Napa California
Fishing comes to mind.... You might catch something but it's fun while you're doing it.
Ty for ur videos 😀 enjoy the humor n professionalism 👍
The stream bar gravels downstream are the place to look if you could legally. I have an old survey that showed some analysis of the streams bed gravels. Pretty interesting.
Definitely smart to let nature and water do your work for you.
We live just up the road, would love to know you was here. Would have came to say hello and meet you.
You guys are having tons of fun in Arkansas, my wife's home state. I've been there a couple of time, no diamond yet..
As a diamond driller, it's cool to know how the diamonds in my bits are sourced.
It started out being a fun visit, especially for the kids. It's over an hour's drive for me and have been 12 times. Yet, the only thing I've ever gotten there was a sunburn, lol!
Pauly just casually eating dirt!!!!
Go after a rain and not after a couple weeks of drought. That's the hardest field I have "tried" to dig. I was raised farming. That field gets like concrete chunks.
You prospecting group are amazing keep up the great content.
5:20 okay buddy in the background ..
I love that place. I have plans to go back for my 3 time.
Guy in the background eating dirt off his shovel at 5:07 hahaha good one.
🤣 Pauly eatin shovel fulls!! He's a monster, because he had a monster. 😂
I've enjoyed everytime I've been there. I dated a girl that worked there for a few months and used to get some breaks on rentals. Lol. Never found a diamond, but always find some interesting minerals. I'll find one this year.
If I ever meet Pauly, I will most likely say what I usually say about unconventional beautiful personalities like his! He is "A Unique Rabbit"!! And how do you catch a unique rabbit??? unique up on it! You are a nice young man, Pauly! :) Keep on being you!
I like your screen Dan, it gives a bit of a cone shape with a deeper pocket.👍
Came here twice as a kid on school field trips when I lived in Dekalb Texas
pauly is my spirit animal! love your videos!
I've been there twice and I plan on going back someday
Awww
I wished I had known y’all were comming to my state , I would’ve loved to join y’all.
Maybe next time!!
Looks like so much fun, and an ice on the lower back.
Oooh, I went on Valentines Day, :D My First Time Ever being there. I probably found a few Diamonds but didn't know what they were or what I was doing and out of the hype of being my first time, threw them out to mock myself :P I only just started following you about a month ago.
I have been meaning to go there for years. Love your channel! I haven’t watched the video yet but I hope you find a diamond!
This was so Informative! Now I feel I can try it! So much fun!
Arkansasan here, been there more time than I feel conformable admitting, but I love the place, I typically go to get really, really nice Quarts points
Never thought to see you here in AR Dan. Nice to see a local video made.
Welcome.
Swing by through Flippin sometime
I had to listen to your geology lesson twice, thanks to dirt eating @PioneerPauly 🤢 🤣 - Thanks, i love you guys!
I have learned so much from him I’m now into rock tumbling because of his shows great just great
Very nice! You’ve got some good help there!
I went there when I was younger and had a blast! Found a diamond, or at least what I’m almost 100% sure was a diamond, but sadly I put it in the paper bags that they had free and it fell out. It was a super small one and wouldn’t have been worth anything, but it was still super sad to lose. Plan on going back either this summer or next with my family
Sunday morning here in Australia 1:15am.🇦🇺😃
Hi Dan. Love your videos in general and been really enjoying your Arkansas adventures. You mentioned you live green and blue gemstones, have you been to the Benitoite mine in Coalinga CA? It’s someplace I’d love to go to personally. Benitoite is a nice blue gemstone found only in this one location in CA in case you are unfamiliar with it.
We’ve been by there twice in the past two years and still haven’t stopped to search. Grrr.
That prospector sign at 0:11 really does look like Dan Hurd!
Was just think of planning a trip here this and part 2 will be a huge help!
Thanks, Pauly, I can't breathe🤣
You tryna make my heart catch up to yours.....you can't dukes of hazard us like that lol great video Dan love the content
what a great place i did not have any luck my first trip i will be back. awesome content please keep em coming dan
Dan is like a magnet always on the money
_We don't have fist sized diamonds here, they just don't exist._
The largest white diamond ever discovered in the US was found right there at Crater of Diamonds Arkansas. (I know it wasn't "fist sized", but still a big diamond.)
I've read that Arkansas diamonds are harder than diamonds from other sources and can only be successfully cut by using diamond powder originating from other Arkansas diamonds. I don't know if that's true or not but I thought it was interesting.
its not true
I got to go dig the mine there about 12 years ago. Miss digging.
Nice seeing all the BC boys there also Frank & Pocahontas
Dan, I really enjoy watching you all work outside, digging in the dirt, excited for your next exposure…while I sit at my work desk hammering out reports and presentations…ugh, I chose the wrong profession
When you do those close-ups and talk about all the different things you're finding some arrows to point to them for those of us still learning would be awesome especially if you're saying things like color aren't coming through
Ahh! The to be continued! Pray for our boy the pioneer!
As an African cichlid aquarium enthusiastic. You have a lot of beautiful throwaway stuff there. They should see possibly see about bagging up the stuff that doesn't have the diamonds in it it's selling it to the fish store for the gravel and substrate. Aquatic Design here in Plano off of Highway 75 would be a good place to start.