Sunday, September 3, 2017

Quartz Crystals on Fisher Mountain (Mt. Ida, Arkansas)

On this episode of Rockhounding USA, Chase and I travel to Mt. Ida, known as "The Quartz Crystal Capital of the World." We visit Judy's Crystals N Things before heading up Fisher Mountain to the Stanley Mine.We find hundreds of "float" crystals and track down the quartz veins that criss-cross the Ouachita Mountain range.


Here is a small collection of photos of our treasures:











Map to Judy's Crystals:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Judy's+Crystals+N+Things/@34.53085,-93.537886,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x87089268399c9d97?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj9NCKgIrWAhWG24MKHbBWBZsQ_BIIeTAK