Latest Finds
This
website is dedicated to the memory of Brent Hughes who past away
October 16th 2008. He will be greatly missed. He was a Great Friend and
Arrowhead Crystal Mine was one of his favorite places. Words
cannot describe how great a person he was. It won't be the same
without him.
For the last year or so each day seems better than the one
before. We have been consistently hitting big pockets on a regular basis.
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Late October 2004
A few weeks after the World
Championships we hit pay-dirt (literally) with a pocket of fantastic
clusters. This pocket produced about 16 buckets AAA Grade Clusters.
They are very clear and They have a very high shine.
April 2005
We hit three major pockets in a row. These pockets were so big
we could actually sit inside them. All 3 pockets produced over 3,500 pounds of Beautiful Clear Crystals.
Here are just a few pieces from the nearly 1200 pounds of the clear
crystals we removed from just one of the pockets.
June 2005
The fun (and pockets) just keep on coming.
Here is another hole that yielded a 1000+ pounds of Beautiful Crystal.
October 2005
Arrowhead
Crystal Mine won again!!! On October 6,7,8, during the Mt.Ida World
Championship Crystal Dig, our diggers took 7 out of 10 place finishes
including all 5 of the cluster awards.
October 11, 2005
WOW. Is
about all we can say. We were moving some dirt and unearthed one of the
biggest pockets we have ever seen. So far it is 4 feet wide and 9 feet
deep and we still have not found the back of this monster. If you are
looking for flawless 30+ pound mega-clusters/burrs with coke can size
points, give us a call quickly because these won't last long.
Here is the mine owner Matthew Price with his hand on one of the "average" clusters from this
pocket. We also found some beautiful points up to 14 inches long!!
October 23, 2005
We
found another big pocket which produced over 35 buckets of beautiful
crystals. Below is the mine owner Matthew Price holding a nice clear
point that just came out of the pocket behind him. Below to the right
is a picture of a beautiful cluster with a 17 inch doulble point on the
top of it. This is one of many clusters that came out of this pocket.
The way this pocket is looking , I'll be digging for days on this
pocket alone. One digger found a 50 Pound cluster that was found in the
spoils pile from this pocket. It had Beautiful Coke Can size points all
over it.
October 27, 2005
The big pocket finally ended and it
produced over 3,000 pounds of Beautiful Points and Clusters. I had alot
of diggers at the mine during the time I mined this pocket. I found so
much crystal , that I gave alot of nice clusters and points to diggers
during this excavation. They left extremely Happy.
September 27, 2006
I
have been getting ready for the crystal dig and the results have been
amazing. I mined 34 buckets of crystals 2 days ago and another 14 today
just from playing around a little. The crystals are Extremely Clear and
are very Beautiful. I'm sure the Diggers for the upcoming World
Championship Dig will be having Lots of fun this year.
October 2006
Arrowhead
Crystal Mine won again!!! On October 12,13,14 during the Mt.Ida World
Championship Crystal Dig, our diggers took 7 out of 10 place finishes
including 4 of the cluster awards and 3 of the point Awards. Arrowhead Crystal Mine took 1st Place in Clusters and Points.
November 2006
We were playing around one day in a
new area that we will be opening up soon to diggers and found some huge
crystal points that weighed up to 15 pounds. Below is a picture of one
of the points that we found within 2 feet of the surface.
March 9, 2007
We have been doing alot of mining
the past week with a 50,000 pound trackhoe that a friend of mine
brought out. We mined over 3 tons in one week. We found many large
Clear Points up to 12 pounds and so many beautiful clusters. We also
been finding Beautiful Blue Phantoms , Arkansas Smoky Points , Faden
Crystals and the list goes on. The Spoil Piles at the mine have alot of
crystals in them from this big dig and the diggers that have been
coming to the mine have been doing Great. Below are some pictures of
some of my latest finds.
October
2007
Lots of Beautiful Crystals were found during the 2007 World
Championship Dig at The Arrowhead Crystal Mine. Arrowhead Crystal Mine took 1st place in
Points and 1st place in Clusters among other place finishes. The largest
point was 8 pounds , 12 ounces and the cluster was a Museum Plate size
cluster.
Below are pictures of the 1st place cluster and the 1st place point
found at Arrowhead Crystal Mine. The Cluster was found by Wayne
Robertson and The Point was found by Kim Selman.
October
2008
Arrowhead
Crystal Mine Took 9 out of 10 place finishes. 1st , 2nd , 3rd , 4th and 5th
place in the Cluster Division. The clusters were some of the best ever
found in the 22 years that the World Championship Dig has been going on. Many of
the clusters found were well over 7 pounds with Retail Values well over $500.00.
The values on the clusters found during
the Crystal Dig at Arrowhead Crystal Mine were the highest recorded in the the
22 years that the Crystal Dig has been going
on.
Arrowhead
Crystal Mine also took 1st , 2nd , 4th and 5th place in the Points
Division. Alot of large clear points were found with Retail Values up to
$250.00.
Arrowhead Crystal Mine Donated
All the Beautiful Crystals for the Trophies that were giving to the 10 winners
of the 2008 World Championship Crystal
Dig.
Below is a picture of Brent
Hughes
digging in a huge crystal pocket that produced over 600 pounds of
crystals. He won First Place in the cluster divison. The crystals found
in this pocket were some of the best found in the Crystal Digs 22 year
history.
Here are the Twins Mark & Mike Leach with a
Beautiful Cluster out of the huge pocket found during the 2008 Crystal
Dig. The picture next to them is of the Huge Crystal Pocket.
Here are a few YouTube Video Links below to some Spectacular Crystal
Clusters we found recently in a very large crystal pocket at Arrowhead
Crystal Mine. They are worth looking at.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6RF2a5ECyg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfgZmd-KgH4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO_dF5n2C8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJMXomxqQX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mclZBCT8aA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUMwFtFpRGc
