Rye Patch Quartz Crystals

RexB · Rye Patch Quartz Crystals

I thought I would post these. I did not find them myself but purchased them from a fellow who lives out by Rye Patch. Some of you may know him by the name of Crystal John, and he also goes by the moniker "Peg Leg". If anyone is out at Rye Patch I recommend you pay him a visit and look over his crystals. Maybe you'll find something you would also like to go home with. His prices are also very reasonable and you won't find a better bargain. If you go up the the last road (most southerly) with tires, I think about two or three roads south of the main Rye Patch road, it should be the Cavanaugh Wash Rd. Go up that into the hills and you should find him there.

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adam

Hey Rex,
Man You got be salivating with those crystals. I would love to go up there and try to collect some for myself. This guy "crystal John" sounds like he`s mastered getting the bigun`s . What a great area ....gold ,meteorites, and huge quartz crystals ...I would be in heaven Very Happy

Adam aka "rockhound"

RexB

I was kind of salivating. Shocked

I wish I found them myself but I did find some on my own, just not as nice as these. Crystal John does quite a bit of excavation to dig down to the larger undamaged crystals. I found most of mine in washes, but if you look around you will see quartz outcroppings often with a pit dug in the center, you can be sure it is the work of Crystal John. Around his holes you can find the occasional decent crystal. One quartz patch he has not touched is actually the camping spot which I believe is the one right above, or a couple above the camping spot with the barrel. Just on the slope toward the lake there is a patch that probably still have some buried crystals that can be screened out. The largest we got out of it was about a 3" by 1.5" undamaged crystal. The were all very clear and of good quality. We, meaning me and young man around 11 yrs old, I let him keep the big crystal. You can recognize this particular patch by all the orange soil and some digging that went on not long ago.

Rex

Goldfinger

There's an area north of Rye Patch placers where I hiked in and found a hillside covered with crystals. It looked like a new find if you ask me. No excavations or holes that I could see. Filled my backpack up and that was the last I saw it as I headed south to Az a couple days later. Haven't been back since. It's still there and I'm sure there's other areas yet to be discovered that have crystals or other items of interest. You just need to "Go where no man has gone before".

Steve

RexB

Yep, there are quartz piles all over out there, some have obvious crystals but it sounds like yours was better than most since it did not appear to be picked over. Got any gps coordinates? Grin

Goldfinger

No GPS coordinates.. I did have a GPS unit at the time but the battery was getting low so I didn't take it. I figured I wouldn't need it anyway since I hadn't planned on taking a really long hike. I just kept walking and walking and simply stumbled onto them.

Steve

Reno Chris

Rex - did you see the crystals that "El Dorado Steve and Majuba Tom got?

They were pretty nice.

Chris

RexB

I only saw their post on the internet, looked pretty good to me too. I think they went off somewhere way off around the campsite, not at Rye Patch itself, quite a find. Grin

Rex

Reno Chris

I saw them in person, they were nice.

You are right it was not at the RP placer area.

Chris

El Dorado

Yup, I was wandering around on my ATV just over the hill west of camp and founfd a ridgetop with a very long exposed quartz vein with crystals everywhere. Majuba Tom and I went the day after and had a ball finding plenty........ I will return to do some more serious excavating!

RexB

Eldorado,

Probably wouldn't hurt to beep around there as well, sounds like the geology is similar to Rye Patch.

El Dorado

Since I dont detect, if you are ever going to RP again, I will show you where it is or I can send GPS Coords

RexB

El Dorado,

I'll probably make it there at least once during springtime. I would be interested in coordinates. I can't hurt to try to run a detector over the area. Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Rex

El Dorado

I pM,d the coords... good luck

Fast Randy

Crystal John or Peg leg John as I know him is up there now digging away. When I left he was digging some huge ones. He showed us one over 1 foot long he said was worth $3000 and many you couldn't get your whole hand around.
If anybody was interested in buying them dirt cheap to sale later and don't have the time or inclination to dig he is the way to go. He is quite the character and could always use the money.

Fast Randy

There doesn't seem to be a spell checker here.

RexB

Fast Randy,

I agree, Crystal John has a nice collection and is always adding to it and selling his current stock at a very reasonable price. I picked up quite a few nice ones from him last year. I picked up one fat one that is 3" wide.

On the spell checker, the closest we have to it is to notice if your words are underlined in red while writing, those are misspelled, unfortunately you'll have to go somewhere like dictionary.com to get the correct spelling.

Bob

Or you could use firefox which has a built in spell checker. I will have to check out crystal John the next time I head out to ryepatch.