What to Bring
Prepare for an amazing day of treasure hunting! The items on this list are suggestions to make your digging day even better.
Packing List:
Basics:
Closed-Toed Shoes are Required
Boots with Tread (even better!)
Work gloves/garden gloves
Safety glasses
Sunscreen / Hat
Insect Repellent
Lunch / Water
Cooler
Camping Chairs
Canopy or Easy-Up
Buckets and/or baggies for carrying finds
Paper towels/newspaper for wrapping crystals
Clean change of clothes to drive home in
Tools:
Rock Hammer(s); (3-4 lb. hand sledge works best, a 12 lb for breaking larger rocks is also helpful)
Chisels; (For example, a 1 or 1.5” Irwin cold chisel and/or bull point chisel with hand guard)
Screwdriver or Awl — pokey tools for exploring holes are key!
Pry Bars—large for moving big rock and small for detail work. A 60 inch “pinch bar” is our favorite.
Three-Pronged Rake
Small Trowel or Shovel
Garden hoe
Screen or Sifter
Kneeling Pad
Root cutters (for dirt digging)
Tool Kit Rental
We also have four basic toolkits available to rent for $10 each!
Rental Toolkit Includes: 1 x 3 lb hand sledge hammer, 1 x chisel with hand guard, 1 x three-pronged
garden rake, and various screwdrivers aka “pokey tools” for extracting crystals from small places.
Spring Steel Rental
We also offer sets of spring steel to rent for $20 per set!
For experienced miners looking to take their hard rock mining toolkit to the next level! For serious hard rock miners, “spring steel” is a notoriously helpful yet hard-to-find rock-moving tool, as each piece is made individually by hand. These mining “wedges” are created from the rear leaf springs of trucks and used to exploit cracks in rock to lift and move large sections of solid rock. With cold sharpened tips, they are sharp, strong, and ready for action!
Tool kit and spring steel rentals can be added to your reservation at time of booking.
