How to Find and Use Quartz for Survival

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it's a Schmitt related survival I'm a little scout today and yet some relatives house of mine and I've seen some pretty good examples of Courts in the area so I think we go over that today so stick around this is what you're looking for right here you know you're you're walking down the trail or through the woods and courts really jumps out at you because it's just stark white rock compared to other rocks which you should you know have a very earthly tone so this is what you're looking for because around it usually you can find smaller pieces of quartz that can be processed into tools and I'm going to show you some of those I found right now it's going around for some courts next you found this nice little patch of wild chives nice wild on you just really smells delicious and talk about a nice trail gel side snack is the ticket right there this is what they look like when you pull them up you want to be real gentle so you don't lose a little onion on the end that's what I'm talking about fellas it's coming home all right here's a nice little pile of quartz that I found right here I just gathered up and you know quartz can sometimes be mixed with other stone sometimes it's more pure now I have some pieces here I put aside to show you guys this is a pretty clean piece except for this inclusion right here and set some good edges to strike on if you want to make sparkly a knife and I'll show that in just a minute now most commonly you find quartz and it's really mixed but if you look closely you can really see the quartz very easily inside this rock all right now court courts really has an interesting

Sileo structure sometimes it's very crystalline has a lot of coarse grain to it like this piece very knobby especially right here see if you guys can see that sometimes very rare you find it with a very fine grain there's a piece of quartz has a very fine grain you just don't want into quartz like this sorry one of the quartz like this too often those great sparks all right now like I said it's most commonly mixed it's actually mixed with other things so here's a nice little piece of river stone I found you can see the band of quartz going right through it now if I want to utilize this for an edge to make a tool mix box what have you I would break it off right here I'd break the rock and expose the edge that's worth using all right here's a piece that the quartz is hardly even in the rock it's very hard to even find it but if you look really close I'll try to go as close as I can on the camera and you get the right to light just right you can see the cell the cellular structure the growth pattern of quartz in and you get the little reflections because it will bounce light very cleanly it's almost a transparent rock so there's almost nothing here right as you look closely you can actually see the growth patterns of quartz in there you can still strike sparks off this but you have to isolate the quartz at the edge and that's the key to using quartz mixed in other rocks if you want to make sparks with it then only strike the area of the rock that has quartz on it and the quartz doesn't know any difference it will still make a spark off your knife I and I is just a few quick little bits that can be used for tools pretty easy it's almost the way they are this piece right here would be a pretty good a scraping tool as a nice edge right there you can do some owl shafts right there

so there's a nice little fragment will hang right guy like that piece and this one has a pretty thin edge so if I can show that up right there see that edge that is sharp I'd be careful I will cut myself on that I have cut myself own quartz now making tools this is a pretty cool tool obviously it's an arrowhead and this piece to get it to have a finer grain which heat-treated which we'll do in a video not time to do that today this is just all about identifying it and usually gets a little bit of a pink tone to it when you heat treat it I do not make this piece a friend of mine made this is something I did make though this is a a goat shin with obviously a piece of quartz nice blade really nice edge on there this is where I cut myself actually when I was making this tool let's use some pine pitch some cordage to lash it on it's a nice nice little knife I must say works great nice and smooth

perfect primitive bushcraft right there I'm going to strike a few sparks with my pocketknife here let's be sports I don't know if you guys can see that some pretty big sparks coming off of that get the mission you have a carbon steel knife to do this it's nice a little piece I like that now I'm going to show you how to do the same thing with that piece that was heavily mixed to isolate the quartz on the edge alright so now I'm going to try to isolate a little edge of quartz that's in this mixed Rock looks like there might be a little piece right here

we'll see we'll try yeah tons of sparks so it's very easy as long as you isolate it and you only hit the courts you know I was just walking out of here and just found this really nice piece of quartz it doesn't look like quartz at all it really is mostly not quartz and some nice reds and Maroons in it when you flip it over there's the quartz right there beautiful rock right there and again if I wanted to expose some of this use it you know to the user for a tool I might just have to break off some of the some of the other stone to get to the quartz but you know that's all you need is just a piece on the edge to work at doesn't look anything like quartz at all and this is what caught my eye bat right there that little inclusion of quartz right the edge flip it over boom good stuff all right this has been metricated survival and I think you could use thanks for your support appreciate it and I will see you guys on the next one take care