Oklahoma Rockhounding: How to Find Hourglass Selenite Crystals at Salt Plains

One of the world's only places to dig hourglass selenite — and it's completely free. Salt Plains Wildlife Refuge near Cherokee, Oklahoma is where Oklahoma's Official State Crystal forms naturally in the ancient brine beds, and in this video I'll show you exactly how to find them. Over 250 million years in the making. Northwest Oklahoma was once a shallow inland sea — and this is what it left behind. In this video I walk you through digging techniques that actually work, the best specimens we pulled that day, and the deep history of this place that most visitors never hear: First Nations peoples — the Wichita, Osage, and others — harvested this salt for centuries, using it for food preservation and trade across the southern plains long before the refuge existed. #oklahomarockhounding #selenite #saltplainsoklahoma #crystaldigging #geology