Found Mother Lode Of Crystals Near Where People Have Found The Mother Lode, Have Some Questions

[Robert Eaton Jr]

Hi, everybody.
I stumbled upon a place near Reno, Nevada, that might be in a very well-known region, but the specific spot seems totally untouched. I was hiking with my family and metal detecting with my Fisher F75.
I'm keeping the location totally secret. I'll just say it was incredibly difficult to get to, and it looks absolutely pristine—ironically, with no signs of any other humans ever being there.
After a challenging trek, we stumbled across something that looked like the result of an ancient geothermal process. It created this absolutely eerie landscape of crystals everywhere.
Not many plants are growing at all; the ground is heavily eroded, leaving exposed, super-awesome crystal veins all over two mountainsides. They were sparkling and just freaking crystals.
The veins or ridges were literally extending right out of the eroded ground. I actually considered grabbing a couple of buckets, but it felt like it should be a national park or a museum piece. Crystals were simply left sitting on top of boulders that had withered away. I’m talking about crystals everywhere! I’ve genuinely never seen anything like it in my life, and I don’t know if this is common or what.
This entire spectacle covered the side of two upper mountainsides/hills. I truly tried not to take too many samples because I started to feel guilty—it was just so beautiful. I still can’t believe there’s a place on earth where crystals are just laying everywhere like this.
I did some quick research using Gemini, and I was flabbergasted. I really don't know what to do. Should I get a claim?
My Fisher F75 didn't find any gold, but according to Gemini and other AI, the kind of ironstone and deposits I saw are also conducive to gold and silver. And let me tell you, there are some very, very famous gold and silver places in the vicinity.
I cannot believe that nobody knows about this. Obviously, if people knew, there wouldn't be millions of crystals laying everywhere!
I took some pictures with my terrible phone camera. I'm going to pressure-wash the translucent and just freaking awesome specimens I brought home. Seeing those veins exposed all over the mountainside, where they're the only things that remain, is spectacular. I wish I didn't have such a terrible camera, because the pictures don't show the glittering crystals dotting the whole hillside, and you can't clearly make out the veins that go up and down the hill everywhere like you can with your naked eye.
So, my main questions are:
 * Did I find something normal? I've never seen anything like it.
 * If it’s not normal, what do I do next?
 * What's the process if I find out it's on BLM land?https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZQWgoqED4vhMfbkS7

I haven't got all the pictures up yet.These are some on my phone.I took screenshots on my screen because I don't know how to remove the geo data tags.I've got to get some of the pictures from my wife's phone that was much better than mine.I've never seen someplace like that.. i mean, they were judding out of the landscape, like window panes and just laying on the top of boulders withered away.And they're the only ones that remain

[Robert Eaton Jr]

Sorry I had to edit it.. Trying to voice type while driving and I used the a I to try to clean it up.What a mess

[Robert Eaton Jr]

Also, you can't tell for my stupid camera.But all those ridges sticking out of the ground, they're actually translucent crystals.You just can't see from the stupid photographs

[Robert Eaton Jr]

[Robert Eaton Jr]

From the pictures, everything looks brown.But when you're there in the sun, you can see the shining crystals reflecting the sun everywhere, and these veins that are sticking out.Like three or four inches above, the ground are just like crystals.Just jutting out everywhere.And I mean, like 7_8 inches they can break, you can hold them up and see the sunshine through them.They're freaking beautiful and they're everywhere.And where the rain has ran through the dry beds, you can see the crystals just weathered away laying there, five inch crystals, just laying on top of boulders, all that remains from thousands of years of erosions

[Robert Eaton Jr]

With your eyes, you can trace the veins of the remaining crystals like 20 feet. And the bands.

It's so cool.

[Robert Eaton Jr]

You know, this is one of the coolest things i've ever seen. Geologicaly...

 

I was going down highway forty nine a couple weeks ago coming back from one of my kids.Track meets and on the south side of highway forty nine.There is a fissure of some sort with green, shiny serpentine, like rock on the side of the highway, opposite of the river, that i've never seen anything like that before.This huge, two hundred feet high dike, of some sort with shiny green glazed, sharp as jade rocks. I got some samples of that stuff, but this stuff here is so close to a very famous gold and silver place.I can't believe it.I can't believe that it's so pristine and untouched.And because of its proximity, i'm wondering if it's got a huge amount of gold in it.And what do I do?

[GotAU?]

Looks like you were in an hydrothermal deposit area. Are the crystals soft and scratch easily with your finger nails?  It looks like calcite. Get a UV light and see if they glow red. If hard and glow green, it may be chalcedony. I’d look carefully for opalized materials there too, it looks like the type of material where they may be found.  Neat site!

[Clay Diggins]

It's Selenite. Hydrous calcium sulfate.

The crystal of gypsum. The stuff that drywall and plaster of Paris are made of.

It's not an uncommon mineral but very nice crystal groups do have some value.