following from your answer to @shambles' question, did you also spend your playground years finding cool rocks and smashing them against the pavement until you found the quartz crystals or other such formations inside 'em that they made
The house where I grew up had a small Creek that ran through the backyard, and before poison ivy slowly took over both banks that was my source. I took a hammer from my dad's workbench in the garage and cracked them on the concrete pad in there. I don't think my dad liked me doing that, lol