Crystal Mining Kit

My brother got my daughter this for Christmas. Was a bit my idea when going through Amazon with him for gift ideas for people. My daughter loved the gold panning thing we did back in the summer where it was this bag of sand with rocks in it that you wash away the sand to get the rocks. So i figured she's really like this.
If you're interested in trying this for yourself or your kid here's the Amazon link.

I hadn't actually planned on doing this when we did but was "please" into it.

Here's it out of package. It also has little plastic things to add the rocks you find onto that card. We ended up not using it because i don't think a 5 year old cares about that and we had found more rocks than what the card holds and many multiple types.

My little fuzzy head working on finding rocks. It makes a huge mess! If we get another one, waiting until warm weather and doing it outside. She had a bit of trouble with the hammer part. Kept hitting the rocks instead of around them and wasn't hitting hard enough. The brushing was a little hard for her just because she wasn't following my request of gently sweeping with it. She would start to go fast and stir up the dust into the air. She found it fun to come across more rocks while we worked through it.
Here's the first rock we found

Actually it ended up being 2 just really close together. I don't have any more pictures of us getting them out. Since it got so messy, my hands were too dirty to grab my phone and after a while, she started to get bored with it, so i finished up getting the rest out for her. It took some time and after i started to get it done myself, i just wanted to get it done and over with. It is fun but don't expect it to be quick.

Here's what rocks we found. Mostly quartz and rose quartz. Not positive to what the other ones are right now. The booklet gives a few rocks to try and identify but not sure if all are on that list and just the rocks look a bit different than the pictures, or if we got some not on the small list. I have the rock list from the other rock things we did in the summer, so i plan to look at that soon to try and see if i can figure out what they are.

Over all this was really fun to do. My brother worried that she wouldn't like it because it wasn't a toy like he was getting my nieces. I knew she would like it because she likes rocks and kits. She's also enjoying science stuff and is always trying to do my little DIY candy from my monthly japanese candy box, i let her help with the easy ones on those, but still not usually because i want to do them lol.