If all went well the encounter with a crystal fairy would run as follows:
1. A prospector (or other explorer types) discover a suitable crystal mining spot.
2. The prospector leaves the first crystal he extracts outside the cave for one night.
3. If tomorrow the crystal is gone then he moves onto another spot. Lucky and particularly favoured prospectors may find hints scrawled by the fairy as to where they might find a better spot, although noting that fairies are not very good at map making and so the directions tend to be a bit odd. If it remains then the prospector has permission to mine that crystal.
4. The miners leave any other crystal they find outside the mine entrance to see whether the fairy wishes to keep them.
5. When the fairy wishes that they stop and the miners have been suitably nice and pleasant she will leave a perfect crystal specimen in the spot where the prospector first discovered it. This crystal is often worth a great deal more than a regular sample and is used as magical ingredients by some, very wealthy, wizards.
6. The miners then leave the fairy a mirror or other shiny reflective object as a gift to fairy.
However life in fantasy worlds is rarely so easy as that.
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