Updates

HerkimerHistory.com

This site was last updated on July, 2010

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The best website on "Herkimer Diamonds"

HerkimerHistory.com will be updated regularly. For return visitors this page is a good place to visit to see what has been added since your last visit. The most recent six months of updates will remain on this page. Click on the orange buttons to go directly to the updated page.

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Updates Page

A public service project always open to input from the community interested in Herkimer diamonds.

Web page author W. David Hoisington

Updated: 09/22/09 - New photo added to the druze page

Updated: Aug 20, 2009 - Addition of new photos and discussion

Updated: Sept 22, 28, 2009 - More information on making the smoky color

Updated: 10/24/09, 11/03/09 - Minor changes to the theory page, link to movie about stromatolies added, 05/11/10 minor changes made.

Updated: 11/05/09 Clarifications added to the mineral sequence in the notes

Updated: Nov 05, 2009 - Clarification added

Updated: 11/06/09 Clarifications added and page reorganized

Updated: Nov 08, 2009 - Map showing the Herkimer Mining District added

Updated: 11/09/09 New page added

Updated: New page added - Nov 08, 2009, 12/09/09, 01/04/09

Updated: 03/09/10 Update to the "On Top Of" page

Updated: Mineral sequence page - 4/26/10 and 5/06/10, also see links to the new mineral sequence diagrams for Diamond Acres and Turtle Clan Ridge

Updated: Research project page, 2/05/10, 5/06/10, 6/27/10

Updated: New photos and added info (typos corrected)- 06/21/10, 06/29/10

Updated: New photos, 06/21/10 and 7/19/10

Updated: New info and links - 06/22,23&29/10, 07/02/10

Updated: New photos, additional carbon discussion, new discussion on pocket mud and wall rock features, 06/24/10, "hydrocarbon" term added 7/02/10

Updated: New photo and wall rock discussion 06/25/10

Updated: Overview photos added to support argument for more research, 6/26/10. Info and mineral photo added 7/19,21/10.

Entire site - changes made to the entire site over June and July, 2010. A question is being placed in several places - what habits of quartz do we actually call "Herkimer diamond"? Google rankings added. Hydrocarbon term added.