HerkimerHistory.com
This site was last updated May, 2011
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The best website on "Herkimer Diamonds"
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You can have your Herkimer collection on this site! It can be on a dedicated web page that looks like this one. Send an email if you are interested.
Jeff Scovil Photography
A public service project always open to input from the community interested in Herkimer diamonds.
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If you have a collection of specimens from the Herkimer District you can have your collection show cased on a dedicated web page like this page. The only requirement is that the photography be high quality. You can contact Jeff Scovil if you need to have your collection professionally photographed.
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Clear Herkimer Diamonds on black druze. Middleville, NY (probably HDM). Specimen 6.9 cm high. Bill Larson Collection. Photo taken in 2007, donated 2009.
Clear Herkimer group. Middleville, NY (HDM). Specimen 10.4 cm high. W & D Mueller Collection. Photo taken in 2007, donated 2009. Note all the "baby floaters" in the larger photo.
Clear Herkimer group on a base crystal. Middleville, NY, mine unknown, 14.5 cm high. John Medici Collection. Photo taken in 2007, donated 2009.
Artistic specimen - Middleville, NY, mine unknown, 14.5 cm high. John Medici Collection. Photo taken in 2007, donated 2009.
Group specimen - Fonda, NY, Diamond Acres, 14.5 cm high. Marv Rausch
Collection. Photo taken in 2006, donated 2009. Note the realy nice rainbow in this photo.
Collection. Photo taken in 2006, donated 2009. Note the realy nice rainbow in this photo.
Group with incusions - Herkimer Co, NY, mine unknown, 7.4 cm high. Christian Weise Collection. Photo taken in 2006, donated 2009.
Nice matrix photo. Although not labled this is probably from Middleville, NY, mine unknown, 4.5 cm high. Houston Museum. Photo taken in 2003, donated 2009. Close photo of host matrix!
Group with "floater" inclusions - Herkimer Co, NY, mine unknown,
7.4 cm high. Fine Minerals International. Photo taken in 2002, donated 2009.
7.4 cm high. Fine Minerals International. Photo taken in 2002, donated 2009.
Nice group from Treasure Mt., Little Falls, NY, 6.4 cm high. Paul Nuckols
Collection. Photo taken in 2000, donated 2009. Note the dark black quartz crystals serving as "matrix".
Collection. Photo taken in 2000, donated 2009. Note the dark black quartz crystals serving as "matrix".
Light smokey group with parallel growth Treasure Mt, Little Falls NY, 7.5 cm wide. Bob Borofsky Collection. Photo taken in 1999, donated 2009.
Special group from Treasure Mt., Little Falls, NY, 8 cm high. Bob Borofsky Collection Photo taken in 2000, donated 2009. Note the parallel dark black quartz crystals and the "hopper" Herkimers on top.
Light smokey group with parallel growth and "hopper". Treasure Mt, Little Falls NY, 8.4 cm wide. Bob Borofsky Collection. Photo taken in 1999, donated 2009.
Group with an abundance of inclusions, which is more common than really clear groups. Treasure Mt, Little Falls NY, 7 cm wide. Bob Borofsky Collection. Photo taken in 1999, donated 2009.
Small single, and a nice photo of the host matrix. Treasure Mt, Little Falls NY, 1.9 cm tall. Bob Borofsky Collection. Photo taken in 1999, donated 2009.
Two specimens that probably came from the same pocket. Placed together they work well to demonstrate some of the scepter growth habits at this local. Both are from Treasure Mt, Little Falls NY, JoLynn Associates. Photos taken in 1999, donated 2009. The left one is 5.1 cm high, the right is 10.3 cm high.
Good sized single, and a nice photo of the host matrix. Middleville, NY (AD), 6.9 cm tall. Paul Nuckolt Collection. Photo taken in 1998, donated 2009.
Another great scepter photo that shows the host matrix and a loose scepter rod. St Johnsville NY, 5 cm tall. W & V Hladysz Collect. Photo taken in 1996, donated 2009.
Another great scepter photo that shows the host matrix and a calcite. St Johnsville NY, 4 cm tall. W & V Hladysz Collection. Photo taken in 1996, donated 2009.
A really outstanding photo and specimen from Middleville, NY (HDM), 5 cm wide. Clear crystals on black druze. Canadian Museum of Nature. Photo taken in 1993, donated 2009.
A set of cluster crystals that for their clarity are a nice size. Clear small crystals are more common. This is a common form for the region. Just labeled from Herkimer, Co., 5.2 cm and 4.6 high. Proctor Collection Photo taken in 1997, donated 2009.
