Or So It Is Said...

...The minerals of the Little Falls Dolostone are among the most famous in The World, let alone New York State... Little Falls Dolostone is a Sedimentary Rock of Cambrian age that formed at the bottom of an Equatorial Shallow Sea about 500 Million years ago...Outcrops South of the Adirondack Mountains in the Mohawk Valley in Herkimer and areas in Montgomery Counties can contain these Beauties in cavities within the Dolostone. These cavities are frequently lined with Drusy Quartz crystals and can contain any number of Crystals...or Not! ...The material that would later form the beautiful Crystallized Minerals in this web site were possibly deposited as a waxy organic material along with Quartz sand and masses of Pyrite formed by Bacteria....Or as some now think,Silicon Based Creatures called Radiolarians (here's a link to check them out) had allot to do with providing the Seed from which the Crystals formed...
 All of this was encased in the rock that is mainly made up of two Carbonate Minerals, Dolomite and Calcite.

As the Little Falls Dolostone was slowly buried by new sediments, the temperature slowly rose from perhaps 20 degrees C to 175 degrees C or perhaps a bit higher. This burial is said to have taken about 200 million years and reached a maximum depth of maybe 5 kilometers ... As the Temperature rose, SIO2 molecules holding in solution with the organic materials, dissolved  so that they could start to form Crystals.... Because burial was extremely slow, Growth & Formation of the Quartz crystals was also extremely slow allowing many to grow Brilliantly Clear and Gemmy which is why they are called Herkimer Diamonds or Little Falls Diamonds...

...Other Minerals formed before, during and after the slow crystallization of the Quartz. Dolomite,Goethite,Marcasite and Pyrite often formed earlier while Calcite sometimes formed at the same time as the quartz, but just as likely afterwards. The "black spots" or Anthraxolite in the quartz crystals and the microscopic grains that make some of the quartz crystals brown or black are all remnants of the fossil organic material that was essential to the formation of these Unusual Crystals...

Although Herkimer County, New York is the location for which these crystals are named, similar doubly terminated quartz crystals have been found in a few other locations including Arizona, Mexico, Afghanistan, Norway,France,Argentina, Ukraine and Tibet.....They can sometimes have the same General appearance but can not rightfully be called "Herkimers" in our Opinion...

***The Herkimer Diamonds found on this Web Site were Mined with Good Conscience and Integrity, on Private Land in Herkimer County New York,USA ~ With Permission from the
 Landowners...NO Poaching!...It is Intended that the land will be left in Better Condition that we found it,through the Construction of Terraces,Fireplaces and Campsites from the tailings,as well as Green Spaces in the clearings generated in the process...

***All Herkimer Diamond Jewelry is Expertly Hand Fashioned with "A" Quality & Better Herkimer Diamonds,Natural Stone Beads and Sterling Silver, by the Scepterking's Bride~ Khara and all Jewelry has been "Programmed" during Creation with the Ten Word Mantra of: "Peace, Love, Happiness, Joy, Gratitude, Abundance, Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Harmony" ~ All Workmanship is Guaranteed not to come apart during normal wear... 

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