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Herkimer Diamond
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Middleville, Town of Newport, Herkimer Co., New York, USA
© 2001 John H. Betts
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A variety of Quartz
Clear, doubly-terminated, highly lustrous Quartz crystals from Herkimer Co., New York, and surrounding area, USA. There are similar terms for quartz crystals from other locales. The variety status is derived from the rather unique appearance (morphology) of these crystals, associated with the locality.
Herkimer diamonds are a variety of quartz crystals from Herkimer, Co. New York that have been popular with collectors for more than 100 years and various localities for them in Herkimer Co. are still producing many specimens each year even though it requires a lot of hard manual labor to find good examples. They are frequently doubly terminated with prism faces about as prominent as the pyramidal terminations. A number of other localities produce Herkimer like quartz crystals, but few if any of them can produce crystals that match the perfection, luster and transparency of the best Herkimer diamonds. People selling Herkimer like quartz crystals from other localities often try and trade on the name by calling their quartz Herkimer quartz or Herkimer diamonds. Of course this irritates the collectors of real Herkimer quartz and they will assert that Herkimer diamonds only come from the area around Herkimer Co., New York. Sort of like certain French men insisting that the only Champagne comes only from a particular region of France.
[Rock Currier 2013]
Clear, doubly-terminated, highly lustrous Quartz crystals from Herkimer Co., New York, and surrounding area, USA. There are similar terms for quartz crystals from other locales. The variety status is derived from the rather unique appearance (morphology) of these crystals, associated with the locality.
Herkimer diamonds are a variety of quartz crystals from Herkimer, Co. New York that have been popular with collectors for more than 100 years and various localities for them in Herkimer Co. are still producing many specimens each year even though it requires a lot of hard manual labor to find good examples. They are frequently doubly terminated with prism faces about as prominent as the pyramidal terminations. A number of other localities produce Herkimer like quartz crystals, but few if any of them can produce crystals that match the perfection, luster and transparency of the best Herkimer diamonds. People selling Herkimer like quartz crystals from other localities often try and trade on the name by calling their quartz Herkimer quartz or Herkimer diamonds. Of course this irritates the collectors of real Herkimer quartz and they will assert that Herkimer diamonds only come from the area around Herkimer Co., New York. Sort of like certain French men insisting that the only Champagne comes only from a particular region of France.
[Rock Currier 2013]
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