While spending the weekend camping in Herkimer, NY the kids, Papa, Matt and I checked out the diamond mines across the street from our campground. We discovered that "Herkimer Diamonds" were actually really nice quartz crystals, but it was still fun to mine for them
One of the mines
The kids had fun pounding away at the rocks
I was the only one to find a Herkimer Diamond
The other mine
The museum
Matthew and Meredith sifted for gems and diamonds and were pleased to make some good finds
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