Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Herkimer Diamond Minds

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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