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Hickory Hill Diamond Diggings, Fonda, N.Y.
Minerals: Flawless double terminated quartz crystals (Herkimer Diamonds)
Description: These mines are famous for water-clear, Herkimer diamonds (double terminated quartz crystals.) Pockets can contain hundreds of these beautiful crystals often in clusters and occasionally containing water or bubble inclusions. Last year while they were digging a pit for an outhouse they dug up grapefruit sized crystals just in the topsoil! This site offers hard rock collecting for those that have the energy. For the less energetic you can screen through the soil and find crystals that have weathered from the rock.
Bring: Screens, hand tools, prybars, sledge hammers, insect repellent.
Only open three weekends a year (Memorial Day, July Fourth, and Labor Day.)
"Diamond Acres", Fonda, N.Y.
Minerals: Flawless double terminated quartz crystals (Herkimer Diamonds)
Description: This location is open year round. For a fee you can collect daily.
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Area Motels: Clover Leaf Motel - 518-853-3456; Riverside Motel - 518-853-3314
Unfortunately, the status of mineral collecting sites change often. Inclusion in this site does not give an individual the right to trespass. If the land owner is present ALWAYS ASK PERMISSION prior to entering a collecting location. ALWAYS RESPECT THE PROPERTY OWNER, you are his guest. When in doubt, do not enter.
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