AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New York > Quartz var. Herkimer Diamond |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 63194 |
Mineral: | Quartz var. Herkimer Diamond |
Locality: | Middleville, Herkimer County, New York |
Description: | Lustrous transparent Herkimer Diamond, the variety of quartz crystal found in the Herkimer, NY region, with black pyrobitumen hydrocarbon inclusions. The Herkimer Diamond has contacts on bottom and corner where it was formerly attached to matrix. |
Overall Size: | 32x24x20 mm |
Crystals: | 30 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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