We also recently purchased 150 acres of crystal bearing property overlooking the Mohawk River in Fonda, New York. These water clear crystals are then faceted into the brilliant gemstones that become the focus of our beautiful silver and gold jewelry. The purest quartz in the world is found in pockets contained within 500 million year old dolostone on the property. The mine is situated on over 200 acres of scenic rolling hills in Little Falls, New York. It was featured on the July/August 2000 cover of Rocks and Minerals Magazine. Principle Gem: Herkimer Diamond TheTreasure Mountain Diamond Mine is a world famous location for beautiful sceptered Herkimer Diamonds, black stemmed quartz crystals with clear Herkimer Diamonds perched on top. TREASURE MOUNTAIN DIAMOND MINELocation: Little Falls, New York (Herkimer County)
Herkimer diamonds will give you and yours a lifetime of enjoyment! They are truly hard to distinguish from a diamond as they are very hard, durable, and can scratch steel and glass.
#Green gems free
Herkimer diamonds are a wonderful, inexpensive, naturally occurring conflict free alternative to traditional diamonds. These gemstones were named Herkimer diamond due to the fact that the first crystals were found in Herkimer county and had the raw appearance of diamond. Herkimer Diamonds are very clear & pure double-terminated quartz crystals that are found only in upstate New York.
Please contact us should you want more information on gemstones that may not be pictured on our website. There are wonderful locations for quartz (clear, smoky and amethyst), beryls (aquamarine and heliodor), garnets and tourmaline. We are constantly looking for other gemstone sources in the New England and New York area. Green Gem Company very proudly mines & cuts most of our stones from our very own mines located in New Hampshire and New York.
We actually mine the gemstones ourselves on property that we own, facet them in our shop in New Hampshire, then design and make the gold and silver jewelry that we sell directly to our customers. For all these reasons, we are the best source anywhere for genuine faceted Herkimer Diamonds. As mine owners, we control the source and never sell the gem rough. Our faceting expertise allows us to produce only stones of the very finest quality out of the best gem rough available anywhere. We have over 20 years of faceting experience, with our own faceted stones on display along with our natural specimens in the museums mentioned earlier. We always mine in an ecologically sound manner and both of our United States mines are, of course, conflict free. We now own 160 acres of crystal bearing property in Fonda, New York, having sold our property in Little Falls, New York several years ago. Herkimer Diamonds are by far and away our most popular gemstone. Bob also teaches a geology and mining class at Keene State College (part of the University of New Hampshire system) in the winter and is a recognized expert in the field. The cover article in that magazine was written by Bob Borofsky. A specimen from our Herkimer mine was also featured on the cover of the July/August issue of the same magazine in the year 2000. A specimen found by partner Bob Borofsky was featured on the cover of the July/August issue of Rocks & Minerals Magazine in 1990 with an accompanying feature article. C., New York’s Natural History Museum and Harvard’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both mines have produced world class mineral specimens that are on prominent display in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. We then acquired our first Herkimer Diamond mine in Little Falls, New York in 1997. We have owned the William Wise Fluorite Mine in Westmoreland, New Hampshire since 1986 and this mine is generally acknowledged to produce the finest green fluorite in the world for color, size and clarity. This vertical integration allows us to control the entire process of jewelry creation from the earth to the customer. While we take great pride in our jewelry designs, what really distinguishes our company from virtually any other jeweler is our use of world class gemstones that we mine and facet ourselves from properties that we own. We then turn this gem rough into beautiful faceted gemstones that we set in our own sterling silver and gold designs. First and foremost, we view ourselves as a Herkimer Diamond and green fluorite gemstone company, mining natural crystals from our two properties in New York and New Hampshire.
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