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https://www.facebook.com/groups/133508490120427/ SEE MY INSTAGRAM FOR PHOTOS!!!!! So today started at the campground on Douglas Lake, Beautiful day in East Tennessee. Sunshine and 60 degree weather. We explored the surrounding area for a couple hours. Every which was you look there was a sparkle blinding you from the sand. Such mineral rich soil here, let's not forget how many farms, homes, and villages are under those waters, and were destroyed to make way for the dam. This area is prime for Hermiker Diamonds, which originally were found in New York and name after their finder. Instantly I started showing Amanda how you follow the leeching of the soil and boom there it was I flipped over a rock and a smoky quartz just laid there for the taking. With every find brought one serious smile, and my passion/desire grew more to find the next. I found many small instances of perfect douglas diamonds but they are nothing to write home about. Between Amanda and I we found about twenty quartz crystals, and about ten geodes. The geodes we found were extremely eroded and must of traveled a great distance to where they were found. Came across an area behind a boulder that had a congregate pile of flint all scattered in one contained area, couldn't keep my imagination from wondering if Native Americans once sat here and fastened their tools on this very spot. Wow East Tennessee leaves so much for one to discover! Hermiker Diamonds are also a powerful metaphysical tool: Herkimer Diamonds are ascension stones, and they will take you to the highest spiritual vibration possible while still being in your physical body. These crystals have powerful metaphysical properties and are strong stones to aid astral travel, as they help to connect the astral plane to the physical plane. https://www.healing-crystals-for-you.com/herkimer-diamonds.html Here is some info about Hermiker Diamonds: Herkimer diamonds are not actually diamonds, but are double-terminated quartz crystals of exceptional clarity (water-clear) discovered within exposed outcrops of dolostone in and around Herkimer County, New York and the Mohawk River Valley. The "diamond" in their name is due to both their clarity and natural faceting - crystals possess double termination points and 18 total facets (six on each point, six around the center). Because the first discovery sites were in the village of Middleville and in the city of Little Falls, respectively, the crystal is also known as a Middleville diamond or a Little Falls diamond. Herkimer diamonds became widely recognized after workmen discovered them in large quantities while cutting into the Mohawk River Valley dolostone in the late 18th century. Geologists discovered exposed dolostone in Herkimer County outcroppings and began mining there, leading to the "Herkimer diamond" moniker. Double-point quartz crystals may be found in sites around the world, but only those mined in Herkimer County can be given this name. The geologic history of these crystals began about 500 million years ago in a shallow sea which was receiving sediments from the ancient Adirondak Mountains to the north. The calcium and magnesium carbonate sediments accumulated and lithified to form the dolostone bedrock exposed as the Little Falls Dolostone today. While buried, cavities were formed by acidic waters forming the vugs in which the quartz crystals formed. While the dolostone unit is Cambrian in age the quartz within the vugs is interpreted to have formed during the Carboniferous Period. Waxy organic material, silicon dioxide and pyrite (iron sulfide) was present as minor constituents of rock made of dolomite and calcite. As sediment buried the rock and temperatures rose, crystals grew in the cavities very slowly, resulting in quartz crystals of exceptional clarity. Inclusions can be found in these crystals that provide clues to the origins of the Herkimer diamonds. Found within the inclusions are solids, liquids (salt water or petroleum), gases (most often carbon dioxide), two- and three-phase inclusions, and negative (uniaxial) crystals. Anthraconite is the most common solid inclusion.
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Brandon
11/29/2017 11:36:20 pm
Wow. These are amazing finds!
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Mike Cutali
2/28/2018 02:09:05 am
They are!!!
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