In the morning, Mick and I made one last stop at African Gems & Minerals while Jeff met up with our host’s cleaning person to check out. Mick added one more stone to his collection – this one a Herkimer diamond. It’s not a real diamond, of course, but it’s really pretty and interesting. Mick looked it up and found a Herkimer diamond is a double-terminating (pointed on both ends) quartz crystals found in Herkimer County, NY, of all places! They’re called diamonds because they’re clear and because they have 18 facets – 6 on each end and 6 around the center.
Take the road less traveled