Sacred Stones, Unearthed by Hand

Every Herkimer diamond used in our jewelry begins it’s journey in one of the most legendary crystal sites in the world: Diamond Mountain in Herkimer County, New York. This sacred ground has produced some of the most brilliant, naturally faceted quartz crystals on Earth for over 500 million years. 


We travel directly to Diamond Mountain to hand-select and hand-mine each stone ourselves. There isn’t mass harvesting; just patience, intuition and deep respect for the land.  Using traditional prospecting tools we open pockets of ancient dolostone, revealing crystals that have rested untouched since long before the dinosaurs walked the planet. Many stones at this site emerge double-terminated (pointed at both ends), perfectly clear and sometimes shimmering with internal rainbows. 


Every crystal we find is cleaned, sorted, and charged on site so that it retains the pure, untouched energy of the mountain.  You’re receiving a stone that has never passed through a warehouse or middlemen. It moves straight from the Earth, to our hands, to your heart. 

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A Hands-On Approach to Herkimer Diamond Mining

My brothers Zachary and Brian using a hammer and drill to create space for special tools called pins and feathers to split the host stone dolostone for extraction of the Herkimer diamonds. 


Alayna my niece on the ground at the dig site carefully working a pocket in the host stone with a small hand tool. This is the most authentic form of Herkimer mining-slow, meticulous, and done entirely by hand to gently free the crystals without damaging them. As you can see from the cluster of Herkimers in front of her, she is in an active pocket delicately exposing each crystal one at a time. 

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