Is This The Largest Herkimer Diamond Ever Found?
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Join me, Bryan Major, also known as the Crystal Collector, along with my trusty dog Matrix, on an exciting adventure to Mohawk Valley Mineral Mining in Sprakers, New York. This public digging site, nestled in the heart of the Mohawk Valley, offers crystal enthusiasts a unique opportunity to unearth stunning Herkimer diamonds-remarkable quartz crystals formed hundreds of millions of years ago.
In this video, we dive into the thrill of crystal hunting, exploring both the loose dirt and the tougher rock layers to uncover beautiful crystal pockets. While sometimes luck can be elusive, Mohawk Valley Mineral Mining has yielded some of the largest Herkimer diamonds ever discovered in the region. Scott, the dedicated owner, is always on hand to assist and works tirelessly to make this mine a top-notch destination for visitors.
This week was nothing short of spectacular, with plenty of incredible finds captured on camera. Join us for a highlight reel of the best moments, showcasing the fun and excitement of crystal digging at one of New York’s most promising spots!
I mss the Sunday morning Crystal Collector videos and Matrix
I’m going to get back to doing weekly videos every Saturday morning, hopefully starting now, thank you for being a long time supporter 🙌💎💎💎💎
@@TheCrystalCollector Great news 🐕
Nice to see a new video but, I just wish you’d upload more often; your videos are great.
Thanks so much, I’m going to start uploading weekly again and try to do it every Saturday morning like the old days 🙌💎💎💎
WOW! Awesome!
Herkimer 'diamond' is not water-clear, as most of them are. What gives?
💎💎💎💎💎💎💖💖💖💖💖💖 Beautiful!!! Looooooooove it!!!!!! 😍👍
@joane.landers9151 There's different Herkimer Diamond mines. Mohawk Valley Minerals has some of the clearest.
Just so beautiful... job 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
OMGeeeeee...Soooo amazzzzing...😍
I love this video Bryan! It shows the different environments Herks can be found in - rock and dirt; the differences in sizes, shapes and clarity of the crystals; the types of terrain you may encounter at a certain location. The crystal they let you pull right before you went to Brad could have gone right into a giant diamond ring (minus the overgrowth) with that shape! Of course, my favorites were the two you started the video with. That giant one wasn’t reassembled? It came out intact? And it goes without saying you were made to be in front of or behind the camera. Your personality always shines through to bring an entertaining, informative and magical experience. 💜💎🪨⛏️😊
Hi my name is Nigel I'm from South Africa where can I sell some of my goodies.
UFO was the best
Yes, isn’t that crazy that the large piece came out intact, pretty wild! I don’t know if it’s officially the largest it’s ever been found but no one seems to have ever seen one bigger!! 🙌💎💎💎🙌💎🙌💎🙌💎💎
Devon’s gemmy one is awesome! So glad to hear you and Matrix are well and will be posting more content soon!
I absolutely love your channel Bryan, perfect way for me to unwind down after a hard day of work 😊It's so amazing to see what beauty lies beneath our Earth and all the incredible crystals you get to show us! What a dream job, I bet your personal collection is spectacular by now 💠
Great seeing you last week Bryan! Woooooo what a great time
These are just incredible!! I want to dig this area so bad!! What an amazing day for you guys!!
There are a few places around that are open to the public, are you near the area?
Wow nice specimens guys 🤯
I remember your lives from this location! CRAZY, AMAZING stuff!!!
Love the vids!! Awesome seein the collab!!😎😎 beautiful pieces!!
0:32 Poor Lee. That crystal looked unbelievably heavy. 😅 What a great problem to have. 👍😉🔥
True, true, a great problem 🙌💎
Anyone else stare at the gravel in the driveway (looking for gems) when walking to the car? 😄
18:11 fancy footwork!!
Matrix, get him !!! :D Matrix would've probably made a home run with it :P.
Unbelievabe crystals !!!!
Glad that monster was found by someone like Lee that had the patience and skills to do a proper extraction and cleaning on that world class museum Herkimer.
Yes, he did a great job on the extraction!!
You guys are obscene!🎉❤ Awesome😂
Amazing what great opportunities lots of money can buy.
Amazing crystal ❤
Wow very user friendly video! Challenge accepted! Congratiolationes!
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: Finding herks that big will spoil you, huh? Oh, the thrill of the hunt...
there's nothing like it!
Matrix is having a good day, too!
Yes, it sure will spoil you finding them this large, especially using machinery! Thanks so much for joining in, always great to see your comments 💎🙌💜💎
Matrix!….
Innocent bystander🤩
Herkdiculous🤯💎
😀🙌💎
LOL🤓🎶🦘👍🐸
@16:25 I saw that one coming a mile away as soon as he picked that up the way he did. I was almost counting the seconds for how long it would take for the drop. 🤣
Excellent video, Bryan!! I hope to get to New York in the next couple of years to be able to mine some of these myself one day. So glad Matrix got to meet a friend (and a lady friend, too! lol). Hope y'all are well, and I'll try to pop in for a minute on Tuesday night's live sale. God bless!! -Joe
Always good to hear from you, Joe! Can’t wait to hang out and go digging again soon!
Yeah, I can’t believe he dropped it 🤦🏻♂️😅😂
Amazing..you know it's pretty awesome when you catch yourself watching with your mouth hanging open!!!!
Cool find.
Going to Herkimer next week. Is Mohawk Valley open to the public? Probably going to Crystal Grove if Ace of Diamonds is still closed.
Looks like you been blessed 🙌
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
I remember when I first saw “Herkcules” on Facebook. What an amazing crystal!
I just have to say this first. The poodles playing there almost makes me weep. I lost mt 3rd poodle in April and I haven't recovered yet because in May my mom died. I can't wrap my brain around it all. Just feel like I can't grieved it all.
I love your channel and i dream of doing what you do.
I love gemstones
Stunning!
I wish I could regularly do this, unfortunately I live nowhere near this place 😢
Check and do some research, usually anywhere in the world there is something to collect whether it be fossils or minerals, see what you may have around you, it might surprise you 🙌💎💎💎💎💎
WOW 😍
That is a insane crystal , Woooow
Whatttttt hehehehe cool video as usual.
Cheers from Sweden
MVMM is the only place I have ever mined for Herks and the only place I ever will. The BEST of the BEST! There is 1 perk of living in New York with the taxes and the …. and MVMM is in top 3 right next to Adirondacks and alllll the lakes, but I digress 😉 Next time I go there I’ll be sure to post a pic of the Smokey skeletal that is just waiting for me to come and find her ❤
Addendum: to be perfectly clear to the universe 😂 a smokey skeletal herk with lots of rainbows 🌈
Nice sir!
Man, this stuff is cool! I wish we had experiences like this in Florida. I have found druzy quarts, calcite and am still looking for agatized coral.
Yeah, the Agatized coral is really cool stuff, I have not really found much of that but would like to look as well!!!
i love the skeletal xls!!! crazy. only wish i could physically do it again.
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Are you on Facebook by any chance? If so, give me a message. I will send you a dirt box with a few pieces that you can dig yourself.
You should go somewhere that has aquamarine! 😮😮😊
🤩👍👍
Bro I'm going there in October for my birthday. I'm glad that Scott is still handsome and tell him my mom says hello.
Whaaaaaat!😎👍
If you could go anywhere in the world to hunt crystals, where would you go? I've been offered a "pick a spot on the globe" trip and I want to go somewhere (outside US and Canada) with amazing crystals I can hunt for! Awesome channel btw
That’s a great question, there are so many spots around the globe. I don’t know if I could even choose one, so many of them are dangerous as well though.
WOW
I want to see the frog 🐸 herkemer diamond 💎 ! ❤😊
The skeleton one reminds me so much of the aliens movie!
Have you been sick? Haven't seen much videos. Really enjoy your videos.
I have just been going through a personal life change over the last couple of years. And unfortunately, I placed my UA-cam channel on the back burner and was only doing a video every 6 to 8 weeks on average for the last couple of years. But I am going to start doing them every week again!! thank you so much for the support.
Life changes are tough ❤ happy you sound like you are feeling better... but rest when you need to❤
Can you find the big ones without the machine dig? We’re going tomorrow coming from Canada for the first time. Nice video 🔥
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!
Where y'all finding all those diamonds? I want some diamonds. My first time here 👍😃 CONGRATULATIONS GUY'S 👍😃
There are a handful of local spots around, including this one that’s open to the public, they are a bit different, highly recommend checking it out if you’re in the New York area
TheCrystalCollector I'm in South Georgia I'll never get to do what you're doing ugh I HATE SOUTH GEORGIA IT'S WAY TOO HOT 🥵 🔥😡 HERE
4:48 thats root beer goodness right there
Would love to go to Upstate New York to find some Herkimers. Do you guys every worry that we'll over mine crystals and gemstones throughout the world?
That’s a great question, and I don’t really know the answer. Krystal and gemstones seem to be all over the place, but I guess at some point they would be pretty much mined out, but all around the world, especially it would take lifetime I think upon lifetime
6:57 Matrix looking like a mcnugget lmao
ไม่น่าเชื่อ เพราะว่าหน้าตาของสิ่งนั้น เหมือนสร้างขึ้นมาเอง 😊
Awesome! I’m so envious… well done.
Send me one to Australia!🤩😍👍🎶🐸🦘🙏🏾
Dug Herks for years. Please note that the “smokey” Herkimer Diamonds are dark from the inclusion of Anthraxilite and not radiation like most hydrothermal quartz “smokeys”.
Not the ones that are coming out from the Mohawk Valley area, they are a true radiation, veiled smoky, some even disappear and in perfect phantoms when you tilt them, carbon phantoms do not exhibit such qualties. , I understand what you’re referring to as well with the inclusions, but this is not anthraxolite or any type of carbon.
I’ve known plenty of folks that have dug them for decades and have still never seen a true smoky, but we are in a zone and I know of a couple of other mines that are pulling out legit Smokies . And then sure you have the treasure mountain type, which are carbon
Freaking awesome!❤
Free nice
Hi! I am new into the field (kinda, I grew up in the woods all the time and always had a fascination with rocks and nature). But I have been doing a ton of research and I think I may have found some very unique pieces. Is there anyway I could contact you to send pictures and see if you can identify any of them?
If you don't mind me asking, I'm so curious how does one get into this? How did u get into this? I would LOVE to dig for crystals.
There's thousands of pay-to-dig sites in the U.S. Local rockhound clubs know 10's of thousands more places to dig. Check online for your local area or near your next vacation destination.
I got into this about 20 something years ago when I met a girl in my hometown and she was telling me about Crystals down the road that can be found. It was hard for me to believe that these things came out of the ground like this with the perfect shapes, I was hooked immediately.!!
Is this location just off the thruway outside of little Falls?
Near sprakers yes
There is a place we used to go to dig right off the Little Falls exit(exit 29A) NYS thruway.
The lady had a bus placed on the side of a mountain that she lived in. We would bring her basic goods to did on the mountain. We found some really nice crystals.
22 hrs after this dropped and I just now see it on my feed???
Whaaaaaaaaaaat
11:58People didn't notice that the stone had the number 7😆😆🤣🤣
Oh wow, it sure does! That’s wild!
Did you find these at the Ace Of Diamond Mines?
No, these are from Mohawk Valley, it’s in the beginning and the end of the video and any description of if you want to check it out
It would be such an honor to meet you and to be able to dig with you my wife turned me onto you and we have been watching all of your videos my wife teaches about crystals and loves you and matrix if you would consider meeting us please reach out my collection of crystals is epic whaaat😊 would love to show you...
Matrix a goat??? Everyone knows he's a rockhound.
I was wanting to see the Kermit mound flipped
Can i pay you to take a look at my land and get us started?
Where are you located?
How much to go in to dig in that area?
IV got a kinda of a square shaped 15lb ice water clear TABBY / FADDEN they way it grew was it just kept wrapping around it's self . I hope im not being rude by leaving my UA-cam channel where you can see a picture of it
I’m signing up for any possible puppies 🐶
Thats a fricken teenage mutant ninja turtle at the end
The crystal collector has gotten me into finding lots of extremely beautiful crystals, and around 15 thousand fossils, I will be on the UA-cam channel with the crystal collector on October the 4 , and I will be there for 3 days with the crystal collector, and I'm going to give the crystal collector lots of crystals, that he might not have ever seen, lots of blue and white crystals, and a big piece of Rhodium
when i go to vac im going to this mine lol, and im not leaving until i got 50 pound of diamonds...
The answer is a firm "NO" because it was not found within Herkimer County. Nice large quartz, though.
Since they have lied about how common diamonds are and restricted the amount allowed on the market, I bet if you had this cut down it would pass a sa normal diamond, diamonds are very abundant
Is that ethical to be digging right under mature trees?
Is it ethical to build houses on mature trees, roads, parks, convenient stores, all kinds of things are put in place of trees, if not, we would have nothing but trees….
@@TheCrystalCollector deforestation is a problem, abusing nature is a problem, I'm kind of surprised that people who are into energy and natural things like crystals are ravaging tree roots and likely killing them to pull out some crystals. I'm pretty sure those trees are going to die now. Way to go. But you do you and make ur money.
The GOD all crystall and meterial people amercan???
First!
All metrials God find you are saluat GOD ALLAH 👑???
Paige no
first?
Haha... $20k.... maybe once its sold up the ladder and is in the hands of one of those ridiculously GREEDY dealers. These types of dealers are just as bad as bezos, musk, etc.
kinda clixkbait really
these dont look good only big
herkimer diamonds is to be like a gem which must be flawless and perfectly see metrical
these look very odd and totally fractured and a total mess not a gem
You are misguided on what a Herkimer Diamond is, and the thumbnail is straight from the video,.
I Herkimer is a specific formation that occurs in a specific area in New York. Sure you get perfect Little Gems that are clear and you also get these skeleton, they are two different types of Herkimer that form, the skeletons being much more rare actually.
Devon’s gemmy one is awesome! So glad to hear you and Matrix are well and will be posting more content soon!