Articles For Your Reading Pleasure

All Articles Authored By Michael Walter

Most of the articles found within this section have all been published by well known periodicals.  As with all the materials on this site, all rights are reserved.  Should you wish to reproduce anything found here, please contact the magazine for permission to do so.  More good reading can be found within the Field Collecting link on this site.

 

Road Cut Minerals Occurrences of St. Lawrence County, New York Part II:  Yellow Lake  (Closed location)

 

 

Composed of many barites up to over an inch in length, this may represent the best specimen specimen recovered from the Beaman Road dig. 

Road Cut Mineral Occurrences of St. Lawrence County, New York: Part I: Beaman Road Barite Occurrence  (Closed location)

 

   

This mineral specimens is perhaps one of the best examples of a branching Herkimer diamond scepter crystal ever found at the Little Falls, New York/ Treasure Mountain site. We have the best selection of New York State mineral specimens on the internet!   Treasure Mountain, Little Falls, New York   (Closed Location)

 

 

Grossular crystals from York River Scarn Zone Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. Specimen is in the Jay Walter collection.    York River Scarn Zone, Ontario, Canada (Closed location)

 

 

Uvite crystals from Power's Farm, Pierrepont, New York (private collection)Power's Farm, Pierrepont, New York

 

 

Apatite crystal from Bear Lake, Ontario, Canada. Specimen in the collection of Michael Walter.    Bear Lake, Ontario, Canada

 

 

    Diamond Acres, Stone Arabia, New York

 

 

    Ilion Gorge Travertine, Ilion, New York

 

 

A small group of water clear crystals found in 2002.Digging For Herks.  By: Michael Walter.    An unpublished fictional account of the discovery of a large Herkimer Diamond Pocket.   "Hope you enjoy the ramblings of my active imagination."  Part 1 and Part 2

 

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