Russell Family Mine

12/30/2025

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12/30/2025

✨💎⚒️ Mountain Memories ⚒️💎✨
❄️⚒️December 30, 2015⚒️❄️
This one came up in today's memories for us on our family page...
During the end of our 2015 Season we were in a real hot zone, We had a wood stove set up in the dig, Here's a few from this shallow ledge 💎
We also hit a pocket full of saucer size "plates" covered in micro-gems! ❄️⚒️❄️

Herkimer Skeletal Quartz
Top Ledge - Big Dig Mine Beginnings
Russell Family Mine
Little Falls Herkimer Co New York
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12/30/2025

❄️We went exploring today after the ice storm around the mountain side, The forest was loud with the sounds of the thaw, It was like stepping into another world! ❄️

12/29/2025

✨💎❄️ The mountain has been blanketed in ice over the night! ❄️💎✨
We experienced a huge rain storm in the early morning hours, Now everything is encapsulated! Currently it is very loud outside with the sounds of dripping and branches breaking! Branches are down everywhere and our poor old old lilacs are struggling beneath the weight of the ice!
Did you get the ice storm? How are you fareing? ✨❄️✨

12/28/2025

🌿⚒️Mountain Memories⚒️🌿
December 28, 2023
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⚒️ A few winters ago it was mild enough to hit the old bottle dump, These are the days finds...
There's mixed levels, Older 1800's and then some early 1920's - ish bottles 🍶⚒️🍶
Like digging crystals from the mountain, We never know what can be found! 💙⚒️🍶⚒️💙

12/27/2025

⚒️ These tiny bottles were collected from the old homesteads bottle dump many years ago, We're dusting these off from about ten years ago, It felt like rediscovering them again ⚒️🍶⚒️
We've been collecting from the old dump throughout the years, This was an older level it appears!
👉 Really special are the two local bottles from the Hanson Laboratory in Little Falls New York!
👉 The old violet German Pile Remedy
👉 The old blue from Monticello Illinois
Love digging these old bottles, and love digging our local archeology, Check them out! ⚒️

12/23/2025

⚒️💎 Mountain Memories 💎⚒️
December 23rd, 2013
Here's a sweet little cluster with some fun phantom inclusions! We love inclusions! 🩵💎🩵

⚒️ Herkimer Diamond Quartz ⚒️
Top Ledge
Russell Family Mine
Little Falls, Herkimer Co., New York

12/23/2025

🎶🎄 We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎄🎶
👉 We found this awesome shirt shopping yesterday it looks just like our Mountain Pup Rocky!
Don't you think?!

12/22/2025

⚒️ Mountain Memories ⚒️
December 22nd, 2013
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One of our enchanting mountain Scepters!

Little Falls Quartz Scepter
Too Ledge, Gem Mine
Russell Family Mine
Little Falls Herkimer Co New York

Question? Who loves these mind boggling Scepter formations?

12/21/2025

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You’ve got this you absolute gem💎

Inspo:

12/20/2025

✨❄️💎 Holy Smokes! Dive into this incredible mountain crystals skeletal growth!
Phew, These were incredible, This one even had micro dolomite inclusions!!
Collected December 20th, 2014,
That year we had a wood stove set up in the dig on the top ledge! There we were into a very rich and very productive zone, Those were five gallon bucket days! Mountain Memories 🔥💎🔥

Herkimer Skeletal Quartz
Top Ledge, Wood stove Dig
Russell Family Mine
Little Falls Herkimer Co New York
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