New! Treasure Mountain Offers Season Passes and Claims
We are pleased to announce that we now offer season passes and both yearly and monthly claims.

Season passes are available for just $500 per year. With a season pass, you can dig any day we are open, from April through December. If you are a regular visitor to Treasure Mountain, you will want to consider this money-saving program.

Claims are also now being allowed for diggers who want to enjoy the convenience of returning to the same undisturbed spot over and over during the season. Claims can be staked for an entire year or for a month at a time. The rate for a claim is $900 for the entire year, or just $150 per month. Please check out the Rules & Fees page for further details.

Treasure Mountain Opens
Online Mineral Store
Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine is digging for treasure in a new spot - on the World Wide Web - by unveiling their new online mineral store that specializes in Little Falls "diamonds" from the mine.

The new site, www.TreasureMountainMining.com, has been designed to offer Treasure Mountain customers top-quality mineral specimens at affordable prices. The site specializes in crystals the mine owners have dug themselves at their two mines: Treasure Mountain in Little Falls, NY and the William Wise Mine in Westmoreland, NH. The green fluorite from this mine is considered the best in the world, and has been written up in Rock & Gem magazine (July, 1998) and Rocks & Minerals (July, 1990).

The Treasure Mountain Mining web site also has an online catalog with over 3,000 mineral and fossil specimens - the largest mineral catalog available on the web! And, the catalog is fully searchable by mineral name, mine name, locality, state, country, and even color!

Treasure Mountain Mining also offers a variety of other Northeastern US mineral specimens for sale, including pyromorphite from the acclaimed find at Loudville, MA that was showcased in a cover article in the March, 2001 edition of Rocks & Minerals.

Minerals in the online store are priced starting at as little as $1. Most specimens are featured in a small thumbnail photo, which when clicked leads the visitor to a separate page with an enlarged photo. Point-and-click buttons link the viewer to additional minerals for sale as well as to an order form.

The new site has been designed for easy accessibility. All of the sites' 100-plus pages have been optimized for rapid display and easy scanning. Prominent links between pages have been designed and tested to provide easy navigation through the large site.

"Our goal was to make the site as easy to surf as your cable TV," said Eric Greene, mineral photographer, designer of the site and operator of the web site. "We paid special attention to making sure customers could order in a simple, secure way." The site uses secured servers to protect customers paying with credit cards.

In addition to pages devoted to minerals from Treasure Mountain and the Wise Mine, the site contains several interesting areas:

• New England minerals - links to pages featuring minerals from various New England locations
• North American minerals - links to more pages with minerals from around North America
• Collecting stories - firsthand accounts of the site owner's collecting adventures
• Links - short cuts to other mineral and earth science web sites.

The Treasure Mountain Mining site has been designed to satisfy the rapid growth in collectors seeking to buy mineral specimens on the World Wide Web. "We project the number of mineral collectors buying minerals on the web will double in the next year," said Greene. "Treasure Mountain Mining will provide an attractive, easy-to-use venue for these people, a venue that's open to anyone in the world 24 hours a day, 365 days a year."

To pay a visit to Treasure Mountain Mining, click here.

Treasure Mountain Receives
Permit from Little Falls ZBA
On May 7, 2001 we reopened Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine for the first time since November, 1999. This was good news for many of our valued customers who had been waiting anxiously for a chance to come and dig at their favorite spot. Here are a few of the comments we received when we announced the reopening:

• Yaaaaaaahhhhhooooo !!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Will be there May 25th...
  
  
• **********..........Best of Luck to YOU!!!!!!......Thank you for your perseverance!!!!!!!..............******************
  
  
• That's great news!! We will be up there this weekend!
  
  
• I was pleased to hear that you have received permission to reopen Treasure Mountain.
  

Please come on by and join in the grand reopening celebrations!

Treasure Mountain Featured
in Rocks & Minerals
Treasure Mountain was highlighted in the
July-August 2000 issue of Rocks & Minerals magazine. We were especially honored to be featured on the cover of the magazine, and to
have a 7-page fully illustrated article devoted to Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine and the extraordinary crystals found here.

Here are some excerpts from the article:

For years black-stemmed scepter quartz
crystals with colorless tips have been among
the most sought after, but rarely seen,
specimens from the Herkimer "diamond" localities of New York's Mohawk Valley. Finally, one of the localities for such scepters has been opened for collecting. This is the first detailed report of how and where these unusual specimens occur….

The Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine occupies part of the top of Fall Hill, an elevation on the south side of the Mohawk River southeast of the center of the city of Little Falls. Most of Fall Hill is composed of Little Falls Dolostone of Upper Cambrian age….

The large area extent and vertical exposure of multiple crystallized layers present an excellent opportunity to study the complex developmental history of crystal formation at the site, from the geological setting that provided the framework within which crystals could grow to the actual mechanisms that created these wonderful works of natural art….

We Have a New Road!
In fall of 2001, the last segment of the new road was built
which now runs ALL THE WAY to the mine. The first part of the road was constructed by a cell phone company to reach their tower on an adjacent property, but we all will benefit from the new road. Anyone who drove in over the old access road will be thrilled by this news, as the original road was a farm road filled with mud holes and holes. The new road is "paved"
with gravel, and is 20 feet wide for
most of its length.

New!

You can now
buy sceptered diamonds on
the Web at our
on-line mineral store:

www.treasure
mountain
mining.com
(click here to visit)

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