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| THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- n...250 SPECIES iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward...Minerals from the Principal Localities in Western Connecticut and Southeastern New York State............. |
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| CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...H. WEBER 1172 West L a k e Avenue Guilford, Connecticut 06437-1342 E A R L E C. SULLIVAN 17 R o c k y...y R i d g e D r i v e T r u m b u l l , Connecticut 06611-5326 T his locality index is meant to serve...collectors. More often than not, collecting in Connecticut is no longer per mitted. Many of the localities...effort has been made to list a l l localities in Connecticut, a small state that is big on mineralization |
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| VICINITY TOWN, CONNECTICUT OF MIDDLE- W. G. Fol'e, Wesleyan Unhersity A few of the pegmatite quarries in...prospect-holes opened in Middlesex and adjacent portions of Hartford counties, Connecticut, fourteen may be selected...(Locality 18, Fig. 1). The Connecticut pegmatite dikes are composed of predominating quartz and perthitic feldspar...crystals with well developed planes have equalled the quartz in their dimensions. These minerals project from...found in orthogneiss, the Pelton quarry (Locality 4), east of Collins HilI and within the Glastonbury |
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| Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.................................... 2 Himalaya pegmatite,.................................................................................. 2 Unnamed pegmatite occurrence, Volcan Mountains ........................................... 3 Brown Derby no. 1 pegmatite ........................................................................... 3 Connecticut .......................................................... |
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| MINERALS FROM 1 CONNECTICUT HILL By Richard Schooner P. O. Box 215 East Hampton, Conn. Collins Hill, in the...the town of Portland, undoubtedly represents the most remarkably mineralized area, of its size, in southern...southern New England. The hill is not especially large, but several different formtions are present, and...has been done on the giant pegmatite at the summit. The Strickland Quarry is enormous, consisting of...treats it as a northern continuation of the Strickland Quarry. The accompanying map should furnish whatever |
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| Connecticut Gems & Gem Minerals A variety of Connecticut's beautiful gemstones are represented in East...sought as gemstones. I n earlier years, several Connecticut lo calities were successfully mined for gem...included the Gillette quarry (elbaite), Roe bling mine (beryl), and Slocum quarry (beryl). Harte (1944)...(1944) states that "Connecticut has produced a very considerable number of gem stones in the semi-precious...Gillette and Strickland, famous for their tourmalines." Most gem-quality minerals from Connecticut surfaced |
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| gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |
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| ARIZONA—"Under separate cover 1 am sending you another Yuma County mineral. Look it over as it is a most interesting...my name in R&M. Was glad to send him some Yuma County specimens. That Novice Column is a very nice gesture...Park, Ark. "Quite recently, the Tridymite form of quartz has been found near Mount Ida, Montgomery Co.,...really are. They are just about the most interesting quartz J have yet seen." CALIFORNIA—The limestone quarries...Nov. 18, 1954 (from Peter B. Nalle, 4600 Indian Hill Rd., Riverside, Calif.) :— "I will try to bring |
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| small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists....when I visited Branchville and Ridgefield, in Connecticut, while my parents were visiting relatives in...Ridgefield Pegmatite chiseling out very deformed quartz xls, from the wall of a small quarry above the...apatite. Collecting in Connecticut My next field trip during March was to the Connecticut River Valley dinosaur...rest of the day we spent at Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Did not find anything of value since |
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| Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...______________________________________ _ Location of pegmatite districts ___________________ _ Previous work...Acknowledgments ______________________________ _ History of pegmatite mining inN ew England _______ _ Mica mining _...deposits _______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic...________________________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ______ |
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| cadmium sulfide. They are both found at Sterling Hill and Franklin (New Jersey) almost exclusively as...well-known Ukrainian heliodor occurrence and its many pegmatite minerals. Like its predecessor locality issues...history, geology, mineralogy and a discussion of pegmatite origins, all with exceptional photography of many...is interesting and well diagramed. Chapter 4, Pegmatite Minerals, extends 72 pages and is further divided...informative mineral features". The authors describe quartz, feldspar, mica and others in terms of what the |
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| e~te,,/,d /o,t MfM!, l9J/.I CHIPS FROM TIIE QUARRY ........................................................................ 161 THE ANDREWS QUARRY NEAR PORTLAND, CONN. By Peter Zodac ..................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CONNECTICUT VALLEY MINERAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . ...edge of the valley is Park Avenue, while Hudson County Boulevard East occupies the east side of the valley...spanning Park Avenue and another crossing Hudson County Boulevard East. This latter bridge carries the |
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| and S. B. Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California................................. 110 by Jack Crowley The Bertrandites of Connecticut................................114 by William...Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina. Found in 1971, this group of crystals...104 The Mineralogical Record FRANK PERHAM Pegmatite Miner, Geologist and Humorist by Pete J. Dunn...pegmatites than most, he is also a dedicated pegmatite miner, a crack diesel engine mechanic, and is |
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| Worldwide Localities; Specializing in Alpine and Gem Pegmatite Minerals. www.alpineminerals.com kevin@alpineminerals...mining memorabilia and fine minerals from The Strickland Quarry. bmjarnot@aol.com Cascade Scepters Specializing...high-quality, rare, and the most unusual forms of quartz. www.cascadescepters.com scepterguy@cascadescepters...com Jackson’s Crossroads Amethyst and Hogg Mine pegmatite Dig for world-class facet-grade amethyst at the...Crossroads or explore the Hogg Mine pegmatite for Star Rose Quartz, Beryl and Tourmaline. Open year round |
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| had access to many quarries in the state of Connecticut. Gem-quality tourmaline crystals had been found...like this piece, as most of the fluorites from the quarry are green, and this one is truly atypical. After...and dealer. Today, in 2008, the only place in Connecticut where such finds can be easily collected is Green’s...of time. ON THE COVER: gold on quartz, 4.5 inches tall, Placer County, California Dedication This book...Group, Inc., 650 Danbury Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 USA, www.maplegatemedia.com Library of Congress Control |
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| are interesting specimens. Centreville is in Bibb County, in the central part of Alabama. Near Odenville...community of about 1,200 in southeastern Pinal County which probably will become a ghost town when the...Development Company shuts down its lead-zinc mine (on hill at left). Company officials say development of the...MINERALS. Bulletin number is 973-E. The title is "Quartz crystal deposits of western Arkansas," by A. E... Washington 25, D. C. It deals mostly with the quartz crystal deposits of western Arkansas throughout |
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| for he was born in the town of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, on October 24, 1868. The farm on which...15 cows which he milked, shipping the milk to Portland by way of the Grand Trunk Railway. The station...the multi-colored tourmalines, cookeite, beryl, quartz, apatite, lepidolite, albite, spodumene, amblygonite...amblygonite, herderite, eosphorite, rose quartz, columbite, cassiterite and many others. The numerous specimens...Frank A. Pitts is an honorary member of the Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association. During the first year |
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| Wesleyan Museum of Natural History MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT ALISON C. GUINNESS 418 T a t e r H i l l R o...is a large smoky quartz crystal from the Strick land quarry in Portland, Connecticut. Other purchases...Gillette quarry in Haddam Neck and a perfect euhedral crystal of urananite from the Andrews quarry in Portland...for the M i d dletown Press in Middletown, Connecticut, writes, lectures, and conducts programs on history...urananite from this area of Connecticut. Other prominent specimens are large smoky quartz and beryl crystals that |
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| II V"'- (!)c/ol,,et, 19//-1 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 SCOTT ROSE QUAR1Z MINE. By Mrs. Edna M. Seo/I ...............Bartsch .... TIN AND TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF SILVER HILL, WASH. .... 370 371 FIELD FABLES OF "ROCKY" MOORE...include crystals, nuggets, and those associated with quartz. It would be simple for a collector to pan his...tenable. have never seen any inclusions in the Quartz: Th is mineral is found in near- specimens examined |
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| accepted abstracts follow. THE GARNET LINE IN OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, PEGMATITES. M. M. Felch, W. B. Simmons...intermediate and core zones in many of the Oxford County, Maine, pegmatites. This study primarily focuses...garnet lines host a range of primary inclusions: quartz, mica, tourmaline, zircon, as well as xeno368 ...and neighboring mineral phases (e.g., albite and quartz). A similar occurrence of tourmaline-rimmed garnet...garnet was recently reported from a pegmatite in the Sahatany Valley, Madagascar (Buřival and Novák 2014) |
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| the "Keystone Newsletter.") Do you know why many quarry owners will not grant permission to collectors...disastrous. 7. REMEMBER YOU ARE A GUEST WHILE IN A QUARRY. NEVER AT ANY TIME DISTURB TOOLS OR MACHINERY....dumped in quarries. Be a good guest and treat the quarry or mine site as your own place. 8. Watch out for...of M. S. P. enjoyed a perfect July day in Eureka Quarry. Bob Ennis, Wilkes Barre, was home on furlough...of the day; a large beautiful terminated smoky quartz crystal set in calcite crystals. Ken Fisher of |
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| cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by [] at 04:12 15 May 2015...project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the quartz core is often sharply...suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity...States (from Thurston 1955). Essentially all pegmatite districts contain some aquamarine. Volume 68, |
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| A Checklist Minerals of Connecticut Although perhaps best known for its garnet, chalcocite, and tourmaline...tourmaline, Connecticut also boasts many other mineral species. BRUCEJARNOT R O . B o x 627 M a r t i n...e , N e w J e r s e y 08836 T he study of Connecticut minerals has enjoyed a long peri od of attention...reviews of this mineral list. Dr. Bruce Jarnot, a Connecticut native, has avidly collected both minerals and...collections of Connecticut gems and minerals in existence. 386 R O C K S & MINERALS Two Connecticut localities |
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| Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown...pegmatites. Most ore beryl occurs in massive pegmatite zones where crystals may reach considerable size...can be found adjacent to the core margin of the pegmatite and in Suggested Chromophores for Beryl Color-generating...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms... 8.4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter |
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| ~ x l ::. 2.00 COOKEITE. II.ta,,-,~ Pink w xld Quartz & Lep,doli1,;; :; , :. • Geed 2.50 CHABAZITE v...I; X Contents for August, 1947 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................714 NORTH JERSEY MINERAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP TO CONNECTICUT. By K atherine B . Kanth ......................·························731 REMINISCING ON COLLINS HILL, CONN. By David H . Seaman ................... A. 702 R OCKS AND MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY NORTHWEST FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES CONVENTION |
