 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Natural History New York, New York 10024 The Triassic traprock quarries of New Jersey have been a prolific...supplement previous publications dealing with New Jersey traprock* minerals, especially those of Manchester...(1931) cites more than 40 traprock localities in New Jersey. This article focuses on the Bergen Hill occurrence...Lower New Street quar ries, Paterson; Warren Brothers quarry, Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry, Upper...Upper Montclair; and the Francisco Brothers quarry, Great Notch (Fig. 1). Several important diabase localities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | yellow-green fluorescence characterizes some New Jersey datolite. Datolite is commonly seen in monoclinic...of datolite after anhydrite and glauberite are well known from several New Jersey localities, and datolite...localities such as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite...Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found at the Notch quarry at nearby Amherst...Lower New Street quarries at Paterson (Peters et al. 1980) and quarries at Prospect Park, Passaic County |  | | Report (issue) | | ====================================== What’s New in the Mineral World? Report #28 May 28, 2011 by...noted, and of course there are a few interesting new items as well. And, as has been happening quite a...late 2010 find in the famous Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Since showtime, at least...that the Kosnars should have taken over the Prospect Park treasures, as their late father Richard, although...although he later moved on to Colorado, was a New Jersey native and showed the boys, early in life, how |  | | Journal (issue) | | J. Dunn Famous Mineral Localities: Paterson, New Jersey................157 by Thomas A. Peters, Joseph....................................... 132 What’s New in Minerals?.......................................n . photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York designed by Wendell E. Wilson Mineralogical...receive additional grants we would rather use them for new projects instead of reprinting old ones. We are content...“Descriptive Mineralogy: Discovery and Characterization of New Minerals.” Papers are solicited for both the general |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals In The New Jersey Traprocks By GARDINER GREGORY Lee Avenue School, Hicksville, L. I., N. Y .... There are two areas in New Jersey that are world famous for their minerals. One is the Franklin &...& Sterling Hill area in Sussex County which is famous for its large number of minerals, about 180 in number...extending from Somerville in Somerset County to Paterson in Passaic County. This area is noted for its fine...come from the Paterson area. The traprocks of New Jersey are intrusive into and interbedded with the Triassic |  | | Journal (issue) | | The following short items were submitted by our new group of "Mineral Spies" as well as other Mineral...accurate) articles on a timely basis. - Editor. New Moroccan Acanthite Discovery By Dave Bunk dave@davebunkminerals...dave@davebunkminerals.com After hearing about a new find of octahedral acanthite crystals from Morocco, I...(Continues on page 2) Stalactites from Prospect Park, New Jersey Bradley D. Plotkin bdpchab@optonline.net...cleaned off the roof of my house and assembled a new stainless steel barbecue. It was now mid-afternoon |  | | Report (issue) | | BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS...ITS ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931 BY...BY James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHOR’S NOTE Since his boyhood days the author...of his recreational hours collecting minerals in New York City and its environs. A record lias been personally...in the old lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY Downloaded by [The Aga Khan University] at 04:47 09 October 2014 MARTIN...Department of Physics The College of New Jersey Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718 @@F]()& P n Analcime...crystal forms displayed by some of the Millington quarry minerals, based on drawings in Klein and Hurlburt...Triassic Passaic Formation Precambrian Rocks Figure 3. Location map and genMillington Quarry era1 geology...Town quarry area. Map compiled from Cummings (1985) and Lewis and Kummel(1912). Millington quarry is situated |  | | Journal (issue) | | distribution in the Orange Mountain Basalt, Paterson, New Jersey ...............................................Arthur Russell, was to be despatched to Swallowfield Park near Reading in 1964, with his colleague the late...Natural History Museum, Bob was an early adopter of new technology, and was largely responsible for bringing...endless analysis of two unknown phases from Merehead Quarry, took up much of his time. Eventually, with the...collaborators these phases were characterised as the new minerals parkinsonite and mereheadite. Readers of |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................... p. 14 Manassas quarry geology, pt. 2 ................. p. 15 Upcoming...Datolite forms epimorphs after anhydrite and pseudomorphs after anhydrite, danburite, and probably other...notable datolite localities, particularly in New Jersey, where nice crystals, along with The Mineral...November 2019 Datolite crystal from Prospect Park, Passaic County, NJ. Photo: Bob Cooke. 2 vugs in...insulated! Datolite pseudomorph after anhydrite, Prospect Park, Passaic County, NJ. Photo: Bob Cooke. Initially |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PATERSON, NEW J E R S E Y by TOM A. PETERS, DIRECTOR Paterson Museum 268 Summer St. Paterson, New Jersey...foremost mineral localities in the world, Paterson, New Jersey is the home of the Paterson Museum. Tom A. Peters...foot wide chasm known as the Great Falls of the Passaic River, a national, natural land mark. Alexander...the area around the Great Falls as the site for a new industrial city— Paterson. With this background of...equally famous Franklin, New Jersey zinc mines (largely through the efforts of New Jersey Zinc Company and Professor |  | | Book | | decade, however, the need has been growing for a new, comprehensive index. Because the 14-year index suffered... Consequently, it was our decision to prepare a new index which is cumulative back to volume 1, fully...the 14-year index, and which is organized on a new plan. Nevertheless, all readers and users of the...the last ten years, and which has inspired this new effort. The current 25-year index is divided into...appears n Brief descriptive note, as in "What's New in Minerals?" p Photograph or other illustration |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 A ''New'' Discovery of Philipsbornite and Segnitite Two rare...net In one of my cabinets is an old Prospect Park (New Jersey) specimen from the Joe Cilen Collection...It is Cilen #1697 and labeled "Prehnite after Anhydrite." The corresponding notation in Joe Cilen's card...proportions cast doubt that the precursor mineral was anhydrite as indicated on the label. Close study of the...the mystery. (Continues on page 3) ----- 2 A "New" Discovery of Philipsbornite and Segnitite (Continued |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Paterson, New Jersey area is one of the best known sources of unusual mineral specimens in the world...in Paterson,New by R O B E R T J . NARSAVAGE J R . 51 Van Orden Place Clifton, New Jersey 07011 Every...out of the traprock quarries of the Paterson, New Jersey area. In recent years these prize pieces have...books bring to mind such names as Upper New Street and Lower New Street Quarries, Paterson; and the West...areas; the Great Notch areas, McLean's Quarry, and Prospect Park Quarry. What is the status of these sites |  | | Journal (issue) | | FELLOWS Peter Bancroft The Braen Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . ...announcement made at the end of the August 3 “what’s new in the mineral world” installment on our website...stopped for a minor traffic infraction by a Pima County Sheriff’s Deputy while driving home from work....Tanzania, and gained fame for his discovery of the new gem grossular variety tsavorite in 1967. In 1968...States for identification by the GIA Gem Trade Lab in New York. When his mines were nationalized by the Tanzanian |  | | Catalog/List | | squares NEW for the list It is also possible to order from the last long catalogue No 104 New Customers...plus post 1147 ■■ ALTAITE Organ Mts, Dona Anna County, New Mexico a few silvery I mm spots in dark matrix...- - - - -~ ---1152 ■ AL UNITE Marysvale, Piute County, Utah Pure orange-pink crystalline mass KAISO/4OH..._ Fcldsp3~ -·· ~ 510 ■■ CHALCEDONY Greystones Quarry, lezant, Cornwall Grey banded massive lx2 £1 2x2...- -- -- - -- - - -- - 134 ■ CHALCOCITE Swinless Quarry, Kilbirnie, near Glasgow, Scotia Rich metallic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Jersey's well-known Fanwood and Summit quarries expose the same stratigraphic section and yield many...Summit Quarries, New Jersey WARREN CUMMINGS 225 Beechwood Avenue Trenton, New Jersey 08618 T H E SUMMIT...cut, located in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, formed a major mineral collecting site prior...Construction Materials, the last operator of the quarry, ceased operation in 1977, and since 1983 the pit...Company quarry in the Borough of Watchung, Somerset County—sometimes known as the Scotch Plains quarry, or |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Journal (issue) | | England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...R, Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur........................................389 What's New in Minerals?.......................................for the Tucson Show, but it’s a possibility. 354 NEW GLOSSARY COMING! The fifth edition of Fleischer’s...tattered Glossary up to our Show table ai buy a new copy of the same edition to replace the worn out | | | Catalog/List | | DOMEYKITE pure metallic mass about Ix1 Keweenaw County. Michigan USA £ 14 11. BARYTES and QUARTZ translucent...attractive small group about l x2 inches ( Coldstones Quarry, Yorkshire) £7 19. ANAPAITE pale green micro... about 1 .5 inches long . Maroon Pass, Colorado USA£7 23. YANADINITE variety ENDLlCHITE intergrown brown..., overall size about 2,.5 x1.5 £15 . Ze Pinto Prospect, Minas Gerias BraziI £15 25. CHRYSOCOLLA pseudomorph...with some minor green Pyromorphite 79 Mine Arizona USA £10 26. SMALTITE dark grey 5 111111 vein on the surface |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DISPLAY OF SUMMER'S BEST FINDS Members of the North Jersey Mineralogical Society were surprised on entering...barite from Sterling, Colo., pyrite on tetrahedrite, Park Gty, Utah, large purple crystals of fluorite from...green prehnite, unusual laumontite, stilbite and anhydrite on agate, and amethyst covered with small crystals...and golden beryl and black tourmaline from Slocum Quarry, Conn. William Aitken displayed a large white polished...iron oxide, maroon in color, and came from Prospect Park, N . J. W. H. Hayes of Irvington showed caledonite |  | | Book | | Tudith L. Vozza F. Silva Printing Palisades Park, New Tersey l L r This book is dedicated 11 to...Jerry Furia of "Fur:y Camera & Sound" in Dumont, New Jersey for their technical assistance with the photography... LOCATIONS: UIS 1.A.. NEW' JERSEY Bergen Hill, Snake Hill, Paterson, New Street Quarries, Upper Montclair...MICHIGAN Houghton County, Park Cowlitz County, Keeneenan Highwood Mts. County CANADA NOVASCOTIA...Victoria, Flinders, N"£W ZEALAND Tasmania Sydney, New South Wales SOUTH AMERICA Viadulo, BRAZIL Rio |  | | Book | | locall - rs where amomeor prospectors m a y still prospect f o r gems mai t e a l s a n d a l s o fossils...CHAPTER 1 Gem Hunting In The Appalachians CHAPTER 2 New Jersey ........... _ . _ 1 _ CHAPTER 3 Pennsylvania___...states each year give collectors a chance to buy new finds, see f i n e workmanship, a n d s h o w t h...r e t h e Tennessee a n d Alabama Rivers. N e w Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania:...well known old localities are not all “has beens;” new hobbyists and experienced collectors alike prove |
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Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA