| | 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 (issue) | Apophyllite and Chalcedony Pseudoinorphs after Pectolite Bradley D. Plotldn bdpchab@optonline.net In the...described epimorphs of several minerals after pectolite hemispheres. Shortly after that issue I had the...another such pseudomorph to the collection. This new addition also generated further inspiration for a...which were pseudomorphs after pectolite. Stevensite and talc after pectolite were omitted as these particular...hemispherical growth of pectolite was recently found at Prospect Park, New Jersey. The specimen is made | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Finds at the Famous Prospect Park Quarry Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey All specimens self-collected...noted JAMES S. ZIGRAS 171 Arundel Road Paramus, New Jersey 07652 jzigras@hotmail.com MATTHEW L. GORRING...Studies Montclair State University Montclair, New Jersey 07043 gorringm@mail.montclair.edu Figure 1. Locality...Locality map, by William Besse. he Prospect Park quarry has been producing fine mineral specimens for...minerals it is possibly the most significant trap-rock quarry in the world. Not many localities can boast fine | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | yellow-green fluorescence characterizes some New Jersey datolite. Datolite is commonly seen in monoclinic...anhydrite and glauberite are well known from several New Jersey localities, and datolite after quartz is reported...with natrolite, analcime, stilbite, heulandite, pectolite, apophyllite, calcite,, and quartz, and its crystal...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 | | | 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) | babingtoniet • Trap rock en mineralen van New Jersey, USA Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen vzw Oprichtingsdatum... epitactisch gegroeid op babingtoniet van New Jersey, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt U elders...van de Manassas groeve, Prince William County, Virgiania, USA. SEM opname en copyright Thomas Ambruster...10-18/9-17 h. Beurs (M). GB SUNBURY-ON-THAMES. Kempton Park Racecourse. 10-18/10-17 h. >info@rockngem.co.uk>...10-17/12-17 h. Beurs (M). SURGERES (17). Salle Castel-Park. Beurs (M-F). SAINT-ETIENNE (42). Salle Louis Aragon | | | 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) | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | or diabases and pillow basalts of northeastern New Jersey. It has been collected here since the first half...stilbite, heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, chabazite, and...across associated with natrolite sprays, calcite, pectolite, apophyllite, and pale green datolite are recorded...Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad cuts and tunnels in the Jersey City...Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected from many localities in Passaic County | | | 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 | | | 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) | NEW JERSEY-A ROCKHOUND'S PARADISE New Jersey is not a large state, but within its borders lie many...of the minerals found in New Jersey: Native Elements Graphite—Sussex County Sulfides Sphalerite—Franklin...Phosphates Vivianite—Allentown, Shrewsbury in Monmouth County Silicates Amethyst—Basalt sills Scapolite—Franklin...Hill, Snake Hill, Bergen County Good Heulandite—Watchung Mountains, Prospect Park and Garret Mountain, Paterson...McBride Avenue Quarry Natrolite-Houdaille Quarry, Bound Brook; Snake Hill, Bergen County Mesolite-Many | | | Journal (issue) | The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 A ''New'' Discovery of Philipsbornite and Segnitite Two rare...Prehnite, Calcite and Chabazite Epintorphs after Pectolite Bradley D. Plotkin bdpchab@optonline.net In one...one of my cabinets is an old Prospect Park (New Jersey) specimen from the Joe Cilen Collection. It is...the mystery. (Continues on page 3) ----- 2 A "New" Discovery of Philipsbornite and Segnitite (Continued...Diffraction (XRD) confirmed the material as segnitite, new for the locality and quite similar in appearance | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | GEOLOGY of NEW YORK Downloaded by [University of Tennessee, Knoxville] at 09:24 21 December 2014 the...of resources. To further this image, in 1836 the New York State legislature voted to sponsor a comprehensive...first extensive scientific study of the geology of New York State, and it culminated in 1842 and 1843 with... I believe, were aware of the mineral wealth of New York, or of the number of species which it contains...by James Dwight Dana (himself a native of Utica, New York) as a source for mineral locality references | | | 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 (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...secondary minerals such as datolite, apophyllite, pectolite and prehnite are found. It is the latter mineral—prehnite | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Ohio. Zell, Lucian M., 522 5th Ave. at 44th St., New york City. Zodac,Peter,l57 Wells St., peekskill.N...the localities describer!. F. A. Cnyonr, Secretary NEW YORK MINERALOGICAL CLUB Regal,ar Montlily Meeti...October 20, 1926. A regular monthly meeting of the New york Mineralogical club was held in the I.'ast Assembl|...suggested that the Club visit the West Paterson and Prospect Park Quarries, and that Mr. Morton be appointed guide...Cahn spoke of the discovery of rhodochrosite in Park County, Colorado, and of the finding of the rare nickel | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Excursion of the M. S. P. was taken Sunday the 11th, to New Street Quarries, Paterson N. J., thru the courtesy...Many succeeded in getting specimens of prehnite, pectolite and a few other varieties in smaller quantities...Countfriends were M.S.P. field trip to New Street trap rock quarry, Paterson, N. J . Sept. I I , 1955 Photo...Wilson Jennings (in hole) with son, David. New Street quarry, Paterson, N. J . Sept. I I , 1955 Photo by...Ave., Abington, Penn. North Jersey Mineralogical Society A display of new mineral specimens collected | | | 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) | same for distribution; to encourage the search for new minerals that have not yet been d iscovered; and...Association by nominating them for membership? Each new member helps to extend the' Association's activities--helps...eont2--'4 /""' -Aur;u4i, 191/-1 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................ZEOLITES AND RELATED SILICATES. By ,,t. Allen N orth11p NEW ENGLAND NOTES. Co11d11cted by R11dolf C. B. Bartsch... Bagro11 ski.. 283 GREEN STILBITE FOUND AT PROSPECT PARK Q UARRY. By Chas. F. Dieg11a11 ............ | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Pectolite-In pillow basalt cavities, Prospect Park Quarry Rhodonite—Franklin-Ogdensburg (past) Babingtonite—A...Babingtonite—A rare mineral found many places in New Jersey Axinite—Franklin zinc ore deposits Hemimorphite—In...publication of the Tompkins County Gem and Mineral Club, Ithica, N.Y. NEW LONG ISLAND MUSEUM The need...for a museum of Natural History on Long Island, New York, will be realized this coming fall of '76, con...Bicentennial celebration. The new Long Island Museum of Natural History in Bellmore, New York will include displays | | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | ROCKS AND MINERALS GREEN STILBITE FOUND AT PROSPECT PARK QUARRY By CHAS. F. DIEGNAN Downloaded by [University...of minerals that have been found at this noted quarry which has been in operation for a number of years...find rock hounds at the quarry making little ones out of big ones. The quarry, a typical Ll-shaped excavation...excavation, is at the end of Planten Ave., in the Prospect. Park section of Paterson, N. J. The walls ars high...area such a conglomeration of minerals as this quarry possesses! At the present time, the west and northwest |
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Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA