 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Association: Zeolites, datolite, pectolite, calcite, epidote, copper. Distribution: Numerous localities worldwide;...GraubÄunden, and St. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland. In the USA, from Paterson, Passaic Co., and Bergen Hill, Hudson...Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia; in the Roncari quarry, East Granby, Hartford Co., Connecticut;...Connecticut; in the Hampden quarry, West Spring¯eld, Hampden Co., Massachusetts. Fine crystals in the... Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. From the Khandivali quarry, Bombay, Maharashtra, India. In Copper Valley, |  | | Journal (issue) | | diamond.............. p. Prehnite From Southbury, Connecticut Bench Tip: Depth gauge for drilling ..... p...Newsletter Prehnite, O&G Southbury Quarry, Southbury, New Haven County, CT. Photo: Bob Cooke. the specimens...through many shades of green. The Upper New Street Quarry was active from 1893 to 1925, although specimens...Prospect Park Quarry, Paterson, NJ. Bottom: Prehnite with babingtonite, Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford...Hartford County, CT. Photo: Bob Cooke. Now we get to the prehnite close to home. Fine botryoidal prehnite has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 80 in Passaic County, New Jersey. It also occurs in the Roncari quarry, Hartford County, and at Cheshire...Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, and in the Hampden quarry, Hampden County, Massachusetts. It has...respectively, and at the Cornwall iron mine, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It has been found in individual...in the Rockville Crushed Stone Company quarry, Montgomery County, Maryland. Small prehnite crystals to...reported from the Gouverneur Talc Company No. 4 quarry, Lewis County, New York. Prehnite is reported from many |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................94 Connecticut ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |  | | Catalog/List | | Sodium aluminum silicate CLEA VE LANDITE Connecticut Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite...cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon Nearly pure white xlline lamellar mass . MOONSTONE...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lake Superior in the western part of Ontonagon County, Michigan. The area is accessible by Michigan Highway...famous nativecopper deposits that are situated to the east and northeast of the mine. The host rock for the...Photo courtesy Ruth Ristola. White Pine Mine gon County, Michigan Volume 74, MaylJune 1999 161 Downloaded...of conglomerate along the Mineral River 2 miles east of the Nonesuch mine on land owned by the St. Mary’s...of ore. Three additional shafts were sunk to the east Of the No’ and a Of 28,000 tons Of Ore was On hand |  | | Catalog/List | | radial groups on limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals...lapis AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale ----i'>ink crystalline...crystal vugs ALTAITE Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...micromounter. Following her first visit to that famous quarry in the mid-1960’s, she missed few opportunities...Cannon (Cannon Micro probe, Seattle, Washington, USA) provided some preliminary microprobe work. 219 ...situated along the Brandywine Creek road 1.0 km east of the adit at a point 1.0 km northwest of Highway... The Brownley H ill mine is situated about 4 km east o f the market town o f Alston in the historic lead |  | | Catalog/List | | PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped crystal...calcium hydroxy-silicate. Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinite...QUARTZ AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite .. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue crystals and masses...aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled aggregates; some |  | | Book | | yellowish-green veins in dark gangue rocks are just as much epidote as the famous dark-green, many-faced crystals from...olivine, andalusite, kyanite, staurolite, garnets, epidote, zircon, tourmaline, cordierite, sillimanite, augite...crystals of magnesite and magnetite (epizone); epidote schists (epi- to mesozone); sericite, quartz and...associated with various silicates such as garnet, epidote, hornblende, augite, serpentine, and olivine. The...also in the cavities of certain basaltic lavas. USA - copper mines of Keeweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................area, Fresno County, California (Alfors et al., 1965); Chickencoop Canyon, Tulare County, California (Franke...Yosemite National Park. To reach Trumbull Peak, travel east on State Highway 120 to Berkeley Toulumne camp and...discovered by Anthony Marsh of Incline, Mariposa County, sometime before 1930 (the exact date is not given) |  | | Book (volume) | | Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Chondrodite, Benitoite, Iolite, Andalusite, Kyanite, Epidote and Piedmontite, Staurolite, Colemanite, Barite...Mt. Mica Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal...Stibiotantalite crystal Apatite crystal . Greenlaw Quarry 272 279 281 282 289 296 297 298 299 300 301 |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...5 cm (Grice and Gault, 1981). CONNECTICUT Litchfield, Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals |  | | Catalog/List | | specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES ...... . 79 Sharp...calcium hydroxy-silicate. California Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinitegehlenite... AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky- blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite . Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. S.ky-bJue crystals and masses...aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled aggregates; some |  | | Journal (issue) | | accretions, collided with the South China plate in the east and with the Paleo-Tethyan plate in the west, resulting...kilometers from the city of Gongcheng, in Gongcheng County. The other, smaller workings are known as the Yangshuo...the mountain ridge, northeast of Yangshuo, in the county of the same name. Both of these mines produce massive...Daoping mine is by Gongcheng, capital of Gongcheng County, which is reached by a good road from Yangshuo...Location of the Daoping and Yangshuo mines. Note the county line passing between the mines. HISTORY Mining |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...gabbro cone-sheet of its outer rim, measures 48 km east to west. Following caldera subsidence, the volcano...andradite garnet Aquamarine, diopside, calcite, epidote, magnesio-axinite, prehnite, quartz, vesuvianite...Hohenstein (peak on the right), looking towards the east. The gorge on the right side, whose rock face is...Species 2004. Mineralogical Record, Inc., Tucson, AZ, USA, 309 p. MARTIN, H. (1965) The Precambrian geology |  | | Book (edition) | | at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...class. Hard and strong species are found among the epidote group where aluminum coupled ,vith silicon-oxygen...purple crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...addition to rutile, inclusions of zeolite minerals, epidote, tourmaline, clay minerals, calcite, pyrite, and...replacing glauberite crystal; Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona; size 2" by 2". Top center: calcite replacing | | | Book (edition) | | the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...class. Hard and strong species are found among the epidote group where aluminum coupled with silicon-oxygen...purple crystals, 5” by 4”, lron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...addition to rutile, inclusions of zeolite minerals, epidote, tourmaline, clay minerals, calcite, pyrite, and...the San Pedro Mine, Hiriart Hill, Pala, San Diego County, California, showing the many steps and offsets |  | | Book (edition) | | the outstanding sho,vs of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...Prismatic Cleavage Pyroxenes, amphiboles, barite, epidote. Parting Corundum. HARDNESS AND T OUGH NESS S U...(prismatic crystal), tourmaline (prismatic crystal), epidote, olivine (dun ite or in basalt), andalusite (chiastolite)...class. Hard and strong species are found among the epidote group vvhere al u1ninum coupled with silicon-oxygen...purple crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYST AL GROWTH 73 light from |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Yale University. Eugene Alexandrov: Hamden, Connecticut. Eric Asselborn, M.D.: Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain...and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. James A. Ferraiolo: Bowie, Maryland. Michael...Geology Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Luiz A. D. Menezes: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais...Sheldon Thompson: R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Norwalk, Connecticut. Kenneth M. Towe: Dept. of Paleobiology, Smithsonian...LOCALITIES INFORMATION The United States, from east to west Canada Mexico Central America and the Caribbean |  | | Report (volume) | | REE-rich fluorapatite, Pajarito, Otero County, New Mexico, USA (Roeder et al. 1987; Hughes et al. 1991b)...1968) 5: hydroxylapatite, Holly Springs, Georgia, USA (Mitchell et al. 1943; a, including 0.15 wt % insoluble)...Drexler 1991) 10: alforsite, Big Creek, California, USA (Newberry et al. 1981) 11: strontium-apatite, Inagli...(Welin 1968) 16: johnbaumite, Franklin, New Jersey, USA (Dunn et al. 1980) 17: hedyphane, Långban, Sweden...separation of seawater: Possible halite at 9 to 10°N East Pacific Rise. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 61:2849-2854 |  | | Book | | Illinois, USA Norman M. Edelstein Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA Jean...National Laboratory, USA Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt Auburn University, Alabama, USA Mark R. Antonio Argonne...Argonne National Laboratory, USA A. J. Arko Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA (retired) James V. Beitz...Beitz Argonne National Laboratory, USA (retired) Jean Blaise Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France Jean-Philippe...Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA Nicholas J. Bridges The University of Alabama, USA Edgar C. Buck Pacific Northwest |
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Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA