 | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | 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............. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...apatite. Collecting in Connecticut My next field trip during March was to the Connecticut River Valley dinosaur...the day we spent at Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Did not find anything of value since...clear quartz xls widi white tourmaline inclusions, albite xls and green tourmaline xls. I started out May |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bornite. MINERAL LOCALITIES IN THE VICINITY TOWN, CONNECTICUT OF MIDDLE- W. G. Fol'e, Wesleyan Unhersity...prospect-holes opened in Middlesex and adjacent portions of Hartford counties, Connecticut, fourteen may be selected...Wesleyan University (Locality 18, Fig. 1). The Connecticut pegmatite dikes are composed of predominating...(Locality 9) near the Gillette quarry, south of Haddam Neck. These facts attain greater significance when...gneiss and lying betvreen the Mbnson, Maromas and Haddam gneisses. It would appear that the pneumatolytic |  | | Book (edition) | | ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • •... lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS 4 GEM hunter's GUIDE...six or eight different gem as color, its tourmaline may B are, in fact, A blue gem minerals...amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | LABORATORY. On an Occurrence of Minerals at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, U.S.A. By H. L. Bow~A~, M.A. Demoustrator...specimens from a newly opened quarry at Haddam Neck in Connecticut, which were kindly presented by Mr. Ernest...species included in the series are green and pink tourmaline, albite, microcline, green and pink apatite,...described as Haddam Neck, a village opposite to Haddam, on the other (eastern) bank of the Connecticut River...; as are also the axes, except in the case of tourmaline, where the faces are referred to the rhombohedral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PARAGENESIS OF THE WALDEN PEGMATITE, PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT (PART ONE) By DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum...in a number of pegmatites In the Middletown, Connecticut district indicates that there is a general trend...AND MINERALS northeast of Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Cotton Hill Road branches off to the...deposited along with them are manganapatite, black tourmaline, beryl, a little columbite, and large, conspicuous...other pegmatites localities in the Middletown, Connecticut district. Almandite-spessartite garnets have |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silica and Silicates (part three) (concluded) TOURMALINE is a complex silicate of boron and aluminum with...large amounts in granite and is then called a tourmaline granite. The common, black, iron rich variety...in height and width. Black tourmaline is the most common kind of tourmaline and has been found in all...Another black tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | URANINITE AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS HADDAM NECK. CONNECTICUT FROM ERnr fNcensoN, Geop hysical L aboratory...fine uraninite crystals have been found in the Connecticut pegmatites in Glastonbury, Portland, and Branchville...Branchville. Schairerl mentions torbernite from Haddam Neck, but does not record uraninite from that locality...short time before at the Rock Landing Quarry, Haddam Neck, was brought to Yale University for identification...material consisted mostly of smoky qtartz and black tourmaline, but there were two remarkable specimensof uraninite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...Slocum quarry (beryl). Harte (1944) states that "Connecticut has produced a very considerable number of gem...tourmalines." Most gem-quality minerals from Connecticut surfaced dur ing the first half of this century...local museum collections, so fine specimens of Connecticut gem minerals can be seen on display in the geological |  | | Journal (issue) | | localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm...Dorado County; 1.5 cm (55) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 8.26 cm (60) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 4.76...Dorado County; 4.29 cm (62) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.22 cm (63) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.54...WEW Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California: shown on the facing page as no. 60 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hampshire Greenfield, New York Middletown district, Connecticut Southern Black Hills district, South Dakota Crystal...The chrysoberyl locality is just north of Haddam, Connecticut. From the Amer ican Journal of Science (1825)...volume 9, Plate II. Historical Occurrences Connecticut The first chrysoberyl specimens reported from...from the United States were collected at Haddam, Connecticut, in 1810 by Archibald Bruce, M.D., who mistook...approximately one to two miles north of Haddam on the west side of the Connecticut River. Twinned and single crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with others over three feet in length. Haddam Neck, Connecticut, and from the Mt. Antero region of Colorado...crystals have been found occasionally at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, to three inches in length. Other amethyst...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester...at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of...pegmatite of the Eight Mile Park area of Fremont county, Colorado; while pink chalcedony has been found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to give a brief accountof a recenttrip thru Connecticut. LeavingEnglewoodby motor, my companionand I...town is a ridge of trap rock which follows the Connecticut River from Plainville, extending for a distance...stopping place was on the other side of the Connecticut River near Middletown. three miles or so east...House material, quartz coated with byssolite, tourmaline, beryl, and large plates of biotite. For lunch...on the river near Rock Landing, Haddam Neck. Be sure to note the "Neck". As far as I know there are half |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TOURMALINE JOHN S. ALBANESE P.O. Box 2 2 1 , Union, N. J. Tourmaline belongs to the hexagonal, ditrigonal...terminations and possess pronounced hemimorphism. Tourmaline also occurs in compact and disseminated masses...and in radially divergent aggregates called "tourmaline sunbursts." Conchoidal to uneven fracture. Hardness...composition as lithium, iron and magnesium tourmalines. Tourmaline is a very characteristic mineral of pegmatite...the 18th century was the true identity of the tourmaline known. As the tale goes, some children in Holland |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gonnnc'ron. THE MINERALS OF HADDAM, CONN. Br jamss W. DAVIS. PART I. THE town of Haddam, famous the world over...location. is central in Middlesex County, of which it is the half shire town, and the county is central in the...lies on the east side of the river is called Haddam Neck. The surface of the town, on both sides of the...named, and here arc found deposits of Iolite, Tourmaline, etc. The country rock is granite, with frequent...in 1840, by Alfred Brainerd, J r., on Had- ‘ dam Neck, and shipped to England. The effects of the glacial |  | | Report (volume) | | Pegmatites of the Middletown Area Connecticut GEOLOGICAL SU R V EY BULLETIN This report concerns work...GEOLOGY PEGMATITES OF THE MIDDLETOWN AREA, CONNECTICUT By FREDERICK STUGARD, JR. ABSTRACT The pegmatites...pegmatites of the Middletown area in Connecticut have been mined almost continuously for feldspar and muscovite...plagioclase, and muscovite. The common accessories are tourmaline, beryl, garnet, and biotite. The pegmatites have...altered near the pegmatites by the addition of tourmaline, muscovite, albite, and beryl. The total resources |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silicates and Titaniles: Beryl, Garnet Jade, Tourmaline, Zircon. But who in the world would go into a...book in the author's collection refers to green tourmaline as "Brazilian emerald". Yet another uses the...quarry mentioned is the famous Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Conn). Below is the clipping dated April 25...Sterling C. Gillette, Sr., of Haddam Neck died this morning at the Middlesex Memorial hospital. A lifelong...resident of Haddam Neck, Mr. Gillette leaves one son, Sterling C. Gillette, Jr., of Haddam Neck; two daughters |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens from the old Gillette Quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut. They were obtained from Mr. Schernikow...transparent crystals from several localities in Alexander County, North Carolina. Some excellent large monazite...represented by only one specimen from Lewis and Clark County, Montana. The well known dealer, Lazard Cahn, supplied...which were obtained from a Mr. Beadle in 1874. TOURMALINE is predominant in the Bement collection from...colors is noted from the Gillette Quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut. They were purchased from Mr. Ernest Schernikow |  | | Journal (issue) | | SLIOKY QUARTZ CRYSTAL. HA DDALI NECK, CONN. COLLECTION 01" JAMES W. DAVIS, PORT CHESTER, N. Y. aTHEe—...N0. 5 For the MINERAL COLLECTOR. THE MINERALS OF HADDAM, CONN. BY James W. DAVIS. PART II. EPIDOTE, found...in the glacial drift. GARNET is, next to black tourmaline, the most abundant mineral in the town, although...rich ruby red color. The feldspar quarries 0f Haddam Neck all produce garnets. Some interesting specimens...this country, you will invariably see labeled from Haddam. The al terations af this mineral are met with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | content. One such lithia mine is located in Connecticut and, while little or no lepidolite from here...information. For instance, the paper on the minerals of Haddam published some years ago in the " Mineral Collector"...Middletown topographic sheet' On the north line of Haddam or the south boundary of Chatham township a prominent...to Middle Haddam, one extending southward past Gillette's quarry to a landing opposite Haddam village,...are penetrated by flat opaque crystals of green tourmaline. This lithia-rich mass seems to form a small |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Africa, British East.r petrology, 228 Albite, Haddam Neck, 115. Altaite, W. Australia~ 278. Amphibolite...896. Antimonite, diathermancy, 342. Apatite, Haddam Neck, 111. Arngonite, conditions of growth~ 894. calcite... Mexico, 360. Bowman (H. L.), minerals from Haddam Neck, Conn., 97. - - refractive indices of pyromorphite~...), tourmaline, 96. Bement collection, 192. Barwerth (F.), large diamond, 193. Beryl, Haddam Neck, 116...Coloradoite, anal., W. Austr., 274. Columbite, Haddam ,Neck, ] 19. Cemendites, E. Africa, 242. Complication |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...and Madrid, Maine. Also at Portland and Haddam Neck, Connecticut, and Native Elements (5) GOLD, Au, is...sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak...tains, New Mexico, with argentite in a Randolph County, Alabama; and from a sulfide zone near the center |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | study of the pegmatites of Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado, the writer described several new triplite...Mica Lodge pegmatite, Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado. 1a. Molecular ratios. 16. Molecular...School Section pegmatite, Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado. 2o. Molecular ratios. 2b. Molecular...Triplite, Turkey Creek, Deadmans Canyon, El paso County, Colorado. 3o. Molecular ratios. 3b. Molecular...Conn Dana, 1892,p. 777, Anal.-Penfi eld. 5. Haddam Neck, Conn Shannon, 1920. Anal.-Shannon. Rem. is insol' |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California; and three miles west of Buntingville, Lassen County in the same state. GALENA, lead sulfide, has been...Andrews and Strick land quarries at Portland in Connecticut. Masses of sphalerite to fourteen pounds in weight...in pegmatite at Portland, and Glas tonbury, Connecticut; at Amelia, Vir ginia; Fairplay, California;...been found at the Rock Landing Quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut. STANNITE, a copper, iron and tin sulfide...spha lerite at the Strickland Quarry, Portland, Connecticut; also noted at the Big Chief Mine near Glendale |
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Gillette Quarry, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA