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Selenite from
Kerhonkson, Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York, USA


Classification
Species:Gypsum var: Selenite
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Formation:Secondary
Comments:Doubly-terminated crystals could be easily excavated by hand tools from a clay embankment on US Route 209 before the site was lost. Typically the clear crystals have an hourglass inclusion of clay and one or more hoppered terminal faces. 6 cm is a good length.
Colour:Colorless with slight brown tint from clay inclusions
Luminescent properties:blue-green under SW UV with afterglow
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Very common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Selenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kerhonkson, Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (7 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:160000
Long-form Identifier:1:3:160000:1
GUID (UUID V4):aaf01fc2-d7e0-42cf-ab37-117c4cf8d2be
Nearest other occurrences of Selenite
57.8km (35.9 miles) Philips Mine (Philips Pyrite Mine; Anthony's Nose Pyrrhotite Mine), Town of Philipstown, Putnam County, New York, USA
69.5km (43.2 miles) Interstate 84 road cuts, Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, USA
80.8km (50.2 miles) Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
82.1km (51.0 miles) Conklin Limestone Company quarry (Falls Village Quarry), Falls Village, Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
83.5km (51.9 miles) Agstone Company Limestone Quarry, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
93.2km (57.9 miles) Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
94.9km (59.0 miles) O & G Southbury Quarry (Silliman Quarry; O & G No. 2 Quarry), Orenaug Hills, Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
97.1km (60.3 miles) Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
97.1km (60.4 miles) Lower New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
References
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E L L E N V I L L E , NEW YORK by G E O R G E H E U S S E R Ellenville, New York 12428 More than three...inquiries about the mines and minerals of this area of New York. S E P T E M B E R 1976 Unfortunately the fabulous...groups at the old Ulster Mine locality within the Village of Ellenville, New York. (# 1 on the map)....Village of Kerhonkson. Here a clay bank on the west side of the highway contains gypsum of the selenite variety...of glacial Lake Albany during the ice age. The selenite crystals are easily found and fairly plentiful
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Gait, Royal Ontario Museum; Dr. William Kelly, New York State Geologi­ cal Survey; Dr. Robert King, National...T H E CHRISTY P I T , MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRINGS COUNTY, A R K A N ­ 4 2 SAS. H. L . Bar wood, Arkansas...occurrence of eggonite at Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, contains 12 percent F e 0 . Other minerals...These cubes are oriented with {110} parallel cuse, New York 13244-5290. to the plane of the concretion. Microscopically...as shown. Although these pyrite over­ Randolph County in southwestern Illinois. Specimens were growths
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Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science Mineralogical...Mineralization at the Fanwood and Summit Quarries, New Jersey, 150 Cureton, F . E . and M. E . , 38 Curetonite...Pegmatite Bodies in the Wausaw Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin, 188 Fascinating Story of Mount Mica's...Localities in the Beaver Creek Area of St. Lawrence County, New York, W. S. Condon, S. C. Chamberlain, 105 Fluorapatite... 399 Four Obscure Mineral Localities in Oxford County, Maine, M. I . Jacobson, 401 Fox, R. A . , 334
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page 2) Zalesiite frolll the Gold Hill Mine Toole County, Utah Paul M. Adams 126 South Helberta Avenue #2...Gold Hill mine is also the type locality for the new copper bismuth arsenate juanitaite (Kampf, et al...and another well had just been abandoned. In the new well they couldn't find a trace of Yivianite. just...made them great for micromounting. A year later a new monster dragline was being constructed for this mine...south to the existing pit, but started digging a new cut right at the construction site. One day at lunchtime
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discovered that the selenite xls occurring in the clay deposit on route 209 at Kerhonkson, N . Y. are slowly...the selenite xls mentioned in a silica gel magma of sodium silicate. CHEMISTRY Anhydrite Selenite CaS0
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32955 Treasurer: Carl Krotki, 140 West End Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10023 Assistant Treasurer: Jack T. Burrus...--... _-----_._~---_.-- ALABAMA The Calhoun County Rock and Mineral Club, Jacksonville, is the newest...which the Club may be of continuous service to the new Museum. __.__.__ The Mobile Rock and Gem Society...the editor of the Triasic Valley Bulletin, of the New Haven Mineral Club at the Federation Show at Atlanta;...and a fine editor. The club went to Kerhonkson, N. Y. for selenite. DELAWARE The Delaware Mineralogical
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Street, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. In 1957 I discovered a new method for growing xls which I call the Hydrooxide...the clay in the hill of the selenite location on route 209 at Kerhonkson, N. Y., which I used in this
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32955 Treasurer: Carl Krotkl, 170 West End Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10023 Assistant Treasurer: Jack T . Burrus...cording to what you've written me. You've bought some new books; you've joined a class; you've had enlightening...been a basis for good companionship. Re: books: Our new book division run by Carl Krotki and Dr. Lee Blackford...Blackford have kept you well informed regarding new and old literature on Earth Science. I believe this...curator of the Harvard Museum. As you catalogue each new mineral or fossil you get, try to get all the infor­
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Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED $ _ . . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—"Received your...purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on...magazine, the East Hampton-Haddom Neck area. I made a new discovery of that material "The Tollgate Quarry in
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Pelckmans Reisbelevenissen in Nevada en Oregon (USA) De reis die Herwig en zijn gezin dit jaar maakte...carbonaatcyanotrichiet van de Jomac mine, Utah, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt U elders...kort ! Titelpagina Australian Museum in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Foto Rik Dillen. Inzet :... van de Proprietary Block 14 mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Specimen van 33.3 X 27 cm...MINERALOGIST 90(2-3), 03.05 304-309 Dellaventuraite, a new anhydrous amphibole from the Kajlidongri manganese
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are listed on our General List #20 and our latest New Arrivals Lists. Send for your copies today. Both.................................................. NEW GEOLOGIC MAP OF WINDSOR LOCKS AREA................................................... NEW CHILDREN’S MUSEUM FOR NEW MEXICO ...............................and August 1st, 1965, in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus...to announce their gem and min­ eral show in the new Robertson Memorial YMCA in Canton, N. C. in the heart
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and Rabun County, Georgia. Between 1900 and 1905 the corundum deposits of Gallatin County, Montana, were...to a small extent. The Corundum Hill mine, Macon County, North Carolina, is about 8 miles northeast of...occur in peridotite. The most important Jackson County deposits are in the extreme northeastern part,...counties, but the Lucas mine at Laurel Creek, Rabun County, is one of the best known corundum mines in the...vicinity of Elk Creek in the central part of Gallatin County, Montant., where the ore c>ccur11 in ayenite!J
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens
 
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