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| 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............. |
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| 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia... If you have ever had the desire to detonate a quarry blast or create an earthquake you will be able...Figure 7—Manganoan Calcite – Montreal Mine (Iron County, WI). Figure 3 (left) - “Wonderful World of Agates”...mineral specimens from the Montreal Mine (Iron County, Wisconsin). Most of the specimens came from the...An unusual specimen from the Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, Wisconsin) is a sheet copper (figure 6). One of |
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| 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 |
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| THE PARAGENESIS OF THE WALDEN PEGMATITE, PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT (PART ONE) By DAVID M. SEAMAN American...in a number of pegmatites In the Middletown, Connecticut district indicates that there is a general trend...as at Varutrask, Sweden; and at other lithium pegmatite localities outside the United States. Special...the paragenesis of the minerals of the Walden pegmatite since it has been opened up only in recent years...this complex, lithium pegmatite was readily available. Location The Walden Quarry, or Walden Gem Mine |
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| 1937 . . CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1937 Chips from the Quarry ......................................................................... Minerals of the Strickland Quarry. By Peter Zodac ........................ Wesleyan...Members ............ Some Mineral Localities Near Portland, Conn. .................................... The...Auoc:iatlon 130 ROCKS and MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY (Formerly the Bulletin Board) A NEW LAPIDARY MACHINE...ASSOOIATIO!II }8 WHOLE No. 70 MINERALS OF THE STRICKLAND QUARRY By PETER ZODAC Editor "Rocks and Minerals" |
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| VICINITY TOWN, CONNECTICUT OF MIDDLE- W. G. Fol'e, Wesleyan Unhersity A few of the pegmatite quarries in...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 quartz...cavities, and are covered by platy crystals of cleavelandite which form a background for the rarer minerals...found in orthogneiss, the Pelton quarry (Locality 4), east of Collins HilI and within the Glastonbury |
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| 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...morphic and .igneous.rock units in the area near Great Hill. .The pegmatites are composed essentially of perthite...similar to the main part of the body. This type of pegmatite is of limited economic value. About 25 percent |
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| MINERALS FROM 1 CONNECTICUT HILL By Richard Schooner P. O. Box 215 East Hampton, Conn. Collins Hill, in the...the town of Portland, undoubtedly represents the most remarkably mineralized area, of its size, in southern...southern New England. The hill is not especially large, but several different formtions are present, and...has been done on the giant pegmatite at the summit. The Strickland Quarry is enormous, consisting of...treats it as a northern continuation of the Strickland Quarry. The accompanying map should furnish whatever |
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| SULFIDES A N D SULPHOSALTS IN PEGMATITE By DAVID M. SEAMAN 36 Winter Street, Norway, Maine 04268 A...sulfide minerals are com monly found in granite pegmatite as ga lena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite...mineralogical curiosities. Most of the sulfides noted in pegmatite are of the common ore minerals most commonly found...deposits. The only economic sulfides recovered from pegmatite are bismuthinite, and molybdenite. Bismuthinite... Molybdenite has been a byproduct from pegmatite at Blue Hill, Cambdage Farm, Tunk Pond, and Cooper in |
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| Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.................................... 2 Himalaya pegmatite,.................................................................................. 2 Unnamed pegmatite occurrence, Volcan Mountains ........................................... 3 Brown Derby no. 1 pegmatite ........................................................................... 3 Connecticut .......................................................... |
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| THE PARAGENESIS OF THE WALDEN PEGMATITE, PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT (PART III) (Continued from last issue)...Quartz in soda-lithium pegmatite is generally much less abundant than the cleavelandite and lepidolite save...in the lithium replacement body in the Walden pegmatite appears to be: first, caesium beryl, either morganite...inter-grown with c/eavelandite Irom the Walden Quarry, Poriland, Conn"ecticut. ROCKS AND MINERALS 595...cyrtolite; fan-like, hemispherical growths of cleavelandite and lepidolite, probably of simultaneous deposition; |
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| THE PARAGENESIS OF THE WALDEN PEGMATITE, PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT (PART II) (Continued from last issue)...crystallizing mass of pegmatite in the lithium replacement body in the Walden pegmatite. It envolved the rubellite...the late lithium replacement body of the Walden pegmatite in broad, lath-like, euhedral crystals several...are the largest euhedral crystals found in this pegmatite and are tightly intergrown with or embedded in...CROSS-SECTION OF WALDEN PEGMATITE r---I §--- ---- Mafie Gneiss -~- Common Pegmatite with large Almandite-Spessartite |
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| pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...2.8 cm high, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the...Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff Scovil...localities are the pegmatites around Newry in Oxford County. Newry muscovite crystals in the collection exhibit |
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| Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...______________________________________ _ Location of pegmatite districts ___________________ _ Previous work...Acknowledgments ______________________________ _ History of pegmatite mining inN ew England _______ _ Mica mining _...deposits _______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic...________________________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ______ |
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| Study of the Pegmatites of the Middletown Area, Connecticut D. G. BROOKI~S Department of Geology, Kansas...18, 1969 Abstract. The pegmatites of Eastern Connecticut have a mineralogy consistent with a magmatic...geochronologic method. t~b-Sr measurements on early stage pegmatite minerals indicate an age of 258 • 1 m.y. with...Previously reported K-Ar and U, Th-Pb ages for pegmatite minerals are 249• 8 m.y. and 260:[: 3 m.y. respectively...at variable distances from the Sbriekland Quarry pegmatite have remained essentially closed systems with |
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| PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 23:09 04 August 2017...pegmatites. It has been found at the Andrews quarry, Portland, Connecticut; with monazite crystals at 185th Street...New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne Canyon...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near |
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| Glastonbury, Connecticut The famous old rock dumps of Strickland's Quarry on Collins Hill in Portland, Connecticut...collectors to get nearer to the bottom of the pegmatite pile. Sometimes this prize has been an exceptionally...less visited dumps on Collins Hill. He described a crumbly, weathered pegmatite containing cacoon-like...chunk of the pegmatite. The rock was primarily made up of very pale, platy cleavelandite. The crisscrossing...Whiskers magnified 100X. Found in Strickland's Quarry, Portland, Conn. 138 ROCKS AND MINERALS plates created |
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| CONNECTICUT ROCKS AT LUTZ By MRS. FRED SWEET 42 N. School St., Manchester, Conn. When the Lutz Junion...geographical location of minerals common to Connecticut. Mr. Sweet used a display case donated by a leading...background for the exhibit. He obtained a County map of Connecticut which he glued to a sheet of Vi" plywood...presses a button to see where mineral is found in Connecticut 124 ROCKS AND MINERALS The samples are of...limonite sample will cause the light located at Ore Hill, Salisbury, Conn., to shine. The push button over |
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| the Dayton Road District SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT JOHN H. BETTS 215 West 98 Street, Apt. 2F New...promising forgotten locations in Connecticut is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury....article are the northernmost in the Middletown-Portland pegmatite district (fig. 1). They are in South Glastonbury...miles north-northeast of Portland, Connecticut, just north of the Portland-South Glastonbury town line...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north |
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| 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...was on the Branchville dump I found some nice cleavelandite xls., an orthoclase xl., and some uraninite...Ridgefield Pegmatite chiseling out very deformed quartz xls, from the wall of a small quarry above the...apatite. Collecting in Connecticut My next field trip during March was to the Connecticut River Valley dinosaur |
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| PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York...article are for the most part uncommon or rare in pegmatite. Only fluorite, calcite and siderite are at all...mineral in a few pegmatites at Atolia, San Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the...the most common fluoride mineral occurring in pegmatite. It is often associated with cassiterite, tourmaline...amount in the rare earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing |
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| and the Strickland mine on Collins Hill, four miles northeast from Nliddletown, Connecticut. The beryl-albite...showngrowingawayftomtheintergrorvth. X:0.28. Specimenfrom the Strickland mine. r Hess,F. L., Pegmatites,Econ.Geol.,vol...Anderson, A. L., Genesisof the mica depositsof Latah County, Idaho: Econ. Geol., vol. 28, pp. 41-58, 1933....be of medium-grain or of the bladed variety, cleavelandite, which radiates from the beryl-albite intergrowths...the same magma fraction. This radial habit of cleavelandite is often very important in establishing its |
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| water to carbon dioxide activities recorded in pegmatite apatites. Keywords: IR spectroscopy, pegmatites...Ontario apatites, and type B1 (others) for Harding pegmatite and Marlborough, Massachusetts apatites. ratory...Oklahoma. Two specimens came from the Harding pegmatite, Taos County, New Mexico, Harding 2 and Harding 23,...from Maine pegmatites include the Black Mountain pegmatite, Oxford Co. (Brown and Wise 2001), where apatite...associated with albite and triphylite; the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford Co. (Wise et al. 1994; Wise and Rose 2000) |
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| QUARRIES AND MINERALS OF SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT. J. H. Betts, 215 W. 98th St., #2F, New York...locations is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This region was exploited...Mid196 ROCKS 81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South...Glastonbury, about 5 miles north-northeast of Portland, just east of Route 17. The area is roughly triangular...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north |
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| Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District Topsham • Topsham, Maine's underappreciated pegmatite district, is...I S L O C A T E D about 25 miles northeast of Portland along Interstate Route 95 just across the Andros...Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from Standpipe Hill, overlooking the...synonomy has arisen due to changes of leasee or owner. Quarry locations are described and plotted on top ographic...of John W . Fisher between 1852 and 1860. This quarry was worked for a single season during the 1860s |
Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA