 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Recent 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...Environmental Studies Montclair State University Montclair, New Jersey 07043 gorringm@mail.montclair.edu Figure 1...1. Locality map, by William Besse. he Prospect Park quarry has been producing fine mineral specimens...minerals it is possibly the most significant trap-rock quarry in the world. Not many localities can boast fine |  | | Book | | Tudith L. Vozza F. Silva Printing Palisades Park, New Tersey l L r This book is dedicated 11 to MOM...Jerry Furia of "Fur:y Camera & Sound" in Dumont, New Jersey for their technical assistance with the photography... HEULANDITE 53 HYDRONEPHELITE 58 LAUBANITE 59 LAUMONTITE 60 LEONHARDITE 65 LEVYNITE= LEVYNE 67 MAZZITE... LOCATIONS: UIS 1.A.. NEW' JERSEY Bergen Hill, Snake Hill, Paterson, New Street Quarries, Upper Montclair...MICHIGAN Houghton County, Park Cowlitz County, Keeneenan Highwood Mts. County CANADA NOVASCOTIA |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Natural History New York, New York 10024 The Triassic traprock quarries of New Jersey have been a...and 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | variety of minerals, including feldspars, prehnite, laumontite, and leucite, have been reported. Analcime is...rocks or diabases and pillow basalts of northeastern New Jersey. It has been collected here since the first...crystallized and include calcite, stilbite, heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite...the railroad tunnels through Bergen Hill, Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad...Weehawken areas and quarries at Snake Hill, Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Road, Cambridge, glauconite, 373 Carrock Fell, Cumberland, tsumebite, I76 Gipsy Land, Leicester, chernovite...epidote, hornblende, diopsite, 427 Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, danburite, 171; durangite, I72 Chycornish...Crowns Rock, St. Just, Land's End, garnet, 427 Dean quarry, The Lizard, djurle'ite, I72; analcime, adularia...axinite, epidote, apatite, hornblende, diopside, 427 South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, francevillite...penwithite (= neotocite), 279 and M26 Devon Meldon quarry, Okehampton, greenovite, 172; priceite, 175 Ramsley |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. 89 by A. Ingelson Minerals of the Puu o Ehu quarry, H aw aii........................................sapphirine crystals from the Harts Range, Central Australia ................................................ Hansen The libethenite zone, Burra mine, South Australia ....................................105 by........................................109 What’s New in Minerals? by W. E. W ils o n ...................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | January/February: Crocoite, Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Opalville mine, lease 135, Jundah, Queensland, Australia. Owner unknown, Frank Coffa photo. May/June: Beryl...Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen, Jeff Scovil...(Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. Paul Geffner specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry—Esmont dolomite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite |  | | 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...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pete 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 (issue) | | world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...crystals, muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite; |  | | Book | | for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and more completely...years this has lead to the establishment of many new species that are compositional and structural analogs...Subcommittee for Zeolite Nomenclature of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...evaluating proposed new species, it is difficult to apply them rigidly to accepted species. 1. A new zeolite mineral...must be demonstrated as a condition for approval of new species. Zeolites that have the same framework and | | | Book | | for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and more completely...years this has lead to the establishment of many new species that are compositional and structural analogs...Subcommittee for Zeolite Nomenclature of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...evaluating proposed new species, it is difficult to apply them rigidly to accepted species. 1. A new zeolite mineral...must be demonstrated as a condition for approval of new species. Zeolites that have the same framework and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...Maysville: epidote (Cook, 1978). Smoke Rise KOA—0.85 km south of 1-85 on U . S . 441 near Commerce: beryl, garnet |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen, Harold and... near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York. Uli Bahmann specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. SepteniberlOctober:...manganoan, Argentine vein, Idarado mine, San Miguel County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Ed Raines photo...Maine, 412 Birnessite, Utah, 245 Blackburn, W. H., new columnist. 83 Blakeite, Nevada, 128 Blatonite, Utah |  | | Book (volume) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯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) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences University of Wisconsin-River Falls 410 South Third Street River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 his is...discovery of high-quality minerals from several new localities, including the Flambeau copper mine near...Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and...Wisconsin in the past 150 years and points the way to new G T Dr William S. Cordua is a professor of geology...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1 |  | | Journal (issue) | | index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...Act of 1974 are adopted almost exclusively. Thus Wales is divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and...Cardiff in Wales, which are simply referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought...19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's Treasury: A new exhibition in the Earth Galleries of the Natural |  | | Book | | decade, however, the need has been growing for a new, comprehensive index. Because the 14-year index suffered... Consequently, it was our decision to prepare a new index which is cumulative back to volume 1, fully...the 14-year index, and which is organized on a new plan. Nevertheless, all readers and users of the...the last ten years, and which has inspired this new effort. The current 25-year index is divided into...appears n Brief descriptive note, as in "What's New in Minerals?" p Photograph or other illustration |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Downloaded by [New York University] at 05:37 14 May 2015 Alaska Gold Pseudomorph...John Ebner of Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting...groupings and distortions found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill burned...nowdefunct Saltman prospect in Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find...be the world's largest morganite at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional |  | | Report (edition) | | “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy; right fibrous : tremolite, C. K. Williams quarry, Easton: bottom: calcite...oriented coatings of goethite, “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy, (courtesy of Delbert L. Oswald) ADDITIONAL...succeeding revisions and maintained an active file of new localities, minerals, and corrections which greatly...edition of Mineral Collecting Cedar Hill in quarry where Dave had done IV much of his work PREFACE...collecting than ever before, yes; but new minerals for the state and new localities are springing up almost |  | | Journal (issue) | | saw several new and exciting finds. This paper will discuss a couple of the more exciting "new finds" that...Mine Chihuahu, Mexico Fornacite DH Claims Gila County, Arizona DH Claims In January of '96, I was first...The Blacl~ Mountain §podumene Pegmatite Natrona County, Wyoming • Mark Jacobson 112 N. Lemans St. Lafayette...the pegmatite. Since that time, three additional prospect pits of slightly The pegmatite is located on... just south of the headwater area of Sage Hen Creek. An exact location of the largest prospect pit on |  | | Report (issue) | | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Helvite Scapolitc Natrolitc Alesolitc Thomson itc Laumontite Mordenite Heulandite Stilbitc (Epidcsminc) Epistilbite...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials |  | | Book (volume) | | geologic ages and under varied conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: |
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