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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| CONNECTICUT mmES MINERALS V Tourmaline Crystal from Haddam, Connecticut John Hiller, Jr. Hillers CryctaLShop...- CRYSTALS NOT PISTOLS K c^oi c3— A r CONNECTICUT MINES AND MINERALS published privately l i...Shelton, Connecticut I DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the mineral clubs of Connecticut, Continued...1971, John Hiller, Jr, 3 Peters Lane Shelton, Connecticut II CONTENTS 3. 5, l i 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11...24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Connecticut Mineral Clubs Cleaning and Trimming Oxalic Acid |
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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...long before I picked up a good size chunk of the pegmatite. The rock was primarily made up of very pale,...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...the push button over the limonite sample will cause the light located at Ore Hill, Salisbury, Conn., to |
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| Pennsylvania held a field trip to the Bethlehem Limestone Quarry (a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Co. ) at Bridgeport...fiery heat of the day to dig for minerals. The quarry covers 38 acres and is now 305 feet deep. The accompanying...Pennsylvania field trip to Bethlehem Limestone Quarry, Bridgeport, Pa., July 13, 1958. Photo by Harold...orite from "Cave in Rock" Illinois, for dison the hill overlooking the open pit. The tribution. Needless...nephew John, magnetite and to Charles Belz at "Quarry Farm, Lansdale, chalcopyrite; Pauline Kintz, a |
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| ARIZONA—"Under separate cover 1 am sending you another Yuma County mineral. Look it over as it is a most interesting...my name in R&M. Was glad to send him some Yuma County specimens. That Novice Column is a very nice gesture...Nov. 18, 1954 (from Peter B. Nalle, 4600 Indian Hill Rd., Riverside, Calif.) :— "I will try to bring...operating in two areas at Crestmore. One is our Jensen Quarry which is about 4ty2 miles from the plant and the...feel the risk is worth the small gain. Our Jensen quarry has always been closed to collectors because we |
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| community of Talucah near Vahlermoso Springs, in Morgan County, north Alabama. A large portion of this cave had...which was 15" long), pyrite xls up to 2", good limonite pseudos, massive anglesite rich in silver, showy...of Mines, I heard of an active uranium mine or quarry a couple of miles from town. Following the highway...stopped to collect specimens of malachite in a pegmatite which had been blasted through during construction...at the contact between an otherwise ordinary pegmatite and soft schist. There were solid masses of uraninite |
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| float) at Sand Mountain, Clark, Routt Co., Colo. CONNECTICUT — A letter, dated Aug. 7, 1953, comes from Walter...of it reads :— "I will report on my trip to Connecticut and my visit with Richard Schooner of East Hampton...worthwhile. First we visited the famed Strickland Quarry (near Portland, Conn.) which is being worked presently... Since all the water has been drained from the quarry, one won't believe the gigantic hole that was left...actually visits the place. We then visited the Hale quarry in search of manganese dentrites which were 576 |
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| and S. B. Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California................................. 110 by Jack Crowley The Bertrandites of Connecticut................................114 by William...Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina. Found in 1971, this group of crystals...104 The Mineralogical Record FRANK PERHAM Pegmatite Miner, Geologist and Humorist by Pete J. Dunn...pegmatites than most, he is also a dedicated pegmatite miner, a crack diesel engine mechanic, and is |
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| are interesting specimens. Centreville is in Bibb County, in the central part of Alabama. Near Odenville...community of about 1,200 in southeastern Pinal County which probably will become a ghost town when the...Development Company shuts down its lead-zinc mine (on hill at left). Company officials say development of the...Trading Post, McEImo Canyon, Montezuma Co., Colo. CONNECTICUT — In a letter dated Aug. 19,1952, from George...Conn., is this most interesting passage: "The Strickland mine has been pumped out and I was told the Government |
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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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| 1957 at 8:20 P.M. at «5-01 118th Street, Richmond Hill, N . Y. There were 45 members and guests present...Cambria Heights 11, N . Y. LA 5-1380 . . Fulton County Mineral Club March 25th Meeting Our under 16 year...Reporter 368 Bleecker St. Gloversville, N . Y. Middlesex County Mineral Club On the evening of February 12th...12th, 1957, the first regular meeting of the Middlesex County Mineral Club was held at the Moodus Library...called the Middlesex County Mineral Club. Though not restricted to inhabitants of that county, most of |
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| January/February: Gold and quartz, Eagle's est mine, Placer County, California. Tana Daugharthy specimen, Harold and...ovember/Decernber: Fluorite, Blue Circle Cement quarry, Weardale, England. Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka...quartz. 118-23; Yaogangxian mine, 258 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5, 85-87,149-51,213-14,293-95,373-75...49 Collecting the KellerLakePegmatite, Waupaca County. Wisconsin: A New Site for Gadolinite-(Y), T. W...Collector's Note, Collecting the KellerLake Pegmatite, Waupaca County, Wisconsin: A New Site for Gadolinite-(Y) |
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| item: "Limonite after pyrite, I have found in fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama...during the period when the locality was active." CONNECTICUT — The following item, dated Jan. 14, 1957, comes...another mineral has come to light at Collins Hill (near Portland, Middlesex Co.), Conn, (see my article in...near the old HaleWalker Quarry —perhaps a third of a mile from the Strickland Quarry. Chalcopyrite is disseminated...through such epidote at several other places in Portland and Glastonbury, and malachite is usually present |
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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...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...rest of the day we spent at Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Did not find anything of value since |
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| Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Connecticut ......... 6 Table 3 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Connecticut...................................11 Figure 4...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...1969; Ui radioactivity is 5 to 7 times background. Hill copper mine. RM 1968. Source ol informal Phyllite...occurrences 1n non-sedimentary rocks of Alabama^ Pegmatite Columbite, cyrtolite, Devonian Country rock is |
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| They are sometimes found in town libraries or county buildings. Occasionally club members in a community...Mines at Pacolet Mills in search of such things as limonite, tourmaline, corundum and soapstone. . . . The...Artifacts Society, Rock Hill, scheduled a trip to the smoky quartz 10eation near Liberty Hill. RHODE ISLAND A...MillROCKS AND MINERALS eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fallsington, when they travelled there for corundum...attended by 209 collectors who showed up at the Eureka Quarry. Specimens found were smoky quartz crystals, calcite |
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| miles long extending from Coosa County thru Talladega and into Calhoun County. Most of the distance it is...comes from Hoover Dam, Mohave County. A % inch black cube of limonite pseudo after pyrite xl, in gray...goldsilver mines at Silverton, San Juan Co., Colo. CONNECTICUT—The following letter, dated May 30, 1954, comes...found at the Swanson Lithia Mine (Haddam Neck, Middlesex Co., Conn.). David Seaman (American Museum of...another one for the American Museum, though the quarry has been posted. I intend to discuss the matter |
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| e~te,,/,d /o,t MfM!, l9J/.I CHIPS FROM TIIE QUARRY ........................................................................ 161 THE ANDREWS QUARRY NEAR PORTLAND, CONN. By Peter Zodac ..................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CONNECTICUT VALLEY MINERAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . ...edge of the valley is Park Avenue, while Hudson County Boulevard East occupies the east side of the valley...spanning Park Avenue and another crossing Hudson County Boulevard East. This latter bridge carries the |
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| CORDIERITE IN PEGMATITE NEAR MICANITE, COLORADO E. Wtu. Herwucn, UniversityoJ Michigan,Ann Arbor, Mi...Mi.chigan. ABsrRAcr The Climax pegmatite of the Micanite district in Colorado contains unusually large...IurnooucttoN The Micanite pegmatite district iies acrossthe Park-Fremont County line in south-centralColorado...recognizedcordieritein the Climax deposit. The pegmatite was studied by the writer in 1946 and 1949, at...metamorphic layers are numerous massesof granitic pegmatite, which, in general, are very irregular in shape |
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| collect a few specimens. "The locality is the Jeffrey quarry located 1/2 mile outside North Little Rock city...city limits on State Hwy 65 in Pulaski County, Ark." — letter dated July 31, 1963 from Richard Purifoy,...platy selenite xls. Very interesting specimens. CONNECTICUT — "I am sending two quartz xl specimens found...sale by Horace W . Slocum, 625 No. Wilson St., Rock Hill, S. C. Along with the price list was his letter...the interior to be a solid crust of dark brown limonite with a loosemass of dark gray hardened clay. It |
