 | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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...pegmatite was readily available. Location The Walden Quarry, or Walden Gem Mine, as it is most commonly known...AND MINERALS northeast of Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Cotton Hill Road branches off to the...Some fifteen feet of the pegmatite between the microcline-perthite zone and the contact of the pegmatite |  | | 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...the Middletown area in Connecticut have been mined almost continuously for feldspar and muscovite mica since...CONTRIBUTIONS TO 'EOONOMDC GEOLOGY plagioclase feldspar: those with less than 40 percent of plagioclase...muscovite, and feldspar are unknown because of poor exposures and limited development. Feldspar reserves are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bornite. MINERAL LOCALITIES IN THE VICINITY TOWN, CONNECTICUT OF MIDDLE- W. G. Fol'e, Wesleyan Unhersity...paper was written. Of the many feldspar prospect-holes opened in Middlesex and adjacent portions of Hartford...Hartford counties, Connecticut, fourteen may be selected as more or less famous for the minerals they have...1). The Connecticut pegmatite dikes are composed of predominating quartz and perthitic feldspar with somemuscovite...localities are found in orthogneiss, the Pelton quarry (Locality 4), east of Collins HilI and within the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds...Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three feet in length. Haddam Neck, Connecticut...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...*"eet: was found at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | thick. Wynne, in southern Cross County, is in eastern Arkansas. CONNECTICUT—A tiny but beautiful, black columbite..."Columbite, Arnold Quarry, Haddam, Conn. This is an active quarry operated by the Eureka Feldspar Co. of Portland...Conn."-—on label. Haddam, in central Middlesex County, is in southern Connecticut. DELAWARE — "Enclosed...of Rt. 95 and Naaman's Rd., Claymont, New Castle County, Del."—item from Ed Carvalho, 1307 Penna. Ave.... ph—phosphoresces Claymont, in N/E New Castle County, is in northern Delaware. ILLINOIS—"Enclosed are |  | | Report (issue) | | late 2010 find in the famous Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Since showtime, at least some...production of specimens from Prospect Park. The quarry is currently in the process of being filled in...fairly common in the basalts of New Jersey and Connecticut—but you would be hard put to find more impressive...anhydrite, 8.3 cm, from the Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Mineral Classics specimen...fallout—unless you count the fact that the childrenite/feldspar specimens now on John Veevaert’s Trinity Minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | DIRECTOR BULLETIN 420 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE FELDSPAR DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES BY EDSON S. BASTIN........ *...................... Minerals of the feldspar deposits............."........................................................... Androscoggin County............................................. Auburn......................................... Lincoln County ............................................................-...:.....-................. Oxford County........................;...................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3...Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California are noted...Buckfield, and Topsham. The Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, was famous when in operation for...found in a pocket at the Strickland Quarry, at Portland, Connecticut. California has a large number of |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | (kunzite, hiddenite), zircon, and gem varieties of feldspar, topaz, and quartz. Gem stones maybe weathered...areas the largest of which appears to be a volcanic neck. The kimberlite includes breccia and tuff and weathers...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are: | | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: the G illette quarry, Haddam 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... Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California: shown on the facing page as no. 60 |  | | Report (issue) | | South-central Massachusetts and North-central Connecticut; Geochemistry, Petrogenesis, and Isotopic Age...South-central Massachusetts and North-central Connecticut: Geochemistry, Petrogenesis, and Isotopic Age...south-central Massachusetts and northcentral Connecticut. (Geological Survey professional paper ; P-1295)...Domes (Geology) Connecticut. 2. Domes (Geology) Massachusetts. 3. Gneiss Connecticut. 4. GneissMassachusetts...SOUTH-CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND NORTH-CENTRAL CONNECTICUT: GEOCHEMISTRY, PETROGENESIS, AND ISOTOPIC AGE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California; and three miles west of Buntingville, Lassen County in the same state. GALENA, lead sulfide, has been...muscovite, rmcrocline, and quartz at the Strickland Quarry, Portland, Connec ticut where it is a very late...pyrite in quartz near the core in the Toll Gate Quarry at Middletown, and also at the Andrews and Strick...Strick land quarries at Portland in Connecticut. Masses of sphalerite to fourteen pounds in weight have...pyrrhotite embedded in triphylite at the Palermo Quarry, North Gro ton, New Hampshire. It has also been |  | | 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...hundred years. Through the granite deposits of Feldspar are found and extensively quarried. The first mined...in 1840, by Alfred Brainerd, J r., on Had- ‘ dam Neck, and shipped to England. The effects of the glacial |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | a green rock found in Fairplay, Colo., in Park County. Would you please identify it for me?—asks Elizabeth...it is a very nice one. Fairplay, in western Park County, is in central Colorado. C O N N E C T I C U T...locality is the junction of New Rt. 9 and Rt. 81, Haddam, Conn."— ROCKS AND MINERALS xline—crystalline...striated. The brown feldspar (microcline) of the pegmatite display nice, black dendrites. Haddam, in central...central Middlesex Co., is in southern Connecticut. INDIANA—"Something World News. for Indiana "The Berry Construction |  | | Report (volume) | | SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 484 THE GRANITES OF CONNECTICUT BY T. NELSON DALE AND HERBERT E. GREGORY Prepared...the Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1911 ...discussion____________________._____._ Salient features of Connecticut geology, by Herbert E. Gregory___ Origin, nature...rocks________________.__ __ Granites and granite gneisses of Connecticut, by Herbert E. GregoryName, mineral content,...granitic intrusions_________ ____ 24 Age of the Connecticut granites________ __ _ __ 25 Structure, rock variations |  | | Report (issue) | | South-central Massachusetts and North-central Connecticut: Petrology, Geochemistry, and Origin by Gerhard...south-central Massachusetts and north-central Connecticut, consists of a northern, silicic and potashpoor...24A-B Variations in the contents of 1^0 and K-feldspar in the Glastonbury Gneiss body..................Summary of Rb-Sr age determinations from the Middle Haddam and Glastonbury Quadrangles, Conn...... 7/C- 8...trending north-northeast for about 65 km through Connecticut and Massachusetts along the west side of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | examination. Bolton, Massachusetls.'The Bolton marble quarry, famous for lilac scapolite, has been described...pegmatite bouldersin the immediate neighborhood of the quarry but the rock could not be discovered in place ...Border zone, ]-inch thick, fine-grained white feldspar-quartz rock with minor specks of schorl. The gray...The pegmatite at Haddam Neck contains zoned mica crystals, quartz, albite, and microcline together with...myrmekite, microcline, biotite, and muscovite, a wall-zone of albite, qvartz, microcline-perthite, and |  | | 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...Epidosyte rock. it also penetrates into an adjoining feldspar rock, but lacks the bril liancy of color of those...and of a rich ruby red color. The feldspar quarries 0f Haddam Neck all produce garnets. Some interesting...flattened crystals, are found imbedded in mica. The feldspar veins that are met with in the gneiss quarries |  | | Report (issue) | | Microcline KAlSi3 O8 c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Triclinic. Point...with orthoclase. Feldspar (alkali) group; (Si,Al) is completely ordered in low microcline. Occurrence:...Italy. In the USA, at Amelia, Amelia Co., Virginia; Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut; and Magnet Cove...English abs.). (5) Smith, J.V. and W.L. Brown (1988) Feldspar minerals, (2nd edition), v. I. Springer, 828 pp |  | | Report (issue) | | 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...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a...beyond the old canal. Schairer, 1931. Fairfield County. Proceed up hill Cameron, et on Portland Ave. from |  | | Report (issue) | | MAP OF THE MIDDLE RADDAM QUADRANGLE, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, CONNECTICUT By Gordon P. Eaton and John.L. Rosenfeld...more than one age; it contains, in addition to microcline, microperthite^and (or) albite : quartz, highly...to crangish-gray, nassive re coarsely foliated microcline- and oligoclase-bearing biotite, biotite-hornblende...sphene, apatite, and ilmenite; and, locally, microcline. Less abundant rock types include biotiteoligoclase...sericite-bearing granite gneiss consisting primarily of microcline (and locally orthoclase), oligoclase, and quartz |
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