massive crystals found in warwick new york

thanks! looks much better under the lamp i was expecting some more visible norbergite.

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Here are more pictures of carbonatites ? or as us carpenters call them "melted crystals"
I need to take a Geology course....



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This group turned out to be Augite. They were found in the fourth dig site with some tourmalines.
Steve Kuitems called it possible Augite on the first page.



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Fluorapatite and mix , seven inches high overall



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New to pictures but no new finds, to cold to dig. There is allready several inches of frost in the ground here.



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This morning Glenn christened his locality " Rhein Find 2010,..." so I entered:
[www.mindat.org]

I moved Glenn's fluoredenite photo there and hope more of the photos here can be uploaded to the locality. To add minerals to a locality now at Mindat you must have some reference for the ID. Often visual ID is sufficient but not for particular Amphiboles, etc. Once a locality is understood one can often claim that the apatite is Fluorapatite or the scapolite is Meionite, but an analysis is often best. The N Y museum at Albany is doing some of this analysis and maybe the methods can be added. Anyway I went through the 9 pages and added the minerals that seem to be ID'd and claimed "visual identification", except for Fluoredenite which I gambled was done by a familiarity with these deposits and a quick Xray. Please correct me and please add anything known about this locality.

Rob,

Sorry to say but its not, repeat not, a "calcite vein dike". Its the Franklin Marble reacting with associated silicate units, a fundamentally different entity.

When I was there in 1972 I walked through this area. There is a similar area to the South, nearer to the Newport Bridge Road. At that time I was given permission by the mineral rights owner to go collecting. That is the Stidworthy family. Phil

Thanks Waren, I'll correct it. Please feel free to add more to the locality description and change what ever I wrote

Glenn,

Sorry to hear that Old Man Winter has arrived in your area. I appreciate being allowed to visit with you on that beautiful sunny day last October. I look forward to seeing more photos and getting more updates in the spring.

Best,

Joe

Phil,

The warwickite type locality is just a stones throw, literally, off Newport Bridge Road. The main outcrop belt of the Franklin Marble extends for another 15 miles south-southwest from there. The mineral assemblages are similar throughout but only rarely are crystals developed of the quality found recently.

The area sure looked different in 1972. Now its littered with the hoi polloi from the city and I suspect that 99% of them don't have a clue about what's under their feet.

Warren, Thanks for fixing things.

Thanks Warren, Rob and everyone else involved for your work on this site.



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one inch green apatites on a bed of very fine crystals, seven inches overall



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Glenn

Your getting some pritty nice finds there, your a verrrrrrry lucky man !
Keep up the good work ! Hopefully spring will come soon !

KOR
Wayne Corwin

Large mass of graphite about ten inches



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This piece is black Diopside and tiny Titanites on marble matrix



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Sigh this site makes my heart sink every time i check out the new photos are put up. Now don't get me wrong, i think it is sooooo cool this new find has been found. It just makes my heart sink that im in Indiana where this stuff is not found.





Byron

This crystal has a very metalic finish, its not magnetic. Anyone have any ideas to what it could be ?



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It looks to me like a tremolite pseudomorph after diopside (uralite).