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Best of Connecticut

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Sam Cordero, Jr.
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 06:05PM
Here's one of my best and favorite from Biermann. I found this Columbite (Fe), with a Uraninite Nodule, that has lots of secondaries. Note that it was taken in my backyard under natural sunlight. I wish I new how to photograph a little better... and had a little more time... great pics. Have fun folks.



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David Bernstein
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 07:26PM
Chris, thanks for the explanation regarding the chicken. I've been listening to Frank Zappa since 1979 and have a pile of his live shows. Here is a picture you might appreciate-a much younger me and two of my friends. The chicken met a sad fate during my college years, a fate I have never divulged.
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Harold Moritz (2)
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 08:18PM 		us    
Man, were you guys old enough to drink?

"peddle depressed panchromatic resonance and other highly ambient domains...'Arf!', she said."
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David Bernstein
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 08:27PM
Fritz, I was always old enough!smileys with beer
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Michael Otto
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 10:40PM
Since I collect almost exclusively in Ct. I love this thread. These are three from Old Mine plaza in Trumbull. The first is @ 7cm. specimen of Calcite dics with a 1cm Fluorite crystal upon them. The second is a floater of Calcite discs @ 7cm. The third is Calcite and Fluorite.
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Michael Otto
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 10:48PM
A few Smokys from Ct. The first and third are about two inches long and the second is seven inches long and three inches thick and my best.
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Michael Otto
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 11:12PM
Four Beryl crystals from 3 1/2 inches to 5 inches in diameter from Case Quarries that are special to me because of the rediculously hard labor and time it took to remove them from the pegmatite.
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Adam Berluti
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 11:31PM
Yes I was up there saturday and I did find a large columbite, about 1 inch square and a few others. Some bismuthite. But my best specimen of the day was a doubly terminated quartz crystal which I found on the surface of the No 3 dumps while looking for columbites. I attached a link to it. Dave found a few end pieces in the trench.

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Matthew Kimball
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 12:59AM 		us    
Awesome Adam!>:D<
Terrific Beryls Michael!>:D<
Here is a beat but nice beryl from the Nathan Hall dumps.
© Matthew Kimball
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Jay Buscio
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 03:29AM 		us    
Michael, great specimens!!!!!
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Mickey Marks
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 06:36AM 		us    
Okay, you asked for it. Here is the first of many to come (when I get around to it). This one is of amethyst from the Route 11 roadcut in Salem, collected in 1976. (11 cm x 7 cm.)



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Mickey Marks
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 06:41AM 		us    
Topaz from the intersection of "New" Route 25 and "old" Whitney Avenue in Trumbull, collected in March 1979.
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Mickey Marks
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 06:44AM 		us    
Wolframite pseudomorphs after scheelite, Old Mine Park, Trumbull. Collected in 1979.
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Mickey Marks
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November 09, 2011 06:55AM 		us    
Partial contents of one pocket of smoky quartz from East Morris Dam quarry, collected in 1976. The one large cluster is 9 cm x 6 cm.



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Harold Moritz (2)
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 01:49PM 		us    
Great stuff all around! Glad to see some great stuff still being found.
I love the diversity of Connecticut minerals.
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Adam Berluti
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 01:56PM
Sam how big is your columbite? It looks about 3-4 inches?
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Jay Buscio
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November 09, 2011 02:34PM 		us    
Garnets in Mica Schist, Roxbury Connecticut. Self collected back in 1961.Specimen measures 8 x 5 x 3 cm.

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Rowan Lytle
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 08:05PM 		us    
great stuff everyone!

-Rowan Lytle

son: -picks up huge loose amethyst cluster- "Is this what we're looking for?"
father: "Holy #$@%!
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Michael Otto
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 10:50PM
Mickey, Great Morris smokys. You got there about 15 years before me.One more large smoky @ 7 inches from Litchfield County.
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Michael Otto
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 09, 2011 10:56PM
Two Calcite/Fluorite specimens from Old Mine Plaza.
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