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You should put the chalcedony nodule locality into our database. It appears that we do not have that locality.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.

Guess there is no joy in Rockville this evening.

I agree Dave......

Rock Currier Wrote:
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> You should put the chalcedony nodule locality into
> our database. It appears that we do not have that
> locality.


I'll do that Rock. It's so close to Bate's Rd and O&G in Southbury that I used those localities in reference. Maybe I'll take a locality picture too. It's all a housing development now and I collected during construction of the road and foundations about 10-12 yrs ago. I have a photo posted already. How do I change the locality to make it more specific?



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Wolframite after Scheelite, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield Co.,Connecticut. My good friend Herb Dick self collected this little gem in the 1950's.




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Fluorapatite from Case quarry.

Here is a calcite from the Woodbury Traprock Quarry which I collected on May 18, 1980. Measures 3.5 cm x 2.0 cm.

If the more specific locality is not already in mindat, you might end up finding the closest general locality and then edit the locality page and add a sub-locality. Once that is done, go to the new sub locality and add a photo(s).

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.

Zircon, Branchville, Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. Largest crystal measures 5 mm long. Self collected in the early 1960's.




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Hello Jay,

Are you sure that is a microlite? The crystal form suggests zircon?

Nice stuff everybody!
Jay, I think those are zircons crystals from Branchville, they are elongated, microlites are isometric and I dont think were really found much there, whereas zircons are relatively abundant.

Reiner, Your right. I just dug this out of and old flat of stuff I collected as a kid and went with the label I wrote in the 60's without looking further. Many thanks for catching that.

I'm very glad that everyone has kept posting, I love seeing all your nice stuff!

-Rowan Lytle

son: -picks up huge loose amethyst cluster- "Is this what we're looking for?"
father: "Holy #$@%!

Here is an apatite I collected at the walden pegmatite 1982 or 83 - - Brad

hmm... looks kind of like a beryl. Very nice either way.

-Rowan Lytle

son: -picks up huge loose amethyst cluster- "Is this what we're looking for?"
father: "Holy #$@%!

Rowan - this is an apatite fl. yellow in sw. u.v. - very brittle but this one was a ' lucky break " exposing crystal faces. did find beryl that day also. - Brad.

Bradley, that's a good find, all the apatite I have seen from there is massive, it is the right color - in daylight and UV. You should post it to the Walden Gem Quarry mindat page.

I reached into a hole between some boulders at the base a blasted muckpile and felt these two smokys before I saw them, many years ago in Litchfield County.

Chalcocite on Calcite, Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut. Measures 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm. This is a smaller one then the one I posted here a while back.


Chalcocite on Calcite, Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut side view

Gorgeous, all of you!

-Rowan Lytle

son: -picks up huge loose amethyst cluster- "Is this what we're looking for?"
father: "Holy #$@%!