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Best of Connecticut

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Geoffrey Small
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 12:28AM
One of my favorite specimens: calcite on prehnite from the Roncari Quarry





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David Bernstein
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 12:28AM
I still want to see the chicken he's using to measure it...X(
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Rowan Lytle
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 12:43AM 		us    
I want to see this chicken too!B)

-Rowan Lytle

son: -picks up huge loose amethyst cluster- "Is this what we're looking for?"
father: "Holy #$@%!
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Don Saathoff
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 12:59AM 		us    
Hey Guy's, you'll have to ask Carl to show you the chicken.......

Don
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Harold Moritz (2)
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 03:04AM 		us    
I see y'all have been busy today while I was doing other things! Great stuff, are these photos posted to the mindat localities? I didnt remember seeing that purpurite on the Branchville page, but I checked and there it is!
Dave, I guess I'll include the fluorescent cleavelandite and microcline from there, [www.mindat.org]
Here's one of my favorites - [www.mindat.org]
Geez, so much good Conn. stuff already up and tons more I've yet to photograph.....
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Jay Buscio
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 04:26AM 		us    
Arsenopyrite on Calcite Crystals, New Britain, Connecticut. Specimen measures 8 x 5 x 3. I picked this up at a small rockshop in Vermont back in the early 1970's.

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David Bernstein
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 11:30AM
Excellent, Fritz. As I told ya, I think that Albite should be seen by a larger audience.

Don't think I ever heard of the New Britain Arsenopyrite locale. Beautiful piece. Much different then Seymour.
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Adam Berluti
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 11:53AM
This is an aquamarine that I got out of the trench earlier this year.

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Harold Moritz (2)
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 01:26PM 		us    
Adam:
That aqua cleaned up nicely! Did you get out there last Saturday? Dave Bodnar was there in the early AM when I left to go do some specimen mining at the Spinelli prospect, he said he was going to give the trench another go. I wished him luck!
I didnt find any columbites lying on the ground sadly.
Fritz
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William C. van Laer
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 03:20PM 		us    
I will now reveal the story behind the "chicken":

"I used to watch him eat, and while he was eating I would talk to him, and while he was eating I would ask him what he was doing, and all he would say was 'I'm using the chicken to measure it'".

Frank Zappa would engage his audience to participate in this quixotic exchange...have you ever seen a rubber chicken?

William C. (CHRIS) van Laer: "I'm using the chicken to measure it..."
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Jay Buscio
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 04:00PM 		us    
Here's another Connecticut specimen I've had since the late 1960's. Stilbite and Calcite, Watertown, Connecticut. Specimen measures 8 x 7 x 3 cm.

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Rowan Lytle
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 04:26PM 		us    
Nice, nice, nice!:D

-Rowan Lytle

son: -picks up huge loose amethyst cluster- "Is this what we're looking for?"
father: "Holy #$@%!
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Michael Shaw
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 04:50PM
Stilbite from the Thomaston Dam location. 5.7 cm


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Rowan Lytle
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 04:54PM 		us    
I love the Thomaston stilbites!>:D<

-Rowan Lytle

son: -picks up huge loose amethyst cluster- "Is this what we're looking for?"
father: "Holy #$@%!
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Don Saathoff
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 05:00PM 		us    
Thanks, Chris......I'm sure many were wondering.....any group of 700 people will have at least two "Zappatistas".....

Don
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Mike Polletta
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 05:24PM
Nice. im a connectcicut collector too. Ill have to post some of mine on here when i have more time. great photos!!!
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Jay Buscio
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 05:38PM 		us    
Uraninite, Branchville, Connecticut. Specimen measures 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm.


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Harold Moritz (2)
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 05:41PM 		us    
Some people like stilbites exclusively, while myself I say, there is not, nor aught there be, nothing so exalted on the face of God's great Earth as that prince of minerals, the Beryl.

Largest crystal is from the Strickland Quarry. Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conn.
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Peter Andresen
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 05:45PM 		no    
I got my first Connnecticut sample earlier this year, swaped from Robert Rothenberg, and I'm happy with it, since it's from the type locality. Here's a Fillow quarry triploidite (guess the size!):




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Maggie Wilson
Re: Best of Connecticut
November 08, 2011 05:51PM 		ca    
PETER! You crack me up! And how did you get a TN size chicken?
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