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Crugers Emery Mine, Montrose, Cortlandt Township, Westchester Co., New York, USA

Latitude: 41°15'14"N
Longitude: 73°55'18"W
An emery mine opened & closed before 1933. Located at Dutch Street near Montrose, 2 miles South of Peekskill (which actually puts it in Cortlandt Township, although the local emery mines have historically been attributed to Peekskill, since that was the closest urban center).

References

Rocks & Minerals (1933): 8: 39.

Manchester, J.G. (1931) The Minerals of New York City & Its Environs, New York Mineralogical Club Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1, 70-72.


Mineral List

Albite
var: Oligoclase

'Amphibole Group'
Biotite
Calcite
'Chlorite Group'
Corundum
'Emery'
'Garnet'
Hercynite
Högbomite
Kyanite
Magnesiohögbomite-6N6S
Magnetite
Muscovite
Opal
'Pyroxene Group'
Quartz
Sillimanite
Spinel
var: Ceylonite
Staurolite
'Tourmaline'


22 entries listed. 12 valid minerals.

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