 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Recent Finds at the Famous Prospect Park Quarry Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey All specimens self-collected...noted JAMES S. ZIGRAS 171 Arundel Road Paramus, New Jersey 07652 jzigras@hotmail.com MATTHEW L. GORRING...Environmental Studies Montclair State University Montclair, New Jersey 07043 gorringm@mail.montclair.edu Figure 1...1. Locality map, by William Besse. he Prospect Park quarry has been producing fine mineral specimens...minerals it is possibly the most significant trap-rock quarry in the world. Not many localities can boast fine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and related minerals. Localities of thls type in New Jersey and neighboring states provided consistently...Consequently, most collectors are familiar with prehnite, typically as pale green botryoidal or reniform...Paterson, New Jersey, or Centreville, Virginia. Recently, however, extraordinarily fine prehnite specimens...for its most famous locality, Tsumeb. One such prehnite specimen has been nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Connoisseur’s Choice (see fig.). Prehnite is best known in shades of green that vary from pale to very |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Road, Cambridge, glauconite, 373 Carrock Fell, Cumberland, tsumebite, I76 Gipsy Land, Leicester, chernovite...epidote, hornblende, diopsite, 427 Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, danburite, 171; durangite, I72 Chycornish...Crowns Rock, St. Just, Land's End, garnet, 427 Dean quarry, The Lizard, djurle'ite, I72; analcime, adularia...quartz, prehnite, stilbite, 5o9 and M49 Porthoustock, The Lizard, analcime, natrolite, prehnite, calcite...axinite, epidote, apatite, hornblende, diopside, 427 South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, francevillite |  | | Book (edition) | | Cok Tree Press PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Co., Ltd NEW YORK London & Sydney ST. PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY OTHER...Sterling Publishing Co, Inc. 419 Park Avenue South, New York 10016 British edition published by Oak...Co., Ltd., Nassau, Baham as Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Oak Tree Press Co., Ltd., P.O...S. nicely shaped crystals at New Cornelia, Arizona and Santa Rita, New Mexico. Also found as cavity...Somerville, New Jersey. In South Australia at Wallaroo and on Yorke Peninsula, and in New South Wales |  | | | | Lieber ^ C0b627 S STERLING PUBLISHING CO., Inc. new york ~7^ee v 4-6^ London & Sydney ST. PAUL PUBLIC...Sterling Publishing Co, Inc. 419 Park Avenue South, New York 10016 British edition published by Oak Tree...Co., Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Oak Tree Press Co. Ltd P.O. Box...S. nicely shaped crystals at New Cornelia, Arizona and Santa Rita, New Mexico. Also found as cavity fillings...Somerville, New Jersey. In South Australia at Wallaroo and on Yorke Peninsula, and in New South Wales at Broken |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Victoria GPO Box 666 Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia dhenry@museum.vic.gov.au D efining “classic”...synonymous with Australia (see Pecover in press) and that Broken Hill in western New South Wales is our No...diversity of species (see Birch in press). New South Wales can claim ownership of several other occurrences...Elura lead-zinc-silver deposit in western New South Wales has produced superb groups of green mimetite...(Chapman and Scott 2005). The New England region of northeastern New South Wales is famous for molybdenite |  | | Journal (issue) | | France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ..........................................Holden, Jr. Minerals of the Prospect Intrusion, New South Wales, Australia .............................Copper roses from the Rose mine, near San Lorenzo, New Mexico ............................................of molybdofornacite from Whim Creek, Western Australia ............................................ 203 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Natural History New York, New York 10024 The Triassic traprock quarries of New Jersey have been a...and supplement previous publications dealing with New Jersey traprock* minerals, especially those of Manchester...(1931) cites more than 40 traprock localities in New Jersey. This article focuses on the Bergen Hill occurrence...Lower New Street quar ries, Paterson; Warren Brothers quarry, Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry, Upper...Upper Montclair; and the Francisco Brothers quarry, Great Notch (Fig. 1). Several important diabase localities |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...DeCamp photo. Iolite, 4 cm, from the Entia Valley, Australia. Collected by George Stacy; Jeff Scovil photo... Fluorapatite rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pete J. Dunn Famous Mineral Localities: Paterson, New Jersey................157 by Thomas A. Peters, Joseph....................................... 132 What’s New in Minerals?.......................................n . photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York designed by Wendell E. Wilson Mineralogical...receive additional grants we would rather use them for new projects instead of reprinting old ones. We are content...“Descriptive Mineralogy: Discovery and Characterization of New Minerals.” Papers are solicited for both the general |  | | Report (issue) | | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Pumpellyite Tscheffkinite Vesuvianite Nenadkcvichite Prehnite Bavenite Axinite Beryl (Aquamarine) (Golden beryl)...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials |  | | Book (volume) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Journal (issue) | | TeHurium Sulphur Dinmond Gra1,hitc GOLD Albemarle County.-"Streaks" occur in quartz veins in slate belt...east of South western Mt. (ll. 8). Buckingham County.-A placer gold specimen about 7 x 10 x 17 mm. which...collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Culpeper County.-Two specimens with flakes of gold up to 1 cm....collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Dinwiddie County.-Two specimens from the Whitehall Mine with gold...error and should refer to Spotsylvania County.) Fairfax County.-A specimen of gold with galena in quartz |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | August 2012 Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia IAN T. GRAHAM1,2 ROSS E POGSON1 1 Geoscience...Australian Museum 6 College Street, Sydney New South Wales 2010, Australia ian.graham@austmus.gov.au ross.pogson@austmus...Sciences University of New South Wales, Sydney New South Wales 2052, Australia Figure 1. The Albert Chapman...when most of it was purchased from him by the New South Wales Government in 1988. Included in the purchase...the finest crystallized specimens ever found in Australia, representing an important part of Australia’s |  | | Book (volume) | | geologic ages and under varied conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. 89 by A. Ingelson Minerals of the Puu o Ehu quarry, H aw aii........................................sapphirine crystals from the Harts Range, Central Australia ................................................ Hansen The libethenite zone, Burra mine, South Australia ....................................105 by........................................109 What’s New in Minerals? by W. E. W ils o n ...................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University |  | | Catalog/List | | squares NEW for the list It is also possible to order from the last long catalogue No 104 New Customers...plus post 1147 ■■ ALTAITE Organ Mts, Dona Anna County, New Mexico a few silvery I mm spots in dark matrix...- - - - -~ ---1152 ■ AL UNITE Marysvale, Piute County, Utah Pure orange-pink crystalline mass KAISO/4OH...lx2 £6 2x2 £10 34 ■ ANDRADITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Pale beige fine grained mass with reddish bands...Ix! £5 lx2 £10 38 BANALSITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Rich brown mass with approx 5 % Cymrite .minor matrix |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | January/February: Crocoite, Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Opalville mine, lease 135, Jundah, Queensland, Australia. Owner unknown, Frank Coffa photo. May/June: Beryl...Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen, Jeff Scovil...(Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. Paul Geffner specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | July-Aug., p. 320 Mar., p. 67 Cooper, Lindy. Prehnite-Apophyllite Jensen, David E . Assembly of a Junior...Dominion Soapstone ming, Washing and Repair of Mineral Quarry. July-Aug., p. 309 Specimens. Nov., p. 468 Cox...mounters Corner—First Impressions Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia vs. Observations. April, p. 126; The...Minerals and Dinosaur Tracks from Little Falls, New Jersey. Mar., p. 66 Lasmanis, Raymond. Selenite...Extra Specimens. July-Aug., p. 314 Linde, Martha. South Dakota's Big Chief Mine. Mar., p. 72 Loughlin, John |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Downloaded by [New York University] at 05:37 14 May 2015 Alaska Gold Pseudomorph...John Ebner of Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting...groupings and distortions found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill burned...nowdefunct Saltman prospect in Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find...be the world's largest morganite at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional |  | | Journal (issue) | | addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise crystals, and the popular rock unakite...MINERALS ALLANITE (EPIDOTE GROUP) / @ Amherst County - Black pitchy allanite is found in a small pegmatitemass...used because of their radioactivity. Campbell County - Andalusitecrystals,somevery large,have been reported...attractive cabochons can be cut. BERYL Amelia County - Clear gem quality beryl fragments measuring 0...quality, can be found at the Trueheart pegmatite prospect north of Amelia. A few of the crystals have been |  | | Journal (issue) | | index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...Act of 1974 are adopted almost exclusively. Thus Wales is divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and...Cardiff in Wales, which are simply referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought...19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's Treasury: A new exhibition in the Earth Galleries of the Natural |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | localities, and authors mentioned in the 3oth List of new mineral names are not included in this Index, nor...Alabandine, I.R. spectrum, 277 and MI7 ALABASTER(C.), A new wulfenite locality near Bristol, 298 Albite, Greenland...aureole, Cornwall, 427 Alice Mary copper mine, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369 Alkali feldspar, Greenland, solvus...determination in pumice by X-ray diffractometry, io3; New South Wales, sedimentary, partial anal., cell-size, opt...transformation to mullite and silica, 195 Andradite, New Zealand, anal., M 14; stannian, from a tin slag, |
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Prospect Quarry, Prospect, Cumberland County, New South Wales, Australia