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Pectolite from
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Pectolite
Formula:NaCa2Si3O8(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Datoliteⓘ37 photos of Pectolite associated with Datolite at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ33 photos of Pectolite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Prehniteⓘ29 photos of Pectolite associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Apophyllite Groupⓘ22 photos of Pectolite associated with Apophyllite Group at this locality.
Fluorapophyllite-(K)ⓘ22 photos of Pectolite associated with Fluorapophyllite-(K) at this locality.
Calciteⓘ16 photos of Pectolite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Natroliteⓘ15 photos of Pectolite associated with Natrolite at this locality.
Chalcopyriteⓘ9 photos of Pectolite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Analcimeⓘ4 photos of Pectolite associated with Analcime at this locality.
Chlorite Groupⓘ2 photos of Pectolite associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pectolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (117 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:8445
Long-form Identifier:1:3:8445:1
GUID (UUID V4):edc9dc2a-2af7-40c6-9227-f4680da91106
Nearest other occurrences of Pectolite
4.7km (2.9 miles) ⓘFerrante Quarry, Bernardsville, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) ⓘWilson's Quarry (Wilson Stone Co. Quarry), Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) ⓘChimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) ⓘFanwood Quarry (Weldon Quarry), Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
17.1km (10.6 miles) ⓘHoudaille Quarry (Summit Quarry; Commonwealth Quarry), Springfield, Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, USA
20.1km (12.5 miles) ⓘHartshorn Quarry, Short Hills, Millburn, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) ⓘStewart Hartshorn Quarry (Hartshorn Quarry), Millburn, Millburn, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) ⓘRiker Hill, Livingston, Livingston, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
28.2km (17.5 miles) ⓘOrange Quarry Company Quarry (Eagle Rock Quarry), West Orange, West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
32.9km (20.5 miles) ⓘMcDowell's Quarry (Osborne and Marsellis Quarry), Upper Montclair, Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
======================================ï‚„ What’s New in the Mineral World? Report #51 December 4, 2018...thing or two, as I like to do, concerning— What’s New on the Web A glance at just the first two pages of...2018 Munich Show, as excellent specimens from two new finds which debuted at that show appear on pages...telegraph it too much, but here is a specimen of the new Iranian andradite from page one of the Quebul site...found at a locality given as Veshnoveh, Kashan County, Esfahan Province, Iran, very sharp, highly lustrous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the MILLINGTON QUARRY, NEW JERSEY W A R R E N CUMMINGS 225 Beech wood Avenue Trenton, New Jersey 08618...I N G T O N Q U A R R Y in Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, resumed operation in 1979...inactivity. New excavations, begun in late 1980 as part of an aggressive expansion program by the new operators...operators, the Millington Quarry Company, have made this quarry an important producer of mineral speci­ mens...found its way into circulation. Geology The Millington quarry exposes the two lava flows (Figure 3) of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
yellow-green fluorescence characterizes some New Jersey datolite. Datolite is commonly seen in monoclinic...anhydrite and glauberite are well known from several New Jersey localities, and datolite after quartz is reported...with natrolite, analcime, stilbite, heulandite, pectolite, apophyllite, calcite,, and quartz, and its crystal...localities such as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite...Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found at the Notch quarry at nearby Amherst
Report (issue)
======================================ï‚„ What’s New in the Mineral World? Report #28 May 28, 2011 by...noted, and of course there are a few interesting new items as well. And, as has been happening quite a...find in the famous Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Since showtime, at least some of...although he later moved on to Colorado, was a New Jersey native and showed the boys, early in life, how...part of the state. Of those quarries, only the Millington and the very long-lived Prospect Park have yielded
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...A. Bessudnova Minerals of the Millington quarry, Somerset, New Jersey..................................Mineralogy of the calcite-fluorite veins near Long Lake, New Y o r k ...........................................mine Himalaya mine Hollister Jamestown mine Jensen Quarry Little Three mine Mesa Grande District Orestimba...Congo, Katanga cobalt mines Connecticut, Gillette quarry Czechoslovakia, Pribram mines Pribram mines England
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY Downloaded by [The Aga Khan University] at 04:47 09 October 2014 MARTIN...Department of Physics The College of New Jersey Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718 @@F]()& P n Analcime...common crystal forms displayed by some of the Millington quarry minerals, based on drawings in Klein and Hurlburt...and genMillington Quarry era1 geology of the Millington Normal Fault Town quarry area. Map compiled...Cummings (1985) and Lewis and Kummel(1912). Millington quarry is situated in the southwest of the Hook Mountain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Jersey's well-known Fanwood and Summit quarries expose the same stratigraphic section and yield many...Summit Quarries, New Jersey WARREN CUMMINGS 225 Beechwood Avenue Trenton, New Jersey 08618 T H E SUMMIT...road cut, located in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, formed a major mineral collecting...Construction Materials, the last operator of the quarry, ceased operation in 1977, and since 1983 the pit...Company quarry in the Borough of Watchung, Somerset County—sometimes known as the Scotch Plains quarry, or
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Thirty-eight, Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . ....Obituary: Howard K. Worner by B. Birch What’s new in minerals: Tucson Show 2007 . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . 211 by T. P. Moore Millington, New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...the 2007 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show (see “What’s New”). Readers of this magazine are well aware of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
March/April: Millerite on dolomite, Leadwood, St. Francois County, Missouri. Glenn Williams specimen, Terry Huizing...on quartz, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Wayne Sorensen specimen, Jeff Scovil...July/August: Barite, Black Cloud mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...NovembedDecember: Hematite, Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin. F. John Barlow specimen, M. Hjerstedt...quartz, 54-56 Altaite, Missouri, 96 Analcime, New Jersey, 324; Washington, 273 Anglesite, Bolivia, 414
Journal (issue)
Apophyllite and Chalcedony Pseudoinorphs after Pectolite Bradley D. Plotldn bdpchab@optonline.net In the...described epimorphs of several minerals after pectolite hemispheres. Shortly after that issue I had the...another such pseudomorph to the collection. This new addition also generated further inspiration for a...which were pseudomorphs after pectolite. Stevensite and talc after pectolite were omitted as these particular...hemispherical growth of pectolite was recently found at Prospect Park, New Jersey. The specimen is made
Journal (issue)
babingtoniet ‱ Trap rock en mineralen van New Jersey, USA Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen vzw Oprichtingsdatum... epitactisch gegroeid op babingtoniet van New Jersey, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt U elders...van de Manassas groeve, Prince William County, Virgiania, USA. SEM opname en copyright Thomas Ambruster...apophyllite and chalcedony pseudomorphs after pectolite * MINERAUX ET FOSSILES 31(335), 01.05 5-15 Serpentinites...Smoky quartz and associated minerals from Blue Hill quarry, Oberon, NSW, Australia 53-57 The mineralogy of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Peter Andersen Mildura, Victoria, Australia MILLINGTON QUARRY I was gratified to see, in the SeptembedOctober...mineral-specimen production of New Jersey’s Millington quarry. Millington has certainly been one of the...geology and distribution of minerals within the quarry Mr. Becker quotes my 1985 work to a significant...interpretation requires some clarification. The Millington quarry exposes two individual flows that make up...The size and distribution of the amygdules at Millington (see Cummings 1985, fig. 5) are similar to that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
or diabases and pillow basalts of northeastern New Jersey. It has been collected here since the first half...stilbite, heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, chabazite, and...across associated with natrolite sprays, calcite, pectolite, apophyllite, and pale green datolite are recorded...Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad cuts and tunnels in the Jersey City...Weehawken areas and quarries at Snake Hill, Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Aragonite, 236 Bald Knob Manganese Deposit, Allegheny County, North Carolina, W. B . Sim­ mons, Jr., 130 Barite...Columbia, Yukon Territory, 9; rutile, Hastings County, 284 Canfield, F . A . , 232 Canfieldite, 233 Caryopilite...Chamberlain, S. C , New Occurrences of Twinned Crystals in St. Lawrence and Lewis Counties, New York, 285; Mineralogy...Occurrence Near Natural Bridge, New York, 288 Charlesite, 238 Chips from the Quarry, 4, 108, 156, 212, 261 Chlorite...Cummings, W., Mineralization at the Millington Quarry, New Jersey, 213 Currier, R. H . , book review,
Report (issue)
Geologic Setting of the Watchung Basalt Flows, New Jersey GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 864-A ...Basalt Flows, New Jersey By GEORGE T. FAUST STUDIES ON THE WATC·HUNG BASALT FLOWS OF NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL...restudy of the volcanism in theN ewark basin of New] ersey UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...Watchung Basalt flows, New Jersey. (Studies on the Watchung Basalt flows of New Jersey) (Geological Survey... no.: I 19.16 :864-A 1. Geology-New Jersey. 2. Volcanism-New Jersey. Geology, Stratigraphic-Triassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IGNEOUS ROCKS OF NEW JERSEY. BY WALLACEGOOLDLEVISON. (Read May 1.9, 1909, &!ore the New York Minerabgicul...1861: first reached the deeper recesses of the New Jersey tmp in this locality and so disclosed the wealth...of the New Jersey trap satisfactorily accessible for study in silu. The visitor to a trap quarry productive...preference to dynamite. f +.. 121 122 A N N A L S NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES expected that some of these...the quarries, contains both of these minerals. Pectolite, which is of very general occurrence, contains
Report (issue)
Joint Systems in the Watchung Basalt Flows, New Jersey GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 864-B ...Basalt Flows, New Jersey By GEORGE T. FAUST STUDIES ON THE WATCHUNG BASALT FLOWS OF NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL...Watchung Basalt flows, New Jersey. (Studies on the Watchung Basalt flows of New Jersey) (Geological survey...: I 19.16:864-B l. Joints (Geology) 2. Basalt-New Jersey. I. Title. II. Series. III. Series: United States...ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGURE l. A photograph of the Millington quarry taken in 1952 ---------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY of NEW YORK Downloaded by [University of Tennessee, Knoxville] at 09:24 21 December 2014 the...of resources. To further this image, in 1836 the New York State legislature voted to sponsor a comprehensive...first extensive scientific study of the geology of New York State, and it culminated in 1842 and 1843 with... I believe, were aware of the mineral wealth of New York, or of the number of species which it contains...by James Dwight Dana (himself a native of Utica, New York) as a source for mineral locality references
Catalog/List
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead.... . . . . . . . . . 165 by W. E. Wilson What’s new in minerals Tucson Show 2008. . . . . . . . . . ...COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les Presmyk, Robert W...Associated Minerals from the Old uma Mine, Pima County, Arizona Chapter authors and showcase organizers:
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯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
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯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
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chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarryï‚Ÿ chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityï‚Ÿagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitsï‚Ÿpetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
 
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