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Fluorite from
Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Comments:found in two forms; as dark purple cleavage pieces, and as nodules that were covered with a grey film, but that fluoresced a beautiful lavender blue. The cleavage pieces were not fluorescent. With pyrite.
Colour:purple
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:121362
Long-form Identifier:1:3:121362:1
GUID (UUID V4):d165b706-cdc3-43b5-9135-d37cf0532120
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.0km (1.8 miles) Gotta-Walden Prospect, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Riverside Quarry (Western Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) Middletown lead mines (Middletown Mine), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) White Rocks Quarry (Consolidated Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) Hollister prospects, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Tollgate Quarry (Tollgate Mine; Bidwell Quarry; China-stone Quarry), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Linkpot cut, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Slocum prospect, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
12.5km (7.8 miles) State Routes 9 and 372 interchange, Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit...Figure 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS FROM 1 CONNECTICUT HILL By Richard Schooner P. O. Box 215 East Hampton, Conn. Collins Hill, in the...the town of Portland, undoubtedly represents the most remarkably mineralized area, of its size, in southern...southern New England. The hill is not especially large, but several different formtions are present, and...work has been done on the giant pegmatite at the summit. The Strickland Quarry is enormous, consisting...of an open pit and extensive chambers. The Schoonmaker Mine is actually a part of the same subterranean
Book (edition)
THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- n...250 SPECIES iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward...Minerals from the Principal Localities in Western Connecticut and Southeastern New York State.............
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............................ Minerals of the Strickland Quarry. By Peter Zodac ........................Members ............ Some Mineral Localities Near Portland, Conn. .................................... The.......................................... A Paint Mine Near Palmerton, Penn. By A. Joseph Stanley .......of the district and also to the famous hiddenite mine at Hiddenite. We regret to advise that Mr. C. L...ASSOOIATIO!II }8 WHOLE No. 70 MINERALS OF THE STRICKLAND QUARRY By PETER ZODAC Editor "Rocks and Minerals"
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York...for the most part uncommon or rare in pegmatite. Only fluorite, calcite and siderite are at all common...mineral in a few pegmatites at Atolia, San Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the... (10) FLUORITE, calcium fluoride is the most common fluoride mineral occurring in pegmatite. It is often...though it is occasionally found in some quantity. Fluorite appears to occur most frequently and in the largest
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical clubs which subscribe for Rocks and Mine rals also become affiliated members of the Rocks.......... RECENT FINDS OF MINERALS IN CENTRAL CONNECTICUT . 1 270 271 276 276 277 278 279 By L. W. Li1tle...LODESTONE EXPOSED . By Peter Zodac ........ THE MINE IN THE ATTIC. By H orace 111/. Sloc111n ..........consists of the following in ascending order: the Middlesex black shale, the Cashaqua shale the Rhinestreet...found in the Cashaqua but th.ey occur in the Middlesex and the Hatch beds and in immense numbers particularly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Libraries, Kingston"] at 08:14 13 August 2013 Fluorite in Granitic Pegmatites MARK IVAN JACOBSON 1714...l.com No pegmatite mineral collection is complete without octahe- dral or cubic fluorite crystals perched...earlier-formed minerals. Fluorite is almost always a late-stage mineral in pegmatite cavities, forming a colorful...quartz are enhanced by a purple or green cube of fluorite hanging from a crystal face or nestled on a crystal...Index map showing the major worldwide pegmatitic fluorite localities, prepared by William Besse. The numbers
Book (edition)
Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. 5. Apatite B). interesting to note that...PHENACITE SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE...topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for...grained that its as well as in Brazil their pegmatite gems. same material as granite, but so fine...gravel pits, feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits
Journal (issue)
White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...granite pegmatites are the most common type of pegmatite. They are igneous dikes or \Teins essentially...The largest crystal in the world ·was found in pegmatite. It was a perthitic microcline crystal measuring...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals
Journal (issue)
................. 161 THE ANDREWS QUARRY NEAR PORTLAND, CONN. By Peter Zodac ........................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CONNECTICUT VALLEY MINERAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . ...edge of the valley is Park Avenue, while Hudson County Boulevard East occupies the east side of the valley...spanning Park Avenue and another crossing Hudson County Boulevard East. This latter bridge carries the...the valley, with another bridge crossing H udson County Boulevard East, which was relocated . The approach
Journal (issue)
surmise on my part. We departed from the North Creek mine with a number of specimens and the recollection... Granules of purple fluorite add color to the mass. It is not necessary to "mine" the wall. Recross the...on indefinitely, both collecting in St. Lawrence County and writing about it. Let it suffice that we obtained...specimens with those collected in St. Lawrence County years ago. (.And I, for one, didn't do so badly...Superior, by Survey of U. S. War Department. The mine on Silver Islet is flooded so any examination of
Journal (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . 359 SCOTT ROSE QUAR1Z MINE. By Mrs. Edna M. Seo/I ................ 360 TECHNICAL...Bartsch .... TIN AND TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF SILVER HILL, WASH. .... 370 371 FIELD FABLES OF "ROCKY" MOORE...southeast of San Juan. At one time a small copper mine was operated there in a very inaccessible section...hurricane the cliff slid down and no trace of the mine now exists except for a little malachite visible...Juana Diaz, in the southern part of the Island, a mine, with a small annual production, was operated for
Journal (issue)
fairly pure, averaging 35 per cent Mn. The Emma mine at Butte has been in the limelight recently. H ere...rosite occurs so that it has been profitable to mine it for at least 25 years. The tonnages have never...present a different problem. The story of the Emma mine is not the story of a laboratcry process still being...only by the above but by gifts of orange colored fluorite, serpentine after pyroxene, and a piece of zoned... Epitor's Note: The localicy is the famous iron mine ( now abandoned) at Tilly Foster, N. Y. SOME PE
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NW to 8O°NW. The schist is intruded by several pegmatite bands which run parallel to the foliation. These...caisson. On the northeast side of the caisson the pegmatite just described I If sea level is con sidered zero...coarser-grained pegmatite dike about 14 inches wide, with salmon-colored feldspar. The older aplitic pegmatite near...very prominent in the schist but common in the pegmatite. Details of the N orth River Shaft. This was sunk...Most of the rock was found to be a gray aplitic pegmatite, an igneous member intrusive into the Manhattan
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Trinidad, in the southwestern part of Las Animas County, is the coal mining center of southern Colorado...side canyons which flow into the main canyons. Each mine has a camp with st~res, garages, and houses for...either side of the dikes. Jeffries Coal Mine The Jeffries Coal Mine is 3 miles south of Trinidad on Raton...coal, all of which are from 4 to 7 feet thick. This mine is worked by the double entry system with the main...the manway or air course running parallel into the mine. Going into the main slope 300 feet, we come to
Journal (issue)
in specimen 4 x 2 ½ x 2. . • • • • • • • 6.00 Fluorite, Cumberland. Very fine lilac & yellow banded twin......................................131 COLLINS HILL (PORTLAND, CONN.) DESERTED By Richard Schoon,r 135...Andrews, Jr ; " Famous Mineral Localities (Renfrew County, Ont., Canada)", by Jerome M. Eisenberg; "Ao Alaskan...Republican River (South Fork), in southern Yuma County, Colorado, and there is quite a sprinkling of the...which the land is located- in this case, Grand County, Colo.- rather than to refer to the index parallel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Inn • Downtown 1992 Reef structure in the Schoonmaker quarry, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 1899. Photo courtesy...Federation: Robert Evan Reynolds, San Bernardino County Mu­ seum, San Bernardino. Eastern Federation: Dr... The specimen lo­ cality should be the Himalaya mine in Mesa Grande, California. I am sorry for the error...Rhodochrosite Peruvian Sulfides TipTop Phosphates Pegmatite Minerals of We specialize in display quality...fossils and minerals P. O. Box 643,217 Main Street Hill City, SD 57745-0643 (605) 574-4289 Hours: 8:00
Journal (issue)
............................................ PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE PALERMO QUARRY, NORTH GROTON,..., dip vertical co 80°SW . west side of H udson County Boulevard These interecting joi nt systems made... hyalite opal, semi-opal, travertine, English fluorite, hydrozincite, halite, wernerite, willemite, natron...Bigelow Pond, in Union, Tolland County, Conn. (See Three Connecticut Localities, by Wilbur J. EJ. well...the possibilities for the pegmatites, barite, fluorite, kyanite, sillimanite, spodumene, etc. Under this
Show/Event (guide)
t i o n s on carrollite from the Kamoya South II mine, Democratic Republic of Congo byR. L. Mown 2:00...u m mineralization of pegmatite pockets in the Wausau Complex, Marathon County, Wisconsin byS.L. Hanson...ferberite-hiibnerite from the Nine Mile Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin by T. W. Buchholz; A U Falstei; and...kulanite and phosphophyllite from the Palermo #1 mine, North Groton, New Hampshire bill. W Nizamoff R...Simmons 4:00 Gem almandine from Colchester, Connecticut by B. M. Jarnot and M. D. Jarnot 4:15 A m p
Book (edition)
1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION 1955 HOLIDAY HILL PRESS 1485 FORCE DRIVE, MOUNTAINSIDE, N. �- Copyright...week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...been replaced in the locality seotion by the Scotty Mine, an active operation of considerable interest. The...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside... James L. Faulkner {Ridlonville) of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association, Mr. John E. Duffy and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
9/4835351/am-2019-7028.pdf by University of Connecticut user on 09 January 2020 1470 VERESHCHAGIN...of the continental crust as a whole (Li and Schoonmaker 2003; Maynard 2003). More than half of all discovered...deposits in Franklin/Sterling Hill, U.S.A.; Långban, Sweden, and Moss Mine, Sweden. Both Långban, Sweden...Sweden, and Franklin/Sterling Hill, New Jersey, are represented by strongly metamorphosed Precambrian rocks...primary As-bearing ore minerals in Franklin/Sterling Hill are löllingite, arsenopyrite, and the calcium arsenate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
highly commercialized, and often, some approach a County Fair carnival atmosphere — high admission charges...for certain specimens in it. Mr. William D. Schoonmaker of New York City exhibited about 150 specimens...exhibition. A small fluorite crystal, coated with tiny pyrites, and included in another fluorite crystal. A green...green fluorite with movable bubble. Red, green, pink and black tourmaline. A deep colored prase opal... One of them, a dark green stone form Delaware County, Pa., being the only one ever cut from that locality
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undersigned, being all of the officers of rhc Clark County Gem Co!l~tors, Inc., most sincerely wish to convey...one attains the top of the saddle, Flower Agate Hill is f earned in its entirety about one-quarter mile...writer took advantage of collecting at the numerous mine dumps in the vicinity of Champion. It is hoped that...Michi1a11 The Beacon Mine, operated by the North Range Mining Company, is the only active mine in the Champion...numerous aumps and ruins in th e vicinity of the Beacon Mine, however, attest to the former activity in the area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALEXIS A. JULIEN, LOUIS H. LAUDY, WILLIAM D. SCHOONMAKER. FRTANOE OOAUUTTEE. HENRY DUDLEY, JOHN H. HINTON...ARCHEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS FROM WESTERN NEW YORK AND SARATOGA COUNTY. Exhibited by W. I,. Hildburgh. I. SIXTH ANNUAL...MEXICO,NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION. Exhibited by B. F. Hill. 10.a. TENLARGE THIN-SECTIONS OF ADIRONDACKROCKS...(unaltered, long fiber), Griqua Land, S. A. m. Fluorite (large elongated cube), Northumberland, Eng. N...Joplin, Mo. p. Stephanite on Pyrite, Grand Prize Mine, Tuscarora, Elks Co., Nev. a. SIXTH ANNUAL RECEPTION
Report (issue)
........................................... R15 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ R17 Mine Closure...........................................in the Skellefteå VMS district of Västerbotten County, Sweden. Combined, these two groups of deposits...from the Kankberg deposit located in Västerbotten County, Sweden, and the Dashuigou and Majiagou deposits...tellurium values are extremely low, and Li and Schoonmaker (2003) estimate an average upper crustal abundance
 
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