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| NEW YORK CHRYSOBERYL LOCALITY P.O. Box # Ralph C. Gosse 8 0 7 2 Albany, New York CHRYSOBERYL was discovered...to inform you of the discovery of a new locality of chrysoberyl and prismatic mica, presuming that, as...York (1842, pages 375 377) : "The only locality of chrysoberyl at present known in this state, is in the...granite transversing gneiss, and is associated with Tourmaline, garnet, apatite, feldspar, and mica. Its colour...specimens have been obtained at the Greenfield locality in 1845 by Dr. Leonard of Lansingburgh." As far |
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| named, and here arc found deposits of Iolite, Tourmaline, etc. The country rock is granite, with frequent...calcite, cassiterite, chalcopyrite, clevelandite, chrysoberyl, citrine, cobalt, cyanite, cooke ite, chlorophane...orthoclase, pied montite, pyrite, quartz, torbernite, tourmaline, and zircon. The above named minerals were mostly...this locality, which will be readily granted by this genial gentleman and lover of the tourmaline to any...or student. This locality I shall describe at greater length later on, under tourmaline. I shall now describe |
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| a I The history of chrysoberyl discoveries helps document the growth of mineralogy as a science and...a hobby in the United States. United States chrysoberyl localities appear to number a handful and have...only minute quantities of gem-quality material. Chrysoberyl is probably not as rare as believed, since its...observed crystal forms. Mineral Varieties The name chrysoberyl comes from the transliterated Greek words xpuods...described and named by Werner in 1789 as krisoberil. Chrysoberyl as a gemstone is known for its two varietiesalexandrite |
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| Wendell E. Wilson. Back cover photograph: Pink tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom...the early I 900 ' s, showing Loren Merrill 's tourmaline mining operation at Mount Mica. Table of Contents...CHAPTER l. INTRODUCTION . . . . .I .I Format of locality descriptions How to use the maps . . . . . . ...11 11 11 11 12 12 13 13 13 CHAPTER 3. MINERAL LOCALITY DESCRIPTIONS AND MAPS . . 21 CHAPTER 4. CHECKLIST...INDEX . . .. . .. . . 105 105 106 Locality index (by town) Locality index (by name of site) . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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| areas: 1. southern New York Bedford pegmatite district—we can add here the small xenotime- or beryl-bearing...pegmatite. The high-purity feldspar from the Bedford district was called “Lenox Spar” because it was shipped...Precamb rian Gne isses Spar Bed H ill BEDFORD DISTRICT Cro wn Poi nt Ti cond erog a Ch estertown Bayli...and other locations in the southern Adirondacks district. Some specimens from Batchellerville are associated...with a metallic luster and foliated texture. Chrysoberyl, BeAl2O4, occurs at two main localities in New |
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| CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...r u m b u l l , Connecticut 06611-5326 T his locality index is meant to serve as a guide to the names...at a locality are listed i n this index. Type minerals are noted with ( T ) . T h e type locality is not...bismuth mine, but efforts to trace it to that locality have failed; it has been found at O l d Mine Park... limestone q u a r r i e s , Beaver B r o o k district, Danbury: barite, calcite, graphite, microcline |
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| brilliant faces and rich color. The color at this locality is particularly fine and many of the smaller crystals...in gneiss about one inch wide. This particular locality I have never visited. One quite inter esting feature...rhombic prisms in great abundance at the Iolite locality, and desirable specimens are easily obtainable...found in situ here in gneiss, as the original locality in this coun— 66 ‘ v THE MINERAL oonuwr'on try...in the glacial drift. GARNET is, next to black tourmaline, the most abundant mineral in the town, although |
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| covered. We were unable, however,to give to each locality visited time and attention necessaryto make other...speeimens. After lunch we journeyed on to the chrysoberyl locality in the Witt liill region in the northeast...years before by George Howe and specimens of chrysoberyl, gahnite and zrrcon were uncovered. There was...obtaining a good supply of small crystals of chrysoberyl of a thin flattened form showing thc repeated...bottom a few slender crystals of transparent green tourmaline were found. Most of the quarry waste has been |
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| ago. Beautiful specimens can be found in this locality,"—item sent in by James Miller Davis, 212 Guaranty...specimen material at one time . . .long ago. The chrysoberyl occurrence, first discovered in the very early... Judging by specimens and old accounts, the chrysoberyl was abundant in pegmatite and contiguous oligoclase-rich...house, which shows yellow repeated twins of chrysoberyl in columnar greenish beryl . . . an odd association...specimens were formerly found, indicating that the locality must have been unusual. A number of new localities |
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| ...................... 2 3 AN INTERESTING TOURMALINE SPECIMEN ...... ,...... ............................................... 14 WORLD'S LARGEST CHRYSOBERYL CRYSTAL .............................. 19 NOTES...invited us to join him on a trip to a new chrysoberyl locality somewhere north of Albany, N . Y. Having...But there was something phoney about the chrysoberyl locality as Carl simply ignored the subject all day...rocess, we failed to catch even a glimpse of a chrysoberyl in Carl's collection or among his duplicates |
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| spoke of his early recollections of the Paris locality 30 that of Norris )rears ago, rnentioning among...for tourmaline, and also spoke of the Littlefield farm quarry from rvhich rnany fine tourmaline and other...minerals have come. In touching on the Norrvay locality the speaker recalled Mr. Noyes, the artist, a...of crystals rvho iound the ledge of tourmaline in this locality. This ledge was the G r e e n w o o dM...exhibited some problematical pseudomorphs from this locality which ,,after topaz." He told of the working of |
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| Middlesex County Region in Connecticut .... Additional Locality Information for Connecticut .... Mineral Index...Hill, Trumbull, Connecticut The Type Danburite Locality at Danbury, Connecticut . . Ill 194 204 240 245...general assistance and drawing of the mine and locality maps; Harold Banks, Jr. for editing the manuscript;...CHONDRODITE-Magnesium fluosillcate CHROMITE-Iron chromate CHRYSOBERYL-Beryllium aluminate CHRYSOCOLLA-Copper silicate...fluosilicate TORBERNITE-Hydrous copper uranium phosphate TOURMALINE-Complex aluminum silicate with boron, magnesium |
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| Francisco' The speaker described the benitoite locality in the town of Hollister and outlined some of...Batchellerville, told of the relocating of the chrysoberyl locality to the north of Saratoga, known as "Greenfield"..."Greenfield" and of a hitherto unrecorded locality for large black tourmaline at Fort Ann. Further to the north...Towner Pond, the locality which furnished the remarkable "skeleton" crystals of tourmaline, and told of a...a zircon locality near the lake shore just south of Crown Point. Coming to the more important and better |
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| named kimberlite after the great diamondproducing district of Kimberley, South Africa. Root’s importance...wollastonite occurrence at Natural Bridge, the brown tourmaline occurrence north of Dr. Steven C. Chamberlain...today. He was a charter member of the Capital District Mineral Club (Albany, New York) and in 1979 donated...Greenfield (Saratoga) chrysoberyl locality as well as the “eupychroite” locality and Roe spar bed near |
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| but for some of these occurrences, the exact locality is unknown to us. Please note that most of these...We have followed the format of earlier mineral locality articles by using an alphabetical listing of counties;...07:55 02 December 2014 also categorized each locality by geological mode of occurrence as described...of the Balmat district). The type of occurrence is indicated at the end of each locality listing with...hemimorphite, aurichalcite; F. Rhinebeck, quartz locality: quartz; F. Shekomeko: tetrahedrite; F. Erie County |
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| ....... 271 Frank Perham Diary of the Newry Tourmaline Discovery-1972 ....... .............................. 341 Neil A. Wintringham Maine Mineral Locality Index ..........................................life was transformed by his first visit to the tourmaline-bearing granite pegmatite at Mount Mica in 1952...Bennett pegmatite, agreed to write about that locality. Carl Francis, curator of minerals and meteorites...The Wisconsinan stage of the first geological district, eastern New York: New York State Museum, Bulletin |
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| species Marcus J. ORIGLIERI sought-after only by locality specialists or the most die-hard of systematic...and photo. Headframe of the Wessel mine, type locality of marshallsussmanite. B. Cairncross photo pattern...of the Getchell gold mine, in the Potosi Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. Massive blasting...photo. Miner drilling in Oceanview mine, Pala District, San Diego County, California, USA. M. Mauthner...var. aquamarine, 12.5 cm high. Shigar, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Silverhorn specimen |
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| Clerk’s Oflice 0f the District Court of the United States for the Southeyn District of New York. Win w...useful and correct information in regard to the locality and value of Gems in the present state of scientific... . . . . . . ............... . . . . . . .. Chrysoberyl, Cymophane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tourmaline, Rubellite, Siberite . . . . . . . . . . . ....halfformed. Figure 67 rep resents a common variety of tourmaline, bounded on the Fig. 61. p ' Fig. 68. upper |
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| (Salt Lake Tribune 1893b). The Osceola Mining district was discovered in 1877 and was mined almost continuously...the Eldorado and Florida gold properties in the district. A tunnel into the ore assayed $1150 [per ton...(1895a, p. 169) later commented about the mining district: “Probably the largest nuggets of gold ever found...other contributions that appear in its pages. Locality articles should not be construed to permit or...specifically those he had observed in the Tintic Mining District (Copperopolis mine), topaz localities in the Dugway |
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| . . MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE RARITAN BAY DISTRICT .... PLAINFIELD M INERALOGICAL SOCIETY . . . ...finding 1urq11oise on a mine dump i,1 the Goldstone district, ahout 20 miles north of Barstow, San Bernardino...66 enthusiastic members. The socie:y just stone district; aragon:te, iron nodule, felsite, jasper, agate...our meml:>ers who lives not very far from the locality has tried repeatedly to find the caves but withcut...Mining, starts with an animated map of the Sudbury District of Ontario, Canada, where more 'than 80 percent |
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| by U. SHEPARD, in the Clerk's office, of the District Court of CHARLES Connecticut. Printed by Hezekiah...considered cannot be said to be universal. The Tourmaline, as well as Boracite, present us with two very...separation in the contrary, others, as Quartz and Tourmaline, separate in other directions with greater facility...regular composition of three which occur in Chrysoberyl. The individual 1 forms individuals with 2...traversed by delicate fibres of Asbestus also, in Chrysoberyl and Feldspar, (var. Adularia) in both of It |
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| 133, p, 164-193. (1930) Geology of the Capital district. New York State Mus., Bull. 285. Swinnerton, As...for precise dating. The well-known graptolite locality at Magog, Quebec is considered by Currier and...(beyond the limits of Plate 4)» Another fossil locality at Bernardston, Massachusetts (F6), just west...found in the Fitch formation in the Littleton district. The Clough formation, transitional upward into...miles west of the Connecticut River. The type locality for this fault is in the Moosilauke quadrangle |
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| HERRICK & NOYES , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. OX OK LIBRAR LEN NEW...butusually Hrania menteri'u vil "? eiedeirai. Cover tourmaline, is represented a a wote outsideral, diferently...but usually in connexion with holohedral. Under tourmaline , is represented a six sided prism of this mineral...place . (See a figure of a compound crystal of chrysoberyl.) It is very possible that twins of the first...angles of 120° and 60° . Such is the case in chrysoberyl. 2. Postnatal Compound Crystals. 78. Postnatal |
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| Perforations PART I. IY Objects China —2. India —3. Annam —4. Battering The Drill Grinding . ...Alaska, British Columbia, to those from China and India. chiefly and my archoeologically, ever-increasing...GENERAL I INTRODUCTION No. 762 CHRYSANTHEMUM India Seventeenth Century Nephrite BOWL JADE I ...to elucidate the so of carved series of the district where the competent geologist, after a who...summarized in their specific gravity were Euiopean locality, country of Traube in 1886 found another subject |
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| Australia. Geol. Soc. India Jour. Geological Society of India Journal. Bangalore, India. Geol. Soc. Japan... Indian Ceramic Society Transactions. Benares, India. Indus, and Eng. Chemistry Industrial and Engineering...Lucknow, India. Palaeont. Soc. India Jour. Palaeontological Society of India Journal. Lucknow, India. Palaeont...Chemistry of Solids. New York. Phytomorphology. Delhi, India. Pittsburgh Univ. Bull. Pittsburgh University Bulletin...and Spragge townships, Blind River uranium area, District of Algoma: Ontario Dept. Mines Prelim. Rept. 1953-2 |
