 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...H. WEBER 1172 West L a k e Avenue Guilford, Connecticut 06437-1342 E A R L E C. SULLIVAN 17 R o c k y...y R i d g e D r i v e T r u m b u l l , Connecticut 06611-5326 T his locality index is meant to serve...collectors. More often than not, collecting in Connecticut is no longer per mitted. Many of the localities...effort has been made to list a l l localities in Connecticut, a small state that is big on mineralization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | In Memoriam RONALD EARL Windsor, BENTLEY Connecticut (1948-1995) R O N B E N T L E Y suc cumbed...C a r l ' s discovery of an amethyst specimen at the nearby Roncari quarry triggered an interest that...brothers had. I remember particularly the numerous Roncari quarry datolites, calcites, and apophyllites that...curate and display it. I n 1982, he returned to Connecticut and set up the consulting firm R E B Associates...datolite specimen from the Roncari quarry, Hartford Coun ty, Connecticut, in the Ronald Bentley collection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Connecticut Gems & Gem Minerals A variety of Connecticut's beautiful gemstones are represented in East...sought as gemstones. I n earlier years, several Connecticut lo calities were successfully mined for gem...included the Gillette quarry (elbaite), Roe bling mine (beryl), and Slocum quarry (beryl). Harte (1944)...(1944) states that "Connecticut has produced a very considerable number of gem stones in the semi-precious...tourmalines." Most gem-quality minerals from Connecticut surfaced dur ing the first half of this century |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 80 in Passaic County, New Jersey. It also occurs in the Roncari quarry, Hartford County, and at Cheshire...Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, and in the Hampden quarry, Hampden County, Massachusetts. It has...respectively, and at the Cornwall iron mine, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It has been found in individual...in the Rockville Crushed Stone Company quarry, Montgomery County, Maryland. Small prehnite crystals to...reported from the Gouverneur Talc Company No. 4 quarry, Lewis County, New York. Prehnite is reported from many |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | For example, foreign iron in quartz produces amethyst. I V / B J Figure 3. Twin model. The twin... Dauphin6-lawtwin Figure 8. Twin lamellae of amethyst. A: View into the usually larger rhombohedra1...Natural twin lamellae on faces of an untreated amethyst crystal, 2 cm high, from Artigas, Uruguay. C:...Figure 9. A: A basal section of an ametrine (part amethyst and part citrine) crystal, 4 cm across, with good...quartz twin, 2 cm high, from the PC mine, Jefferson County, Montana. Figure 10. A: Quartz twin after the |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................94 Connecticut ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Catalog/List | | Sodium aluminum silicate CLEA VE LANDITE Connecticut Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite...cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon Nearly pure white xlline lamellar mass . MOONSTONE...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................... p. 14 Manassas quarry geology, pt. 2 ................. p. 15 Upcoming...2019 Datolite crystal from Prospect Park, Passaic County, NJ. Photo: Bob Cooke. 2 vugs in the basalt...pseudomorph after anhydrite, Prospect Park, Passaic County, NJ. Photo: Bob Cooke. Initially, datolite nodules...Passaic County and in Hudson and Somerset Counties as well. The Roncari Quarry in Connecticut and the...the Lane Quarry in Massachusetts produced well-formed, attractive crystals. At all of these locations, datolite |  | | Journal (issue) | | with ALBITE and QUARTZ Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, CA Watercolor by Frederick C. Wilda© REVELATIONS...JONES Cavansite specimen mined from the Wagholi quarry, Pune, India, and displayed as part of the rocks...Lake Owyhee State Park, Malheur County, and also near Goble, Columbia County in 1967. Again, this new mineral...quarries in the Wagholi quarry complex, in Poona, and again in the Lonavala quarry, Maharashtra. What made...vividly in this specimen, mined from the Wagholi quarry, Maharashtra, India. PARENT GÉRY, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS |  | | Book (volume) | | Department of Conservation; and on the Four Peaks amethyst deposit in Arizona by Dr. F. W. Galbraith of the...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Mt. Mica Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal...mass Ramona mines Rock crystal and amethyst Cut and rough amethyst Asteriated rose quartz sphere Rough |  | | Catalog/List | | radial groups on limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals...lapis AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale ----i'>ink crystalline...crystal vugs ALTAITE Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite |  | | 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...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...5 cm (Grice and Gault, 1981). CONNECTICUT Litchfield, Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals |  | | Book | | as a protection against drunkenness - the name amethyst in fact means 'not drunken'. Clear transparent...hydrothermal products are agate amygdales with amethyst, calcite, and other minerals in basalts; minerals...also in the cavities of certain basaltic lavas. USA - copper mines of Keeweenaw Peninsula, Michigan,...Saxony. CZECHOSLOVAKIA - Jachymov (Joachimstal). USA - crystals ( ! !), branching masses ( ! !) in copper...laid the foundations for the economic wealth of the USA. The Victorian gold rush of 1851-52 trebled the population |  | | Book | | information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously...Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois... jasp-agate, jasper, quartzite, rock crystal, amethyst, chrysoprase, opal, etc.), serpentine, and steatite...and lapis lazuli, clear red carnelian, purple amethyst, and rock crystal-all mounted in heavy gold settings...pods of a desert plant. A third was of turquoise, amethyst, and hollow gold balls held together with gold |  | | Journal (issue) | | accretions, collided with the South China plate in the east and with the Paleo-Tethyan plate in the west, resulting...kilometers from the city of Gongcheng, in Gongcheng County. The other, smaller workings are known as the Yangshuo...the mountain ridge, northeast of Yangshuo, in the county of the same name. Both of these mines produce massive...Daoping mine is by Gongcheng, capital of Gongcheng County, which is reached by a good road from Yangshuo...Location of the Daoping and Yangshuo mines. Note the county line passing between the mines. HISTORY Mining |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................area, Fresno County, California (Alfors et al., 1965); Chickencoop Canyon, Tulare County, California (Franke...Yosemite National Park. To reach Trumbull Peak, travel east on State Highway 120 to Berkeley Toulumne camp and...discovered by Anthony Marsh of Incline, Mariposa County, sometime before 1930 (the exact date is not given) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...micromounter. Following her first visit to that famous quarry in the mid-1960’s, she missed few opportunities...Cannon (Cannon Micro probe, Seattle, Washington, USA) provided some preliminary microprobe work. 219 ...situated along the Brandywine Creek road 1.0 km east of the adit at a point 1.0 km northwest of Highway... The Brownley H ill mine is situated about 4 km east o f the market town o f Alston in the historic lead |  | | Catalog/List | | PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped crystal...calcium hydroxy-silicate. Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinite...QUARTZ AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite .. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue crystals and masses...aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled aggregates; some |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | as six reports: Mineral Industries of the Middle East, Mineral Industries of Africa, Mineral Industries...State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...Geological Survey. Connecticut: State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Department of.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Connecticut, by Donald K. Harrison and Robert J . Altamura...this report. Name State____________ SECTION 2. County _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Stocks. production, end |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...gabbro cone-sheet of its outer rim, measures 48 km east to west. Following caldera subsidence, the volcano...Hohenstein (peak on the right), looking towards the east. The gorge on the right side, whose rock face is...8.9 cm. Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Figure 230. Amethyst sceptered quartz, 2.1 cm. Uli Bahmann collection;...Species 2004. Mineralogical Record, Inc., Tucson, AZ, USA, 309 p. MARTIN, H. (1965) The Precambrian geology |  | | Catalog/List | | specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES ...... . 79 Sharp...calcium hydroxy-silicate. California Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinitegehlenite... AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky- blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite . Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. S.ky-bJue crystals and masses...aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled aggregates; some |  | | Book (edition) | | at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...resulting in interesting overgrowths as shown in the amethyst quartz example in Figure 22. Because the overgrowth...Parallel growth of many smaller amethyst crystals upon larger amethyst crystals. Group of smoky purple...purple crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...replacing glauberite crystal; Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona; size 2" by 2". Top center: calcite replacing | | | Book (edition) | | the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...resulting in interesting overgrowths as shown in the amethyst quartz example in Figure 22. Because the overgrowth...Parallel growth of many smaller amethyst crystals upon larger amethyst crystals. Group of smoky purple...purple crystals, 5” by 4”, lron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...GROWTH 91 Opening 7 Soe Chalcedony b ands AMETHYST GEODE Faces on tips As Largest crystals line |
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Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA