 | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-âą r ** K* ysf^ :' âą'âS >- 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............. |  | | Report (volume) | | SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 484 THE GRANITES OF CONNECTICUT BY T. NELSON DALE AND HERBERT E. GREGORY Prepared...the Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1911 ...discussion____________________._____._ Salient features of Connecticut geology, by Herbert E. Gregory___ Origin, nature...rocks________________.__ __ Granites and granite gneisses of Connecticut, by Herbert E. GregoryName, mineral content,...granitic intrusions_________ ____ 24 Age of the Connecticut granites________ __ _ __ 25 Structure, rock variations |  | | Report (edition) | | much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...tightly encased in the rock matrix. These include microcline feldspar, beryl, schorl (black tourmaline), almandine...Rockland-Thomaston, Rockport, and Union areas in Knox County. They once supported a booming industry based on...igneous rocks. An outstanding example is the Litchfield area, where there is a type of syenite rock known |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alkalic Rocks at Litchfield, Maine by DANIEL S. BARKER Department of Geology, University of Texas, Austin...cancrinite, sodalite, nepheline, and lepidomelane from Litchfield are common in many reference collections. Nepheline...syenite, however, forms but a small part of the Litchfield alkalic pluton, and the specimens in collections...typical of even this subordinate fraction. The Litchfield pluton is poorly exposed, and the visible field...(1918) found other alkalic rocks in place at Litchfield, and interpreted the occurrence as a series of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...as elongated crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by...Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls, and aquamarine occurs...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PL. 7 JU N E 4 , 1892 ELEOLITE-SYENITE OP LITCHFIELD, MAINE, AND HAWESâ HORNBLENDE-SYENITE FROM RED....................... The Eleolite-Syenite of Litchfield and other Localities in M aine.................given, one is from the well known occurrence near Litchfield, in Maine, and the other is the rock described...running from South Litchfield post-office, in the town of Litchfield, Kennebec county, Maine, to the city...Augusta. The distance of the locality from South Litchfield is about three-quarters of a mile, and from Gardiner |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kovalev Paul LaBonte Erich R. Laskowski Jeff Lines Litchfield Family David M. Lowe John C. Lucking Johan Maertens...museum quality.â (Szenics, 1967) Spruce Peak, King County, Washington, 1977 Beautiful pyrite and quartz specimens...and FLECK, G. (1980) The Grey Horse mine, Pinal County, Arizona. Mineralogical Record, 11 (4), 231â232...and HAWES, W. (1978) Quartz and pyrite from King County, Washington. Mineralogical Record, 9 (6), 352â353...Spinelli prospect, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. Collected December 21, 2008 with Fred E |  | | Book (volume) | | greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...gem-producing areas in the United States, admittedly. Connecticut has produced a few tourmalines, aquamarines,...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...arranged alphabetically: P. B. Goodsell, Hartford, Connecticut, 44 p. Hentschel, G., 1983, Die mineralien der |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Humboldt County, Nevada, as well as some new area east of their Mosquite mine in Im perial County, California...cookeite at the Stand on Your Head #1 mine in Saline County. The cookeite occurs as nearly featureless botryoids...still being found at the Coon Creek mine in Polk County, but the finds are not as prolific as in former...cacoxenite, rockbridgeite, and phosphosiderite. Connecticut New Finds Mr. William Brunet of Washington...species in Litchfield County which have not been reported in Sohon's book on Connecticut miner als. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | brown by it. Microcline: Whitish, cleavable masses with purple fluorite and muscovite. Microcline is a constituent...found consists of large white plates with whitish microcline, smoky quartz, and purple fluorite. Some of the...radiated masses with large white muscovite, whitish microcline, and smoky quartz. Also noticed as tiny pale...34 miles). Thomaston is in S/E Litchfield County in western Connecticut. A sad note The railroad cut has...Lufkin, and Harry Sprague, president of the Tri-County Rocks and Minerals Society. The display will be |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | central portion of the Western Highlands of Connecticut near the southern end of the Green Mountain Plateau...The granite consists of essential plagioclase,microcline and qtattz with accessorymuscovite and subordinate...subordinate biotite. Plagioclaseand microcline, in widely variable proportions, are the most abundant minerals...discretesubhedralcrystals,2) inclusionsin microcline and 3) exsolution lamellae in microcline. Subhedral plagioclase crystals...portions of the granite lacking large microcline crystals. Large microcline crystals are locally abundant and |  | | Report (issue) | | Larsen and Kevin Reddy mapped deposits north of Litchfield Road and south of the Manchester airport in...town of Londonderry, a southwest portion lies in Litchfield, and a northern portion is within the corporate...elevation, is a hilltop one-tenth mile south of the Litchfield Road on the eastern quadrangle boundary. The...the surficial deposits and soils of Hillsborough county. several decades, workers have informally referred...corner. Only two sizable outcrops of a coarse microcline-albite pegmatite are shown on Sriramadas 1 map |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | METAMORPHISM AND TECTONICS OF THE EARLY PROTEROZOIC LITCHFIELD PROVINCE AND WESTERN PINE CREEK GEOSYNCLINE,...metamorphism and tectonics of the Early Proterozoic Litchfield Province and western Pine Creek Geosyncline,...Territory. Precambrian Res., 40/41: 565-558. The Litchfield Province is a 9000 km 2 area of Early Proterozoic...essentially hydrothermal event (1780 Ma). The Litchfield Province and Pine Creek Geosyncline are overlain... and metamorphic and tectonic history of the Litchfield Province and the western Pine Creek Geosyncline |  | | Report (volume) | | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | syenite, litchfieldite, found in the town of Litchfield, Maine.2 Since then this remarkable rock has... F ig u r e 1.â Location of Litchfieldite in Litchfield, Maine Exact position indicated by the dots marked...parallel to the strikes of the schists. S. L.â South Litchfield. Contour interval, 100 feet. Scale, 1 : â. pitted...Most of the rock is composed of microcline, microperthite, microcline-microperthite, orthoclase, soda-orthoclase...related to the much more abundant, common quartz-microcline pegmatites, which, as sills, lenses, and dikes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of R&M (p. 255) of the "Big Beryl" Mine Imperial County in southern Calif. (old Hogg Mine), gem hunters...1stâGeorgia had a record low the Mt. Zirkel area, Routt County, Colo- of 10 4-° degrees in this area and about...under the snow blanket, they than that of green microcline (Amazon- found plenty of rose quartz and some..." tons of milky and rose quartz in the near CONNECTICUT â "Enclosed is a future to be used commercially...concrete for building tonstmction. Conn. (Litchfield County) which I have There will be real hunting for |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE PETROGRAPHICAL COUNTY, PROVINCE MASS. I. OF ESSEX THE area of igneous rocks in Eastern Massachusetts...Massachusetts, especially in Essex county, has been, as the late Geo. H. Williams said, " more discussed than...are written. I have visited the region of Essex county several times and collected a large number of specimens...its chief features. The igneous rocks of Essex county extend along the coast from Lynn to the New Hampshire...but this paper does not include them. In Essex county they form a long ridge "extending in a northeasterly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS calciteâmany locations cancriniteâGardiner, Litchfield, West Gardiner ((carnotite)) cassiteriteâmany...)âStoneham New York Herkimer "Diamonds" Herkimer County is well known for its quartz crystals, some of...neotociteâHovey Mt. mackinawiteâUnion nephelineâGardiner, Litchfield, Mon ((magnesioehromite)) mouth, West Gardiner...perhamiteâGreenwood, Newry messelite( ?)âNewry perovskite(?) microclineâmany locations petaliteâBuckfield, ((China))...psilomelaneâsee romanechite pumpeUyiteâAroostock County purpuriteâAuburn, Greenwood, Hebron, Newry pyrargyriteâFranklin |  | | Report (volume) | | From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°, corrected...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different...From the Brobdignag mine, Red Mountain, San Juan County, Colo. Specific gravity, 5.21 at 18°. Analyzed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, Connecticut 06793. The area of Litchfield County immediately north of the Litchfield town center...Campbell Road, 2.5 km N W of its intersection with County R t . 87, 4 km N N E of the village of Edwards...Madagascar. A new locality has been found in Florence County, Wis consin, where rhodizite occurs in a lithium-rich...rubellite (elbaite)-cleavelandite (albite)-perthite (microcline)-lepidolite-quartz unit, which displays a striking...Suever Stone Company quarry at Delphos, Van Wert County, Ohio, has not been a prolific source of minerals |  | | Catalog/List | | CALCIUM LARSENITE - see ESPERITE 5 CANCRINITE - Litchfield, Maine - yellow masses rich in Syenite - 111... 3x3-60c, 3x4-$1.00, 50C/lb. LEPIDOMELANE - Litchfield, Maine - black micaceous plates & sheets in syenite... lx2-50c, 2x2-$1. 00, 2x3-$1. 75, 3x4-$2.50 MICROCLINE - Quebec - top quality solid pure bright green...00, 2x3-$4. 00, about 3x3,5-$8.00, $7. 50/lb. MICROCLINE - Greenwood, Maine - olive to gray-green cleavable...2x3-25C, 3x3-35C, 3x4-50C, 20C/lb. SIDERITE - Connecticut - nearly pure light to dark brown Xne. masses |  | | Report (volume) | | Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science...Contributed Papers in Specimen Miner alogy, 114 Connecticut, Litchfield hematite, 319; Case quarry beryl, 116 Cookeite...Pegmatite Bodies in the Wausaw Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin, 188 Fascinating Story of Mount Mica's...Localities in the Beaver Creek Area of St. Lawrence County, New York, W. S. Condon, S. C. Chamberlain, 105... 399 Four Obscure Mineral Localities in Oxford County, Maine, M. I . Jacobson, 401 Fox, R. A . , 334 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with quartz, from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The composite crystals of siderite...United States, I was surprised to find that Connecticut has produced some of the best examples of siderite...siderite were collected from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, where large cleavage masses to 11 cm on edge...From the Palermo No. 1 mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, come microcrystals associated with...millerites, the Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York, has produced a fair number of fine siderite |
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