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Gypsum from
Niagara Falls Quarry, Holcim Niagara Aggregates Quarry, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sphaleriteβ“˜2 photos of Gypsum associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Niagara Falls Quarry, Holcim Niagara Aggregates Quarry, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:552355
Long-form Identifier:1:3:552355:9
GUID (UUID V4):164ee9ce-aef0-40a0-b799-f57f3e8487f8
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
14.8km (9.2 miles) β“˜Canal dump (Montrose occurrence), Niagara Falls, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
16.6km (10.3 miles) β“˜New Thorold quarry, Thorold Quarry (Walker Quarry), Thorold Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
16.9km (10.5 miles) β“˜Thorold Quarry (Walker Quarry), Thorold Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
17.2km (10.7 miles) β“˜Old Thorold quarry, Thorold Quarry (Walker Quarry), Thorold Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
19.3km (12.0 miles) β“˜LaFarge Corp. Quarry, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) β“˜Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
27.7km (17.2 miles) β“˜Buffalo Cement Company Well 2, Main Street & NY Central RR belt Line, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) β“˜Humberstone quarries, Humberstone Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
36.3km (22.5 miles) β“˜Vineland Quarry, Clinton Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
39.8km (24.7 miles) β“˜American Cement Plaster Company Mine (Akron Gypsum Company Mine), Akron, Newstead Township, Genesee County, New York, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Central and Western New York State M inerals of the Silurian Lockport Group of New York State have been...β€œfluate of lime” (fluorite) in rocks β€œnear the falls of Niagara.” According to Bruce, this was the first documented...observed during the initial settlement of western New York, it was the construction of the Erie Canal in...Beck’s (1842) Mineralogy of New York, James Hall’s (1843) Geology of New York, and James Dana’s (1848) Manual...carbonate rocks exposed along the Niagara Escarpment of western New York as the β€œLockport limestone.Ӡ His
Report (issue)
Princess sodalite mine Vardy quarry Golding-Keene quarry Egan Chute occurrences York River tactite zone occurrence...occurrence Morrison quarry Davis quarry York River corundum occurrence Childs Mine Rankin Mine Bessemer...Mine Woodcox occurrence Padwell Mine Eagle Lake quarry Crystal Lake fluoborite occurrence Crystal Lake...Tory Hill - Gooderham - Kinmount Hadley granite quarry Canadian All-Metals mine Gibson Road (western)...occurrence Gill quarries Highway 507 road-cut Fraser quarry Nu-World uranium mine Dancey tremolite occurrence
Report (issue)
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES STONE RESOURCES OF THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT By M. A. VOS 1969 First Printing...form: Vos, M.A. 1969: Stone resources of the Niagara Escarpment; Ontario Dept. Mines, IMR31, 68p. Accompanied...Raw Material Requirements . ....... Locating a Quarry Site ..................... ..... ...... Geographic...Discussion of Areas of Potential Quarry Development ... Niagara Falls ..................................Louth Township ............................ Balls Falls, Louth Township ......................... Beamsville
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Jeffrey Scovil photo. May/June: Patch reef at the Falls of the Ohio, painting by Stephen F. Greb. July/August:...November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen, Harold...Mineralization at Pedreira Atalaia (the Sentinel Quarry) near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil...310-13 Amethyst Discovery on Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine, W. B. Thompson, 44-51 Anatase, Colorado...the Walker Vein, Caldwell Stone Company Quarry, Boyle County, Kentucky, 254-58 Andorite, 27 Andradite
Report (issue)
β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” -- β€” -β€” 4 York County --------------------- β€” β€” β€” 4 Metropolitan Toronto...β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 4 Ontario County ----------------------4 Pickering Township β€” β€”...Township ------- β€” - β€” β€” β€” - β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 6 Durham County β€” --- β€” β€” - β€” - β€” β€” - β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” -β€” 6 Darlington...Manvers, and Cavan Townships β€” ---- β€” -- β€” 6 Simcoe County ----------------------6 Vespra Township -------...Dufferin County - β€” ------- β€” β€” ----- β€” - β€” β€” - β€” β€” 6 Mono Township ---------------------5 Peel County ---
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Genesis of Disseminated Sulphide Assemblages in Niagara Peninsula, Canada By MOHAMMADA. MOSTAGltEL,Leicester...ailgereichert worden sein kSnnten. Abstract In the Niagara Peninsula of Southern Ontario, Canada, subceonomic...margins. Here, the Middle Silurian carbonates of the Niagara Peninsula impeded the previous, relatively rapid...periods of uplift. R~sum~ Dans la p6ninsule du Niagara au sud de rOntario, Canada, on trouve quelques... Genesis of Disseminated Sulphide Assemblages in Niagara Peninsula, Canada vers les bords du bassin. L~
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER REGION By CLIFFORD J. AWALD Second Vice President, Buffalo Society of...Mineralogy, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York Originally published in Science On The March...more than one hundred years, the minerals of the Niagara Frontier Region have been popular with mineralogists...and the rainbow of the fluorescents of Franklin, New Jersey, but as sedimentary mineral crystals they...the world. The Niagara Frontier Region will be considered to comprise that area of New York State and adjacent
Report (volume)
the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices...and Lockport Groups) in the Type Area of Western New York By Carlton E. Brett, Dorothy H. Tepper, William...and Lockport Groups) in the type area of western New York I by Carlton E. Brett ... [et al.]. p. em- (U...Geology, Stratigraphic-Nomenclature-New York (State)-Niagara County Region. I. Brett, Carlton E. (Carlton.......................................... 52 Niagara Falls Member.....................................
Report (issue)
Table 2 - Classification of Stratigraphy of the Niagara Escarpment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Wentworth, Waterloo, Halton, Peel, Dufferin, Simcoe, York, Ontario, Durham and parts of the counties of Brant...such as sand, gravel, crushed stone, clay, shale, gypsum, and stone for portland cement and lime. In 1958...percent, while the requirements for construction aggregates increased 94.1 percent. As urbanization proceeds...of construction aggregates is consumed. However the increasing consumption of aggregates has been out pacing
Report (issue)
express his thanks to the many company officials and quarry superintendents who supplied information for this...Cement Company Limited, and T. E. Rowbottom of Gypsum Lime & Alabastine Limited. ill Explanatory Notes...COMMERCIAL STONE TERMS Riprap. Large angular blocks of quarry stone from l cubic foot (about 200 pounds) up to...termed "armour stone." Rubble. Angular blocks of quarry stone from 5 inches to one foot in diameter, often...as follows but may vary considerably from quarry to quarry, depending on the stone shape and number of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20036 $ +$’m wt What is the Niagara Escarpment? R.V. DIETRICH 1323 Center Drive Mount...the same rock unit as the one over which the Niagara Falls plunge comprises several bluffi and clvflike...to as parts of the Niagara Escarpment. These scarps occur sporadically in New York, Ontario, Michigan...Michigan, and Wisconsin. THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT has been described in such colorful terms as β€œa rugged wall ...extends from southeast of Rochester, New York, westward to Niagara Falls, up around northern Lakes Huron and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
feet below the present glaciated surface of the Niagara limestone in Illinois; (5) the anticlinal archeswhich...archeswhich characterizethe Lockport in the Niagara region, and which Kindle and Taylor6ascribe to local...above the Lockportof the Salina with its salt and gypsum;8 1Publishedby permissionof the Deputy Ministerof...6 Geol. Atlas of the U.S., U.S. Geol. Survey, Niagara Folio (No. 190), 1913, p. o09. 7 Cf. Kindle, Geol...localities: (i) Niagara limestone at Porter's quarry, Niagara Falls;5 (2) Niagara limestone, Cook's quarry, near
Book
T TLIBRAr 3 1223 90016 3958 of New York State David E. Jensen .. . , ,,, Includes 16 pages of...Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn Yan, New York...blossomed into a lifetime interest in the minerals of New York State. While obtaining his M.S. in geology at...the outline of New York State is LABRADORJTE from the Saranac Lake area. of New York State David E....Natural Science Establishment, Inc . β€’ Rochester, New York β€’ Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David
Book
MtN€RfllS of New Vork Stole David €. Jensen Includes 16 pages of minerals in full color jgS0% MIN6RRLS... MIN6RRLS of New Vork State David E. Jensen up WARD PRESS Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc...Inc. Rochester, New York β€’ Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David E. Jensen All rights reserved...mining distri* Adirondack Mou somed into a lifet New York State. While obtainu University of Roc Science...Kay Preface This report on the Minerals of New York State is partially a sumΒ­ mary of published knowledge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gait. Royal Ontario Museum: Dr. William Kelly, New York State Geological Survey: Dr. Robert J . King....'Dept. of Geolog-y arid Geophysics, University of New Orleans. LA 70148. Cary Mound is a low hill that...exposed in a small portion of the north face of the quarry. Miaroles up to several inches iicross abound in...& MINERALS RHODlZlTE FROM MADAGASCAR: NEW LOCALITIES AND NEW CHEMICAL DATA.A. U.Falster', E Pezzota2... of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148; 2Museo di Storiu Naturale
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT By D. F. Hewitt INDUSTRIAL MINERAL....... . . .. .. .. .... .. .. . Geology of the Niagara Escarpment .. .. .... .. . . .. .. .. .. . Rock... Figures Page 1. 2. 3. Stratigraphic Section at Niagara Falls ........... Lockport-Amabel Sections . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niagara Escarpment and major structural elements.. 7 31...Tables 1. 2. Classification of stratigraphy of the Niagara Escarpment .. . . . . .. . . .. .. .. . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE MINERALS OF THE NIAGARA STONE DIVISION QUARRY Downloaded by [University of Calgary]...444 Perry Street, Buffalo, New York, 14204 The Niagara Stone Division Quarry original deposition or by...and Packard Roads, between Niagara had been consolidated and raised above Falls and Lewiston. sea level...level."* At present the quarry is being operated My study of this quarry has taken apby the Company whose...of dolomitic I have made about 100 trips to the quarry limestone in the form of crushed stone. and have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rocnn B. MonnrsoN. Cornell Uniaersittt. Ithaca, New York. Celestitehas been recordedfrom the Lower Helderbergrocks...including Syracuse,Lockport, Jamesville, and Auburn in New York State (5) (10), Drummond and Maybee, Michigan...Put-in-Bay (8) and Clay Center, Ohio, and Mineral County, West Virginia (13). The Put-in-Bay deposits are...found at CIay Center in the Guelph member of the Niagara group. Higher strata have been eroded at this locality...locality, but in other parts o{ Ottawa County, these uppermost Niagara beds (known in Ohio as the Cedarville-Springfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
............................... 381 Arizona and New Mexico........................................................................................ 413 New Hampshire..................................................................................... 414 New Jersey........................................................................................ 414 New Y ork................................................................. 467 River terraces (old and new)................................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse. MAJOR NEW YORK STATE M I N E...E R A L LOC A L I T I E S N ew York State is rich in minerals of interest to collectors. A number of...Dana 1877, 1892). Herbert P. Whitlock published a New York State list in 1903. The most recent comprehensive...localities in the state is the book Minerals of New York State by David Jensen, published in 1978. Our...Mode of Occurrence Most mineral localities in New York can be categorized into three groups based on
Book
Ulsterian. Res soca ; Gorge Strata exposed in Niagara Niagoran Cincinnation. Mohawkian β€” Chomploinion...of record in New York sean a rT | Jurassic OS Rc TTRATISTT strata record in New York area indicates...Eon (detailed) Niagara Falls; American Falls at left, Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls at right; Goat Island... COLOSSAL CATARACT The Geologic History of Niagara Falls Irving H. Tesmer, Editor by Jerold C. Bastedo...A. Liberty Jaan Terasmae State University of New York Press Albany A grant from the University Awards
Journal (issue)
the New York. N. Y.. Poul Omen. March 19. 1894.] VOL. VIII JANUARY, 1902 N0. H A TRIP TO NIAGARA AND...summer of 1900 I visited Niagara Falls and while there heard that the Niagara Falls Electric Light and Power...Power Co. were excavating a new wheel-pit. This was an oppOrtunity not to be passed by, so board ing a... 162 THE MINERAL COLLECTOR. N odules and masses of gypsum, variety alabaster, were also found. There was...the siding where I got these specimens. At the Falls I collected pink and white dolomite, but did not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
N D CATARACT FORM ATIONS OF T H E SILUR IC OF NEW YORK A N D ONTARIO 1 (Presented in abstract before...The Siluric sections in detail from Rochester, New York, to the head of Lake Huron.................................................... 304 Rochester, New York, section................................................................. 304 Medina, New York, section................................................Lockport, New York, section................................................................ 307 Niagara Gorge
Report (issue)
CIRCULAR 173 WATER RESOURCES OF THE BUFFALONIAGARA FALLS REGION By Charles W. Reck, and Edward T. Simmons...CffiCULAR 173 WATER RESOURCES OF THE BUFFALO-NIAGARA FALLS REGION By Charles W. Reck, and Edward T. Simmons...with the New York Department of Public Works, New York Department of Conservation, New York Power and.......................................... . The Niagara Frontier ............................ .. Topography...Ontario ........................................ . Niagara River .......................................
Report (issue)
Features ....................................... The Niagara Escarpment ................,.....................Stone)., Lowville Quarry .......................................... Old Nelson Quarry .............. ........... Dundas Quarry ......................................... Clappisons Cut Quarry .................Limited ............................... Halton County Pit ... ... .. ...................... .. ........Nelson Crushed Stone Limited ....... Quarry section, Old Nelson Quarry Section, Canada Cut and Crushed Stone
 
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