 | | 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...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 as a guide...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 * «-• 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............. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WITH HEXOCTAHEDRAL FACES FROM JAIL HILL, HADDAM, CONNECTICUT by David M. Seaman, American Museum of Natural...Natural History and Robert P. Gallant, Moodus, Connecticut On April 23, I960, while collecting specimens...garnet from a small pit on Jail Hill at Haddam, Connecticut, some tiny garnet crystals were found by...destined to add still another locality to the list of famous Connecticut mineral localities. This new...new spessartite garnet locality stresses the possibilities for other new Figure 1 Figure 2 Trapezohedron |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...meaning beryl. The mineral first was described and named by Werner in 1789 as krisoberil. Chrysoberyl as a |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gonnnc'ron. THE MINERALS OF HADDAM, CONN. Br jamss W. DAVIS. PART I. THE town of Haddam, famous the world over...location. is central in Middlesex County, of which it is the half shire town, and the county is central in the...that lies on the east side of the river is called Haddam Neck. The surface of the town, on both sides of...apatite, aquamarine, autunite, aventurine quartz, beryl, biotite, bis muth ochre, bismutite, bog-iron ore...calcite, cassiterite, chalcopyrite, clevelandite, chrysoberyl, citrine, cobalt, cyanite, cooke ite, chlorophane |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy |  | | Journal (issue) | | page 8) In this issue … Mineral of the month: Chrysoberyl ..... p. 2 February program details ...........Day! Chrysoberyl by Sue Marcus Our February Mineral of the Month is a real gem— chrysoberyl. The mineral...required for its composition. By 1789, the name “chrysoberyl” seems to have received acceptance by scientists...and since chrysoberyl was unknown in ancient times, Pliny could not have meant chrysoberyl (BeAl2O4)...The New World material that came to be called chrysoberyl was the source of intensive research in the late |  | | Journal (issue) | | N0. 5 For the MINERAL COLLECTOR. THE MINERALS OF HADDAM, CONN. BY James W. DAVIS. PART II. EPIDOTE, found...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral, coating or cutting beryl or _ lying in feldspar immediately adjacent to beryl crystals, *as first noticed...has muscovite, and chrysoberyl is merely a vein and fracture fiIling or and of beryl been introduced by...Maine findsrhavebeen made. The occurrenceof chrysoberyl..in,NeqrEngland has been known since reearly...to 1885.Of the 12 Maine localities in which chrysoberyl is said been studied adequately. If successfulcollections...however, the chrysoberyl ,,locality', consists of no more than a and it is possible that chrysoberyl and herderite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NEW YORK CHRYSOBERYL LOCALITY P.O. Box # Ralph C. Gosse 8 0 7 2 Albany, New York CHRYSOBERYL was discovered...discovered in Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York in the year of 1821 and was first noted by John H. Steel...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...specimens have been obtained at the Greenfield locality in 1845 by Dr. Leonard of Lansingburgh." As far |  | | Report (edition) | | 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...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...CleaveIand's portrait. As istance in identifying locality photographs and supplying other information was' |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | district—we can add here the small xenotime- or beryl-bearing pegmatite bodies in New York City and the...pegmatite in New York is at Bedford in Westchester County. Its complex zoning and mineralogy are approached...by the pegmatite at Batchellerville in Saratoga County. The McLear pegmatite in the St. Lawrence Lowlands...1938 (Tan 1966). CO MPLEX PEGMATITES Mu scovi te -Beryl Peg matites SIMPLE PEGMATITES Biotite Peg matites...dodecahedral forms, were collected (Manchester 1931). Beryl, Be3Al2Si6O18, is one of the most desired mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | covered. We were unable, however,to give to each locality visited time and attention necessaryto make other...crystals of a thin tabular form, and a few sections of beryl crystals. Other minerals are known to occur here...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse... 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 occurrence is indicated at the end of each locality listing with the following code: S = stratabound |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | known as a chrysoberyl locality, but that various authors have sometimes placed the locality in Norway...-minute quadrangle map of the area; he also found chrysoberyl there. A reconnaissance of Witt Hill as shown...collected, as well as David Seaman's Witt Hill chrysoberyl specimens, are identical in appearance to Harvard's...collection, no number), which is a Witt Hill chrysoberyl. The chrysoberyl illustrated in Pough's Field Guide to...that Harvard has a Witt Hill, Norway, Maine, chrysoberyl that was do nated by George Howe in 1912 (#83650) |  | | Book (volume) | | Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . .............................................. 341 Neil A. Wintringham Maine Mineral Locality Index ..........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...Bennett pegmatite, agreed to write about that locality. Carl Francis, curator of minerals and meteorites |  | | Book | | useful and correct information in regard to the locality and value of Gems in the present state of scientific... . . . . . . ............... . . . . . . .. Chrysoberyl, Cymophane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beryl. aquamarine . .' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...occasionally appear curved either, as in tourmaline and beryl, from the peculiar oscil latory combination mentioned...star with six rays; in certain varieties of chrysoberyl and adularia it has a bluish tint; and is also-very |  | | Field Trip Notes | | decreases, falling to the chlorite zone along the Connecticut River. Further east it increases, and the rocks...inplace theory for the southern part, as in Dutchess County, New York. Whether such a combination of theories...(1914) Geology of the North Creek quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 170. (1919)...Geology of the Schroon Lake quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 213-214....complex^, domical anticlines just west of the Connecticut river » The largest of these, the Chester dome^ |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral, and bixbite, a varietal raspberry-red beryl. Both are found in the rhyolite-covered mountain...Township, along the Susquehanna River, Bradford County, Pennsylvania (Bixby 1914). This farm was just...other contributions that appear in its pages. Locality articles should not be construed to permit or...and the magnificent selenite crystals of Piute County, of which many museums now have specimens (Bixby...and Tim Q. [George] Shirley at Opaline, Owyhee County, located 18 miles south of Caldwell, Idaho. Some |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. In this issue also: Twin Creeks mine, USA Scott KLEINE, Bryan K. LEES & Malcolm SOUTHWOOD ...Paul Cragan (USA) Malcolm Southwood (Australia) Associated Photographer: Jeff Scovil (USA) Contact: s...species Marcus J. ORIGLIERI sought-after only by locality specialists or the most die-hard of systematic...specimen from Cut 62 in Twin Creeks mine, Nevada, USA; 9.6 cm high. Azurite Corporation specimen. J. Scovil...orpiment at the Twin Creeks mine in Northern Nevada, USA, and it's subsequent extraction as fine mineral specimens |  | | Book (edition) | | Clerk's office, of the District Court of CHARLES Connecticut. Printed by Hezekiah Howe. PREFACE. THE to... IMPERFECTIONS OF CRYSTALS. 57 Thus, hexagonal crystals of Beryl frequently have their alternate enlarged as to give...other upon such faces as are not in Titanite and Beryl, the prismatic faces are striated lon- parallel...regular composition of three which occur in Chrysoberyl. The individual 1 forms individuals with 2...1. Verdigris- green. ; of verdigris. 2. Ex. Beryl 3. Mountain- green. Green with much 4. Leek-green |  | | Book (edition) | | the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. OX OK LIBRAR LEN NEW YORK PRE FACE . The...at each extremity . See figures of crystals of beryl, & c . 40 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY . For farther elucidation...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...with blue and gray. Some varie ties of talc and beryl. It is the color of the leaves of the celan dine |  | | Journal (issue) | | ahout 20 miles north of Barstow, San Bernardino County, Calif. th th SC fr 0 ROCKS AND MINERALS...opographical Map for the Ellenville Quadrangle (Ulster County, N ew Y o k) shows ice caves in Shingle Gully on...our meml:>ers who lives not very far from the locality has tried repeatedly to find the caves but withcut...74°21'20" W . Long., and 41 °42'55" N. l at. Ulster County is in the southeastern pa t of New York. If our...recently visited Acworth. N. H ., whtre some very fine beryl specimens were collected. (Note the similarity in |  | | Report (volume) | | described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...Pallister, H. D., 2. trace elements: Ostrom, M. E. Beryl: Pallister, H. D. , 4. 3. Coal, Lookout Mtn., possibilities:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:...J.,4. Excursion, Tertiary type-localiMontgomery County: Reade, ties: Rainwater, E. H. , 1. H. L. , Jr |  | | Report (volume) | | aquifers of the upper James River Valley, Brown County, South Dakota [abs.]: Geol. Soc. America Bull....pitchblende deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1030-G, p....1890-1956. Cretaceous section, Medina County, Texas, to Val Verde County, Texas, in San Angelo Geol. Soc....Titaniferous Cretaceous beach placer in McKinley County, New Mexico [abs.]: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v...Summit and Daggett Counties, Utah, and Sweetwater County, Wyoming [abs.]: Dissert. A.bs., v.16, no. 3, p |
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Chrysoberyl locality, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA