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Aragonite from
Castle Point, Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Point
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Occurs as fibrous crusts with hydromagnesite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Hydromagnesite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Castle Point, Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:70615
Long-form Identifier:1:3:70615:9
GUID (UUID V4):c046bbf0-e627-4381-8cdd-4d223fff632b
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
2.5km (1.5 miles) New York - West Shore & Buffalo RR tunnel, Weehawken, Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
15.7km (9.7 miles) Inwood Valley (Inwood), Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
16.1km (10.0 miles) Harlem Ship Canal, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
16.6km (10.3 miles) 215th Street & Broadway, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
17.2km (10.7 miles) Spring Street Artinite occurrence, Staten Island (Richmond County), New York City, New York, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) McDowell's Quarry (Osborne and Marsellis Quarry), Upper Montclair, Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
21.0km (13.0 miles) Francisco Brothers Quarry, Great Notch, Little Falls Township, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
35.7km (22.2 miles) Lake Street Quarry, Harrison, Westchester County, New York, USA
35.8km (22.2 miles) Lake Valhalla Quarry (Gordon's Crystalline Limestone Quarry), Montville Township, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
52.0km (32.3 miles) Dyke Park, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Report (issue)
BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS...ITS ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931 BY...BY James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHOR’S NOTE Since his boyhood days the author...of his recreational hours collecting minerals in New York City and its environs. A record lias been personally...in the old lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years,
Journal (issue)
1 191/-7 35c Vol. 22., No. 9 Whole No. 194 NEW ARRIVALS FROM BRAZIL The following minerals were...ra Pena, Minas Geraes, Brazil. Specimens of this new and rare mineral that show fou r o r more crystal.............................. 818 SERPENTINE OF HOBOKEN , N. J. By Peter Zodac ......................................... 826 A UNIQUE MINERAL FIND IN NEW JERSEY. By W. H. Hayes ..................828 AGATE OCCURRENCE...·-·························838 TouRMALINE FRO M NEW YoRK T UNN EL. By T. Orchard Lisle .............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1.2 miles west-northwest of Rock Springs, Cecil County, Maryland. F-14. Serpentine, variety-"Yu-Yen Shi...Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland. F-20. Chrysotile: asbestosdeposits: Gila County, Arizona. F-40. Serpentine... 2| miles south-southeastof Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. samples.chemical analyseswere not availablefor...chrysotile mixture natural a of curve DTA is a Gila County, Arizona. Curve C-120 number 5' (see Table chrysotile...of serpentine from near Montville, Morris county, New Jersey, showing a natural mixture of chrysotile
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
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Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...MINERAL PARK, Maricopa Co. Turquoise MORENCI, Modoc Point, Greenlee Co. Garnet NAVAJO RESERVATION Carnotite...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite
Report (issue)
___________ Clinochrysotile (Globe-type), Gila County, Ariz___________________________________________...Clinoehrysotile (iron-bearing serpentine), Stillwater County, Mont_________________________ Clinochrysotile...Hill, Harford County, Md____________________ Clinochrysotile and lizardite, Morris County, N.J________...Clinochrysotile and lizardite, variant form, Morris County, N.J.____________________________ Lizardite plus...section___________-___ Lizardite (deweylite), Delaware County, Pa__-___________-_____________-_---__---__--_-Lizardite
Journal (issue)
........................... GEOLOGIC AGE OF THE NEW YORK CITY ROCKS. By Cecil H . Kindle WORLD'S GREATEST................ AN INT ERESTING DIABASE CuT IN NEW JERSEY. By Petet' Zodac .................... AMETHYSTS...also marked. Cutting transverse grooves at these point,; assure,; a firmer fastening for the strings. Each...planes m 11 st often be prolonged to a crossing point beyond the axis and outside the completed model...known mineral . So the search goes on for small, new, and different specimens for my growing collection
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conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper , allegedly...Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode (Nevada, USA) and Cobalt (Canada). Ag Colour: silver-white ...Wittwatersrand (South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia. G Au Colour:...is liquid at room temperature, hav1ng a freezing point of -39°C (-38°F). Such mobility is the reason It...meteorite, with pieces found at Canyon Diablo (Arizona, USA), fell c. 20,000-40,000 years ago, creating a crater
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tarnish. 3 ½ x 2 x 1 ½ ••....••••• 4 .00 Slolsltw, New Soutla Waf•. Magnificent xis. on matrix. 3 ½ x '3......... 6 55 AN EAR LY RE F ERENCE T O AGAT E IN NEW J ERSEY . .••.............................. .................................................656 A NEW WORLD IN A TEASPOOON. By Harrell L. Strirnple ........................... 658 BANDED ARAGONITE AND WAVY ONYX AT FAIRFIELD, CALIF. By T. Orchard Lisle ............................ 660 A FOSSIL FISH FROM NEW YORK ...........................................
Book (edition)
The current progress in mineralog), with countless new data in books and scientific as well as amateur journals...submitted to, and accepted by, the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...pure freibergite is very rare. The decision that a new mineral species is established when one of the cations...eudialyte, and several other groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding...and long-wave UV light (LW, 365 nm). Recently, a new wavelength of UV, called midwave (~300 nm) has been
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George SeYastopulo 7. c_1pr11sStephen Edwards. Karen Hudson-Edwards. Joe Cann. John Malpas. Costas Xenophontos...Cataloging-in-Publication Data are aYailable Typeset in Times New Romanand Helvetica Printedand bound by L.E.G.OSpA...House in Derbyshin: ( ooper 2005) and the promise of new mineral galleries in Edinburgh in '.!011. I hope...formal referencing, when I personally discovered new species to Britain and Ireland, and colleagues permitted...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto
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Shaftoe, and the Dunstanburgh sandstone at Cullernose Point. Hutchings 2 examined washings of the shales at...investigation of the heavy minerals in the Coal Measures of County Durham and found 0 4 per cent of these in the sandstone...streaks of the pink sand being formed beyond this point. This beach is extremely wind-swept and observation...little of the heavy minerals is carried past the point by wind action, the effect of high winds being rather...little bay, hard by the massive sandstone of Crag Point. These constitute the main occurrences so far observed
Report (issue)
Glenarm Chalk at Sliddery Cove Garron Chalk at Garron Point Burrow flint in Larry Bane Bay Ring flint at Port...age-Santonian-Maestrichtian-and may be as much as 150 m thick. A new subdivision into fourteen members is now made: Cloghfin...here presents some of the results in the form of a new litho­ stratigraphical scheme for strata of Upper...Burn Keady Mountain Querry +Limavady � Retreat Castle 42 LONDONDERRY ANTRIM Curraghlane + ....__...Cushendall Lurigethan SEA Cloghastucan Garron Point 42 Creggan Carnlough Carnlough River Glenarm
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.......... .......... ................. 391 N. JERSEY SOCIETY VISITS BEDFORD, N . Y. By K. B. Kauth ..............400 LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT CO. ANNOUNCES NEW LAPIDARY ARBOR ....408 Entcrtd as scrond•class matter...day or two in your city. ROCK FROM NEW YORK TUNNEL D UMPED IN JERSEY CITY 1 We are pleased to print the...Presbyterian Church, Summit and Magnolia Avenues, Jersey City 6, N . J. " I am wondering if you would want...benefit of collectors in and around N orthern N ew Jersey: "Huge masses of rock which were blasted and dug
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01225 442836) Distributors USA AAPG Bookstore PO Box 979 Tulsa OK 74101-0979 USA (Orders: Tel. (918) 584-2555...Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA: the item-fee code for this publication is 0305-8719/96/$7...Affiliated East-West Press PVT Ltd G-1/16 Ansari Road New Delhi 110 002 India (Orders: Tel. (11) 327-9113 Fax...level-bottom equivalents, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico KIRKBY, K. C. & HUNT, D. Episodic growth of...Carboniferous Muleshoe Mound, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA JEFFERY, D. L. & STANTON, R. J. JR. Biotic
Book
CHAPTER 1 Gem Hunting In The Appalachians CHAPTER 2 New Jersey ........... _ . _ 1 _ CHAPTER 3 Pennsylvania___...states each year give collectors a chance to buy new finds, see f i n e workmanship, a n d s h o w t h...r e t h e Tennessee a n d Alabama Rivers. N e w Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania:...well known old localities are not all “has beens;” new hobbyists and experienced collectors alike prove...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and
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paRARY PERGAMON PRESS OXFORD - LONDON - EDINBURGH - NEW YORK TORONTO - SYDNEY. PARIS - BRAUNSCHWEIG S52...Press Inc., Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elmsford, New York 10523 Pergamon of Canada Ltd., 207 Queen’s Quay...state. As the temperature reaches the freezing point of the particular substance active movement of the...silicon occupying the interspace between them. The point to be noticed is that only atoms of definite size...regarding it as being formed by points in space, each point being the centre of gravity of an ion, molecule
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in This .Issue, The Mineral.a of the Silver City, New Mexico District. By H erman Wuestner. The Mono Craters...a very MERR\' CHRISTMAS and. a BRIGHT AND HAPPY NEW YEAR. ' May 1933 prosper yo11 abundantly, socially......................... The Triassic Rocks of New Jersey. By Mary Canty.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Sanborn;te, Pearly White, with Gilles~ite, Rose.red. A new Barium Silicate from California 2"-$1.00 3"- $2.00...collections . • LUCIAN M. Z~LL 522 Fifth Avenue New York, N. Y. SMALL COLLECTIONS FOR BEGINNERS 35 50
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from small cabochons to large agate slabs, etc. New and out of print books are also 1n stock. Friends...of Minerals. By Eugene W . Blank ........ 236 A New Garment Hanger ....................................the field. - Beginning September 1, 1937, the new rates for ROCKS AND S' b n t} s, 0 MINERALS...and have tumbled out to are of several kinds, and new ones go in to the stream beds where they occasionally...Sunday, May 23rd, the MinerWe stopped first at the new quarry ological Society of Springfield, Ver- and
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friends, a very l\fERRY CHRISTl\U.S and a HAPPY NEW YEAR. The editor would like to take each of you...success and happiness duriq the entire 365 days of the new year. Our announcement in the September issue to...Conover of Kyserike, N. Y., and Fred W. Schmeltz, of New York Citytwo of our warm friends and admirers. Both...stronghold (►f American patriots, there hes, in easteru New York, a ridge of limestone, its lower inclines mnnt...underground wonderland is lo l'aled in Sth ohnrie Count y, New York, a few miles from the <"hnr0Li11g ,·illage of
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Abstracts U.niversity of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio USA June 21-26, 2009 • 9 th North American Paleontological...Abstracts University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio USA June 21-26, 2009 • • r.........,;::.:..:..:...Abstracts University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio USA June 21-26, 2009 ' CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER A...diversified after spreading geographically from a point source in waters adjacent to California. (3) Biologists...mechanisms that repackage genetic information as new evolutionary entities are created. They reflect a
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Oommonwealth I mmigration Ol ice. Opal Mines, Wbite Cllifs, New South Wales. Oourte8JI Special Opal Nuinber Granite...Tradition tells us that l\Iine Ln :\fotte, in ll'adison County, )lissouri, wns first worked by the Spaniards,...collections. LUCIAN M. ZELL 522 Fifth A venue New York, N. Y. SMALL COLLECTIONS FOR BEGINNERS 35 50...Augusta was once presented with a parure of opals from New South W ales by Emperor William of Germany ; and...is colorless. Like quartz, it has a high melting point. Origin Of The Play Of Color In Opal I will not
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UC-NRLF NEW ZEALAND of department Geological Survey Branch (P. G. Morgan, Director). LIST...LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, BY P. O. Issued MORGAN AND under the authority of the Hou, J... X.Z. JOHN MACKAY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER 1913. NEW ZEALAND-!, n Department jfe 5j Geological Survey... Morgan, Director). LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, P. Issued O. MORGAN AND under the authority...Minerals . . ... LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND INTKODUCTION. FOR many years there has
 
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