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Smoky Quartz from
Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA


Classification
Species:Quartz var: Smoky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smoky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:80673
Long-form Identifier:1:3:80673:2
GUID (UUID V4):d4c09e7d-5ffd-40d7-9cc2-5922cc0200b6
Localities for Smoky Quartz in this Region
Baylis Quarry (Bayliss Quarry), Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
Consolidated Feldspar Mining Corporation's plant, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
Kinkel Quarry, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Smoky Quartz
1.0km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Consolidated Feldspar Mining Corporation's plant, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) ā“˜Kinkel Quarry, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Baylis Quarry (Bayliss Quarry), Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
14.9km (9.3 miles) ā“˜Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
18.1km (11.3 miles) ā“˜Valhalla, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) ā“˜Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
23.2km (14.4 miles) ā“˜Tilly Foster Iron Mine, Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, USA
27.1km (16.8 miles) ā“˜Lake Street Quarry, Harrison, Westchester County, New York, USA
29.1km (18.1 miles) ā“˜Philips Mine (Philips Pyrite Mine; Anthony's Nose Pyrrhotite Mine), Town of Philipstown, Putnam County, New York, USA
31.0km (19.2 miles) ā“˜Captain Cook's Quarry (Purdy Station Quarry), Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals from New York State Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries, Kingston"] at 20:02 22 August...geological literature about the pegmatite bodies from New York. These occur in two different morphological, geological...following four geographic areas: 1. southern New York Bedford pegmatite districtā€”we can add here the small...xenotime- or beryl-bearing pegmatite bodies in New York City and the amazonite-bearing pegmatite at Valhalla;...most important pegmatite in New York is at Bedford in Westchester County. Its complex zoning and mineralogy
Report (issue)
(yellow), Bedford, N. Y. 3ā€”Tourmaline (brown), Broadwavā€™and 218th Street, Manhattan Island. 4ā€”Quartz, var...7ā€”Datolitc (pale green), West Paterson* N J 8ā€” Quartz, var. Smoky (brown), Broadway and 162nd Street, Manhattan... BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS ENVIRONS...ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931 BY ... James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHORā€™S NOTE Since his boyhood days the author has
Book
MtNā‚¬RfllS of New Vork Stole David ā‚¬. 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 ā€¢ 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...AMERICA BY W. F. HUMPHREY PRESS, INC., GENEVA, NY Quartz, "Herkimer diamonds" Herkimer Co. Dedicated
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 . ā€¢ Rochester, New York ā€¢ Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silica and Silicates ( 107 ) from the pegmatites at QUARTZ, silica, Si02, is an essential mineral in the granite...granite pegmatites. Massive, white, or smoky colored crystalline quartz often makes up the greater bulk of...are of pink or the rose quartz variety. Rock crystals, or the colorless quartz crystals, are often found...found as well as are smoky quartz crystals in the cavities of druses which occur in many pegmatites. Amethyst...Amethyst, the purple colored variety of crystalline quartz, usually is found in crystals in cavities or pockets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: x l ā€” c r y...specimen sent you recently. It was found in Coosa County, Ala., near Rockford. You have my permission to...with tourmaline, garnet, microcline and some rose quartz, on the dumps of the Ramstetter Ranch pegmatite...of Ralph's specimens. He found this cluster of quartz crystals in Stafford Springs (Tolland Co.), Conn...southwest of New Port Richey. What is it?" ā€” item and specimen from W . R. Olsen, Rt. 1, Box 3997, New Port Richey
Book (edition)
gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE ā€¢^^ VESUVIANITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ON ^ - - ^ ^s%r^ Mineral Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED Ā£ . . . PLEASE SEND THEM I N ....Colorado and New Mexico. W e did real good on both pursuits. Enclosed is a specimen which is rather new to me... pink rhodochrosite xls, tiny clear to pale smoky quartz xls, finely xline lead-gray galena, tiny grains...brassy-yellow chalcopyrite, all in massive whitish quartz. CONNECTICUT ā€” "I am sending 5 specimens for identification...They are from a cut at Hogback Dam in Hartland County, near Riverton, Conn. "In masses of xline limestone
Report (volume)
the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IVAN LEE Process Laboratories, Inc., Irvington, New Jersey Reprinted from Chemical Reviews Vol. V...has plete of accounts monograph by the the New Jersey scant five years since the advent a element... group were of disturbing, but numerous New York Section of the 17 even metals followAmerican...Pub. W. M. Welch Berichte 60, 1; 1 earths. new rare So far earths Arranged According to as...ytterbium more elements, and in 1907 named a new were the last earth from the named ytterbium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. not be determined...near Glen wood, Pike ROCKS AND MINERALS, p. 123. County, Arkansas. Mr. Young also sends a note on a Downloaded...development near Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, Calif. Molybdenum Corporation of America is at...and broken (by nature) and imbedded in massive smoky quartz, have been found in Willimantic, Windham Co...Drawyers Creek, between Shallcross Lake and US 13, in New Castle Co., Del. The wood is not common, but specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...mostly in small amounts. A bed near Pyriton, Clay County, Ala., was worked for copper. One was mined near...near Stone Hill in the southern part of Cleburne County at what was called Wood's copper mine and also...some nice specimens of mariposite, and a few small quartz xls. A person has to be almost half meuntain goat...stuff and mebbe that's enuff! Broke it out of a quartz vein in mica schist (a few scattered xls of ilmenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
M. Seaman American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 7, Silica and Silicates (part two)...almandite was recovered at 35th Street and Broadway in New York City and is in the American Museum of Natural...166th St. and Knowlton Place in New York City. Both are a part of the New York Mineralogical Club's collection...Maine, and at the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently formed almandite garnets...Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other places. The crystals occur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items on new finds wanted. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...tinge, and some pinkish bands. Colorless drusy quartz encrusts some of the chert. The find was made on...Collected on the beach. Quartz (Agate). Gray pebble that vas found on the beach. Quartz (Chalcedony). Grayish...Grayish pebbles from east end of island. Quartz (Milky). Nice pebble found on beach. Limestone. Grayish pebble...microcline, lustrous silvery muscovite, and smoky quartz. It comes from beautiful Glenwood Canyon, near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lost to dehydration, leading to a new composition and, by necessity, a new name. There are many good examples...presented by White (1973) in one of the earliest ā€œWhatā€™s New In Mineralsā€ columns in the Mineralogical Record...Palermo mines in New Hampshire; and at the Bedford quarries, Westchester County, New York. ā€œTorberniteā€...occurrences in Hunterdon, Middlesex, and Sussex Counties, New Jersey, and from scattered localities in Berks, Carbon...Mountain mines in the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Here, individual dark green crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items on new finds wanted. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...aragonite crystals (encrusted with white drusy quartz) has been received from R. A. Richards, Box 44...the magazine. "Have you had anything on 'fire' quartz? Arizona has some most excellent 'fire' chalcedony...receive donations of new or interesting finds. W e never heard of "fire" quartz in Arizona, so this for...for one thing would be new to us. ARKANSAS ā€” We are indebted to Byron C. Marshall, Prop., Ozark Biological
Report (issue)
which Congress had. authorized the construction of new. federal buildings and extensions on which work would...affording aid toward preparing specifications for new buildings. 7. Some attention was paid to the proposed...pinkish-gray medium-grained stone, from which the new federal building at St. Paul has been constructed...coarse-grained pinkish-gray granite in the basement of the new capitol building at St; Paul is reported to have...and the exterior of the handsome city hall and county court-house building at Minneapolis, erected at
Report (issue)
VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3Ā£ miles a little............. Sandstone (quartzite?) coarse, with quartz veins................ Feet. 20Ā± 20Ā± 25Ā± 50Ā± The... and here and there by thin stringers of small quartz grains. The variegation gives to the rock a highly...is great, and it would not be easy to establish a new enterprise in that line on a paying basis except...in Bulletins 313, 404, 430, and 484, on the other New England granites. The following scale of shades and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accepted abstracts follow. THE GARNET LINE IN OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, PEGMATITES. M. M. Felch, W. B. Simmons...intermediate and core zones in many of the Oxford County, Maine, pegmatites. This study primarily focuses...garnet lines host a range of primary inclusions: quartz, mica, tourmaline, zircon, as well as xeno368 ...and neighboring mineral phases (e.g., albite and quartz). A similar occurrence of tourmaline-rimmed garnet...similar to the model proposed for the San Diego County pegmatites (Webber et al. 1997, 1999). The garnet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGICALSOCIETY OF AMERICA 59 STIBNITE IN QUARTZ NoBr, H. Srranx, St. Louis, Missour.i.. At least...rare mineral association-stibnite inclusionsin quartz crystals. In August, 1932, Dr. Paul F. Kerr, Professorof...University, New York, discovered at the Golden Spike mine, Imlay Canyon, Pershing County, Nevada, a number...number of quartz crystals containing slender, acicular inclusions of stibnite. They were associated with...with a gold-bearing quartz vein in a small prospect tunnel on the west side of Humboldt Range. One crystal
Journal (issue)
locality near Bedford, Indiana ........................ 351 by R. M . Ley The Sm okey Bear quartz claim s,... Lincoln County, N ew M exico ........................................................... 359 by T. Hansen...pegmatite a ā€œhalf-mileā€ from the Palermo mine, in New Hampshire. It was originally identified (in great...matter of public record and may be found in the county zoning offices. The accurate property boundaries...free survey, free stake-out and free copies of the new plat; these courtesies might provide useful openings
Report (issue)
BUILDING STONE AND ROAD METAL. RECENT WORK ON NEW ENGLAND GRANITES. By T. NELSON DALE. AREA CONSIDERED...centers of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, namely, Concord, Conway, and Milford, in New Hampshire;...also make known to geologists 356 RECENT -WOBK ON NEW ENGLAND GRANITES. 357 the results of such scientific...OTHER STATES. A report on the granite quarries of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island will follow...shows feldspar, 56; hornblende-augite, 10.50; smoky quartz, 33.50. The "dark" granite of the Granite Railway
Book
Photographs by Mike Caggiano ASSOCIATION PRESS ā€¢ New York FINDING AND PREPARING PRECIOUS AND SEMIPRECIOUS...James A. Peterson Association Press, 291 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10007 All rights reserved. No part of this...Catalog Card Number: 74-1276 The pictures of gold-in-quartz, smithsonite, stilbite, and wulfenite on the front...nature of the rock itself, the emergence of new chemicals and new formations. An example of the radical change...learn that gravel beds are rich in such minerals as quartz, feldspar, mica, garnet, tourmaline, magnetite
Journal (issue)
rge O. Wild The Metro11olitnn Mineral Area of New York City. B y James G. Manehester ,\ Brief History...) and representing the North, names granite and quartz as his favorites; H . M . W . Haven, Portland,...of national h onors; Dr. Bertha Chapman Cady, New York, N. Y ., an officer in the Rocks and Minerals...representing the Girl Scouts, urges gneiss and quartz as her choice; Charles W. Hoadley, Englewood, N...ematite Gold M arble -- Limestone -- Garnet Quartz Sandstone Pyrite Schist Calcite Slate Limonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals that contain...autunite aggregates from the Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington; John Lucking specimen, Jeff Scovil...autunite crystals on matrix from the Apex mine, Lander County, Nevada; Scott Kleine specimen, Jeff Scovil photo... felsic plutons including those of granite and quartz-monzonite composition, and roll-front and other...Hill prospect at Lovell and several other Oxford County sites, including the well190 ROCKS & MINERALS
 
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