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LocalitiesHurd State Park quarries, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
20th Apr 2011 22:51 UTCRowan Lytle
Rowan
28th Apr 2011 21:33 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
Very, very little has been written about this locality that I can find. I don't have anything from there so I haven't even updated the text on the mindat page. I've never even seen a specimen from there, so I image it isnt a very good locality. Ryerson's "Rockhound's Guide to Connecticut", which some libraries have, says this: "Albite, autunite, chrysoberyl, columbite, and manganapatite are reported from this locality." I'm EXTREMELY skeptical of the chrysoberyl - there is ONLY one confirmed place in Haddam for this mineral and that's it. Probably just regular beryl. Dick Schooner's very comprehensive "MINERALOGY OF THE PORTLAND-EAST HAMPTON-MIDDLETOWN-HADDAM AREA IN CONNECTICUT" says nothing other than how to get there. There's even less in his Mineralogy of Connecticut. I can't even find anything on the history of the quarries. Maybe you can check with the East Hampton historians?
Fritz
29th Apr 2011 00:19 UTCMickey Marks
29th Apr 2011 00:57 UTCMark Gottlieb
29th Apr 2011 23:47 UTCDavid Bernstein Expert
30th Apr 2011 00:32 UTCMickey Marks
30th Apr 2011 01:19 UTCDavid Bernstein Expert
It's on my to do list, just to take a picture and add some detail to the locality page.
I do have a description of where it is but since no collecting is allowed, it hardly makes sense to post it.
30th Apr 2011 03:01 UTCFred E. Davis
2nd May 2011 03:11 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
3rd May 2011 22:49 UTCRowan Lytle
There are three quarries, two large ones (for a pegmatite) an 1 small. I hike in the area a lot, so I usualy grab a few rocks with garnet in them to bring home. It doesn't look like a pegmatite that would contain beryl, and I have never seen any in the numerous times I have explored.
-Rowan
4th May 2011 00:59 UTCSam Cordero, Jr.
4th May 2011 16:25 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
8th Mar 2012 00:53 UTCPhillip Inkel
10th Mar 2012 01:25 UTCRowan Lytle
17th Apr 2012 12:44 UTCRick Sinclair
1. There was a quartz locality where large plates were found and people got greedy; destroyed all the trees growing in the area and leaving huge pits and a lot of erosion. The DEP spent a couple hundred thousand dollars to restore the area and to stop it from happening again closed and fenced it off.
2. The "tourmaline" ledges in Bethel CT were the source of large double terminated crystals found below the ledges where springs had weathered them out of the surrounding matrix. That area was immediately above a swampy area and the resulting pits and erosion destroyed the wetland area. Again a major restoration project.
3. The property at Case Quarries was purchased by the state for conservation and they saw the amount of hard rock mining at the quartz ledges for beryl and didn't want that area destroyed like these other areas.
4. Several sites on private property have been closed for the same environmental destruction. (Can anyone honestly say they would welcome 10 foot deep holes and dead trees all over an area of their property? I know I wouldn't )
I have been an avid mineral collector all my life, an active member of several clubs and have held most officer positions at one time or another. I have also been a life long conservationist and I truly believe the two ARE compatible.
I was active when the State first started the regulations now in place and remember the outcry it caused. Again if we as collectors were a little more responsible about filling in holes and not destroying the plants and trees growing in an area there would be more sites open. Collecting on public /State property is one thing but when it degrades it into a wasteland of deep pits and erosion I think the State has every right to step in and stop the destruction. After all these lands belong to ALL the people in the State not just collectors. We CAN collect in an environmentally friendly manner. It's simply a matter of taking the little bit of extra time to do it .
If you dig a deep pit back fill it afterwards. If you are up hill from a wetland make sure you don't leave all the loose soil and rock to wash down into the wetland the next time it rains. Never undermine tree roots. Never block a stream and don't strip moss and lichens off exposed rock . (The major reason the Kyanite locality on the Steep Rock Assoc. property is closed)
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