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LocalitiesConnecticut, USA
29th Oct 2011 01:38 UTCRowan Lytle
Huckleberry Hill, Avon
(Mt. Tom), East Haddam
the second is an almandine similar to those found a lieser's ledge, and the other is said to be from near the canon lead mines.
any ideas?
-Rowan Lytle
29th Oct 2011 02:12 UTCRowan Lytle
Balf quarry, Newington
Strickland Hill Prospect
Hollow Knoll Pegmatite, East Hampton
Long Hill, Trumbull
Barhamsted, CT
Silver Mine, Cobalt
Middletown parking lot construction,
Bill's Dam, barkhamsted
29th Oct 2011 03:47 UTCHoward Heitner
29th Oct 2011 13:48 UTCRowan Lytle
-Rowan Lytle
29th Oct 2011 15:27 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
Mt. Tom is the large hill in what is now Machimoodus State Park in the Moodus section of East Haddam. The site is equivalent to these beryl prospects: http://www.mindat.org/loc-213294.html I'm surprised you hadnt heard of it, Rowan, you have a couple of mineral photos posted there! :)
Long Hill is not a sublocality to the tungsten mine area but is the place name for the northern section of Trumbull encompassing the various road cuts, Old Mine Park, and the new Home Depot (former Old Mine Plaza) sites. It is not a name used much anymore so I didnt add it to the heirarchy for these localities on mindat.
The Balf quarry is a long-operating basalt quarry on Cedar mt. in Newington. I have some babingtonite and zeolites from there. It still needs a mindat page, I have not gotten to photographing my specimens from there yet.
Not sure where/what the Strickland prospect is.
Hollow Knoll pegmatite is also a mystery - obviously not a prolific locality. There are hundreds of pegs there.
Bill's Dam in Barkhamsted produced zeolites in fractures in schist, which is common in western Conn. I have one of the specimens on John's museum page. Still trying to find that exact site.
Silver mine, Cobalt is probably equivalent to the Great Hill mines. Seems every vein in Conn. was once called a silver or copper mine....
Middletown parking lot construction. Hmmmm, wonder where that is?
29th Oct 2011 21:30 UTCRob (The Rock Hunter) Shepard
30th Oct 2011 00:42 UTCRowan Lytle
-Rowan Lytle
30th Oct 2011 01:20 UTCDavid Bernstein Expert
I think there is some excellent pub food to be eaten near that Middletown parking lot.
30th Oct 2011 01:47 UTCRowan Lytle
-Rowan
30th Oct 2011 12:48 UTCRowan Lytle
-Rowan
30th Oct 2011 22:19 UTCRowan Lytle
31st Oct 2011 12:22 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
31st Oct 2011 12:52 UTCRowan Lytle
4th Nov 2011 00:54 UTCJohn Betts
4th Nov 2011 01:47 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
There's a lot of woods in that area!
4th Nov 2011 18:59 UTCRowan Lytle
13th Dec 2011 21:01 UTCJohn Bean
I was also lucky enough to be roofing on huck hill when they ripped into those nice big quartz pockets, funny thing,I think the road down the backside of that project is called emerald hill. wish I saw Will there, would have been something seeing my old school housemaster all muddied up!
The Barkhamsted location might be Satans Kingdom, there is a lot of old diggins near the top of the dirt rd near the 4way, also the river trail that the lifeguards walk for the tuberide has yielded some beryl. that is probably one of the prettiest places in ct. but I never seem to have a hammer on me when I go there to swim.JB
14th Dec 2011 14:37 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
Great info, thanks, been wanting to take a look at that place.
Do you know what the name of the street is on Huck. Hill where they intercepted the quartz veins? I'd like to get the precise locality up on mindat.
14th Dec 2011 22:46 UTCRowan Lytle
21st Dec 2011 05:14 UTCJohn Bean
found some great quartz crystals recently, just cant bring myself to give up the locale! would really like to spend some time with a ct. geologist, and get a clue? on some things, before xmas. anyways heres some cool ct quartz! pic 1, the freeze blew a pocket wall apart, freezing the pocket mud into rock solid peanut butter! still it looked and tasted just like the arkansas brand! didnt want to put directly into water, for fear of more cracking. so I left my pack indoors for the night, turning my pack into a (coffee filter) for the water in the mud as it thawed over the carpet all night. the next day it reached room temp and I was able to dissolve the mudmass with water in a screen, pic 2 I am a lucky dog! pic 3 a little muriatic, cleans the rust, showing green inclusions and well defined phantoms!
Yeah ct. minerals are like Frank Fappa, the best band you never heard!
23rd Dec 2011 20:46 UTCRowan Lytle
24th Dec 2011 01:23 UTCMickey Marks
I have posted some photos of amethyst from the Route 11 roadcut in Salem. None of those show phantoms, but there were loads of phantom quartz crystals from there. I'm going to search my collection to see if I kept any. If I did, I will post a picture.
Mickey
24th Dec 2011 04:45 UTCMickey Marks
Rowan,
As promised, here are three pictures of phantom quartz from the Route 11 roadcut in Salem. I collected these in May 1976. The phantoms are pale amethyst in clear quartz. Some are multiple phantoms.
Mickey
24th Dec 2011 21:04 UTCRowan Lytle
19th Jan 2012 16:10 UTCJohn Bean
Sorry I waited a few weeks on giving up this info, I had told associates of other haunts in the past, with only deep regrets,Beer bottles on site, unfilled holes,garbage ect. and it would break my heart to find a no trespassing sign here. however I have milled it over in my mind this last week, read alot of mindat posts, and have come to a conclusion that this place deserves far more than an amatuer such as myself mousing around the edges. It would be great if the Bristol club could get access. Either way, Im sure you freindly people of Mindat can do something to save some of these beautiful minerals from the chipper! JB
4th Feb 2012 12:29 UTCJohn Bean
4th Feb 2012 16:11 UTCWilliam C. van Laer Expert
Harold, I'm surprised you missed this one (about "Strickland Hill Prospect")!!!
4th Feb 2012 21:37 UTCRowan Lytle
4th Feb 2012 23:58 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
17th Apr 2012 13:00 UTCRick Sinclair
6th Jun 2012 04:10 UTCMIchael Sharpe
I was at the Simpson quarry this week and the dumps seem to be picked over.
1st Aug 2012 14:30 UTCRick Sinclair
this summer (2012) I took a couple of people there on a field trip and we were there no more than 5 minutes before the owner who lives in the house next to what's left of the locality told us in no uncertain terms that if we didn't leave immediately he would have us arrested for trespassing. There isn't much left of the mine except for a little material from the dumps right next to the culvert going under the road
1st Aug 2012 16:15 UTCMark Gottlieb
24th Aug 2012 11:08 UTCNate (Nate {Not Given})
24th Aug 2012 13:29 UTCTony Albini
5th Oct 2013 06:01 UTCPaul Stroh
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