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1F8-4X7Almandine-Spessartine Series, Pegmatitic granite

East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA

Dimensions: 6 cm x 3 cm x 1.5 cm
Field of View: 6.5 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 1 cm
Weight: 66.2 g

Label says spessartine No other information on how this identification was made. Obviously a garnet. Other minerals are quartz and feldspar' Locality is given as "telephone cable trench between S. Main St. and Rt. 196" Purchase date on label was 1988 so it was collected before then. Trench was obviously filled in, so after 40 years locality is gone. Collector unknown.

PWR-YCQColumbite-(Fe)-Columbite-(Mn) Series, Beryl Be₃Al₂(Si₆O₁₈) , Quartz SiO₂ , Microcline K(AlSi₃O₈)

Leiper's Upper Avondale Quarry, Wallingford, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA

Dimensions: 5 cm x 3 cm x 3 cm
Field of View: 6 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 3 cm
Weight: 93.1 g

Specimen from old Pennsylvania locality. Small light green bery crystal ( 3cm ) on left Partial crystal of columbite (1 cm) on upper right. A glued on hand written label gives locality as Old Leiper's Quarry east side of Crums Creek. Chemical formula indicates label was made either by a mineralogist or someone with a textbook, in my opinion. Collector unknown. From collection of J. Cilen (10,240)

E42-1XMMicrocline K(AlSi₃O₈)

Baylis Quarry, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA

Dimensions: 7 cm x 6 cm x 3 cm
Field of View: 10 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 7 mm
Weight: 280 g

Small fragment of feldspar I purchased from the collector A. Kattelle. Feldspar was the principal product of this quarry and the other pegmatites in the Bedford, New York district,

G03-AN7Rutile TiO₂

Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA

Dimensions: 2 cm x 1.8 cm x 3.2 cm
Field of View: 4 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 3.2 cm
Weight: 60.7 g

Rutile paramorph brookite. From Silas Bronson Library collection (1893). Slightly water worn, indicating it is from an alluvial deposit The usual locality for similar specimens is given as Cove Creek.

D83-7QGSchorlomite Ca₃Ti₂(SiO₄)(Fe³⁺O₄)₂

Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA

Dimensions: 5.5 cm x 5.8 cm x 4 cm
Field of View: 5.3 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 4 cm
Weight: 308 g

Partial crystal of uncommon Ti containing garnet. From the Silas Bronson Library Collection (1893) . EDX analysis confirmed presence of Ti as well as as Si, Ca, and Fe. Measured specific gravity 3.65.

58P-FUKMillerite NiS

Nanticoke, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA

Dimensions: 2 cm x .5 cm x .2 cm
Field of View: 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 1.5 cm
Weight: 2.7 g

Small spray of millerite from a coal mine in Nanticoke, PA. An unusual occurance. The only sulfides usually found with coal are pyrite and marcasite. From the collection of Alex Knoll. (his #1781). Specimen is in small glass tube, not a micromount box. Picture was taken with a small Celestron digital microscope.

7RV-V0UNatrolite Na₂Al₂Si₃O₁₀·2H₂O

Puchavec quarry, Provodín, Česká Lípa District, Liberec Region, Czech Republic

Dimensions: 6 cm x 5 cm x 3 cm
Field of View: 8 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 4 mm
Weight: 103.6 g

Original handwritten label (German) reads Natrolith (Neues Vokommen) Neubauerberg, Rabstein, Bohmen. A search of Neubauer Berg on Mindat gives the Puchavec Quarry, Provodin, Czech Republic. Label has printed dealer name Dr, Theodor Schuchardt, Gorlitz

8GH-E9PCalcite CaCO₃

Rylestone Marble Quarry, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA

Dimensions: 14 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm
Field of View: 16 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 2 cm
Weight: 597 g

Group of calcite crystals, found loose on quarry floor. Fluorescent orange with 365 nm LED light. Probably from one of the vugs described by Newland in 1913, which made some of the marble unusable.

Entrance to Baylis Quarry

Baylis Quarry, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA

This cut through bedrock is the entrance, The light colored rock is the pegmatite exposed on the opposite side of the pit.

Baylis quarry dump

Baylis Quarry, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA

Dump of Baylis quarry, now overgrown, seen from the road. Private property, obviously no collecting permitted. Consists of large pieces that appear to be mainly pink feldspar, quartz and muscovite. The specimens shown on my page were collected (1963) uphill from this area which was covered by smaller fragments.