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Opal from
Summit, Union County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Summit, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:80222
Long-form Identifier:1:3:80222:2
GUID (UUID V4):fd79438d-b0a5-44ae-a5ca-9dc100485b2e
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
13.5km (8.4 miles) F.J. Marley Quarry, Verona, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Stirling Brook ("Carnelian Creek"), Warren Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
16.8km (10.5 miles) Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
17.0km (10.6 miles) McDowell's Quarry (Osborne and Marsellis Quarry), Upper Montclair, Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) Francisco Brothers Quarry, Great Notch, Little Falls Township, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
23.7km (14.7 miles) Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
24.2km (15.1 miles) Pennsylvania Railroad cut, Mt Pleasant, Bergen Hill, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
24.6km (15.3 miles) Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
26.7km (16.6 miles) Dickerson Mine, Mine Hill, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
27.1km (16.8 miles) Allen Mine, Rockaway Township, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
and Washington occur the many types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance...Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, or Tom Robert's Rock the caption. All photographs...in color. Turquoise from Los Cerillos mines, New Mexico. Note turquoise vein cutting diagonally
Journal (issue)
deposits from the Barrington basalt province in New South Wales, one typical of East Australian sapphire...Figure 1: Distribution province, 250 of of Sydney, New South Wales. Corundum/zircon suites suites are marked...by inclined province, 250kmkmnorth north Sydney, New South Wales. Corundum/zircon are marked by inclin...from central Queensland (Anakie Fields) and New South Wales (New England Fields) and from East Pailin. Pallin...shield volcano in eroded New South South Wales within within the Cainozoic New Figure 3: Working eluvial/alluvial
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
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)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Book (volume)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Report (volume)
and sapphire are considered precious gems. Some opal is precious, but most varieties are semiprecious...streams, and eventually deposited as alluvial gravels. Opal and agate are formed from aqueous solutions. Diamonds...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:
Book (volume)
beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...tributary gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream...stream beds, etc. petrified wood, wood opal;  along the Grand R. though entire Co., regional banks, breaks...wood, wood opal. 438 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
33609 TREASURER Carl K r o t k i 250 W. 5 7 t h St. New York, N. Y. 10019 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT C l i f f o...o r d C. Anthes 930 Madison A v e n u e Union, New Jersey GENERAL SHOW C H A I R M A N M a l v i n J...is chromite, chalcedony, kammererite, magnesite, opal (common), deweyite and uvarovite. Other Pennsylvania...associated minerals. New Jersey Societies have scheduled trips to Sayreville, New Jersey for pyrite and marcasite;...the Summit Quarry of the Houdaille Construction Materials Company, Inc., an active quarry, Summit. New
Book
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...MOUNTAINS, E. Slopo, Mohave Co. N.W. of Kingman Opal CALUMET, Cochise Co., 3 ml. N. of Dragoon. ClIRYSOFRASB... PHOENIX, East of Barite PICKET POST, Pinal Co. Opal PEUBLO VIEJO Alabaster RED ROCK MINE, Pima Co. ♦Fluorspar
Journal (issue)
This Issue President’s Message 1 Officers 2 New Booklet 3 Educational Awards at Denver 4 2017...updated. Bill Besse has been advancing this work. The new website should be completed by the end of the year...markivanjacobson@gmail.com VICE PRESIDENT: Virgil Lueth; New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place , Socorro NM 87801-4796;...VALLEY CHAPTER: Larry Nuelle; LNuelle@gmail.com NEW JERSEY CHAPTER: David Shapiro; Dshapiro33@gmail.com... BULLETIN of FRIENDS OF MINERALOGY Vol.47, No.4 Page 3 New booklet now available on the Early Mining History
Report (volume)
.. New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.................. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;... S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals, World's Fair edition,
Journal (issue)
design for our faceters by David S. Weaver 38 SUMMIT PEAK IN THE TRINITY RANGE Gem materials, scenic...world, all in glorious color DEPARTMENTS 35 WHAT'S NEW 44 LAPIDARY TIPS 47 COMING EVENTS 49 TRAVEL STOPS...the diamond to a diamond cutter/ polisher in the New York area requesting that it be repolished. It was...Color of EME LD TM ire C-OX Green FireT• is a new Emerald green gemstone that will bring customers...by e•penaive new technology ,n lhe USSR G LDSTEIN • MPOR I S,INC. 30 ¥Hey Street, New Yont 10017 (212)
Book (volume)
the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union Road St. Louis, Missouri 63125 first printing December...............................................288 New Hampshire ..................................................................................307 New Jersey ...........................................................................................315 New Mexico ........................................................................................329 New York............................................
Report (issue)
Quadrangle Appendix B: Bibliography Cross-Referenced by County/Quadrangle Appendix C: Bibliography Cross-Referenced...quadrangles, Appendix B is cross-referenced by county, Appendix C by geologic unit, Appendix D by age...UCMP P3526, Chalk Hills quadrangle, Storey County < 11-County Longitude 119/30/00, Latitude 39/22/30 <-...in some places been recalculated according to the new decay constants provided by G.B. Dalrymple (1979...Critical tables for conversion of K-Ar ages from old to new constants. Geology, 7(11):558-560). We follow U.S
Book (volume)
species. And for those interested in discovering new deposits, the geology and mineralogy of sources is...Iwo Volumes Volume | JOHN SINKANKAS [aN] VAN New NOSTRAND York Cincinnati REINHOLD Toronto COMPANY...Educational Publishing, Inc. 450 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001 Van Nostrand Reinhold Limited 1410...eg Ow a Ne Sarah PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION The quantity of new information accumulated since publication...such new information in a second volume. [hus the present book becomes V olume I. while the new information
Book (edition)
.................. : ........................ . New York ........................................................................................... . New Son th \Vales .................................................................................. . New form of diamond cutt.ing ......................................................................... New Soulh \Vales...................................................................................... New Jel'!!ey........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science Mineralogical..., Mineralization at the Fanwood and Summit Quarries, New Jersey, 150 Cureton, F . E . and M. E . , 38...Pegmatite Bodies in the Wausaw Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin, 188 Fascinating Story of Mount Mica's...Localities in the Beaver Creek Area of St. Lawrence County, New York, W. S. Condon, S. C. Chamberlain, 105 Fluorapatite... 399 Four Obscure Mineral Localities in Oxford County, Maine, M. I . Jacobson, 401 Fox, R. A . , 334
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington...microscope. is — — A few gem materials notably, opal and obsidian are amorphous, lacking crystal structure
Journal (issue)
Euro All advertisements are prepaid. *European Union residents add 19 % V. A .T . on total value. ORYKTOLOGIKA...143) - 2009 - From Australia : – Opal Book A lovely book on Opal, South Australia s Gemstone is available...largest Opal Fields in the world , “speaks” to you and tells you all about Opal : What is Opal ? Geology...Geology of Opal ,mining methods in the Opal Fields of Andamooka , Coober Pedy Mintabie ,The Opal Industry...Industry , Opal mining and the Law, Glossary of Opal , mining terms , selected bibliography and much more. This
Journal (issue)
only “pre-college” school circa September 1901. New students’ grade levels were not determined by age...Strange strange.lily@gmail.com (A short time ago, a new collector walked into Excalibur, asking questions...I asked if she would write an article about her new-found obsession, and her delightful story of her...her exploits in the woods of Rappahannock County, Virginia, follows.—Editor) This past winter I had become...phantoms, etc., Placerville, California; precious opal, Washington; precious sapphires, including crystals
Report (volume)
Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable...the developer's bulldozer obliterates other sites, new ones are discovered. Books and thetic and scientific
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ^ . Abbreviations: x l — c...from the famous Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo. Some small specimens of this gem quality...material. "From the Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo., by the Green Mountain Reservoir. Some...metagraywacke along the county road half way between Chestnut Gap and Lebanon School, Fannin County, Ga. These crystals...aluminum silicate rocks. This area is in Clearwater County, Idaho, and any visiting rockhounds can get directions
 
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