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Sphalerite from
Niagara Falls Quarry, Holcim Niagara Aggregates Quarry, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Gypsum2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Gypsum at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Dolomite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Niagara Falls Quarry, Holcim Niagara Aggregates Quarry, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (8 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:101187
Long-form Identifier:1:3:101187:6
GUID (UUID V4):80023971-d479-4e38-b198-eb010f90b0b2
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
14.8km (9.2 miles) Canal dump (Montrose occurrence), Niagara Falls, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
16.6km (10.3 miles) New Thorold quarry, Thorold Quarry (Walker Quarry), Thorold Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
16.9km (10.5 miles) Thorold Quarry (Walker Quarry), Thorold Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
17.2km (10.7 miles) Old Thorold quarry, Thorold Quarry (Walker Quarry), Thorold Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
19.3km (12.0 miles) LaFarge Corp. Quarry, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
20.2km (12.5 miles) Welland Canal, Niagara Falls, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
21.0km (13.0 miles) Canal Dumps (Allanburg Occurrence), Thorold Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
36.3km (22.5 miles) Vineland Quarry, Clinton Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
43.1km (26.8 miles) Spring Creek Aggregates, Clinton Township, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
43.5km (27.0 miles) Shelby Crushed Stone Quarry, Medina, Orleans County, New York, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Central and Western New York State M inerals of the Silurian Lockport Group of New York State have been...“fluate of lime” (fluorite) in rocks “near the falls of Niagara.” According to Bruce, this was the first documented...observed during the initial settlement of western New York, it was the construction of the Erie Canal in...Beck’s (1842) Mineralogy of New York, James Hall’s (1843) Geology of New York, and James Dana’s (1848) Manual...carbonate rocks exposed along the Niagara Escarpment of western New York as the “Lockport limestone.”† His
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Gait, Royal Ontario Museum; Dr. William Kelly, New York State Ge­ ological Survey; Dr. Robert King, National...Museums of Canada. The accepted abstracts follow. A NEW O C C U R R E N C E O F R U T I L E IN HASTINGS C...Concession V I I , Wollaston Township, Hastings County. The new occurrence is only 4 km east of Coe Hill, where...uncover additional rutile. S T E L L E R I T E : SIX NEW O C C U R R E N C E S . C. A. Francis and W. C. Metropolis...(H120914, white crystals to 3 cm forming spherical aggregates, from basalt vugs); 2. Nasik, Maharashtra, India
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Jeffrey Scovil photo. May/June: Patch reef at the Falls of the Ohio, painting by Stephen F. Greb. July/August:...November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen, Harold...Mineralization at Pedreira Atalaia (the Sentinel Quarry) near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil...310-13 Amethyst Discovery on Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine, W. B. Thompson, 44-51 Anatase, Colorado...the Walker Vein, Caldwell Stone Company Quarry, Boyle County, Kentucky, 254-58 Andorite, 27 Andradite
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Genesis of Disseminated Sulphide Assemblages in Niagara Peninsula, Canada By MOHAMMADA. MOSTAGltEL,Leicester...ailgereichert worden sein kSnnten. Abstract In the Niagara Peninsula of Southern Ontario, Canada, subceonomic...of the Appalachian Basin. Minor quantitites of sphalerite (in chert nodules) and pyrite (as framboids)...margins. Here, the Middle Silurian carbonates of the Niagara Peninsula impeded the previous, relatively rapid...periods of uplift. R~sum~ Dans la p6ninsule du Niagara au sud de rOntario, Canada, on trouve quelques
Report (issue)
Princess sodalite mine Vardy quarry Golding-Keene quarry Egan Chute occurrences York River tactite zone occurrence...occurrence Morrison quarry Davis quarry York River corundum occurrence Childs Mine Rankin Mine Bessemer...Mine Woodcox occurrence Padwell Mine Eagle Lake quarry Crystal Lake fluoborite occurrence Crystal Lake...Tory Hill - Gooderham - Kinmount Hadley granite quarry Canadian All-Metals mine Gibson Road (western)...occurrence Gill quarries Highway 507 road-cut Fraser quarry Nu-World uranium mine Dancey tremolite occurrence
Report (volume)
the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices...and Lockport Groups) in the Type Area of Western New York By Carlton E. Brett, Dorothy H. Tepper, William...and Lockport Groups) in the type area of western New York I by Carlton E. Brett ... [et al.]. p. em- (U...Geology, Stratigraphic-Nomenclature-New York (State)-Niagara County Region. I. Brett, Carlton E. (Carlton.......................................... 52 Niagara Falls Member.....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gait. Royal Ontario Museum: Dr. William Kelly, New York State Geological Survey: Dr. Robert J . King....'Dept. of Geolog-y arid Geophysics, University of New Orleans. LA 70148. Cary Mound is a low hill that...exposed in a small portion of the north face of the quarry. Miaroles up to several inches iicross abound in...sulfides deposited, f'ollowed by chalcopyrite, sphalerite. galena. fluorite. and calcite. Some miaroles...and associated with small grains of red-brown sphalerite. Near the bases of pyrite crystals, the coatings
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 . • Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David
Book
MtN€RfllS of New Vork Stole David €. 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 • 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...Kay Preface This report on the Minerals of New York State is partially a sum­ mary of published knowledge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER REGION By CLIFFORD J. AWALD Second Vice President, Buffalo Society of...Mineralogy, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York Originally published in Science On The March...more than one hundred years, the minerals of the Niagara Frontier Region have been popular with mineralogists...and the rainbow of the fluorescents of Franklin, New Jersey, but as sedimentary mineral crystals they...the world. The Niagara Frontier Region will be considered to comprise that area of New York State and adjacent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20036 $ +$’m wt What is the Niagara Escarpment? R.V. DIETRICH 1323 Center Drive Mount...the same rock unit as the one over which the Niagara Falls plunge comprises several bluffi and clvflike...to as parts of the Niagara Escarpment. These scarps occur sporadically in New York, Ontario, Michigan...Michigan, and Wisconsin. THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT has been described in such colorful terms as “a rugged wall ...extends from southeast of Rochester, New York, westward to Niagara Falls, up around northern Lakes Huron and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE MINERALS OF THE NIAGARA STONE DIVISION QUARRY Downloaded by [University of Calgary]...444 Perry Street, Buffalo, New York, 14204 The Niagara Stone Division Quarry original deposition or by...and Packard Roads, between Niagara had been consolidated and raised above Falls and Lewiston. sea level...level."* At present the quarry is being operated My study of this quarry has taken apby the Company whose...of dolomitic I have made about 100 trips to the quarry limestone in the form of crushed stone. and have
Journal (issue)
the New York. N. Y.. Poul Omen. March 19. 1894.] VOL. VIII JANUARY, 1902 N0. H A TRIP TO NIAGARA AND...summer of 1900 I visited Niagara Falls and while there heard that the Niagara Falls Electric Light and Power...Power Co. were excavating a new wheel-pit. This was an oppOrtunity not to be passed by, so board ing a...quent occurrence; some of them contain massive sphalerite, others are geodes. "' 162 THE MINERAL COLLECTOR...specimens. At the Falls I collected pink and white dolomite, but did not find much sphalerite or selenite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bornite-coated Chalcocite, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin; 2011; 90 × 110; oil on masonite. 272...Toronto, Ontario, to Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and from New York City, to Miami, Florida. She has also received... Dundas County, Victoria, Australia; 2011; 100 × 110; oil on masonite. Figure 6. Sphalerite, Redlands...Redlands quarry, Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls County, New York; 2010; 80 × 90; oil on masonite. Figure 9.... Fluorite, Flamboro quarry, Wentworth County, Dundas, Ontario; 2010; 100 × 120; oil on masonite. Figure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse. MAJOR NEW YORK STATE M I N E...E R A L LOC A L I T I E S N ew York State is rich in minerals of interest to collectors. A number of...Dana 1877, 1892). Herbert P. Whitlock published a New York State list in 1903. The most recent comprehensive...localities in the state is the book Minerals of New York State by David Jensen, published in 1978. Our...Mode of Occurrence Most mineral localities in New York can be categorized into three groups based on
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT By D. F. Hewitt INDUSTRIAL MINERAL....... . . .. .. .. .... .. .. . Geology of the Niagara Escarpment .. .. .... .. . . .. .. .. .. . Rock... Figures Page 1. 2. 3. Stratigraphic Section at Niagara Falls ........... Lockport-Amabel Sections . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niagara Escarpment and major structural elements.. 7 31...Tables 1. 2. Classification of stratigraphy of the Niagara Escarpment .. . . . . .. . . .. .. .. . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arbor, MI 48109, USA b Department of Geology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY...NY 11210, USA ’ Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AL T6G 2./I, Canada Received 26...carbonates grade laterally into shale in east-central New York and into fluvial sandstones and conglomerates...the upper Shawangunk Formation in southeastern New York. By late Silurian time, the climate turned arid...of the basin, MVT mineralization consisting of sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite is found in a 40-km
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rocnn B. MonnrsoN. Cornell Uniaersittt. Ithaca, New York. Celestitehas been recordedfrom the Lower Helderbergrocks...including Syracuse,Lockport, Jamesville, and Auburn in New York State (5) (10), Drummond and Maybee, Michigan...Put-in-Bay (8) and Clay Center, Ohio, and Mineral County, West Virginia (13). The Put-in-Bay deposits are...found at CIay Center in the Guelph member of the Niagara group. Higher strata have been eroded at this locality...locality, but in other parts o{ Ottawa County, these uppermost Niagara beds (known in Ohio as the Cedarville-Springfield
Report (volume)
Zinc-Bearing Peat to the Lockport Dolomite Orleans County New York GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1000-D A CONTRIBUTION...ZINC-BEARING PEAT TO THE LOCKPORT DOLOMITE, ORLEANS COUNTY, NEW YORK HELEN L. CANNON ABSTRACT Peat deposits containing...zinc and some lead occur near Manning, Orleans County, N. Y. The metals, estimated to total 2,000 tons...of 0.06 percent zinc and 0.002 percent lead. Sphalerite and galena occur throughout the upper and lower...found in deposits of commercial value in western New York State. 119 120 INTRODUCTION Geochemical studies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IN NIAGARA GORGE, N. Y. By PETER ZODAC Editor, Rocks and Minerals The world famous Niagara Falls and...and the Niagara Gorge are wholly post-glacial in origin. After plunging 167 feet at the falls, the Niagara...United States (east). About 4 miles north of the falls is Devil's Hole State Park. This is a deep and beautiful...historic interest; it was acquired by the State of New York a few years ago. It was at Devil's Hole that 350...magnificent views of the gorge. Devil's Hole is in the Niagara gorge and a path leads down into it and to the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Technical University] at 13:29 19 October 2014 The New York State Museum has been a vital part of the history...and mineralogy in America and the world. T he New York State Museum is the oldest and largest state museum...United States. It is the direct outgrowth of the New York State Geological Survey, which was formed in 1836...Beck, was also named, and his exhaustive work on New York mineralogy has yet to be equaled. The original...1870 the State Cabinet was officially renamed the New York State Museum of Natural History. James Hall (fig
Report (issue)
Features ....................................... The Niagara Escarpment ................,.....................Stone)., Lowville Quarry .......................................... Old Nelson Quarry .............. ........... Dundas Quarry ......................................... Clappisons Cut Quarry .................Limited ............................... Halton County Pit ... ... .. ...................... .. ........Nelson Crushed Stone Limited ....... Quarry section, Old Nelson Quarry Section, Canada Cut and Crushed Stone
Book
Ulsterian. Res soca ; Gorge Strata exposed in Niagara Niagoran Cincinnation. Mohawkian — Chomploinion...of record in New York sean a rT | Jurassic OS Rc TTRATISTT strata record in New York area indicates...Eon (detailed) Niagara Falls; American Falls at left, Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls at right; Goat Island... COLOSSAL CATARACT The Geologic History of Niagara Falls Irving H. Tesmer, Editor by Jerold C. Bastedo...A. Liberty Jaan Terasmae State University of New York Press Albany A grant from the University Awards
Report (issue)
monthly by the New University of the State of BULLETIN York OCTOBER 298 New York FREDERICK Museum...Director Bulletin 70 MINERALOGY 3 LIST OF* NEW YORK MINERAL LOCALITIES BY H. \YHITLOCK P. C....STATE OF NEW YORK 1903 M125m-Je3-2000 PriCC 2O CCntS University of the State of With years New rk York...York of election 1892 WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE D.D. LL.D. 1878 WHITELAW REiD^M.A. LL.D. CHAUNCEY M...TURNER LL.D. 1890 1890 1893 1895 1895 New York New York Rochester - - Utica Lowville MCKELWAY
Report (issue)
express his thanks to the many company officials and quarry superintendents who supplied information for this...COMMERCIAL STONE TERMS Riprap. Large angular blocks of quarry stone from l cubic foot (about 200 pounds) up to...termed "armour stone." Rubble. Angular blocks of quarry stone from 5 inches to one foot in diameter, often...as follows but may vary considerably from quarry to quarry, depending on the stone shape and number of...CHARACTERISTICS OF MAJOR LIMESTONE FORMATIONS AND QUARRY OPERA TIONS .... . . .. ...... . . . . . . . .
 
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