 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...H. WEBER 1172 West L a k e Avenue Guilford, Connecticut 06437-1342 E A R L E C. SULLIVAN 17 R o c k y...y R i d g e D r i v e T r u m b u l l , Connecticut 06611-5326 T his locality index is meant to serve...collectors. More often than not, collecting in Connecticut is no longer per mitted. Many of the localities...effort has been made to list a l l localities in Connecticut, a small state that is big on mineralization |  | | Book (edition) | | THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- n...250 SPECIES iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward...Minerals from the Principal Localities in Western Connecticut and Southeastern New York State............. |  | | Journal (issue) | | 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia... If you have ever had the desire to detonate a quarry blast or create an earthquake you will be able...Figure 7—Manganoan Calcite – Montreal Mine (Iron County, WI). Figure 3 (left) - “Wonderful World of Agates”...mineral specimens from the Montreal Mine (Iron County, Wisconsin). Most of the specimens came from the...An unusual specimen from the Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, Wisconsin) is a sheet copper (figure 6). One of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SULFIDES A N D SULPHOSALTS IN PEGMATITE By DAVID M. SEAMAN 36 Winter Street, Norway, Maine 04268 A...found in granite pegmatite as ga lena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, bismuthinite, pyrite, loellingite...mineralogical curiosities. Most of the sulfides noted in pegmatite are of the common ore minerals most commonly found...sulfides recovered from pegmatite are bismuthinite, and molybdenite. Bismuthinite has been an economic byproduct... Molybdenite has been a byproduct from pegmatite at Blue Hill, Cambdage Farm, Tunk Pond, and Cooper in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS FROM 1 CONNECTICUT HILL By Richard Schooner P. O. Box 215 East Hampton, Conn. Collins Hill, in the...the town of Portland, undoubtedly represents the most remarkably mineralized area, of its size, in southern...southern New England. The hill is not especially large, but several different formtions are present, and...has been done on the giant pegmatite at the summit. The Strickland Quarry is enormous, consisting of...treats it as a northern continuation of the Strickland Quarry. The accompanying map should furnish whatever |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York...article are for the most part uncommon or rare in pegmatite. Only fluorite, calcite and siderite are at all...mineral in a few pegmatites at Atolia, San Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the...the most common fluoride mineral occurring in pegmatite. It is often associated with cassiterite, tourmaline...amount in the rare earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | QUARRIES AND MINERALS OF SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT. J. H. Betts, 215 W. 98th St., #2F, New York...locations is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This region was exploited...Mid196 ROCKS 81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South...Glastonbury, about 5 miles north-northeast of Portland, just east of Route 17. The area is roughly triangular...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District Topsham • Topsham, Maine's underappreciated pegmatite district, is...I S L O C A T E D about 25 miles northeast of Portland along Interstate Route 95 just across the Andros...Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from Standpipe Hill, overlooking the...synonomy has arisen due to changes of leasee or owner. Quarry locations are described and plotted on top ographic...of John W . Fisher between 1852 and 1860. This quarry was worked for a single season during the 1860s |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A Checklist Minerals of Connecticut Although perhaps best known for its garnet, chalcocite, and tourmaline...tourmaline, Connecticut also boasts many other mineral species. BRUCEJARNOT R O . B o x 627 M a r t i n...e , N e w J e r s e y 08836 T he study of Connecticut minerals has enjoyed a long peri od of attention...reviews of this mineral list. Dr. Bruce Jarnot, a Connecticut native, has avidly collected both minerals and...collections of Connecticut gems and minerals in existence. 386 R O C K S & MINERALS Two Connecticut localities |  | | Journal (issue) | | July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...granite pegmatites are the most common type of pegmatite. They are igneous dikes or \Teins essentially...The largest crystal in the world ·was found in pegmatite. It was a perthitic microcline crystal measuring |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................94 Connecticut ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................................... Connecticut................................................lists. Twenty-five years ago the annual imports of Portland cement were four times the domestic production...combined production and imports of Portland cement. To-day the Portland cement industry is distributed generally...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Report (issue) | | Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown...pegmatites. Most ore beryl occurs in massive pegmatite zones where crystals may reach considerable size...can be found adjacent to the core margin of the pegmatite and in Suggested Chromophores for Beryl Color-generating...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms... 8.4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter |  | | Report (volume) | | Survey's lists. Twenty-five years ago the imports of Portland cement were four times the domestic production...combined production and imports of Portland cement. To-day the Portland cement industry is distributed generally...Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CHIPS FROM T HE QUARRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....found. 4 ROCKS and MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY (EDITORIAL PACE > We Make Our Bow being numbered... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Connecticut ..............• •... 10 1 Delaware . . . . ....Sunday, November 7th, 1937 at the Strickland Quarry, Portland, Connecticut. The trip was made by train and...the first hill after leaving Portland disc:osed a far flung vista of the fert ile Connecticut valley, w |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut........................................ 433 by...Creek, Arizona 85331 T h e Bristol m ine in Connecticut has produced world-class specimens o f crystallized...the city of Bristol, in Hartford County, north-central Connecticut. After some tentative beginnings,...c a r i Quarry kHARTFORD Bristol Mine o * ^ i ^ •t K -x \ Portland Strickland Quarry • W ATERBURY |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 4th, 1952, at the J. C. Showalter Quarry, Blue Ball, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Ninety members, friends... The Junior members of M.S.P. met at Blue Ball Quarry, May 4th, under the guidance of James Irvine. The...shown through the laboratories, the plant and the quarry. The tour was detailed and instructive. Every effort...May 4th, at the J. C. Showalter Quarry, Blue Ball, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Mr. J. C. Showalter...Brubaker whose beautiful farm is near the Blue Ball Quarry supplied a cabinet type exhibit for identification |  | | Report (issue) | | COVER Phlogopite mica showing asterism. Top: Portland Township, Quebec. National Mineral Collection...McCloskey Field feldspar occurrence Canada Cement quarry Forsyth Mine Baldwin Mine Headley Mine Cantley...Blanche Mine Blackburn Mine McLelland Mine Cote quarry Dacey Mine Horseshoe Mine Kitty Lynch, Kodak mines...Caverns Lake Girard Mine Wakefield quarry Breckin Mine Templeton quarry Seybold Mine Gemmill Mine Deziel...Mine St-Pierre-de-Wakefield quarry McGlashan Mine Leduc Mine Lachaine quarry Evans-Lou Mine Old Chelsea-Gatineau |  | | Book | | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...18:185187 ALLACTITE AJlactite from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey (by P. J. Dunn) 14:251-252 ALLCHAR Famous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | information w i t h mineral collectors regarding Connecticut mineral localities. W a l t e r L. Busch, 4 3...r i f i e d , one inch or larger f r o m K e m County, Calif. $ . 5 0 ea. Pat Baird, 2 S 0 5 Chester...several pieces of pollucite f r o m the famous Strickland quarry. T h e only occurrence of this m i n eral...Elmhurst 7 3 , N . Y . ALASKA M I N E R A L S : Bismuthinite, Cassiterite, Cinnabar w i t h Stibnite, Graphite...postpaid. Roberta J e n sen, 8 7 0 9 S. W . 5 6 t h , Portland 19, Oregon. S I L L I M A N I T E — Golden Gem |  | Bradley, Dwight, Shea, Erin, Buchwaldt, Robert, Bowring, Sam, Benowitz, Jeff, O'Sullivan, Paul, McCauley, Andrew (2016) Geochronology and Tectonic Context of Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum Pegmatites In the Appalachians. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 945-969 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600035 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | component. Thus a set of zircon ages from an LCT pegmatite must be treated as analogous to detrital zircon...Keywords: pegmatite, Geochronology, Appalachian orogen, tectonics, lithium-cesium-tantalum pegmatite, nio...niobium-yttrium-fluorine pegmatite. INTRODUCTION Lithium-cesium-tantalum (or LCT) pegmatites are a widespread...importance, the fundamental tectonic controls of LCT pegmatite genesis are not particularly well understood....However, only a few of the world’s hundreds of LCT pegmatite districts have been attributed to more specific |  | | Book (edition) | | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from |  | | Journal (issue) | | smoky quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen;...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all...comments are invited. COLORADO LOCALITY INDEX BOULDER COUNTY Caribou Mine Caribou (near Nederland), Caribou...(Azurite, Malachite, Cerussite, Galena) Gold Hill Gold Hill District (Nagyagite, Hessite, Petzite, Altaite...District (Silver, Barite, Galena, Siderite) CHAFFEE COUNTY California mine Nathrop, Browns Creek Area (Beryl |
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