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Aquamarine from
Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Beryl var: Aquamarine
Formula:Be3Al2Si6O18
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aquamarine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:121360
Long-form Identifier:1:3:121360:7
GUID (UUID V4):a97b197e-e6a2-4025-b2cc-eecf13908ce4
Nearest other occurrences of Aquamarine
0.1km (0.1 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Hale-Walker prospects, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Pelton's Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Walden Gem Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Case Quarries, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Riverside Quarry (Western Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Simpson Quarry (Wiarda Quarry), South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Brack Gem prospect (Brack prospect), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Slocum prospect, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
13.1km (8.1 miles) Gillette Quarry (J-J Mine; Haddam Neck Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
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Journal (issue)
............................ Minerals of the Strickland Quarry. By Peter Zodac ........................Members ............ Some Mineral Localities Near Portland, Conn. .................................... The.......................................... A Paint Mine Near Palmerton, Penn. By A. Joseph Stanley .......of the district and also to the famous hiddenite mine at Hiddenite. We regret to advise that Mr. C. L...ASSOOIATIO!II }8 WHOLE No. 70 MINERALS OF THE STRICKLAND QUARRY By PETER ZODAC Editor "Rocks and Minerals"
Book (edition)
topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for...grained that its as well as in Brazil their pegmatite gems. same material as granite, but so fine...gravel pits, feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...Lincoln Co. Todd's Branch, Mecklenberg Co. Portis mine, Franklin Co. Muddy Creek headwaters, McDowell
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Colorado 80210 markivanjacobson@gmail.com No pegmatite mineral collection is complete without octahe-...Fluorite is almost always a late-stage mineral in pegmatite cavities, forming a colorful, attractive icing...Granite, near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen and photo...training, with a long-term specialty in collecting pegmatite minerals. He currently works in Chengdu, Sichuan...13 August 2013 2 Locality Parental Granite Pegmatite Class Mineral associates of significance Crystal
Journal (issue)
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...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
material worthwhile cutting by the amateur. Connecticut has produced some splendid faceting material...property and another which I will soon discuss. The mine is located roughly north of Andover, N . J., and...to Lake Lenape. About a mile or so up this road a hill completely wooded is seen on the right, a woods...level as the tar road plunges into the base of the hill. This road leads directly into the workings. The...with reserve. In the dump heaps of the garnet ore mine were found the rather large chunks of pyrite-magnetite
Journal (issue)
...................................131 COLLINS HILL (PORTLAND, CONN.) DESERTED By Richard Schoon,r 135...Andrews, Jr ; " Famous Mineral Localities (Renfrew County, Ont., Canada)", by Jerome M. Eisenberg; "Ao Alaskan...Republican River (South Fork), in southern Yuma County, Colorado, and there is quite a sprinkling of the...which the land is located- in this case, Grand County, Colo.- rather than to refer to the index parallel...if it is correct, for practically every mountain county in Colorado has at least one Bald Mountain . A
Journal (issue)
finest selected suites are owned by Mr. W. D. Schoonmaker of Brooklyn, Mr. Lazard Cahn of New York City...follows : “ During the past few months, Lincoln County, North Carolina, has furnished more crystals of...trapezohedrons. Collectors should be grateful to Lincoln County, and to the workers there, for this highly interesting...crystals, single and in groups, were found inCatawba County, with an amethystine capping on a milky or clear... Figure 4 shows a good example from Alexander County. These “ dislocated ” crystals appear to have
Show/Event (guide)
t i o n s on carrollite from the Kamoya South II mine, Democratic Republic of Congo byR. L. Mown 2:00...u m mineralization of pegmatite pockets in the Wausau Complex, Marathon County, Wisconsin byS.L. Hanson...ferberite-hiibnerite from the Nine Mile Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin by T. W. Buchholz; A U Falstei; and...kulanite and phosphophyllite from the Palermo #1 mine, North Groton, New Hampshire bill. W Nizamoff R...Simmons 4:00 Gem almandine from Colchester, Connecticut by B. M. Jarnot and M. D. Jarnot 4:15 A m p
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
highly commercialized, and often, some approach a County Fair carnival atmosphere — high admission charges...for certain specimens in it. Mr. William D. Schoonmaker of New York City exhibited about 150 specimens...also one of very deep green from England. An aquamarine crystal 2 inches in length and % inches in diameter... One of them, a dark green stone form Delaware County, Pa., being the only one ever cut from that locality...from England. A geniculated rutile from Chester County, Pa., Adamite and smithsonite, polished, from Greece
Journal (issue)
some nice specimens which ha been put aside at a mine. The superintendent had saved these for a friend...they got as our exhibits are only labeled as to county, or section. Exact localities are reserved for...sugar carbon and molten iron) in an abandoned coal mine located in New Jersey. Here the author is in error;...595, and came from two properties in Los Angeles County and one each in Inyo, Monterey, San Benito, and...figures, was a tonnage of dolomite from Tuolumne County that was burnt for lime ; there£ore combined with
Book (edition)
1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION 1955 HOLIDAY HILL PRESS 1485 FORCE DRIVE, MOUNTAINSIDE, N. �- Copyright...week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...been replaced in the locality seotion by the Scotty Mine, an active operation of considerable interest. The...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside... James L. Faulkner {Ridlonville) of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association, Mr. John E. Duffy and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nique and also stooping to tie a shoelace looking aquamarine fragments which are infallible though apt to...never to produce important finds at these the Schoonmaker and the others that are old localities,—take
Journal (issue)
Dalt, PART OF DUMP OF FAMOUS OLD TRADE DOLLAR. MINE, SILVER C~TY, IDAHO. SPECIAL ARTICLES MARBLE. ...mentioned after their names: Dr. Henry C. Dake, Portland, Oregon, renominated for Honorary President. ...WEST PARIS. MAINE STA N L E Y 1. PERHAM OXf'ORO COUNTY MINIEIIA L S AN D GE M S A SPECIALTY A M BER M...commercial quantities in Little Borax Lake, Lake County. A considerable tonnage of borax was recovered...Borate in San Bernardino County, and another one at Lang, Los Angeles County. The two latter have been
Journal (issue)
................................... 571 P()TOSI MINE OF MEXICO ...............................................................579 ASHJO, JAPAN, COPPER MINE ..................................................Subscriber Editor R. & M.: Rock1 and Minerals is a mine of information to Rockhounds and I will be very...John, and Simpson Springs: and from Nevada via Gold Hill or '!'rout Creek and Callao. Roads into the area...usually not easily distinguishable ly in Tooele County, Utah, at approxi - from the more plentiful Pleistocene
Journal (issue)
undersigned, being all of the officers of rhc Clark County Gem Co!l~tors, Inc., most sincerely wish to convey...one attains the top of the saddle, Flower Agate Hill is f earned in its entirety about one-quarter mile...writer took advantage of collecting at the numerous mine dumps in the vicinity of Champion. It is hoped that...Michi1a11 The Beacon Mine, operated by the North Range Mining Company, is the only active mine in the Champion...numerous aumps and ruins in th e vicinity of the Beacon Mine, however, attest to the former activity in the area
Journal (issue)
country village in the Saucon Valley of Lehigh County, Pa., occurs a vast deposit of zinc blende which...in Pennsbury, Chester County , and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County. It is a question to...chrome mines in Little Britian township, Lancaster County. Thompson Harris was the superintendent and the...home where it was seen by a physician, Dr. Luther Hill by name, who thinking it was tourmaline, submitted...large sheets, beryl and the variety known as aquamarine, white, green and smoky quartz in crystals, apatite
Journal (issue)
Shipments by mines for 1958, 1959, 1960 B96 Open Pit Mine Production ef 3 Technological ; Advances Tons...Tons mined and stripped & 99 Underground Mine Production from 1955 through 1960 > 101 Geology and...built for heavy off-highway service in construction, mine, quarry and industrial tons For work under large...the 1961 FOR 1960 Blue Ribbon Equipment U. S. MINE Awards Services Supplies REVIEW L. Rice Henry...MILFREEPUB Director, United Kingdom Operations Murray Hill 3-9294 District BUYERS J-/26 Denny York City
Journal (volume)
classes Mines and mineral resources of a given county or area (describing kind, character, distribution...of these minerals Number of total value of the County mineral products 11 18 18 20 Imperial Inyo ...Inyo and ties. San Bernardino counties. In Inyo County high-grade magnetite ore was being mined from the...being shipped to San Francisco. In San Bernardino County high-grade hematite was being mined from Cave Canyon...Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara counties. Gold. Mine development and the production of gold showed
Report (issue)
.B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011......................F4. Pie chart showing percentage of world cobalt mine production in 2011, by country.................
Book (edition)
photomicrographs from the W.S. MacKenzie collection The McGraw-Hill Companies for figures from Igneous Petrology; Microscopic...Fayalite, Gunflint Iron Formation, Minnesota-Ontario, USA (Floran, R.J. & Papike, J.J., 1978, J. Petrol., 19...21588). Knebelite, metasomatized limestone, Blue Bell Mine, British Columbia, Canada (Mossman, D.J. & Pawson...includes K2O 0.01, H2O 0.05. 5 Tephroite, Benallt Mine, Caernarvonshire, Wales, UK (Smith, W.C. et al....with allanite, fergusonite and thorogummite in pegmatite, Hayamadake, Fukishima Pref., Japan (Hasegawa
Report (issue)
Ta (Alta volcanics)—open arrow, and Th (Hartford Hill volcanics)—solid arrow. Also Kg (granodiorite) and...___________ Map showing location of Malachite Mine area, Jefferson County, Colorado ___________________________________...stressed and background trees, Malachite Mine, Jefferson County, Colorado, as measured with a laboratory...background trees in the Alpine Mill area, Douglas County, Nevada ______ 75 77 78 83 84 85 VIII 86 87...fluorescence spectrometer at 486.1 nm in terms of rhoda­ mine WT equivalence (source-detector, solar, and depth
Journal (volume)
Angkor The Lost Kingdom of the Khmers This Robin of Mine An Albino Robin Seeing Nature through the Camera's...Child and Human Child, 301 Youth in Museums, 178 Aquamarine, 147 Archbold, Richard, and A. L. Rand: Latchkey...Illustrated, 32 Age, 70 Illus- This Robin of Mine, Roy 100 L. Abbott, 227 Tiny Army Fights the...Sc, Curator George G. Goodwin, Associate Curator Hill, Ph.D., Assistant Curator H Tate, D.Sc, Assistant...Albino Woodchuck An unusual photograph taken by Schoonmaker, of Rensselaer, N. Y. W. J. Sirs: . As my
 
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