 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | c u t 06443 Microminerals of Connecticut For a small state, Connecticut offers a goodly array of micromineral...yedlinite. To return to the subject of this article, Connecticut is divid ed geologically into three areas: the...(Altamura 1995). T h e micromineral treasures of Connecticut thus fall into three groups: ( 1 ) metamorphic...on "Hercynite Crystals from the Kimzey Calcite Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, and Their Distinction from...belt of world-famous peg matites along the Connecticut R i v e r in the Eastern Highlands, and ( 3 ) |  | | Report (issue) | | Tourmaline, albite, lepidolite (Mt. Bity, Madagascar); bavenite, beryl, albite, cassiterite, columbite, tourmaline...(Londonderry, Australia); calcite, albite (Strickland quarry, Connecticut, USA). Distribution: In Madagascar, from...Uganda. In the USA, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and the Harding...Harding pegmatite, Dixon, Taos Co., New Mexico. On the Huron claims, 16 km north of Point du Bois, Manitoba... Italy. From the Maantienvarsi pegmatite dike, ErÄa jÄarvi pegmatite area, Orivesi, Finland. At Tittling |  | | Book | | CONNECTICUT mmES MINERALS V Tourmaline Crystal from Haddam, Connecticut John Hiller, Jr. Hillers CryctaLShop...- CRYSTALS NOT PISTOLS K c^oi c3— A r CONNECTICUT MINES AND MINERALS published privately l i...Shelton, Connecticut I DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the mineral clubs of Connecticut, Continued...1971, John Hiller, Jr, 3 Peters Lane Shelton, Connecticut II CONTENTS 3. 5, l i 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11...24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Connecticut Mineral Clubs Cleaning and Trimming Oxalic Acid |  | | Journal (issue) | | and S. B. Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California................................. 110 by Jack Crowley The Bertrandites of Connecticut................................114 by William...Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina. Found in 1971, this group of crystals...104 The Mineralogical Record FRANK PERHAM Pegmatite Miner, Geologist and Humorist by Pete J. Dunn...pegmatites than most, he is also a dedicated pegmatite miner, a crack diesel engine mechanic, and is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York...found in all types of pegmatite from the common granite type to the lithium pegmatite. Many localities have...crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3...School Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California |  | | 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 (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...the Conway Granite, near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen...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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Richard A. Bideaux M ineralogist feature articles Pegmatite Phosphates: Descriptive Mineralogy and Crystal...hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and... New York; the exhibition of the New Haven, Connecticut, Mineral Society; or the Annual meeting of the...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road |  | | Journal (issue) | | Recent Work on the Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey.......................................growing. It will serve as a model for future non-USA chapters of FM. A membership list has been prepared...name long associa ted with tourmaline and other pegmatite minerals. The mine is posted against trespassing...among bulldozed rubble at the Bound Brook basalt quarry of the Houdaille Company, at Bound Brook, New Jersey...coming from a breccia zone whose contact with the quarry floor was in the form of an ellipsoid approximately |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: the G illette quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut .................................... San Mateo, CA 94403 (415-345-6228). HARDING PEGMATITE CATALOG The University of New Mexico Geology Museum...and archival material related to the Harding pegmatite in north-central New Mexico. This well-known collecting...suites of samples from specific zones within the pegmatite; a variety of analytical data have been obtained...Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm | | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....San Mateo, CA 94403 (415-345-6228). HARDING PEGMATITE CATALOG The University of New Mexico Geo1ogy Museum...and archival material related to the Harding pegmatite in north-central New Mexico. This well-known collecting...suites of samples from specific zones within the pegmatite; a variety of analytical data have been obtained...Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | Sydney: 20 Loftus Street Melbourne: 343 Little Collins Street Brisbane: 240 Queen Street CANADA Butterworth...description of Meldon Aplite Quarry: Read “1966: Proc. Geol. Ass. 77, 230); also bavenite (Dearman and Claringbull...Claringbull, i960).” p. 63, lines 22-3 : Delete also bavenite (Dearman and Claringbull, i960)” p. 166, Under...number of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of the county in question, or of the new gridded sixinch sheet...explained at the head of the first site under each county. 12 INTRODUCTION The main site interests arc |  | | Book | | ians Mr. Atkins and Mrs. Brunton; Dr. or Morgan Hill, William Larson, CA; R. Fallbrook, W. Dr....always is Theophrastus Theophrastus. gazing John Hill by and J. F. Caley make it doubtful whether...gold links National Museum of Naples. McGraw Hill Book Co., After emerald The and and necklace...Baptiste V. J.-B. Ball 1676. 2nd ed. don: Oxford Hill, Caley, E. R., ence, on Press. 238 ed. in...Science. University Museum pp. 343 1971. McGraw-Hill Thorndike, facts University the Islip. 1855-57 |  | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | ........................ 83 The History of Lord Hill, Black Mountain, Mount Apatite, and Nathaniel H...... 315 Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ...............................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward] |  | | Report (volume) | | rocks.______________________________________ Connecticut- _________________________________________________...quadrangle..____________--_-___-_-_-_-______-_--Gold Hill quadrangle.__.__--__--_-_-__--_-_-___-_--______...Calif., California. Colo., Colorado. Conn., Connecticut. Del., Delaware. D. C., District of Columbia...magnetite, sericite. B. Quartz monzonite. East spur of hill south of manager's residence, Ajo mine. Quartz,...field notes), 0.3 mile west of summit of Leland Hill. Typical. As usual in this rock, biotite is chloritized |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...gem-producing areas in the United States, admittedly. Connecticut has produced a few tourmalines, aquamarines,...However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite district in North |  | | Corporate Document (Series) | | a broad reference such as 'Pieman River' or 'Middlesex' has been retained due to a lack of more specific...least one sample so-labelled is probably from Broken Hill, NSW. Catalogues of the major mineral finds have...Cleveland tin deposit, Avebury nickel mine, Colebrook Hill copper-bearing axinite skarn and Mt Ramsay tungsten...in the 1880s and 1890s, including the Colebrook Hill copper mine south of Rosebery and the Balfour copper...clinochlore), based on specimens from Stichtite Hill,near the Adelaide mine at Dundas. AS. Wesley, the |  | | Book | | prospecting within the limits of the beryl-bearing pegmatite field, Prospecting for non-pegmatitic beryllium...Paragenesis Beryl is equally characteristic of the pegmatite and of the hydrothermalpneumatolytic deposits...|Be,[Sis0;](OH): А. TECTOSILICATES Epididymite Bavenite WITH STRUCTURE ee Eudidymite (on0-6 eed ...modifications of silica (Beus, 1956c; Brandenberger, 1932; Hill, 1934). At present three polymorphs of ВеЁ» are...presence of the hydroxyl [410.5 <> [BeO;,(OH)]5~ bavenite, : bowleyite, margarite, bityite, muscovite |  | | Book | | magmatic or hydrothermal origins of elbaite in the pegmatite cavities; the mctamorphic or hydrothermal origins...copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...trap rock quarry to collect zeolites and associated species, at the Upper New Street quarry in Paterson...1971, including the Summit quarry and the world-famous Prospect Park quarry. He attended Upsala University...had one son: Erik. Kosnar was also attracted to pegmatite localities, and he collected at Mt. Apatite, Auburn...the Pulsifer quarry, Paris, Maine (1968), the Gillette quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut (1968), the Strickland |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...5 cm (Grice and Gault, 1981). CONNECTICUT Litchfield, Litchfield County. 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