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Gypsum from
Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:737031
Long-form Identifier:1:3:737031:1
GUID (UUID V4):981a4014-a010-42e6-bbab-bff742484762
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
10.8km (6.7 miles) Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
16.9km (10.5 miles) Martin's Dock, Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
31.5km (19.5 miles) Riker Hill, Livingston, Livingston, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
36.8km (22.9 miles) Hude Mine (Stanhope Mine), Netcong, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
41.5km (25.8 miles) McDowell's Quarry (Osborne and Marsellis Quarry), Upper Montclair, Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
42.8km (26.6 miles) Schuyler Copper Mine, North Arlington, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
43.9km (27.3 miles) Francisco Brothers Quarry, Great Notch, Little Falls Township, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
44.4km (27.6 miles) Houdaille Quarry, Little Falls Township, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
44.9km (27.9 miles) Laurel Hill, Secaucus, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
45.5km (28.2 miles) Union Building and Construction Quarry, Woodland Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bulletin 57 Geologic Series Copper Mines...Mining in New Jersey by HERBERT P. WOODWARD DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT STATE OF NEW JERSEY...Geology and Topography Trenton, N. J. 1944 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOARD OF CONSERVATION AND............. Mendham (P . O . Gladstone) (3) NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL MR...herewith the manuscript of a new report on the copper ores of New Jersey and the many attempts to mine
Report (issue)
BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS...ITS ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931 BY...BY James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHOR’S NOTE Since his boyhood days the author...of his recreational hours collecting minerals in New York City and its environs. A record lias been personally...in the old lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MILLINGTON QUARRY, NEW JERSEY W A R R E N CUMMINGS 225 Beech wood Avenue Trenton, New Jersey 08618 T H...G T O N Q U A R R Y in Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, resumed operation in 1979 after...inactivity. New excavations, begun in late 1980 as part of an aggressive expansion program by the new operators...operators, the Millington Quarry Company, have made this quarry an important producer of mineral speci­ mens...its way into circulation. Geology The Millington quarry exposes the two lava flows (Figure 3) of the Third
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Natural History New York, New York 10024 The Triassic traprock quarries of New Jersey have been a prolific...supplement previous publications dealing with New Jersey traprock* minerals, especially those of Manchester...(1931) cites more than 40 traprock localities in New Jersey. This article focuses on the Bergen Hill occurrence...Lower New Street quar­ ries, Paterson; Warren Brothers quarry, Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry, Upper...Upper Montclair; and the Francisco Brothers quarry, Great Notch (Fig. 1). Several important diabase localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
first Wailchung sill of Northern New Jersey, the Houdaille Industries Quarry located 1.7 miles northwest of...of Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey, produces few specimensof interest to the collector.A visit...visit to the quarry in early summer of 1960in company with Mr. Gene Vitali of North Haledon, N. J., produced...reported from New Jersey localities. The Houdaille Quarry, commonly called the Chimney Rock quarry, is an oval...including the Watchung sills, plus descriptions of New Jersey trap minerals, appearsin Mason (1). Current quarrying
Book
decade, however, the need has been growing for a new, comprehensive index. Because the 14-year index suffered... Consequently, it was our decision to prepare a new index which is cumulative back to volume 1, fully...the 14-year index, and which is organized on a new plan. Nevertheless, all readers and users of the...the last ten years, and which has inspired this new effort. The current 25-year index is divided into...appears n Brief descriptive note, as in "What's New in Minerals?" p Photograph or other illustration
Report (volume)
about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five tunes the combined production and...than 80,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...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
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67 B. Section B:...Section D: Occurrences located in the Newark basin, New Jersey . .99 E. Section E: Occurrences located in the...occurrence, deposit mineralogy and paragenesis, host rock lithology and age, and metal associations is presented...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2
Report (volume)
.. New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.................. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five times the combined production and...than 86,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green acicular...then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times. The level of...Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny crystals at the Chimney Rock quarry, Somerset County...County, New Jersey. Dark emerald-green, acicular brochantite crystals are reported from Cornwall, Lebanon...Lebanon County (Gordon 1922); brochantite associated with langite and posnjakite occurs in the Ecton mine
Journal (issue)
epitaxiaal op babingtoniet • Trap rock en mineralen van New Jersey, USA Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen... epitactisch gegroeid op babingtoniet van New Jersey, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt U elders...van de Manassas groeve, Prince William County, Virgiania, USA. SEM opname en copyright Thomas Ambruster...d'Ottré 64-68 Geomorphologie fluviatile - suite 4 * ROCK AND MINERALS 80(1), 02.05 10-38 Minerals of China...Smoky quartz and associated minerals from Blue Hill quarry, Oberon, NSW, Australia 53-57 The mineralogy of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
first Wailchung sill of Northern New Jersey, the Houdaille Industries Quarry located 1.7 miles northwest of...of Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey, produces few specimensof interest to the collector.A visit...visit to the quarry in early summer of 1960in company with Mr. Gene Vitali of North Haledon, N. J., produced...reported from New Jersey localities. The Houdaille Quarry, commonly called the Chimney Rock quarry, is an oval...including the Watchung sills, plus descriptions of New Jersey trap minerals, appearsin Mason (1). Current quarrying
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite, fluorite, and quartz and those characterized...phenomenal specimens in major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped...crystallized-silver south of Sing Sing Prison in New specimens are well known from the Caribou York; at...wiry masses on white barite crystals Bridgewater copper mines, New Jerfrom the White Raven mine, Ward district...has been found in Boulder County (Raines 1992). Locally New Jersey trap-rock quarries, abundant was silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...recently-completed study has verified the existence of a new mineral, galeite, which has been found only in Searles...main plant at nearby Trona. Verification of the new mineral was made through joint efforts by Adolph...215, East Hampton, Conn. "I visited the Slocum quarry, (East Hampton) last week. Brownish-black crystals...quartz. INDIANA—One of America's largest gypsum mines, a new operation started only a few months ago (see
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bornite, chalcocite, tetrahedrite. chalcophyllite, gypsum, libethenite, calcite, barite, chrysocolla, sphalerite...Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick, New Jersey; the...the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania; the upper...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County, Virginia; and copper mines in Guilford, Mecklenburg
Journal (issue)
Switzerland photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York designed by Wendell E. Wilson Mineraiogical...Associated Secondary Minerals at Chimney Rock Quarry, Bound Brook, New J e rs e y ............................................................ 32 What’s New in Minerals?.......................................the topic at hand, I am troubled a bit when I see new, frequently impressionable collectors influenced...inadvertently or in­ tentionally channel most of the new collector’s energies into the quest for ribbons,
Report (volume)
Argillaceous limestone (cement rock)........:........'......... Cement rock of the Lehigh district....................... . Cement rock in other parts of the United States ........ Pure hard limestones.......................................... Addition of gypsum ..................................................... 116 San Diego County .................................... 116 Orange County........................ 117 Los Angeles County .................................. 117. San Benito County .................
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)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...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...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...438 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1
Report (volume)
............... Argillaceous limestones (cement rock)....................... Pure hard limestones...................................... 116 San Diego County............................................. 116.... 117 Los Angeles County...:...................................... 117 Kern County.................................................... 117 San Benito County. .......................................... 118..... 118 Sonoma County............................................... 119 Shasta County...............
Book (volume)
Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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
Report (volume)
........................:................... New Jersey: The Griggstown, N. J., copper deposit, by Walter... Esrneralda County, by J. E. Spurr ................................................. New Mexico: Coal...Coal fields of the White Mountain region, New Mexico, by Cassius A: ' Fisher..............................southeastern margin of the Wilmore Basin, Cambria County, by Charles Butts ............................... Clinton County, by M. L. Fuller.............. Oil and gas fields of eastern Greene County, by Ealph
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Bessudnova Minerals of the Millington quarry, Somerset, New Jersey.......................................Mineralogy of the calcite-fluorite veins near Long Lake, New Y o r k ...........................................time they break open a vuggy chunk of mineralized rock. Elite collecting involves an element of extreme...mine Himalaya mine Hollister Jamestown mine Jensen Quarry Little Three mine Mesa Grande District Orestimba
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which includes this carbonatite, a rare igneous rock composed predominantly of calcite. Crater of Diamonds...com/. Diamonds are weathering out of an unusual rock called a lamproite, part of the Prairie Creek diatreme...mountainside. Quartz Collecting: There are several rock shops on US-270 between Hot Springs and Mount Ida...can pay for entrance to spend a day in a quartz quarry. Information and a few of the locations can be...Pennsylvanian Pounds Sandstone. Cave-In-Rock: 1 New State Park Road, Cave-in-Rock, 62919; http://www.dnr.illinois
 
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