 | | 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) | | Finds at the Famous Prospect Park Quarry Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey All specimens self-collected...noted JAMES S. ZIGRAS 171 Arundel Road Paramus, New Jersey 07652 jzigras@hotmail.com MATTHEW L. GORRING...Studies Montclair State University Montclair, New Jersey 07043 gorringm@mail.montclair.edu Figure 1. Locality...Locality map, by William Besse. he Prospect Park quarry has been producing fine mineral specimens for...minerals it is possibly the most significant trap-rock quarry in the world. Not many localities can boast fine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | yellow-green fluorescence characterizes some New Jersey datolite. Datolite is commonly seen in monoclinic...anhydrite and glauberite are well known from several New Jersey localities, and datolite after quartz is reported...States. Here, it is commonly associated with natrolite, analcime, stilbite, heulandite, pectolite, apophyllite...localities such as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite...Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found at the Notch quarry at nearby Amherst |  | | Report (issue) | | Natrolite Na2 Al2 Si3 O10 ² 2H2 O ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...localities, even for ¯ne crystals. From the HÄowenegg quarry, Hegau, Baden-WÄ u rttemberg, Germany. At Puy de...near Veyre, Puy-de-D^o me, France. In the Dean quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England...the USA, at Bergen Hill, Hudson Co., at Prospect Park, Passaic Co., and in the Chimney Rock quarry, Bound...Bound Brook, Passaic Co., New Jersey; from north of Livingstone, Park Co., Montana; around Spring¯eld |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | or diabases and pillow basalts of northeastern New Jersey. It has been collected here since the first half...include calcite, stilbite, heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, chabazite...analcime crystals to 5 cm across associated with natrolite sprays, calcite, pectolite, apophyllite, and pale...Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad cuts and tunnels in the Jersey City...Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected from many localities in Passaic County |  | | Journal (issue) | | babingtoniet • Trap rock en mineralen van New Jersey, USA Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen vzw Oprichtingsdatum... 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...10-18/9-17 h. Beurs (M). GB SUNBURY-ON-THAMES. Kempton Park Racecourse. 10-18/10-17 h. >info@rockngem.co.uk>...10-17/12-17 h. Beurs (M). SURGERES (17). Salle Castel-Park. Beurs (M-F). SAINT-ETIENNE (42). Salle Louis Aragon |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | related minerals. Localities of thls type in New Jersey and neighboring states provided consistently...reniform masses often associated with apophyllite, natrolite, chabazite, and stilbite and commonly bearing...labels featuring such localities as Paterson, New Jersey, or Centreville, Virginia. Recently, however...in Paterson, Prospect Park, Lambertville, Bergin Hill, and other localities in Passaic, Somerset, Essex...Essex, and Hudson Counties, New Jersey (Schaller 1932; Mason 1960). Prehnite specimens to 1.8 meters across |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals In The New Jersey Traprocks By GARDINER GREGORY Lee Avenue School, Hicksville, L. I., N. Y .... There are two areas in New Jersey that are world famous for their minerals. One is the Franklin &...& Sterling Hill area in Sussex County which is famous for its large number of minerals, about 180 in number...extending from Somerville in Somerset County to Paterson in Passaic County. This area is noted for its fine...heulandite, stilbite, laumontite, thomsonite, natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, and their associated minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY Downloaded by [The Aga Khan University] at 04:47 09 October 2014 MARTIN...Department of Physics The College of New Jersey Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718 @@F]()& P n Analcime...crystal forms displayed by some of the Millington quarry minerals, based on drawings in Klein and Hurlburt...Triassic Passaic Formation Precambrian Rocks Figure 3. Location map and genMillington Quarry era1 geology...Town quarry area. Map compiled from Cummings (1985) and Lewis and Kummel(1912). Millington quarry is situated |  | | Journal (issue) | | J. Dunn Famous Mineral Localities: Paterson, New Jersey................157 by Thomas A. Peters, Joseph....................................... 132 What’s New in Minerals?.......................................n . photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York designed by Wendell E. Wilson Mineralogical...receive additional grants we would rather use them for new projects instead of reprinting old ones. We are content...“Descriptive Mineralogy: Discovery and Characterization of New Minerals.” Papers are solicited for both the general |  | | 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, |  | | Book | | Tudith L. Vozza F. Silva Printing Palisades Park, New Tersey l L r This book is dedicated 11 to...Jerry Furia of "Fur:y Camera & Sound" in Dumont, New Jersey for their technical assistance with the photography...70 MESOLITE 71 MORDENITE (PTILOLITE) 75 NATROLITE 78 OFFRETITE 84 PAULINGITE 86 PHILLIPSITE... LOCATIONS: UIS 1.A.. NEW' JERSEY Bergen Hill, Snake Hill, Paterson, New Street Quarries, Upper Montclair...MICHIGAN Houghton County, Park Cowlitz County, Keeneenan Highwood Mts. County CANADA NOVASCOTIA |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NEW JERSEY-A ROCKHOUND'S PARADISE New Jersey is not a large state, but within its borders lie many...of the minerals found in New Jersey: Native Elements Graphite—Sussex County Sulfides Sphalerite—Franklin...Phosphates Vivianite—Allentown, Shrewsbury in Monmouth County Silicates Amethyst—Basalt sills Scapolite—Franklin...Hill, Snake Hill, Bergen County Good Heulandite—Watchung Mountains, Prospect Park and Garret Mountain, Paterson...McBride Avenue Quarry Natrolite-Houdaille Quarry, Bound Brook; Snake Hill, Bergen County Mesolite-Many |  | | Book (edition) | | PENNSYLVAN1 A & NEW JERSEY «s m •p ■* ; sms •v ■1 mm D 'A ©F PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY By Scott...Book Co. 315 CLOVERLEAF DRIVE, SUITE F BALDWIN PARK, CA 91706 Copyright © 2000 Gem Guides Book Company...man or nature, Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, its publisher and all other persons directly......... Physiographic Map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 5 6 7 9 10 12 PENNSYLVANIA SITE NO. PAGE...Shelocta Siderite Concretions..... New Paris Fluorite....................... New Enterprise Banded Chert.... |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Jersey's well-known Fanwood and Summit quarries expose the same stratigraphic section and yield many...Summit Quarries, New Jersey WARREN CUMMINGS 225 Beechwood Avenue Trenton, New Jersey 08618 T H E SUMMIT...cut, located in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, formed a major mineral collecting site prior...Construction Materials, the last operator of the quarry, ceased operation in 1977, and since 1983 the pit...Company quarry in the Borough of Watchung, Somerset County—sometimes known as the Scotch Plains quarry, or |  | | Book | | composition was found between the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples...years this has lead to the establishment of many new species that are compositional and structural analogs...Subcommittee for Zeolite Nomenclature of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...evaluating proposed new species, it is difficult to apply them rigidly to accepted species. 1. A new zeolite mineral...must be demonstrated as a condition for approval of new species. Zeolites that have the same framework and | | | Book | | composition was found between the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples...years this has lead to the establishment of many new species that are compositional and structural analogs...Subcommittee for Zeolite Nomenclature of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...evaluating proposed new species, it is difficult to apply them rigidly to accepted species. 1. A new zeolite mineral...must be demonstrated as a condition for approval of new species. Zeolites that have the same framework and |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 A ''New'' Discovery of Philipsbornite and Segnitite Two rare...net In one of my cabinets is an old Prospect Park (New Jersey) specimen from the Joe Cilen Collection...the mystery. (Continues on page 3) ----- 2 A "New" Discovery of Philipsbornite and Segnitite (Continued...Diffraction (XRD) confirmed the material as segnitite, new for the locality and quite similar in appearance...(XRD)confumed that the mineral was, indeed, philipsbornite, new for the locality and likely for the U.S. as well |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...R, Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur..................375 by V. Ghiurca & A. Motiu Natrolite arches from Simmon's Bay, Australia..................................................389 What's New in Minerals?.......................................for the Tucson Show, but it’s a possibility. 354 NEW GLOSSARY COMING! The fifth edition of Fleischer’s |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA ‘Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Department...Institute, Unive~ity of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA (Received Febrzlary6, 1989; accepted in r~vi~~d~r~...chabazite, clinoptilolite, laumontite, mordenite, and natrolite. Zeolites were dehydrated by heating under high...to 25.8%), two soil clinoptilolites (31%), one natrolite ( 18.2%0), and one mordenite ( 17%) may indicate...indicate that the channel waters in analcime and natrolite are related to meteoric waters at the sample site |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Paterson, New Jersey area is one of the best known sources of unusual mineral specimens in the world...in Paterson,New by R O B E R T J . NARSAVAGE J R . 51 Van Orden Place Clifton, New Jersey 07011 Every...out of the traprock quarries of the Paterson, New Jersey area. In recent years these prize pieces have...books bring to mind such names as Upper New Street and Lower New Street Quarries, Paterson; and the West...areas; the Great Notch areas, McLean's Quarry, and Prospect Park Quarry. What is the status of these sites |
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Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA