 | | 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) | | CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • • BERYL MOONSTONE CITRINE GEM...arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized in...quartz amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California...precious variety of beryl. Amethyst and agate geode. Purple or lavender amethyst crystals line cavity, ...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | thick. Wynne, in southern Cross County, is in eastern Arkansas. CONNECTICUT—A tiny but beautiful, black columbite...Road, Weston, Conn. "Columbite, Arnold Quarry, Haddam, Conn. This is an active quarry operated by the...Conn."-—on label. Haddam, in central Middlesex County, is in southern Connecticut. DELAWARE — "Enclosed...of Rt. 95 and Naaman's Rd., Claymont, New Castle County, Del."—item from Ed Carvalho, 1307 Penna. Ave.... ph—phosphoresces Claymont, in N/E New Castle County, is in northern Delaware. ILLINOIS—"Enclosed are |  | | 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...belt of world-famous peg matites along the Connecticut R i v e r in the Eastern Highlands, and ( 3 )...best known Connecticut collecting sites is Thomaston D a m , Thomaston, Litchfield County. Specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia...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...full color. $15- each or both for $25postpaid in USA Excalibur Mineral Corporation 1885 Seminole Trl—Ste |  | | Report (issue) | | find in the famous Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Since showtime, at least some of the...how to dig for zeolites, prehnite, apophyllite, amethyst etc. in the classic basalt traprock quarries of...fairly common in the basalts of New Jersey and Connecticut—but you would be hard put to find more impressive...8.3 cm, from the Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Mineral Classics specimen and photo...cm, from the Red Bird mine, Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada. John Betts Fine Minerals specimen and |  | | 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............. |  | | Report (volume) | | stones that react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cavities of druses which occur in many pegmatites. Amethyst, the purple colored variety of crystalline quartz...with others over three feet in length. Haddam Neck, Connecticut, and from the Mt. Antero region of Colorado...California. Amethyst quartz crystals have been found occasionally at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, to three...three inches in length. Other amethyst crystal localities are near Milan and Berlin, New Hampshire; Deer Hill...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester |  | | 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) | | Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds............................................ 3 Connecticut ...............................................Himalaya pegmatite, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California. Within a narrow pegmatite small anhe-...Claim (Pala View claim), Pala District, San Diego County, California. Jahns and Wright (1951, p.42) only...pegmatite occurrence, Volcan Mountains, San Diego County, California. pegmatite massive pollucite. Only |  | | Journal (issue) | | localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm...Dorado County; 1.5 cm (55) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 8.26 cm (60) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 4.76...Dorado County; 4.29 cm (62) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.22 cm (63) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.54...WEW Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California: shown on the facing page as no. 60 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Club of Class II (Multiple Page) Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, deChips and Facets scribe a field...trip to the petrified wood location in Baldwin County. The Piedmont Prospector cover reminds me of the...Quarry was the recent objective of the St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club, Potsdam, for limestones...August 2017 dary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Rockville, is preparing under the direction of...trip was to Deer Hill, near Stowe, Maine, for amethyst. . . . The Nashoba Valley Mineralogical Society |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz, have you ever seen a natural BLUE, not amethyst, transparent quartz XL? The author has just received...the average diamond. Even a beautiful flawless amethyst has more value than an off-color dull brown cloudy...classed as to type. For instance a clear transparent amethyst of pale color is not to be valued as highly as...medium color because good clear transparent pale amethyst can be obtained on today's market at a fraction...cost of the deeper tones of amethyst. Yet, so history tells us, amethyst once rivaled diamonds for cost |  | | Catalog/List | | fpolished.) 73. h. Hartz. 71. L. Compact. Munroe, Connecticut. (Chlorophane.) der, Heated emits a beautiful...whitish veins and crystals. 75. L. Munroe, Connecticut. Sp. 2. Do. Rhomhohedral Fluor- Haloide. Triv...Marble. Bituminous limestone 169. L. Milford, Connecticut. 160. L. Egypt. MPMMII Var. Marble, Var. ... 163. L. Var. Breccia-marble. West Haven, Connecticut. 164. L. Middlebury, Vermont. 165. L. Mount...mica, and carbonate of lime. 196. L. Southbury, Connecticut. Fibrous limestone, impreg- nated with bitumen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists....when I visited Branchville and Ridgefield, in Connecticut, while my parents were visiting relatives in...apatite. Collecting in Connecticut My next field trip during March was to the Connecticut River Valley dinosaur...the day we spent at Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Did not find anything of value since...through some noted collecting localities in Connecticut in hope of getting him interested in mineral |  | | Catalog/List | | Wheatley's Mines, near, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. An excellent matrix specimen of...3. AZURITE, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona. A superb, large, old-timer of the hest...BERYL variety MORGANITE, Gillette Quarry, Haddam, Connecticut. Possibly the finestof this type of crystal...................................... 1500. 14. AMETHYST QUARTZ, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This is one...object for several years. It is from the famous "amethyst flower" deposits but is not one of the typical |  | | Book | | had access to many quarries in the state of Connecticut. Gem-quality tourmaline crystals had been found...and dealer. Today, in 2008, the only place in Connecticut where such finds can be easily collected is Green’s...COVER: gold on quartz, 4.5 inches tall, Placer County, California Dedication This book is dedicated...Group, Inc., 650 Danbury Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 USA, www.maplegatemedia.com Library of Congress Control...One winter day, this 6-inch-tall, pagoda-shaped amethyst was collected by Cliff Trebilcock while he was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California are noted...Buckfield, and Topsham. The Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, was famous when in operation for its...pocket at the Strickland Quarry, at Portland, Connecticut. California has a large number of gem tourmaline |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals of amethyst and ..eisenk.iesel'· (quartz with intergrown, fine-grained hematite). The amethyst resembles...know if they are from a basalt. I also saw some amethyst from Brandberg in Namibia -you may think ·'so...kiddo", but I bet you never saw that! Stunning amethyst and unusual quartz specimens labeled "Brandberg"...years "Brandberg" has been code for "Goboseb" but amethyst has really been found in Brandberg; a couple of...authors question the locality), Namibian collectors amethyst in Brandberg in the 1960s. and recently (about | | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: the G illette quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut ........................................Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm...Dorado County; 1.5 cm (55) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 8.26 cm (60) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 4.76...Dorado County; 4.29 cm (62) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.22 cm (63) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.54... Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California: shown on the facing page as no. 60 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found quite a few fine cnes, some doubly ter- CONNECTICUT—"A few weeks ago my friend, Mr. David Seaman...material of spessartite (garnet) from Jail Hill, Haddam (Middlesex Co.), Conn. While trimming one of the speci-... Mass. See "Spessartite Garnet from Jail Hill, Haddam, Conn.," by David M. Seaman and Robert P. Gallant...Mr. Smith. MINNESOTA—"I found an agate in Itasca County, Minn., which weighed exactly one pound. It is...pieces weighing four pounds. "Location: — Washington County, Nebr., about 15 miles north of Omaha in a limestone |  | | Report (volume) | | Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Connecticut Gems & Gem Minerals A variety of Connecticut's beautiful gemstones are represented in East...sought as gemstones. I n earlier years, several Connecticut lo calities were successfully mined for gem...Slocum quarry (beryl). Harte (1944) states that "Connecticut has produced a very considerable number of gem...tourmalines." Most gem-quality minerals from Connecticut surfaced dur ing the first half of this century...local museum collections, so fine specimens of Connecticut gem minerals can be seen on display in the geological |  | | 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...described in 1805 from a specimen collected near Haddam. B y 1825, Robinson had ac cumulated enough data...reviews of this mineral list. Dr. Bruce Jarnot, a Connecticut native, has avidly collected both minerals and |
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Gillette Quarry, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA