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Sphalerite from
Braen Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite3 photos of Sphalerite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Prehnite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Braen Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:270468
Long-form Identifier:1:3:270468:5
GUID (UUID V4):dd2bb7b7-2590-4d54-8af6-272e5c72bc6c
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
1.9km (1.2 miles) Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Lower New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Riverside Quarry, Woodland Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) Union Building and Construction Quarry, Woodland Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) Francisco Brothers Quarry, Great Notch, Little Falls Township, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
18.4km (11.4 miles) Riker Hill, Livingston, Livingston, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
21.2km (13.2 miles) Interstate 95 and George Washington Bridge Lower Level roadcut, Fort Lee, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) Laurel Hill, Secaucus, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
22.7km (14.1 miles) Bulls Ferry Road, North Bergen, North Bergen Township, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
25.2km (15.6 miles) Erie Railroad cut (Bergen archways), Bergen Hill, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
References
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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...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...Lower New Street quarries at Paterson (Peters et al. 1980) and quarries at Prospect Park, Passaic County
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FELLOWS Peter Bancroft The Braen Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey . . . . . . . . . ...announcement made at the end of the August 3 “what’s new in the mineral world” installment on our website...stopped for a minor traffic infraction by a Pima County Sheriff’s Deputy while driving home from work....Tanzania, and gained fame for his discovery of the new gem grossular variety tsavorite in 1967. In 1968...States for identification by the GIA Gem Trade Lab in New York. When his mines were nationalized by the Tanzanian
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Figure 1. The stellerite fissure in the Dyer quarry: (a) as discovered, (b) close-up view, (c) after...sixties when he was a college student. By respecting quarry rules, keeping his MSHA (Mine Safety Health Administration)...indemnify quarry owners in case of an accident, he has been able to earn the trust of a number of quarry managers...August 2015 he made a find at the Dyer trap-rock quarry of what have proven to be the best stellerite specimens...beds. Some of the basalt magma that was forming the new ocean floor also pushed into these basins. If this
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Albanese • Recent Deep Core Drilling at Limecrest Quarry • Lunar Mineral Discovered at Taylor Road Site...SECRETARY Tema J. Hecht 600 West 111TH Street, Apt. 11 B New York, NY 10025 (212) 749-5817 (Home) (917) 903-4687...Limecrest Quarry, Sparta, New Jersey, Richard A. Volkert 10 Lunar Mineral Found at Franklin, New Jersey...Albanese Recent Deep Core Drilling at Limecrest Quarry Lunar Mineral Discovered at Taylor Road See can...community that pertain to the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey area. Members are encouraged to submit articles
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SECRETARY TEMA J. HECHT 600 West 111th Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 H: 212-749-5817 C: 917-903-4687 thecht@att.... . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The 42nd Annual New Jersey Earth Science Association Gem & Mineral Show...community that pertain to the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey, area. Members are encouraged to submit articles...BY TEMA J. HECHT 600 WEST 111TH STREET, APT. 11B NEW YORK, NY 10025 thecht@att.net SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER...Franklin Middle School, Washington St., Franklin, New Jersey. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Saturday (indoors), 10:00
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SECRETARY Tema J. Hecht 600 West 111TH Street, Apt. 11 B New York, NY 10025 (212) 749-5817 (Home) (917) 903-4687...Richard A. Volkert Clinochlore From the Franklin, New Jersey Taylor Road Site, James R. Rumrill 17-18 Unaltered...community that pertain to the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey area. About the Front Cover Featured on the...Hauck 1947-2010 Tema J. Hecht 600 West 111th Street New York, NY 10025 thecht@att.net If you knew Patti,...co-founder Ethel Packard "Sunny" Cook. The lad is new FOMS member Josh Macmillan, grandson of editor Fred
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Secretary Tema J. Hecht 600 West 111th Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 H: (212) 749-5817 C: (917) 903-4687...community that pertain to the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey, area. Members are encouraged to submit articles...Franklin Middle School, Washington St., Franklin, New Jersey. 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Saturday (indoors), 10:00...Meeting and Lecture Franklin Mineral Museum: The New Jersey Zinc Company, and the Lehigh and Hudson River...permitted on the Mine Run Dump and in the Fill Quarry, Passaic Pit, and “Saddle” area. For museum members
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c m N • “Foreign Minerals” at Franklin, ew Jersey • Hardystonite Fro t e esert View Mine, Cali ornia...ornia • Fluores ent rossular Fro Franklin, ew Jersey – pdate www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking...SECRETARY TEMA J. HECHT 600 West 111th Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 H: 212-749-5817 C: 917-903-4687 thecht@att...INC. ditors “Foreign Minerals” at Franklin, New Jersey, John L. Baum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10... . . 18 Fluorescent Grossular From Franklin, New Jersey – An Update, Herb Yeates and Earl R. Verbeek
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• Geology of the Hamburg Quarry • A rare mineral discovered in the New Jersey Highlands • How to Photoshop®...SECRETARY Tema J. Hecht 600 West 111TH Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 (212) 749-5817 (Home) (917) 903-4687...Calcite-Apatite-Pyroxene Occurrence at Hamburg Quarry: A Bancroft Terrane Style Vein-Dike? Warren Cummings...Kornerupine: A Rare and Unusual Mineral in the New Jersey Highlands, Richard A. Volkert .................community that pertain to the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey area. Members are encouraged to submit articles
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SECRETARY TEMA J. HECHT 600 West 111th Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 H: 212-749-5817 C: 917-903-4687 thecht@att...WHITTINGTON Fluorescent Chrysotile From Sterling Hill, New Jersey, James Van Fleet and Earl R. Verbeek, PhD. ....Previously Undocumented Occurrence at Franklin, New Jersey, Mark Boyer, Paul F. Carr, PhD, and Earl R. Verbeek...community that pertain to the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey, area. Members are encouraged to submit articles...BY TEMA J. HECHT 600 WEST 111TH STREET, APT. 11B NEW YORK, NY 10025 thecht@att.net SATURDAY, MARCH 16
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distribution in the Orange Mountain Basalt, Paterson, New Jersey ...............................................Natural History Museum, Bob was an early adopter of new technology, and was largely responsible for bringing...endless analysis of two unknown phases from Merehead Quarry, took up much of his time. Eventually, with the...collaborators these phases were characterised as the new minerals parkinsonite and mereheadite. Readers of...curator. His work in the Mendips, and at the Merehead quarry in particular, was honored by the naming of a pink
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SECRETARY TEMA J. HECHT 600 West 111th Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 H: 212-749-5817 C: 917-903-4687 thecht@att...Mineral Species Found at Franklin and Ogdensburg, New Jersey, FMM Species List Committee . . . . . . . . ...community that pertain to the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey, area. over One of the “Parker shaft” rarities:...Lecture: Mining (Something Other Than Zinc) in Sussex County, by Bernard Kozykowski SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER...Franklin Middle School, Washington St., Franklin, New Jersey. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Saturday (indoors) 10:00 am
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SECRETARY Tema J. Hecht 600 West 111TH Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 (212) 749-5817 (Home) (917) 903-4687............................................4-5 New Jersey Earth Science Association Show, April 25-26,...18-20 How Did a Group of Specimens From Franklin, New Jersey End Up in an Attic in Rocky Mount, North Carolina...Long-Held Secrets From Precambrian Rocks of the New Jersey Highlands, Richard A. Volkert and Fred Young...Assemblage From the Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey, Philip M. Persson .........................
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SECRETARY Tema J. Hecht 600 West 111th Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 (212) 749-5817 thecht@att.net TREASURER...Collecting at the Taylor Road Dump, Franklin, New Jersey, October 16, 2010, Steven M. Kuitems, DMD 14...Lowell 17 Fluorescent Grossular From Franklin, New Jersey, Earl R. Verbeek, PhD, and Paul F. Carr, PhD...Gilbert Totten: An Early Collector of Franklin, New Jersey, Minerals, Erich Grundel 25 Recollections of...community that pertain to the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey, area. JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN..ENS.. MINERALOGICAL
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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...exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
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edu TEMA J. HECHT 600 West 111th Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 H: (212) 749-5817 C: (917) 903-4687... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Scenes From the New Jersey Earth Science Association Gem & Mineral Show...Precambrian Rocks of the Trenton Prong Part of the New Jersey Highlands?, Richard A. Volkert, PhD. . . . ....1939. Upon graduation, he was employed by the New Jersey Zinc Company (NJZ), where he became Resident...community that pertain to the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey, area. Members are encouraged to submit articles
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...MINERALS AND GEMS Russell P. MacFall THOMAS Y. New CROWELL COMPANY York ! Established 1834 Copyright...Boscardin. published in Italy in 1973 by Fratelli New Fabbri Editori. material has been added for this
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100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...AND Russell P. MacFall THOMASY. CROWELLCOMPANY New York Established 1834 Copyright © 1975 by Thomas...published 1n Italy In 1973 by Fratell1 Fabbri Ed1ton New material has been added for this American ed1t1on...translated and adapted with American examples to a new audience In his preface to the Italian edition Vincenzo...easier for you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary
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Mines. New Hampshire: New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development. New Jersey: Bureau...Geology and ·ropography, '\ew Jersey Division of Natural Resources. New York: New York State Museum and Science...___ _ 465 New Hampshire, by Avery H. Reed _______ __ ____ ____________ _ _ 479 New Jersey, by Donald..._________________________ _ 1,8] New Mexico, by Roman V. Sondermayer _____ ___ ___ __ _______ _ _ 491 New York, by E. Chin...measured as recovered metal and valued at the average New York price for metal. The weight or volume units
 
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