| | 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............. | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | A Famous Quartz Locality Rediscovered The Ohio Mine, Ouray County, Colorado The Ohio mine, a lost locality...recently has again been the source of large milky quartz crystal groups from a cavern in the Leadville...a 75-foot tunnel driven along an unmineralized quartz vein that passes through the northern edge of a...no further work was done after that time. Large milky Figure 4: View of the Amphitheater located on...of the glacial cirque. Photo by Tom Rosemeyer. quartz crystal groups were recovered and sold, but informa | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | The Cliff-Hanger Pocket, the Amphitheater, Ouray County, Colorado Figure 1. View of the Cliff-Hanger pocket...Stoufer. Mark Vendl photo, May 2006. S uperb milky quartz crystals occur in solution cavities and fissure...groups rank these occurrences as some of the best milky quartz specimens in the world. The Amphitheater, a...and strikes N. 75°–80° W. Major discoveries of milky quartz crystals that have been made in the limestone...Library] at 03:22 29 December 2014 Figure 4. A superb quartz crystal from the upper Cliff-Hanger pocket. The | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | amazonite, the many varieties and associations of quartz found throughout the state rank it as one of the...for about 750 known mineral species.* Of these, quartz is one of the most desirable from a collector's...100-Year Record (Eckel, 1961). 374 ROCKS & MINERALS Quartz was a familiar gemstone to many early Colorado...list of Colorado mineral localities (in cluding quartz) was included in Hollister's The Mines of Colorado...September/October 1991 375 field collector with many quartz localities to investigate. Michalski (1984) reviewed | | | Journal (issue) | Newsletter $3.00 The Rock Dam Gold Prospect A New Quartz Locality, Dickinson Co., Mich~g_an Shawn M. Carlson...Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...themselves are thoroughly unglamorous, yielding neither quartz crystals nor any noteworthy accessory minerals...prospects, Bayley (1904) states that, "some of these quartz veins contain small quantities of free gold, as | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Colorado 81427 rmerneyer@winet.net S uperb milky quartz crystals occur in solution cavities and fissure...Leadville Limestone at various localities in Ouray County, Colorado. The arrangements of the crystal groups...the occurrences among the best in the world for milky quitrtz specimens. Geology and Ore Deporlk The...crop out at Ouray, Colorado, comprise the type locality for the Ouray Limestone. Kindle (1909) recognized...commercial ore deposits. The Leadville Limestone (type locality at Leadville, Colorado) averages 235 feet thick | | | Book | AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...crystals of edingtonite were first found in 1978. The locality has yielded lustrous, tabular crystals of ilmenite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | and Sceptered Quartz Localities Washington is well known for world-class specimens of quartz, many of which...for its specimens of quartz. These include some spectacular clusters of quartz crystals asso ciated...with fibrous dravite, and high-quality colorless quartz scepters and amethyst scepters. On a worldwide...of quartz are frequently found in some of the quartz deposits of western Washington. Good quartz crystals...sceptered crystals, are most common in the quartz localities in King County. Most de posits are in explosion | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | specimen (E1900) from the Forest Queen mine, Gunnison County, Colorado, consists of ruby silver and arsenopyrite...the state, including Aspen, Leadville, Gunnison County, Cripple Creek, and the San Juan Mountains. There...of the Forest Queen mine, near Irwin, Gunnison County, Colorado; ca. 1880–1890. Fred Fuller is seated...Forest Queen mine, Irwin, Ruby district, Gunnison County, and consists of ruby silver and arsenopyrite replacing...labeled as coming from the Miser’s Dream mine, Ouray County, Colorado. This mine was the only drift of any | | | Book (volume) | enormous variety and wealth of locality information concerning quartz gemstones are recognized in a separate...which provides a quick method of referring to any locality in the book. JS: Arlington, Virginia. June,...Geological Survey of Canada, while specific Canadian locality information was supplied by Dr. Victor Ben Meen...photographs of the Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken | | | Journal (issue) | . 68 Mule Spring, California- A n Interesting Locality for Geodes, Jaspers and A gates. By Wm. C. Chandler...dichroscopes, hardness testiug pencils, Microscope, quartz optic lenses, prisms, Quartzglass apparatus. Addreaa...and stu·e enough, we located an outcropping of milky quartz on the top of a sn1all bill jus t in back of...dike cutting the porphyritic country rock. l\filky quartz, microcline, ortboclase, muscovite, augite, tourmaline...confused jumble. The pegmatite consisted chiefly of quartz and feldspar. occurring in large masses, onl)· | | | Journal (issue) | Topeka-Kentucky Giant and Indiana veins, Ouray County, Colorado........................................the Rose of Itatiaia, or the Van Allen Belt rose quartz. (How many remember it by that name? How many know...have voices; specimen suites from a particular locality h< voices; and, of course, especially for me,...mineralogy with one loose quartz crystal than with the biggest flashiest quartz crystal group the world...all around. Of course many species are ti common— quartz, pyrite, beryl, topaz, garnets, tourmalines, etc | | | Book (volume) | Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . .............................................. 341 Neil A. Wintringham Maine Mineral Locality Index ..........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...Bennett pegmatite, agreed to write about that locality. Carl Francis, curator of minerals and meteorites | | | Book | 22092 573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute... V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types................Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines................ 2 Garland County quartz deposits......................... Miller Mountain Quartz Mine................ Ron Coleman Quartz Mine................................... Saline County quartz deposits........ | | Germann, Klaus, Lüders, Volker, Banks, David A., Simon, Klaus, Hoefs, Jochen (2003) Late Hercynian polymetallic vein-type base-metal mineralization in the Iberian Pyrite Belt: fluid-inclusion and stable-isotope geochemistry (S–O–H–Cl) Mineralium Deposita, 38 (8) 953-967 doi:10.1007/s00126-002-0342-z | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pyrite–chalcopyrite, quartz–galena– sphalerite, quartz–stibnite–arsenopyrite, quartz–pyrite, quartz–cassiterite–scheelite...chalcopyrite, and quartz–manganese oxide mineral assemblages. Studies of fluid inclusions in quartz, stibnite...sources of sulfur and depositional conditions. Quartz–stibnite mineralization formed at temperatures...high-salinity fluid trapped in inclusions in late-stage quartz from Editorial handling: V. Bouchot K. Germann...Göttingen, Germany quartz–stibnite veins remains unclear. By contrast, quartz–galena veins derived | | | Journal (issue) | this mineral district. 240 Acres—12 Claims in Polk County, Arkansas—These claims have a good showing of gold...water—sufficient to float a dredge of any size. GOLD QUARTZ. Two claims, each 1500 by 600 feet—forty acres...Passed a day at South Acworth and visited the beryl locality at William‘s Hill, or Beryl Mt, as it is commonly...large crystals may be seen partly protruding. Rose quartz is abundant here, but not easily obtainable except...Island at least twice last summer. The most prolific locality for minerals I know of so far, is the Dexter Lime | | | Journal (issue) | form ; distinctly banded with such minerals as quartz, feldspar, and pyroxene-amphibole or mica forming...entirely of quartz 1n the form of sand-size particles cemented together with secondary quartz, when rock.... . . . . 10. (a) Concaining quartz . . . . . . . . (b) Without quartz .... . Syenite 6 38 ., 24 ...Basalt 20. (a) Felsites containing quartz. . . (b) Felsices without quartz . . . . 21. (a) Chief feldspar...minerals ... . 26. (a) Contains quartz ......... . (b) Without quartz .......... . . . . . . . . . . Syenite | | | Journal (issue) | p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...Native Copper and Piemontite Localities of Adams County Jay Lininger FEATURES THE EASTERN FEDERATION...Moore's Mill phosphate locality 3.5 miles west of Mt. Holly Springs in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Specimen...Pennsylvania Kline's quarry, Wrightsville , York County, Penn- basis to go mineral collecting, weather...lower section of the quarry after a recent and a quartz phyllite of the Antietam-Harpers forma• blast. | | | Book | C.DAKE FRANK L.FLEENER and BEN HUR WILSON L^ Quartz Family Minerals A Handbook for the Mineral ...described the large family where they may be of quartz minerals found, how to identify them, how to cut...Chapters are devoted to the historical lore of quartz and to the various forms crystalline, massive,... amorphous, etc. in which It commonly occurs. Quartz minerals include many known under other names, such...littp://www.arcliive.org/details/quartzfamilymineOOdake QUARTZ FAMILY MINERALS Section of polished agate, | | | Book | basis, since people take field t r i p s b y locality rather t h - o n a n alphabetical o r m i n e...streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood and other gemstones...hun dreds of dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its | | | Journal (issue) | crystals to come our of this locality. Pyromorphite from on old locality—rhe Sherman mine, Burke, Idaho...S. P. Korowski and C. W. Notebart Quartz & Pyrite from King County, Washington.........................accepted; write if you need specific minerals. QUARTZ HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS W ere easy to find at home...the bedding. The rock is composed of fine-grained quartz, microcline and oligoclase (in places weathered...residual rock-forming minerals (20-40%) such as quartz, iron oxide, tourma line, rutile, and mica (generally | | | Report (issue) | Publisher Lithographie, Ltd. Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria A. Staebler © 2012 Lithographic...Lithographic, Ltd. PO Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone: 1.303.495.5521 • Fax: 1.303.482.1238 W\\w...United States of America PHOTO CREDITS Cover: Quartz variety amethyst, 10.5 cm tall Goboboseb Mountains...collection, Robert Weldon photo © 2009 GIA Page 2 Quartz variety amethyst, 3.5 cm tall Kakamunurle Mine...collection, Marie-Lan Nguyen photo Upper middle: Quartz variety amethyst (Japan-law twin), 1.6 cm tall | | | Report (issue) | other institu tions in Madagascar, Italy, and the USA. Several expeditions have continued the research...watercolor by Valter Fogato Title Page Photos Quartz crystal with hematite from Mangatobangy, IO cm...Munich, Germany P.O Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424 USA Phone l -860-267-1512, Fax 1-860-267-7225 www.lapisint...mineralogy in Madagascar. Translation by Alfredo Petrov (USA), Federico Pezzotta (Italy), GUnther Neumeier (Germany)...WEISE VERLAG, MUNICH; AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL; USA. extraLapis English No. I Madagascar Ores, Gold | | | Journal (issue) | T h e N atural History M useum of Los A ngeles County 487 b y P e te r C K e lle r a n d A n th o n y...articles are also welcome. If you think a particular locality, mineral or mineral-related topic would make an...this is an area in which we are seeking papers. Locality articles have always been a mainstay of the Record...Diego and by Ron Bentley P.O. Box 366 Windsor, Connecticut 06095 I had planned to follow up last issue’s...societies and clubs nam e r*ame: GLAUC0PHANE Locality: L O C A LITY Glaucophane Ridge San Ben it o | | | Book (edition) | characteristics and quality of a mineral at a given locality. Geologists writing about an ore deposit often...determine the characteristics of minerals at the locality if only one or a few specimens were seen, for...available at a locality where only poor quality specimens have been collected. A locality that had produced...could find it difficult in reaching the correct locality. It was not possible to trace all references to...may have been abundant at one time at a given locality, but may not now be available. Often in mining |
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Quartz locality, Moosup, Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut, USA