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Milky Quartz from
Quartz locality, Moosup, Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Quartz var: Milky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Comments:Voids of all sizes host subparallel, prismatic quartz on the walls, which grew from grains in the brecciated quartzite. Crystals can be colorless and clear or milky with parasitic "corn-cob" crystals. Scepter overgrowths also occur. Crystals can reach 8 cm.
Habit:short to elongated prisms, scepter overgrowths
Colour:milky white
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Extremely common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Milky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Quartz locality, Moosup, Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:47800
Long-form Identifier:1:3:47800:7
GUID (UUID V4):f32e2a88-0c6f-4882-a4b7-c4ffffe238cd
Nearest other occurrences of Milky Quartz
2.3km (1.4 miles) Moosup, Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
33.3km (20.7 miles) Diamond Hill (Ashaway Village), Ashaway, Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
42.8km (26.6 miles) Salem, New London County, Connecticut, USA
43.6km (27.1 miles) Lynch Quarry (Quinn Quarry), Berkeley, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
44.8km (27.8 miles) Bonnet Shores, Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
48.2km (29.9 miles) Diamond Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
49.8km (31.0 miles) Diamond Ledge (West Stafford quartz locality; Stafford Springs quartz locality), Stafford, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
52.2km (32.4 miles) Sheldonville Gold Mine (Wrentham Gold Mine), Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
60.7km (37.7 miles) Case Quarries, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
62.4km (38.8 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
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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.............
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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