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Calcite from
Olmstedville, Minerva Township, Essex County, New York, USA


Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Graphite2 photos of Calcite associated with Graphite at this locality.
Apatite1 photo of Calcite associated with Apatite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Olmstedville, Minerva Township, Essex County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:348559
Long-form Identifier:1:3:348559:0
GUID (UUID V4):64a6ccc6-3e9f-4c53-97bb-ea1e3f707ce2
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
12.1km (7.5 miles) Tahawus Mine access railroad cut, Minerva, Minerva Township, Essex County, New York, USA
17.7km (11.0 miles) Armstrong farm (Johnsburg Village), Johnsburg Township, Warren County, New York, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Brandt Lake, Horicon township, Warren County, New York, USA
30.6km (19.0 miles) Newcomb Township, Essex County, New York, USA
32.3km (20.1 miles) Sanford Hill Body (Sanford Mine), Town of Newcomb (Tahawus), Essex County, New York, USA
32.3km (20.1 miles) McIntyre Mine (National Lead Company Mine), Town of Newcomb (Tahawus), Essex County, New York, USA
40.6km (25.2 miles) Lead Hill Mines (Chilson Hill Mine), Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga Township, Essex County, New York, USA
42.4km (26.4 miles) Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga Township, Essex County, New York, USA
50.1km (31.1 miles) Champlain Graphite Company Mine, Dresden Township, Washington County, New York, USA
50.1km (31.2 miles) Cascade Slide, Cascade Mountain, Keene Township, Essex County, New York, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VRAM 84(6) #428658 Holdover The Graphites of New York SCIENTIFIC AND AESTHETIC SURPRISES Downloaded...University of Technology] at 06:28 15 August 2013 New York State hosts graphite deposits that have been historically...Center for Mineralogy 3140 CEC New York State Museum Albany, New York 12230 sccham2@yahoo.com GEORGE...rosettes from Leib’s Moonstone mine, Bloomingdale, Essex County. This specimen (8 cm across), collected by Schuyler...Schuyler Alverson in the late 1960s, is now in the New York State Museum (NYSM 21228) and is considered by
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mineralogy at Michigan Technological University. A native New Yorker, he has had a lifelong interest in the minerals...of the state and is a research associate at the New York State Museum. 458 ROCKS & MINERALS Dr. Steven...minerals of New York State and is coordinator of the Center for Mineralogy at the New York State Museum...University] at 04:12 29 December 2014 The GEMS of NEW YORK State J ust what constitutes a gemstone has...such as opal, aquamarine, or tourmaline. Although New York State is not known for its traditional precious
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse. MAJOR NEW YORK STATE M I N E...E R A L LOC A L I T I E S N ew York State is rich in minerals of interest to collectors. A number of...Dana 1877, 1892). Herbert P. Whitlock published a New York State list in 1903. The most recent comprehensive...localities in the state is the book Minerals of New York State by David Jensen, published in 1978. Our...Mode of Occurrence Most mineral localities in New York can be categorized into three groups based on
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she will take over the job of curator at a new "Tri-County Mineral Museum" at Spruce Pine, N . C , an...localities in the Adirondack Mts. of northern New York. The tour was taken in the summer of 1961. One...and diopsides. This specimen was found in Olmstedville (Essex Co.), N . Y. I also came 'back loaded with...hunk of xline limestone which we picked up in Olmstedville. This limestone was loaded with brown sphene...sphene, green diopside, black graphite, and whitish calcite. Grace Golat 299 Clinton Ave. Newark 8, N . J.
Book
MtN€RfllS of New Vork Stole David €. Jensen Includes 16 pages of minerals in full color jgS0% MIN6RRLS... MIN6RRLS of New Vork State David E. Jensen up WARD PRESS Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc...Inc. Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David E. Jensen All rights reserved...mining distri* Adirondack Mou somed into a lifet New York State. While obtainu University of Roc Science...Kay Preface This report on the Minerals of New York State is partially a sum­ mary of published knowledge
Report (volume)
SCALE OP HARDNESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase...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
Book
T TLIBRAr 3 1223 90016 3958 of New York State David E. Jensen .. . , ,,, Includes 16 pages of...Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn Yan, New York...blossomed into a lifetime interest in the minerals of New York State. While obtaining his M.S. in geology at...the outline of New York State is LABRADORJTE from the Saranac Lake area. of New York State David E....Natural Science Establishment, Inc . • Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David
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····························905 VESUVIANITE CRYSTALS FROM ESSEX COUNTY, N. Y. By E. B. Rou iey 906 MONAZITE OCCURRENCE...n:adable. Practically every item 11ffereNew Curator for Chicago Museum sale has its own illustration...Vir- wanrt:d. Peter Zodac ginia, N ew Jersey, New York and some of the N ew England states. A highlight...and one by J. J. Glass and others, ldocrase from New Mexico, Am. Mineral. Vol. 29, May-June 1944. Rock1...Hoadley mentions idocrase at EdenvilJe and Amity, New York. Dr. Frederick H. Pough reports that in the VESUVIANITE
Book (volume)
species. And for those interested in discovering new deposits, the geology and mineralogy of sources is...Volumes Volume | JOHN SINKANKAS [aN] VAN New NOSTRAND York Cincinnati REINHOLD Toronto COMPANY London...Educational Publishing, Inc. 450 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001 Van Nostrand Reinhold Limited 1410...eg Ow a Ne Sarah PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION The quantity of new information accumulated since publication...such new information in a second volume. [hus the present book becomes V olume I. while the new information
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GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 ct), Illinois; square...Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...established by Dr. George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Company, New York City, whose famous Gems and Precious Stones ofNorth
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MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright © 1975...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable...the developer's bulldozer obliterates other sites, new ones are discovered. Books and thetic and scientific
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Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York. Am. Jour. Botany-American Journal of Botany....Pa. Am. Jour. Sci.-American Journal of Science. New Haven, Conn. . Am. Mineralogist--American Mineralogist...BulL-American Museum of Natural History Bulletin. New York. Am. Petroleum Inst. Rept. Progress-American Petroleum...Philadelphia. Am. Scientist-American Scientist. New Haven, Conn. Am. Soc. Testing Materials Special Tech...Jour.-American Water Works Association Journal. New York. Arctic. Montreal. Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull., Geol
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of Volume I of this work in 1959, the amount of new information that has accumulated is so large and...deposits been profitably reopened, but extensive new primary sources ha\"e been discovered all over the...and quality have been found, as well as entirely new species. Recent mineralogical analyses have yielded...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...Sinkankas ~ ~ VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY New York Cincinnati Toronto London Melbourne Copyright©
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American Petroleum Institute, geoGeological horizons, new approaches, education:Shrock, logical research program:...Mexico, Paricutin ash deposits, Ore detection by new devices: facies: Dorf, E., 1. Bilicke, W. Petroleum... K., 4. J. T., Jr., 3. Paleofacies, geologist's new Genetics: Ebbutt, F. tool: Philpott, T. H., 1. Geological...L., 1. Landform interpretation, stereoSearch for new mining districts: Nolan, T. B., 1. pairs: Powers...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:
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Captain, LINE DRAWINGS [NE VAN New AND DIAGRAMS NOSTRAND York U.S. Navy, (Ret.) Cincinnati BY... Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Regional Offices: New York Cincinnati Chicago Millbrae Dallas Van Nostrand...Educational Publishing, Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 To the late Peter Zodac for a lifetime...Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and by David New and Scott J. Williams of the Southwest Scientific...the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections
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INC. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY TORONTO LONDON VAN NosTRAJ'\D R£GlONAL OFFICES: New York, Chicago, San Francisco...Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and by David New and Scott J. Willia1ns of the Southwest Scientific...the outstanding sho,vs of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...D.C., American Museu1n of Natural History, Ne,v York, and the l\1ineralogical Museum of Harvard University...Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, New York, Schortmann's l\finerals, Easthampton, Massachusetts
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upon the use of the ultraviolet light, a relatively new piece of equipment for the study of mineralogy and...its present secondary status. Some suggestions of new tests will be found in the testing section of the...Sulphosalts The Oxides The Halides The Carbonates Calcite Group Aragonite Group The Nitrates The Borates...Cubic Crystal Habit Dominantly Octahedral Phantom Calcite Showing Habit Change with Later Growth Plates...Covellite, Pyrite (cube), Pyrite (pyritohedron) , : 9 Calcite, Rhodochrosite, Smithsonite, Aragonite, Aurichalcite
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and blowpipe tests for further information. Many new and relatively simple tests are described by Dr....Minerals the text has been completely reset; several new minerals have been added and the localities of occurrence...continue to be an important feature of this guide. Many new color photographs have been added as well as a plate...Sulfosalts The Oxides The Halides The Carbonates Calcite Group Aragonite Group Other Carbonates The Nitrates...rystal habit dominantly octahedral 33. 34. Phantom calcite showing habit change with later growth Additional
Report (volume)
remain the same in each issue of the bibliography, new ones are included and others are discontinued as...the layman. Rock names and areas; restricted to new or unusual rocks or detailed descriptions. Special...are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...of Technical Papers; Mining Branch Abstracts. New York. A.I.M.E. Trans. American Institute of Mining
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Peterson Institute HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Boston New 1996 COMPANY York J Text and illustrations copyright ...Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003 PETERSON FIELD GUIDES and PETERSON...out, particularly once-promising Mexican sources. New areas in Russia, Africa, and Asia have become significant...prices to levels that older collectors find shocking. New species have been described by the dozens in recent...justify their inclusion. Diaspore and boracite, new to this edition, are examples. The rise in interest
 
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