 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Natural History New York, New York 10024 The Triassic traprock quarries of New Jersey have been a prolific...supplement previous publications dealing with New Jersey traprock* minerals, especially those of Manchester...(1931) cites more than 40 traprock localities in New Jersey. This article focuses on the Bergen Hill occurrence...Lower New Street quar ries, Paterson; Warren Brothers quarry, Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry, Upper...Upper Montclair; and the Francisco Brothers quarry, Great Notch (Fig. 1). Several important diabase localities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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... Associated minerals include calcite, quartz, prehnite, danburite, axinite, garnet, and the zeolites...as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite. Crystals from this...Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found at the Notch quarry at nearby Amherst |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Finds at the Famous Prospect Park Quarry Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey All specimens self-collected...noted JAMES S. ZIGRAS 171 Arundel Road Paramus, New Jersey 07652 jzigras@hotmail.com MATTHEW L. GORRING...Studies Montclair State University Montclair, New Jersey 07043 gorringm@mail.montclair.edu Figure 1. Locality...Locality map, by William Besse. he Prospect Park quarry has been producing fine mineral specimens for...minerals it is possibly the most significant trap-rock quarry in the world. Not many localities can boast fine |  | | Report (issue) | | ======================================ï„ Whatâs New in the Mineral World? Report #28 May 28, 2011 by...noted, and of course there are a few interesting new items as well. And, as has been happening quite a...cabinet-size prehnite specimens from a late 2010 find in the famous Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New...New Jersey. Since showtime, at least some of the prehnites have migrated to Brian and Brett Kosnarâs Mineral...that the Kosnars should have taken over the Prospect Park treasures, as their late father Richard, although |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | related minerals. Localities of thls type in New Jersey and neighboring states provided consistently...Consequently, most collectors are familiar with prehnite, typically as pale green botryoidal or reniform...Paterson, New Jersey, or Centreville, Virginia. Recently, however, extraordinarily fine prehnite specimens...for its most famous locality, Tsumeb. One such prehnite specimen has been nominated for this issueâs Connoisseurâs...Connoisseurâs Choice (see fig.). Prehnite is best known in shades of green that vary from pale to very |  | | Journal (issue) | | another such pseudomorph to the collection. This new addition also generated further inspiration for a...growth of pectolite was recently found at Prospect Park, New Jersey. The specimen is made up of a remnant...stunning Juster. Munich2004 (Continued from page l) New Finds Mineralientage Miinchen is more than minerals;...about field collecting, descriptive mineralogy and new mineral finds. This year, why not consider giving...information to: (or a copy} with a'.I nEces:ary Mineral New P.O. Box 2088 Peeks kill, NY 10566-2088 Newslette |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals In The New Jersey Traprocks By GARDINER GREGORY Lee Avenue School, Hicksville, L. I., N. Y .... There are two areas in New Jersey that are world famous for their minerals. One is the Franklin &...& Sterling Hill area in Sussex County which is famous for its large number of minerals, about 180 in number...extending from Somerville in Somerset County to Paterson in Passaic County. This area is noted for its fine...come from the Paterson area. The traprocks of New Jersey are intrusive into and interbedded with the Triassic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | after a variety of minerals, including feldspars, prehnite, laumontite, and leucite, have been reported....or diabases and pillow basalts of northeastern New Jersey. It has been collected here since the first half...heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, chabazite, and, occasionally...Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad cuts and tunnels in the Jersey City...Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected from many localities in Passaic County |  | | Journal (issue) | | J. Dunn Famous Mineral Localities: Paterson, New Jersey................157 by Thomas A. Peters, Joseph....................................... 132 Whatâs New in Minerals?.......................................n . photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York designed by Wendell E. Wilson Mineralogical...receive additional grants we would rather use them for new projects instead of reprinting old ones. We are content...âDescriptive Mineralogy: Discovery and Characterization of New Minerals.â Papers are solicited for both the general |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY Downloaded by [The Aga Khan University] at 04:47 09 October 2014 MARTIN...Department of Physics The College of New Jersey Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718 @@F]()& P n Analcime...crystal forms displayed by some of the Millington quarry minerals, based on drawings in Klein and Hurlburt...Triassic Passaic Formation Precambrian Rocks Figure 3. Location map and genMillington Quarry era1 geology...Town quarry area. Map compiled from Cummings (1985) and Lewis and Kummel(1912). Millington quarry is situated |  | | Report (issue) | | hasnât been too long since my last online Whatâs New report; my print report on recent online offerings...July-August issue. In short, Iâm keeping up with my whatâs-new duties, and am now fully vaccinated, as are all of...concern. The report below introduces some brand-new mineral discoveries, with specimens just now reaching...(weinrichmineralsinc.com) updates his website with new material a couple of times a week, and he runs special...regularly is to keep coming up with generous lots of new things). On his weekend update of May 15-16, Dan |  | | Report (issue) | | schists; from some ore veins. Association: Calcite, prehnite, zeolites, danburite, axinite, garnet. Distribution:...Primorskiy Kray, Russia. In the USA, large crystals from the Lane quarry, WestÂŻeld, Hampden Co., Massachusetts;...Massachusetts; in the Roncari quarry, East Granby, Hartford Co., Connecticut; from Bergen Hill, Hudson Co...and at Paterson and Prospect Park, Passaic Co., New Jersey; in the Goose Creek quarry, near Leesburg, Loudoun |  | | Journal (issue) | | Moore Prehnite and zeolite distribution in the Orange Mountain Basalt, Paterson, New Jersey ..........Arthur Russell, was to be despatched to Swallowfield Park near Reading in 1964, with his colleague the late...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NEW JERSEY-A ROCKHOUND'S PARADISE New Jersey is not a large state, but within its borders lie many...of the minerals found in New Jersey: Native Elements GraphiteâSussex County Sulfides SphaleriteâFranklin...Paterson with prehnite Phosphates VivianiteâAllentown, Shrewsbury in Monmouth County Silicates AmethystâBasalt...Hill, Snake Hill, Bergen County Good HeulanditeâWatchung Mountains, Prospect Park and Garret Mountain, Paterson...McBride Avenue Quarry Natrolite-Houdaille Quarry, Bound Brook; Snake Hill, Bergen County Mesolite-Many |  | | Report (issue) | | BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS...ITS ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931 BY...BY James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHORâS NOTE Since his boyhood days the author...of his recreational hours collecting minerals in New York City and its environs. A record lias been personally...in the old lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years, |  | | Journal (issue) | | specimens van prehniet van de Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, NJ, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover...Pelckmans Reisbelevenissen in Nevada en Oregon (USA) De reis die Herwig en zijn gezin dit jaar maakte...Beurs (M-F-MM). SOPRON. Ifjusagi Központ, Erzsebet-Park. 9-17/9-16 h. BIELEFELD...Van 1958 tot 1970 zat hij de Commission on New Minerals and New Mineral Names van de IMA (International...prehniet Prehniet-aggregaten van Paterson, New Jersey, USA. Verzameling en foto © Ron Gibbs www.theimage |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PATERSON, NEW J E R S E Y by TOM A. PETERS, DIRECTOR Paterson Museum 268 Summer St. Paterson, New Jersey...foremost mineral localities in the world, Paterson, New Jersey is the home of the Paterson Museum. Tom A. Peters...foot wide chasm known as the Great Falls of the Passaic River, a national, natural land mark. Alexander...the area around the Great Falls as the site for a new industrial cityâ Paterson. With this background of...apophyllite, pectolite and prehnite are found. It is the latter mineralâprehnite, that has made the city |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Excursion of the M. S. P. was taken Sunday the 11th, to New Street Quarries, Paterson N. J., thru the courtesy...secure them. Many succeeded in getting specimens of prehnite, pectolite and a few other varieties in smaller...Countfriends were M.S.P. field trip to New Street trap rock quarry, Paterson, N. J . Sept. I I , 1955 Photo...Wilson Jennings (in hole) with son, David. New Street quarry, Paterson, N. J . Sept. I I , 1955 Photo by...Ave., Abington, Penn. North Jersey Mineralogical Society A display of new mineral specimens collected |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Jersey's well-known Fanwood and Summit quarries expose the same stratigraphic section and yield many...Summit Quarries, New Jersey WARREN CUMMINGS 225 Beechwood Avenue Trenton, New Jersey 08618 T H E SUMMIT...cut, located in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, formed a major mineral collecting site prior...Construction Materials, the last operator of the quarry, ceased operation in 1977, and since 1983 the pit...Company quarry in the Borough of Watchung, Somerset Countyâsometimes known as the Scotch Plains quarry, or |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEOLOGY of NEW YORK Downloaded by [University of Tennessee, Knoxville] at 09:24 21 December 2014 the...of resources. To further this image, in 1836 the New York State legislature voted to sponsor a comprehensive...first extensive scientific study of the geology of New York State, and it culminated in 1842 and 1843 with... I believe, were aware of the mineral wealth of New York, or of the number of species which it contains...by James Dwight Dana (himself a native of Utica, New York) as a source for mineral locality references |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsâŻagate, jasper, rare...âŻagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayâŻagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsâŻSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional depositsâŻSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mineâŻpyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsâŻagate, jasper, rare...âŻagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayâŻagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsâŻSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional depositsâŻSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mineâŻpyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 A ''New'' Discovery of Philipsbornite and Segnitite Two rare...BlackPineMine.Fieldof viewis approximately 1.5mmat 60x. Prehnite, Calcite and Chabazite Epintorphs after Pectolite...net In one of my cabinets is an old Prospect Park (New Jersey) specimen from the Joe Cilen Collection...Collection. It is Cilen #1697 and labeled "Prehnite after Anhydrite." The corresponding notation in Joe Cilen's...specimen consists of a hollow hemispherical growth of prehnite 2ÂŒ inches across with an intact outer surface |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville QuarryïŸ chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityïŸagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitsïŸpetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Paterson, New Jersey area is one of the best known sources of unusual mineral specimens in the world...in Paterson,New by R O B E R T J . NARSAVAGE J R . 51 Van Orden Place Clifton, New Jersey 07011 Every...out of the traprock quarries of the Paterson, New Jersey area. In recent years these prize pieces have...books bring to mind such names as Upper New Street and Lower New Street Quarries, Paterson; and the West...areas; the Great Notch areas, McLean's Quarry, and Prospect Park Quarry. What is the status of these sites |
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Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA