 | | 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) | | or diabases and pillow basalts of northeastern New Jersey. It has been collected here since the first half...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...West Paterson (including the famous Upper and Lower New Street quarries where crystals to 7 cm have been...single analcime crystal on serandite from the Demix quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. This 3.7-cm specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Economic Mineral Deposits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York; 2nd ed. (1950). See pp. 527-546 for a discussion...Encyclopedia of Minerals. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York (1974). A concise, thorough description of all...Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper...CORNER MINERALS AND DINOSAUR TRACKS FROM LITTLE FALLS, NEW JERSEY by Chris Laskowich Old Rifle Camp Road...NJ 07424 The Houdaille crushed balsalt quarry off Clove Road, Little Falls, New Jersey stopped blasting |  | | 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...road cut, located in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, formed a major mineral collecting...completed (Figure 1). Houdaille Construction Materials, the last operator of the quarry, ceased operation...Company quarry in the Borough of Watchung, Somerset County—sometimes known as the Scotch Plains quarry, or |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Geochemical Investigations at the Sterling Hill Mine, New Jersey Zinc Co. Sunday, May 7th Fossil Field Trip... Sunday, Flay 21st Field trip to the Limcrest Quarry, Limecrest Road, Sparta, N.J. 9:00 A.M. to 3=00...'73 Alice L. Kraissl '73 '73 F.O.M.-S. Notes A new administration assumes office for the year 1972....your participation is welcome. This year give a little more of yourself to your Club, you will find it...SAFETY. "I have some dogJtboth calcite from the Houdaille Quarry to swap, .etc. This place is PERMANENTLY CLOSED |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 1 Gem Hunting In The Appalachians CHAPTER 2 New Jersey ........... _ . _ 1 _ CHAPTER 3 Pennsylvania___...states each year give collectors a chance to buy new finds, see f i n e workmanship, a n d s h o w t h...r e t h e Tennessee a n d Alabama Rivers. N e w Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania:...well known old localities are not all “has beens;” new hobbyists and experienced collectors alike prove...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | "oxide ore," a composite of (basic) carbonates (malachite and azurite), silicate (chrysocolla), and (minor)...major deposit of the Franklin-Ogdensburg area of New Jersey no longer provides many specimens of the unique...order of magnitude (ten times) less abundant and falls in the Uncommon mineral class. The relative abundance...scarcity is simple: it is so soluble in water that little of it is preserved. It is quite analogous to the...secondary mineral. In the Mowhawk Mine, San Bernardino County, California, hetaerolite occurs in a well-oxidized |  | | Book (volume) | | Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book (volume) | | Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | 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 Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...petrified wood, etc.; N 20 mi., all area of the Little Bad landsvertebrate fossil remains; Pine Ridge |  | | Book | | decade, however, the need has been growing for a new, comprehensive index. Because the 14-year index suffered... Consequently, it was our decision to prepare a new index which is cumulative back to volume 1, fully...the 14-year index, and which is organized on a new plan. Nevertheless, all readers and users of the...the last ten years, and which has inspired this new effort. The current 25-year index is divided into...appears n Brief descriptive note, as in "What's New in Minerals?" p Photograph or other illustration |  | | Journal (issue) | | listed on our General List if 20 and our latest New Arrivals Lists. Send for your copies today. Both...—French Morgan NEW LOCALITY FOR STRONTIANITE IN CANADA—Sean A. Lochnan DEPARTMENTS NEW MINERALS—Conducted...591 593 602 614 618 619 634 562 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS i 561 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A CALIFORNIA FIRST! GOLD: Official state mineral...mine. Anything good, however, is always worth a little trouble. "Betafite is a relatively rare niobate |  | | Book (edition) | | Cok Tree Press PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Co., Ltd NEW YORK London & Sydney ST. PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY OTHER...Sterling Publishing Co, Inc. 419 Park Avenue South, New York 10016 British edition published by Oak Tree..., Nassau, Baham as Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Oak Tree Press Co., Ltd., P.O. Box 34...complex, involving so much pre-knowledge, that it is little wonder that people sometimes shy away from it....to be a lepidopterist to enjoy butterflies. This little book is a simple basic introduction to identifying |  | | | | Lieber ^ C0b627 S STERLING PUBLISHING CO., Inc. new york ~7^ee v 4-6^ London & Sydney ST. PAUL PUBLIC...Sterling Publishing Co, Inc. 419 Park Avenue South, New York 10016 British edition published by Oak Tree...Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Oak Tree Press Co. Ltd P.O. Box 34, Brickfield...complex, involving so much pre-knowledge, that it is little wonder that people sometimes shy away from it....to be a lepidopterist to enjoy butterflies. This little book is a simple basic introduction to identifying |  | | Catalog/List | | state law from the date of auction. REFERENCES: New bidders who are unknown to us must furnish satisfactory...the best matrix Sphalerite ever mined from Balmat, New York. • A world-class Manganite from Ilfeld in the...to 1.88 inches (4.74 cm) long. • Old Bisbee Malachite – a very large and extremely fine cabinet specimen...and no one more than he deserved to get a decent new mineral as his namesake. What more could you ask...the soul of high art. If that is the case, this little number is a poster-child for such refined aesthetics |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Bessudnova Minerals of the Millington quarry, Somerset, New Jersey.......................................Mineralogy of the calcite-fluorite veins near Long Lake, New Y o r k ...........................................worst dam curse I’ve ever seen. I love it.** That little rhyme could have been written by many collectors...handling of specimens. Human skin, especially with a little microscopic grit lodged in the fingerprint, is |  | | Journal (issue) | | Switzerland photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York designed by Wendell E. Wilson Mineraiogical...Associated Secondary Minerals at Chimney Rock Quarry, Bound Brook, New J e rs e y .................................................................. 32 What’s New in Minerals?.......................................best collection, or a better than his friend’s, is little more than a miser. ...R obert W. Chapman, Silver...the topic at hand, I am troubled a bit when I see new, frequently impressionable collectors influenced |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^ Garnet — Azu rite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl *"»...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | JOHN SINKANKAS Captain, LINE DRAWINGS [NE VAN New AND DIAGRAMS NOSTRAND York U.S. Navy, (Ret.)... Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Regional Offices: New York Cincinnati Chicago Millbrae Dallas Van...Educational Publishing, Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 To the late Peter Zodac for a...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | • rV -■ ^SsT?. ; --c - .. ' & ?h>, sc New Arrivals A £7MJPeiiro'\a This month wc hove a number...limonite. C i:e 1 50g, 1x2 SI.00. 2x2 $2.50. MALACHITE, Mapimi, Mex. Fine velvet green xls on limonire... 10 OCTOBER, 1965 CONTENTS MINERALS IN THE NEW JERSEY TRAPROCKS—Gardiner Gregory A 3,000 MILE COLLECTING...742 748 751 762 774 776 794 722 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ............................................................................................ 728 NEW GAD-PRY BAR FOR ROCKHOUNDS ..................... | | | Book (edition) | | VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY, INC. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY TORONTO NEW YORK LONDON D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY...Alexander St., Princeton, New Jersey (Principal Office) 24 West 40 St., New York 18, New York D. VAN NOSTRAND...Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and by David New and Scott J. Williams of the Southwest Scientific...at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...Washington, D.C., American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Mineralogical Museum of Harvard University |
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