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Prehnite from
Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Prehnite
Formula:Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Comments:Found as light green spheres and pocket linings.
Habit:orthorhombic
Colour:green
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Copperⓘ1 photo of Prehnite associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prehnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:435075
Long-form Identifier:1:3:435075:0
GUID (UUID V4):7cfc7245-8962-40a2-97ec-62719ea55111
Nearest other occurrences of Prehnite
5.5km (3.4 miles) ⓘAmerican Mine (Alpha Copper Mine; Bridgewater Mine; Somerville Mine; Somerville deposit), Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) ⓘLiberty Corner, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) ⓘPluckemin, Bedminster Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) ⓘPluckemin Copper Mine, Pluckemin, Bedminster Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) ⓘMillington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
11.5km (7.2 miles) ⓘWilson's Quarry (Wilson Stone Co. Quarry), Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) ⓘFanwood Quarry (Weldon Quarry), Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) ⓘOldwick Quarry (Stavola Quarry), Tewksbury Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) ⓘFeltville Copper mine, Glenside Park (Feltville), Watchung Reservation, Union County, New Jersey, USA
23.6km (14.6 miles) ⓘHoudaille Quarry (Summit Quarry; Commonwealth Quarry), Springfield, Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...in trap rock at notable localities such as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it...it occurred with prehnite. Crystals from this locality were so unusually complex and perfect that they
Report (issue)
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bulletin 57 Geologic Series Copper Mines...Mining in New Jersey by HERBERT P. WOODWARD DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT STATE OF NEW JERSEY...Geology and Topography Trenton, N. J. 1944 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOARD OF CONSERVATION AND............. Mendham (P . O . Gladstone) (3) NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL MR...herewith the manuscript of a new report on the copper ores of New Jersey and the many attempts to mine
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...Construction Materials, the last operator of the quarry, ceased operation in 1977, and since 1983 the pit...filled with some two million cubic yards of earth and rock debris from another section of the 1-78 project
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 AUTHOR’S 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 (article/letter/editorial)
MILLINGTON QUARRY, NEW JERSEY W A R R E N CUMMINGS 225 Beech wood Avenue Trenton, New Jersey 08618 T H...G T O N Q U A R R Y in Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, resumed operation in 1979 after...inactivity. New excavations, begun in late 1980 as part of an aggressive expansion program by the new operators...operators, the Millington Quarry Company, have made this quarry an important producer of mineral speci­ mens...its way into circulation. Geology The Millington quarry exposes the two lava flows (Figure 3) of the Third
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)
after a variety of minerals, including feldspars, prehnite, laumontite, and leucite, have been reported....It also occurs in the groundmass of these general rock types, is a product of deuteric alteration, and...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
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67 B. Section B:...Section D: Occurrences located in the Newark basin, New Jersey . .99 E. Section E: Occurrences located in the...occurrence, deposit mineralogy and paragenesis, host rock lithology and age, and metal associations is presented...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NOTES AND NEWS NEW AND INTERESTING MINERAIS FROM CENTRAL NEWJERSEY A. C. HawxrNs, Rutgers Uniaersi...activity of quarries in the basalts of central New Jersey has brought to light a number of interesting...stained with copper compounds. covellite is new to New Jersey, so far as records of discoveries are concerned...pits at Glenmoore, south of Hopewell, in Mercer County. The locality is marked on the Trenton Folio geological...ERALOGIST In the quarry of the Bound Brook Crushed Stone Company at Chimney Rock there are occasional
Journal (issue)
Moore Prehnite and zeolite distribution in the Orange Mountain Basalt, Paterson, New Jersey ..........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...rare oxychloride minerals from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England," Mineralogical Record, vol. 8, no. 4
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz diorite intrusions. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICALCLUB Regular Monthly Meeting oJ...pointed out that the copper "The Copper Minerals ol New lersey." minerals were found in the trap, the shales...at many localities. In the trap, notably at Chimney Rock and Bound Brook, chalcocite was the most prevalent...resemblance, on a small scale, of this and other New Jersey occurrences with those oI the Lake Superior region...occurs near and under the first lava flow. At the Bridgewater Mine native copper and occasionally native silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green acicular...then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times. The level of...Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny crystals at the Chimney Rock quarry, Somerset County...County, New Jersey. Dark emerald-green, acicular brochantite crystals are reported from Cornwall, Lebanon...Lebanon County (Gordon 1922); brochantite associated with langite and posnjakite occurs in the Ecton mine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite, fluorite, and quartz and those characterized...phenomenal specimens in major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped...crystallized-silver south of Sing Sing Prison in New specimens are well known from the Caribou York; at...wiry masses on white barite crystals Bridgewater copper mines, New Jerfrom the White Raven mine, Ward district...has been found in Boulder County (Raines 1992). Locally New Jersey trap-rock quarries, abundant was silver
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?.......................................the topic at hand, I am troubled a bit when I see new, frequently impressionable collectors influenced...inadvertently or in­ tentionally channel most of the new collector’s energies into the quest for ribbons,
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 ...........................................time they break open a vuggy chunk of mineralized rock. Elite collecting involves an element of extreme...mine Himalaya mine Hollister Jamestown mine Jensen Quarry Little Three mine Mesa Grande District Orestimba
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...recently-completed study has verified the existence of a new mineral, galeite, which has been found only in Searles...main plant at nearby Trona. Verification of the new mineral was made through joint efforts by Adolph...215, East Hampton, Conn. "I visited the Slocum quarry, (East Hampton) last week. Brownish-black crystals...INDIANA—One of America's largest gypsum mines, a new operation started only a few months ago (see R &
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick, New Jersey; the...the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania; the upper...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County, Virginia; and copper mines in Guilford, Mecklenburg...Michigan, and the well-known Flanibeau mine, Rusk County, Wisconsin, massive sulfide deposit. Malachite
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)
& Erica Van Pelt rystal Classics Ian Bruce Somerset, England Tel: +44 1935 479822 Website: www.CrystalClassics...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....(1937–2009); Peter Keller photo, 1982. Bridges is holding a rock specimen containing a tsavorite nodule. employees
Book (volume)
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...mine⎯pyritized 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 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...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MOUNTER Conducted by Neal Yedlin—129 Englewood Drive, New Haven, Conn. Illlllllllllllllilllllllllllllllll...lllllllllllllllll Some of the collectors in the New York area were lucky enough to visit a recent road...road cut at Ft. Lee, N.J., just above the Jersey side of the Washington bridge. The exposure was in the...chlorite and amphibole. Associated were xls of prehnite, complete euhedral xls of apophyllite with no...no visible points of contact with the mother rock, chalcodite, and best of all, the most beautiful golden
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises...overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state are all undisturbed sedimentaries:...borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming line is good rock hunting country, especially along the southern slopes...of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among... The Sandhills Museum in town is well worth the rock hunter’s visit. Draws, cuts and breaks in the hills
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...and no one more than he deserved to get a decent new mineral as his namesake. What more could you ask...for this confection is a thin flake of the country rock liberally frosted with small white Calcites, as...District (Summit Valley District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA First discovered in 1886, the polymetallic
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
 
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