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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cuprite3 photos of Malachite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Calcite2 photos of Malachite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Copper1 photo of Malachite associated with Copper at this locality.
Chrysocolla1 photo of Malachite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Chalcocite1 photo of Malachite associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:441033
Long-form Identifier:1:3:441033:1
GUID (UUID V4):f64d82eb-8e8d-44c6-bc53-30782b6d8e73
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
5.5km (3.4 miles) American Mine (Alpha Copper Mine; Bridgewater Mine; Somerville Mine; Somerville deposit), Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Green Valley, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Fields' Copper Mine (Field Mine), Warrenville, Warren Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Hoffman Mine, Sunset Lake, Bridgewater 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
11.5km (7.2 miles) Wilson's Quarry (Wilson Stone Co. Quarry), Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Voorhees, Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Somerset Street basement excavation, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
14.9km (9.3 miles) New Brunswick Mine (French Mine), New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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
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,
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 (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...in arid regions. Common accessory minerals are malachite, azurite, cuprite, linarite, caledonite, cerussite...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
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)
un executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, al. Malachite is also well known as loosely coherent aggregates...excellent review article on the morphology of malachite, which includes a comprehensive discussion of...in-depth treatment of this aspect of malachite mineralogy. Malachite is basic copper carbonate with the...copper in the mineral’s structure is uncertain. Malachite pseudomorphs after a variety of minerals have...known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are malachite after atacamite
Report (volume)
about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five tunes the combined production and...than 80,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (volume)
.. New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.................. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five times the combined production and...than 86,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than
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
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...there is also a little chrysocolla, azurite and malachite. The intensely metamorphosed shale at Griggstown
Journal (issue)
epitaxiaal op babingtoniet • Trap rock en mineralen van New Jersey, USA Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen... epitactisch gegroeid op babingtoniet van New Jersey, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt U elders...van de Manassas groeve, Prince William County, Virgiania, USA. SEM opname en copyright Thomas Ambruster...(Creuse) et de larvilaïte (Côtes-d'Armor) 27-32 La malachite (1ère partie) 33-39 De l'opportunité du choix...d'Ottré 64-68 Geomorphologie fluviatile - suite 4 * ROCK AND MINERALS 80(1), 02.05 10-38 Minerals of China
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad cuts and tunnels in the Jersey City...Weehawken areas and quarries at Snake Hill, Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected...collected from many localities in Passaic County, such as quarries at Paterson and West Paterson (including
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mine in the Spring Mountain Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho. This is the first reported occurrence of...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
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
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
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,
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...438 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1
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...for this confection is a thin flake of the country rock liberally frosted with small white Calcites, as
Book (volume)
Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships
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 (issue)
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 (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)
COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE NEW JERSEY TRIASSIC. • J. VOLNEY LEWIS. HISTORY. About I9O yearsago coppermining...essayedat the old Schuylermine, near Arlington, New Jersey,the first of its kind in the American colonies...more or lessendeavorto establishthe industry in New Jersey. Considerable sumsof moneyand muchlabor havebeenexpended...investigation of the Triassic (Newark) trap rocks of New Jersey for the State Geological Survey, and I am indebted...permission to publish it here. 242 COPPER DEPOSITS OF NEW IERSEY :243 the money already expendedwould long
 
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