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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Comments:Occurs in cavities and fractures in Watchung basalt.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Stilbite Subgroup1 photo of Quartz associated with Stilbite Subgroup at this locality.
Copper1 photo of Quartz associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:71254
Long-form Identifier:1:3:71254:9
GUID (UUID V4):92462e4f-b181-43ce-940d-5fa158425ddb
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
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
10.1km (6.3 miles) Stirling Brook ("Carnelian Creek"), Warren Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
11.0km (6.9 miles) Lyons Station, Lyons, 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
13.9km (8.6 miles) Ferrante Quarry, Bernardsville, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) Green Brook, Berkeley Heights, Union County, New Jersey, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) Fanwood Quarry (Weldon Quarry), Watchung, Somerset 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
yellow-green fluorescence characterizes some New Jersey datolite. Datolite is commonly seen in monoclinic...are well known from several New Jersey localities, and datolite after quartz is reported from Russia. Pseudomorphs...fissure veins. Associated minerals include calcite, quartz, prehnite, danburite, axinite, garnet, and the...heulandite, pectolite, apophyllite, calcite,, and quartz, and its crystal aggregates often form the matrix...in trap rock at notable localities such as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it
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
Report (issue)
Broadwav’and 218th Street, Manhattan Island. 4—Quartz, var. Amethyst (purple), West Paterson. N. J. 5—Garnet...7—Datolitc (pale green), West Paterson* N J 8— Quartz, var. Smoky (brown), Broadway and 162nd Street... 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
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
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)
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)
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 (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...d'Ottré 64-68 Geomorphologie fluviatile - suite 4 * ROCK AND MINERALS 80(1), 02.05 10-38 Minerals of China...The Yaogangxian tungsten mine 58-59 A wonderful quartz from China 63-64 Metasomatism * SCHWEIZER STRAHLER
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...Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...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
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)
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
Report (volume)
director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | New Jersey | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | New Jersey | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] \ Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | New Jersey | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...Lamellibranchiata of the Earitan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey, byEobertP. Whitfleld. 1885. 4°. xx, 338 pp....Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic Eocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, by John S. Newberry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
causedby onb of the numa'ous quartz diorite intrusions. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICALCLUB...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
Book
OF NEW JEt{SEY. BY AUTll0RITY PUBLISHED 0l? THE LEGISLATURE. BY THE BOKRD OF 3IANAGERS. NEW JERSEY...C0NORZSSIONALI)IS'_IIICT. WORTENDY_, sT_,vr. (*_0LOt_t_T. NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ] • o .,s E_CELL_CY THE...THE CQVELIh'OR _OF TIIE STATII OF HON. NEW MARCUS L. WARD, JE_S_T 1 A,%'D__X OIeF/C]O_ pY/2_t]DENT...herewith to submit the Final Report on the GEOLOOYOF NEW JERSEY, as required by the 1,_wpassed March 30, 1864...SUI_V_Y_ COLLEGE. Y. J;, D_c. _9, 1868. NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIST. PIREFA @E. era*
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)
other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite, fluorite, and quartz and those characterized by nickel...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 (article/letter/editorial)
World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...ARKANSAS, it stated that the Tridymite form of quartz had been found locally, etc. "This was my mistake...thousand tiny but regular quartz crystals and clusters of these tiny quartz crystals. The writer got to...regular quartz crystals, as tridymite is supposed to form at a higher temperature than ordinary quartz. So...dickite was in lumps and on the surface of massive quartz, and consisted of billions of tiny crystals, so
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 (article/letter/editorial)
TREASURER Carl K r o t k i 2 5 0 W . 5 7 t h St. New Y o r k , N. Y. 10019 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT Kenneth...safe, healthful, outdoor recreation for amateur rock collectors of all ages, and that it may also benefit...Minerals. CHIPS and BITS from SOCIETY BULLETINS NEW YORK Chick Rothstein, Irv Feldman and Curt Segeler...Copper Minerals The junior Division of the Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc., Suffern, heard a...talk by Mr. Marvin Klibinoff on Minerals The Island Rock Hounds, Rockville Centre, heard Gardiner Gregory
Journal (issue)
Tpmoorel@cox.net Recent finds of ajoite-included quartz in the Artonvilla mine, Messina District, Limpopo...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
Journal (issue)
General Meeting Minutes 7-8 Board Meeting Minutes 9-13 New Books 14-16 Up-Coming Symposia 17-19 Virtual...Trip Report 28-30 Fluorite (Dodecahedron) with Quartz, Erongo Mountains, Namibia, 2.5 x 2.6 x 2.4 cm...Page 2 President’s Message By Alex Schauss As the new president of Friends of Mineralogy, I look forward...the museum. My friend, Sammy, and I had found a rock in Central Park that we thought was loaded with...fellowship, including attending meetings of the New York Collectors Club. This led to all kinds of field
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...this one, come from the mine with a heavy coat of Quartz, which is carefully and laboriously removed by...waxy to vitreous, and the surrounding colorless Quartz ‘matrix’ is matte in appearance. The specimen is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mine in the Spring Mountain Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho. This is the first reported occurrence of...causedby onb of the numa'ous quartz diorite intrusions. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICALCLUB...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
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 ................................................................447 COVER: FERBERITE and quartz, 7 cm, from Mundo Nuevo, La Libertad, Peru. Marvin...time they break open a vuggy chunk of mineralized rock. Elite collecting involves an element of extreme
 
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