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Smoky Quartz from
Oxford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Smoky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smoky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oxford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:719102
Long-form Identifier:1:3:719102:2
GUID (UUID V4):21aba06b-a4f4-4744-8f0d-213abfc66602
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Book (edition)
gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE
Report (volume)
the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gait, Royal Ontario Museum; Dr. William KeIIy, New York State Geological Survey; Dr. Robert King, John...MINERALOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE BOX-VEIN OF LYONSDALE, NEW YORK. A. R. Gats.de, Department of Geology, State...Lyonsdale, New York, is characterized by unusual boxlike cavities lined with comb-structured quartz. Although...the outer walls of the quartz-lined cavities, at the boundary between quartz and calcite, pyrolusite...along the cleavage directions of calcite. Euhedral quartz characterized the interior of the cavities, Volume69
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cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by [] at 04:12 15 May 2015...project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the quartz core is often sharply...cavity suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington
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gray quartz enclosing a dark green mass of diopside (pyroxene). Nashville, in eastern Howard County, is...person's collection. "These xls are found in San Diego County on private property in an area few people have...beautiful— they also fl. a very pale green. San Diego County is in southern California. 176 xli rystalllne...massive quartz. No. 3—pale green fibrous radiating tremolite. Pearl, in northern Jackson County, is in...Colorado, close to the southern border of Wyoming. CONNECTICUT — "Throughout the fall of 1964 the old Andrews
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R L A . FRANCIS Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals...Andros­ coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...Virginia, and then sold to Golding Brothers of Trenton, New Jersey. How­ ever, credit for establishing the feldspar...of Bath who was superintendent for the Trenton (New Jersey) Flint and Spar Company. In 1869 that firm...transferred to Bath by scow and then shipped to Trenton, New Jersey, potteries, but by the early 1880s shipment
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affordable. Alexander U. Falster University of New Orleans to a point where the crystal-bearing layer...of Earth and Space Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 117942100. Alaskan...transparent crystals resembling the tounnalinated quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Of approximately one...XRD methods and found to be composed largely of quartz, stained brown by iron oxide. A few grains of apatite...the main shaft. In February 1992, development of a new vertical shaft exposed a mass of bright purple, sugary-textured
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Diamond M Tourmaline fQl Ruby, O Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^ Garnet — Azu rite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...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...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable
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THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- n... iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON PARADE Recommended...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...W*T H COlO* * • TfXT COMF11 MINERALS ON PARADE A New Series of Teaching Filmstrips in Full Color. A Valuable...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward
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excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photo. May/June: Tourmaline on quartz, Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum...Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and EricaVan Pelt photo. July/August: Amethyst and calcite...mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...Erica Van Pelt photo. November/December: Elbaite on quartz, Barra de Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Hyman...California, 162 Allophane, Colorado, 307 Almandine, Connecticut, 261 Almandine-spessartine, California, 160 Alunite
Book (volume)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 738 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...expansion____^_________________ Geographic distribution of New England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
October 2017 Topaz W in New Hampshire’s DONALD DALLAIRE 829 Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 dadallaire@hotmail...grave in Chandler cemetery on Route 113 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Don Dallaire photo. 64 Mineral Drive...and several other localities throughout the world. New Hampshire, however, has produced topaz crystals for...minerals since 1971 and specializes in apatite and New Hampshire minerals. He is on the board of trustees...master’s degree in geology from the University of New Orleans and specializes in pegmatite mineralogy.
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Sciences of Philadelphia, The Annals of the Lyceum of New York, The Boston Journal of PhiAnd he feels himself...gations this Catalogue by their communications of new localities, and whose names will appear in their...York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and Jacob (Hall.) (Webster..." Catalogue of the Minerals in the state of "A New York, by M. H. Webster, 1824." " The Journal of...the Lyceum of Natural (A. L. N. H. N. Y.) York." New of History Dr. J. W. Webster, and to " The Boston
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...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...translated and adapted with American examples to a new audience. In it it his preface to the Italian
Book (volume)
Descriptive Mineralogy Vandall T. King Rochester, New York 14609 , Eugene E. Foord U S. Geological Survey...Philip Hauck Richard P. Hauck was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey on June 30, 1935. He has been actively involved...for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history...underground mineral resources. Field trips started in the Oxford Hills before autumn's mists have cleared from the...States Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia; the New York City Public Library; the Library of Congress;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chamberlain, Syracuse University; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. Robert King, Tewksbury, Great...FERBERITE-HÜBNERITE FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and... of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148. rd The 33 ineralogical...to black crystals to 1.5 mm on and in albite and quartz; and cassiterite as dark red-brown crystals and...unidentified bright blue Cu sulfide, ilmenite, quartz, microcline, albite, siderophyllite, muscovite
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from 18’ to 27’ long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination...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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
David Eicher. A new mineral museum project is under way this fall in Granite Gap, New Mexico. The John...north of Animas, New Mexico, about 2.5 hours’ drive southeast of Tucson, just over the New Mexico border...opportunities. Helping to bring mineral collecting to a new generation of young scienceminded people is a primary...changing exhibits gallery, minerals of Arizona and New Mexico gallery, laboratory gallery (with microscopes...professor of organic chemistry at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), Manhattan Project scientist, and longtime
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pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...silky luster, and may occur as colorless, gray, smoky brown, green, yellow, or rose-red crystals. Dark...literature are those from the pegmatites of the New England region. From Maine, King and Foord (1994...the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the specimens from this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gait, Royal Ontario Museum; Dr. William Kelly, New York State Geological Survey; Dr. Robert J. King...MINERALS OF SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT. J. H. Betts, 215 W. 98th St., #2F, New York, NY 10025. Mineral collectors...Future collecting will, of necessity, be done in new places or in forgotten, lost localities that are...old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This region was exploited sporadically by collectors...Mid196 ROCKS 81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South
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(November-December 1986). Anonymous. 1960. Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the...mineralogy. Sketch map. Bartsch, R. C. B. 1940. New England notes. Rocks and Minerals 15:414-15. Short...crystals from Ragged Jack Mt., Hartford. . 1941. New England Notes. Rocks and Minerals 16:20. Listing...Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield. . 1942. New England Notes. Rocks and Minerals 17:24, 29. Mt....crystals, apatite, damourite, and tourmaline. . 1942. New England Notes. Rocks and Minerals 17:250-51. The
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World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...the past 2 years, there are still very good fire quartz specimens to be found—apparently an iridescent...the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...Found in the Lark mine, San Juan Co., Colo." CONNECTICUT—We are indebted to Horace Winchell, Associate...Associate Professor of Mineralogy, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., for the following item, dated Sept. 7,
 
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