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Tourmaline from
Tourmaline locality, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Comments:very good quality crystals with exceptional luster and terminal faces embedded in quartz
Habit:trigonal
Colour:black, dark brown
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Very common
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tourmaline locality, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:764274
Long-form Identifier:1:3:764274:6
GUID (UUID V4):b2f58257-2710-41e2-ab68-e998dde5a501
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
1.2km (0.7 miles) ⓘLinkpot cut, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.4km (2.8 miles) ⓘGreat Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) ⓘWorth and Selden Quarries (Victoria Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
7.3km (4.6 miles) ⓘHaddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) ⓘHale-Walker prospects, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) ⓘUnnamed amphibole-tourmaline-magnetite locality, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
8.1km (5.1 miles) ⓘStrickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) ⓘSchoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
8.8km (5.5 miles) ⓘBrack Gem prospect (Brack prospect), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) ⓘWhite Rocks Quarry (Consolidated Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Book
gold. The stuff of the Old West, here in the Old East, and worth $400-plus per ounce, if you could get...including gold in a state forest in central Connecticut last spring. Moreover, similar gold deposits...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...Localit1e•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 21 Br1.tol County Mineral Localit1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Book (volume)
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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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7,242’ this peak is the highest point in America east of the Rocky Mts. Cambrian rocks are exposed as...crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in...addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination of these pegmatites. ...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
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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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Journal (issue)
rst person known to have one of these discs fn the East was the editor of a popular scientic paper, a geologist...location. is central in Middlesex County, of which it is the half shire town, and the county is central in the...vision of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad; also by the commodious steamers of the Hartford...Company. That part of the town that lies on the east side of the river is called Haddam Neck. The surface...named, and here arc found deposits of Iolite, Tourmaline, etc. The country rock is granite, with frequent
Report (issue)
extraLapis English No. 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept & Design...Lapis International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225...Eberhard Equit, 1993 extraLapis English No. 3 Tourmaline A Gemstone Spectrum Contributions by Brian C...AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline - History in Brief .......Mineralogy of the Tourmaline Group . . . 10 Species by Species - The Minerals of the Tourmaline Group .....
Report (volume)
been given to the genesis, par-agenesis, exact locality, and geological position of each occurrence. 9...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf... LEXICON. AOMITE. 1841. Acmite. Chester. See Tourmaline. E. Hitchcock: Geol. Mass., 1841, p. 614. ACTINOLITE...discovered by Dr. Hunt." E. Hitchcock : Geol. Connecticut Eiver, Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. VI, p...cavities in the amygdaloid, from the shores of the Connecticut, opposite Turners Falls, which are often only
Book (volume)
enjoying top rank. The enormous variety and wealth of locality information concerning quartz gemstones are recognized...which provides a quick method of referring to any locality in the book. JS: Arlington, Virginia. June,...Geological Survey of Canada, while specific Canadian locality information was supplied by Dr. Victor Ben Meen...photographs of the Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken
Journal (issue)
localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...you will be a friend of mineralogy. The Locality If the locality is known, and if the material is self-collected...slightest doubt about the exact locality, or precise site at the locality, the collector should communicate...If the collector is unwilling to disclose the locality, then he should state this frankly before the...correct and site-specific mineral locality information. If the locality is known simply from specimen labels
Journal (issue)
................................ 401 A PYRITE LOCALITY IN SAYREVILLE, N. J. By Vincent Giordr;no ......Leon B. Bailey 406 TIN DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA 409 CALIFORNJA FIELD TRIP. By Uoyd M. D...emrick .......................... 410 A NEW TOURMALINE LOCALITY IN NEW YORK. By Peter Z odac ..............ccountries, visited Yosemite National Park in Mariposa county, California, enjoying its unrivaled grandeur and...other part of the world. Yosemite Valley, 100 miles east of San Francisco, contains 8 square miles, being
Report (issue)
___ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Connecticut ___ _ Geology of the Middletown district ___________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...and prospects-Continued Maine-Continued Oxford County-Continued George Elliot mica mine ________________...Warren feldspar quarry ___________ _ Sagadahoc County _________________________ _ Consolidated feldspar
Book
the 18th Antiquity in Beryl the Ancient 4 East, 9 Analysis, 11 Physical 50 Haiiy and His...Fusion Late 299 Synthesis, and Schlieren Chatham Emeralds, 304 342 Magmatic, Granitic Eppler... Germany, Terms, 616 491 General 500 and Locality Index, Author Index, 651 Rwanda-Burundi, 500...Carroll Embrey, Dr. Paris, Museum (Natural Chatham, British France; San Francisco, Campagne measure...India. modern reported by network of via Near East, Mediterranean, and in to out to be emeralds
Book (edition)
crystals and quanz, from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink...impossible and indeed unnecessary to give every locality in which they have been found. In some instances...ANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar Group, Spodumene, Tourmaline, Sodalite, Olivine (Peridot), Turquois, Prosopite...GEMSTONE INDEX TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL AND LOCALITY INDEX GENERAL INDEX 463 481 491 List of Illustrations...Illustrations Frontispiece. Drawing of tourmaline and morganite group 1. Crater of Diamonds, Arkansas
Journal (issue)
standard of excellence in specimens afforded by each locality considered. I have long sought to learn this for...minerals differ from each other according to locality, as natives of one country differ from those of...Island on the west to Capes Split and Blomidon on the east. Here and there masses of trap rocks, from 200 to...Tarrytown, N. Y. Dr. Spencer securedthem at the locality severalyears ago, and they show the careful handling...rose quartz from the Stearns ledge, in the same County, occurs in as handsome specimens, and does not
Book (volume)
traced, however, and the search still continues. Locality reports for already established Maine species...town where a find was made. The reader will note locality and species reports, gemstone records, etc., in...in various journals concerning the species and locality lists of Maine, prompting a few individuals to...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tourmalines ANJANABONOINA DISTRICT, MADAGASCAR T he tourmaline database, like that of most other families of... and liddicoatite’s fundamental place in the tourmaline family appeared to be established. Here things...exist, perhaps just not at its type Madagascar locality. So, determining that a crystal is actually liddicoatite...actually fluor-liddicoatite. In their article on tourmaline nomenclature, Henry et al. (2011) suggest the...short review, if a particular tourmaline locality (including the type locality) has been described as producing
Book (volume)
....... 271 Frank Perham Diary of the Newry Tourmaline Discovery-1972 ....... ........................Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . .............................................. 341 Neil A. Wintringham Maine Mineral Locality Index ..........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...life was transformed by his first visit to the tourmaline-bearing granite pegmatite at Mount Mica in 1952
Journal (issue)
localities: the G illette quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut ...............................................you will be a friend of mineralogy. The Locality If the locality is known, and if the material is self-collected...slightest doubt about the exact locality, or precise site at the locality, the collector should communicate...If the collector is unwilling to disclose the locality, then he should state this frankly before the...correct and site-specific mineral locality in­ formation. If the locality is known simply from specimen labels
Field Trip Notes
COLLECTING SITES IN ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY MICHAEL A. WHITTON St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club/ Geology...Canton, NY 13617 SCHUYLER ALVERSON St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club P. O. Box 112 Rensselaer...Falls, NY 13680 Introduction The St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club is a local organization who...trip of classic mineral localities in St. Lawrence County. If you would like more information about our club...a tremolite locality. Our last stop will be the world famous Powers' Tourmaline Locality in Pierrepont
Journal (issue)
label that in­ cludes the name of the material, locality, com­ position and major associated minerals....Breoola Bituminous Coal ’Glauconite Sand Black Tourmaline Radlolarlan Chert Basalt Marble Gabbro Auglte...’Obsidian — “Apache Tears" Staurolite — Altered XL Tourmaline — XL Portion Blue Barite — XL Portion Rock Crystal...to be held at the John Jay High School; Route 52. East Fishkill, N. Y. Contact: Robert E. Lynch, 214 Wilbur...Mineral and G m Show (5th Annual) of the Rockland County Min­ eral & Gem Society, Inc., to be held at Rosary’
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CLASSIC BROWN TOURMALINE LOCALITY T Gouverneur New York he classic brown tourmaline locality on the present-day...Bush farm in the town of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, has been the source of some of the world’s...world’s finest specimens of fluoruvite. The locality has been known and visited by innumerable collectors...collectors would interpret an old label that reads “Tourmaline from Gouverneur, New York” to mean that the specimen...wrote the label a century ago actually meant the locality was within the township of Gouverneur. Confusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Canton, NY 13617, USA New York State Museum, Research and Collections, Albany, NY 12230, USA Geosciences Department...Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323, USA Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer, NY 12180, USA Correspondence: jchiaren@stlawu.edu; Tel.: +1-315-229-5202...apatite, perthitic microcline, phlogopite, zircon, tourmaline, titanite, danburite, uraninite, sulfides, and...K-feldspar (primarily perthitic microcline), quartz, tourmaline, and mica, and various sulfide minerals, within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
commercially important pegmatite deposits in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Without...or oligoclase, muscovite, biotite, and black tourmaline. Accessory constituents nearly always present...amblygonite, spodumene, blue, green, and pink tourmaline, transparent blue, green, or golden beryl, colorless...contain occasional crystals of feldspar, black tourmaline, or beryl. In one instance, the transition from...lepidolite, spodumene, colored tourmaline, and amblygonite. The tourmaline mines of the state are in deposits
Report (issue)
single country, a comprehensive compilation of locality data quickly proved unrealistic. In spite of not...Publisher Lapis International, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut, USA Concept & Design Matthias Kisselmann...Lapis International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; Fax 1.860.267.7225...Obodda; Photo Jeff Scovil l.apis International, LLC • USA PAKISTAN • �h (Kar Chin \ MaDr-e. India Clai..............Page 24 In Search of Yellow-Zoned Tourmaline Syed Mustafain Kazmi .......................
Book (volume)
Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller + GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...densely populated regions, the Appalachians of the East, and the Sierras and Cascades of the West, for examples
 
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