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Pectolite from
Summit, Union County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Pectolite
Formula:NaCa2Si3O8(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pectolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Summit, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:80224
Long-form Identifier:1:3:80224:0
GUID (UUID V4):2cff2e6d-0c49-4e94-95a3-75ef689e1760
Nearest other occurrences of Pectolite
3.1km (1.9 miles) Houdaille Quarry (Summit Quarry; Commonwealth Quarry), Springfield, Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Hartshorn Quarry, Short Hills, Millburn, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Stewart Hartshorn Quarry (Hartshorn Quarry), Millburn, Millburn, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Riker Hill, Livingston, Livingston, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Fanwood Quarry (Weldon Quarry), Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
11.7km (7.3 miles) Orange Quarry Company Quarry (Eagle Rock Quarry), West Orange, West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) Wilson's Quarry (Wilson Stone Co. Quarry), Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
16.8km (10.5 miles) Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
17.0km (10.6 miles) McDowell's Quarry (Osborne and Marsellis Quarry), Upper Montclair, Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
18.1km (11.3 miles) Cedar Grove Reservoir, Cedar Grove, Cedar Grove, Essex 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...with natrolite, analcime, stilbite, heulandite, pectolite, apophyllite, calcite,, and quartz, and its crystal...as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite. Crystals from...century at the Lane quarries at Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found
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...in the First Watchung Mountain: Upper and Lower New Street quar­ ries, Paterson; Warren Brothers quarry...(notably Rocky Hill and Lambertville) and two Hudson County localities, Laurel (Snake) Hill quarry, Secaucus
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
or diabases and pillow basalts of northeastern New Jersey. It has been collected here since the first half...stilbite, heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, chabazite, and...across associated with natrolite sprays, calcite, pectolite, apophyllite, and pale green datolite are recorded...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
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Journal (issue)
same for distribution; to encoura1e the surch for new minerals that have not yet been discovered; and to...bin will be found 1l11Where In this 1-... Each new member helps to extend the Association's activities--helps...225A, Reno, Nev. Rocks and Minerals Aaoclation of New th Jet"MY, Dewer, N. J. Qu11ns Mineral Society, Mi•........ 74 THE MINERALS OF A TRAP ROCK QUARRY AT SUMMIT, N . J. By M. Allen Northup ......... ...........rubellite, and colorless is achroite. Two states of the Union, Maine and California. are especially noted for
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)
Minerals In The New Jersey Traprocks By GARDINER GREGORY Lee Avenue School, Hicksville, L. I., N. Y .... There are two areas in New Jersey that are world famous for their minerals. One is the Franklin &...& Sterling Hill area in Sussex County which is famous for its large number of minerals, about 180 in number...extending from Somerville in Somerset County to Paterson in Passaic County. This area is noted for its fine...come from the Paterson area. The traprocks of New Jersey are intrusive into and interbedded with the Triassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Jersey's well-known Fanwood and Summit quarries expose the same stratigraphic section and yield many...Fanwood & Summit Quarries, New Jersey WARREN CUMMINGS 225 Beechwood Avenue Trenton, New Jersey 08618 T...T H E SUMMIT Q U A R R Y and the adjacent Interstate-78 road cut, located in Springfield Township, Union...Union County, New Jersey, formed a major mineral collecting site prior to 1974 when quarrying began to...Company quarry in the Borough of Watchung, Somerset County—sometimes known as the Scotch Plains quarry, or
Journal (issue)
babingtoniet • Trap rock en mineralen van New Jersey, USA Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen vzw Oprichtingsdatum... 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...apophyllite and chalcedony pseudomorphs after pectolite * MINERAUX ET FOSSILES 31(335), 01.05 5-15 Serpentinites...peninsula, Russia 9 A recent trip to northern New Jersey 10-11 GPS for fieldtrips Geonieuws 30(8), oktober
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
March/April: Millerite on dolomite, Leadwood, St. Francois County, Missouri. Glenn Williams specimen, Terry Huizing...on quartz, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Wayne Sorensen specimen, Jeff Scovil...July/August: Barite, Black Cloud mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...NovembedDecember: Hematite, Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin. F. John Barlow specimen, M. Hjerstedt...quartz, 54-56 Altaite, Missouri, 96 Analcime, New Jersey, 324; Washington, 273 Anglesite, Bolivia, 414
Journal (issue)
same for d istribution; to encourage the search for new minerals that have not yet been d iscovered ; and...Associat ion by nominating them for membership:> Ec1ch new member helps to extend the Associat ion's activi............................................... 13 NEW HAVEN MINERAL CLUB ........................................................................ 22 TWO NEW MINERALS FOUND IN CALIFORNIA.......................MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY ................................ 24 NEW YORK MINERALOGICAL CLUB ........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
radiated forms often resemble thomsonite and pectolite. NATROUTE is a hydrous sodium alumino-silicate...natrolite. Fig. #1 - NATROLITE xIs from Ardglen. New South Wales, Australia. (photo by Don Goodell - 1...natrolite. NATROLITE is a common zeolite of the New Jersey trap rocks. Fine short prisms to 1/16" thick...thick have been found at Snake Hill, Bergen County. The best specimens have been collected at Bergen Hill...also been recorded from Paterson, Great Notch, Summit, Plainfield, and Rocky Hill. Thick velvety layers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
called the Summit quarry). The quarry, along with all the Houdailles works in New Jersey, had been closed...the shovel operator broke into a nice pocket of pectolite about 8 x 10" and he retrieved one specimen and...collectors failed to return. A few, though, used new tactics and learned how to really change large many-ton...found none associated with natrolite, chabazite, pectolite, quartz or albite. Chlorite balls often were near...from Maplewood, N . J. through Springfield to the Summit line and you can safely say you ran over hundreds
Journal (issue)
COLLECTOR . [Entered as Second - Class Matter at the New York , N. Y., Post Office, March 19, 1894.) AUGUST...height, overhang the coast. The formation is the new red sandstone. Grey granite, gneiss and mica -slate...of good specimens can be sold in the vicinity of New York City. In Maine there are several well known...rose quartz from the Stearns ledge, in the same County, occurs in as handsome specimens, and does not...fine quality from Oxford County, are in the Amer ican Museum Collection, New York City . In Hebron, at
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Minerals of the Millington quarry, Somerset, New Jersey................................................Mineralogy of the calcite-fluorite veins near Long Lake, New Y o r k ...........................................mine Silver District Tonopah-Belmont mine Western Union mine Arkansas, Murfreesboro Rush Creek Australia...Zapot mine New Brunswick, Lake George mine New Jersey, Paterson Sterling Hill Sterling Hill New Mexico,
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
Tudith L. Vozza F. Silva Printing Palisades Park, New Tersey l L r This book is dedicated 11 to MOM...Jerry Furia of "Fur:y Camera & Sound" in Dumont, New Jersey for their technical assistance with the photography...A.. NEW' JERSEY Bergen Hill, Snake Hill, Paterson, New Street Quarries, Upper Montclair, Summit, Plainfield...MICHIGAN Houghton County, Park Cowlitz County, Keeneenan Highwood Mts. County CANADA NOVASCOTIA...Victoria, Flinders, N"£W ZEALAND Tasmania Sydney, New South Wales SOUTH AMERICA Viadulo, BRAZIL Rio
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON November 3, 2007 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...others. There will be samples of fluoro-edenite from Summit Rock available. We will have our usual brief business...of Eugene, Oregon near the town of Trent in Lane County, Oregon, just southeast of Springfield/Eugene (Staples...Creek road, crossing Highway 58 to the Southern/Union Pacific tracks where you park and walk ¼ mile east...Trent, Lane County, Oregon Fig. 5 Yellow orpiment needles in chalcedony, Trent, Lane County, Oregon Fig
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chlorite, calcite, prehnite, epidote, zoisite, and pectolite appear here, as elsewhere, among the products...quite fresh albite and pyroxene. And again near the summit of Carleton Hill, at Lendalfoot, rocks may be obtained...magnetite-keratophyres described by Benson 1 from New South Wales. The porphyritic types are admirably...along a line joining Millenderdale farm to the summit of Grey Hill, has nothing whatever to do with the...Complex in the Rustenburg District, Transvaal, Union of South Africa Geological Survey, Mem. No. 21,
Journal (issue)
Gold Mines Middle Buttes Volcanic Complex, Kern County, California Allan R. Blaske allan.blaske@gmail...volcanic complex is located in southeastern Kern County, approximately 9 miles southwest of the town of...dome-hosted epithermal precious metal deposit, Kern County, California: Unpub. M.Sc. thesis, Michigan Tech...District (Mojave District), Kern Co., California, USA; accessed January 2018. Figure2: Colloform scorodite...2018 Cleveland and Bartlett, Mogollon District, New Mexico Some Added Context By Peter Megaw prnegaw@hotmail
Journal (issue)
same for distribution; to encourage the search for new minerals that have not yet been d iscovered; and...Association by nominating them for membership? Each new member helps to extend the' Association's activities--helps...ZEOLITES AND RELATED SILICATES. By ,,t. Allen N orth11p NEW ENGLAND NOTES. Co11d11cted by R11dolf C. B. Bartsch...FIELD MUSEUM EXPEDITION WILL COLLECT FOSSILS IN NEW YORK 290 THE PHILLIPS LODE. By Victor Croley ...... . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW HA VEN MNERAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE DEEP FREEZE By Paul M. Tilden, Warner, New Hampshire Photos by Paul Tilden Had this article been...Wisconsin ice sheet north across the face of the New England states, leaving in its wake an enormous amount...acres of the rural New Englander. Perhaps the story was invented by a disgusted New Hampshire farmer getting...but some day in the remote future may again see New England covered a mile deep with ice. What caused...enormous and continu- Why did so many farmers leave New England? A glacial rock-dump near the entrance to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Paterson, New Jersey area is one of the best known sources of unusual mineral specimens in the world...in Paterson,New by R O B E R T J . NARSAVAGE J R . 51 Van Orden Place Clifton, New Jersey 07011 Every...out of the traprock quarries of the Paterson, New Jersey area. In recent years these prize pieces have...books bring to mind such names as Upper New Street and Lower New Street Quarries, Paterson; and the West...turned into garbage fill dumping grounds (Upper New Street Quarry.) Some were literally covered over
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Famous Mineral Localities: Paterson, New Jersey................157 by Thomas A. Peters, Joseph....................................... 132 What’s New in Minerals?.......................................n . photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York designed by Wendell E. Wilson Mineralogical...receive additional grants we would rather use them for new projects instead of reprinting old ones. We are content...“Descriptive Mineralogy: Discovery and Characterization of New Minerals.” Papers are solicited for both the general
 
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