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Orthoclase from
Bear Mountain, Bear Mountain State Park, Orange County, New York, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bear Mountain, Bear Mountain State Park, Orange County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:80631
Long-form Identifier:1:3:80631:6
GUID (UUID V4):638da31b-7218-414b-8c21-70531f09e1fa
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
4.8km (3.0 miles) Philips Mine (Philips Pyrite Mine; Anthony's Nose Pyrrhotite Mine), Town of Philipstown, Putnam County, New York, USA
8.1km (5.0 miles) Bog Meadow Pond, Town of Highlands, Orange County, New York, USA
8.8km (5.5 miles) Stony Point (Woodbury), Rockland County, New York, USA
9.7km (6.0 miles) West Point, Orange County, New York, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Greenwood mine (Patterson mine), Town of Tuxedo, Orange County, New York, USA
16.2km (10.0 miles) Clove Mine (Wilks Mine), Village of Monroe, Town of Monroe, Orange County, New York, USA
20.6km (12.8 miles) Ossining (Sing Sing), Westchester County, New York, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) Scott Mine, Southfields, Town of Tuxedo, Orange County, New York, USA
24.2km (15.0 miles) Lake Mine, Sterling Lake, Town of Warwick, Orange County, New York, USA
24.2km (15.0 miles) Sterling Mines group, Sterling Lake, Town of Warwick, Orange County, New York, USA
References
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New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire...Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states, with an area of just 9,304 square miles and is...igneous and metamorphic rocks that underlie the state, even though these rocks are partially blanketed...when reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was
Report (volume)
Contributions to New jersey Geology A. The Lake Hopatcong Intrusive Suite (Middle Proterozoic) of the New Jersey...Martinsburg Formation in Northern New Jersey and Southeastern New York C. The Mount Eve Granite (Middle...(Middle Proterozoic) of Northern New jersey and Southeastern New York D. The Byram Intrusive Suite of the Reading...BULLETIN 1952 Prepared in cooperation with the New Jersey Geological Survey AVAILABILITY OF BOOKS...the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices
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Robert J. McLaughlin U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025 OPEN-FILE REPORT 82-481 1982 This...diagram showing the content of normative albite, orthoclase, and quartz in Harney Peak Granite.............Robert J. McLaughlin U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025 Introduction The Harney Peak Granite...dated the granite at 1.74 b.y. A granite near Bear Mountain, at the western edge of figure 1, and another...Kupfer (1963). Other reports of field studies that bear on the topics of this paper are by Redden (1963
Book
T TLIBRAr 3 1223 90016 3958 of New York State David E. Jensen .. . , ,,, Includes 16 pages of...Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn Yan, New York...into a lifetime interest in the minerals of New York State. While obtaining his M.S. in geology at the...outline of New York State is LABRADORJTE from the Saranac Lake area. of New York State David E. Jensen...Natural Science Establishment, Inc . • Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David
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MtN€RfllS of New Vork Stole David €. Jensen Includes 16 pages of minerals in full color jgS0% MIN6RRLS... MIN6RRLS of New Vork State David E. Jensen up WARD PRESS Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc...Inc. Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David E. Jensen All rights reserved...mining distri* Adirondack Mou somed into a lifet New York State. While obtainu University of Roc Science Establishi...Kay Preface This report on the Minerals of New York State is partially a sum­ mary of published knowledge
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AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SNOWMASS MOUNTAIN AREA GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO BY JOHN W. VANDERWILT Prepared...Prepared in cooperation with the STATE OF COLORADO, COLORADO METAL MINING FUND, COLORADO MINING ASSOCIATION...---_-_-_______.__________ Granite of Treasure Mountain stock. _____--______._ _ ______ General character______...igneous rocks Continued. Granite of Treasure Mountain stock Continued. i Mode of occurrence---.-.--...____i_..___.._.._..__ Granodiorite of Snowmass Mountain stock,________-_----_-_ Location and access_-_---_-____-_--__
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WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON..................... "Snowplow" anticline of Bear Mountain............................ 5 56 58 54 6.................... 82 Mica-schist of Dry Hill in New Marlboro ........................ 82 Eastern baud......................... South Dalton or Warner Mountain fault............................. Lenox fault... 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103 Albite
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Newsletter $3.00 The Rock Dam Gold Prospect A New Quartz Locality, Dickinson Co., Mich~g_an Shawn M...Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...Quartz Festival could be advantageous for making some new contacts and possibly seeing some good quartz crystals...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting
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1. 1 9 3 7 GEOLOGY OF THE CARDIGAN QUADRANGLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE BY KATHABINE FOWLER-LUNN AND LOUISE KINGSLEY.................................................. New Hampshire magma series.............................Cardigan quadrangle lies in the west-central part of New Hamp­ shire, between latitude 43°30' and 43°45' north...are heavily wooded. Danbury, Alexandria, Hebron, Orange, and Grafton are small farming centers within the...the results would fit in with other quadrangles in New Hamp­ shire, which were being mapped at the same
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Little Elk Granite (2549 Ma) and granite at Bear Mountain (BMG) (-2.5 Ga) of the Black Hills formed as...granite qui affleure dans les collines Black B mont Bear (GMB) (-2,s Ma) rBsultent d'un BvBnement de collision...Introduction The Little Elk Granite and granite at Bear Mountain of the Black Hills, South Dakota, represent...geochemical data for the Archean granite at Bear Mountain with published data on the Proterozoic Harney...Archean granites occur in the Little Elk and Bear Mountain terranes located along the margins of the Early
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Missouri, 101 Geological Sciences, Columbia, MO 65211, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Rushmore and Pactola Dam quadrangles and near Bear Mountain on the western margin of the Precambrian core...and are relatively depleted in Y. With the Bear Mountain and Rushmore–Pactola suites, the Rochford suite...Geology, University of NebraskaOmaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA. 0301-9268/$ – see front matter © 2008 Elsevier B...labeled. LEG is Little Elk Granite and BMG is Bear Mountain Granite. Four suites of analyzed amphibolites
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...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey............ New Mexico............................................................. New York. ...........by the United States Geological Survey and the State geological surveys added greatly to the knowledge...F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...specific enumeration of the known deposits; indeed, to state all the localities at which some minerals are found
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MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items On New Finds Are Desired. Alabama—J. R. Lee of Bridgeport...pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they are very good. This... yellow, gray, from a small mountain southeast of Gurley, Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals...crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." Arizona—A letter received from Paul O. Drury...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph
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Geology of New York City and Environs || uuu Christopher J. Schuberth From the air, two of New York’s most...features owe their appearance to the geology of the New York City area. The effect of glaciers in shaping the...The entire area looks the way it does today, from New Jerseys imposing Palisades to the location of the...underlying geologic make-up. Not much is known about New York City before Pre-Cambrian times, but we have increasingly...Sch75gR¢huberth, Christopner y 1g The geology of New York City and environs ,by, Chris- topher J. Schuberth
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Geological Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Norman Herz... Mose ew aa ORE be Fees The Reading Prong of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania: An appraisal of...of the Grenville basement complex of the Pine Mountain window, Alabama and Georgia James W. Sears and...to the surface in the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Grenville province of Canada, but is exposed...Lakes, Green Mountains and Berkshire Massifs of New England; the Reading Prong of the central Appalachians;
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General Geology of Santa Rita Quadrangle Grant County, New Mexico By WILLIAM R. JONES, ROBERT M. HERNON...Mafic intrusive rocks________________________ Orthoclase gabbro plug-_________________ Diorite and mafic...Geologic map of the Santa Rita quadrangle, Grant County, N. Mex._____________________________ In pocket...Geologic sections of the Santa Rita quadrangle, Grant County, N. Mex___________________________ In pocket Geologic...Santa Rita quadrangle, Grant County, N. Mex____ In pocket Index map of New Mexico_____________________
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No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA...Director DIVISION OF MINES WALTER W. BRADLEY State Mineralogist OIAF GEOLOGIC BFL^NCH Ferry Building...California BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440...collectors of minerals as a collection of a long many new and and varied rare species liave most list ...among To have all classes of people of this State a record of the 'what' and 'where' an important
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time. POLYCRASEIN NEW YORK S:TATE Eowanl S. C. Surru ewr Oscen KnuBsr, I{ew York. Deparlment oJ Geology...hitherto been reported from several localities in New York State. E. S. Dana (1892) mentions uranothorite as...as "From the Champlain iron region, New York, exact locality unknown." Luquer (1896), (1904) and Kerr...autunite and torbernite as having been found on "New York Island," presumably Manhattan, and Manchester...states that uraninite was found "years ago" in New York City at Broadway and 155th Street. Pitchblende
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mo provinces: the Treasure Mountain dome in the Colorado mineral belt (USA), and the Drammen and Glitrevann...Climax (Colorado, USA), Urad-Henderson (Colorado, USA), and Questa (New Mexico, USA), which have provided...occurrences: the porphyry Mo deposit at Questa, New Mexico (Klemm et al., 2008; only fluid inclusion..., 2011), and from the Hendersonrelated Hideaway Park ignimbrite (USGS Denver Inclusion Analysis Laboratory...granitic intrusions? Treasure Mountain dome (Colorado, USA) The Treasure Mountain dome is a large, granitic
Report (volume)
Geology of Southwestern North Park and Vicinity Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1257 Geology... Geology of Southwestern North Park and Vicinity/ Colorado By WILLIAM J. HAIL, JR. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...the areal geology of parts of the North and Middle Park basins, Jackson and Grand Counties, Colorado RECEIVED..._-____-____--------__-_--__-_--________--_North Park Formation.-__-__-_____-_____--_______-____ Igneous...__ 6. Trachybasalt intrusive near White Slide Mountain. _ 7. Index map showing faults and folds____-__________-_-_-_
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tU.. tl iiitiii ;i*rllX9*tc,*f.,Y..fi NATIONAL PARK "ii I NORTON AND REDDEN: ZONED PEGMATITES IN THE...underlain by granite (Duke et al., 1990). The Bear Mountain area,which is in T.2S., R.3E., l3 km (8 mi.)...Hesnard 23. Dyke 24. Eureka 25. Big Chie{x 26. Mountain Lion (Soda Spar) 27. Barker-Ferguson28. Wood Tin...Star (Nichols) 30. Wilhelm 31. Old Mike* 32. Tin Mountain* 33. Warren Draw 34. Highland* 35. Rachel D. 36... Shamrock and L5 No. 3* 44. Agnew* 45. Custer Mountain 46. Glenwood 47. Bull Moosex 48. Burt 49. Earl
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'Department of Earth and Space Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, U.S.A. 2Institute...Geological Survey, M.S. 937, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, U.S.A. (Received January 28, 1986; accepted...apatite samples of the spatially associated Tin Mountain pegmatite give a Sm-Nd isochron age of 2000 ±...granites The Little Elk Granite and the granite at Bear Mountain are the oldest rocks dated in the region. The...1964; ZARTMAN and STERN, 1967). The granite at Bear Mountain forms the core of a small dome that crops out
Book
Califormit state ºath of 3ſtitulfurt, By WILLIAM P. BLAKE, GEOLOGIST of the CALIFor N1A state BoARD of...March 6th, 1866. I. N. HoAG, Esq., Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture: - DEAR SIR:—I send you for...prin cipal minerals and mineral localities of the State, and of portions of the adjoining States and Territories...Geological Reconnoisance in California, etc. 4to. New York; H. Bailliére. Also, in vol. 5 U. S. Pacific Railroad...Reports. - Silver Ores, and Silver Mines. 8vo. New Haven, 1861. Report u on the minerals and mineral
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streams that flow east and west from the Green Mountain divide. It is to this torrential character of...3000 feet in a distance of six miles. The Green Mountain divide is about midway between these two valleys...main range of the Green Mountains as far as the state boundary, and eastward. Among the rocks mentioned...which occur in the area studied by me are Green Mountain Gneiss, Mica Slate and Talcose Slate. In this...rocks on the east and west sides of the Green Mountain divide. In 1847, however, Edward Hitchcock gave
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Geologic maps: 5. Nemo area 14 6. Medicine Mountain area 16 7. Bear Lodge Mountains area 20 8. Keystone area... Edgemont area 38 13. Galena area 42 14. Bald Mountain area 44 15-24. Mineral resource potential map...18. Lead area 68 19. Medicine Mountain area 70 20. Tinton area 74 21. Bear Lodge Mountains area 78 22.... Edgemont area 90 23. Bald Mountain area 98 24. Galena area 104 25. Diagram showing relationships between...used to produce cement that is marketed in a nine-state region in the upper Midwest. Deposits in the Forest
 
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