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Orthoclase from
Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA


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 Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:80666
Long-form Identifier:1:3:80666:2
GUID (UUID V4):994757a3-8939-4e90-a497-3e45321595d9
Localities for Orthoclase in this Region
Baylis Quarry (Bayliss Quarry), Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
1.9km (1.2 miles) Baylis Quarry (Bayliss Quarry), Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Clover Hill Mine, Croton Falls, Somers Township, Westchester County, New York, USA
14.9km (9.3 miles) Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Ossining (Sing Sing), Westchester County, New York, USA
21.4km (13.3 miles) White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA
21.9km (13.6 miles) Ritch Quarry, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
26.6km (16.5 miles) Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
27.9km (17.4 miles) North Street mall, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
29.1km (18.1 miles) Philips Mine (Philips Pyrite Mine; Anthony's Nose Pyrrhotite Mine), Town of Philipstown, Putnam County, New York, USA
32.0km (19.9 miles) Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York, USA
References
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Book
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...Kay Preface This report on the Minerals of New York State is partially a sum­ mary of published knowledge
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...blossomed 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....Natural Science Establishment, Inc . • Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David
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AREA, NEW YORK BY DAVID M. SCOTPORD ABSTRACT The Poundridge area in northeastern Westchester County, New...New York, is underlain by the Poundridge and Siscowit granites, the Fordham gneiss, Inwood marble, and...and the Manhattan formation, comprising the New York City group. Field evidence, including the fact that...seem to exist, leads to the conclusion that the New York City group is a conformable sequence either of...limestone-Hudson River shale sequence of Dutchess County to the north. The area has been subjected to regional
Report (issue)
Manhattan Island. o__Quartz var. Citrine (yellow), Bedford, N. Y. 3—Tourmaline (brown), Broadwav’and 218th... BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS ENVIRONS...ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931 BY ... James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHOR’S NOTE Since his boyhood days the author has...his recreational hours collecting minerals in New York City and its environs. A record lias been personally
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mineralogy at Michigan Technological University. A native New Yorker, he has had a lifelong interest in the minerals...of the state and is a research associate at the New York State Museum. 458 ROCKS & MINERALS Dr. Steven...minerals of New York State and is coordinator of the Center for Mineralogy at the New York State Museum...University] at 04:12 29 December 2014 The GEMS of NEW YORK State J ust what constitutes a gemstone has...such as opal, aquamarine, or tourmaline. Although New York State is not known for its traditional precious
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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...uranothorite as "From the Champlain iron region, New York, exact locality unknown." Luquer (1896), (1904) and Kerr...various uranium bearing minerals from the well known Bedford area. Gratacap (1912) mentions both autunite and...and torbernite as having been found on "New York Island," presumably Manhattan, and Manchester (1914)
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................................. Androscoggin County............................................. Auburn......................................... Lincoln County ............................................................-...:.....-................. Oxford County........................;............................................................. Sagadahoc County.. '...... ............................................................................ Hartford County ..... ....................:............ ......
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been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds in weight have...Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire; Bedford, New York; the Scott and other quarries near...also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and Mesa Grande...amethyst crystal localities are near Milan and Berlin, New Hampshire; Deer Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester
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IVAN LEE Process Laboratories, Inc., Irvington, New Jersey Reprinted from Chemical Reviews Vol. V...has plete of accounts monograph by the the New Jersey scant five years since the advent a element... group were of disturbing, but numerous New York Section of the 17 even metals followAmerican...Pub. W. M. Welch Berichte 60, 1; 1 earths. new rare So far earths Arranged According to as...ytterbium more elements, and in 1907 named a new were the last earth from the named ytterbium
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ON ^ - - ^ ^s%r^ Mineral Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED £ . . . PLEASE SEND THEM I N ....Colorado and New Mexico. W e did real good on both pursuits. Enclosed is a specimen which is rather new to me...They are from a cut at Hogback Dam in Hartland County, near Riverton, Conn. "In masses of xline limestone...miles northwest of Bentonsport, Iowa, in Van Buren County, in the southeast part of the State in the geode...near the south end of the Mesabi Range in Itasca County, Minn. Name of mine I doi not know."—item from
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Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: x l — c r y...specimen sent you recently. It was found in Coosa County, Ala., near Rockford. You have my permission to...southwest of New Port Richey. What is it?" — item and specimen from W . R. Olsen, Rt. 1, Box 3997, New Port Richey...material is dark gray flint coated by a white crust. New Port Richey in Pasco Co., is in western Florida....Brown Ave., Terre Haute, Ind. I O W A — From Marion County, Iowa, we have an interesting specimen consisting
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or regional metamorphism which affected most of New England. In many of the more argillaceous layers...its gem minerals at Mount Mica, in Paris, Oxford County, is another example of the flatlying, sill-like...northwest corner of the town of Hebron, Oxford County, which is almost wholly pegmatite and seems to...some places, as at Mount Mica, in Paris, Oxford County, certain of the gem minerals are present in considerable...quartz to compete with quartz from Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland quarries, which are
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(Address at the Mineral Day at the World's Fair (New Yo:ok City), June 17, 1940) I The first mineral...derivatives. The first substan~es appropriated to the new born babe are mineral substances boracic acid and...laymen have become interested in minerals and many new societies and clubs have been formed to promote...their leisure time. Personally, I believe the many new discoveries made involving the use of minerals, which...presented me. with a quartz crystal from Herkimer County, New York, and from that day to this minerals have been
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which Congress had. authorized the construction of new. federal buildings and extensions on which work would...affording aid toward preparing specifications for new buildings. 7. Some attention was paid to the proposed...pinkish-gray medium-grained stone, from which the new federal building at St. Paul has been constructed...coarse-grained pinkish-gray granite in the basement of the new capitol building at St; Paul is reported to have...and the exterior of the handsome city hall and county court-house building at Minneapolis, erected at
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St. Just-in-Penwith: danal- ire, seheelite, 921 New Tolgus shaft, Redruth: axinite, danalite, garnet...pharmacosiderite, plumbojarosite, seorodite, 430 Devon Bedford United mines, Tavistock: eornubite, 2 Ford mine...uraniferous asphaltite, 705 Eskdale: p-veatchite, 500 New Eddlington, Doncaster: galena, uraniferous asphaltite...clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, almandine, andesine, orthoclase, epidote, 848 Sgor Chaonasaide, Loch Loyal: nordmarkite...Africa Driekop mine, Transvaal: geversite, unnamed new Pt and Pd minerals, (Fe,Ni)2S, braggite, cooperite
Book
Establishment 84-102 Cpllege Avenue Rochester, New York DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF A Petrographic Collection...Establishment 84-102 College Avenue Rochester, New York QE55 05 Copyrighted 1916 by Ward's Natural...series of rocks teacher for study. met a many new Even when such a series has been chosen, he has...Granite Mass. Hornblende-Granite Mass. Pegmatite New York. Trachyte-Syenite Series: HI. 21. 22. Sanidine-Trachyte...Dacite 33. 34. Granodiorite New York 24. 25. 26. Quartz-Syenite New York Hornblende-Syenite Vermont
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map of the Ridgeway area, Ilenry County, Virginia, and Rockingham County, North Carolina ,-.--..------In...Geologic map of the Altavista and Moneta-Bells areas, Bedford and Campbell counties 5. A, Amelia-Goochland quartz...Patterson mine, 2 miles northeast of Amelia, Amelia County; B, Inclusion of wall rock (biotite gneiss) in...Rutherford mines, lfu miles north oI Amelia, Amelia County A, Micrographic texture in the Leatherwood granite...Rutherford mines, lr/a miles north of Amelia, Amelia County; B, Piotomicrograph of pegmatite showing sillimanite
Report (volume)
........................... 1.... Androscoggin County..................................................................................... Cumberland County..................................................... Hancock County...................................................... Lincoln County....................................................... Oxford County.................................................. CONTENTS. 5 Local descriptions Continued. Oxford County Continued. . Page. Rumford....................
Report (volume)
Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great
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...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey............ New Mexico............................................................. New York. ...........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;... S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals, World's Fair edition,
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Page Introduction Composition and Properties Orthoclase and Microcline Perthite Graphic Granite and Corduroy...Hoisting feldspar trays by derrick, Richardson mine, Bedford township. 2. Loading feldspar directly into truck...Richardson mine began production in Bedford township, Frontenac county. Over 170 feldspar mines have been...of the feldspar family are the "potash spars", orthoclase and microcline, and the "soda spar", albite....of Feldspar (after Burgess - see bibliography) Orthoclase Microcline Albite Anorthite (KAlSi O ) 3
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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...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
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VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little...is great, and it would not be easy to establish a new enterprise in that line on a paying basis except...in Bulletins 313, 404, 430, and 484, on the other New England granites. The following scale of shades and...The chief commercial granites offMassachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island: Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey...the writer's work on the commercial granites of New England. It contains two petrographic determinations
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world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...(c) = currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite...crystals, muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite;...1 inch across; found near Briar Fork, Albemarle County (photograph by T. M. Gathright, 11; W. F. Giannini
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M. Seaman American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 7, Silica and Silicates (part two)...almandite was recovered at 35th Street and Broadway in New York City and is in the American Museum of Natural...166th St. and Knowlton Place in New York City. Both are a part of the New York Mineralogical Club's collection...Maine, and at the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently formed almandite garnets...Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other places. The crystals occur
 
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