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Apatite from
Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA


Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:81616
Long-form Identifier:1:3:81616:4
GUID (UUID V4):959d1f1f-310a-4925-97e1-02d4c46ac1e0
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
8.5km (5.3 miles) Fort George (192nd Street & Audubon Avenue), Washington Heights, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Fort Washington Avenue & 171st Street, Washington Heights, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
12.4km (7.7 miles) Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) New York - Susquehanna & Western Railroad tunnel, Edgewater, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
16.7km (10.4 miles) Bulls Ferry Road, North Bergen, North Bergen Township, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
17.6km (10.9 miles) 82nd Street & Central Park West, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
20.8km (12.9 miles) New York - West Shore & Buffalo RR tunnel, Weehawken, Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
23.1km (14.3 miles) Ritch Quarry, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
24.6km (15.3 miles) Laurel Hill, Secaucus, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
25.0km (15.6 miles) Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITES OF NEW YORK STATE, USA Marian V. LUPULESCU§ Research and Collections, New York State Museum...Museum, Albany, New York 12230, USA Jeffrey R. CHIARENZELLI Department of Geology, St. Lawrence University...Canton, New York 13617, USA David G. BAILEY Geosciences Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York...York 13323, USA Abstract Pegmatites in New York State are largely restricted to areas of exposed Precambrian...(scheelite). The pegmatite bodies from southern New York State and from some of the southern Adirondack
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
muscovite allanite apatite biotite pyrite hypidiomorphic to xenomorphic Southern New York State east of the...units. In the southernmost, the New York City and Westchester County metamorphic zone, parallel belts...Hudson River, except for a small exposure in Hoboken, New Jersey. North of this metamorphic zone, the Hudson...appears to be traceable into the northeast-trending New Jersey Highlands west of the Hudson River. North...earlier work leading up to the publication of the New York City Folio feldspar in the original sediment may
Report (issue)
monthly by the New University of the State of BULLETIN York OCTOBER 298 New York FREDERICK Museum...Director Bulletin 70 MINERALOGY 3 LIST OF* NEW YORK MINERAL LOCALITIES BY H. \YHITLOCK P. C....STATE OF NEW YORK 1903 M125m-Je3-2000 PriCC 2O CCntS University of the State of With years New rk York...York of election 1892 WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE D.D. LL.D. 1878 WHITELAW REiD^M.A. LL.D. CHAUNCEY M...TURNER LL.D. 1890 1890 1893 1895 1895 New York New York Rochester - - Utica Lowville MCKELWAY
Journal (issue)
............................... NEW LOCALITIES IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N . Y. By Evelyn lf/aite ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 NEW ENGLAND NOTES. Co11d11cted by R11doif C. B. Bartsch.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 NEW HA VEN MINERAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Nevertheless if the specimens were from localities new to us we received some pleasure in exa1n ining them...them immediately with the Post Office Inspector, New York, N. Y . LS 1er un :er. .ess vas ,eJ. ich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, Washington, DC 20052, USA b U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO 80225, USA c Department of Earth Sciences...Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA d U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192, USA Abstract Emplacement of...elongated perpendicular to the axis of extension. New U–Pb zircon ages obtained from the Polly Wright Cove...± 5 Ma) and Yonkers Gneiss (563 ± 2 Ma) in the Manhattan prong of southeastern New York constitute the...than 100 million years. Granitoid gneisses in New York were emplaced during an extension-related, dominantly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
22207 Carl K r o t k i 140 West End A v e n u e New Cork, N. Y. 10023 GENERAL SHOW 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT...the equipment thus giving his wife an excuse for a new fur coat. T h e low power microscope is also useful...Wesleyan University, who spoke on Meteorites. . . . The New ROCKS AND MINERALS Haven Mineral Club held its Field...Springs, Georgia, to collect verd (serpentine), apatite, magnetite and foliated talc was on the agenda...GCounty, Wheaton. 444 MASSACHUSETTS An auction was the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED £ _ . . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—James Miller...fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, Ala....hand side of U. S. 40. in New Castle Co., Del., 2 miles west of the city of New Castle, brown pebbles of...of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River...picked these up near a gravel deposit in Grant County, Indiana, near the city of Marion."—on label. I
Report (issue)
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...in the old lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years,
Book (edition)
Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. 5. Apatite B). interesting to note that diamond, It is...a scratch just gypsum or about will scratch apatite, as and a a hard as file material. testing...malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite, and silicates, which large and complex family...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOCIETIES TREASURER Carl Krotki 2 5 0 W . 5 7 t h St. New York, N. Y . 1 0 0 I 9 PRESIDENT T e d Richard i 5203...VICE-PRESIDENT Clifford C. Anthes 9 3 0 Madison Avenue Union, New Jersey 2 N D VICE-PRESIDENT Kenneth V . Zahn 4727...have been asked to form a committee to draft the new format. I expect this to be a big job, but I intend...and exhibitors at our shows — less than 30 at New York as compared with more than 150 at Yakima. My reply...proposal to put the Uniform Rules in a new format, and why I believe the new format will encourage more clubs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in turn is strongly dependent Prong and New Jersey-New York Highlands (Read- on the local structure....Introduction 970 Acknowledgments 970 Geology of New York City area 970 Reading Prong 970 Manhattan Prong...history of New Y ork City region 979 General statement 979 Manhattan Prong 979 New Jersey-New York Highlands...Highlands transition zone 987 Relationship of New York area to total Appalachian picture 988 Conclusions...Location of samples used for isotopic ages, New Jersey-New York Highlands (Reading Prong) 985 5. Location
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
.................................... 480 Westchester county............................................Appalachian belt, in the Adirondack region of New York, throughout the crystalline rocks of Canada and...which make up M anhattan island and Westchester county, New York, which adjoins it on the north, have...feldspar, cyanite,sillim anite, fibrolite, garnet, apatite, and stau ro lite,; also am phibole rocks and serpentine... by D ana’s estimate), with micas, feldspars, apatite, zircon, titanite, and occasionally m agnetite
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Boulder, Colorado. Prof. E. S. Dana, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,. Prof. A. S. Eakle, University...Pittsburgh, Pa. Prof. W. E. Ford, YaIe University, New Haven, Conn. William Frederick Foshag, U. S. National...Michigan. Dr. George F. Kunz, 409 Fifth Ave., New York City. Prof. A. C. Lane, (Ttrfts College), 22 Arlington...Washington. D. C. Prof. J. V. Lewis, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. Prof. G. D. Lourlerback, University...California. Prof. L. McI. Luquer, Columbia University, New York. Prof. William J. McCaughey, Ohio State University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
231st St., B r o n x , N e w Will trade blue York 10466 c c l e s t i t e - c a l c i t e on limestone...r i ­ an Labuz, N. Y . Will 12 Sherrill Lane, New Hartford, 13413. trade leather craft tools...1853 Central Park Avenue. Yonkers, N . Y . 10710 W i l l trade Canadian apatite xls and Edenite (Bancroft...specimens and xls. R. S. Benjo, 75 Landscape Ave., Yonkers. N . Y . 10705 W i l l trade good Franklin fluorescents...include your address as well. Also include ycur new z i p code. 756 old Thank you ! ROCKS AND MINERALS
Book
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pieces. John Gammuto, 668 E . 231st St., Bronx, New Y o r k 10466 W i l l trade blue celcstite-calcitc...telephone insulators. Adri­ an Labuz, 12 Sherrill Lane. New Hartford, N . Y . 13413. I w i l l trade slabs...1853 Central Park Avenue. Yonkers, N . Y . 10710 W i l l trade Canadian apatite xls and Edenite (Bancroft:...specimens and xls. R. S. Benjo. 7*5 Landscape Ave.. Yonkers. X . Y . 10705 Micromounts unmounted of N . Y...include your old address as well. Also include your new zip code. T h a n k you ! 36 ROCKS A N D M I N E
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz xls, selenite roses, fluorite octa­ hedrons, apatite xls, amazonite and others for good metal ore samples...Les and Marc Zakarin, 1853 Central Park Ave., Yonkers, N . Y . 10710. W i l l trade green quartz, white...and other mineral xls. and Marc Zakarin, 1853 Yonkers, N . Y . 10710. A T T E N T I O N SUBSCRIBERS...include your old address as well. Also include your new zip cede. 540 Thank you ! ROCKS A N D M I N E R
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz xls, selenite roses, fluorite octa­ hedrons, apatite xls, amazonite and others for good metal ore samples...Les and Marc Zakarin, 1853 Central Park Ave., Yonkers, N . Y . 10710. Cobaltite T N s , atacamite, scholzite...Central Park Ave., Yonkers. N . Y . 10710. Have fluorite associated with galena cubes from New Mexico. Also...include your old address as well. Also include your new zip code. T h a n k you ! ROCKS AND MINERALS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Way, Orinda, California. 94563 Have fluorite from New Mexico and others. Will trade for good micrornount...Hill etc. Many others. AI Peppis, 37 W. 12th St., New York, N. Y. 10011 Will trade good quality sea shells...crystals. Inquire. Bill Furrelle, 80 Westminster Dr., Yonkers, N. Y. 10710 Double terminated dravite xIs for...N. J., very rare for that location. Want large apatite xIs or tourmaline, etc. Kenneth J. Walling, 91...fluorite (each having hundreds of small cubic xis) from New Mexico for other xis. Marshall Sussman, 9552 Shermer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TURNER'S ISLAND By JOE ROTHSTEIN 201 W. 77 St., New York, N. Y. • 10024 We were at Lac Brampton near Sherbrooke...(micromounts). Curt Segeler, a former President of the New York Mineralogical Club, had rediscovered the area...of Chief Yoeman. All of us are members of the New York Mineralogical Club and "digging buddies" from...talks about the occurrence of calcite-fluorite-apatite dikes . . that may carry hornblende, py175 roxene...had picked up in the limestone quarry at Sparta, New Jersey. Dana gives titanite as monoclinic with a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rock, R.R. # 1 , Box 204, Wilmington, 111. 60481 New finds of N . C . Malachite xls, ferrimolybdite xls...cabinet size. Billy Furrelle, 80 West­ minster Dr., Yonkers, N . Y . 10710 Sands wanted in trade for other...(micro x l s ) , uranothorianite ( T / N xls), apatite and pyroxene xls T/N-cabinet, want only T / N xls...Henderson, 279 Harrison St., Franklin Square, New York. 11010 W i l l swap obsidian for lapis lazuli
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TREASURER Carl K r o t k i 2 5 0 W . 5 7 t h St. New Y o r k , N. Y. 10019 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT C l i f...o r d C. Anthes 9 3 0 Madison A v e n u e Union, New Jersey GENERAL SHOW C H A I R M A N M a l v i n...crediting to the proper club or individual. This new arrangement will serve two purposes; I) it will insure... The American Federation has just announced its new service. A one sheet, printed on both sides, will...wonderful > job they did. "Rockland Nuggets", Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc., Editor, Marvin Klibonoff;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cambridge, Mass. Williarn J. Webb, 75 Buckingham Road, Yonkers, N. Y. E. Weidhaas,408 West 42nd St., N. Y. City...Washington Blvd., Urbana, Ill. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES NEW ENGLAND INTERCOLLEGIATEGEQI,OGICALEXCURSION As reported...among other minerals, excellent transparent purple apatite crystals. At an evening rneeting at Wesleyan University...to weathering processeswere reviewed. In northern New Jersey, zeolites occur locally in the Palisade diabase...occurrence of stilbite and harmotome in the schists of New York. Mr. Gordon remarked that zeolitesare frequently
 
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