 | | Book (edition) | | THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * Ā«-ā¢ r ** K* ysf^ :' ā¢'āS >- n...250 SPECIES iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward...Minerals from the Principal Localities in Western Connecticut and Southeastern New York State............. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...H. WEBER 1172 West L a k e Avenue Guilford, Connecticut 06437-1342 E A R L E C. SULLIVAN 17 R o c k y...y R i d g e D r i v e T r u m b u l l , Connecticut 06611-5326 T his locality index is meant to serve...collectors. More often than not, collecting in Connecticut is no longer perĀ mitted. Many of the localities...effort has been made to list a l l localities in Connecticut, a small state that is big on mineralization |  | | Report (volume) | | Pegmatites of the Middletown Area Connecticut GEOLOGICAL SU R V EY BULLETIN This report concerns work...GEOLOGY PEGMATITES OF THE MIDDLETOWN AREA, CONNECTICUT By FREDERICK STUGARD, JR. ABSTRACT The pegmatites...the Middletown area in Connecticut have been mined almost continuously for feldspar and muscovite mica since...CONTRIBUTIONS TO 'EOONOMDC GEOLOGY plagioclase feldspar: those with less than 40 percent of plagioclase...characteristics are usually richer in perthite, albite, muscovite, or quartz. The grain size increases |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PARAGENESIS OF THE WALDEN PEGMATITE, PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT (PART ONE) By DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum...in a number of pegmatites In the Middletown, Connecticut district indicates that there is a general trend...pegmatite was readily available. Location The Walden Quarry, or Walden Gem Mine, as it is most commonly known...AND MINERALS northeast of Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Cotton Hill Road branches off to the...degrees northeast. The pegmatite as exposed in the quarry excavation is about a hundred feet in length, but |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bornite. MINERAL LOCALITIES IN THE VICINITY TOWN, CONNECTICUT OF MIDDLE- W. G. Fol'e, Wesleyan Unhersity...paper was written. Of the many feldspar prospect-holes opened in Middlesex and adjacent portions of Hartford...Hartford counties, Connecticut, fourteen may be selected as more or less famous for the minerals they have...1). The Connecticut pegmatite dikes are composed of predominating quartz and perthitic feldspar with somemuscovite...localities are found in orthogneiss, the Pelton quarry (Locality 4), east of Collins HilI and within the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds...Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three feet in length. Haddam Neck, Connecticut...crystals have been found occasionally at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, to three inches in length. Other amethyst...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester...*"eet: was found at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm...Dorado County; 1.5 cm (55) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 8.26 cm (60) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 4.76...Dorado County; 4.29 cm (62) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.22 cm (63) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.54...WEW Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California: shown on the facing page as no. 60 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | thick. Wynne, in southern Cross County, is in eastern Arkansas. CONNECTICUTāA tiny but beautiful, black columbite..."Columbite, Arnold Quarry, Haddam, Conn. This is an active quarry operated by the Eureka Feldspar Co. of Portland...Conn."-āon label. Haddam, in central Middlesex County, is in southern Connecticut. DELAWARE ā "Enclosed...of Rt. 95 and Naaman's Rd., Claymont, New Castle County, Del."āitem from Ed Carvalho, 1307 Penna. Ave.... phāphosphoresces Claymont, in N/E New Castle County, is in northern Delaware. ILLINOISā"Enclosed are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurs as a dense, eggshell-like veneer over the County (in Eastern California), is 12 porous and fragile...Lake. interior. The blade-like crystals were CONNECTICUTā"Thought I would shown by chemical and X-ray...newberyite was later con- ner once found in Haddam Neck, Conn." firmed by its X-ray pattern and by the...evidence of "fossil" guano, nor is there Haddam Neck, in central Middlesex a measurable amount of phosphate in...diatomaceous sediments containing County, is in southern Connecticut. these specimens. ILLINOISā"Enclosed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3...Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California are noted...Buckfield, and Topsham. The Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, was famous when in operation for...found in a pocket at the Strickland Quarry, at Portland, Connecticut. California has a large number of |  | | Report (issue) | | late 2010 find in the famous Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Since showtime, at least some...production of specimens from Prospect Park. The quarry is currently in the process of being filled in...fairly common in the basalts of New Jersey and Connecticutābut you would be hard put to find more impressive...anhydrite, 8.3 cm, from the Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Mineral Classics specimen...falloutāunless you count the fact that the childrenite/feldspar specimens now on John Veevaertās Trinity Minerals |  | | Report (volume) | | DIRECTOR BULLETIN 420 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE FELDSPAR DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES BY EDSON S. BASTIN........ *...................... Minerals of the feldspar deposits............."........................................................... Androscoggin County............................................. Auburn......................................... Lincoln County ............................................................-...:.....-................. Oxford County........................;...................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists....when I visited Branchville and Ridgefield, in Connecticut, while my parents were visiting relatives in...very deformed quartz xls, from the wall of a small quarry above the main cut. I did not spend much time on...apatite. Collecting in Connecticut My next field trip during March was to the Connecticut River Valley dinosaur...rest of the day we spent at Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Did not find anything of value since |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California; and three miles west of Buntingville, Lassen County in the same state. GALENA, lead sulfide, has been...muscovite, rmcrocline, and quartz at the Strickland Quarry, Portland, ConnecĀ ticut where it is a very late...pyrite in quartz near the core in the Toll Gate Quarry at Middletown, and also at the Andrews and StrickĀ...StrickĀ land quarries at Portland in Connecticut. Masses of sphalerite to fourteen pounds in weight have...Switzerland, North Carolina. It was intergrown with albite and had partly replaced that minĀ eral. Sphalerite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gonnnc'ron. THE MINERALS OF HADDAM, CONN. Br jamss W. DAVIS. PART I. THE town of Haddam, famous the world over...location. is central in Middlesex County, of which it is the half shire town, and the county is central in the...lies on the east side of the river is called Haddam Neck. The surface of the town, on both sides of the...hundred years. Through the granite deposits of Feldspar are found and extensively quarried. The ļ¬rst mined...in 1840, by Alfred Brainerd, J r., on Had- ā dam Neck, and shipped to England. The effects of the glacial |  | | Journal (issue) | | Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds............................................ 3 Connecticut ................................................................................ 3 Hewitt Gem Quarry................................................................................... 3 Walden Gem Quarry .................................................................................... 4 Greenlaw Quarry .............................................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hampshire Greenfield, New York Middletown district, Connecticut Southern Black Hills district, South Dakota Crystal...The chrysoberyl locality is just north of Haddam, Connecticut. From the AmerĀ ican Journal of Science (1825)...volume 9, Plate II. Historical Occurrences Connecticut The first chrysoberyl specimens reported from...from the United States were collected at Haddam, Connecticut, in 1810 by Archibald Bruce, M.D., who mistook...approximately one to two miles north of Haddam on the west side of the Connecticut River. Twinned and single crystals | | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: the G illette quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut ....................................Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm...Dorado County; 1.5 cm (55) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 8.26 cm (60) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 4.76...Dorado County; 4.29 cm (62) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.22 cm (63) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.54... Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California: shown on the facing page as no. 60 |  | | Report (volume) | | (kunzite, hiddenite), zircon, and gem varieties of feldspar, topaz, and quartz. Gem stones maybe weathered...areas the largest of which appears to be a volcanic neck. The kimberlite includes breccia and tuff and weathers...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: |  | | Journal (issue) | | SLIOKY QUARTZ CRYSTAL. HA DDALI NECK, CONN. COLLECTION 01" JAMES W. DAVIS, PORT CHESTER, N. Y. aTHEeā...N0. 5 For the MINERAL COLLECTOR. THE MINERALS OF HADDAM, CONN. BY James W. DAVIS. PART II. EPIDOTE, found...Epidosyte rock. it also penetrates into an adjoining feldspar rock, but lacks the bril liancy of color of those...and of a rich ruby red color. The feldspar quarries 0f Haddam Neck all produce garnets. Some interesting...ļ¬attened crystals, are found imbedded in mica. The feldspar veins that are met with in the gneiss quarries |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | content. One such lithia mine is located in Connecticut and, while little or no lepidolite from here...information. For instance, the paper on the minerals of Haddam published some years ago in the " Mineral Collector"...Middletown topographic sheet' On the north line of Haddam or the south boundary of Chatham township a prominent...to Middle Haddam, one extending southward past Gillette's quarry to a landing opposite Haddam village,...common vein quartz. Potash feldspar is entirely absent. Clevelandite albite occurs in masses of white |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | a green rock found in Fairplay, Colo., in Park County. Would you please identify it for me?āasks Elizabeth...it is a very nice one. Fairplay, in western Park County, is in central Colorado. C O N N E C T I C U T...locality is the junction of New Rt. 9 and Rt. 81, Haddam, Conn."ā ROCKS AND MINERALS xlineācrystalline...striated. The brown feldspar (microcline) of the pegmatite display nice, black dendrites. Haddam, in central...central Middlesex Co., is in southern Connecticut. INDIANAā"Something World News. for Indiana "The Berry Construction |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Portland, Connecticut. To proceed to the locality, follow U.S. Route 6A from Middletown, Connecticut across...across the Connecticut River over the high bridge and into Portland and continue eastward from Portland along...you will find the mine (quarry). Please close all gates after you. This quarry is the newest of the lithium...lithium pegmatites to be opened up in Connecticut and anyone visting this locality after a blast is richly...minerals only present in this type of pegmatite. The quarry was opened up early in 1962 by two young miners |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to four inches in diameter occur in the Palermo quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in...Victory mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline and triphylite. DICKINSO^ITE...has been found at Branchville and Portland, Connecticut; and at Poland, Maine in lithium pegmatite. F1LLOWITE...occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate of calcium...a rare mineral at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also from Poland |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Connecticut ......... 6 Table 3 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Connecticut...................................11 Figure 4...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a...beyond the old canal. Schairer, 1931. Fairfield County. Proceed up hill Cameron, et on Portland Ave. from |
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