| THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- 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............. |
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(2023, December) Mineral News Vol. 39 (12) Excalibur Mineral Corp. |
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| 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia... If you have ever had the desire to detonate a quarry blast or create an earthquake you will be able...Figure 7—Manganoan Calcite – Montreal Mine (Iron County, WI). Figure 3 (left) - “Wonderful World of Agates”...mineral specimens from the Montreal Mine (Iron County, Wisconsin). Most of the specimens came from the...An unusual specimen from the Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, Wisconsin) is a sheet copper (figure 6). One of |
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Foye, Wilbur G. (1922) Mineral localities in the vicinity of Middletown, Connecticut. American Mineralogist, 7 (1) 4-12 |
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| VICINITY TOWN, CONNECTICUT OF MIDDLE- W. G. Fol'e, Wesleyan Unhersity A few of the pegmatite quarries in...prospect-holes opened in Middlesex and adjacent portions of Hartford counties, Connecticut, fourteen may be selected...Wesleyan University (Locality 18, Fig. 1). The Connecticut pegmatite dikes are composed of predominating quartz...found in orthogneiss, the Pelton quarry (Locality 4), east of Collins HilI and within the Glastonbury...beryl has been taken (Locality 9) near the Gillette quarry, south of Haddam Neck. These facts attain greater |
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(2019, September) Newsletter Vol. 49 (3) Friends of Mineralogy |
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| Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.................................... 2 Himalaya pegmatite,.................................................................................. 2 Unnamed pegmatite occurrence, Volcan Mountains ........................................... 3 Brown Derby no. 1 pegmatite ........................................................................... 3 Connecticut .......................................................... |
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(1937, May) Rocks and Minerals Vol. 12 (5) Peter Zodac |
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| 1937 . . CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1937 Chips from the Quarry ......................................................................... Minerals of the Strickland Quarry. By Peter Zodac ........................ Wesleyan...Members ............ Some Mineral Localities Near Portland, Conn. .................................... The...Auoc:iatlon 130 ROCKS and MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY (Formerly the Bulletin Board) A NEW LAPIDARY MACHINE...ASSOOIATIO!II }8 WHOLE No. 70 MINERALS OF THE STRICKLAND QUARRY By PETER ZODAC Editor "Rocks and Minerals" |
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Schooner, Richard (1955) 90 Minerals from 1 Connecticut Hill. Rocks & Minerals, 30 (7) 351-358 doi:10.1080/00357529.1955.11767837 |
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| MINERALS FROM 1 CONNECTICUT HILL By Richard Schooner P. O. Box 215 East Hampton, Conn. Collins Hill, in the...the town of Portland, undoubtedly represents the most remarkably mineralized area, of its size, in southern...southern New England. The hill is not especially large, but several different formtions are present, and...has been done on the giant pegmatite at the summit. The Strickland Quarry is enormous, consisting of...treats it as a northern continuation of the Strickland Quarry. The accompanying map should furnish whatever |
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Weber, Marcelle H., Sullivan, Earle C. (1995) Connecticut Mineral Locality Index. Rocks & Minerals, 70 (6) 396-409 doi:10.1080/00357529.1995.11761569 |
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| 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 per 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 |
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(2023) Lithiophilite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America |
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| Li(Mn2+ , Fe2+ )PO4 Lithiophilite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...Pattern: Outpost mine, White Picacho district, Arizona, USA. 2.548 (100), 3.051 (89), 3.516 (71), 4.313 (56)...0] 100.00 (1) Buckfield, Maine, USA. (2) Foote mine, North Carolina, USA; by electron microprobe, total...In the USA, from Branchville, Fairfield Co., and in the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex Co., Connecticut;...Manitoba. From the Mangualde pegmatite, near Mesquitela, and the Bendada pegmatite, near Guarda, Portugal. |
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Seaman, David M. (1955) Pegmatite Minerals of the United States. Rocks & Minerals, 30 (3) 137-140 doi:10.1080/00357529.1955.11767799 |
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| PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 23:09 04 August 2017...pegmatites. It has been found at the Andrews quarry, Portland, Connecticut; with monazite crystals at 185th Street...New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne Canyon...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near |
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Seaman, David M., Weber, Julius (1970) The Paragenesis of the Walden Pegmatite, Portland, Connecticut. Rocks & Minerals, 45 (10) 595-600 doi:10.1080/00357529.1970.11763932 |
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| THE PARAGENESIS OF THE WALDEN PEGMATITE, PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT (PART III) (Continued from last issue)...Weber, Mamaroneck, N. Y. Quartz in soda-lithium pegmatite is generally much less abundant than the cleavelandite...in the lithium replacement body in the Walden pegmatite appears to be: first, caesium beryl, either morganite...inter-grown with c/eavelandite Irom the Walden Quarry, Poriland, Conn"ecticut. ROCKS AND MINERALS 595...have penetrated into exposed areas in the Walden pegmatite, chiefly along fractures. They have caused some |
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(1939) 35th New England Intercollegiate Geological Excursion: Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, October 20, 21, 22, 1939, in New England Intercollegiate Geological Excursion Conference Guidebook. NEIGC. |
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| EXCURSION Host College-TRINITY COLLEGE,Hartford,Connecticut assisted by Wesleyan and Yale Universities October...Crystallines between Bolton Notch and Portland,including visits to pegmatite quarries, Trip D.- West wall of...in miles Minutes, Travel, Talk. 15 7 Newington Quarry. - - Back to highway, 6a.- - 1 Now Britain Cut-off...8 Back to intersection.- - - - 2 Farmington Quarry, spatter cone, (11/2- mi . E. of Farmington) 3...Announcements: Saturday: Longwell trip, meet at Portland Bridge, at8 :30A.M. Flint trip, meet at the |
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(2023) Hureaulite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America |
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| Powder Pattern: Stewart mine, Pala, California, USA. (ICDD 34-146). 3.152 (100), 8.09 (70), 2.992 (65)...in complex granite pegmatites. Association: Lithiophilite, triphylite, heterosite, rockbridgeite, cacoxenite...in the La Vilate quarry, near Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne. At the Mangualde pegmatite, near Mesquitela...Hühnerkobel, near Zwiesel, Bavaria. In the Varuträsk pegmatite, 15 km northwest of Skellefteå, Västerbotten...Viitaniemi pegmatite, near Eräjärvi, Finland. In the USA, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex |
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(2023, September) Mineral News Vol. 39 (9) Excalibur Mineral Corp. |
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| Institute of Mineralogy dba Mindat.org 1113 Cambridge Hill Lane, Keswick, VA 22947 info@hudsonmineralogy.org...full year (12 color issues) is just $35.00 in the USA. Mineral News 1885 Seminole Trail—Ste 202—Charlottesville...are located near the town of Corona in Lincoln County. Since 1881, the area has seen sporadic mining...buyer may be a Col. Griffin of Santa Fe (Lincoln County Leader, September 1, 1883), but the collection’s...wrote the following description in the Lincoln County Leader, Aug. 11,1883: Vol. 39 No. 9 September |
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Schairer, J. F. (1926) Lithiophilite and other rare phosphates from Portland, Connecticut. American Mineralogist, 11 (4) 101-103 |
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| Porcelain Company. LITHIOPHILITE AND OTHER RARE PHOSPHATES FROM PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT* J. F. Scu.nrnon...paragenesisof the pegmatite at the Strickland Quarry, Collins HiIl, Portland, Connecticut, several lithium...together are spodumene, lepidolite, manganapatite, lithiophilite, dickinsonite and hureaulite in albite and quartz...dickirisonite and hureaulite are found with the lithiophilite which is itself not abundant. W. G. Foyel has...has reported the occurrenceof lithiophilite from this locality but gives no data. Through the generosity |
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Peck, Albert B. (1926) Dumortierite as a commercial mineral. American Mineralogist, 11 (4) 96-100 |
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| of dumortierite in an altered trachyte at Lincoln Hill, which is considerably to the southeast of the dumortierite...Porcelain Company. LITHIOPHILITE AND OTHER RARE PHOSPHATES FROM PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT* J. F. Scu.nrnon...paragenesisof the pegmatite at the Strickland Quarry, Collins HiIl, Portland, Connecticut, several lithium...together are spodumene, lepidolite, manganapatite, lithiophilite, dickinsonite and hureaulite in albite and quartz...dickirisonite and hureaulite are found with the lithiophilite which is itself not abundant. W. G. Foyel has |
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(2023, July) Mineral News Vol. 39 (7) Excalibur Mineral Corp. |
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| Kaminski, Terry (2011), Copper Mines of Houghton County, Michigan, p. 18-20 Painesdale Mine and Shaft,...Schooner, the person who knew more about central Connecticut mineralogy than anyone else of his day, and the...1984 Dear Tony, Last week I got back to the Strickland quarry. On the remains of that old dump, bulldozed...than lithiophilite. Well, the Seventh Edition of “Dana’s System” clearly states that the Strickland quarry...etc.) must have come from the portion of the pegmatite represented by the dump in question. The triplite |
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(1973) May - June 1973. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 4 (3) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Richard A. Bideaux M ineralogist feature articles Pegmatite Phosphates: Descriptive Mineralogy and Crystal...hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and... New York; the exhibition of the New Haven, Connecticut, Mineral Society; or the Annual meeting of the...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road |
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Jarnot, Bruce (1995) A Checklist Minerals of Connecticut. Rocks & Minerals, 70 (6) 386-389 doi:10.1080/00357529.1995.11761566 |
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| A Checklist Minerals of Connecticut Although perhaps best known for its garnet, chalcocite, and tourmaline...tourmaline, Connecticut also boasts many other mineral species. BRUCEJARNOT R O . B o x 627 M a r t i n...e , N e w J e r s e y 08836 T he study of Connecticut minerals has enjoyed a long peri od of attention...reviews of this mineral list. Dr. Bruce Jarnot, a Connecticut native, has avidly collected both minerals and...collections of Connecticut gems and minerals in existence. 386 R O C K S & MINERALS Two Connecticut localities |
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(2023, November) Mineral News Vol. 39 (11) Excalibur Mineral Corp. |
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| in Nevada. Alabandite from the George Nolan Pegmatite Bikita, Masvingo, Zimbabwe Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburineral...educator, geologist, petrologist, field collector, pegmatite and uranium mineral expert and more. He traveled...Page Page 3 Alabandite from the George Nolan Pegmatite (Continued from page 1) From 1953 to 1963, Northern...three Heinrich specimens from the George Nolan pegmatite in Bikita, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) that...lot of tantalite specimens from the ‘Geo. Nolan _Pegmatite_” was surprisingly precise, and I had no knowledge |
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Seaman, David M. (1960) Pegmatite Minerals of the United States. Rocks & Minerals, 35 (1) 13-18 doi:10.1080/00357529.1960.11766548 |
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| PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York...found in all types of pegmatite from the common granite type to the lithium pegmatite. Many localities have...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...School Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California |
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(1942, August) Rocks and Minerals Vol. 17 (8) Peter Zodac |
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| etHCk.Hld /o1t, ,A149u41, 19112. CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ........................................................ RECENT FINDS OF MINERALS IN CENTRAL CONNECTICUT . 1 270 271 276 276 277 278 279 By L. W. Li1tle...Auociatlo11 270 ROCKS AND MINERALS Chips From Tlte Quarry ROCKS AND M I NERALS IS CENSORED FOR FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION...consists of the following in ascending order: the Middlesex black shale, the Cashaqua shale the Rhinestreet...found in the Cashaqua but th.ey occur in the Middlesex and the Hatch beds and in immense numbers particularly |
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Cameron, Eugene N., , (1954) Pegmatite investigations, 1942-45, in New England. Professional Paper 255. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp255 |
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| Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...______________________________________ _ Location of pegmatite districts ___________________ _ Previous work...Acknowledgments ______________________________ _ History of pegmatite mining inN ew England _______ _ Mica mining _...deposits _______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic...________________________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ______ |
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Tacker, R. Chris (2004) Hydroxyl ordering in igneous apatite. American Mineralogist, 89 (10) 1411-1421 doi:10.2138/am-2004-1008 |
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| Oklahoma. The pegmatites were the Bennett pegmatite mine, Oxford County, Maine (Wise et al. 1994; Wise and Rose...Harding pegmatite, Taos County, New Mexico (Chakoumakos and Lumpkin 1990); _Strickland_-Cramer pegmatite, Portland...Portland, Connecticut; Midnight Owl pegmatite, White Picacho District, Arizona (London and Burt 1982);...Mountain pegmatite, Rumford, Maine (Brown and Wise 2001); and the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine...the Kola Peninsula and from the Black Mountain pegmatite, where small OHCl peaks are observed, but no Cl |
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(1936) Proceedings of societies. American Mineralogist, 21 (12) 815-816 |
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| natrolite, pectolite, prehnite), Strickland's Quarry (green tourmaline, columbite, garnet); and by Mr...Mr. Moyd, above the Easton Verdolite Quarry (smoky quartz). W. H. Fracr, Secretary Academy oJ Natural...to examine a fluorspar deposit; Louis Moyd, Goat Hill and Bernardsville, 816 TH E A M ERICA N M I N...apatite, and uranium minerals. A new mine in Ash County is reported to yield large beryl crystals with...H. Pough described two trips to the Strickland Quarrf, Portland, Conn., where some rare minerals were |
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(1943, July) Rocks and Minerals Vol. 18 (7) Peter Zodac |
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| July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...granite pegmatites are the most common type of pegmatite. They are igneous dikes or \Teins essentially...The largest crystal in the world ·was found in pegmatite. It was a perthitic microcline crystal measuring |
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