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New York, New York 10024
The Triassic traprock quarries of New Jersey have been a...and supplement previous publications dealing
with New Jersey traprock* minerals, especially those of
Manchester...40 traprock localities in New Jersey. This
article focuses on the Bergen Hill occurrence in the
Palisades...Lower New Street quarÂ
ries, Paterson; Warren Brothers quarry, Prospect Park;
McDowell's quarry, Upper...Upper Montclair; and the Francisco
Brothers quarry, Great Notch (Fig. 1). Several important
diabase localities |  | | Book (edition) | | Cok Tree Press
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at New Cornelia, Arizona and Santa Rita, New Mexico.
Also found as cavity...Somerville, New Jersey. In South Australia at Wallaroo
and
on Yorke
Peninsula,
and in New
South
Wales |  | | Journal (issue) | | Apophyllite and Chalcedony
Pseudoinorphs after Pectolite
Bradley D. Plotldn
bdpchab@optonline.net
In the...described
epimorphs of several minerals after pectolite hemispheres. Shortly
after that issue I had the...another such
pseudomorph to the collection. This new addition also generated
further inspiration for a...which were
pseudomorphs after pectolite. Stevensite and talc after pectolite
were omitted as these particular...a hemispherical growth of
pectolite was recently found at Prospect Park, New Jersey. The
specimen is made |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Recent Finds at the
Famous Prospect
Park Quarry
Prospect Park,
Passaic County,
New Jersey
All specimens self-collected...noted
JAMES S. ZIGRAS
171 Arundel Road
Paramus, New Jersey 07652
jzigras@hotmail.com
MATTHEW L. GORRING...Environmental Studies
Montclair State University
Montclair, New Jersey 07043
gorringm@mail.montclair.edu
Figure 1...1. Locality map, by William Besse.
he Prospect Park quarry has been producing fine
mineral specimens...minerals it is possibly the most
significant trap-rock quarry in the world. Not many
localities can boast fine |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pete J. Dunn
Famous Mineral Localities: Paterson, New Jersey................157
by Thomas A. Peters, Joseph....................................... 132
What’s New in Minerals?.......................................n .
photomicrography:
Julius Weber
Mamaroneck, New York
designed by
Wendell E. Wilson
Mineralogical...receive additional grants we would
rather use them for new projects instead of reprinting old ones.
We are content...“Descriptive Mineralogy:
Discovery and Characterization of New Minerals.”
Papers are solicited for both the general |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Victoria
GPO Box 666
Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia
dhenry@museum.vic.gov.au
D
efining “classic”...synonymous with Australia (see
Pecover in press) and that Broken Hill in western New South
Wales is our No...diversity of species (see
Birch in press). New South Wales can claim ownership of several
other occurrences...Elura lead-zinc-silver deposit in western New South Wales
has produced superb groups of green mimetite...(Chapman and Scott 2005). The
New England region of northeastern New South Wales is
famous for molybdenite |  | | Journal (issue) | | France
Bill Birch
Museum of Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
Richard C. Erd
U.S. Geological Survey
Menlo Park...Alves
Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite,
Oxford County, Maine ..........................................Holden, Jr.
Minerals of the Prospect Intrusion,
New South Wales, Australia .............................Copper roses from the Rose mine,
near San Lorenzo, New Mexico ............................................of molybdofornacite
from Whim Creek, Western Australia ............................................ 203 |  | | Book (volume) | | the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust
long spurs...the color of
the rainbow.
The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood.
BUFFALO COUNTY
KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood.
CASS COUNTY
WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarryď‚ľ
chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils.
CHERRY COUNTY
VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza |  | | Book (volume) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet
thick in the north.
ALEXANDER COUNTY
FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d
RR siding of Clay⎯agate.
CALHOUN COUNTY
AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals).
CRAWFORD COUNTY
PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite.
EDWARDS COUNTY
AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite.
FULTON COUNTY
FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized
gastropods (Pennsylvanian age).
GRUNDY COUNTY
AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet
thick in the north.
ALEXANDER COUNTY
FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d
RR siding of Clay⎯agate.
CALHOUN COUNTY
AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals).
CRAWFORD COUNTY
PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite.
EDWARDS COUNTY
AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite.
FULTON COUNTY
FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized
gastropods (Pennsylvanian age).
GRUNDY COUNTY
AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Journal (issue) | | LRS Laser Raman spectroscopy
w Listed in What's New in Minerals
XRD X-ray powder diffraction data
ARTICLES:...from the tin deposits of Elsmore, New England district of
New South Wales. Rankin, John, Sharpe, James L...7(1):15-17
Bismoclite from the Leinster area, Western Australia. Grguric, Ben A.
and Madsen, Ian C. 8(2):83-8S...associated minerals from the Barrington Tops area, New
South Wales. Graham, Ian T., Pogson, Ross E. and Colchester...Siderite and associated minerals from Bendalong, New South.Wales.
Graham, Ian T., Colchester, David, Cendon |  | | Other Paper | | MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS:
COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS,
STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS...and
J. Michael Howard
MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS:
COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS.... 17
Kimzey Calcite Quarry………………………………………………………. 18
Perovskite Hill………………………………………………………………....Locations………………………………………………………………... 21
Diamond Jo Quarry…………………………………………………………... 21
Eudialyte Syenite...………………………….. 24
Martin Marietta Jones Mill Quarry………………………………………….. 27
Pseudoleucite Crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Road, Cambridge, glauconite,
373
Carrock Fell, Cumberland, tsumebite, I76
Gipsy Land, Leicester, chernovite...epidote,
hornblende, diopsite, 427
Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, danburite, 171; durangite, I72
Chycornish...Crowns Rock, St. Just, Land's End, garnet, 427
Dean quarry, The Lizard, djurle'ite, I72; analcime, adularia...axinite, epidote, apatite,
hornblende, diopside, 427
South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, francevillite...penwithite (= neotocite), 279 and M26
Devon
Meldon quarry, Okehampton, greenovite, 172; priceite, 175
Ramsley |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | radiation; yellow-green fluorescence characterizes some
New Jersey datolite.
Datolite is commonly seen in monoclinic...anhydrite and glauberite are well known
from several New Jersey localities, and datolite after quartz
is reported...with natrolite, analcime, stilbite, heulandite, pectolite, apophyllite, calcite,, and quartz,
and its crystal...localities such as the
Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite...Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens
were also found at the Notch quarry at nearby Amherst |  | | Book | | Tudith L. Vozza
F. Silva Printing
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LOCATIONS:
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NEW' JERSEY
Bergen Hill, Snake Hill, Paterson, New Street
Quarries, Upper Montclair...MICHIGAN
Houghton County,
Park
Cowlitz County,
Keeneenan
Highwood
Mts.
County
CANADA
NOVASCOTIA...Kilpatrick
Hills
Austrian Tyrol, Seiser Alm, South Tyrol
Caslav,
St. Andreasberg,
ASIA
-2-
Bohemia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rocks or diabases and pillow basalts
of northeastern New Jersey. It has been collected here since
the first...stilbite,
heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, chabazite, and...across associated with natrolite
sprays, calcite, pectolite, apophyllite, and pale green datolite
are recorded...from the railroad tunnels through Bergen Hill,
Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected...and Weehawken
areas and quarries at Snake Hill, Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been |  | | Book (volume) | | MineralogicalRecord.com
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IIMORIITE-(Y)
EUROPE
FRANCE
Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the
beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well
known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ).
AFRICA
widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from
quartz veins...exist in the
region (Brunet, I 977b ).
NEW YORK
Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites
between...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from
somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | australianmuseum.net.au
6 College Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia
MINERALOGICAL NOTES. No. VI.~
By T. HODGE-SMI'l'H...Yfoljmmite, New South Wales.
Apophyllite, New South Wales.
Cassiterite, Emmaville, New South Wales.
Phosphate...Phosphate Deposit, Cathcart, New South Wales.
Microlite, Euriowie, New South Wales.
Scheelite, Hatcher's Creek...Finniss River, Northern Territory.
Wolframite.
New South Wales.
(Figs. 1-10.)
Two contributions have been...of the minerals of the
woIframite series in New South Wales. Mr. George Smith (1936, p. 132) makes the |  | | Report (issue) | | ======================================ď‚Ą
What’s New in the Mineral World?
Report #28
May 28, 2011
by...noted, and of course there
are a few interesting new items as well. And, as has been happening quite a...late 2010 find in the famous Prospect
Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Since showtime, at least...appropriate that
the Kosnars should have taken over the Prospect Park treasures, as their late father
Richard,... although he later moved on to Colorado, was a New Jersey native and showed
the boys, early in life, |  | | Book | | decade, however, the need has been
growing for a new, comprehensive index. Because the 14-year
index suffered...
Consequently, it was our decision to prepare a new index which
is cumulative back to volume 1, fully...the 14-year
index, and which is organized on a new plan. Nevertheless, all
readers and users of the...the last ten years, and which has inspired this
new effort.
The current 25-year index is divided into...appears
n
Brief descriptive note, as in "What's New in
Minerals?"
p
Photograph or other illustration |  | | Journal (issue) | | same for distribution; to encourage
the search for new minerals that have
not yet been d iscovered; and...Association by nominating them for
membership?
Each new member helps to extend the'
Association's activities--helps...eont2--'4 /""' -Aur;u4i, 191/-1
CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................RELATED SILICATES. By ,,t. Allen N orth11p 27r,,
NEW ENGLAND NOTES. Co11d11cted by R11dolf C. B. Bartsch...Benedict P. Bagro11 ski.. 283
GREEN STILBITE FOUND AT PROSPECT PARK Q UARRY. By
Chas. F. Dieg11a11 ......... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences
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Abbreviations: xl-...quartz. Clora May Mine, Trout
Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colo."
The locality is described in Prof. Richard... 109 as follows:
"The Clora May quarry stands at the
top of the hill. It consists of an opencut over...white quartz float lies on the steep
slope of the hill. The country rock is a
dark quartz-mica schist....sells
for $3.95 and published by Sage Books,
2679 South York Street, Denver, Colo.
80210 (22 photos, 55 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | localities, and authors mentioned in the 3oth List of new mineral names are not included in this Index,
nor...Alabandine, I.R. spectrum, 277 and MI7
ALABASTER(C.), A new wulfenite locality near Bristol, 298
Albite, Greenland...aureole, Cornwall,
427
Alice Mary copper mine, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369
Alkali feldspar, Greenland, solvus...determination in pumice by X-ray
diffractometry, io3; New South Wales, sedimentary,
partial anal., cell-size, opt...transformation to mullite and
silica, 195
Andradite, New Zealand, anal., M 14; stannian, from a tin
slag, |  | | Journal (issue) | |
The Mineral Collector's Newsletter
$3.00
A ''New'' Discovery of
Philipsbornite and Segnitite
Two rare...after Pectolite
Bradley D. Plotkin
bdpchab@optonline.net
In one of my cabinets is an old Prospect Park...Park (New Jersey)
specimen from the Joe Cilen Collection. It is Cilen #1697 and
labeled "Prehnite after...the mystery.
(Continues on page 3)
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A "New" Discovery of
Philipsbornite and Segnitite
(Continued...Diffraction
(XRD) confirmed the material as segnitite, new for the locality and
quite similar in appearance |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Prospect Alkaline Diabase-Picrite Intrusion
New South Wales, Australia
by H. G. WILSHIRE 1
Australian...Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
WITH FOUR PLATES
1
Present address: U.S. Geological...University of Sussex on August 23, 2015
ABSTRACT
The Prospect intrusion is a dish-shaped alkaline diabase-picrite...Brisbane I
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