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Pierre Joubert
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Posted: Dec 18, 2012 03:12 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Superb specimens!!! I especially like the prehnite-LNSPrehnite5.jpg. It reminds me of the Brandberg prehnite.
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Frank Imbriacco
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Posted: Dec 18, 2012 16:19 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Part 3 of minerals from my New Jersey traprock collection.
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Prehnite and calcite Weldon Quarry, Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 12.5 x 8.6 cm Calcite crystals to 3.2 cm on prehnite epimorphs after glauberite |
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Stilbite and heulandite Weldon Quarry, Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 11.2 x 8.8 cm Stilbite spheres to 3.5 cm with heulandite, albite, and calcite |
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Calcite and stilbite Trap Rock Industries Moores Station Quarry, Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA 6.8 x 4.4 cm Twinned calcite crystals to 1.7 cm on stilbite |
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Apophyllite Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 8.8 x 7 cm A 5 cm apophyllite crystal with stilbite and calcite |
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Chabazite Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 10.5 x 8.3 cm Chabazite crystals to 1.2 cm on quartz |
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Stilbite Summit Quarry, Springfield, Union County, New Jersey, USA 6 x 4.5 cm A 2.5 cm stilbite sphere with heulandite and prehnite |
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Pectolite and natrolite Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 7.9 x 4.4 cm Pectolite spheres to 1.6 cm with natrolite |
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Natrolite Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 7.6 x 7 cm Natrolite spheres to 1.5 cm on scoria |
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Heulandite and stilbite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 7.8 x 5.4 cm Red heulandite crystals to 1.8 cm with stilbite, calcite and laumontite |
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Apophyllite Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 5.5 x 4 cm Tabular apophyllite crystals to 3.2 cm on datolite |
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John Medici
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Posted: Jan 17, 2013 04:21 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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It has been great seeing specimens from my old stomping grounds. Great job, guys, and great pictures! I lived in North Jersey for my first 26 years, but only started collecting seriously during my last year in grad. school (Rutgers, 1964). I lived only 5 minutes from Chimney Rock quarry, but spent more time hunting carnelian a little north of there (see Lapis, Jg.27, Nr.6). Although I left NJ a long time ago, I have been back many times since then, collecting and visiting family (both mine and my wife's). One of my specialties has been prehnite, an interest developed heavily during my first 3 years of collecting in the northern Jersey trap rocks and those of northern Virginia, especially Centreville, In order to not be repetitious, I will try to add a few interesting things, and I apologize for some of the photography since a lot of it has been taken more for record keeping than for publication.
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John Sinkankas, age 10, Paterson, New Jersey John Sinkankas grew up in Paterson - no wonder he developed a keen interest in minerals since North Jersey is so prolific in them. When he gave me this early picture, he said he eventually flew the plane the model of which he is holding. |
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Quartz and Glauberite West Paterson, New Jersey, USA These are a curiosity in this locale. quartz @ glauberite (Excalibur) |
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Calcite Snake Hill (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA Calcite (hematite-coated). Longest crystal 1.5 cm Snake hill was an isolated igneous hill in the meadowlands of northeastern NJ. It was completely leveled by quarrying, but in the process many interesting minerals were found. It is not far from an old clay pit in Moonachie where I have taken my family to collect clay concretions. |
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Apophyllite, Natrolite and Galena Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA Apophyllite on natrolite & galena |
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Natrolite Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA 1 cm |
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Apophyllite and Pectolite Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA 2 cm long added note on Snake Hill - galena and magnetite are uncommon in the rest of NJ trap rocks. Snake Hill has also produced some interesting micros. |
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Quartz (smoky) Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA 30 cm across This specimen was collected by Gene Vitali pre-1950 I believe; he called it "blueberry pie". |
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Franklin club field trip around 1967 Noble pit - Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, NJ My hammer was stolen on this trip, but I still found a floater jeffersonite and a decent franklinite crystal. Many of my early pictures have not been converted to digital form. I'm working on that. (This picture appeared on the cover of the Franklin "Picking Table" a few years back) |
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Copper Chimney Rock quarry, Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA 8.5X6.8 cm The Chimney Rock quarry was on the site of an old copper mine. A copper chunk around 90 lbs. jammed the crusher during the quarrying operation. I believe it is still in the Rutgers collection. During my collecting there, I found mainly calcites, analcimes, traces of copper minerals and a prehnite or two. |
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Chalcopyrite and Bornite Chimney Rock quarry, Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA 8X6.5 cm chalcopyrite altering to bornite |
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Frank Imbriacco
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Posted: Jan 18, 2013 19:03 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Part 4 of minerals from my New Jersey traprock collection.
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Pectolite and datolite Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 6 x 5 cm Pink pectolite spheres on datolite peppered with micro hematite crystals |
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Prehnite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 13.3 x 9.6 cm Prehnite epimorphs after anhydrite |
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Datolite and calcite Weldon Quarry, Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 9.6 x 8.6 cm Datolite crystals to 2.9 cm with calcite cubes |
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Apophyllite Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 7 x 5 cm Apophyllite crystals to 6.8 cm with pyrite inclusions, on datolite |
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Prehnite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 3.5 x 3.2 cm Prehnite sphere with micro calcite crystals |
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Stilbite and heulandite Braen Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 5.9 x 4.7 cm Stilbite spheres with heulandite |
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Calcite, heulandite and chabazite Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 7 x 4.4 cm A 5 cm butterfly twin calcite crystal with heulandite, chabazite and datolite |
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Prehnite and calcite Weldon Quarry, Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey 8.2 x 6.5 cm A prehnite coated calcite rhombohedron with prehnite after glauberite epimorphs, sandwiched by a 6 cm second generation calcite crystal |
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Stilbite and heulandite Trap Rock Industries Moores Station Quarry, Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA 5.5 x 5.4 cm A 3 cm stilbite wheel with micro heulandite crystals |
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Prehnite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 10.3 x 7.2 cm Prehnite epimorphs after anhydrite covered with lustrous calcite crystals |
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Antonio Alcaide
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Posted: Jan 19, 2013 03:32 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Fantastic thread. Thanks for your contributions, Frank and John.
Frank, your shots are stunning for everybody fascinated by American zeolites like me. And the specimens have an "old flavor" I especially like.
The tabular apophyllite from Millington quarry is excellent.
John, thanks a lot for sharing the young Sinkankas' picture. I am a humble reader of his work. And the 1967 field trip makes me deeply nostalgic. The worst nostalgia is caused by the times -or the things- we did not know (I was born in that year).
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Jan 19, 2013 06:46 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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I love the pink Pectolite! ;-)
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John Medici
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Posted: Jan 28, 2013 00:33 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Antonio Alcaide wrote: | Fantastic thread. Thanks for your contributions, Frank and John.
Frank, your shots are stunning for everybody fascinated by American zeolites like me. And the specimens have an "old flavor" I especially like.
The tabular apophyllite from Millington quarry is excellent.
John, thanks a lot for sharing the young Sinkankas' picture. I am a humble reader of his work. And the 1967 field trip makes me deeply nostalgic. The worst nostalgia is caused by the times -or the things- we did not know (I was born in that year).
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Antonio, FMF has been great for me to also renew memories of the past. My mother took me to see some of the last dump trucks dumping gangue minerals into the Franklin Buckwheat dump (1940's - wish I had started collecting then!). She knew very little about minerals but did take me to the Museum of Natural History in New York and gave me a small fluorescent mineral set with an antique UV light plus a George English book on minerals when I was in grade school, but my active field collecting did not start until many years later (1964). A few more NJ minerals follow.
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"Christmas tree ore" (rarified zinc ore) Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey, USA 18 cm wide Two types of this ore adjacent to one another - collected by Dick Hauck et al., 2012. (SW UV) |
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Zincite, Willemite, Calcite Franklin, New Jersey, USA 16 cm |
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Vivianite and calcite-replaced belemnites Mullica Hill (vivianite) and Arneytown, New Jersey, USA 13.5, 8.5, 5.3 cm long, resp. The vivianite replaced fossils are unusual (crystals showing in smaller one). Calcite replacements are common in the US, as is opal in Australia. |
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"Chimney Rock (quarry in back) (1964) Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA I lived in south Bound Brook for a couple of years. |
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Natrolite with Prehnite & Laumontite Sowerbutt Quarry, Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA 6 cm across I collected this at the top of a quarry bench. When the overseer realized that numerous pockets of natrolites were there, I was ushered away from there (He collected and sold minerals on the side.). |
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Prehnite Sowerbutt Quarry, Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA 6 cm across (back of the natrolite specimen). A "floater" - most trap rock minerals in this North Jersey area are much harder to collect intact! |
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Gmelinite, Analcime, Apophyllite on Datolite Francisco Bros. quarry, Great Notch, New Jersey, USA 5.2 cm high (cast after anhydrite). This was on the (underexposed) cover of the Rocks & Minerals issue on NJ traprock minerals (1984). |
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Frank Imbriacco
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Posted: Feb 01, 2013 11:56 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Part 5 of my New Jersey traprock collection. I'm glad others have enjoyed seeing them.
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Copper Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 5 x 5 cm Crystallized copper with chrysocolla |
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Pectolite and datolite Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 7.3 x 6.2 cm Pectolite spheres to 1.5 cm on datolite |
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Stilbite McDowell's Quarry, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA 7.3 x 5 cm 3 cm stilbite sphere with micro calcite crystals |
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Prehnite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 14.2 x 8.8 cm Blue prehnite spheres to 1.3 cm with calcite, caused by a coating of pumpellyite |
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Analcime Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 3.8 x 3.8 cm 2.5 cm analcime crystal with albite |
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Apophyllite and pectolite Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 8 x 5.9 cm Striated apophyllite crystals to 1.9 cm on pectolite |
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Stilbite Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 6.8 x 6.3 cm Stilbite bow tie with calcite and laumontite |
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Natrolite and pectolite Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA 5 x 4.2 cm Natrolite crystals to 2.5 cm on pectolite |
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Chalcopyrite Laurel Hill, Secaucus, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA 6.5 x 6.3 cm Crystallized chalcopyrite from a clay-filled vein in the sandstone underlying the diabase |
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Heulandite and quartz Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 8.8 x 6.4 cm Heulandite crystals to 3.7 cm on quartz with laumontite |
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Prehnite Lower New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 6 x 4.7 cm Prehnite epimorphs after anhydrite |
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GneissWare
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Posted: Feb 01, 2013 13:01 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Frank,
Excellent specimens. What a killer analcime.
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John Medici
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Posted: Feb 02, 2013 23:29 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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A token prehnite.
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Prehnite Millington, New Jersey, USA 1.8 cm ring This one looks like it originally formed on an anhydrite (small cast is present which terminates the 2nd ring). |
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Frank Imbriacco
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Posted: Feb 18, 2013 16:28 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Several goodies from the famous Prospect Park Quarry which ceased operations in 2011.
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Mesolite & prehnite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 15.5 x 9.9 cm A 6.7 cm mesolite sphere on prehnite, formerly in the U.S. National Museum, and pictured on p.178 of the May-June 1978 issue of the Mineralogical Record. |
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Stilbite & heulandite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 17.2 x 12.1 cm Stilbite half bow ties on heulandite |
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Analcime & laumontite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 4.7 x 3.8 cm A 3.5 cm analcime crystal with laumontite and calcite |
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Frank Imbriacco
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Posted: Dec 22, 2013 20:42 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Recent additions to my New Jersey traprock collection.
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Stilbite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 9.7 x 6.2 cm Lustrous, chocolate stilbite with prehnite and calcite |
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Heulandite & pectolite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 7.1 x 4.9 cm Green heulandite crystals to 3.1 cm on pectolite; the specimen is pictured on page 1702 of the November 1978 issue of the Lapidary Journal. |
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Apophyllite, datolite & pectolite Francisco Brothers Quarry, Great Notch, Little Falls, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 13.2 x 9.9 cm Apophyllite crystals to 3.4 cm with datolite on pectolite; previously in the American Museum of Natural History, and pictured on page 37 of Trap Rock Minerals of New Jersey. |
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Stilbite Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA 4.1 x 3.5 cm 3 cm stilbite half bow tie with heulandite |
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Frank Imbriacco
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Posted: Oct 21, 2015 18:27 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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New Jersey traprock collection additions for 2014 to 2015.
Mineral: | Pectolite and Datolite |
Locality: | Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 8.5 x 7.3 cm |
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Pink pectolite spheres to 2.8 cm coated with micro apophyllite, prehnite, hematite and calcite crystals, on datolite |
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Frank Imbriacco
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Posted: Oct 21, 2015 18:36 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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New Jersey traprock collection additions for 2014 to 2015.
Mineral: | Thomsonite and Pectolite |
Locality: | Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 6.1 x 5.7 cm |
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Thomsonite clusters to 3.7 cm on pectolite |
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Mineral: | Analcime and Pectolite |
Locality: | Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 10.6 x 9.1 cm |
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Analcime crystals to 3.1 cm on pectolite |
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Mineral: | Heulandite and Quartz |
Locality: | Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 9.6 x 6.3 cm |
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Heulandite crystals to 3.7 cm on quartz |
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Mineral: | Chalcocite |
Locality: | Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 9.6 x 5.8 cm |
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9.6 cm chalcocite crystal with chrysocolla on mudrock |
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Mineral: | Datolite and Prehnite |
Locality: | Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 9.5 x 6.2 cm |
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Frosted faced datolite crystals to 2.8 cm with prehnite spheres |
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Mineral: | Stilbite |
Locality: | Braen Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 6.5 x 6.0 cm |
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2.7 cm stilbite sphere on scoria |
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Mineral: | Stilbite |
Locality: | Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 7.5 x 6.7 cm |
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7.5 cm stilbite bow tie with micro heulandite |
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Mineral: | Stilbite |
Locality: | Braen Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 4.5 x 3.5 cm |
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3.5 cm stilbite sphere on scoria |
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Mineral: | Natrolite |
Locality: | Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 5.8 x 3.3 cm |
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3.2 cm natrolite sphere on calcite |
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Mineral: | Stilbite and Albite |
Locality: | Houdaille Quarry, Springfield, Union County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 7.6 x 6.2 cm |
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3.4 cm stilbite sphere with albite and heulandite; former Paterson Museum specimen |
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Mineral: | Quartz and Calcite |
Locality: | Houdaille Quarry, Little Falls, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 6.5 x 5.5 cm |
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2.4 cm smoky quartz crystal coated with micro goethite crystals |
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kushmeja
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Posted: Oct 22, 2015 09:35 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Gorgeous specimens! Especially that Thomsonite on Pectolite!
Thanks for the pics!
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Frank Imbriacco
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Posted: Dec 19, 2015 20:24 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Larger than what I typically collect, this top tier New Jersey prehnite was recently brokered to the Robert Batic collection.
Mineral: | Prehnite epimorphic on Anhydrite with Laumontite |
Locality: | Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 27.5 x 19.8 x 14.2 cm |
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A 15.5 cm prehnite epimorph after anhydrite on globular prehnite with laumonite that was formerly in the U.S. National Museum. |
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Frank Imbriacco
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Posted: Dec 15, 2017 17:20 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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The newest and only addition to my New Jersey traprock collection for 2017.
Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Houdaille Quarry, Little Falls, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 12.4 x 7.6 x 8.5 cm |
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Twinned calcite crystals to 6.5 cm sitting atop smaller, lighter crystals, formerly in the Norm and Roz Pellman #825 and Stephen Pochek collections. |
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kushmeja
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Posted: Dec 15, 2017 17:33 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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That is a truly stunning calcite, especially for NJ!
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Tobi
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Posted: Dec 16, 2017 05:35 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Frank Imbriacco wrote: | The newest and only addition to my New Jersey traprock collection for 2017.
Calcite
Houdaille Quarry, Little Falls, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
12.4 x 7.6 x 8.5 cm
Twinned calcite crystals to 6.5 cm sitting atop smaller, lighter crystals, formerly in the Norm and Roz Pellman #825 and Stephen Pochek collections. | An outstanding calcite specimen, Frank, congratulations!
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