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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Jan 09, 2011 20:50 Post subject: New find of minerals from New York |
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A few months ago we found a pocket of large crystals in Amity New york
We've found Diopside, Titanite, Scapolite,Uvite, Fluorapite, Fluoro-edenite, Azurite, Fluorite, Norbergite and Phlogopite.
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Posted: Jan 10, 2011 03:17 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Hi Glenn, welcome here, and congratulations for the nice find!
Thanks to share it with us.
Jordi
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Posted: Jan 10, 2011 18:13 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Thanks for the welcoming Jordi and fixing my sideway pictures.
Here are pictures of Tremolite and Fluoro-edenite under sw uv
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Jan 11, 2011 18:58 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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One of my favorites, Titanite covered rock, 32 cm tall
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Jan 12, 2011 19:59 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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This is a Uvite that has a light green fluorescent color 39 mm crystal
Large Meionite crystal 24cm on top of many diopside crystals 50cm overall
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Jan 13, 2011 18:28 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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My yard is just filled with boulders covered in crystals. It started in September that's when we found the first one and I became a mineral collector
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meionite, diopside, titanite and fluorapatite |
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Cecil Bankston
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Posted: Jan 13, 2011 19:16 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Was the collecting site an old mine dump or quarry?
Do you plan to trim those big rocks to a displayable size? If so, how?
Please post more pictures of those specimens with the big crystals when you finish cleaning them, perhaps as before and after images for comparison.
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Posted: Jan 13, 2011 19:16 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Glen - let me get this strait - you found these in your yard? Oh the luck of it all! How much property do you own and when can we meet?
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Jan 14, 2011 07:38 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Yes, right in the back yard, no more than one hundred feet from the house.
What I found out is that about 150 years ago they started finding large crystals here in Amity and is famous for its "Giant Spinels" They were not dumped here I dug them up.
I'm in construction and I am developing this property 32 acres into 6 building lots.
We are at the northern end of the Franklin marble belt and where there is contact between pegmitite granite and marble there is a high crystalization rate. There is still much more to be found here. Iv'e had help from the NYS museum at Albany but still deciding what to do with the large pieces.
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This is where most of the boulders came from |
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Posted: Jan 16, 2011 15:52 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Large diopside crystal fully terminated with titanites top and bottom 14 cm by 9cm
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Posted: Jan 18, 2011 08:23 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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This sample is from the first dig site in the front yard it yielded smaller crystals but some of my favorites
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Posted: Jan 19, 2011 09:46 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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A piece of marble covered with tiny crystals, most likely diopside 17 cm overall
Marble with norbergite and diopside under SW-UV. Many of the minerals are fluorescent here.
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Posted: Jan 20, 2011 11:40 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Large crazy looking diopside crystal and some scapolite
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Posted: Jan 20, 2011 13:23 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Some of Meionite that's not burried in snow, most fluoress pink but some are yellow
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