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Gary Moldovany
Joined: 27 Aug 2012
Posts: 6
Location: New Jersey
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 Posted: Nov 16, 2012 21:16 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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A pair of Apophyllite crystals from a pocket, Summer 2012
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Apophyllite-(KF), calcite
Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
12 cm |
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Frank Imbriacco
Joined: 17 Dec 2012
Posts: 17
Location: Aberdeen, New Jersey
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2012 14:37 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Encouraged by Jordi to contribute, here are specimens from my New Jersey traprock collection:
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Stellerite
Braen Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
6.2 x 5.4 cm
A 3.3 cm stellerite sphere on a crystallized stellerite druse |
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50537 Time(s) |
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Chalcopyrite and calcite
Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
12.7 x 11.3 cm
One of many hundreds of specimens recovered from this quarry in 1991 by Al Bliss and Richard Mayer with management's permission. |
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50488 Time(s) |
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Prehnite
Lower New Street quarry, Paterson, New Jersey, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
12 x 8.8 cm
Prehnite epimorphs after anhydrite; a former U.S National Museum specimen |
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50439 Time(s) |
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Chalcedony
Weldon Quarry, Watchung, New Jersey, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
10.9 x 9 cm
Chalcedony lined vug removed from basalt |
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50459 Time(s) |
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Prehnite and calcite
McBride Avenue and Browertown Road Pumping Station, Woodland Park, Passaic Couny, New Jersey, USA
12 x 10 cm
From an excavation in 1986 which produced countless numbers of specimens of prehnite after anhydrite with a look different from those of other nearby localities. |
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50406 Time(s) |
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Stilbite and quartz
Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
9.8 x 7.8 cm
A 5.5 cm pinched bow tie on quartz |
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50400 Time(s) |
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Prehnite and calcite
Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
6.9 x 7 cm
Prehnite spheres to 1.8 cm on calcite |
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50488 Time(s) |
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Prehnite
Weldon Quarry, Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
12.5 x 11 cm
Prehnite epimorphs after glauberite from a find in 1987; former Herb Obodda Collection |
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50425 Time(s) |
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Pectolite and datolite
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset Quarry, New Jersey, USA
8.8 x 7.3 cm
Likely the finest red pectolite from this locale with spheres to 2.3 cm |
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50406 Time(s) |
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Heulandite and chabazite
Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
10 x 8 cm
A 5.7 cm crab-shaped heulandite crystal on chabazite |
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50399 Time(s) |
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Apophyllite and pectolite
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, New Jersey, USA
8.2 x 6.9 cm
A 3.3 cm apophyllite crystal on peach colored pectolite |
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50437 Time(s) |
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Calcite, heulandite and chabazite
Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
9.3 x 9.1 cm
A 6.4 cm doubly terminated calcite on chabazite |
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50427 Time(s) |
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Apophyllite and datolite
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
9.2 x 7.6 cm
Pink apophyllite rosettes to 3.8 cm on datolite with pyrite and calcite |
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50461 Time(s) |
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Natrolite and prehnite
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset Sounty, New Jersey, USA
8.8 x 5 cm
Translucent natrolite crystals to 2.8 cm on prehnite |
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50427 Time(s) |
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Frank Imbriacco
Joined: 17 Dec 2012
Posts: 17
Location: Aberdeen, New Jersey
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2012 15:34 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Part two of specimens from my New Jersey traprock collection.
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Magnetite and pyrite
Laurel Hill, Secaucus, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
8.8 x 5.7 cm
Lustrous magnetite crystals to 1.5 cm with pyrite |
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50509 Time(s) |
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Analcime and calcite
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
9.3 x 5.9 cm
Analcime crystals to 3.1 cm with calcite |
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50502 Time(s) |
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Prehnite
Lower New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
9 x 8.7 cm
Knobby, botryoidal prehnite after anhydrite with a look similar to the best arsenian pyromorphite from Bunker Hill |
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50429 Time(s) |
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Stilbite
Lower New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
7.2 x 7 cm
Stilbite half bow tie with heulandite |
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50399 Time(s) |
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Prehnite
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
9.8 x 8.7 cm
Radiating spray of prehnite epimorphs after anhydrite |
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50397 Time(s) |
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Calcite and stilbite
Trap Rock Industries Moores Station Quarry, Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
6.8 x 4 cm
Calcite crystals to 2.1 cm on stilbite |
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50446 Time(s) |
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Pectolite
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
9.5 x 6.8 cm
Pink pectolite epimorphs after anhydrite to 5.5 cm with attached micro prehnite spheres |
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50456 Time(s) |
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Sphalerite and prehnite
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
5 x 4.2 cm
A 1.3 cm flattened sphalerite crystal due to pseudomorphing after anhydrite |
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50427 Time(s) |
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Mesolite
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
4.8 x 4.4 cm
A 3.3 cm mesolite sphere on prehnite with calcite |
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50603 Time(s) |
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Prehnite
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
7 x 6 cm
A 2.7 cm prehnite sphere in a datolite vug |
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50573 Time(s) |
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Prehnite
Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
9 x 9 cm
A 6 cm prehnite epimorph after anhydrite centered among smaller epimorphs |
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50370 Time(s) |
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Natrolite and datolite
Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
8.8 x 7.5 cm
Natrolite sprays atop datolite |
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50436 Time(s) |
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Pectolite
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
9 x 8 cm
Pectolite spheres to 1.4 cm on quartz with heulandite and blue babingtonite |
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50427 Time(s) |
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Prehnite and calcite
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
7.9 x 6.9 cm
Prehnite spheres to 1.7 cm with micro calcite crystals |
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50404 Time(s) |
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Pyrite
Trap Rock Industries Moores Station Quarry, Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
6.2 x 5.9 cm
A 2.5 cm pyrite crystal with chalcopyrite |
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50399 Time(s) |
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Jordi Fabre
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Joined: 07 Aug 2006
Posts: 5025
Location: Barcelona
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2012 16:57 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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Superb!
Thank you Frank
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GneissWare
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Posts: 1287
Location: California
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2012 19:58 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New Jersey |
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| WOW!!! Great specimens and great photos.
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Pierre Joubert
Joined: 09 Mar 2012
Posts: 1605
Location: Western Cape
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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
Joined: 17 Dec 2012
Posts: 17
Location: Aberdeen, New Jersey
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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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53360 Time(s) |
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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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53358 Time(s) |
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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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53369 Time(s) |
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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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53422 Time(s) |
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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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53422 Time(s) |
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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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53348 Time(s) |
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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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53413 Time(s) |
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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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53376 Time(s) |
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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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53353 Time(s) |
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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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53408 Time(s) |
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John Medici
Joined: 02 Mar 2011
Posts: 124
Location: Ohio
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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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53141 Time(s) |
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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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53152 Time(s) |
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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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53223 Time(s) |
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Apophyllite, Natrolite and Galena
Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA
Apophyllite on natrolite & galena |
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53189 Time(s) |
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Natrolite
Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA
1 cm |
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53117 Time(s) |
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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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53185 Time(s) |
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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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53073 Time(s) |
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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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53152 Time(s) |
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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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53380 Time(s) |
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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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53175 Time(s) |
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Frank Imbriacco
Joined: 17 Dec 2012
Posts: 17
Location: Aberdeen, New Jersey
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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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53107 Time(s) |
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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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53056 Time(s) |
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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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53081 Time(s) |
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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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53132 Time(s) |
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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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53079 Time(s) |
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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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53085 Time(s) |
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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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53106 Time(s) |
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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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53116 Time(s) |
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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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53147 Time(s) |
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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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53070 Time(s) |
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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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Joined: 07 Aug 2006
Posts: 5025
Location: Barcelona
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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
Joined: 02 Mar 2011
Posts: 124
Location: Ohio
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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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52885 Time(s) |
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Zincite, Willemite, Calcite
Franklin, New Jersey, USA
16 cm |
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52902 Time(s) |
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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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52850 Time(s) |
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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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52879 Time(s) |
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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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52868 Time(s) |
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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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52836 Time(s) |
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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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52848 Time(s) |
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Frank Imbriacco
Joined: 17 Dec 2012
Posts: 17
Location: Aberdeen, New Jersey
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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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52679 Time(s) |
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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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52853 Time(s) |
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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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52812 Time(s) |
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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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52749 Time(s) |
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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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52766 Time(s) |
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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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52749 Time(s) |
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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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52744 Time(s) |
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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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52713 Time(s) |
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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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52714 Time(s) |
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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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52745 Time(s) |
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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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52814 Time(s) |
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GneissWare
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Posts: 1287
Location: California
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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
Joined: 02 Mar 2011
Posts: 124
Location: Ohio
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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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52614 Time(s) |
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