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vic rzonca
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I'm going to try and post self collected pieces-mostly northeast US
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| 8cm. Quartz with iron stain-found in rare gas pocket at Holyoke trapps |
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| 11cm. Prehnite from Southbury Ct.. Found in basalt vugs with few points of attachments. |
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Dec 30, 2009 04:54 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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Hi!
Be welcome to this section of the forum and feel free to post all your specimens' photos for all of us to look at them.
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John S. White
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| Posted: Dec 30, 2009 05:53 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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Vic:
You might tell everyone not familiar with New England just where the Holyoke trapps are.
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vic rzonca
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| Posted: Dec 30, 2009 08:32 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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The Holyoke Trapp, is in the basalt formation that runs from south of Keene, New Hampshire., thru the Connecticut River Valley to connect up with the New Jersey trapp formations. The Holyoke Trapp is the section, in Massachusetts, that includes Mount Tom. I would include the Ron Cari and Lane quarries in this section. The basalt is of the highest quality-meaning few accessory minerals- making collecting here not generous.
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| 10 cm. Prehnite with calcite cast after either calcite or anhydrite. Charles Keys thinks calcite. |
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vic rzonca
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| Posted: Dec 30, 2009 08:34 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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| Thank You Carles
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Tracy
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| Posted: Dec 30, 2009 09:52 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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Nice photos Vic, and welcome! Can you provide dimensions please?
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Dec 30, 2009 11:05 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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| They are there Tracy. Just one size, but they are there, in the photo's caption...
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Tracy
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| Posted: Dec 30, 2009 12:17 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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Sorry - my oversight.
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Pete Modreski
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| Posted: Dec 30, 2009 12:29 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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Thanks also for posting those, Vic, I enjoyed looking at them. I've always had a special appreciation for those "trap rock minerals", having grown up in New Jersey.
Best wishes, Pete Modreski
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vic rzonca
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| Posted: Jan 01, 2010 12:19 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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When possible, I like to use fingers for scale, ala Scott and his amethyst. Outstanding.
Milky quartz from the glory days at Mussup Ct. I seem to remember an article on a quartz zone on the east coast,can anyone point me in the right direction? Also, Turbo , did you identify your druzy from the backfill, or the area from which the fill came?
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| It's about 40 cm wide by 30 cm high by about 40 lbs (ca. 18 kg). The correct location is Moosup, Connecticut. |
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Jan 01, 2010 12:30 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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| vic rzonca wrote: | | When possible, I like to use fingers for scale |
Hi Vic!
In addition to your fingers (and hands), could you please provide the dimensions in centimeters or inches, or both? There are fingers (and hands) with quite different sizes.
And since it is a heavy specimen, its weight could also be interesting for many of us, if you know it.
Thanks,
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vic rzonca
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| Posted: Jan 01, 2010 18:58 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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| Well it's about 40 cm. wide by 30 cm. high by about 40lbs. The correct location is Moosup, Connecticut. It came out of a very spacious pocket in rather hard brecciated sandstone? I thought it was a schist . Again part of a quartz formation that is sort of discontinuous including location in Rhode Island. Hopkinton, Rhode Island?
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vic rzonca
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| Posted: Jan 10, 2010 14:05 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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More fingers and quartz, dolostone matrix. Crystal size is 7x7cm. , from a remote location in Montgomery county NY.
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vic rzonca
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| Posted: Jan 19, 2010 09:50 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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Poor quality photo of prehnite and babingtonite. Field of view aprox. 2x3 cm.. Lane Quarry.
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| Largest compound crystal 1 cm. |
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vic rzonca
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| Posted: Jan 19, 2010 13:39 Post subject: Re: Vics collection |
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Prehnite stalactites, casts after anhydrite, Lane Quarry, Westfield MA.
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