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Glenn Rhein · Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 90 Location: warwick New York

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.
Here are some pictures

Jordi Fabre · Posted: Jan 10, 2011 03:17 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York

Hi Glenn, welcome here, and congratulations for the nice find!

Thanks to share it with us.

Jordi

Glenn Rhein · Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 90 Location: warwick New York

Thanks for the welcoming Jordi and fixing my sideway pictures.
Here are pictures of Tremolite and Fluoro-edenite under sw uv

Glenn Rhein · Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 90 Location: warwick New York

One of my favorites, Titanite covered rock, 32 cm tall

Glenn Rhein · Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 90 Location: warwick New York

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

Glenn Rhein · Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 90 Location: warwick New York

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

Cecil Bankston · Joined: 18 Mar 2010 Posts: 12 Location: Louisiana

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.

vic rzonca · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 820 Location: MA

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?

GneissWare · Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 1287 Location: California

This would seem to be the locality:

https://www.mindat.org/loc-222499.html

Glenn Rhein · Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 90 Location: warwick New York

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.

Glenn Rhein · Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 90 Location: warwick New York

Large diopside crystal fully terminated with titanites top and bottom 14 cm by 9cm

Glenn Rhein · Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 90 Location: warwick New York

This sample is from the first dig site in the front yard it yielded smaller crystals but some of my favorites

Glenn Rhein · Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 90 Location: warwick New York

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.