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Turbo
Joined: 30 Sep 2009
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Location: Delaware
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 Posted: Sep 30, 2009 19:04 Post subject: Introduction |
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Hi everyone,
I joined this forum because I've always been interested in minerals and have recently started to expand my childhood collection to include larger and more diverse specimens. My knowledge of minerology is limited since I am a student of biology, but I hope to learn more about minerals from this forum! I have also been looking for a place to display my minerals and this forum looks like the perfect place!
To start, I have attached a sample of Northern Delaware's mineralogy. These are my own finds from a recent trip to the nearby abandoned Woodlawn feldspar quarry. You're looking at Delaware muscovite, orthoclase feldspar, white plagioclase feldspar, and rock quartz. Almandine garnet and beryl can also be found in this locality. I'll have to post pictures of some of the almandine I've found!
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Ed Huskinson
Joined: 15 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Sep 30, 2009 19:19 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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Hey Turbo! Gee whiz, Nurbo and Turbo. What's next - Ed 'n Fred?
Anyway, welcome to the party Turbo. We look forward to the back and forth with you.
All best wishes,
Ed
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Turbo
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| Posted: Sep 30, 2009 19:49 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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Thanks Ed!
My real name is actually Ed too! Turbo is just a nickname I picked up.
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Ed Huskinson
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Location: Kingman, Arizona
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| Posted: Sep 30, 2009 21:00 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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Cool!!! We are namesakes. Tocallo I think it is spelled in Spanish.
Well, we are honored to have another Ed among us. I think. What kinds of rocks/minerals/fossils/whatever do you collect? If nothing else, my fellow Fabrecators will teach you how to take photographs of your stuff. It takes time, but it is a worthy investment.
Regardless, welcome, bienvenido a la fiesta, and plan on seeing some great minerals and learning from the best. Be sure to go back through all of the topics, and view all of the pictures. It's breathtaking.
More later,
Ed
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Gail
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| Posted: Sep 30, 2009 21:51 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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Well, heck...welcome Turbo Ed! Always nice to have another well intended poster to this forum!
Gail
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Oct 01, 2009 01:54 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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| Ed Huskinson wrote: | | Tocallo I think it is spelled in Spanish. |
Is "tocayo" Ed. Very close! ;-)
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Tracy
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| Posted: Oct 01, 2009 08:00 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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Welcome Turbo/Ed! Hope you enjoy fun times on FMF.
- Tracy
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Tobi
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| Posted: Oct 01, 2009 08:57 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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| Welcome to this wonderful forum, Ed # 2 ;-)
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Turbo
Joined: 30 Sep 2009
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Location: Delaware
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| Posted: Oct 01, 2009 10:15 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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| Ed Huskinson wrote: | Cool!!! We are namesakes. Tocallo I think it is spelled in Spanish.
Well, we are honored to have another Ed among us. I think. What kinds of rocks/minerals/fossils/whatever do you collect? If nothing else, my fellow Fabrecators will teach you how to take photographs of your stuff. It takes time, but it is a worthy investment.
Regardless, welcome, bienvenido a la fiesta, and plan on seeing some great minerals and learning from the best. Be sure to go back through all of the topics, and view all of the pictures. It's breathtaking.
More later,
Ed |
I collect whatever mineral speaks to me. Some of my favorites are aragonite, fluorite, celestite, and green apophylite. Much of my collection is still in the planning, but I know what I'm looking for. Recently I ordered a creedite specimen because I love the prickly look as well as radial sprays. My crown jewel is a beautiful redish calcite hedgehog. My alltime favorite is the herkimer diamond.
I thank you all for the warm welcome. I know I've come to the right place. Look out for my upcoming collection post. It will be small, but it will gradually grow!
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nurbo
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Location: Lancashire
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| Posted: Oct 01, 2009 11:02 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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| Welcome aboard Turbo Im Nurbo,
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Turbo
Joined: 30 Sep 2009
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Location: Delaware
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| Posted: Oct 01, 2009 11:07 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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| nurbo wrote: | | Welcome aboard Turbo Im Nurbo, |
Hi Nurbo. The similarity in names was not intended.
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Pete Modreski
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| Posted: Oct 01, 2009 15:50 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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Let me add my hello and welcome, Ed/Turbo.
(And, after a little querying of some Spanish-English translation sites, I figured out that "tocayo" was the spanlish translation of "namesake", not of "turbo". Some of us can be a little slow to understand things, sometimes! It looks like "turbo", referring to computers or to supercharged cars, is still just "turbo" en espanol.)
One doesn't see too many photos or mentions of minerals collected from the Delaware! In fact, if most collectors were to guess a U.S. state with the least (and some might naively think, none) collectible minerals, Delaware would certainly be in the running for that--probably along with Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and Hawaii. Out of curiosity I looked up Delaware on Mindat; it comes up with 144 localities with "Delaware" in the name, but almost all of those are from elsewhere (Delaware mine, etc.). Two of the real Delaware localities are only just reports of "limonite"--and those are the only ones from other than New Castle County, which lists about a dozen localities--quarries for feldspar, muscovite, granite, gabbro (plus those good old "iron workings in limonite"--at least one of which is a Dana locality).
Anyway, thanks for joining the Forum and welcome, and we'll look forward to see what pictures you may be posting on here--from in or out of your own state.
P.S., having gone to graduate school at Penn State, I really did know that part of Delaware does contain some "real" hard rocks, with at least a few of those pegmatite-related minerals.
Sincerely, Pete Modreski
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Turbo
Joined: 30 Sep 2009
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Location: Delaware
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| Posted: Oct 01, 2009 18:56 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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| Pete Modreski wrote: | Let me add my hello and welcome, Ed/Turbo.
(And, after a little querying of some Spanish-English translation sites, I figured out that "tocayo" was the spanlish translation of "namesake", not of "turbo". Some of us can be a little slow to understand things, sometimes! It looks like "turbo", referring to computers or to supercharged cars, is still just "turbo" en espanol.)
One doesn't see too many photos or mentions of minerals collected from the Delaware! In fact, if most collectors were to guess a U.S. state with the least (and some might naively think, none) collectible minerals, Delaware would certainly be in the running for that--probably along with Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and Hawaii. Out of curiosity I looked up Delaware on Mindat; it comes up with 144 localities with "Delaware" in the name, but almost all of those are from elsewhere (Delaware mine, etc.). Two of the real Delaware localities are only just reports of "limonite"--and those are the only ones from other than New Castle County, which lists about a dozen localities--quarries for feldspar, muscovite, granite, gabbro (plus those good old "iron workings in limonite"--at least one of which is a Dana locality).
Anyway, thanks for joining the Forum and welcome, and we'll look forward to see what pictures you may be posting on here--from in or out of your own state.
P.S., having gone to graduate school at Penn State, I really did know that part of Delaware does contain some "real" hard rocks, with at least a few of those pegmatite-related minerals.
Sincerely, Pete Modreski |
I live in New Castle county. I know limonite is found here since I've seen it in the "Iron Hill Museum" in the form of curious pot-like geodes that native americans seem to have used as storage vessels. Apparently iron was mined from seven pit mines in what is now Newark, Delaware for 200 years beginning with Welsh settlers who were given the land from William Penn. Native americans in the same region made use of jasper resources to make stone tools and arrow heads (a suitable cryptocrystalline material for flaking).
The Woodlawn quarry that I visit is mostly graphic granite and pegmatite with muscovite, beryl, and garnet as accessory minerals. Feldspar was quarried here from 1850-1910 and brought to Philadelphia by horse and wagon where it was processed to make a variety of porcelain products including false teeth and sinks. This link gives a nice description of what can be found here:
https://www.dgs.udel.edu/geology/geoadventures/woodlawn.aspx
here's another link with pictures of the site
https://www.delminsociety.net/fieldtrips/ramseyrun.htm
(links normalized by FMF)
The beryl and garnet found here is largely unexceptional and very fractured, but its still exciting to find.
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Tobi
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| Posted: Oct 02, 2009 03:20 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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| Pete Modreski wrote: |
One doesn't see too many photos or mentions of minerals collected from the Delaware! In fact, if most collectors were to guess a U.S. state with the least (and some might naively think, none) collectible minerals, Delaware would certainly be in the running for that--probably along with Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and Hawaii.
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I once saw a really nice and showy schorl specimen from Delaware on Rob Lavinskys site, and the description started with "Delaware, can you believe it?" ... ;-)
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Turbo
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Location: Delaware
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| Posted: Oct 02, 2009 07:02 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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| Tobias Martin wrote: |
I once saw a really nice and showy schorl specimen from Delaware on Rob Lavinskys site, and the description started with "Delaware, can you believe it?" ... ;-) |
That reminds me. There was schorl at the Delaware minerological museum. I'll have to go check the label to see if it's from here. That one's a very showy piece too.
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John S. White
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| Posted: Oct 02, 2009 08:39 Post subject: Re: Introduction |
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There is indeed a very fine schorl at the Delaware museum, which was personally collected by the former curator Peter Leavens.
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