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Road-Cut
Mineral
Occurrences
of St. Lawrence
County,
New York
Figure 1. Barite crystal...weathered calcite from the
barite/calcite seam; the largest crystal is 3.6 cm high.
Part I:
Beaman Road
Barite...White barite crystals with gray calcite crystals
from the barite/calcite seam; the specimen is 5 cm in...specimen.
MICHAEL WALTER
P.O. Box 137
Nicholville, New York 12965
gdesires@slic.com
STEVEN C. CHAMBERLAIN...Research Syracuse University
621 Skytop Road, Syracuse,
New York 13244-5290
steve_chamberlain@isr.syr.edu | 👁 Image
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Road-Cut
Mineral
Occurrences
of
St. Lawrence
County,
New York
Figure 1. Fluor-dravite...collected by Edley Brown in 2002
from the fluor-dravite road cut.
Michael Walter specimen and photo.
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ROCKS...3140 CEC
Center for Mineralogy
New York State Museum
Albany, New York 12230
sccham2@yahoo.com
MICHAEL...
PO Box 137
2982 State Route 11B
Nicholville, New York 12965
mwalter9@twcny.rr.com
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Edley Brown from the Kents Corners road cut. Steven C.
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Mineral
Occurrences
of
Unless otherwise noted, all
specimen photos by Steven
C. Chamberlain...3140 CEC
Center for Mineralogy
New York State Museum
Albany, New York 12230
sccham2@yahoo.com
MICHAEL...137
Nicholville, New York 12965
mwalter9@twcny.rr.com
St. Lawrence County
New York
Figure 1. East side...Rock
Island road cut, looking north
toward the bridge.
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Figure...Figure 2. West side of the Rock
Island road cut showing the brecciated marble associated with a
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Occurrences
Part 2:
Yellow Lake
Road Cut
Unless otherwise noted, all mineral photographs...CHAMBERLAIN
Center for Mineralogy
New York State Museum
3140 CEC
Albany, New York 12230
sccham2@yahoo.com
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at the road cu Walter and Brad Plumm
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MICHAEL WALTER
PO Box...Nicholville,
New York 12965
gdesires@slic.com
Part 1 in this series, “Road-Cut Mineral Occurrences
of St. Lawrence...Lawrence County, New York,” was in the
May/June 2005 issue, pages 180–185. It was on the
Beaman Road barite | 👁 Image
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mwalter9@twcny.rr.com
DAVID LALONDE
5 Lead Mine Road
Gouverneur, New York 13642...Mineral Occurrence
Lead Mine Road, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York
Michael R. Walter, owner of...active field collector of the minerals of upstate New York and Canada.
David Lalonde is a geologist and owner...field
collector of minerals, specializing in St. Lawrence County occurrences.
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Figure...Beaver Creek State Forest in western St.
Lawrence County, New York, that led to
t he discovery of an unexploited | 👁 Image
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Occurrences of St. Lawrence
County
New York
Figure 1. The locality as it appeared in...MINE
ROAD GASH
VEINS
MICHAEL R. WALTER
PO Box 137
2982 State Route 11B
Nicholville, New York 12965...3140 CEC
Center for Mineralogy
New York State Museum
Albany, New York 12230
sccham2@yahoo.com
T
Unless...article in our
road-cut series describes
a newly discovered pair
of gash veins exposed in a
road cut along...along a narrow side road.
The well-crystallized dolomite is of
particular interest to collectors.
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Figure 1. County map of New York State,
prepared by William Besse.
MAJOR NEW YORK STATE
M I N E...E R A L LOC A L I T I E S
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ew York State is rich in minerals of interest to collectors. A number of...Dana 1877, 1892). Herbert P. Whitlock published a New York State list in 1903. The most recent comprehensive...localities in the state is the book Minerals of New York State by David Jensen, published in
1978. Our...Mode of Occurrence
Most mineral localities in New York can be categorized
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New York State hosts graphite deposits that have been historically...Center for Mineralogy
3140 CEC
New York State Museum
Albany, New York 12230
sccham2@yahoo.com
GEORGE...from Leib’s Moonstone mine, Bloomingdale, Essex County.
This specimen (8 cm across), collected by Schuyler...Schuyler Alverson in the late 1960s, is now in
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Except as noted, all specimens
were field collected, and all
photographs were taken,
by Michael...Mineral
Occurrences
of
St. Lawrence County
New York
Part 4:
The Yellow Lake South Road Cut
MICHAEL WALTER...Nicholville, New York 12965
mwalter9@twcny.rr.com
STEVEN C. CHAMBERLAIN
3140 CEC
Center for Mineralogy
New York...Albany, New York 12230
sccham2@yahoo.com
R
ecently, we published an article on the Yellow Lake
Road Cut...location of the Yellow Lake
South Road Cut in St. Lawrence
County, New York.
Figure 2 (left). Yellow Lake | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | long (Marty, 2004 ).
AFRICA
widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from
quartz veins...exist in the
region (Brunet, I 977b ).
NEW YORK
Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites
between...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from
somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...5
ONTARIO
Bentley Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings
County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley...clusters from a calcite vein-dike digging site
which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south |
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