[Rockhounds] Upcoming Tucson visit and AD - New England Garza minerals

[Alan Goldstein]

I'm heading to my first Tucson Show next week. I'm not going to all the shows, just a few (including the main show). My sister bought a house there last year, so I don't have to worry about lodging, food or car rental - I can just explore and have fun. I'm not planning to buy much - not with the Garza and now the Robinson collection I'm working on. Do want to talk to fellow collectors and do some sightseeing in the area, too. I have been to Tucson before, but in the summer during a cross country astronomy junket in college and in November 20+ years ago for a conference. I welcome tips and suggestions. Feel free to reply to me (deepskyspy @ outlook.com) directly instead of to the group.

And speaking of direct replies, here's a list of New England material that I selected from the Garza "rock room" because they look interesting:


Box 1



Connecticut

Quartz on goethite & dolomite, Rt 9 road cut (no longer exists), New Britain, CT – 6x4cm $3

Prehnite & apophyllite, Woodbury Traprock Quarry, Woodbury, CT – 6x3.5cm $3

Schorl, Timms Hill, Haddam, CT – 4.5x3cm $5



Maine

Elbaite (pink) with Albite, Dunton Gem quarry, Newry, ME – 5x4.5cm $50

Fluorapatite (purple) w/ orthoclase, albite, elbaite & quartz, Harvard Quarry, Greenwood, ME - 4cx4cm $40

Muscovite (ball) in pegmatite, Greenlaw Quarry, Auburn, MA - 7.5x5cm $15

Quartz (Rose) xls, Plumbago Mtn., Newry, ME – 3x3cm $10



Massachusetts

Aurichalcite, brochantite + 5 species, Manhan Lead mine, Loudville, MA – 5x4.5cm $10

Calcite, I-290 @ I-495, Marlborough, MA – 6.5x3cm $15

Dravite in schist, Warwick, MA (old attached label says something else, but it was hand corrected an equally long time ago) – 7x4cm $7

Natro-Jarosite, I-290 @ I-495, Marlborough, MA – 7.5x6cm $25

Prehnite and datolite, Lanes Quarry, West Springfield, MA - 5x3.5cm $20



New Hampshire

Fluorapatite (purple) in pegmatite, Palermo Mine, No. Groton, NH – 5x4cm $25

Fluorite (green oct.) and quartz, William Wise mine, Westmoreland, NH – 4x3cm $30

Siderite on smoky quartz, Bald Mtn., Ossipee, NH – 4x5cm $4



Box 2



Connecticut

Aurichalcite, malachite & quartz, Rt 9 road cut (no longer exists), New Britain, CT – 6.5x4cm $10

Dolomite (blades), Rt. 72 bypass = Rt 9 road cut (no longer exists), New Britain, CT – 7x4.5 $3

Epidote and orthoclase, Willimantic, CT – 9.5x5.5cm - $10

Prehnite in traprock, Strawberry Hill Quarry (in an old junkyard), Berlin, CT – 5x6cm $8

Prehnite, Woodbury Traprock Quarry, Woodbury, CT – 6.5x4cm $10

Quartz (Milky) xl cluster, Moosup, Plainfield, CT – 5.5x5cm $7

Quartz (clear) xl cluster, Moosup, Plainfield, CT – 12.5x8.5cm $20

Stilbite (orangish), Woodbury Traprock Quarry, Woodbury, CT – 5.5x5.5cm $4

Wurtzite, small xl in matrix, Thomaston RR cut at Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, CT – 6x3cm $5



Massachusetts

Babington & prehnite, Peabody, Essex, Co., MA - 8x4cm $25

Caledonite, linarite & galena, Manhan Lead mine, Loudville, MA – 6x5cm $70

Andalusite var. Chiastolite (one face polished), Lancaster, MA - 3x2.5cm $20

Dolomite on quartz, Simone Quarry, Wrentham, MA - 6x5cm $5

Gahnite (blue-green octahedra to 1.5cm) on quartz, Davis Pyrite Mine, Rowe, MA – 5x4cm $10

Smoky Quartz, spongy mass with parallel xl faces, Upton, MA - 7.5x6.5 cm $10

Scapolite, Bolton Lime Quarry, Bolton, MA – 9.5x7cm $20



New Hampshire

Albite var. Cleavelandite (plate w/ xls on both sides), Government Pit, Albany, NH - 5x5 $6

Amblygonite, Palermo Mine, No. Groton, NH – 6x6cm $30

Beryl xl, near Gilsum, NH -3.5x3.5cm $7

Fluorapatite (covered w/ grayish platy xls), 153ft level, Palermo No. 1 Mine, No. Groton, NH – 5x5cm $40

Fluorite (green oct.), William Wise mine, Westmoreland, NH – 4x4cm $3

Fluorite (pale green transl. oct.), William Wise mine, Westmoreland, NH – 5x4cm $15

Fluorapatite (white) on Quartz xls, 153ft level, Palermo No. 1 Mine, No. Groton, NH – 4.5x3.5cm $8

Quartz xl w/ Montebraisite incl., Carb.-apatite, 153ft level, Palermo No. 1 Mine, No. Groton, NH – 46.5x4cm $30

Microcline / Amazonite and Smoky quartz, Moat Mtn., No. Conway, NH – 6.5x3cm $5



Rhode Island

Marble (banded red & white), Conklin Quarry, Lime Rock, Lincoln Co., RI – 7.5x5cm $5



Vermont

Talc (green xls), Chester, VT – 13x9cm $10