New Street w/Anthony SUPER pic heavy w/video link

[CrossfireBusiness]

Hey guys its Greg ... I need a little help identifying a mostly reddish and orangey and maybe a lil pinkish mineral I found here at new street today .The crystals were found in many formations .. Take a look After looking through the loop I also notice most of the reddish stuff has very tiny small yellow crystals covering parts of it ... ..Me and Darwinahoy (Anthony) met up for a couple hours even though there was a constant light mist of rain ... I hit a pocket but unfortunately was all broken up being very close to the surface but I still managed a few nice pieces ...
These are my favorite pieces besides the video except I am not positive what they are .. My guesses are apohphylite, analcime or chabazite? please let me know what you think and dont mind the dirty rockhound fingernail ...lol ... ....





It came in many formations heres some variations ...







with prehnite

some large calcites that also came out loose out of the pocket

this was found left behind from someone else ... not too shabby .... pectolite??

now this isnt great ammy but it is some amazing incentive for newjersians that nj has this color ... these were left behind as well ... i just took em for incentive ...

And now last but not least ...This was also left behind by someone for me to grab ... In the field I must have picked this up 4 times trying to decide if I want another plate of calcite ... Well good thing for me I took it home and cleaned it up ... Even after I cleaned it up w toothbrush and Ivory soap I wasnt paying much attention to the back of it ..or the front?? I was showing my gf everything when we hit a spot under the light and she said oooooh ... thats when we noticed the druzy covering on it on the back ... This I cannot beeive I did not notice until I got home and under a light ... Once again Thanks Pete ..for teaching me take it all home and decide later what you dont want ... heres the picxs and a link to the video showing the amazing sparkle ....


and the video... U must check this out ....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=54X5C93dY2g

[CrossfireBusiness]

Also Anthony will be posting his finds here as well ...He got a real nice complete sphere of prehnite on matrix and some others ..

[darwinahoy]

It was my second trip to the area, and I had a pretty good time, despite the rain. I tried my hand at digging along some veins, but was having no luck, so I would take some moments to go around and whack interesting-looking boulders, as is my habit from rockhounding at Sterling Hill and the Buckwheat Dump. I haven't cleaned mine yet, but here they are in the rough.

A nice little prehnite ball



Some light golden stilbite



And a mystery grouping of all sorts of things. Best I can figure is quartz, calcite, laumonite, and prehnite.

[CrossfireBusiness]

all set for display


Thanks Greg

[lauriesrocks]

The first 5 pics with the trapezohedral crystals are analcime. It looks like the orange color is caused by iron and is coloring some of the prehnite that color. The cubic looking crystals also seemed to be iron colored, they may be chabazite. The second to last one looks like natrolite. Nice finds!

[scottr]

good job

[carnelianpete]

Dude,
Well done. Looks like it was a pillow pocket for that material. I'm not sure the cubic stones are chabs. There is one there that has some fractures running through it that remind me of some apophylites from there that I have and have seen similar to some from Puna, India. The first ones are very nice analcimes. They look about 1/4 to 1/2 inch? nice luster it looks as well. I think you may have a piece or two there I would be willing to trade for. if you want some of them cleaned up better next time you come by the house bring them and I can give them a shot with the spot gun. Make them look even better. Again well done.

Pete

[CrossfireBusiness]

Thanks guys ... yeah Pete they are exactly between a 1/4 and a 1/2 ... I was wondering if any of you had any ideas on the covering on the top half of the prehnite on the last pic ...and what kind of drusy that might be in the video???My guess is quartz for the druzy ..Is it drusy or druzy ???Thanks Greg ...

[lauriesrocks]

I think it's drusy. But druzy works pretty well. So does droozie. Droobie can be droozie. Mostly Droobie is woozy. This is getting confuzy.

[arappaho]

Well done Greg! Thanks for all the pics.
I'm not sure what all is going on with that specimen in the glass
case in the last pic, but it displays nicely. Very pretty.
Good work,
Joe

[darwinahoy]

Hey Greg, went back today, and another collector came by and started working the same hole (I tried to pick up where you left off, but your pocket was completely worked). I found another good-sized pocket a couple inches above yours where you pulled out those crystals, but it was just full of handfulls of what I'm guessing is Natrolite. Just tons of fine hair crystals all over it, and calcite. Found another small pocket above where I was digging last time, and pulled out a couple nice, showy Natrolite thumbnails.

Anyway, the other guy hit an arm-length pocket, and the entire thing was full of large calcite plates with chabazite, stilbite, and some other assorted things. Also loaded with those crystals you found, but they were just loose in there, like gravel Hundreds of them, but not many in good condition. I happened to hit a pocket nearby and found some nice Heulandite clusters, and dozens of loose individual crystals. I'll post some pics soon once they dry.

I'm starting to like this quarry more and more. I'm a bit bummed my next day off is Friday! I might try to make my way up there sometime mid-week after work, though.

[CrossfireBusiness]

UH OH ... You got the itch .... Cant wait to see the pics ... Anytime you want to go up on a Wednsday or Thursday you have my # and give me a call ... a day or two before .......Oh man to know I was a foot away from hundreds of analcime xls ......What color was the chabazites ... I noticed tiny tiny mostly yellowish square crystals all over the reddish parts but they were so tiny you could barely notice them unless you took a good look under a loupe ... Greg

[darwinahoy]

The chabs were (from what I can remember) a light trasparent/translucent pink. But the stuff was pretty covered in dirt/mud at the time. If you look around the edges of that pit we were digging in, there may be a couple small calcite plates with a couple small ones on it still. I think I left some behind. And tons of those analcime...and you weren't a foot away...it was on the other side of that pit.

Anyway, for the pics.

[CrossfireBusiness]

Nice ... I picked up a few tiny thumbnails from that area a few weeks back like the 3rd pic down also ... not as big as yours though ..and no pink in them ...just clear ... This is all making me want to go back ... I am watcching my son wednsday though ... and thursday I might even being covering a shift for someone at work ... Maybe I should pick up the nighthawk shift at work ...lol dig all day work all night ...lol

[romare]

I used to work a second shift job years ago. Get off at 11, ride home, make a sandwich, get lights, thermos, tools and dogs and hike to my underground excavation in the woods. The dogs (all five of them!) would sack out around the entrance waiting for me to come out for a stretch. Work all night, go home, go to bed. Repeat. That was back in Lincoln County, NC... good times. A lot of specimens ago.

Mark

[darwinahoy]

Yea, they came out a nice small cabinet size. I heard the pink is caused by hematite, which makes sense. A few of the pieces I found have a hematite coating right on the surface. I still have to clean those, though.

But yea...work can seriously impair rockhounding I routinely work until 4 or 5, then shoot down to the Monmouth County streams for what little daylight is left to sift teeth. Not worth it for the quarry, though, since it can take so long to uncover and completely empty a pocket, anyway. I figure I'll save my half days for fossil hunting, and full ones for the minerals and fossiling at Shark River.

[hydrogeologist]

Darwin, I believe the specimen in the first three pics is actually heulandite with some very complex crystal growth. Beautiful nonetheless.

[darwinahoy]

Yes, the first three are heulandites with calcite. The first two are actually of the same specimen. The heulandites were pretty much the course of the day, as the pocket I found contained only them, and the usual calcite plates.

[Ryan]

Awesome pics. I gatta get out there sometime

[Ryan]

By the way Greg, where did you get the sweet little display cases for your minerals? I like the middle one the best but those ones with the rounded tops are neat too?

[CrossfireBusiness]

I think it was two places mamas minerals and the rock shop in nj down by philly ....

[baehron]

those are some cool specimens and some excellent photos of them.

[SharktoothHunter]

May 13, 2010 6:17:36 GMT -5 darwinahoy said:

A nice little prehnite ball



Be careful!!! Mamma may come back for baby!
Looks like you abducted a baby flying saucer before it could hatch!
;D