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6915064 
Journal Article 
Gazetteer of MAJOR NEW YORK STATE MINERAL LOCALITIES 
Robinson, GW; Chamberlain, SC 
2007 
Rocks and Minerals
ISSN: 0035-7529 
82 
472-483 
English 
Bronx County Various excavations: chabazite, harmotome, quartz (amethyst), stilbite; F. Clinton County Au Sable Forks, iron mines north of: microcline (sunstone), magnetite, quartz, fluorite, fluorapatite; C. Lyon Mountain, Chateaugay iron mines (44°43'02"N, 73°54'39"W): hastingsite, fluoro-edenite, fluorapatite, biotite, calcite, gypsum, microcline, augite, stilbite, titanite, zircon, others; F, C. Columbia County Ancram lead mines: barite, galena, sphalerite, quartz; F. New Concord: pyrite; S. Dutchess County Amenia: goethite; F. Delaware Aqueduct, shaft 7: allanite, amphibole, tremolite (var. "mountain leather"), axinite; C. Millerton, Maltby mine: goethite; F. Millerton, road cut on State Rte. 22: tennantite, smithsonite, sphalerite, galena, hemimorphite, aurichalcite; F. Rhinebeck, quartz locality: quartz; F. Shekomeko: tetrahedrite; F. Erie County Alden, Spring Creek (42°54'15"N, 78°29'11"W): pyrite (nodules and fossil replacements in shale); S. Essex County Bloomingdale, Leibs moonstone mine: orthoclase, diopside, graphite, vesuvianite; C. Cascade Lakes (44°13'26"N, 73°52'18"W): diopside ("coccolite"), ferropargasite; C. Crown Point Center, Roe spar bed: allanite, schorl, kasolite, fourmarierite, sklodowskite, fergusonite, uranophane, uraninite, pyrrhotite, zircon, monazite, others (Rowley 1963); C. Eisenglass Mountain: phlogopite, uvite; C. Hammondsville: carbonate fluorapatite ("eupychroite"), uvite-dravite; F, C. Keene Valley Airport: meionite, hedenbergite, titanite, zircon; C. Minerva Lake: scapolite, vesuvianite, augite, fluorapatite, wollastonite; C. Mineville, iron mines: magnetite, allanite, fluorapatite, zircon, stillwellite-(Ce); C. Newcomb, Goodenow Flow: uvite-dravite, pyroxene; C. Newcomb, Harris Lake: uvite-dravite, scapolite, fluorapatite; C. Newcomb, road cut on State Rte. 28N: uvite-dravite, diopside, edenite, phlogopite, rutile; C. New Russia, road cut on Interstate 87: fluorapatite in pyrrhotite; C. Olmstedville (43°46'31"N, 73°56'34"W): scapolite, vesuvianite, titanite, microcline, graphite, fluorapatite, pyroxene; C. Port Henry: quartz (rose), graphite; C. Port Henry, Treadway quarry: graphite, uvite, phlogopite, rutile; C. Tahawus, National Lead Company mine (44°03'14"N, 74°03'29"W): magnetite, ilmenite, labradorite, others; C. Ticonderoga, Lead Hill: scapolite, pyroxene, graphite; C. Willsboro, Cabot Corporation mine (Lewis NYCO mine): wollastonite, grossular-andradite ("colophanite"), diopside, zircon; C. Franklin County Owls Head Mountain (44°44'06"N, 74°09'06"W): magnetite, oligoclase (sunstone); C. Saranac Lake, Indian Pass: labradorite; C. Fulton County Lassellsville, Crystal Grove (43°03'10"N, 74°38'00"W): quartz, calcite, dolomite, "anthraxolite"; S. Genesee County South Byron, South Byron meteorite, found 1915: nickelrich ataxite. 
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