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Chalcocite from
New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:79874
Long-form Identifier:1:3:79874:3
GUID (UUID V4):1c4de508-a408-440a-8874-cabaf0943f53
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
2.6km (1.6 miles) Voorhees, Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
11.5km (7.2 miles) Green Valley, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Chimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
14.7km (9.1 miles) Fields' Copper Mine (Field Mine), Warrenville, Warren Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
14.7km (9.1 miles) Griggstown Mine (Franklin Mine), Griggstown, Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Wilson's Quarry (Wilson Stone Co. Quarry), Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
20.0km (12.4 miles) American Mine (Alpha Copper Mine; Bridgewater Mine; Somerville Mine; Somerville deposit), Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) Neshanic, Hillsborough Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) Feltville Copper mine, Glenside Park (Feltville), Watchung Reservation, Union County, New Jersey, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) Hoffman Mine, Sunset Lake, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bulletin 57 Geologic Series Copper Mines...Mining in New Jersey by HERBERT P. WOODWARD DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT STATE OF NEW JERSEY...Geology and Topography Trenton, N. J. 1944 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOARD OF CONSERVATION AND............. Mendham (P . O . Gladstone) (3) NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL MR...herewith the manuscript of a new report on the copper ores of New Jersey and the many attempts to mine
Journal (issue)
the Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey By John S. Albanese VOL. I OCTOBER 1960 Published...address: John S. Albanese P. 0. Box 221 Union, New Jersey No. 5 -79Zincite Zincite is commonly massive...examination to be massive chalcocite and octahedrons of franklinite with the chalcocite somewhat altered to...to malachite. A polished section showed the chalcocite in spots to be actually bladed covellite. Several...found deeply corroded by the copper sulfides chalcocite and covellite. With these minerals occurred galena
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67 B. Section B:...Section D: Occurrences located in the Newark basin, New Jersey . .99 E. Section E: Occurrences located in the...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle
Catalog/List
or D SPC.C.£14 3) CHALCOCITE,Geevor Mine.St Just.Cornwall. Platy hexagonal chalcocite xtls to 8mm with...to 10mm. G RF SPC. C. £4 10) MOLYDENITE, Ronez, Jersey. Unusual locally specimen with a fairly extensive...Rare++. MO brown XN. TN. £8 38) SURSASSITE, New Brunswick,Canada. Mn2Ah(SiO4)(SiiO7)(OH)3 . Rare+. Copper...Crestmore, near Riverside,Riverside Co., California, USA. White powdery 1.5mm coating limestone. MI.£3 --...-- -= ~ --- 47) GOBBINSITE, Island Magee, County Antrim, N.Ireland. Rare++. White waxy occurrence in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE NEW JERSEY TRIASSIC. • J. VOLNEY LEWIS. HISTORY. About I9O yearsago coppermining...essayedat the old Schuylermine, near Arlington, New Jersey,the first of its kind in the American colonies...more or lessendeavorto establishthe industry in New Jersey. Considerable sumsof moneyand muchlabor havebeenexpended...investigation of the Triassic (Newark) trap rocks of New Jersey for the State Geological Survey, and I am indebted...permission to publish it here. 242 COPPER DEPOSITS OF NEW IERSEY :243 the money already expendedwould long
Report (issue)
BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS...ITS ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931 BY...BY James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHOR’S NOTE Since his boyhood days the author...of his recreational hours collecting minerals in New York City and its environs. A record lias been personally...in the old lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years,
Book
the use of ‘chalcocite’ for uncharacterized blue-white copper sulphides of the chalcocite—anilite—digenite—djurleite...batches of mineralogically similar material and using new laps for each type of ore. To check whether any of...removal, check that the tarnishing has not yielded new information (tarnishing of pyrite may show fine-scale...modal percentages. Ic Bornite, stromeyerite, chalcocite, pyrite and tetrahedrite group mineral. Unknown...symplectite-like intergrowth with, and inclusions of, chalcocite (light blue). Stromeyerite (light lilac-grey
Book
. r. ~'3<> ?71 Trenton ·-· / XJ -· New Amslcl• (New Castle} :. I. I. I ve . I :::=::::::::::::::::::::::...archaeological sites, historic places associated with the New Netherland colony, the location of the Pahaquarry...The Lenape or Delaware Indians, New Netherland, Copper mining, New Jersey History All rights reserved....Lewis map of 1796 showing road crossing into New Jersey and along Pahaquarry. 144 45. T. Gordon map of...historical insights of Donald Mc Ternan of Rhinebeck, New York, were particularly valuable, as were the more
Report (volume)
Mesozoic geology of M assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina...Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg
Report (issue)
depleted, new deposits are found, new extractive technology and uses are developed, and new geologic knowledge...knowledge and theories indicate new areas favorable for exploration. This Professional Paper discusses................................................ . New Britain and the Solomon Islands .................................................. . 13 Guadalupe County, N. Mex .........................................Garvin County, Okla ....................................................... . 18 Guadalupe County, N.Mex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Epigenetic minerals are bornite,blue and white chalcocite,and chalcopyrite. Cracks in the alteredplantremnantsare...to replacementof cell interiorsby borniteand chalcocite. The evidenceindicatesthat the mineralization...coppermineralsare associated with carbonized plantremains;chalcocite hasbeenfoundat a few localities. • Thesedepositsare...theCarpenter mine,nearNew Albany,Bradford County. In New Jersey,the Pahaquarrymine, near the Delaware Water...a hamlet sevenmiles west of Mehoopany, Wyoming County. About 200 yards north of the Forkston crossroads
Report (volume)
Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mine in the Spring Mountain Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho. This is the first reported occurrence of...quartz diorite intrusions. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICALCLUB Regular Monthly Meeting oJ...pointed out that the copper "The Copper Minerals ol New lersey." minerals were found in the trap, the shales...trap, notably at Chimney Rock and Bound Brook, chalcocite was the most prevalent, with some native copper...resemblance, on a small scale, of this and other New Jersey occurrences with those oI the Lake Superior region
Minerals with sulphur or arsenic and a metal ion. Chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite, covellite, pyrite, marcasite...tint), p. 82 pyrrhotite (bronze yellow), p. 50 chalcocite (dark grey), p. 34 | graphite (steel grey, black)...(lead grey with platinum (silver-white), p. 26 chalcocite (dark grey), p. 34 Hard (Mohs more than 514)...form the eastern coastline from Newfoundland to New York. Further south a flat plain of sedimentary rock...nugget recorded is from Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Romania; Roraima
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intrusives ................................. New Jersey (Triassic) 3. Ultramarie intrusives ................................... Santa Rita district, New Mexico 6. Modern numerous swamps ................Alaska Cap d'Or, Nova Scotia First Mountain, New Jersey Connecticut Southeastern U.S.A. (Catoct/n) Lake...Triassic Miocene lavas lavas Mt. Meadows, Lassen County, Calif. Northern California (metamorphosed basalts)...Szechuan and Yunnan, China Queensland, Australia New 3 Guinea (81, 82). Bateman and McLaughlin (7)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatites including those near Georgetown, Sagadahoc County (King and Foord 1994); other occurrences include...Paris, and the Emmons quarry at Greenwood, Oxford County. Scorodite occurred in small, pale green masses...north of Cobalt, Middlesex County; the Booth bismuth mine at Monroe, Fairfield County; and the arsenic...Derby on the west bank of the Naugatuck River, New Haven County, Connecticut (Schairer 1931; Januzzi 1976)...Merrimack County, and in the Parker Mountain pegmatite at Strafford, Strafford County, New Hampshire
Book (edition)
channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...gas fields occur in almost every State except in New England and a few Southern States, but the discoveries...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ECONOMIC VOL. XXVIII THE GEOLOGY AUGUST, x933 CHALCOCITE OF AND ORE EDSON NATIVE No. 5 COPPER TYPES...presentlargelyin the form of native copperor chalcocite,and chalcopyriteand pyrite, so commonin most-copperdeposits...Bastin,E. S.: A PyrrhotiticPeridotitefrom Knox County,Maine. Jour. Geol., vol. x6, •9o8, x24-•38. TYPES...muchlessabundant. Their dominantcoppermineralsare chalcocite and nativecopperand lesscommonlybornite or corellite...considerfirst the best understoodamong thesetypes. THE CHALCOCITE ZONES OF DOWNWARD ENRICHMENT. The processes
Report (issue)
Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia Ann...Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral identification based on X-ray diffraction...MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia Ann..............................4 BAY OF FUNDY, NEW BRUNSWICK......................................................................11 The Ledge (Charlotte County Granite) quarry...............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NOVEMBER, No. 7 x933 MINERAL ZONING IN THE NEW JERSEY-PENNSYLVANIA-VIRGINIA W. H. TRIASSIC AREA...deposits. The Arlington or SchuylerCopperMine {n New Jerseywas one of the early coppermines in the United...geological work hasbeendone on different parts of the New Jersey-Pennsylvania-Virginia Triassic region,but no...to the remarkablezonal relationsdisplayedin the New JerseyVirginia Triassic area. However, the general...most of the principalmineral localitiesof the New Jersey-VirginiaTriassicarea. Distributio• of Triassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF FORMATION BRUNSWICK NO. 6 DEPOSITS, AND MINING ORIGIN AND NEW BRUNSWICK, OF THE SMELTING...apply the sphaleritegeothermometer (13) to certain New Brunswickmineral deposits. The work was undertakenin...purposeof whichis to studythe geologyand geochemistry of New Brunswickmineral deposits. The sphaleriteswere collectedby...the writer from the Nigadoo Mine and from the Brunswick Mining and Smelting No. 6 deposit. The writer...boulangerite,en- argite,nativesilver,cubanite,bornite,chalcocite, covellite,gold,arsenopyrite, spefiularhematite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz diorite intrusions. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICALCLUB Regular Monthly Meeting oJ...pointed out that the copper "The Copper Minerals ol New lersey." minerals were found in the trap, the shales...trap, notably at Chimney Rock and Bound Brook, chalcocite was the most prevalent, with some native copper...resemblance, on a small scale, of this and other New Jersey occurrences with those oI the Lake Superior region...shale at Griggstown contains a Ereat deal of chalcocite. At Rocky HiIl mine the black shale is spotted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
atacamite, brochantite, chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, tetrahedrite. chalcophyllite, gypsum, libethenite...Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick, New Jersey; the...the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania; the upper...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County, Virginia; and copper mines in Guilford, Mecklenburg
Report (volume)
.. New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.................. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;... S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals, World's Fair edition,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is located 35 miles northwest of Newcastle, New Brunswick,' Canada. Middle Ordovician TetagoucheGroup...some graphite. Supergene minerals consist of chalcocite, corellite and marcasite with a little native...locatedabout 35 miles northwestof Newcastle, New Brunswick,Canada. Accessis by meansof a paved road from'...Difficultiesof mappingare typical of this part of New Brunswickand compriseintensedynamicmetamorphism,...occurringin the mappedarea,the graniticrocksof New Brunswick should be mentioned for two reasons: 1. They
 
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