Connecticut Collecting
posted in Collecting Locations, Filming, Family & Friends |While at the Springfield Show, we made plans to go mineral collecting in Trumbull, Conneticut with Jeremy Zolan (Mindat Regular). We were meeting him at Old Mine Park to see some of the now closed locations, and then go to a nearby construction site to see if we could collect some scheelite, pyrite, and clinozoisite.
Old Mine Plark was once an active tungsten mine, but has since been reclamated and turned into a public park. Collecting here is not allowed. Old Mine Plaza is known for its Wolframite pseudo Scheelite, Fluorite var. Chlorophane, Topaz, and Scheelite, amoung a host of other minerals.
However Jeremy brought some pieces along to show us that he aquired digging like a madman.
After checking out his rocks, Jeremy led Justin and I around, telling us about the location and what was found at various spots on the property.
Here is a gysum deposit.
Fluorite was dug out of this deep trench.
But who wants to look buT not touch? So we caravaned down the road to a nearby construction site that l he had been collecting at for years. Jeremy told us that we should be looking for clinozoisite, pyrite, and scheelite.
Safety first kids!
We all found plenty of scheelite, and Justin even found a quartz point.
After spending a fun afternoon in the sun, we all went to Three Brothers for lunch. Then we headed back on the road toward Maryland.
posted on September 6th, 2007 at 6:43 pm