[Rockhounds] LOCALITY QUERIES

[Al Balmer]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:34:38 -0400, Kreigh Tomaszewski
<Kreigh at Tomaszewski.net> wrote:

>Al,
>
>Powers Farm is in a different county per MinDat...

And a different state. My mind made some strange connections when I
read your article. Warwick, NY is known for the Franklin marble. I
jumbled Franklin, Warwick, and black tourmaline and somehow came up
with Powers.
>
>Power's Farm (Bower Powers farm; Ryland Crary farm),  Pierrepont,  St 
>Lawrence Co.,  New York,  USA
>
>	Known as the Ryland Crary Farm in the 1890's, the site is
>	noteworthy for the exceptional specimens of black uvite
>	tourmaline it has produced for more than a hundred years.
>
>I have a nice specimen of Uvite from Powers Farm from a trade with 
>Larry Rush eight years ago (Thanks again Larry!).

I still have a couple of specimens. There are quartz crystals in the
locality, too, and a lot of mica. The mine, though very small, was a
significant producer of mica during the 1st World War, according to
Bower Powers. He used to charge collectors $2.00, but refused more and
more of them as he got tired of people trashing the area. Last I knew
(10 or so years ago) access was granted only to field trips in
conjunction with the show at Gouveneur.

The material is indeed uvite. I remember Vandall King trying to
educate us about dravite, uvite and schorl after a trip.
>
>Kreigh
>
>
>
>
>On Sunday, Sep 21, 2008, at 21:00 America/Detroit, Al Balmer wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:15:48 -0400, Kreigh Tomaszewski
>> <Kreigh at Tomaszewski.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Dravite Tourmaline is found at Mount Grace,  Warwick,  Franklin Co.,
>>> Massachusetts,  USA and  Warwick,  Franklin Co.,  Massachusetts,  USA
>>> according to MinDat.
>>
>> The Warwick location would probably be Powers Farm? It was open for
>> collecting on and off when I lived in NY. Mr. Powers is probably gone
>> by now.
>>
>> -- 
>> Al Balmer
>> Sun City, AZ
>>
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Al Balmer
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