Club	Location	Distance
Danbury Mineralogical Society	Danbury, Connecticut	40km
Stamford Mineralogical Society	Stamford, Connecticut	41km
Mid-Hudson Valley Gem and Mineral Society Inc.	Poughkeepsie, New York	45km
Orange County Mineral Society	Middletown, New York	46km
North Jersey Mineralogical Society, Inc.	Paterson, New Jersey	47km

Mindat Locality ID:

16440

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:2:16440:8

GUID (UUID V4):

A granite quarry (Yorktown gray & Buff Mohegan or Golden Granite). Started before 1931 and owned by Grenci & Ellis. (Peekskill has since become independant of Cortlandt.)

[NB: The coordinates given here are for roughly the center of the town of Peekskill, and not the quarries themselves.]

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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical Elements

Mineral List

ⓘ Quartz

1 valid mineral.

Detailed Mineral List:

ⓘ Quartz

Formula: SiO₂

References:

Rocks & Min.: 6:98-99.

Gallery:

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
ⓘ	Quartz	4.DA.05	SiO₂

List of minerals for each chemical element

O	Oxygen
O	ⓘ Quartz	SiO₂
Si	Silicon
Si	ⓘ Quartz	SiO₂

Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality

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Laurentides DomainPassive Margin

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References

Rocks & Minerals (1931): 6: 98-99.

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