Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

Field of view is about 2 mm across. From material field collected by Paul Young.

© 2008 Peter Cristofono

Dark green flakes on a 7 mm quartz crystal. Collected by Jim Cahoon. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2007 Peter Cristofono

Fibrous on calcite. View is about 1 cm across. Photograph by Peter Cristofono.

© 2006 Peter Cristofono

Greenish-yellow titanite (6 mm) with chlorite, albite, quartz.

© 2003 Peter Cristofono

Specimen: 15 mm wide. P. Cristofono specimen and photo. Field collected 1988.

© 2005 Peter Cristofono

Crystals to 3.5 mm. Photograph by Peter Cristofono.

© 2006 Peter Cristofono

18 mm quartz crystal with inclusions of green chlorite. Photograph by Peter Cristofono.

© 2006 Peter Cristofono

Red jasper and green epidote in an amygdule in altered basalt. View is 4 mm across. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2009 Peter Cristofono

Specimen is 12 cm long. Harvard Mineralogical Museum, no. 1406. P. Cristofono photo.

© 2009 Peter Cristofono

2 mm crystal. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2006 Peter Cristofono

19 mm crystal. Photograph by Peter Cristofono.

© 2006 Peter Cristofono

Vein of fibrous green actinolite in matrix. Harvard Mineralogical Museum specimen no. 90128. Specimen is 20 + cm long. P. Cristofono photo.

© 2007 Peter Cristofono

Crystals to about 3 mm. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2006 Peter Cristofono

3 mm crystal. P. Cristofono specimen and photo. Field collected 1988.

© 2005 Peter Cristofono

3 cm crystal. Photograph by Peter Cristofono.

© 2006 Peter Cristofono

Calcite crystals to 3.5 mm with epidote. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2008 Peter Cristofono

Black crystals to 2 mm. P. Cristofono specimen and photo. Ex- Paul Young specimen.

© 2009 Peter Cristofono

Crystal is about 1 mm long. From material field collected by Paul Young. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2009 Peter Cristofono

Crystal is about 0.5 mm long. From material field collected by Paul Young. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2008 Peter Cristofono

Pseudocubic crystal, about 0.5 mm. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2011 Peter Cristofono

2 mm cubic pyrite crystal in epidote. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2008 Peter Cristofono

A nice calcite crystal on matrix. From the West Roxbury Crushed Stone Quarry, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Entire specimen measures 5 cm x 2.5 cm x 4.5 cm

Orange-brown crystal. Field of view is about 3 mm across. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2011 Peter Cristofono

Harvard Mineralogical Museum specimen.

© 2011 Peter Cristofono

Field of view is about 1 mm across. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2008 Peter Cristofono

Cluster of calcite crystals, 8 cm across.

© 2012 Peter Cristofono

Hyalite opal on matrix. Philip C. Foster micromount collection, no. 212/107. Fluoresces bright yellow-green under shortwave UV.

© 2016 Peter Cristofono

Babingtonite and albite crystals.

© 2020 Harold Moritz

A cluster of honey-yellow stilbite crystals. Label indicates this specimen was field collected in 1985. Acquired at the 2017 Micomounters of New England Symposium in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

© 2017 Peter Cristofono

Aggregate of colorless hexagonal Calcite crystals to 7mm.

© Mike Polletta

Crystal is about 0.5 mm across.

© 2011 Peter Cristofono

Hexagonal calcite crystals to 1.3cm I collected out of thin vein in granite in January 2017.

© Mike Polletta

6mm colorless hexagonal Calcite crystals on a granite matrix

© Mike Polletta

Nice hexagonal calcite crystals I worked out of a vein in granite back in January 2017.

© Mike Polletta

Anatase on feldspar. FOV is 0.7 mm across.

© 2014 Peter Cristofono

6.3 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm. A fine calcite specimen from West Roxbury, Massachusetts featuring a gemmy, sharp, lustrous, 2.8 cm, modified, very pale yellow colored calcite crystal with a couple smaller accenting calcites on host rock matrix. My favorite aspect of the main crystal is that it actually has a slightly frosted thin layer/overgrowth, like a ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Here is a cool and rarely seen calcite specimen from this lesser-known quarry in the southwestern Boston suburbs. This cabinet sized piece hosts several sharp, highly compressed/tabular "poker"-chip style calcite crystals measuring up to 2.2 cm across sitting on granite matrix. The crystals have a very pale golden hue and decent internal ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

6.3 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm. A fine calcite specimen from West Roxbury, Massachusetts featuring a gemmy, sharp, lustrous, 2.8 cm, modified, very pale yellow colored calcite crystal with a couple smaller accenting calcites on host rock matrix. My favorite aspect of the main crystal is that it actually has a slightly frosted thin layer/overgrowth, like a ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

6.3 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm. A fine calcite specimen from West Roxbury, Massachusetts featuring a gemmy, sharp, lustrous, 2.8 cm, modified, very pale yellow colored calcite crystal with a couple smaller accenting calcites on host rock matrix. My favorite aspect of the main crystal is that it actually has a slightly frosted thin layer/overgrowth, like a ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Here is a cool and rarely seen calcite specimen from this lesser-known quarry in the southwestern Boston suburbs. This cabinet sized piece hosts several sharp, highly compressed/tabular "poker"-chip style calcite crystals measuring up to 2.2 cm across sitting on granite matrix. The crystals have a very pale golden hue and decent internal ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Here is a cool and rarely seen calcite specimen from this lesser-known quarry in the southwestern Boston suburbs. This cabinet sized piece hosts several sharp, highly compressed/tabular "poker"-chip style calcite crystals measuring up to 2.2 cm across sitting on granite matrix. The crystals have a very pale golden hue and decent internal ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Elongated, metallic, and mostly unstriated cubic pyrite predominates here, but it is joined by less well formed, iridescent and golden chalcopyrite, both etched out a little from the massive calcite matrix.

Three small quartz points completely coated by a chlorite group mineral most likely chamosite.

Deep and rich purple blebs of anhedral fluorite in clear to white quartz.

View of the West Roxbury Crushed Stone Quarry (Grove Street Quarry) in 2012.

© Peter Cristofono

1925 Map Showing Location of McMurtry's Quarry

1916 map showing location of Rowe Crushed Stone Quarry at the corner of Washington Street and Commonwealth Ave.

Vintage and modern views showing location of old puddingstone quarry, now a public park. The old map shows Alleghany Street extending through the property, but the road was never been built that far west.