 | | Book | | MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CROSBV, REVIEWER The Petrographical Province of Essex County, Mass. BY HENRY S. WASHINGTON. J . Geol., 6...787-808 ; 7 , 53-64, 1051 2 1 , 284-294.-Although Essex county is a region of great petrographic diversity...arid soda. Diorife has a large development in Essex County. It is highly varied and represents transitions...with those of Diana, N. U.,Mt. Ascutney, and Gloucester, Mass., which are all referred to an acid phase... A m . , IO, 277-284.-The grahamite of Ritchie County, West Virginia, first described by Lesley in 1863 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1899 THE PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE COUNTY, MASS. III OF ESSEX ROCKS OCCURRINGIN DIKES THE rocks described...an approximate idea of the intrusive rocks of Essex county. GRANITIC DIKES of this rock are confined...one cutting a granite exposure near Bass Rocks, Gloucester. It is the same mass as that mentioned previously... 536, 1893. PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE OF ESSEX COUNTY 107 of Arran it is easy to explain this by...rather vivid grass-green, resembling that of actinolite, and are quite pleochroic. A few ragged plates |  | | Report (issue) | | Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts by Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvin...Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvln This...contains the records of radlometrlc ages for Massachusetts from the Radlometrlc Age Data Bank of the U...portrayed on a new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). The compilation Is believed to...they appear on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). Steiger, R. H., and Jager, E. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (manganoan) varieties are found at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (Jahns and Ewing 1977). Fuchsite is...and fluorite. A classic association from El Paso County, Colorado, is well-crystallized zinnwaldite with...the 50:50 composition. The Morefield mine, Amelia County, Virginia, has produced many excellent large crystals...blue calcite from the Crestmore quarry, Riverside County, California, are typical of the species; a recent...Diego County, California. Figure 9. Dark zinnwaldite crystal in albite, Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts |  | | Report (volume) | | OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...in California recently I visited the Los Angeles County Museum in Los Angeles to see the famous collection...in Los Angeles can walk across the lawn to the County Museum for another thrill—the display of some of...mineral species (goethite, rutile, tremolite, actinolite. chrysotile, epidote and tourmaline); a beautiful...Leadville (Lake Co.). Colo., almost at the end of Lake County, I found a specimen of small radiating chrysocolla |  | | Report (volume) | | 704 GEOLOGY OF THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS BY CHARLES H. CLAPP WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT....... 9 9 9 10 11 11 11 15 j ( Geology of Essex County.................................................. 26; . . 3 4 CONTENTS. Geology of Essex County Continued. Igneous rocks Continued. Subjacent...reconnaissance map and structure section of Essex County, Mass.........................................map and structure section of southern part of Essex County, and adjoining parts of Suffolk and Middlesex |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Red Mountain range near Silverton, San Juan County, Colo., there is marmatite. It is a high-iron sphalerite...Illinois to Buffalo State Park in central LaSalle County, 111. We found many sam115 pies of the fish-tail...limestone near Frederick, Frederick Co., Md. MASSACHUSETTS — The following letter, dated Jan. 4, I960,...mention two additional localities of sphene in Massachusetts. The first one is the Baer-Mingolla Quarry in...chlorite, 117 prehnite, muscovite, biotite, actinolite, hornblende, chrysocolla, clinozoisite, epidote |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | See SCIIREYER (W.), 171 ; also SCAINI (G.), 900 Actinolite, Sinai, anal., 13 Aegirine, Nigeria, anal., 595;...spinel, 259 Amphibole, see Hornblende, Riebeckite, Actinolite, Ferrorichterite, Richterite, Tremolite, Kaersutite...Z-phase of Assarsson, 325 INDEX Cape Ann, Massachusetts, granite, riebeckite, 473 Capo Pula, Sardinia...Wales, anal., X-ray, 765 Cookstove Mtn., El Paso County, Colorado, genthelvite, danalite, 627 Coordination...Damghan, Iran, turquoise, 640 Danalite, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Hamp- INDEX 923 shire, New Mexico, Rhode |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, Ala....of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River...picked these up near a gravel deposit in Grant County, Indiana, near the city of Marion."—on label. I...of a lifetime! West Bend is located in Palo Alto County, about 50 miles west of Mason City, south of U...the Frostburg Clay Mine," by Harold Levey. MASSACHUSETTS—"The old lead mine at Loudville (Hampshire Co |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology of the land area of the Boston 2° sheet, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and 10- New Hampshire... 16 17 18 U. S. Geological Survey Boston, Massachusetts 19 ,U. S. Geological Survey* OPEN FILE REPORT...GEOLOGY OF THE LAND AREA OF THE BOSTON 2° SHEET, MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND AND NEW HAMPSHIRE...Milford Granite from the Milford quadrangle, Massachusetts, yielded 19 a 620 + 15 my,Precambrian,zircon...igneous rocks of probable Devonian age in eastern Massachusetts is comprised in a great group of intrusive rocks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sinai peninsula, albitite, carbonatite, dolerite, actinolite, breunnerite, 13 Tanzania ACt. Meru, pyroxenite...COLORADO Cookstove Mtn., El Paso County, genthelvite, danalite, 6z7 El Paso County, genthelvite, 627 St. Peter's...Peter's Dome, El Paso County, danalite, 627 Western Cheyenne Canyon, genthelvite, 6z7 MASSACHUSETI~ Cape...Cape Ann, granite, riebeckite, 473 Gloucester, danalite, 6z7 Loudville, wroewolfeite, langite, I Quincy...MEXICO Dixon, danalite, 627 Grandview mine, Grant County, helvine, 627 Iron Mtn., helvine, 6z7 RHODE ISLAND |  | | Report (issue) | | .......*. Armstrong Brothers Co. Ltd., South Gloucester .... IS 18 18 19 19 20 22 23 23 24 25 26 26...26 Dibblee Construction Co. Ltd., South Gloucester ,. 27 3. Trenton - Black River Limestones .........from a new quarry north of Thedford in Lambton county. In 1963 four new marble quarries were opened in...25, concession IV, Guilford township, Haliburton county, a quarter mile west of the village of Eagle Lake...and 17, concession XI, Marmora township, Hastings county by W.F. Bonter 6- Company Limited. The quarries |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the hemeree indicated in the above table :— f Gloucester (Robin's Wood Hill) •! Painswick I Haresfield...these deposits are followed northwards from near Gloucester to Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham, and then eastwards...described become attenuated. Passing southwards from Gloucester, the thickness varies considerably, as shown...Monoclinic. audalusite. brookite. ? chiastolite. actinolite. biotite. chlorite. chloritoid. epidote. 2 glauconite...Cretaceous and Triassic sediments of the former county. Kyanite is abundant in the samples from the southern |  | | | | United States: 311 Washington Street, Brighton, Massachusetts www.fitzhenry.ca 02135 godwit@fitzhenry.ca...nugget recorded is from Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Romania; Roraima...Lake, Labrador, Newfoundland; Cap d’Or, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Other Localities: Keweenaw Peninsula...Michigan, USA; Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Ajo, Pima County, Arizona, USA; Ray, Pinal County, Arizona...Arizona, USA; Santa Rita, New Mexico, USA; Rudabanya, Hungary; Yekaterinburg Oblast’, Russia; Broken Hill |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Journal (issue) | | were studied from Gloucester Tops, in the headwaters of the Kerripit and Gloucester Rivers. Zircons with...surface pink corundum Gloucester Tops, Tops, corundum grain grain from from Gloucester Barrington volcano...etched Figure 7: from Gloucester Figure 7: Corundums Corundums from Gloucester Tops, Tops, Barrington...opaque),from from Gloucester Tops, Barrington sapphirine (green). (dark Gloucester Tops, Barrington Photomicrograph...appear appear in sapphires from Yogo Gulch (Montana, USA) and in corundums corundums from metamorphic metamorphic |  | | Report (volume) | | 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...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee |  | | Book (edition) | | flame. Fusible in large pieces with difficulty 4. ACTINOLITE. in the blowpipe flame. Fusible in small 5. ORTHOCLASE...near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the...North Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, formerly in the County of Wicklow, where a nugget of 22 ounces was found; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | trips to Eden Mills, Vt., one with Ike Harvey of Gloucester, Mass. Lots of micro garnets, very sharp, and...( R ) , epidote ( R ) , grossularite ( R ) , actinolite ( R ) , hornblende ( R ) , fluorite (R—several...used on a 1956 Mineral Club trip to St. Lawrence County. As you drive northeast from Antwerp along Route...always a good place." We recommend St. Lawrence County as a place to spend a couple of weeks (at least)... 4th ANNUAL PICNIC AND SWAPPING BEE The Fulton County Mineral Club of Gloversville, IM. Y., is holding |  | | Book | | Department of Geology Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 02215 to; PREFACE In 1966, John Rodgers...Davis in the Connecticut Valley of western Massachusetts, and gradually extended itself. oo over New...Brown University The Foxboro Co., Foxborough, Massachusetts Geography, University of Toronto U. S. G, S...Boston State College Botany, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Marine Sciences, Virginia Institute...Marine Sciences University of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts Geology, University of California, Los Angeles |  | | Report (issue) | | Cooperite Djerfisherite [*) Effenbergerite Ferro-actinolite Gamagarite Genkinite Geversite Hawthorneite... Allanite-(La) (1961) Geversite (1961) Ferro-actinolite (1965) Hollingworthite (1965) Perryite (1965)...1960) and in the Barringer Hill pegmatite, Llano County, Texas, U.S.A (Marble, 1940). Manganoan varieties...1972); also from pegmatites at Ragged Peak, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A (Hutton, 1951 a) and at Chari...(Hentschel, 1964); lnishcrone, County Sligo, Eire; from Scawt Hill and Carneal, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |  | | Book | | Graphite.—Lot 3, range II. of Grenville, Argenteuil county, Q.—Coll., R. Bell, 1856. (1228.) — columnar.——Lot...Ottawa county, Q.— Coll., H. G. Monae 1877. (1249.) — Walker’s property, Buckingham, Ottawa county, Q.—Coll...Ottawa county, Q.—Coll., Table-case 49, E. D. Ingall, 1891. (5186.) — Lochaber, Ottawa county, Q. (1254...pyrite.)—Lot 3, range I. of Denbigh, Addington county, O. (1238.) Native Arsenic.—Seven miles up Watson...Antimony.—Lot 28, range I. of South Ham, Wolfe county, Q.—Coll., J. Richardson, 1875. (1248.) ~ = with |
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