 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth America has...anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly in the collection of...have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite in the United States (Wilson 1977; Francis and...many others, another of North America’s finest fluorapatite specimens. It is from a locality, however, that...the Acushnet quarry (also currently known as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County, Massachusetts |  | | Report (issue) | | Queensland; and amethyst crystals coating a crystal of fluorapatite, from the Mt. Elliott mine in Queensland. Also...Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. This little-known locality is an abandoned road-fill quarry where the...= Quartz, 3.1 cm, from Boylston, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Tyson’s Fine Minerals specimen...Faylor-Middlecreek quarry, Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania. (The Faylor-Middlecreek is a road-fill quarry in limestone...11.5 cm, from the Faylor-Middlecreek quarry, Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania. Exceptional Minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Dan and Nancy Novak (2015–2022) David and Marcie Bristol (2016–2022) Mark Hay & Mary Ellen Dirlam (2016–2021)...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on...albite, tourmaline, morganite and green gem-grade fluorapatite. INTRODUCTION4 Hundreds of feldspar veins and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gem, Lapidary, and Mineral Society of Montgomery County MD’s 51st Annual GLMSMC Gem, Mineral, and Fossil...showchair@rockrollers. org. March 27–29—St. Louis County, MO. Greater St. Louis Rock Hobby Club’s Annual...Danburite Occurrence near Russell, St. Lawrence County, New York —Steven C. Chamberlain, Marian Lupulescu...• Connoisseur’s Choice: Fluorapatite, Acushnet Quarry, Bristol County, Massachusetts —John Rakovan • Star |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2008 Carbonate in igneous and metamorphic fluorapatite: Two type A and two type B substitutions R....Fleet and Liu 2003, 2005; Tacker: Carbonate in fluorapatite Fleet et al. 2004) has the bisector of the...communication). Carbonate is likely too dispersed in the fluorapatite structure to allow for vibrational coupling...artifact of interlabo- Tacker: Carbonate in fluorapatite Carbonate ν3b position (cm-1) 1560 Type A1...(others) for Harding pegmatite and Marlborough, Massachusetts apatites. ratory bias. Nonlinear background |  | El Bamiki, Radouan, Raji, Otmane, Ouabid, Muhammad, Elghali, Abdellatif, Khadiri Yazami, Oussama, Bodinier, Jean-Louis (2021) Phosphate Rocks: A Review of Sedimentary and Igneous Occurrences in Morocco. Minerals, 11 (10) 1137 doi:10.3390/min11101137 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [25]. The main phosphate minerals are carbonate fluorapatite (CFA), Minerals 2021, 11, 1137 3 of 23 formerly...This triggers the precipitation of carbonate fluorapatite (CFA) precursors after reaching the supersaturation...carbonate fluorapatite. the authigenic precipitationenvironments, of carbonate fluorapatite. In organic-poor...or their of carbonate 2+ to create favorable fluorapatite, which means that pore waters should be depleted...dolomite [2,47]. The newly formed carbonate fluorapatite is concentrated in the form of phosphatic particles |  | | Report (issue) | | Publisher Lithographie, Ltd. Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria A. Staebler Managing Editor...Lithographie, Ltd. PO Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone: 1.303.495.5521 • Fax: 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie...The Panasqueira Mines: One Hundred Years of Fluorapatite BY CARLES CURTO MILA AND JORDI FABRE I FORNAGUERA...(Damour 1856; Rammelsberg 1860): 4 APATITE fluorapatite, hydroxylapatite, and chlorapatite. Their ideal...of the colors and luminescent properties of fluorapatite. STRUCTURE As with all mineral groups, the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mira Loma, Cali- RED CLOUD MINE SITE, YU M A COUNTY. ARIZONA WULFENITE, Red Ckud M m 7 JTQ MINERAL...tracks from M assachusetts-the alpine minerals of Acushnet, from Vermont-garnets, from New Hampshire-topaz...labels, polybags, vials. WOW! 2nd occurrence (1st in USA) of this rare sodium phosphomolybdate! Rich yellow...hardware 196 Beechwood Ave. Bogota, N .J. 07603 USA (201) 487-3254 The Mineralogical Record , volume...arsenate minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada. American Mineralogist, 63, 704—708. e |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........... 858 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185> ROCKS AND MINERALS 801 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A POST CARD FROM HELL ! Hell Joes exist and R&M...San Antonio Rock & Lapi dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman; Fred Stevenson, P...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County' Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . ...WELOGANITE crystal, 4 cm, on matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in...WEW 3 Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, `ÉÇàÜ°tÄ? dâ°uxv Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore...Road Hudson, Québec, Canada J0P 1H0 The Francon quarry ranks as the second most prolific type locality |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...(1972) gives a detailed description of this unique quarry and its yttrium-niobiumbismuth-vanadium mineral...8Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria GERMANY 2 Am Hechtsberg quarry, Hausach NAMIBIA 10Khorixas UNITED STATES 3Stewart...or pneumatolytic origin Mica Lode-Meyers Ranch quarry, 8-Mile Park, Colorado Beyerite, schumacherite...Graf (1995) report namibite from the Am Hechtsberg quarry near Hausach in the German Schwarzwald (Black Forest) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...of the Mildren and Steppe Mining Districts, Pima County, Arizona.” During this time he met and became good...Multiplex and Raytheon, settling in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1967 with his wife Vera (nee Hanke). Ernie...and the amethyst occurrence at Bellingham, Massachusetts, and were rewarded with some fine specimens...excellent specimens at Mont Saint Hilaire and Acushnet, Massachusetts; he traveled widely in the search for specimens |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Book (edition) | | with both enclosed in square brackets, e.g. fluorapatite Ca[Fl(PO 4)3] or euchroite 0.1 2[OHIAsO 4]•3H...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from |  | | Book | | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |  | | Journal (issue) | | Karabacek-Sammlung im Harvard Mineralogical Museum , Boston/USA Neufunde von bekannten Fundorten in Österreich Neue...neun deutschen Ausstellern war auch Herb Obodda/USA (vorn im Bild) mit von der Partie. Foto Liebe. 4...versteinerte Hölzer bis l m Durchmesser aus den USA waren die Highlights . Das Sonderthema dieser Börse...zahlreichen klassischen Börsen in Deutschland, Europa oder USA zu besuchen. Joerg Liebe 6 Mineralien-Welt 5/2000...Deutschland, Mongolei, Madagaskar, Brasilien und USA • Neufunde: Achate, Laguna/Mexiko, Crazy-Lace-Achate/Mexiko |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology and Geophysics Boston College Weston, Massachusetts 02167 Geoffrey W. Smith Department of Geological...portion of the Boston Bay Group at Nantasket, Massachusetts. Brunton compass is for scale and also points...Mattapan Volcanic Complex, greater Boston, Massachusetts . 85 Margaret D. Thompson and O. Don Hermes...valon Boston terrane, Massachusetts . 133 A valon zones, eastern Massachusetts Martin E. Ross iii ...1984, Cambrian rocks of East Point, Nahant, Massachusetts, in Hanson, L. S., ed.. Geology of the coastal |  | | Book | | could be accommodated by the Society at the Pirna County Fairgrounds and later at the Tucson Convention...courtroom of the Justice of the Peace for Pirna County in Tucson, to form what would become the Tucson...p.m. on Sunday. The show was held at the Pirna County Fair and Rodeo Grounds, where it would continue...Held once again in the quonset but on the Pirna County Fair and Rodeo Grounds, this year's show took place...minerals from the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County. The exhibit was made up of specimens Norm had |  | | Journal (issue) | | Amethyst • Achat Große Auswahl an Mineralien aus den USA Händler bitte Preisliste anfordern! verkauf auch...Bixbyit und roter Bery11 aus dem Topas Volley in Utah/USA G. MARGRAF, Mittenwald) und eine Reihe anderer Mineralien...dem Lane Quarry von West Springfield sowie Fluorapatit aus dem Bluestone Quarry bei Acushnet, beide Massachusetts...Massachusetts, USA, als Beispiele alpinotyper Kluftmineralisationen Auch für die kleinen Sammler wurde...Nordamerikas. Phantastisch waren auch die tiefvioletten Fluorapatite aus ft; , ; ·, ;. : ••• . I . ._> ·' - |  | | Book (volume) | | Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy...sne-aseseeateeCounty, Can tess ccraccacaerscsascn enaeantsrse Figure |  | | Book | | Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...HEXOCTAHEDRON {345} TRISOCTAHEDRON {233} BOYLSTONE QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND...across, with cube faces from the Magheramore Quarry, Lame, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K.; SEM photo | | | Book | | Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...HEXOCTAHEDRON {345} TRISOCTAHEDRON {233} BOYLSTONE QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND...across, with cube faces from the Magheramore Quarry, Lame, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K.; SEM photo | | | Book (volume) | | Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA..............................................Benitoite recovery from alluvial deposits, San Benito County, CA ................ 29 Figure 8. Title page |  | | Journal (issue) | | Minerals panied by an adult. shown by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (this will be the first...Chaired 1977, 198182 Guest Exhibit for San Diego County Gemboree. Board member of San Diego Mineral and...author, who is an avid quartz collected in Plumas County, California collector, began this discussion in...Los quartzes, and alpha and beta quartz. Angeles County, California are listed Accompanying Part One was...cavities) in obsidian at Coso Hot Springs in Inyo County, California - a location that is Renerally off-limits |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gilbert Gauthier: Maisons Laffitte, Paris,...Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Henry O. Meyer (deceased): Dept. of Earth Sciences...Pennsylvania. Thalassa Skinner: Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dorian G. W. Smith: Dept. of Geology, Univ...Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana...following localities are known for fine specimens. Bristol, CT; Flambeau mine, Rush Co., WI; Butte, MT; Bisbee |
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Acushnet Quarry, Acushnet, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA