 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A CATALOGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS GEMSTONES HA,MPDEN 'COUNTY (PART FOUR) By RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany...will be amended in a later issue. NOTE: (ESSEX COUNTY, was erroneously listed as part three in caption...Catalogue of Massachusetts Gemstones." Readers please note the correct County to be BERKSHIRE COUNTY.) AGATE...outcrops of basalt. Hampden County The chief occurrence of agate in Massachusetts is a number of ancient...Nodules and rounded masses eroded from basalt. in Hampden and Hampshire Counties Westfield, Lane Company |  | | 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...1987 Route 128 and Route 3, where traffic from the west and south of Boston meets and passes at the rate...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...from Roxbury south to Brockton and from Braintree west to Needham and Wellesley. BRAINTREE - By most accounts |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Boston, Johanson and Savage from Leominster, Massachusetts, Verrow and the late Percy Leggett from Gorham...following minerals were noted: pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, columbite, manganapatite, autunite, the quartz...recovered in recent years. The Palm and Koleh Granite Quarry in Amherst, New Hamphire is located about one mile...Granite quarry areas where many other minerals may be found are the Cape Ann and Quincy, Massachusetts and...there may be others. Yet in almost any granite quarry there might be rare micro crystals, the problem |  | | Report (volume) | | onshore and offshore early Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg...Maritime Maryland Massachusetts, Deerfield basin Massachusetts, Hartford basin Massachusetts, other Morocco |  | | Report (volume) | | Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin...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 |  | | Report (edition) | | 5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...Supplemental labels were added where necessary to show quarry sites, road names, and other useful landmarks....those which are still open. The words "mine" and "quarry" are often used interchangeably in discussing mineral |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | The Clarence River Plutonic Suite, exposed just west of the Clarence-Moreton Basin, is spatially associated................................... 100 The Lady Hampden mine (DK22) .....................................125 Hughes & Jacksons reef (PG0041) and Lunatic West mine (PG0122) ................................................. 68 Plate 11. Epithermal quartz-sphalerite vein, North Kyloe pit .........................sulphides within altered volcaniclastics, Lady Hampden pit (DK22).............................. 90 Plate |  | | Book (edition) | | (Cross-seaion at right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR ^ PHENACITE SPODUMENE...divided geologically into the areas of the east and west, and the plains between The mountain regions in...through Georgia and westward to Tennessee and in the west including the Rockies and coast ranges, are characterized...gem stone collected on the spot. The war in the west, years have added a where many ing ranges and...washed out of the rock formations of the east and west coast mountains, and the diamonds of the ciers that |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | matrix for one or more of these species. In Massachusetts, datolite fills veins and open cavities in trap...localities such as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite...Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found at the Notch quarry at nearby...al. 1980) and quarries at Prospect Park, Passaic County, are noted for datolite; datolite clusters and...in the Braen quarry, Haledon; the Francisco quarry at Great Notch; and the Riverside quarry, Totowa, also |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc is enormous...a single zinc mineral, sphalerite. Fortunately for the collector, sphalerite tends to form well-crystallized...Colorado boasts an unusually large number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the...the source of a correspondingly large number of sphalerite specimens. Inasmuch as the minerals of the now-closed...issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice (figs. 1 and 2 ) . Sphalerite is notable for its dodecahedral cleavage, the |  | | Report (issue) | | Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts .................... .72 C. Section C: Occurrences...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2...ascending order, from north to south and east to west. The most prevalent name of a mine or prospect which...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle |  | | Report (volume) | | .......................................... Massachusetts...............:.............................................................................. West Virginia..........................................vanadium minerals in the high plateau region of the West. The present bulletin, like the earlier work, gives...mineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126,...Charlottesville. Washington___Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia_.Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin____Prof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | a green rock found in Fairplay, Colo., in Park County. Would you please identify it for me?—asks Elizabeth...it is a very nice one. Fairplay, in western Park County, is in central Colorado. C O N N E C T I C U T..."The Berry Construction Materials Quarry, (formerly Paul Frank Quarry) in middle Devonian limestone is...work very hard for them or be lucky scouting the quarry floor and blastdown. Scalenohedral (trigonal) forms...noted, associated with silicified corals and sphalerite tetrahedrons in a discontinuous, leached, sandy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological development of mankind...famous Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County (see Cook 2008 and references therein) was the...Essex County; excellent sharp octahedra to 2 cm have been collected at Port Henry in the same county. The...of America’s No. 4 mine at Balmat, St. Lawrence County, is well known for lustrous magnetite crystals...alteration zones containing halite, anhydrite, sphalerite, and calcite in the Precambrian massive sulfide |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | four vein-hosted Cloncurry-style Cu+_Au deposits (Hampden, Mt Elliot/Swan, Mt Cobalt, and the Answer Mine)...deposits close to the Williams Batholith (Mt Dore, Hampden) owe their clustering around 0%0 to their granitic...Beardsmore et al. 1988) such as the Answer (Cu-Au), Hampden (Au-Cu-Ag), Mount Elliott/Swan (Au-Cu), and Mount...Mammoth, Gunpowder, Mt Kelly, Mt Roseby,Magnet, Hampden, Mt Elliot, Mt Dote, Answer and Mt Cobalt (dominated...Succession; Scott et al. 1985), Answer, Duchess, Hampden, Mount Elliot, Saint Mungo, Trekelano and Young |  | | Journal (issue) | | Strong IT'S QUARRY TIME IN INDIANA Mineral collecting in the Hoosier State by Mary-Alice West FEATURES...Jasper .... $25 .25 MINIMUM ORDER S18 postpaid in USA Subscribe to our CATALOG of cabochons. beads. slabs...(MSSC), reported to be the oldest Mineral Society west of the Mississippi River, will present its 54th...Institution; the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History; the San Bernardino County Museum; the University...Recently Renovated Gem and Mineral Hall of the L.A. County Museum and Achievements of the Gem and Mineral |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................. 3 What’s new in minerals: Springfield Show 2018 .....................................$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...built in 1820 by Henry Heuland and sold to Charles Hampden Turner (1773–1856). Armand Lévy (1838) described...The collection of British businessman Charles Hampden Turner (1773–1856), assembled for him by mineral... These were accessed via four main shafts: from west to east they are the San Joaquín, San Aquilino, |  | | Book | | California, and from Washington’s Pacific Shores to Key West, Florida, and has collected in all but a very few...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I COAL CITY, St. Clair Co. Sphalerite COLUMBIANA, Shelby...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sylvite, and anhydrite. Quebec Francon quarry The large Francon quarry in Montreal is located in a residential...little or no land available for expanding the quarry. The economics of dig ging deeper for the construction-grade...mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry is world-famous for being the first (or only) producing...dawsonite are found at the Francon quarry. Dawsonite was first found in a quarry near the Francon. The city of...agreement with the Fran con company to use the quarry as a landfill. Reports from several collectors |  | | Book (edition) | | South and in the States and Ter ritories of the far West. These changes, for the most part, have been progressive...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sample. W h e r e possible, coexisting pyrite-sphalerite, sphaleritegalena and galena-pyrite pairs were...Cu Closed ~ R ~ Cu do 2 Everest Emu Creek Lady Hampden Cu do 5 Cook 4 Gulf Creek Cu do Mt Carrington Kylo...JosFin-Time N 4 hGrzburgile 15[ Drake Volcar4os Elsinore West (Cu Zn) do do (Cu Zn) Margins Creek ~ W O O L O...in a concordant lens of mas sire magnetite - sphalerite- chaleopyrite ore spatially related to metabasalt...per cent. Colourless to buff-white, iron-poor sphalerite is much more abundant than chalcopyrite and occurs |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Phone 238-5127 or 534-6269. Samuel Zocco, 18 Springfield St., Lawrence, Mass., is featuring top quality...prospectors and campers. Raytech Equipment Co., Hampden Road, Somers, Conn., is featuring RayChrome fluorescent...04 August 2017 West El Calif. Segundo Blvd., Hawthorne, JADE When up Massachusetts way—be sure to...your visit with them. The Prospectors Shop, 201 West San Francisco, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is one of the...very fine specimens. FLUORITE; C A L C I T E ; SPHALERITE; CELESTITE; Q U A R T Z ; A P A T I T E ; C H |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum |  | | 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............................................ |
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Hampden quarry, West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA