 | | 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...At that time the following minerals were noted: pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, columbite, manganapatite...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered...near Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, particularly the Standpipe Hill quarry where crystals such as Harvard...Mount Apatite near Auburn, Androscoggin County; and the Bumpus quarry, ROCKS & MINERALS 244-253 Conn Choice...Hedgehog Hill quarry, Peru, and the Melrose and nearby mines at Stoneham, Oxford County. Phenomenal trapezohedral |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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) ....................................sulphides within altered volcaniclastics, Lady Hampden pit (DK22).............................. 90 Plate... 102 Plate 29. The southeast face of the Lady Hampden pit showing shallow bedding dips ............. |  | | Journal (issue) | | Strong IT'S QUARRY TIME IN INDIANA Mineral collecting in the Hoosier State by Mary-Alice West FEATURES...Orplment Willem1te Halite Azurite Energlte Diatomlie Pyrite Cup,111 Chromite Magnettte Bar,te Collm■nlle Fluorite...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | brassy-yellow pyrite. xline—crystalline CALIFORNIA — From near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif, we... This fine 3x5 inch specimen comes from Teller County, Colorado. ARIZONA — "Would you please identify...was found July 2, 1959, near Cave Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona." — sent in by Clyde N. Hall, Elbridge...Daisy, Pike Co., Ark. This is a small town 70 miles west of Hot Springs. Could this be red chalcedony?" —... Ball Ground is in the northern part of Cherokee County of Northern Georgia. ILLINOIS — An anonymous reader |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological development of mankind...minerals have been reported and include siderite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, various amphiboles and pyroxenes,...titanite, garnet, and dolomite. Pseudomorphs of pyrite, cassiterite, anatase, talc, dolomite, chalcopyrite...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 |  | | 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...available for collectors. I understand that one of the quarry foremen collects these crystals and sells them |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CEMENTATION OF TRIASSIC ARKOSES IN CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS BY MILTON T. HEALD ABSTRACT The normal Triassic...Triassic arkoses of Connecticut and Massachusetts contain moderate amounts of secondary feldspar and very...in Connecticut and Emerson (1898; 1917) in Massachusetts. More recently the Triassic has been investigated...Composition of normal Triassic sedimentary rocks in Massachusetts 1138 4. Composition of arkoses near igneous...fanglomerates near the eastern border fault. In Massachusetts the Triassic has been subdivided into the Sugarloaf |  | | 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) | | 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) | | 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc is enormous...found in recent years in the Dolomite Products quarry, Walworth. Good sphalerite specimens are also occasionally...of the BalmatEdwards district in Saint Lawrence County (Smith and Figure 1. A fine example of jet-black...an inch across” at the East mine, Leverett, Massachusetts. Although certainly not abundant, unusual white...in the zinc ores of the Franklin mines, Sussex County, New Jersey (Palache, 1937).Although approximately |  | | 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) | | ................. 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...them cinnabar but also native mercury, calomel, pyrite, barite and eglestonite, including several donated |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was prepared to accompany...MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf |  | | Report (issue) | | reconnaissance of diabase from Vulcan Materials Quarry in the Culpeper Mesozoic basin, near Manassas,...hornfels and diabase from the Vulcan Materials Quarry, central Culpeper basin, Virginia. . . . . . ....hornfels and diabase from the Vulcan Materials Quarry, central Culpeper basin, Virginia. . . . . . ....Average sulfide concentrate ore assay of bulk ore and pyrite separates from Pennsylvania .....................sedimentary features exposed in the Triangle Brick Quarry, near Glenlee, N.C ................. 5 Diagram |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COLLECTOR in my collection are: - molybdenite, pyrite, cuprite, rutile hematite and malachite to name...prehnite As I glance over my micro and T/N at this quarry. specimens I come upon some o f the Many of us...Fred Lincks. We have cor neighboring state of Massachusetts. Many responded and had the pleasure of a of...who are willing to get-togethers are held in Massachusetts pass on information of localities they as well...state of Lead Mine. Here, many fine specimens, Massachusetts. The tendency is to pass both common and rare |  | | Report (issue) | | pegmatite in a Preakness Basalt sample from the Haledon Quarry, Haledon, New Jersey. Field of view is 2.0 x 1...of the Coastal New England Igneous Province, Massachusetts . Martin E. Ross 63 5. Petrography, Petrology...333 19. Early Mesozoic Talbotton Diabase Dikes in West-Central Georgia: Compositionally Homogeneous High-Fe...northeast-trending alkalic CNE dikes in eastern Massachusetts that he suggests are chemically compatible with...Province. They report on an HFQ diabase dike set in west-central Georgia that with regard to composition |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state...state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE...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: |
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