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Blackburn Circle locality, Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA

Sodic Clino-Amphibole Subgroup
Blackburn Circle locality, Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA

Photo: 2008 Peter Cristofono
Latitude: 42°37'32"N
Longitude: 70°39'45"W
Temporary exposures in the area during extensive building and road construction adjacent to State Route 128. Outcrops and boulders of alkalic Cape Ann granite and quartz syenite and associated pegmatites and miarolitic cavities.

Mineral List

Aegirine
Albite
Annite
Astrophyllite
Danalite
Fluorite
Galena
Grunerite
Hematite
'Magnesioriebeckite-Riebeckite Series
var: Crocidolite'

Magnetite
Microcline
var: Amazonite
Molybdenite
Muscovite
Opal
var: Opal-AN

Pyrite
Quartz
Riebeckite
Rutile
var: Ilmenorutile

Siderite
Sphalerite
Sulphur
Thorite
Zircon


25 entries listed. 21 valid minerals.

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References

Cristofono, P. (2010). Minerals of the Blackburn Circle Area, Gloucester, Massachusetts (Micromounters of New England Newsletter no. 304, pp.4-13, May 2010).

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