Holland Street Quarry, Somerville, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA

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A quarry in slate cut by diabase dikes. Now built over.

References:

Richards, Ralph W. (1904): A New Habit For Chalcopyrite (Tufts College Studies 8:383).

Palache, Charles (1947): Some Lost Mineral Localities of New England; 2. Holland Street Quarry, Somerville, Mass. (Rocks and Minerals 22:11)

Mineral List:

Albite
Anatase
Brookite
Calcite

Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Prehnite
Quartz

Rutile
Sphalerite
Titanite

11 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.

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