Chipman Mine (Merrimac Mine; Newburyport lead-silver mine), Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA

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A former lead-silver mine located in the town of Newbury. The mineralized vein was discovered in August, 1874 and was worked from 1874 through 1879. Reopened in 1919; the mine closed in 1925.

References

Richards, R. H. (1874): On a newly-discovered lead-vein in Newburyport, Mass. (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. xvii, 200-204)

Shockley, William H. (1874): "Working of an Ore of Silver and Lead from Newbury, Mass." (abs.) in MIT President's Report for the Year Ending Sept. 30, 1874. (Boston: A. A. Kingman,1875)

Richards, R. H. (1875): The Newburyport Silver Mines (T.A.I.M.E. 3:442-445)

Richards, Ellen H. (1875): Chemical Composition of Some Mineral Species from Newburyport Lead Ore (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. xvii, 462-465)

Brockway, Charles J. (1875): Mineral Deposits in Essex County, Massachusetts, especially in Newbury and Newburyport; with Map. Newburyport, MA (pamphlet).

Baird, Spencer F., ed. (1876): "The Massachusetts Silver-Lead Mines" in Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1875 (NY: Harper & Bros.), pp. 245-246.

Beach, Alfred E., ed. (1876): "Mines of Gold, Silver, Copper, and Lead in Massachusetts," in The Science Record of 1876 (NY: Munn & Co.), p. 46.

Hibbard, Henry D. (1878): On the Smelting of Silver-Lead Ore from Merrimac Mine. Abstracted from MIT Thesis by the author. President’s Report for the Year Ending Sept. 30, 1877. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Boston: A. A. Kingman, pp. 76-79.

Jenney, Walter (1878): Report on the Working, for Silver and Gold, of a Middle Grade Product from Ore of the Merrimac Mine, Newburyport. Abstracted from MIT Thesis by the author. President’s Report for the Year Ending Sept. 30, 1877. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Boston: A. A. Kingman, pp. 79-80.

Hitchcock, Charles Henry (1878): The Geology of the Ammonoosuc Mining District, pp. 106-107.

Hitchcock, Charles Henry (1878): The Geology of New Hampshire, Part V: Economic Geology, pp. 34-35.

Crosby, William Otis (1880): Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History vol. III. Boston: Printed for the Society.

McDaniel, B.F. (1884): Geology and Mineralogy of Newbury in Bulletin of the Essex Institute, volume XV.

Sears, John Henry (1894): Geological and Mineralogical Notes, No. 9 in Bulletin of the Essex Institute, volume XXVI.

Hovey, Horace C. (1901): The Lead and Silver Mines of Newbury [Massachusetts] (Sci. Amer. Sup. 51, 1901).

Towle Manufacturing Co.(1901): Newbury: A Pattern of Flatware Made in Silver by the Towle Mfg. Company; with Some History of Newbury, Massachusetts and Its Progenitor, Newbury, England (Chicago, IL & Newburyport, MA: Towle Mfg. Co., Silversmiths), p. 23.

Sears, John Henry (1905): The Physical Geography, Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology of Essex County. Massachusetts. Salem, MA: Essex Institute.

Clapp, C. H. and W. G. Ball (1909): The Lead-Silver Deposits at Newburyport, Massachusetts and Their Accompanying Contact-Zones (Economic Geology, 4(3):239-250).

Bartsch, Rudolf C. B. (1941): New England Notes (Rocks & Minerals 16:56)

Palache, Charles (1950): Chipman Lead-Silver mine in Newbury, Mass. (Rocks & Minerals 25:247)

D'Agostino, J. P. (1969): Massachusetts: "Gold in Ores from Newburyport District" in USGS Heavy Metals Program Progress Report 1968 - Field Studies (USGS Circular 621)

Marshall, John. (1970): The Chipman Lead-Silver Mine (Rocks & Minerals 45:306)

Mineral List

Acanthite Ankerite Arsenopyrite Azurite Baryte Bornite Cerussite Chalcopyrite

'Chlorite Group' Covellite Epidote Fluorite Galena var: Argentiferous Galena Gold Limonite

Malachite Muscovite var: Sericite Pyrargyrite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz 'Serpentine Group' Siderite

Silver Sphalerite Stephanite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

29 entries listed. 24 valid minerals.