Fallon Brothers Quarry (Quincy Quarry; Ballou Quarry; Old Colony Crushed Stone Company Quarry), Quincy, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA
Granite quarry opened before 1856. Pegmatite pipes in a riebeckite-aegirine granite.
References
Palache, C. and Warren, C. H. (1911): The Chemical Composition and Crystallization of Parisite and a New Occurrence of It in the Granite-Pegmatites at Quincy, Mass., U. S. A.; with Notes on Microcline, Riebeckite, Aegirite, Ilmenite, Octahedrite, Fluorite, and Wulfenite from the Same Locality. (
Amer. Jour. Sci. 4th Series, 31:533-557)
Warren, C. H. and Palache, Charles (1911): The pegmatites of the riebeckite aegirite granite of Quincy Mass USA: their structure minerals and origin. (
Am Acad Arts and Sci Proc 47:125.)
Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 284.
Bartsch, Rudolf C. B. (1944): New England Notes (
Rocks & Minerals 19:244)
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