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Greensburg Quarry (McMahon Quarry), Valley Stream, Baltimore Co., Maryland, USA

Ref: Minerals of the Washington D.C Area.

Operated for crushed stone by Arundel Corporation of Baltimore.

In gneissic facies Cockeysville marble (calc-gneiss, scattered layers and lenses of calcite marble). Pegmatite and small quartz veins are common and a fine-grained mafic dyke (high proportions of ferro-magnesian minerals; mostly amphiboles).





Mineral List:
Biotite
Calcite
'Chlorite Group'
Clinozoisite
Dolomite
Dravite
Epidote
'Garnet Group'
Graphite
Limonite
Microcline
Muscovite
var: Fuchsite

Phlogopite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rutile
Scapolite
var: Wernerite

Schorl
Talc
Titanite
Tremolite


22 entries listed. 16 valid minerals.

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