Former stone quarries located in southwestern Woburn, on the Woburn-Winchester line. Some sources call the locality "Winchester Highlands." Quarrying began in 1913. Rock is granodiorite, diorite, and granite; also pegmatite and aplite veins. The workings were 1/3 mile long and 165 feet deep (or high at the face). Industrial buildings are now present on much of the former quarry site.
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Palache, Charles and Gonyer, F. A. (1932): On
Babingtonite (American Mineralogist 17:295).
Richmond, W. E. Jr. (1936): Paragenesis of the Minerals From Blueberry Mountain, Woburn, Massachusetts (American Mineralogist 22:290).
Richmond, Wallace Jr. (1937): On Babingtonite (American Mineralogist 22:630-642).
Billings, Marland P. (1941): Pegmatites of Massachusetts. (Prepared under a cooperative project for geologic investigations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts)
Bartsch, R. (1944): New England Notes (Rocks & Minerals 19:244).
Eisenberg, J. (1946): The Minerals of Blueberry Mt. Quarry, Woburn, Mass. (Rocks & Minerals 21:75).
Reiner, John (1976): Suggestions From a Veteran Collector (Rocks & Minerals 51:258-259).
Burns, Roger G. and Dyar, M. Darby (1991): Crystal chemistry and Miissbauer spectra of babingtonite (American Mineralogist 76:892-899).
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