A large stone quarry located in southwestern Woburn, on the Woburn-Winchester line. Some sources call the locality "Winchester Highlands." Quarrying began in 1913. Rock is pre-Carboniferous Salem granodiorite intruded into Pre-Cambrian Waltham gneiss. The workings were 1/3 mile long and 165 feet deep (or high at the face). There is now an industrial park on the quarry site.
References:
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).
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).
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