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Blueberry Mountain Quarry, Woburn, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA

Ref.: Rocks & Min.: 13:183; 19:244; 21:75; 61:88; Gleba, 1978. Massachusetts Mineral & Fossil Localities; Januzzi, 1976: Mineral Localities of CT and SE NY State, ch.: Massachusetts Mineral Localities, p206.
A traprock quarry located in SW Woburn. 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.





Mineral List:
  • Albite
       var: Cleavelandite
  • Allanite-(Ce)
  • Analcime
  • Andradite
  • Arsenopyrite
  • Babingtonite
  • Biotite
  • Bornite
  • Calcite
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • Cuprite
       var: Chalcotrichite
  • Epidote
  • Fluorite
  • Hematite
  • 'Heulandite'
  • 'Hornblende'
  • Laumontite
  • Limonite
  • Magnetite
  • Malachite
  • Microcline
  • Molybdenite
  • Opal
    var: Opal-AN
  • Orthoclase
       var: Adularia
  • Prehnite
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz
       var: Milky Quartz
       var: Rock Crystal
  • Sphalerite
  • 'Stilbite'
  • Stilpnomelane
  • Thorite
       var: Orangite
  • Titanite
  • 'Tourmaline Group'
  • Tremolite
  • Zircon
       var: Cyrtolite


    44 entries listed. 29 valid minerals.

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