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Betts Manganese Mines (Anson Betts Mine; Plainfield Manganese Mines), Plainfield, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, USA

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Betts Manganese Mines, Plainfield, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, USA

Photo: Joseph A. Freilich

Latitude: 42°29'40"N
Longitude: 72°56'43"W

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Hawley "Mineral Belt" stratabound massive sulfides deposit. Located in Plainfield near the Cummington line, but often erroneously listed as being in either Cummington or West Cummington.

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53 entries listed. 50 valid minerals.

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References

Nash, Alanson (1827). Notices of the Lead Mines and Veins of Hampshire County, Massachusetts and of the Geology and Mineralogy of that Region, American Journal of Science and Arts: 7: 250.

Perry, Elwyn L. (1934). The Hawley Mineral Belt, Massachusetts, Rocks & Minerals: 9(7): 93-99.

Quinn, Alonzo W. (1945). Geology of the Plainfield-Hawley area : with special reference to deposits of manganese and iron minerals, USGS Open-File Report 45-28.

Mosier, M. (1949). Investigation of Anson Betts manganese mine, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines.

Dunn, Pete J. (1976). On gem rhodonite from Massachusetts, Journal of Gemmology: 15(2): 76-80.

Kim, Soo Jin (1991). New characterization of takanelite , American Mineralogist: 76: 1426-1430.

Plante, Alan (1992). Western Massachusetts Mineral Localities (Valley Geology Press).

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