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Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham Co., Vermont, USA

Latitude: 43°8'0"N
Longitude: 72°26'40"W
Bellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham.

Bethlehem gneiss and associated schists, pegmatites, and hydrothermal veins occur along the Connecticut River (Grant, 1968).

Mineral List

Albite
var: Oligoclase
Almandine
Ancylite-(Ce)
Biotite
Calcite
Cerussite
'Chabazite'
'Chlorite Group'
Dolomite
Fluorite
Hercynite
'Heulandite'
Kyanite
Lizardite
Malachite
Microcline
Muscovite
Prehnite
Pyrite
Quartz
Sillimanite
Staurolite
'Stilbite'


24 entries listed. 18 valid minerals.

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References

Silliman, Benjamin (1820). Remarks, Made on a Short Tour: Between Hartford and Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819 (New Haven, CT: S. Converse), pp. 392-396.

Thompson, Zadock (1824). A Gazetteer of the state of Vermont, p. 230. Reports tremolite, prehnite, fluorite, kyanite and other minerals.

Hall, Frederick (1824). Catalogue of Minerals Found in the State of Vermont and in the Adjacent States.

Hitchcock, Edward (1831). Report on the Geology of Vermont, Volume 1, p. 468.

Hitchcock, Edward (1835). Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts, pp. 393, 430. Reports an occurrence of "lincolnite" (heulandite) which he believed to be a new species.

Dana, James Dwight (1850). A System of Mineralogy, 3rd ed., p. 313. Reports prehnite.

Thompson, Zadock (1853). Natural History of Vermont: with Numerous Engravings and an Appendix.

Perkins, George H. (1910). Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Certain Areas of Vermont, 1909-1910.

Grant, Raymond W. (1968). Mineral Collecting in Vermont (Vermont Geological Survey, Special Publication 2).

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