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Big Rock Quarry (3M quarry; Arch Street Pike quarry), Granite Mountain area, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA

Latitude: 34°41'27"N
Longitude: 92°17'17"W
A quarry started in the 1870's and still active. Owned by 3M Co. and located just South of Little Rock at Sweet Home, AR. A huge, active nepheline syenite quarry and an abandoned sandstone quarry featuring quartz veins in jackfork Sandstone.

References

Barwood(1987)Rocks & Min.:63:120.

Mineral List

Aegirine
Aenigmatite
Aeschynite-(Y)
Albite
'Allanite'
Allanite-(Ce)
'Amphibole Group'
Analcime
Anatase
Andradite
Anhydrite
Ankerite
Annite
Anorthite
'Apophyllite'
Arfvedsonite
Astrophyllite
Augite
Baryte
'Bastnäsite'
Biotite
'Britholite Group'
Brookite
Calcite
Cancrinite
Catapleiite
'Chabazite'
Chamosite
'Chlorite Group'
'Clinopyroxene Subgroup'
Cookeite
Diopside
Eggletonite (TL)
Epidote
Eudialyte
'Fergusonite'
Fersmite
'Florencite'
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Gaidonnayite
Galena
Gypsum
Helvite
'Heulandite'
'Hornblende'
Ilmenite
'Joaquinite Group'
Kaersutite
Kainosite-(Y)
Kaolinite ?
'K Feldspar'
Kupletskite
Låvenite
Lazurite
Magnetite
Mesolite
Microcline
Molybdenite
Mosandrite
Narsarsukite
Natrolite
Nepheline
Nontronite
Nosean
'Olivine'
Opal
Orthoclase
Parisite-(Ce)
Pectolite
Phlogopite
Polylithionite
Pyrite
Pyrochlore Supergroup
var: Betafite (of Hogarth 1977)

Pyrolusite
Pyrophanite
'Pyroxene Group'
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Chalcedony
Rhodochrosite
Riebeckite
Sérandite
'Serpentine Group'
Siderite
Sodalite
Sphalerite
Spinel
'Stilbite'
'Synchysite Group'
Thaumasite
Thomsonite-Ca
Titanite
Vermiculite
Wurtzite
Zircon
Zircophyllite


97 entries listed. 75 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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