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Adularia from
Acushnet Quarry, Acushnet, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:K Feldspar var: Adularia
Formula:KAlSi3O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Epidote14 photos of Adularia associated with Epidote at this locality.
Chlorite Group12 photos of Adularia associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Pericline9 photos of Adularia associated with Pericline at this locality.
Albite5 photos of Adularia associated with Albite at this locality.
Cleavelandite3 photos of Adularia associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Fluorapatite2 photos of Adularia associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Titanite2 photos of Adularia associated with Titanite at this locality.
Malachite1 photo of Adularia associated with Malachite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite1 photo of Adularia associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Muscovite1 photo of Adularia associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Adularia data
Locality Data:Click here to view Acushnet Quarry, Acushnet, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (10 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:37705
Long-form Identifier:1:3:37705:4
GUID (UUID V4):98f4f8fc-de6d-4c57-a732-bb999d842bf6
Nearest other occurrences of Adularia
48.8km (30.3 miles) Neutaconkanut Hill, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
51.5km (32.0 miles) Dexter Quarry (Dexter Lime Quarry), Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
53.0km (32.9 miles) Interstate 295 / US Route 6 road cuts, Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
53.2km (33.1 miles) Poker Hill, Ashton, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
53.5km (33.2 miles) Diamond Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
53.5km (33.3 miles) Conklin Quarry, Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
71.5km (44.5 miles) Spring Lake, Harrisville, Burrillville, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
91.0km (56.6 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
92.2km (57.3 miles) Nanny Goat Hill, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
98.5km (61.2 miles) Interstate Route 495/State Route 62 interchange (I-495 exit #26), Berlin, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth America has produced...anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly in the collection of...the Acushnet quarry (also currently known as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County, Massachusetts...formed. The metamorphic rocks exposed in the Acushnet quarry are a mixture of schists, gneisses, and intruded...matrix. Other associated minerals include the adularia variety of orthoclase, the pericline variety of
Journal (issue)
KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Dan and Nancy Novak (2015–2022) David and Marcie Bristol (2016–2022) Mark Hay & Mary Ellen Dirlam (2016–2021)...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on...near the Itamarandiba River. Nearby there is a quarry for experimental exploration of ornamental pegmatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
area until 1967 when he relocated to Sudbury, Massachusetts, to work for the Raytheon Company. He retired...alpine-cleft minerals—adularia, apatite, calcite, pericline, and titanite—from Acushnet, Massachusetts. Straight...Francis Harvard Mineralogical Museum Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 cfrancis@fas.harvard.edu Dr. Carl A....of the Mildren and Steppe Mining Districts, Pima County, Arizona.” It was during this time that he met...nouvelle espece minerale de Lake Como, Colorado, USA. Bulletin de Mineralogie 108:813–23. Mitchell, R
Book
MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust
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CUMMINGS, BILLIARD, & CO. 1825. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. District Clerk's Oflht. BE it remembered..." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the, District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE -. University Press, Milliard...Chrysoprase, Jasper, Agate, Chrysoberyl, Zircon, Adularia, Nephrite, Emerald, Beryl, Precious Gar- The...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and... granular, and contains very minute garnets. Adularia, in minute crystals in cavities, contained in
Report (issue)
Publisher Lithographie, Ltd. Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria A. Staebler Managing Editor...Lithographie, Ltd. PO Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone: 1.303.495.5521 • Fax: 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie...from Bob's Lake Chlorapatite Occurrence, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada (see page 37-39). To indicate...hydroxylapatite has been from Holly Springs, Cherokee County, Georgia, in the United States (Kay, Young, and...workings at this site are known as the Verde Antique Quarry. The crystals can reach several centimeters in
Journal (issue)
........... 858 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185> ROCKS AND MINERALS 801 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A POST CARD FROM HELL ! Hell Joes exist and R&M...San Antonio Rock & Lapi­ dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman; Fred Stevenson, P...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County' Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las
Journal (issue)
Mira Loma, Cali- RED CLOUD MINE SITE, YU M A COUNTY. ARIZONA WULFENITE, Red Ckud M m 7 JTQ MINERAL...tracks from M assachusetts-the alpine minerals of Acushnet, from Vermont-garnets, from New Hampshire-topaz...labels, polybags, vials. WOW! 2nd occurrence (1st in USA) of this rare sodium phosphomolybdate! Rich yellow...hardware 196 Beechwood Ave. Bogota, N .J. 07603 USA (201) 487-3254 The Mineralogical Record , volume...arsenate minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada. American Mineralogist, 63, 704—708. e
Book
[Sweden] 10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J....Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
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Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...HEXOCTAHEDRON {345} TRISOCTAHEDRON {233} BOYLSTONE QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND...across, with cube faces from the Magheramore Quarry, Lame, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K.; SEM photo
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Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...HEXOCTAHEDRON {345} TRISOCTAHEDRON {233} BOYLSTONE QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND...across, with cube faces from the Magheramore Quarry, Lame, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K.; SEM photo
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...(1972) gives a detailed description of this unique quarry and its yttrium-niobiumbismuth-vanadium mineral...8Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria GERMANY 2 Am Hechtsberg quarry, Hausach NAMIBIA 10Khorixas UNITED STATES 3Stewart...or pneumatolytic origin Mica Lode-Meyers Ranch quarry, 8-Mile Park, Colorado Beyerite, schumacherite...Graf (1995) report namibite from the Am Hechtsberg quarry near Hausach in the German Schwarzwald (Black Forest)
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . ...WELOGANITE crystal, 4 cm, on matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in...WEW 3 Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, `ÉÇàÜ°tÄ? dâ°uxv Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore...Road Hudson, Québec, Canada J0P 1H0 The Francon quarry ranks as the second most prolific type locality
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...etc. In rich masses at Pelham, Hampshire co., Massachusetts, in very broad blades with talc at Chester,
Book (volume)
Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy...sne-aseseeateeCounty, Can tess ccraccacaerscsascn enaeantsrse Figure
Book (volume)
Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA..............................................Benitoite recovery from alluvial deposits, San Benito County, CA ................ 29 Figure 8. Title page
Book (edition)
Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gilbert Gauthier: Maisons Laffitte, Paris,...Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Henry O. Meyer (deceased): Dept. of Earth Sciences...Pennsylvania. Thalassa Skinner: Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dorian G. W. Smith: Dept. of Geology, Univ...Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana...following localities are known for fine specimens. Bristol, CT; Flambeau mine, Rush Co., WI; Butte, MT; Bisbee
Report (issue)
_________———————————————— Maryland _____________————————— Massachusetts ___ — - — - — — —— _ —— ———— Michigan ___———————————————————...exploratory drilling for ground water in Fairfax County, Virginia _____________ Geologic and hydrologic...in Giles and Crag Counties, Virginia, and Monroe County, West Virginia. The iron is in hematitic sandstone...was completed for the Washakie Wilderness in Park County, Wyoming, and contiguous study areas for the North...Sericite Pit of the Haile gold mine in Lancas­ ter County, South Carolina, has revealed that min­ eralization
Book (volume)
different concepts into a single subject e.g. Massachusetts Furniture industry expected that each library...industry about which the library has works. Massachusetts Many the general references will gradually...of headings all beginning with the same Massachusetts —History word: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775...Massachu- —History—Colonial period, 1600-1775 and Massachusetts— History—New Plymouth, 1620-1691. When subdivided...literature United States— History— Periodicals Massachusetts Most form subdivisions are indicated in the
Book (edition)
Adronal. (264). Adsol. See Japanese Acid Clay. Adularia. A mineral. It is a clear crystalline variety...brass Bow-wire brass Brazing brass . 60-76 Bristol brass Bronze powder brass 84 Bullet brass Burr...Burr brass 90 62 Button brass Button brass (Bristol) ,, (Gold) (Jackson) ,, (Luden- „ ,, Cap ...preparaAn antibiotic. tion of tetracycline. (324). Bristol Brass. See Brass. Bristrex. See Tetracycline Phos-...the water of the springs at Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky. It consists mainly of magnesium sulphate
 
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