 | | 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...pericline variety of albite, calcite, epidote, muscovite, quartz, titanite, chabazite, and stilbite. Another |  | | Report (issue) | | with albite, microcline, and accessory biotite, muscovite, and magnetite in different proportions Diorite...gneissic, hornblende diorite and quartz diorite; at Acushnet partly metamorphosed to amphibolite.and hornblende...quartz, hornblende, biotite, epidote and locally muscovite; rare amphibolite. metamorphosed. In part metasomatized...Kica-chlorite schist of Sakonneti and Mica schist of Bristol (see Quinn, 19,7-1) but generally at higher metamorphic...symbols REFERENCES CITED Koteff, Carl, 196*4 Massachusetts: Geology of the Assawompsett Pond quadrangle |  | | 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...columbite/tantalite and a large production of muscovite. Carlos Cornejo photo. district of Ribeirão da |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology of Massachusetts E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedharn Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Avalonian... Stratigraphy of the Nashoba Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Enigmatic Terrane G. Stratigraphy of the...Belt, Central Massachusetts H. Structural and Metamorphic History of Eastern Massachusetts I. Intrusive...Intrusive Rocks of Eastern Massachusetts J. Radiometric Ages of Rocks in Massachusetts L.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1366-E-J The Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor E. Stratigraphy |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bourne ........... MISCELLANEOUS 882 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .......................................... 883...7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 881 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ©@©®©g!Sgiglt!e®®g!®g<®®®g!®©®gI©®8 ^J^icippuj...Tucson Gem and Mineral Society will be held at Pima County Fairgrounds, 4700 S. 6th Ave., Tucson, Ariz. Gc-n...844, Jackson, Miss. 39205. March 4-6, 1966—Gila County Gem & Min eral Show, Miami, Ariz. Chairman: Ernest...San Antonio Rock & Lapi dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman: Fred Stevenson, P |  | | Journal (issue) | | known of any specimens being found in Berkshire County except in this locality.” THE MINERAL COLLECTOR...important iron mine, clay, sand, or marl bed, stone quarry, or fossil bearing for mation is represented; and...is a photograph six feet long of O’Rourke's trap quarry, Orange, N. J., showing the same kind of columns...crystals, pectolite, large garnets, stove mica ( muscovite) in its matrix, fool’s gold (pyrite), cyanite...nearly 33,000 acres, or four times the area of the county of London, says the Nineteenth Century. With this |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1755: and in Pennsylvania in 1759.: In 1628 Massachusetts produced more iron than Virginia, and other...buildings." “The first successful iron works in Massachusetts were built at Saugus (Lynn) in ' WEAK—Popular...mica—includ ing altered micas—show 39 trays of muscovite, 4 margarodite, 1 pinite, 3 lepidolite, 26 biotite...and one-half miles south of Prairie City in Grant County. The width of the ledge is 600 feet, and the walls...etc. All letters answered. F. G. HILLMAN, 1036 Acushnet Ave, New Bedford, Mass. HUBERT MOSER, Mining Engineer |  | | 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 |  | | 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...States of America PHOTO CREDITS Cover Apatite on muscovite, 6.4 cm tall Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology and Geophysics Boston College Weston, Massachusetts 02167 Geoffrey W. Smith Department of Geological...portion of the Boston Bay Group at Nantasket, Massachusetts. Brunton compass is for scale and also points...Mattapan Volcanic Complex, greater Boston, Massachusetts . 85 Margaret D. Thompson and O. Don Hermes...valon Boston terrane, Massachusetts . 133 A valon zones, eastern Massachusetts Martin E. Ross iii ...and an alaskite with a preferred K/Ar age on muscovite of 604 ± 14 Ma (Murphy and Keppie, 1987). The |  | | Journal (issue) | | ...... 58 MISCELLANEOUS I i CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 1 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY MR. C. H. ROBINSON, SR., PASSES Mr. Chas. H. Robinson...annual affair will be staged again at the Pima County' Fairgrounds at 4700 South Sixth Ave., Feb. 18-19-20...Texas 78502. y J: April 30, May 1, 1966—Dallas County Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at the...American Federation of Mineralogical Soc held at Pima County Fairgrounds, 4700 S. ieties and the California |  | | Journal (issue) | | 742 748 751 762 774 776 794 722 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ........................................................... 747 LEIB'S MOONSTONE MINE—Ralph E. Bristol .................................................7-3185) i ROCKS AND MINERALS 72! CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY “I AM A MINERAL COLLECTOR” “HUH?” By ANNA MARIE...San Antonio Rock & Lapi dary’ Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman: Fred Stevenson, P...Indiana. (Continued) April 30, May 1, 1966—Dallas County Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at the |  | | Book | | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...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 |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...of the Mildren and Steppe Mining Districts, Pima County, Arizona.” During this time he met and became good...Multiplex and Raytheon, settling in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1967 with his wife Vera (nee Hanke). Ernie...and the amethyst occurrence at Bellingham, Massachusetts, and were rewarded with some fine specimens...excellent specimens at Mont Saint Hilaire and Acushnet, Massachusetts; he traveled widely in the search for specimens |  | | 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, |  | | 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 (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 | | Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...incorporated into the micaceous minerals lepidolite and muscovite. Other primary PEGMATITE S • • • PEGMATITES...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 | | | Book | | Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...incorporated into the micaceous minerals lepidolite and muscovite. Other primary PEGMATITE S • • • PEGMATITES...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 | | | 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 |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...Mary1and Geological Survey. Massachusetts: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Environmental... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Massachusetts, by Donald K. Harrison and Joseph A. Sinnott...this report. Name State____________ SECTION 2. County _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Stocks. production, end...62,544 46 19 Maryland 368,614 28 1.11 Massachusetts 127,498 40 .38 1,438,123 8 4.32 State |
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Acushnet Quarry, Acushnet, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA