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Schorl from
Pinnacle Quarry, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pinnacle Quarry, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:653792
Long-form Identifier:1:3:653792:0
GUID (UUID V4):d5e74c61-1bcb-4899-8092-1c48078eb22a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VANDALL T. K I N G P.O. Box 90888 Rochester, New York 14609 NEW YORK Ā£ J A N E T W. C A R E S 18 Singletary...adapted from U.S. Geological Survey map of New Hampshire and Vermont (1972). 324 ROCKS & MINERALS he...minerals found in VerĀ­ mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney; photo by Roger Bacon. The granite industry...small particles is widely distributed over northern New England in glacial gravels, and many swiftly moving...decorator tiles. The Belvidere Mountain quarry, LowĀ­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifiĀ­ cant locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Stoneham and Vicinity Oxford County, Maine Downloaded by [Penn State University] at 01:41 12 December...Stoneham, Maineā€”a century apart. Figure 1. Aldrich quarry beryl. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum (MMGM) specimens:...pegmatites, particularly the important Aldrich quarry, with a focus on beryl and its gemmy blue variety...under discussion is bounded on the west by the New Hampshire state line, on the north by the Androscoggin...account for almost all of them. They occur in every quarry. Sometimes the microcline is colored beige to orange
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___
Field Trip Notes
//' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings
Journal (volume)
Frozen Well ..........17 Mineral of the Quarter: Schorl .......... 22 Fossils: Sponges ..................Quaternary surfaces in the northwestern Espanola Basin, New Mexico ..................... 10. Charles Stick: The...QUATERNARY SURFACES IN THE NORTHWESTERN ESPANOLA BASIN, NEW MEXICO Demsey, Karen A., Department of Geology, Williams...the Rio del Oso, in the northwest Espanola Basin, New Mexico. The surfaces represent a sequence of distinct...began to form about 200,000 YBP in adjustment to a new base level about 100 m above the present flood plain
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FROM . ^^4tt/vzhoisyS.. , Kb s itn MINERALS NEW SOUTH WALES. ARCHIBALD LIVERSIDGE, PROFESSOR OF...CvGdetheite Staurolite &v Gothite THE MINERALS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. By Archibald Liversidge, late Scholar...systematic examination of the minerals and rocks of New South Wales has been undertaken similar to that performed...down to as few as possible. A 2 THE MINERALS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. PART I. METALLIC MINERALS. Gold. Only...species of gold has up to the present been found in New South Wales, and that is :ā€” Native Gold. Cubical
Catalog/List
mineral species, including many that were unknown and new to science. It sits among a rarified few mines around...among the very best known examples. ā€”(1970). Whatā€™s New in Minerals. The Mineralogical Record, 1 (1 Spring)...miners bring down specimens. tacular aquamarine and schorl tourmaline combina- This includes a newly discovered...complete story and history of this mine. Asia 21 Schorl Tourmaline with Aquamarine Shengus, Roundu District...for producing the most spectacular aquamarine and schorl tourmaline combination specimens found anywhere
Catalog/List
4461_txt.indd 9 9 1/18/21 11:02 AM Aquamarine with Schorl and Quartz Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan...Ozark-Mahoning Group, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA 11.4 cm tall x 11.4 cm wide 24 4461_txt.indd 24...Calcite The Diana Maria Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, County Durham, England 15.2 cm tall x 12.7 cm wide WINTER...Quartz Pulsifer Quarry, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA 3.6 cm tall...specimens. It has quickly risen to become the pinnacle of the species. The transparent purple cube sits
Journal (issue)
minerals are found; there are many active claims, but new gem hunters can still scout around the periphery...ā€œlean pickingsā€ for minerals, and dealers Chaffee County, including the are the main source of their gold...though these can normally only be obtained when new ļ¬nds pass from miners to mineral dealers. The Cresson...molybdenum mine near Berthoud Pass in Clear Creek County, occasionally produces well-crystallized ļ¬‚uorite...probably see other mines opening in the near futureā€”new sources of minerals. Left: Crystalized Gold 6.3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
varieties, and habits of tourmaline: (a) left: schorl, 20 cm, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and right: dravite...Ledge dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. Varieties of elbaite: (c) rubellite...Tourmaline Queen mine (1972), Pala district, San Diego County, California, Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka specimen...tourmaline (black) and quartz (gray), Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, John Slack photo; (b) transmitted...California, San Diego] at 03:56 02 March 2016 Dravite Schorl Foitite Olenite Elbaite Fluor-liddicoatite Rossmanite
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...exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Book (volume)
and Geology Edited by Vandall T. King Walworth, New York 14568 Production editing and design Robert...Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................in geology and has authored articles on Maine and New England geological and mineralogical occurrences...permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham
Journal (issue)
00 Lunar Mineral Found at Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral.com ...recently been confirmed from Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey. Samples of pyroxferroite were originally...mission rocks, and the mineral was described as a new species in 1970. Recent work on pyroxmangite [Mn2+SiO3]...[Mn2+SiO3] and related species found at Franklin, New Jersey, unequivocally confirms the presence of the...the well known Mn-end member pyroxmangite, and the new Fe-end-member pyroxferroite, be considered a series
Report (issue)
Denver, Colorado, USA Ā© 2011 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 ā€¢ Denver, CO 80211 ā€¢ USA Phone 1.303.495...the Sulu Terrane, China. This would represent a new topaz species; "hydroxyltopaz" (Zhang et al., 2002)... 6 TOPAZ Topaz and Associates Above: Topaz, schorl, and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan...and quartz, 5.3 cm tall Sawtooth Mountains, Boise County, Idaho shown under longwave ultraviolet light (left)...Province, Afghanistan; San Diego County, California, and Thomas Range, Utah, USA Associated Species: In topaz
Book
Gesnerā€™s De Rerum Fossilium, Properties, 67 Personal New World Emeralds, 29 De Natura 63 Early European...United 482 Northern Ireland, Peru, 511 513 New Guinea, 485 Nigeria, (Tanganyika), Turkey, 513...this Barlow, Appleton, Oberstein, thank the to New York, NY; CA; Peter G. Denver, CO; Prof. B. Carroll... Wardreques, Pas de Calais, France; Johansen, New York, Idarlibrar- Tempe, AZ; Allan Caplan, CA;...Giorgio Graziani, Rome, Italy; Harry Winston, Inc., New York, NY; Hoover, have CA; John Gerhard Becker
Journal (issue)
'-~fi~%~~t~(~R\ Pinnacle weathering developed on limestone along r~:t~JQ.\{t;_t:l'!'P_erland County, 5 miles...production in the State in 1977. Plans by industry for new surface and underground mines should increase those... Greene County, with 12 major underground mines planned, may become the "numero uno" county for coal...900. Leading counties bot h in gas production and new gas we ll s dri ll ed were Indiana, Westmo reland...South Dakota. The public is invited to utilize the new cartographic information services at the Survey library
Book
or resident who wishes to know more about the county, in the hope that it will stimulate further interest...chosen for their geological interest around the county. A further reading section suggests titles for...slates and sandstones which make up most of the county. Climate conditions changed too, for the land that...ā€œhere are some minor igneous intrusions around the county, but inland Cornwall is dominated y a spine of...removed from Cornwall even if they did once cover the county. Cornwallā€™s youngest geology dates from the Late
Journal (issue)
Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abbot. Cro ssing the river Bovey and the T eign at New Bridge the party was now dri ven to a newly open...through his picturesque grounds, in which an old quarry and another cavern are situated; then a halt was...adjacent to the Palace quarry, and a little above the Chudleigh waterfall. In this quarry fine examples of...examples of which had been obtained from the Chudleigh quarry. Mr. "l"ssher remarked that the occurrence of the...(lower part of Upper Devonian) shell in the same quarry with the Middle Devonian coral, was parallelled
Journal (issue)
supposedly not there, I noticed several interesting new things. There is always at least one "did you see...themselves as really aesthetic specimens. setting a new standard. The crystals are not altered on the surface...stan was still fair ly tig htly sea led. I saw no new a rri va ls of tourma line in the inte rmittent two...I wanted. so I declined. I did purchase a lot of new grossular garnet. s upposedly from Ghaz ni. eastern...cemed defic ient in good Pakistan materi:il. and the new tl1111g appearing wen: al l from Badakhshan Prov
Book
150 this miles long and 30 broad; extending from New-Haven to leading object of this map is to give an.../accurate view of the secondary tract extending from New- A Haven 110 miles northerly to Northfield. 30...derived very great assistance in the vicinity of New-Haven, from the researches of Professor Silliman...granite nucleus which probably forms the basis rock in New-England. And wherever this mica slate and upper granite...but they may be traced southerly into Litchfield county, where they exist abundantly, and are sometimes
Book
same collecting location over many years, learning new skills, venturing underground, cliff climbing, recording...enough interesting material to warrant a completely new book. And of course, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary...overseas field trips; to Europe, Siberia, Namibia, the USA & Canada and the Faroe Islands. Practical courses...Carboniferous Limestone - Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire. (9.5x8x4cm). This is what started me off on the...colour too. 9 Jeanbandyite/Natanite - Hingston Down Quarry, Calstock, Cornwall. Field of view approx. 3mm
Journal (issue)
twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan...Dallas Gem and Mineral Society decided to form a new organization just for mineral collectors, without...collection, acquired in 1985 and placed on exhibit in a new hall the following year), and spearheaded by several...transplanted MAD members desirous of establishing a new collecting group with the same focus as the Houston
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...person wishing to examine a locality personally. New information relating to Washington's mineral diversity...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...than 2,200 mineral species have been identified and new ones are discovered and described each year. Over...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence
 
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