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Phenakite from
Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Phenakite
Formula:Be2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Phenakite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:127022
Long-form Identifier:1:3:127022:8
GUID (UUID V4):3bb7c172-937e-4677-9ff2-25b47b7b3a7e
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
compositionallyequivalentto a mixture of pyrrhotite, phenakite, and fayalite, but danalite's natural occurrenceswith.../magnetitefield boundary. Outside this field, phenakite (or, at low temperatures,bertrandite)is stablewith...danalite-helvite solid solutions occur as overgrowths on phenakite with magnetite,pyrite, and quartz. Danalite is...FerSiOo 2 FeoBe,(SiOo)rS danalite: troilite * phenakite* fayalite Troilite (Tr) is not a common terrestrial...incompatibilities lent to a mixture of troilite, phenakite, and fayalite, (unstable4ssemblages) in the Be
Journal (issue)
were studied from Gloucester Tops, in the headwaters of the Kerripit and Gloucester Rivers. Zircons with...surface pink corundum Gloucester Tops, Tops, corundum grain grain from from Gloucester Barrington volcano...etched Figure 7: from Gloucester Figure 7: Corundums Corundums from Gloucester Tops, Tops, Barrington...opaque),from from Gloucester Tops, Barrington sapphirine (green). (dark Gloucester Tops, Barrington Photomicrograph...appear appear in sapphires from Yogo Gulch (Montana, USA) and in corundums corundums from metamorphic metamorphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the same matrix, at the same time, include phenakite, bertrandite, herderite, 1 and apatite. The pale...of the lodes, and in view of the occurrence of phenakite and herderite in the same matrix, it may be significant...Palache 2 found phenakite as an alteration-product of danalite at Gloucester, Massachusetts. The bertrandite...unquestionably derived from alteration of the phenakite, and here also this latter may be an alteration-product...later, hydrothermal stages. The occurrence of phenakite, with adularia-habit orthoclase, quartz, cassiterite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BERYLLIUNT MINERALS IN THE VICTORIO MOUNTAINS' LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO* Wrr.r.rauT. HorsBn, Cornell[Jniaersity...Victorio Mountains, 5 miles south of Gage, Luna County, New lvlexico. The area was visited in September...veins and pegmatites. The quartz veins of Chafiee County, Colo., Hill City, S. Dak., Irish Creek, Va., San...pegmatitic rocks is beryl, although chrysoberyl or phenakite occur in some beryl-bearing pegmatites. All beryl-bearing...subaluminous granite pegmatite of Rockport and Gloucester, Mass. (Warren and McKinstry, 1924). On the other
Journal (issue)
Nacken/Cermany H Espig/IG-Farben/Germany CC Chatham/USA Cilson/France W Zerfass/Cermany FIS FIS FIS FIS...Flanigen/Quintessa/Linde/USA Adachi Shin/Japan Regency/Vacuum Ventures/USA HyS 1988 Aquamarine, red...Hoquiam/USA 1903 Ruby (SP) 1907 Blue sapphire Verneuil/Baikovsky/France 1942 Ruby L Merker/Linde/USA 1947...corundum Linde/USA Linde/USA 1960 Ruby discs (SP) FR Charvat/Linde/USA 1965 Ruby H LaBelle/Tyco/USA 1971 Sapphire...Bijoreve/Seiko/Japan 1983 Ruby, etc. (NC) Union Carbide/USA and others 1990 Pink Ti-sapphire FIF VeF VeF VeF
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
economic value. F r o m these rocks in Hastings County hastingsite was described as a new alkali-hornblende...was born o n February 16, 1902, at Boston in Massachusetts and met an untimely end in an aeroplane crash...of Science and Technology, London, was born at Gloucester on February 16, 1871, and died at Hindhead, Surrey...from the boring at Funafuti' (privately printed, Gloucester, 1899); and in 1904 his chapter on the mineralogical... Orkney, on June 26, 1869, and died at Ashdon, Essex, on J a n u a r y 26, 1947. After a brilliant career
Journal (issue)
And few gardeners working the clay so il of North Essex realise that it was left th ere by a huge ice sheet...of the U.K . Tire Essex R ock awl Nli11 eml Society Pro11roti11g geology i11 Essex. The ROWELL Trading...group o livine group topaz zircon and:ilusite phenakite sphenc staurolite OXIDES' co mpo unds with m...uniqu e h ea li ng stone recently found in th e USA m ade up mainly from Pyrite and Palladium . They...OPEN DAILY 10am-5pm Merchants Quay, The Docks Gloucester GL21 2ER Tr~ O::t 1 f.l:;- c-;1!.a's , -:i-=ra·s
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Report (edition)
much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...Rockland-Thomaston, Rockport, and Union areas in Knox County. They once supported a booming industry based on...specimens of minerals and fossils in Aroostook County and elsewhere in northern Maine. Most of the bedrock...rocks. There are lime quarries in the Aroostook County agricultural belt, where calcite crystals and other
Book (volume)
greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Pennsylvania Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts Gail and Victor Blomquist library, Dresden,...Museum Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Richard P. Hauck library, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Journal (issue)
close on a Foley estate map of 1775, deposited in Gloucester Record Office. Quarries here (SO 716 227), apparently...to rights to dig cinders, iron-ore and clay (Gloucester Records Office 04212/Tl). In the 19th century...prior to infilling, the plan now being held by Gloucester Record Office. All the strata were purple-red...1974 will be localized with respect to the old county boundaries. Al though the collector may have strong...re-allocate the locality data according to the new county boundaries. As time passes new generations will
Journal (issue)
12, 13 Springfield Civic Center Springfield, Massachusetts • Over fifty nationally known gem, mineral and...have come from here, including large, prismatic phenakite, blocky to prismatic danburite and pink cesium-rich...descriptions are taken from Lacroix (1922), except for phenakite (recently discovered) and some observations on...albite with which it is often associated. Phenakite Be2S i04 Phenakite was not identified in Lacroix’s time...Record, volume 20, May-June, 1989 Figure 12. Phenakite crystal, 1.7 x 6 cm, found in 1983 at Anjanabonoina
Book
masterpieces, a 51 jeweler Carl a It Massachusetts. sevigne a aquamarine of medallion. a...and weighs 235.5 carats, morganite rough Diego County, California, weigh Lea Collection), and from...Properties be the largest a was story Angeles County and photographs prepared from a 6,021- International...35 x while etching cleavage etched green County, California; 138 The basal face is has cracks...11 Superb, doubly Photo No. terminated Diego County, and c {oool} several Harold & with The
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...etc. In rich masses at Pelham, Hampshire co., Massachusetts, in very broad blades with talc at Chester,...Plat., Malawi, G 10 17 River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. 2A,483, 1997. Aenigmatite
Book (volume)
Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...GEMSTONES Chrysoberyl, Rutile, Petalite, Pollucite, Phenakite, Axinite, Microlite, Stibiotantalite, Beryllonite...(color) . . . . . . . . X11 Rutile group Phenakite crystal Phenakite crystal group Axinite crystal Axinite...in the small cavities in limestone in Herkimer County, New York, only one quartz crystal may be found
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Journal (issue)
walk along the Tomorrow River Trail, in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. ANTOINETTE RAHN our staff EDITORIAL...was mined at the Garpenberg Södra Mine, Dalarna County, Sweden. HANNES GROBE, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS WILLEMITE... WILLEMITE From the famous Franklin Ore Body, in Sussex County, New Jersey, is the material of willemite, calcite... Mined in the Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey. DR. ROBERT M. LAVINSKY, ARKENSTONE...on fluorescence for both CPRMC and the Lancaster County Fossil & Mineral Club, of which F 36 ROCKNGEM
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Journal (issue)
consisting of spikey growth tubes and crystals of phenakite. Later productions revealed other indicators such...SG 2.27. (b) A transparent, brown, irradiated phenakite measuring 9.9 x 7.9 x 5.8 mm and weighing 2.84...the rubies found in Cowee Valley, North Carolina, USA. M.O'D. HRABANEK, J., 1988. Moldavite aus Süd-Böhmen...particular reference to specimens found in Montana, USA. M.O'D. J. Gemm.,1989,21,5 THOMAS, A.E., 1988....found in a number of places in the state of Montana, USA. The mining and fashioning of the agates are described
Journal (issue)
cassiterite(6,9-7;o)+o Icassi1ite~9~7,O)+O Chatham, USA CR Crystal Res.Com.,Australia O extra flinty o...2) '. sillimanite(3,25) / G euclase(3,ih\iw phenakite(2,96)+c ' 3-336) I QOZ00Z 0,014 0,0140,016...Arthur, Warley, Worcs. Mitchell, Frank Richard, Gloucester. Moreno, del Rio, Carlos, Barcelona, Spain Morgan...Harrow, Middlesex Shine, Laurence, Saffron Waiden, Essex Shire, Aubrey, London Shishido, Yoneko, Hiroshima-Ken
Report (issue)
preparation of Regional Geology : Bristol and Gloucester District , and diverted for a time to critical...Oxfordshire, (3) Cambridge, and (4) Canvey Island, Essex. Ashton Park.-In the Bristol and Somerset Coalfield...France. BENSUSAN, K. E., EsQ.-Specimens of jade, phenakite, spodumene and haematite from Brazil: small slab...-Fossils from the Red Crag and Nodule B ed near Wix, Essex. WRIGHT, T. G., EsQ.-Fossils from the Millstone...completed for a deep borehole at Canvey [sland, Essex. Economic enquiries during the year numbered 1 25
Report (issue)
Regional Hospital Board, the North Thames Gas Board, county councils and municipal councils. The Director represented...[DOWNING, R . A.] 1 961. in Boulton, A. G. et alia. Essex Rivers· an,d Sto·ur Hydro­ logical Survey. Hydrometric...POLLOCK, J. 1 96 1 . A new fossiliferous locality in County Down . Irish Nat. J., 13, 244-8. MELVILLE, LIST...Northampton Sands Ironstone; Glacial deposits. Gloucester (234). Silurian; Old Red Sandstone; Triassic:...North-eastern Tyrone and the adjacent portions of County Lond onderry. Proc. RoJ lris/1 A cad., 41, Sec
Book
OX5 1GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved...deposits in Brazil, India, Canada, Mexico, Mongolia, USA, and other countries. The goal of the conducted laboratory...2 Spain (Galicia), Great Britain (Meldon, Devon county; Scotland), and Finland (Tammela). Africa. It appears...Lincoln (South Australia). North America. In the USA, several pegmatite deposits in the states of Virginia...(Delaware County), North Carolina (Ray Mica Mine), South Dakota (Black Hills, Glendale), Massachusetts (Rockport
Book
famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...in a few places in the United States (Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina among them), but production...agate is found on some of the beaches in Monterey County in California, moonstones on the beaches of Southern... 63 WHERE GEMSTONES ARE FOUND 64 State and County Locality Gemstone ALABAMA Coosa Rockford Hissop...GEMSTONES ARE FOUND 65 Gemstone Locality State and County ARIZONA (cont.) Maricopa (cont.) Skunk Creek Pierce
 
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