Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Apatite from
Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:127205
Long-form Identifier:1:3:127205:5
GUID (UUID V4):f7178b62-3c0d-496d-aa22-1f7b5e78d6f1
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
4.9km (3.1 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Old lime quarries, Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Harris Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
12.0km (7.5 miles) McCarthy Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
18.3km (11.4 miles) Palmer Quarries, Snake Meadow Hill, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
23.9km (14.8 miles) Morris & Luke Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
23.9km (14.9 miles) Oak Hill Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
28.7km (17.8 miles) Millstone Hill Quarry, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
30.7km (19.1 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
33.7km (20.9 miles) Granite Street Quarry (Milk Row Quarry), Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Massachusetts ....... 34 Table 7 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Massachusetts.........................36 Figure 9. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Massachusetts.........................37 Figure 10. Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a
Book (edition)
Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. 5. Apatite B). interesting to note that diamond, It is...a scratch just gypsum or about will scratch apatite, as and a a hard as file material. testing...malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite, and silicates, which large and complex family...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900
Report (volume)
Resources of the Hudson and Maynard Quadrangles Massachusetts By WALLACE R. HANSEN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Prepared in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Works UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...geology of the Hudson and Maynard quadrangles, Massachusetts. 2. Map showing surficial geology of the Hudson...RESOURCES OF THE HUDSON AND MAYNARD QUADRANGLES, MASSACHUSETTS By wALLACE R. HANSEN .ABSTRACT The highest... 2 GEOLOGY, HUDSON AND MAYNARD QUADRANGLES, MASSACHUSETTS Late Carboniferous(?) igneous rocks of mruppable
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...colored tourmaliee, beryl (golden and aquamarine), apatite, and topaz. In the famed tourmaline mines at Newry...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
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...of poor labeling concern specimens from Mount Apatite. There are many quarries on this hill but most...collectors, unaware of this fact, simply put "Mt. Apatite" on the label when it is much more significant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
REGION, MONTANA, BY HEAVY MINERALS BY MARCELLUS H. STOW CONTENTS Abstract Introduction Purpose of work Acknowledgments...675.pdf by Cornell University user 676 M. H. STOW—BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN REGION The investigation indicates...INTRODUCTION PURPOSE OF WORK Previous investigation (Stow, 1938) of the clastic sediments of the Lance, Fort...675.pdf by Cornell University user 678 M. H. STOW—BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN REGION clature and Correlation...into the Bighorn Basin. The Lebo has been traced (Stow, 1938, and this paper) from its type locality nearly
Report (volume)
HARDNESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
graphite, garnet, sillimanite, tourmaline, zircon, apatite, rutile, ilmenite, and pyrrhotite. Biotite-muscovite...will not be considered in this study. Zircon and apatite are ubiquitous accessories, commonly as inclusions...±6) Biotite (6 ±4) Myrmekite (1 ± 1) Zircon Apatite Garnet Av. composition (mol. % component) up...A R K S DRUMMOND ET A L. zircon (I and II) + apatite ± ilmenite biotite + zoned plagioclase ± garnet...restite phases. The initial generation of zircon and apatite is consistent with the experimental studies of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen, Harold...310-13 Amethyst Discovery on Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine, W. B. Thompson, 44-51 Anatase, Colorado...Walker Vein, Caldwell Stone Company Quarry, Boyle County, Kentucky, 254-58 Andorite, 27 Andradite, Arkansas...Barite, Wasta, Pennington County, South Dakota, 188-90; Benitoite, San Benito County, California, 392-95;...392-95; Gold, Jamestown, Toulumne County, California, 40-42; PowelIite, Pandulena Hill, Nasik, Maharashtra State
Report (issue)
they do not likely represent original composition. Stow-Piper-Dean-equivalent sediment: the name in Dean...given according to this scheme as formalized by Stow and Piper (1984). Lithostratigraphic position: the...pyrite) to 100%. Components are calcite, dolomite, apatite, aluminosilicate minerals (including clay minerals)...1 wt% dolomite, 0.2 wt% calcite, and 0.01 wt% apatite (Isaacs and others, 1989). Regarding accuracy,...Diffraction analysis. These include calcite, dolomite, apatite, clay minerals, feldspars, quartz, pyrite, and
Report (issue)
others, 1988) based on inorganic composition only. Stow-Piper-Dean-equivalent sediment: the name in Dean...given according to this scheme as formalized by Stow and Piper (1984). Lithostratigraphic unit: the formation...pyrite) to 100%. Components are calcite, dolomite, apatite, aluminosilicate minerals (including clay minerals)...1 wt% dolomite, 0.2 wt% calcite, and 0.01 wt% apatite (Isaacs and others, 1989). Regarding accuracy,...mudstone OOP-equivalent sediment: mud with diatoms Stow-Piper-Dean-equivalent sediment: mud Lithostratigraphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho 190 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by [University...chlorophosphate [PbS(P0,)3CI] and a member of the apatite group. It forms a series with mimetite [Pb5(As0...galena and cerussite are reported, as are those of apatite, galena, hemimorphite, hinsdalite, plumbogummite...near Stow, Maine (King and Foord 1994). Recently the old lead mine at Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts...the well-known Thomaston Dan1 site, Litchfield County, Connecticut. It is reported from the Sparta copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...University] at 05:37 14 May 2015 Auburn Veteran Mount Apatite and Mount Mica miner Irving “Duddie” Groves opened...manganotantdte crystal (8 by 10 cm) from Mount Apatite, Auburn. Additional finds include cauliflowerlike...Ray Sprague and Tony Wielkewicz of Andover, Massachusetts, are veteran miners in the Greenwood area. For...crystals found at the I-IerbbeNo. 2 quarry, Powhatten County, Virginia. Numerous additional finds were made
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The specimen is from Hoopers Ledge in Paris. The apatite has a few, crude crystal faces and is 5 cm in longest...as quartz, and the quartz was later replaced by apatite. At any rate, the intergrowth of these two species...muscovite cyrtolite—see zircon dahllite—see hydroxyl-apatite damourite—see muscovite ((danburite)) datolite-Blue...Greenwood, Lewiston, Lovell, Newry(?), Stoneham, Stow, Winslow forsterite—Addison, Lincolnville, Saint...fourmarierite—Newry francolite—carbonatian variety of hydroxyl-apatite fuchsite—see muscovite, Freeport gahnite—Auburn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University...1000 Discovery Drive, College Station, TX 77845, USA g Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck...Geology, University Station, Box X, Austin, TX 78713, USA j GEOMAR, Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel...Research Group, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA s Geophysics Research Group, Institute of Geology...Hall 434, 8675 Discovery Way, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA u MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Journal (issue)
M.P.B.W. Bucks Bucks Bucks Bucks County County County County Museum Museum Museum Museum London...biotite. Chlorite absent but calcite, epidote, apatite and magnetite are abundant. A little sphene (rounded)...sphene mostly enclosed in micaceous aggregates. Apatite and magnetite are accessory. This hone has ; ...parallel orientation and Accessories are schorl, apatite, zircon, and monazite. often penetrate quartz....phyllite), blue-black fragment. Suffolk. West Stow (120), Mi3(4o8) B.M. 1964, 724(1). Bury ; St
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
onsare involved,a brief commentaryon a paper by Stow (1969) seemsdesirable. He states:"Little hasbeen...in phosphorites. The inverse_cori-elationfound by Stow between arsenicand phosphorus,nevertheless,is exactly...and phosphorusbut a direct linear structureof apatite. If apatitewere the only mineral correlationbetweenarsenicand...in connection with inverse correlation found by Stow, the situation is fermorite, which containsslightly...structural investigationof the isomorphism of the apatite group: Amer. Mineral., v. 23, sumingthat the essentialmineral
Report (issue)
............................................^ Apatite............................................................................................ 26 Apatite authigenesis.....................................example, many "phosphatic shales" have less than 1% apatite (0.4% phosphate), such as the lower 400 feet or...other "phosphatic shales" have as much as 5-10% apatite (2-4% phosphate), but also contain as much as 25%65%...different meaning). Mineral groups include feldspar, apatite, and clay minerals. The term "opal-A" refers to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey
Book (volume)
The History of Lord Hill, Black Mountain, Mount Apatite, and Nathaniel H. Perry . .......................Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................of Geology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He began teaching there in 1931 and he retired...permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1923 No. 9 THE SCAPOLITE DEPOSIT OF BOLTON, MASSACHUSETTS C. Per-ecnner'roA. W. PrNcnn,Horaard. University...situated a few hundred yards from the road between Stow and Lancaster, in the town of Bolton, about 25 miles...deposits may best be found in Emerson's Geology of Massachusetts, Bull. U. S. G. S. 597. It is one of a roughly...and actinolite, more rarely with chondrodite, apatite and titanite. Scapolite is rarely found with it...abundant in the limestone in company with actinolite, apatite and titanite. It is commonly granular but may form
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a large amethyst scepter crystal from Deer Hill, Stow, Maine, that he acquired in 1956. Allison Megaw...feldspar and mica miners to collectors of fabulous apatite and tourmaline pockets (fig. 14). Carving snippets...emerging importance of the museum to Bethel and Oxford County, with departing visitors exclaiming, “I need to...simply moseyed up the road from Cambridge, Massachusetts, after retiring from running the Harvard Mineralogical...including such things as Gary Howard’s suite of Mount Apatite tourmaline specimens from 1908 and a spectacular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
probable early Paleozoic arc or back-arc complex (Stow and others, 1984; Steltenpohl and others, 1990d);...Paleozoic arc or back-arc complex (Stow and others, 1984; Neilson and Stow, 1986; Steltenpohl and others,...Neathery, 1970; Sears and others, 1981; Neilson and Stow, 1986; Steltenpohl and others, 1990d; Higgins and...Temperature-time paths (see text). Numbers are (1) apatite fission track ages all range from 113 to 123 Ma...achievement of a much slower uplift rate. Combining an apatite fission track date of 117 ± 6 Ma from an Auburn
Report (chapter)
fan sedimentation Stephen F. Crowley, Dorrik A. V. Stow and Ian W. Croudace Geological Society, London,...basaltic and (or) high-grade metamorphic CROWLEY,S. E, STOW,D. A. V. & CROUDACE,I. W. 1998. Mineralogy and geochemistry...Detailed descriptions of these facies are reported in Stow et al. (1990). Grain-size characteristics, mineralogy...groups based on general facies associations (see Stow et al. 1990), similarities in mineralogy, major...between a variety of phases (e.g. calcite, dolomite, apatite, plagioclase). TOC contents are Group III. Group
Report (issue)
are expressed on an organic-matter-free basis; apatite is included with carbonates. From Isaacs (1985)...areal correlation; (e) that concentrations of apatite represent winnowing on banktops (e.g., Pisciotto... porcelanite, chert, locally doloaltiof minor apatite in upper parti minor sandstone locally; basal bentonite...and chalk, ad nor dolostone, limestone, cherti apatite abundant in some beds.) Laminated coccolith-foraminiferal...siliceous shale, locally dolomitic; siinor dolostone; apatite abundant in some beds in lower part.) Laminated
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 9, 2024 18:55:00
Go to top of page