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Quartz from
Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1327468
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1327468:7
GUID (UUID V4):2aa78869-61de-41ff-91eb-c67c65570e5e
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
3.9km (2.4 miles) Rowe Quarry (Black Ann Hill Quarry), Revere, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) Mystic River Quarries (Mystic Quarries), Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Nanny Goat Hill, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Kallenberg Quarry (Robin Rock Quarry; Jordan Quarry), Lynnfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Granite Street Quarry (Milk Row Quarry), Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) Den Granite Quarry, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
9.9km (6.2 miles) North Woburn, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
12.5km (7.8 miles) Aggregate Industries Quarry (Lynn Sand and Stone Co. Quarry; Bardon Trimount Quarry; Hume Quarry), Swampscott, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
13.6km (8.4 miles) Warren Street Quarry (Beatty's Ledge), Allston-Brighton, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
References
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Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS BY CHARLES H. CLAPP WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT.... 9 9 9 10 11 11 11 15 j ( Geology of Essex County..................................................calcareous rocks............................... Quartz-hornblende schists................................................................. Newburyport quartz diorite................................ Distribution... 26; . . 3 4 CONTENTS. Geology of Essex County Continued. Igneous rocks Continued. Subjacent or
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHANTOMS. Number 4271, of my collection of Arkansas quartz, is a small xl, 3 / 8 " in diameter and only 1...the Red Mountain range near Silverton, San Juan County, Colo., there is marmatite. It is a high-iron sphalerite...Illinois to Buffalo State Park in central LaSalle County, 111. We found many sam115 pies of the fish-tail...Bartholomew Co., Ind. IOWA—From a coal strip mine near Melrose (Monroe Co.), Iowa, we have a specimen consisting...specimen was donated by Michael Papcun, RR 1, Melrose, Iowa. The calcite occurs in large weathered masses
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
Report (volume)
The economic geology of Carson camp, Hinsdale County, Colo., by E. S. Larsen..........................Metalliferous ore deposits near the Burro Mountains, Grant County, N. Mex., by Sidney Paige........................stone: Variegated marble southeast of Calera, Shelby County, Ala., by Charles Butts..........................Supplementary notes on the commercial granites of Massachusetts, by T. N. Dale......................................... 291 Clays: Clay near Calhan, El Paso County, Colo., by G. B. Richardson....... 293 Clay resources
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peacockcolored massive bornits and masseive pale smoky quartz. The locality for this handsome specimen is the...crystal, and a beautiful rutilated quartz cabochon (colorless quartz containing slender bronzy xls of rutile)...famous Gillette pegmatite quarry, Haddam Neck, Middlesex Co., Conn. One specimen was part of a large beryl...other specimen consisted chiefly of dark smoky quartz in which were imbedded a nice xl of greenish mangana462...Co.), Conn. The fluorite occurs associated with quartz in what is apparently a crush zone in the granite-gneiss
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mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...Tourmaline: Mass of black tourmaline xls in massive milky quartz. From Catalina Mts., near Oracle, Pinal Co., Ariz...south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California. While it might sound like exaggeration...huebnerite, a somewhat rare tungsten mineral; clear quartz xls; and sphalerite xls. "Sometimes a small vug...Biotite: black, radiating plates on massive smoky quartz. Calcite: white, cleavable (fl. yellowlong wave)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/loi/tigr20 Petrogenesis of I-type granitoids from the Melrose Stock, east-central Nevada a a A.K. El-Shazly...Department , Marshall University , Huntington, WV, USA Published online: 13 May 2010. To cite this article:...(2011) Petrogenesis of I-type granitoids from the Melrose Stock, east-central Nevada, International Geology...1522–1558 Petrogenesis of I-type granitoids from the Melrose Stock, east-central Nevada 1938-2839 Geology Review...Department, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA Downloaded by [Monash University Library] at 04:45
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyroxene, brownish also milky-white quartz and greenish and white quartz porphyry. A 2nd letter, dated March...is found in the Harquahala Range in N / E Yuma County of S/W Arizona. Also enclosed are some desert roses...roses (beds of these are found all over Yuma County). I pick up only the well shaped specimens such as...response on the copper minerals with quartz xls and drusy quartz overlying them. The sad part is that...come from the Calico fossil beds of San Bernardino County, Calif." — asks Charley Jones, 14232 Slover Ave
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from Stoneham and Vicinity Oxford County, Maine Downloaded by [Penn State University] at 01:41 12 December...July 2015). Albite, microcline, muscovite, and quartz are the essential minerals of these granitic pegmatites...x x x x x x x x x Pyrite x x x x Pyrrhotite x x Quartz x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Schorl x x x ? ?...combined), 2. Colton Hill (2 combined), 3. Aldrich, 4. Melrose, 5. Beryllonite, 6. Barbour, 7. Warren, 8. Harding...Styles Mtn., 15. Andrews, 16. Lord Hill. smoky quartz crystals. Alteration of the primary phosphates
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ARIZONA—"Under separate cover 1 am sending you another Yuma County mineral. Look it over as it is a most interesting...my name in R&M. Was glad to send him some Yuma County specimens. That Novice Column is a very nice gesture...Park, Ark. "Quite recently, the Tridymite form of quartz has been found near Mount Ida, Montgomery Co.,...really are. They are just about the most interesting quartz J have yet seen." CALIFORNIA—The limestone quarries...pocket containing good quality tourmalines and quartz. The tourmaline was both green and red and well
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mining operationsat the Maiden Rock Mine, near Melrose, Montana, have exposed a dike and a sill in the...batholith--onein BeaverheadCounty, two in Silver Bow County,and one in MadisonCounty. This study has a two-fold.... Previous Work.--The phosphatedepositsof the Melrose area were describedby Gale (5), and by Richardsand...specimens for study from the Maiden Rock Mine where quartz,monzonitedikescut the Phosphoriaformation. REGIONAL...Cretaceous). In the South Boulder Canyon area, Madison County, the JurassicEllis formationis presentand the Dinwoody(
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polished—the other consists of drusy, brownish quartz filling a depression in the agate. In the polished..."—letter from Edward Lepel, Clarksville, Ark. Brownish quartz, small dark green epidote, white limestone, and...and black hornblende with specks of whitish quartz — all pebbles and of good quality, were the specimens...chunks of fluorite from a microcline and smoky quartz pegmatite we were working. These pieces of fluorite...nor even under an argon lamp. "Fluorite. Teller County, Colorado." —on label. CONNECTICUT—"Perhaps you
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were the quartz pits near Hot Springs (Garland Co.), Ark. Here I found about 40 nice quartz xls ranging...found in pegmatite on Turkey Mountain, Haddam (Middlesex Co.), Conn. One is a brown beryl xl iy2 inches...are sometimes encrusted with fine grained drusy quartz. Watch for it. Drusy means covered with minute...conglomerates in fields and in gravel bars here in Putnam County, Indiana."—item received from Walter Reeves, R3...attractive specimen. It is a 2x3 inch mass of smoky quartz and embedded in its very center is a mass of deep
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen sent you recently. It was found in Coosa County, Ala., near Rockford. You have my permission to...with tourmaline, garnet, microcline and some rose quartz, on the dumps of the Ramstetter Ranch pegmatite...of Ralph's specimens. He found this cluster of quartz crystals in Stafford Springs (Tolland Co.), Conn...(Parke Co.), Ind., I found a number of géodes with quartz crystals ranging in size from 1/16" to 1/4". Crystals...Brown Ave., Terre Haute, Ind. I O W A — From Marion County, Iowa, we have an interesting specimen consisting
Report (volume)
SURVEY No. 116 A GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY CATALOGUE SLIPS. United States. Department...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | hy | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...topographer. XXIII. Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts, by Raphael Pnnipelly, J. E. Wolff, and T. Nelson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
regularly, if readers will support it with notes. Quartz Sand From Parlin, N. J. We are indebted to Hobart...pit located at Parlin below New Brunswick in Middlesex Co., N . J., just off of N . J. Route 28. The...a grayish fine-grained sand made up chiefly of quartz (colorless and milky, some brownish and a little...hillside many veinlets of ilmenite are found in gray quartz, some being strongly radioactive. This area will...is light brown in color and consists chiefly of quartz (white to brownish) with zircon, monazite, etc
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 839 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AREA MASSACHUSETTS BY LAURENCE LAFORGE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...gabbro-diorite.----------------.---------------.Newburyport quartz diorite._----_-_-__________________ Dedham granodiorite...geology of the Boston and Boston Bay quadrangles, Massachusetts--____-.-_____ In pocket. 2. Map showing surficial...-----------81 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AEEA, MASSACHUSETTS By LAURENCE LAFORGE INTRODUCTION* POSITION AND...30' and extends westward from the shore of Massachusetts Bay to meridian 71° 15', comprises the Boston
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen of gray, petrified coral on massive grayish quartz from Eugene Engman, Box 87, Nokomis, Fla. "This...found in a narrow pegmatite consisting largely of quartz and mica."—item sent in by Gerald Navratil, Box...INDIANA—Slender, black xls of goethite coating rock xls in quartz goedes occur at Bean Blossom, Brown Co., Ind. ...large rock in a ditch in Melrose, Monroe Co., Iowa, by Michael Papcun, RR 1, Melrose, Iowa. K A N S A S -...13, Kans. "This petrified wood came from Barber County, Kansas. I am not sure of its exact location but
Report (issue)
miles northeast of Boise, near the center of Valley County, in the midst of the littledeveloped mountainous...Umpleby, J. B., Geology and ore deposits of Lemhl County, Idaho: U. 8. Qeol. Survey Bull. 628, p. 25, 1913...DEPOSITS IN THE YELLOW PINE MINING DISTRICT, VALLEY COUNTY, IDAHO 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 8,000 PEET...quartzite breaks in thin plates and is composed of quartz and biotite. Similar rocks in the upper part of...consists of minute scales of impure muscovite with quartz, garnet, and fine-grained ferruginous 8 Umpleby
Report (volume)
sections of the Trapper no. 1 claim, Beaverhead County, Mont__________________________ In pocket FIQTJEE...Montana______________ __ ._ 44. Geologic and index maps of the Melrose district, Montana.. 45. Geologic and index maps...Geologic map of the Frying Pan Creek area, Beaverhead County, Mont._______.______._____________ 48. Geologic...sections of the Trapper no. 4 claim, Beaverhead County, Mont________________________________ 49. Geologic...the Last Chance and Shady Tree claims, Beaverhead County, Mont_____ _____ 172 177 179 182 185 192 193 200
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recorded; although the general features of the county of Roxburgh have been very clearly stated in a...care. The character of the greywacke strata near Melrose is in general that of the surrounding country....course of the railway, immediately to the east of Melrose, where the greywacke is not far distant from the...Among these debris, boulders of the trap tufa of Melrose are conspicuVOL. xx. PART n. 3 L 212 PROFESSOR...over the site of the present village and abbey of Melrose, forming the well-marked cliffs at Newstead, which
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about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...our intruding." ARKANSAS—"Enclosed is a very odd quartz crystal (s). It seems to be above 7 in hardness...hardness. It will make a mark on any average quartz crystal. What do you think of it? It comes from about 7...more like the average epidote group than quartz but it is quartz."—letter dated March 27, 1958. from Capt...specimen is a lxlí'2-inch, flat, platv, colorless quartz (rock crystal), doubly terminated but instead of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Colo., is being reworked. The ore of the Lode is a quartz-fluoride vein in red granite (Pike's Peak variety)...was reported in 1843 at Williams Ferry in Hall County by Dr. Stevenson while panning for gold. The stone...Creek corundum mine in Town County. At Piedmont Orchard in Habersham County, beautiful nodules of deep...related to granitic rocks, has been found in Troup County near La Grange. All of the stones are a rich blue-green...minerals found in the state include wide varieties of quartz, garnet, tourmaline, spinel, zircon, feldspar,
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on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California."—letter...Liggett military reserjade deposits in (Monterey County) Cali- vation are some of the very few found on... on some minerals of Middlesex signed to conserve the stone for removal County, Conn., was sent in by...value of the remaining jade. The firms have been of quartz, diopside and actinolite, associblasting the deposits...specimen consisting of grayish sparkling drusy quartz xls in a large cavity of grayish chert was sent
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Clay Co., Ala., native gold has been found in quartz. ALASKA-Jack Moffitt, 1475 E. University, Springfield...the numerous tungsten mines in the Darwin, Inyo County, California, area."—note from James H. Richardson...specimen is a grayish-green diopside in massive smoky quartz. Tiny brassy-yellow pyrite xls, tiny brownish titanite...interior was gray chalcedony coated with white drusy quartz. This fine specimen belonged to Mr. & Mrs. John...in Dawson County, Ga. Chatoyant masses of olive-gray tourmaline are found in oligoclase-quartz veins. The
 
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