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Opal from
Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA


Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1372352
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1372352:7
GUID (UUID V4):32c5f1b0-9aa9-46a2-8674-661b2fd29271
Localities for Opal in this Region
Chickering Mine, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
3.7km (2.3 miles) ⓘChickering Mine, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
15.5km (9.7 miles) ⓘBeryl Mountain Quarry, South Acworth, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
38.5km (23.9 miles) ⓘGuilford, Windham County, Vermont, USA
58.5km (36.3 miles) ⓘWilton Crushed Stone Quarry, Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
58.6km (36.4 miles) ⓘCheapside Quarry (East Deerfield Quarry; Trew Corp. Quarry), Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
69.6km (43.2 miles) ⓘPulpit Road locality, Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
75.0km (46.6 miles) ⓘRollstone Hill Quarries, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
75.5km (46.9 miles) ⓘBedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
77.0km (47.8 miles) ⓘHooksett Crushed Stone Quarry, Hooksett, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
77.6km (48.2 miles) ⓘRoute 101A construction site, Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
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...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)
2015 Walpole, Cheshire County New Hampshire 410 ROCKS & MINERALS 79 Meadow Lane Campton, New Hampshire...Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054 janules@att.net THOMAS MORTIMER 3 Roberts Road Amherst, New Hampshire 03031...Chickering mine area: Pierre Hoge Reservation of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...the Program Assistant Camping Services of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...Chickering mine in Walpole, New Hampshire. We all share a common interest in New Hampshire mineral species
Book (edition)
and Washington occur the many types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance...Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, or Tom Robert's Rock the caption. All photographs...in color. Turquoise from Los Cerillos mines, New Mexico. Note turquoise vein cutting diagonally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Francis, Harvard University; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. George Robinson, Michigan... Adrian College; and Dr. Steven C. Chamberlain, New York State Museum. Twenty-one abstracts were submitted...RoAd oCCURRENCE, wEST pIERREpoNT, ST. LAwRENCE CoUNTy, NEw yoRk. S. C. Chamberlain1, M. Walter2, and R....P. Richards3. 1Center for Mineralogy, 3140 CEC, New york State Museum, Albany, Ny 12230; 2po Box 137...Selleck Road occurrence east of West Pierrepont, New York, revealed a suite of minerals unusual for the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lourmel Street, Bridgeport, Conn. 06606. FOSSILS-New illustrated catalog 21, fea­ turing 10,000 items...Violet Products, Box 5, Cambria Heights, L. I . , New York 11411. OVER 200 FLUORESCENT MINERALS Now largest...A. only.) House of Brilliance, 63 Dwight Street, New Britain, Conn. 06051. FLUORESCENT MINERAL SETS: #...Anhydrite, Tremolite. #2-Hydrozincite, Hackmanite, Opal, Diopside, Norbergite, Flourite. One inch size....Library] at 09:36 02 September 2017 FINEST GEM ROUGH New 1975 catalog. Select quality gem rough for cabochons
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lourmel Street, Bridgeport, Conn. 06606. FOSSILS-New illustrated catalog 21, fea­ turing 10,000 items...Violet Products, Box 5, Cambria Heights, L. I . , New York 11411. OVER 200 FLUORESCENT MINERALSNow largest...A. only.) House of Brilliance, 63 Dwight Street, New Britain, Conn. 06051. FLUORESCENT LONG WAVE S E T...tremolite, wernerite, hackmanite, fluorite, calcite, opal, sphalerite, aragonite, manganapatite, sodalite...Horn Minerals, 263 North Country Road, Smith town, New York 11787. GEMSTONES "GRAB BAG" CUTTING PACKAGE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Violet Products, B o x 5, Cambria Heights, L . I . , New Y o r k 1 1 4 1 1 . O V E R 200 F L U O R E S C E.... only.) House of Brilliance, 63 Dwight Street, New Britain, Conn. 0 6 0 5 1 . FLUORESCENT LONG WAVE...tremolite, wernerite, hackmanite, fluorite, calcite, opal, sphalerite, aragonite, manganapatite, sodalite...Horn Minerals, 263 North Country Road, Smithtown, New Y o r k 11787. GEMSTONES "GRAB BAG" CUTTING PACKAGE...Crystal Arrowhead, Central Square, Bristol, New Hampshire 03222 F I L L Y O U R T U M B L E R - With
Report (volume)
and sapphire are considered precious gems. Some opal is precious, but most varieties are semiprecious...streams, and eventually deposited as alluvial gravels. Opal and agate are formed from aqueous solutions. Diamonds...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:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lourmel Street, Bridgeport, Conn. 06606. FOSSILS- New illustrated catalog 21, fea­ turing 10,000 items...brochures. Radiant Ultra Violet, Box 5, Cambria Heights, New York 11411 OVER 200 FLUORESCENT MINERALS Now largest...A. only.) House of Brilliance, 63 Dwight Street, New Britain, Conn. 06051. FLUORESCENT MINERAL SETS: #...Anhydrite, Tremolite. #2-Hydrozincite, Hackmanite, Opal, Diopside, Norbergite, Flourite. One inch size....Piedras, El Paso, Texas 79930. 451 FINEST GEM ROUGH New 1975 catalog. Select quality gem rough for cabochons
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington...microscope. is — — A few gem materials notably, opal and obsidian are amorphous, lacking crystal structure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
80522 Box 53511 FLUOR ESCENTS FOSSILS — turing New illustrated catalog 2 1 , f e a ­ 10,000 items...Inc. Violet Products, Box 5, C a m b r i a L. New Fossils, Baltimore, Mary­ from I., OVER A M...fluorite, for Dwight New SET — An­ wernerite, hackmanite, calcite, opal, sphalerite, $7.50 Postpaid...Catalog aragon- sodalite. T w e l v e able) New House Street, 06051 ite, m a n g a n a p a t...postage Crystal Arrowhead, Bristol, N e w Hampshire. New York — Of Brazilian California 50#, —
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the fine work executed on a piece of Mexican Opal (pink) with real fire in green, red and blue spitting... gave them each a piece of this Mexican Opal. With the opal in their hands, wandering toward the stage...this lump of rock became a fine executed tie clip opal and the other an ear drop. I was told that one of...to get wrapping and a cardboard box to gather his new-found treasures, with a weight of about 53 lbs. Just...So before buying a new one, let me tell you: The name was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754 in the three
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1954 Ernie and I went to the Old Bookstore in Walpole (N.H.) and bought some old geological reports....Pyrope (Garnet), Almadine (Gar­ net) , Amber, Fire Opal, Carnelian, Coral. Zircon, Tourmaline, Smoky Quartz...dine (Garnet), Amethyst, Topaz, Dia­ Chalcedony, Opal, Jade, Moonstone, Grossularite (Garnet), Coral.
Journal (issue)
American Gemological Laboratories. 339 What’s New Presidium ARI | Artisanal Jade Mining in Myanmar...Glass-Filled Sapphires and the Chelsea Colour Filter: A New Technique 344 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty...Learning Opportunities 432 Photo by Arjuna Irsutti New Media 434 Literature of Interest 439 The Journal...Alonso-Perez Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Editorial Assistant Carol M. Stockton Edward Boehm...Boehm RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA Editor Emeritus Roger R. Harding Maggie Campbell Pedersen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
common, clear, well preserved and consist mainly of opal-A. Towards the top of the Princess Royal Spongolite...banded clay and silica which consists of quartz, opal-CT, smectite and poorly crystalline kaolinite. In...molluscan fauna from the Pallinup Siltstone near Walpole suggests temperate affinities (Darragh & Kendrick...shallow burial depths is indicated by the presence of opal-CT (Siever 1983) in the siliceous layers at the...1986a). The Perkana Member contains abundant clear opal-A sponge spicules (Jenkins et al. 1982; Jones &
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright Š...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable...the developer's bulldozer obliterates other sites, new ones are discovered. Books and thetic and scientific
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the logs of mineral col leering in Maine and New Hampshire. (Several trips are omitted for political reason... Charlie Marble showed up with Weeks and Week's new bride. Found a few of the rhombic quartz crys­ tals...(which flourished many years without attention at my new house). July 6 Drove to Buckfield and picked up...wished to have a few shots placed in it to expose new material. We walked into the mine. Immediately ROCKS...a ledge, near the edge of the water. I had on a new white linen suit but this was too much. So I went
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VANDALL T. K I N G P.O. Box 90888 Rochester, New York 14609 NEW YORK £ 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...small particles is widely distributed over northern New England in glacial gravels, and many swiftly moving...The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi­ cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the
Book
goblet, Venice, late 15th century (cat.no.55) VIz Opal glass beaker and cover, Venice or facon de Venise...mp, in his sitting-room at Waddesdon Manor 1 The new Waddesdon Room at the British Museum 2 Plan of the...1611 (Somerset 65,66 An hour-striking table-clock, County Museum, Taunton) originally fitted with alarum...attributions of origin, but the results of many new discoveries and reappraisals have been incorporated...staff of the Photographic Service, who took many new photographs for this publication. My special thanks
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Journal (issue)
CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY SUBSCRIPTION FORM REMINDER — NEW LOCATION . DMG RELEASE .. IFICATION, SR 143, MINERAI...of the Zuma Volcanics POINT DUME Los Angeles County, California By EARTH SCIENCES BOARD University...by pre-exist- Photo 1. Point Dume, Los Angeles County. The rocks that make up the cliff face on the point...Volcanic rocks of the El Mod- eno area, Orange County, California: US. Geological Survey Professional...the central Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1457-
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...MINERALS AND GEMS Russell P. MacFall THOMAS Y. New CROWELL COMPANY York ! Established 1834 Copyright...Boscardin. published in Italy in 1973 by Fratelli New Fabbri Editori. material has been added for this...translated and adapted with American examples to a new audience. In it it his preface to the Italian
Book
localities. My fond hope is that someone of the new generation will take up the challenge of revising...tantalizing find, one of several mineral discoveries in New England since the 1970s, including gold in a state...104 ••• 11ne G••• shou1d be ------------.1958. Cheshire 105 ••• 1ine 18 ••• p.382 should be p.385 114...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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
 
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