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Rock Crystal from
Nahant, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Rock Crystal
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rock Crystal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nahant, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:165614
Long-form Identifier:1:3:165614:5
GUID (UUID V4):917813ad-f9c0-4ca9-854d-c1b543dbc250
Nearest other occurrences of Rock Crystal
18.5km (11.5 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
20.3km (12.6 miles) Warren Street Quarry (Beatty's Ledge), Allston-Brighton, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
63.2km (39.3 miles) Diamond Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
71.2km (44.2 miles) Conklin Quarry, Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
75.0km (46.6 miles) Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
75.6km (47.0 miles) Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
80.9km (50.3 miles) Burrillville, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
86.4km (53.7 miles) Hooksett Crushed Stone Quarry, Hooksett, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
articlesreceiveelare such as havebeen dug up in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, which or bear quities of...found been fabrication very or greater were at Nahant, some at great had part is also several...and some bronze; of tIMassachusetts, Some articles an Esq., of in occupied...belongingto them, were dug up at Mattapoisettin Massachusetts. Several stone articleswerelikewise receivedfrom...petrosilex,camefrom the Corregode Provonqao,and is of rock-crystal,from the lliberao do Pin the other, +X7hich
Book
implements from this were made of this same substance, a rock, which appears in abundance all There is no mistaking...CUMMINGS, BILLIARD, & CO. 1825. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. District Clerk's Oflht. BE it remembered..." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the, District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE -. University Press, Milliard...Manganese ; and, of the stones used in jewelry, Rock Crystal and its colored varieties, Amethyst, Prase,...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...and Spodumene. For instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
Book (volume)
Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Book (volume)
Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
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second we consider as belonging the pseudo-morphous crystal, the amygdaloid, spectre petrifactions or incrustations...Talc. 6. Felspar. 2. Gypsum, or Rock Salt. 7. Quartz, or Rock Crystal. 3. Carbonate of Lime. 8. Topaz...Essonite, Spinelle, Garnet. 2. SEMI-HARD GEMS. Rock Crystal, Opal, Amethyst, Chrysolite, Chalcedony, Lazulite...Diamond, - 3.5 3.6 Topaz, (Pebble) 3.49 3.56 Rock Crystal, (False Diamonds, Lake George, Trenton Falls...50 3.56 Diamond, 3.5 3.6 Beryl, - 2.68 2.71 Rock Crystal, Citron, - 2.60 2.69 Fire-opal, 1.90 2.12 GREEN
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:...............................about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five times the combined production and...than 86,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...Compendium of the mineral resources of Arkansas, Little Rock Board of Trade Bulletin, 1912. Eakle, A. S., Minerals...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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Encyclopedia, Hitchcock’s Report on.the Geology of Massachusetts, the New York State Report, and the Report of.... . . . . .. 235 240 244 247 253 254 259 Rock- crystal ........ . .'.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . 386 Rock of Gibralter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...more important of these are,—its form as shown iq crystal lization; its structure as determining its mode...form, or a. crystal. CRYSTALS. . Faces, Edges, Angles, Acres of Crystals—The Word crystal in mineralogy
Report (issue)
.................. _ . .......... ........ .... Rock cr�·stal. ........................... .... .......salient features of the year are the finding of rock crys­ ta! at l\Iokelumne Hill, California, of such...inches in diameter; the increased output of Fergus County, .Montana, sapphire mines, and the yielding of...Kimberley to 1,900 feet; but the main work of taking ont rock is done at highm· levels-in the . Kimberley between...i;tatemeut that a good deal of "waste " aucl "reef" rock has been sent up, a11d that certain poor portions
Book (edition)
Thickness, Outliers, Escarpment, Faults, Mineral Veins, Rock Dike, Clay Dike, Formations. Illustrations. How...Slate. Hornblende Rock. Crystalline Limestone. : — — — — : — — — Quartz Rock 67 CHAPTER VII...Greenstone. New-Jersey— Columbia RiverTrap In Massachusetts — Nova Scotia — — — — — 27i — CONTENTS... — — — Coal. Rhode Island Coal-fields. Massachusetts Coal-fields. Mansfield. Anthracite Coal-fields...such cases it is usually accompanied by gypsum, rock-salt, or peat. Sicily is well known to be the sulphur-market
Book (edition)
Thickness, Outliers, Escarpment, Faults, Mineral Veins, Rock Dike, Clay Dike, Formations. Illustrations. How...Mica Slate. Hornblende Rock. Crystalline Limestone. — — — — : — Quartz Rock — 67 . CHAPTER VII...Greenstone tion of Basalt Of Greenstone. Trap— In Massachusetts New- Jersey— Columbia River .271 . . . . . ...elastic ; and slabs of limestone in some parts of Massachusetts possess the same property. Among minerals, steel...such cases it is usually accompanied by gypsum, rock-salt, or peat. Sicily is well known to be the sulphur-market
Report (issue)
many sections of the work and made most of the crystal drawings. For a portion of their time on this project...(Nb) instead of columbium (Cb). CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC Crystal Class Symbols i, 2/m, m3m etc. • Miller Indices...010, 110, hkl, etc. • Identification of Faces on crystal drawings • • Face or Form Symbol a b C !l d... 100, (010, Wulfenite) 010 001 100 on twinned crystal hol, monoclinic, orthorhombic hko, tetragonal (011...more complele statement of the nomenclature of crystal forms the reader should consult paces 3-37 (Morphological
Journal (issue)
't rn • \1 1• \ I --.. I m rn IIl Crystal Display Stands - SALE :.r.i PRICE To June 30...clear plastic stands strong enough to support heavy rock slabs yet almost Invisible! We are now able to otter...West Federation Show July 18 through 21 Jefferson County Fairgrounds Port Towsend WA Dealer Inquiries Welcome...next year. Nome Address Clt Slate Zip Country Rock&Ge June 2002 Volume 32, Number 6 12 Minerals............... .69 MileStones ............... .76 Rock Science .............. .78 On the Rocks .......
Book (edition)
is a Glacial Pot Hole from Russell, St. Lawrence County, New York, formed by an eddy in a stream beneath...deposition and sequence of the stratified beds of rock, for these, together with the fossils found in many...surface of the earth, tending to modify it, such as rock weathering, underground waters, glaciation, diastrophism...The Mt. Tom-Mt. Holyoke district of western Massachusetts, showing a great trough, traversing the ancient...surface, evidenced by outcrops of fossiliferous rock of the age represented, is shown in black. From
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America A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide Petrified Forest Trails Arizona...Ransom EMS of and MINERAL AMERI A A Guide to Rock Collecting HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS ....... New...form in A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals and The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide, both by Jay Ellis Ransom....Foreword xi xiii Part I: The Fundamentals of Rock Collecting 1. Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones 1...Serpentines; The Metamorphic Rocks; Metamorphic Rock Types; Collectable Metamorphic Gemstones and Minerals;
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Congress . Mass H R Massachusetts, House of Representatives Mass St Bd Educ Massachusetts State Board of Education...Leffingwell, 15 Lateral erosion of streams: Eakin, 10 Rock glaciers: Capps, 108 Striations in gravel bars:...(G), 07, 07a, 10 activity: Sherzer, 08 Selkirk and Rock Mountains: Sherzer, 05, 06, 07 variations: Vattt...Maryland,Harpers Ferry quadrangle: Keith, 94 Massachusetts, Holyoke quadrangle: Emerson, 98a Michigan
Book (edition)
Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. --~~~~ ---------------- 8THER EOTYPED BY...appended to my Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts, now in the press: And the third was, to present... ral History generally, of the Province of Massachusetts, made by the command of the State government;... - 20 STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH, Def. The term rock, in its popular acceptation, embraces only the solid...Def. Stratification consists of the division of a rock into regu. lar masses, by nearly parallel planes
Book
the differ- ent kinds of minerals and rocks, and rock structures, produced by these agencies in the past...diabase (13) as the most representative eruptive rock, with from 5 to 15 percent, of iron. And, lastly...covered by a thin shell or crust of cold, solid rock. There are, however, several important considerations...becomes sufficient to fuse considerable volumes of rock. EXTERNAL CONFIGURATION OF THE EARTH. The inequality...magnitude, arches. continents, mountain-ranges, and rock-folds or That lateral or edgewise pressure does
Book
Jay in this of popular the Ellis Ransom, Rock-huntefs Range Guide, tells everything you need...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...as well as a dis- cussion of the basic kinds of rock: igneous, sedimentary, Once and metamorphic. ...by Jay FOSSILS IN Ellis Ransom AMERICA THE ROCK-HUNTER'S RANGE GUIDE ARIZONA GEM TRAILS PETRIFIED...or silver; an angry mule skinner reaching for a rock to throw at an obstreperous mule, only to discover
Book (edition)
as he walked in his favorite wood at Lenox, Massachusetts, and in front a bust of Charles Sprague Sargent...Several species of these are represented A TYPICAL ROCK TIDE-POOL ON TH Represented by a group - ...the animals and plants of a rock tide-pool, the ‘‘ Agassiz Cave,” at Nahant, Rack Mass. The falling tide...natural bridge may be seen a curious rock formation known as “‘ Pulpit Rock.”’ At the end of the Arthropod...on Sound the sandy bottom of Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts. Here Bottom is a den of lobsters in a crevice
Report (issue)
Ackerman, Walter, 1953, Louis Beryl Pegmatite, Custer County, South Dakota: Rapid City, South Dakota School...1952, Peerless Pegmatite, Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota: Rapid City, South Dakota School...map and sections, Burnt [Burt?] Mica Mine, Custer County, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File...River" beds, Rockerville quadrangle, Pennington County, South Dakota: Rapid City, South Dakota School...Precambrian rocks of the Park Dome area, Custer County, Black Hills of South Dakota: Rapid City, South
Book (edition)
States. Relief maps of the region about Clinton, Massachusetts, before and after the construction of the Wachusett...model of a well sunk through impervious clay or rock down to water-bearing strata shows how ground-water...animals and plants of a rock tide-pool, the “‘ Agassiz Cave,’’ at Nahant, Rock Mass. The falling tide...natural bridge may be seen a curious rock formation known as “ Pulpit Rock.” At the end of the Arthropod Alcove...on Sound the sandy bottom of Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts. Here Bottom is a den of lobsters in a crevice
Book (edition)
is a Glacial Pot Hole from Russell, St. Lawrence County, New York, formed by an eddy in a stream beneath...stratified beds to the softer rocks of Silurian and Deof rock, for these, together with the fosvonian age. sils...such as cluding the geyser basins and the Rocky rock weathering, underground waters, Mountain type of...GEo.Locic EXHIBITS IN THE HALL OF of western Massachusetts, showing a great GEOLOGY AND INVERTEBRATE trough...surface, evidenced by outcrops of fossiliferous rock of the age represented, is shown in black. From
Book (edition)
and its fracture is uneven . This is a com mon rock, and in some countries forms mountains . It is...will be seen on the differ ent faces of the same crystal. The crystals, which are po lished by the hand...science of Mineralogy. The different parts of a crystal have different names, oth prwise no precise ideas...different parts of a crystal ?-How is the student to make the model of a crystal ?-How is the pyramid...What is the name of the crystal so formed ? INTRODUCTION TO 22 Such a crystal is represented by fig
Book (edition)
States. Relief maps of the region about Clinton, Massachusetts, before and after the construction of the Wachusett...model of a well sunk through impervious clay or rock down to water-bearing strata shows how ground-water...animals and plants of a rock tide-pool, the ‘‘ Agassiz Cave,” at Nahant, Rock Mass. The falling tide has...natural bridge may be seen a curious rock formation known as ‘ Pulpit Rock.” At the end of the Arthropod Alcove...on Sound the sandy bottom of Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts. Here Bottom is a den of lobsters in a crevice
 
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