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Ilmenite from
Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA


Classification
Species:Ilmenite
Formula:Fe2+TiO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ilmenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:168735
Long-form Identifier:1:3:168735:4
GUID (UUID V4):087651f2-9883-4ad3-ac44-b6b41de6db7f
Localities for Ilmenite in this Region
Palm and Koch Granite Quarry, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Ilmenite
34.8km (21.6 miles) Rollstone Hill Quarries, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
37.4km (23.2 miles) Dracut Nickel Mine (Nickel Mine Hill), Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
39.4km (24.5 miles) Monadnock Mountain, Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
42.2km (26.2 miles) Jungle Road area, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
42.4km (26.3 miles) Osgood Graphite Mine, Nelson, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
50.1km (31.2 miles) Routes 125 and 28 interchange road cuts, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
52.0km (32.3 miles) Route 62 locality (Potash Hill), Hudson, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
52.4km (32.5 miles) Interstate Route 495/State Route 62 interchange (I-495 exit #26), Berlin, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
53.8km (33.4 miles) Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
55.5km (34.5 miles) Interstate 290/Interstate 495 interchange road cuts, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
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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
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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...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...Localit1e•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 21 Br1.tol County Mineral Localit1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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metamorphism of sillimanite-staurolite schists, New Salem area, Massachusetts KURT HOLLOCHER Geology...Department, Union College, Schenectady, New York 12308 ABSTRACT The New Salem retrograde metamorphic zone...assemblage quartz-muscovite-biotite-garnetstaurolite-ilmenite-albite-graphite±sillimanite±pyrrhotite. Systematic...consistent tie lines between the sheet silicates and ilmenite were maintained. Biotite and chlorite became more...staurolite, garnet, and ilmenite breakdown. Biotite, chlorite, and ilmenite became more Mn rich owing
Book (edition)
channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...gas fields occur in almost every State except in New England and a few Southern States, but the discoveries...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004, USA E-mail: jennifer.thomson@mailserver.ewu.edu Tel.:...zones in central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire based on pelitic rock assemblages (from Robinson...FeO±MgO±Al2O3±SiO2±H2O (NaKFMASH) in the context of a new petrogenetic grid proposed by Spear et al. (1999)... 625 plagioclase ‹ K-feldspar (orthoclase) ‹ ilmenite  pyrrhotite ‹ rutile. The tectonic history of...in northern Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire is the occurrence of sillimanite pseudomorphs
Journal (issue)
Prince William County at the Cedar Run mine about 200 yards from the Fauquier County line. The barite...Lynchburg and southeast of Evington in Campbell County, was worked from 1874 until 1903, when it was closed...deposits of Paleozoic limestone near Marion in Smyth County from about 1877 until 1885. Some mining was done...Ramsey, Berger, and Bennett mines in Pittsylvania County were the largest producers of barite in Virginia...produce cement. Riverton Corporation in Warren County produces masonry cement at their plant at Riverton
Report (issue)
Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia...Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral identification based on X-ray diffraction...ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia...................................4 BAY OF FUNDY, NEW BRUNSWICK.................................................................11 The Ledge (Charlotte County Granite) quarry...............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
S tate s.................................. . 467 New E ngland...................................................................................... 468 New H am pshire and V erm ont...................................... . ............................ 469 New Y ork......................................................................................... 470 New Je rse y ...................................................... 471 Analyses of allanite from th e New England and Middle A tlantic States 473 South A tlantic
Report (issue)
as iron titanate (ilmenite), and in iron ferrate (magnetite) as intergrown ilmenite. Of these three forms...it has been necessary for some uses to turn to ilmenite or highly titaniferous magnetites. This paper...a preliminary paper on the rutile deposits of Amherst and Nelson counties.3 1 Clarke, F. W., U. S. Geol...formed by magmatic differentiation. The region of Amherst and Nelson counties in Virginia, the Bay St. Paul...second important type of rutile deposit is found in Amherst and Nelson counties, Va., in dikelike bodies of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs several piaces in Virginia, especially in Amherst, Bedford, and Nelson counties. chevkinite is found...unknown iocality in Nelson county. All chevkinite reported earlier from Amherst, Bedford, and Nelson counties...localitiesin India, as well as from Mozambique and Bedford County, Virginia. According to Portnov (1964) a strontian...from unheated materiai from the Burley farm, Amherst county. using unit cell data and partially indexedpowder...noted in two samples from the Burley farm, Amherst County, one heated half an hour at 800" C. and another
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Ammonoosuc Volcanics from southern New England, USA. Based on stratigraphic and geochemical evidence...south end of the Keene Gneiss Dome in southern New Hampshire, U.S.A. (Fig. 1a). These and closely associated...I38 at the south end of Keene Dome in S.W., New Hampshire, U.S.A. (geology after Robinson 1982b). (b)...contain garnet, apatite, magnetite (or hematite), ilmenite, and sulfides with or without epidote, gedrite...orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene, plagioclase, and ilmenite are estimated from ideal cation contents. Amphibole
Report (issue)
Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr. Open-Fi1e Report...FORMATION TO THE MASSABESIC GNEISS COMPLEX IN NEW HAMPSHIRE CHAPTER 6. GEOLOGIC HISTORY 118 123 POSSIBILITY...2 Index map 4 3 Major structural elements of New England 7 4 Lithotype belts in the Nashua River...the geology of New England and for showing the writer the geology in various parts of New England. They...drains northward into the Merrimack River in New Hampshire. Exposure of the low-grade metamorphic sedimentary
Report (issue)
3. Geologic map showing source areas in Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Gulf of Maine for...Abstract The Gulf of Maine, an embayment of the New England margin, is floored by shallow, glacially...ore. The region surrounding the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are underlain by Carboniferous...and sandstones. Northern Maine and northwestern New Brunswick is underlain by Paleozoic sandstones, siltstones...dissolution of titanium-rich detrital minerals (ilmenite, ilrnenomagnetite). Another major source of rutile
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Comparison with syenite (andesine anorthosite) of Nelson County, Virginia..................................................................................... Ilmenite-apatite gabbro..................................Barton Rogers, 1884, 832 pages. 3 W. C. Phalen: A new occurrence of unakite. Smithsonian Miscellaneous...Front Royal, in Warren County, southward to Hightop and beyond in Greene County. Farther southwest, at...norite from a locality in the northern part of Floyd County, Yirginia. Attention was called to the close similarity
Report (issue)
Varieties General microscopic characters. Weathering Ilmenite nelsonite. 104 105 106 .106 Distribution Megascopic...Geoloeic occurrence. Chemical characters. Norms'of Amherst-Nelson counties Mineralogical characters. Quartz...X'.s'crNc Peco Pr,lrn L Map of rutile area in Amherst and Nelson Counties, Virginia ' ' in pocket " '...Granite-gneiss overlain by mantle Cbmpany's mine, Nelson CountY. of feldspathic facies of syenite from VIII. X'ig...Photomicrograph of gabbro from W. A. Campbell's farm' Nelson County...'.. X'is.3. Photomicrograph of feldspathic facies
Report (issue)
of the rare-earth metals at Baringer Hill, Llano County, Tex., by F. H. Hess, in C~ntr ibutions to Economic...Vanadium-bearing magnetite-ilmenite deposits near Lake Sanford, Essex County, N. Y. , by .r. R. Balsley...origin of the titanium deposits of Nelson and Amherst Counties, Va., by 198 C. S, Ross, 59 pp., 1941...Concentration of chromite, zircon, garnet, an:! ilmenite, by John Dasher, Foster Fraas, and Alton Gabriel...Thermodynamic properties of ilmenite and selective reduction of iron in ilmenite,· by C. E. Shomate,. B.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department Geological Sciences Ridge Lea Road Amherst, New York 14226 METEORITES Though some people might...gypsum haxonite heazlewoodite hercynite hibonite ilmenite kamacite krinovite lawrenceite lonsdaleite mackinawite...infrequently. However, a locality in San Benito County regularly produces this oddity. The accompanying...believed only to exist among the folk­ lore tales of New England mineral collectors. Dr. David Garske of Elmhurst...AND MINERALS Mr. Philip Foster Jr. of Dover, New Hampshire has forwarded an unknown from his father's col­
Report (issue)
Metaigneous rocks informally referred to as the New Hampshire sequence (Billings, 1937, 1956; White and Jahns...intruded by granitic dikes of the Devonian New Hampshire Plutonic Suite and lamprophyric to intermediate...from the western quadrangle boundary to the New Hampshire sequence is a non-faulted stratigraphic succession...separating the Connecticut Valley sequence from New Hampshire sequence, along a contact between what has...Vermont sequence, and Littleton Formation of the New Hampshire sequence. This boundary has subsequently been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
r-ocnrn Geology Department, Union College,Schenectady,New York 12308, U.S.A. Ansrru,cr The study area extendsfor...metamorphosedrocks in the metamorphic high of southern New England, in which Acadian (Devonian) metamorphism...characterizedfor common amphibolites in the high- in southern New England have been subdivided into six grade metamorphic...granulites in central Massachusetts,southwestern New Hampshire, and north-central Connecticut. Rocks with ... This work also builds on the work of others in New England (e.g.,Spear, 1978, 1980, 1982;Laird, 1980)and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and lower granulite facies, central Massachusetts, USA Renate Schumacher Institut ffir Mineralogie,Universit/itM/inster...Acadian metamorphic high of central Massachusetts, USA. Across the region, peak metamorphic conditions range...from central Massachusetts and southwestern New Hampshire (Robinson and Jaffe 1969; J.C. Schumacher 1983;...determination using an empiri- 197 .H., ! Q! HAMPSHIRE i" N~ YOI Ii i NEWYORKCITY ' t ' A / Legend...// I -//~ - / / B Fig. 1 A Map of southern New England which shows the location of the study area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract The Gulf of Maine, an embaymentof the New England margin, is floored by shallow, glaciallyscouredbasinsthat...fine-grainedore. Sedimentary rocksof NovaScotia,New Brunswick,andnorthernMainecontainfine-grained rutile...dissolution of titanium-richdetrital minerals(ilmenite,ilmenomagnetite).Anothermajor sourceof rutile...Other mineralsthat are importantsourcesof TiO2 are ilmenite(FeTiO3)andleucoxene,whichis diageneticallyalt...referredto in the literature as "detrital." Maine, New Brunswick,and Nova Scotia;to estimate Methods the
Report (volume)
DIKECTOlt MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN...146 85 125 127 147 159 LETTER OE TRANSMITTAL. AMHERST, MASS., December 20, 1894. SIR: I have the honor...Survey, a inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was...Geological A MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oxfordjournals.org/ at Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Library on October 1, 2012 MICHEL BOGAERTS1*,...are not considered here. In many AMCG complexes, ilmenite is the dominant or sole Fe–Ti oxide and mineral...oxfordjournals.org/ at Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Library on October 1, 2012 Fig. 1. (a) MALI index...oxfordjournals.org/ at Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Library on October 1, 2012 FeOt Lyngdal JOURNAL...oxfordjournals.org/ at Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Library on October 1, 2012 Fig. 2. Simplified
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...(c) = currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos...asbestos, apatite, dolomite, erythrite, ilmenite, magnetite, talc Briar Fork—near Schuyler (excavation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 CORNELIS KLEIN, JR. Department...zone of central Massachusetts and adjacent New Hampshire indicated that for a particular metamorphic...amphiboles so far examined from Massachusetts and New Hampshire except the most aluminous gedrites, and the...sillimanite zones of the Orange area, Massachusetts a n d New H a m p s h i r e (RobinsoN, 1963) a n d have * Publication...andesine, orthoclase, sfllimanite, biotite, garnet, ilmenite, graphite, and pyrrhotite. The three-amphibole
 
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