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Biotite from
Harris Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Harris Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:172334
Long-form Identifier:1:3:172334:2
GUID (UUID V4):1d647de4-93fb-4b8a-aaf5-5435debc0090
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
0.5km (0.3 miles) McCarthy Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
14.1km (8.8 miles) Oak Hill Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
15.1km (9.4 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
18.7km (11.6 miles) Pine Hill, Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
20.0km (12.4 miles) Route 62 locality (Potash Hill), Hudson, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) Indian Head Hill, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) PJ Keating Quarry (Lunenburg Quarry), Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
23.1km (14.3 miles) I-93/Dascomb Rd. area, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
23.1km (14.4 miles) Marlborough Junction locality, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
23.6km (14.7 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little...body of marble could be obtained in an open-cut quarry, but ultimately the rock would have to be mined... SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS. By T. NELSON DALE. INTRODUCTION. The granites..."granites" here described, as well as the others of Massachusetts described in Bulletin 354, are commercially...crushed stone have been excluded, but the felsite quarry of Revere has been included, although it is not
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
Report (volume)
147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico...structures in the San Mateo Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub. 5...Mountains, 10. sees. 33-35, T. 4 S., R. 6 W., Socorro County, N.Mex. Anapra Sandstone 1. Early Cretaceous 2...6. 7. 9. 10. at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dofta Ana County, New Mexico, Appendix 2 in Lovejoy, E. M. P., Geology
Report (volume)
Gardner, Lexington. Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Book
Department of Geology Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 02215 to; PREFACE In 1966, John Rodgers...Davis in the Connecticut Valley of western Massachusetts, and gradually extended itself. oo over New...Brown University The Foxboro Co., Foxborough, Massachusetts Geography, University of Toronto U. S. G, S...Boston State College Botany, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Marine Sciences, Virginia Institute...Marine Sciences University of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts Geology, University of California, Los Angeles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Red Mountain range near Silverton, San Juan County, Colo., there is marmatite. It is a high-iron sphalerite...dark red almandite gainet xls in lustrous black biotite schist has been received from Tupper Jones (Jones...Rock Shop), Elk River, Idaho. "This garnet in biotite schist was found in a road cut on the little North...masses that the garnet alone weighed 8 lbs. This biotite is the blackest I've ever seen—this area is some...Illinois to Buffalo State Park in central LaSalle County, 111. We found many sam115 pies of the fish-tail
Report (issue)
.......................................105 Massachusetts ..............................................Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. Districts in California...of the recorded production. Talc deposits in Massachusetts are mostly located in a north-trending belt...metasedimentary rocks continuous with that in Massachusetts; some are in Middle Proterozoic gneiss. They...talc has tri-octahedral structure, analogous to biotite. These composite sheets are linked only by van
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:...............................Gardner, Lexington. Louisiana____Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. F. V. Emerson, Baton Rouge. Maine______...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Book (edition)
OF SOURCES OF AGGREGATE sources are given under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales...Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within each county the crushed rock quarries, gravel pits and slagworks...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...early Devonian age is worked for roadstone. One quarry each in Cornwall and Devon work the Hercynian granite...granite for roadstone. In Anglesey one quarry works syenitic gneiss. HORNFELS TRADE GROUP This group
Report (volume)
___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
441 Alijd-Sw![ins, northern Portugal, granite, biotite, 453 Alkali feldspar solvus, 59 Allanite, New South...Ardnamurchan Centre 111 Complex, clinopyroxene, biotite, 335 Arfvedsonite, Skye, anal., opt., 89i ASARI...ATKtN (D.), see LIVINGSTONE(A.), 441 Auchinstarry quarry, Kilsyth, Scotland, julgoldite, 76I Avondale, Auckland...meteorite and its relationship tc the urcilites, 721 Biotite, Greenland, anal., 737; Ardnamurchan, anal., opt...Z-phase of Assarsson, 325 INDEX Cape Ann, Massachusetts, granite, riebeckite, 473 Capo Pula, Sardinia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
............... Correlation between amount of biotite and minor element content of granites............vanadium-chromium was marked only in the granites. (4) Biotite, where present in a granite, contained the bulk...muscovite, and biotite. All white micas were included under muscovite, and black micas under biotite. No attempt...minerals. For example, zirconium may be present in biotite as small zircon crystal inclusions, and other minor...kind and proportions of minor elements in the biotite are characteristic for that mineral. To obtain
Book
MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust
Report (volume)
......... 21 Harris bed at Lime Rock ................................. 22 Dexter quarry................inclosed Cambrian schists at the Saylesville granite quarry .........:......................... 31 Contact...crystal from the Harris bed at Lime Rock.................... Calcite crystal from the Harris bed at Lime Rock..... Calcite crystal of the square type from the Harris bed at Lime Rock.. Map showing distribution of...towns of Sutton, Northbridge, and Douglas, in Massachusetts, and extends southward across western Rhode
Book (edition)
2005 in the UK, expressed as sales on an ex-works (quarry) basis as opposed to gross valued added, was £30...However, the value of mineral production on an ex-quarry basis does not truly reflect the ultimate value...national economy. The difference between the ex-quarry price and the delivered ptice of a tnineral can...goven1n1ent (counties and districts), MPAs are the county councils and National Park Authorities. In Scotland...Belfast, although du·ectory entries are shown by county to give an indication of geographical variations
Book (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND MUSEUM, Harmondsworth, Middlesex. September, 1960. Exhibition Road, South Kensington...SOURCES OF AGG R EGA TE THE sources are given under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales...Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within each county the crushed rock quarries, gravel pits and slagworks...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...early Devonian age is worked for roadstone. One quarry each in Cornwall and Devon work the Hercynian granite
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
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
Book (volume)
publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...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...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum
Report (issue)
Geology and Geophysics Boston College Weston, Massachusetts 02167 Geoffrey W. Smith Department of Geological...portion of the Boston Bay Group at Nantasket, Massachusetts. Brunton compass is for scale and also points...Mattapan Volcanic Complex, greater Boston, Massachusetts . 85 Margaret D. Thompson and O. Don Hermes...valon Boston terrane, Massachusetts . 133 A valon zones, eastern Massachusetts Martin E. Ross iii ...suggests that the mid(?)- to late Proterozoic Middlesex Fells Volcanics consist of alkalic to transitional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...Sanitarium and the Oconee River: andalusite, biotite, corundum, muscovite, quartz (Hurst, 1956c). Wood pit—east...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8
Report (issue)
north-northeast trending boundary of the terrane in Massachusetts (Bloody Bluff fault) and Rhode Island and eastern...quartzites contain small amounts of mica, mostly biotite, and feldspar. Some contain Ca-bearing minerals...Valley by its gray color and its greater amount of biotite and anorthite content (figs. 9, 10), although some...quartzite of the Plainfield, contains almost no biotite, and the plagioclase is albite in contrast to the...Anorthit* 0 1O 80 80 Microcline TO 010 10 Biotite 0 10 .(nebtckitcl Hornblende Pyroxene Iron Oxide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...iron-rich minerals, such as black tourmaline, biotite, pyrite, magnetite, triplite, and triphyllite....Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...8 cm long), Blue Lady mine, Aquanga, San Diego County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil
Report (volume)
H33 6. Formation names in the Worcester area, Massachusetts, by Richard Goldsmith, Edward S. Grew, 3. Christopher........H43 7. Stratigraphic names in eastern Massachusetts and adjacent States, by Richard Goldsmith, David...Section of south wall of Lynn Griffin mine //I, Henry County, Ala., type locality of Baker Hill Format ion....H28 9. Core-hole section at Highland Park, Henry County, Ala., lithologies of the farthest downdip part...the east flank of the Merrimack synclinorium, Massachusetts and New Hamp shire.................... ....
 
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