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Schorl from
Paxton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Paxton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:201788
Long-form Identifier:1:3:201788:4
GUID (UUID V4):9737cbd8-22fb-4b62-8aee-4548de49552f
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
6.2km (3.9 miles) Tatnuck Hill quarry, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
8.8km (5.4 miles) Quabbin Aqueduct Shaft #4 locality, Holden, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
24.8km (15.4 miles) Long Hill, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) Monoosnoc Hill, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
28.4km (17.6 miles) Interstate 290/Interstate 495 interchange road cuts, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
29.7km (18.4 miles) Pine Hill, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) Rollstone Hill Quarries, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
40.7km (25.3 miles) West Thompson Dam, West Thompson, Thompson, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
45.8km (28.5 miles) Reynolds Mine (Beryl Hill Mine), Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
47.9km (29.8 miles) Orange mica mine, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...None­ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful...micromounting PENINSULA Wayne County International Salt C o . mine—Detroit Alpena County National G y p s u m...marcasite, pyrite, sphalerite, strontianite (r) Paxton quarry—Paxton calcite, chalcopyrite, dolomite, marcasite...marcasite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite Eaton County anhydrite, carnallite (r), celestite, dolomite, gypsum
Book
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...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...Bath. MAINE. BOWDOIN. Schorl, common, very abundant. (C.) BOWDOINHAM. Schorl, very large, perfect,...in beds. Mica, sometimes very beautiful green, Schorl, black, masses sometimes contain fragments of quartz
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Dinosaur-Astrodon johnstoni Gem-Patuxent River Stone * Massachusetts Gem-Rhodonite Fossil-Dinosaur Track Mineral-Babingtonite...Rock-Dighton Rock Building & Monument Stone-Granite Soil-Paxton Series Glacial Rock-Rolling Rock 65 66 66 68...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional...white Sylacauga marble from Sylacauga, Talladega County, is considered among the finest white marble in
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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
Journal (issue)
exist as crystals. Calcian Duftite from Beaverhead County, Montana Larry B. French 21 N. Winchester Miles...and Mineral Deposit (except fuel s) Beaverhead County, Montana: Mo ntana Bureau of Mines and Geology...News, P .O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene , ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineralnews.com...the famous blue corundum locality in Riverside County, CA. The crystals are very long, tapering at both...from Ouro Preto: large, pitch bl ack and shiny schorl crystals from Galileia City, Minas Gera is; s ing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bingera, New South Wales. The black tourmaline or schorl rock is dull and fibrous and in part velvety, and...BERNARD J. HARRINGTON (Canadian magnetite of the ‘‘ Paxton Iron Mine,” Lutterworth township, Ontario, is associated
Book (edition)
CongresS; J / in the year 1834, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth in the Clerk's Office of the ...Secretary of the of said i ; District of Massachusetts. by Edward D. Bangs, in the name and District...Excellency, John davis, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts. I HAVE the honor to present you with the second...the 3d of March , 1830, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a Resolve, authorizing and requesting...to the Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to
Report (volume)
FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON G 0 V...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf...v Hardwick saxonite, serpentine, steatite, and Paxton quart/ emery, and magnetite. schist. Rowe schist...Chesterfield." C. Dewey : Geol. and Min. of part of Massachusetts; Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. VIIT, p. 43
Catalog/List
Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington...York or Connecticut or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the arbitration shall take place in New York...Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington DC and Washington...CALIFORNIA PINK TOURMALINE PENDANT Queen Mine, San Diego County, California Carved in the form of a stylized bird...CALIFORNIA PINK TOURMALINE Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California A stone of such strong saturation from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
comparison among the lithotypes (Dill et al. 2014; Paxton et al., 2016). Both element sets in Fig. 10 were...minerals accumulated together with tourmaline (schorl-dravite s.s.s) due to their very strong resistance...contact aureole of a dioritic complex in Alaska, USA. With some exceptions, the mole fraction of spessartine...Deposits: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology. Macmillan, USA, 717 pp. Frost B. R., Frost C. D. 2013. Essentials...Member of the Dennis Limestone, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, USA. Chemical Geology 99, 65-85. Hecht, L.,Freiberger
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....243 APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248 ABOUT THE AUTHORS...Marquette County include the Presque Isle body, the Yellow Dog body in the northern part of the county, and...Ishpeming. Several bodies also occur in Dickinson County near the mouth of the Sturgeon River. A distinctive...outcrops in the SW¼ section 27, T44N, R31W, Iron County, about 1.6 kilometers west of Lake Ellen, and about...Falls in Iron County and 16 MINERALOGY OF MICHIGAN Hermansville in Menominee County. Some of these
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON... 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103 Albite...-CONTENTS. Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County Continued. Page. Opal............................11 THE GEOLOGY OF EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION. The country...sheet, of the topographical map of the State of Massachusetts. On the east it adjoins the territory discussed
Corporate Document (Series)
occur in pyritic mudstone north of Kingston Beach (Paxton, 1968), but requires confirmation. Alum-(Na) NaAl(S04)2...occur in pyritic mudstone north of Kingston Beach (Paxton, 1968), but requires confirmation. Aluminite AhS04(0H)4...prismatic crystals. It occurs as overgrowths on schorl at Mt Bischoff (Wright and Kwak, 1988). The tourmalines...they are apparently all iron rich and are mostly schorl, but include ferroan dravite, foitite and olenite...the Savage River mine. This tourmaline resembles schorl in colour, but EMPAindicates it is ferroan and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lithological types (Fig. 6a, b) (Dill et al. 2014; Paxton et al., 2016). The major elements of the lithological...reported by Bakke et al. (1998) from Fort Knox, Alaska-USA. The main minerals in question are native bismuth...review. European Journal of Mineralogy 3, 707-730. Paxton, S.T., Aufill, M., Kamann, P., Krstyniak, A., 2016...with spessartine-enriched garnet mega crystals and schorl crystals aligned parallel to the contact of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
withdrawn are :C. N. Ellis, Anselm Odling, Dr. F. V. Paxton, E d w a r d Rea, W. V. Russell. During the past...British Association, a t Cheltenham, in hiB native county, amidst numerous friends, who cauaed a medal t...unter Mitwirkung des Verfassers, bearbeitet von C. Schorl emmer :” from Professor Roscoe. ‘ 6 Festschrift
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number 1, pages 1–30...arrived at Chatsworth. At 4:30 in the morning Joseph Paxton, then 23 years old, arrived at the House, having...by the leaf structure of a huge water-lily which Paxton had been the first to encourage to flower in England...Petrifaction the Entrochal [crinoidal] “Marble of this County is formed” (Watson, 1811). Watson’s description
Journal (volume)
Rolker, E.M., Some Copper Deposits of Carroll County, Maryland. By Prof. Persifor . Frazer, Notes on...Properties of Chateaugay Magnetite, from Clinton County, N. Y., and its By Treatment in the Blast Furnace... P. Sandberg, C.E., The Whopper Lode, Gunnison County, Colorado. By Prof. Persifor Frazer, The Chemical...School for Miners and Mechanics, at Drifton, Luzerne County, Bottom J. Heinrich, Manganese required of ...of Lustrous Coal with Native Silver in a Ouray County, Colorado. Stockder, E.M., in The Condition Drown
Book (edition)
File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Sun,. \ler111011t, I . 484. (TL} Derby. Vermont. USA. G. Brush ( 1 862) Amer. J. Sci. 34. 2 1 6. classed...muscovite and albite. (TL) Goshen. Massachusells. USA. Named from cxy1..cxoC · shining' . from its silvery
Book
termi­ nated. Kunz, 1902, p. 58. Tourmaline, var. Schorl Black “velvet” tourmaline from Santa Cruz, Sonora...Congress guidebook for excursion A-2. Hewitt, William Paxton, 1943, Geology and mineralization of the San Antonio...equivalent to a county in the United States municipio (mun.) —the equivalent of a county in the United...saponite sartorite sauconite (?) scapolite scheelite schorl (see tourmaline) scorodite selenite (see gypsum)...var. green bicolor dravite indicolite rubellite schorl watermelon tremolite tridymite triolite (see pyrrhotite)
Report (volume)
of the northern Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts 23S By Jeffrey D. Phillips Buried structures...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase...geophysical study of the northern Hartford basin, Massachusetts, and (6) a comparison of new aeromagnetic imagery...and northern Hartford basins and vicinity, Massachusetts, are presented as gray-tone images by Phillips...Geography, Contribution No. 32, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 129 p. Lyttle, P.T., and Epstein,
Report (issue)
Review, Chicago, Illinois. Economist, Boston, Massachusetts. Daily Report, San Francisco, California. Daily...Daily Grass Valley Union, Nevada County, California. Daily Evening Gazette, Reno, Nevada. 8. Sierra...Standard, Eureka, Humboldt County, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 10. 11. 12. County Tribune, California. California...California. Inyo Independent, Inyo County, California. Arizona Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona Territory. Ventura...responses were received. The plan drawn by Sir Joseph Paxton was accepted, which proposed a building wholly
Report (edition)
identified onshore within the Huntingdon and Great Paxton boreholes and within offshore well 47 /29A- l located...Deeper-water slope facies are preserved within the Great Paxton Borehole. They include a locally overturned sequence...30 • 40 Percentage(%) quartzite+ vein quartz+ schorl Figure53 Bi-plotshowing the compositionof gravels...assumed to be of this age in East Yorkshire and County Durham. Additionally, it has been argued that the...Barnham • HighLodge-__,,... Ill•◄· BeechesPit Little Paxton Pakefield SwaffhamPrior • '-Ram part Fields •
Journal (volume)
work by the Historic Environment Service, Cornwall County Council 165 Recent work in Cornwall by Exeter...lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Cornwall County Council Licence No 100019590, 2005.) 4 © 2006...lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Cornwall County Council Licence No 100019590, 2005.) islands would...lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Cornwall County Council Licence No 100019590, 2005.) interior...now the Historic Environment Service, Cornwall County Council), produced a project design for evaluation
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most notable locality at Stony Point Alexander County, North Carolina, but the supply at this place...the residue. at Cowee Creek lina, where Macon County, North Caro- in fine crystals appear in dunite...of amethyst on record have been found in Oxford County, Maine. Other localities are Delaware and Chester...Chester Counties, Pennsylvania, and Haywood County, North Carolina. tallised been found at Thunder of...gravels of Cowee Creek and Mason's Branch, Macon County, North Carolina; sometimes it occurs along with
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Mineralogical Record, Inc., P.O. Box 35565, Tucson, AZ 85750 USA. Copies may be purchased, while supply lasts, at...Nottingham when my good school friend George Wesley Paxton showed me some cleavages of galena and calcite...over many years. I dedicate it to George Wesley Paxton (whom I have never heard of since leaving school)...material. B) 1804 This substance next to the red schorl [elbaite from Shaitanskknown as 'sibirite'] and...to continue much beyond the 1820's. Perhaps the county could not support the interest on the basis of
 
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