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Pyrrhotite from
Paxton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Paxton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:201789
Long-form Identifier:1:3:201789:1
GUID (UUID V4):b4d7dbf1-457f-4af1-b1aa-a693d2133fff
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
14.5km (9.0 miles) ā“˜Ballard Quarry, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
31.2km (19.4 miles) ā“˜PJ Keating Quarry (Lunenburg Quarry), Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) ā“˜Rollstone Hill Quarries, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
33.0km (20.5 miles) ā“˜Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
33.7km (21.0 miles) ā“˜Route 13 area, Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
38.1km (23.7 miles) ā“˜Aggregate Industries Quarry (Bayer-Mingolla Quarry; Trimount Quarry), Ashland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
40.0km (24.9 miles) ā“˜State Route 140 construction site, Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
49.8km (31.0 miles) ā“˜Durfee Hill Gold mine, Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
53.3km (33.1 miles) ā“˜Sheldonville Gold Mine (Wrentham Gold Mine), Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
53.8km (33.4 miles) ā“˜Grants Mills, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Geology of Massachusetts E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedharn Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Avalonian... Stratigraphy of the Nashoba Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Enigmatic Terrane G. Stratigraphy of the...Belt, Central Massachusetts H. Structural and Metamorphic History of Eastern Massachusetts I. Intrusive...Intrusive Rocks of Eastern Massachusetts J. Radiometric Ages of Rocks in Massachusetts L.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1366-E-J The Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor E. Stratigraphy
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON............................................ Worcester County, Mass.......................................member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 2 Present Address: Earth & Planetary Science Department...University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA * sslotz@berkeley.edu Abstract As the most abundant...Formations, Vermont, USA and the Waterville and Sangerville-Vassalboro Formations, Maine, USA. Plotting iron...ferruginous (anoxic) to euxinic (anoxic and sulfidic). Pyrrhotite formation in samples highlighted problems within...combined with a slight increase in the amount of pyrrhotite, drove the proxy toward more oxic and more euxinic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated with galena, minor chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and pyrite. Sulphide is present in disseminated...Formation (Fanning et al., 2007). The c.1720 Ma Paxton Granite is the only dated example of syn-Kimban...Orogeny plutonism in the central Gawler Craton. The Paxton Granite is dominantly a coarse-grained porphyritic...well as sulphides including sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. Assays revealed a best...sphalerite. Traces of ļ¬negrained chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and pyrite are also present. The coarse-grained
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occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...NoneĀ­ 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 . mineā€”Detroit Alpena County National G y p s u m...marcasite, pyrite, sphalerite, strontianite (r) Paxton quarryā€”Paxton calcite, chalcopyrite, dolomite, marcasite...marcasite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite Eaton County anhydrite, carnallite (r), celestite, dolomite, gypsum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reconnaissance study of the Iron Crown, Iron Hill, Lake, Paxton,and Prescottskarn deposits.All mineralcompositions...Average Igneous Rocks e Nockolds Iron Hill Āø Paxton [] Prescott o Iron e Merry (1954) 10. ...magnetite:(1) pyrite-cobaltitearsenopyrite-chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite-gold and (2) pyrite-magnetite-hematite-marcasite...youngersericitizedporphyriticphasewhich, near the Paxton deposit, containsthin epidote-molybdenite veinswith...six deposits studied (Iron Crown, Merry Widow, Paxton, and Prescott).However,at eachdepositthe styleof
Book
MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~Ā·Ā· . \. 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)
route 743 you had better have an aquatic vehicle. Paxton Creek in Wildwood Park near Harrisburg Area Community...ra each went on new rampages. Within the city, Paxton Creek again did its dirty work along Cameron Street...Survey watched our former 1972 quarters again hit by Paxton Creek flooding, we had the satisfaction of having...discovery was made in Vernon Townsh ip, Crawford County, where the No. 1-A Dwight L. Moody well had an...well in Pennsylvania was drilled in 1975 in Beaver County, on the Metropolitan Industries property. The well
Journal (issue)
....................... A GEOLOGICAL PARK IN WORCESTER, MASS. By Harry C. Parker ......................on indefinitely, both collecting in St. Lawrence County and writing about it. Let it suffice that we obtained...specimens with those collected in St. Lawrence County years ago. (.And I, for one, didn't do so badly...to Hematite, Fe,0,. From Virgin Valley, Humboldt County, Nevada comes an opal which "when first mined is... 196 ROCKS AND MINERALS A GEOLOGICAL PARK IN WORCESTER, MASS. By HARRY C. PARKER A permanent outdoor
Report (issue)
so-called Pennsylvanian basins of southeastern Massachusetts. Three papers deal with the geology of alkali...alkali plutonic-volcanic areas in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. High-grade and low-grade (prehnite-pumpellyite)...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the papers...papers. The remaining papers are on nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits of southeastern Maine, gravity studies...and the geology of the Ayer Granodiorite of Massachusetts. JOHN R,. GRIFELN STUDIES IN NEW ENGLAND
Report (issue)
fluoborite occurrence Crystal Lake (Silver Crater) Mine Paxton Mine Davis Lake corundum occurrence Minden-Norland...the opening of several properties in Haliburton County but there was no commercial production during this...Bancroft 1955-58 Dungannon and Mayo Townships, County of Hastings, Ontario (O.G.S., 1 inch to Yz mile)...F/4 Bancroft 1955-8 Dungannon and Mayo Townships, County of Hastings, Ontario (O.G .S., 1 inch to Yz mile)...F/4 Bancroft 1955-8 Dungannon and Mayo Townships, County of Hastings, Ontario (O.G.S ., 1 inch to Y2 mile)
Report (issue)
Bedrock Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr...ZONE 12 ROCKS IN THE NASHUA RIVER AREA 15 WORCESTER FORMATION 18 Nomenclature, Historical Background...Retrograde alteration of andalusite schists -io Worcester Formation 97 Staurolite-Kyanite/Andalusite (Actinolite)...SYNTHESIS 102 ENVIRONMENT OF DEPOSITION 108 Worcester Formation 108 Merrimack and Oakdale Formations...Geologic history 124 LIST OF PLATES Plate 1. Worcester Formation 21 Plate 2. Minor structural features
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:...............................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.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Book (volume)
furnished by the owners. III. B essemer Mines, Hastings county,, Ontario-. Analysis representative of 28,000 tons...the ore. IV. Torbrook Leckie 11:ine, Annapolis county, Nova Scotia. A general average analysis of the...III. Londonderry, Cumberla,n d brook, Colchester county, Nov,1, Scotia. Side rite, or carĀ·bonate of i1~on...Accesso1-y constituents are siderite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, crystalline limestone, epidote, garnet, etc...of fluxes is consequently to l1a,nd. Annapolis County .-rr11e chief iron ore deposits are situated in
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................................................................... 115 Pyrrhotite ...............................................11 THE GEOLOGY OF EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION. The country
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and vaesite NiS219 and nonstoichiometric nickelāˆ’pyrrhotite Ni1āˆ’xS with a NiAs-structure and two intermediate...ƅāˆ’1; electronic smearing āˆ’ with the Methfesselāˆ’Paxton scheme;37 parameter Ļƒ = 0.2 eV. The most promising...Phys. Rev. B 1976, 13, 5188. (37) Methfessel, M.; Paxton, A. T. High-precision sampling for Brillouin-zone
Book
....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...magnetite millerite muscovite pentlandite pyrite pyrrhotite talc Table3: Mineralsfound in S erpentinites...outcrops in the SWĀ¼ section 27, T44N, R31W, Iron County, about 1.6 kilometers west of Lake Ellen, and about
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
et al., 2007) and also the recently recognized Paxton Suite granites in the Tarcoola area (Budd and Fraser...Tarcoola Formation clastic sedimentary rocks and Paxton Suite granites (Budd and Fraser, 2004). Gold occurs...which plagioclase is progressively sericitized. Paxton Suite granites yield U-Pb zircon 1513 FRASER...magnetite, ms = muscovite, ol = olivine, po = pyrrhotite, prh = prehnite, py = pyrite, qtz = quartz, rut...(pseudomorphous after olivine) intergrown with semimassive pyrrhotite, recrystallized carbonate, and traces of graphite
Book
schists with interbedded lenses of magnetite and pyrrhotite that outcrops at intervals for a distance of...deposits contain so much sulphur in the form of pyrrhotite and pyrite that their value as iron ores is very...near Gooderham, in Haliburton county;at the Orton mine in Hastings county; and at the Matthews and Chaffey...Normandale, in Norfolk county. More recently, a small quantity from Oxford county was smelted in the Hamilton...the Bristol mine in Pontiac county, and the Forsyth mine in Ottawa county. The ore in both these mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with either loĢˆllingite (FeAs) + arsenopyrite or pyrrhotite, which belong with the amphibolite facies silicate...(particularly close to secondary loĢˆllingite), pyrrhotite and in the coexisting amphibolite facies silicate...+ hornblende Ā± diopside + quartz Ā± titanite + pyrrhotite (with subordinate chalcopyrite) Ā± arsenopyrite...Arsenopyrite with loĢˆllingite inclusions is rimmed by pyrrhotite (Pedersen and Petersen, 1998) and mineralised...coincident with: arsenopyrite Ā± loĢˆllingite ā‡” pyrrhotite + loĢˆllingite. Phase relationships determined
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...Shride Pre-Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Massachusetts .Kenneth G. Bell and Donald C. Alvord Stratigraphic...Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel, east-central Massachusetts .James W. Skehan. S.J.. and A. Adel Abu-moustafa...stratigraphy in the Brimfield area, Connecticut and Massachusetts .John D. Peper and M. H. Pease, Jr. Pre-Silurian
Report (volume)
Boletfn de Minas, nos. 2, 8. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no....Geological Survey: Supplementary Report, Harlan County. Frankfort, Ky. Lake Superior Mining Institute:...Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Braxton-Clay. Morgantown, W. 'Va. Wyoming...357-401, 64 figs., November 20, 1916... 41. The Boyd County mastodon, Tetrabelodon-osborni: Nebraska Geol....district of the Great Falls coal field, Cascade County, Montana (abstract by R. W. S.) : Washington Acad
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterized by the development of disseminated pyrrhotite in the sedimentary rocks within the high strain...and replacement zones of silica-rich, Aurich, pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite-(sphalerite-galena) native Au-e...chlorite-(muscovite)-rich, Agrich, sphalerite-galena-pyrrhotite-pyrite-(chalcopyrite) assemblages. Stages 3,...Stage 4 quartz-(sphalerite-galena)chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite-Au veining; SDCR (seamy and domainal chlorite...replacive chloritemuscovite-sphalerite-galenapyrite-pyrrhotite-Ag. PEAK Au MINE, NSW ISOTOPIC DATING Downloaded
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Selenium Sulfur Sulfides andselenides Galena Pyrrhotite 19 20 20 23 30 30 30 Realgar Herzenbergite...31 30. Scanning-electron photomicrograph of pyrrhotite from Burnside 32 31. Scanning-electron photomicrograph...identified include selenium, sulfur, galena, pyrrhotite realgar, herzenbergite, orpiment, bismuthinite...PA 17120. ^R. E. Wright Associates, Inc., 3805 Paxton Street, Harrisburg, PA 17111 U. S. Geological Survey...Pennsylvania, which extends from Susquehanna County to northern Dauphin County (Figure 1). At one of the localities
 
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