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Steatite from
Plymouth, Windsor County, Vermont, USA


Classification
Species:Talc var: Steatite
Formula:Mg3(Si4O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Steatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Plymouth, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:236737
Long-form Identifier:1:3:236737:8
GUID (UUID V4):b9b24986-e6a3-42ec-b150-44fbe6ce5d7f
Nearest other occurrences of Steatite
24.6km (15.3 miles) Pine Hill Quarry, Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
50.4km (31.3 miles) Thetford, Orange County, Vermont, USA
51.5km (32.0 miles) Bemis soapstone quarry, Townshend, Windham County, Vermont, USA
53.7km (33.3 miles) Westminster, Windham County, Vermont, USA
81.7km (50.8 miles) Moretown, Washington County, Vermont, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRAND, ISLE: L Jirrwowwux/ lot* llMt UK* U'A VERMONT Mineral Locality Index VANDALL T. K I N G P.O....Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions map; adapted from U.S. Geological...of New Hampshire and Vermont (1972). 324 ROCKS & MINERALS he state of Vermont is relatively small,...manufacture of nails and simple iron objects. Talc and steatite were mined for use in such things as hot plates...quar­ ry in the world is in Rochester (Windsor Co.), Vermont. Min­ eral products mined "as is" for their
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Catalog/List
pearl 113. L. 116. L. do. Double led 118. L. Vermont. 119 L. transposee, H. in yellowish acute...IVzibram, Hohomia. I L 124. L. Midllebiiry, Vermont. Munroe, New-York. Coarse, granular limestone...131. L. Var. Marble. do. 132. L. Middlebury, Vermont. 133. L. do. Var. Satin spar. Rhode do. Var...Var. Marble. Island. do. 134. L. Oxford, Vermont. do. 136. L. Italy. do. 136. L. do. do. 137...West Haven, Connecticut. 164. L. Middlebury, Vermont. 165. L. Mount Vesuvius. 168. L. New-York.
Report (issue)
shape.......................... 5 Distribution of steatite and grit ..•.••• : • • . 5 Structural details...Locality 124........................... 28 The Vermont Talc Co. , quarry, locality 126...................... , 32-33 ILLUSTRATIONS Plate 1. --Map of Vermont showing locations of ultramafic rocks .••..•..••••...cover Figure 1.--Idealized sketch map of a typical steatite-grit-serpentinite body .........................INVESTIGATIONS IN VERMONT PRELIMINARY REPORT ABSTRACT Commercial talc deposits in Vermont are derived from
Report (issue)
..........................................106 Vermont .................................................Figures 1. Sketch cross-sections of typical "Vermont type" talc deposits, based on Waterbury and Barnes...micas, serpentine, and carbonates. Soapstone and steatite are other common names for talcbearing rocks....Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. Districts in California include...quarried for dimension stone. Talc deposits in Vermont are mostly located in a north-trending belt of
Book
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 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...24--25 Dukes County Mineral Loeal1tiea •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 26--21 Duk •• County Fo.sil Loeal1tie...Local1t1es •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 29--3? Bs.ex County Fo ••1l Localit1e ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Report (volume)
furthermore, neither usage is entirely consistent. "Steatite," as a geologic term, denotes a rock composed...It varies widely in mineral composition, from steatite (in the geologic sense of the term) to talcose..."block talc," both industrial types of massive steatite. Most commercial talc deposits are associated...mineral talc is of importance only in industrial steatite and in tales for a few other ceramic uses. Though...fabricators often require a small percentage of CaO in steatite, and tremolitic talc is in demand for some paints
Book
of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...and 87 under DENCE, and 91 under SMITHFIELD, for Steatite read line 11 from the top, for (Webster.) read...Quartz, red and yellow, beautifully crystallized. Steatite. (N. G,) FRANCONIA, (Grafton Co.) Epidote, in...loSteatite, in large quantities. (C.) calities of steatite in the United States, situated 2 m. N. from the...river. Garnet, in the vicinity of the locality of steatite, in mica slate (Hall.) Granular Limestone, in
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIST ON THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES AND GEOLOGY OF VERMONT 1929-1930 SEVENTEENTH OF THIS SERIES GEORGE H...H. PERKINS State Geologist STAFF OF THE VERMONT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1929-1930 GEORGE H. PEinuNs, State...University of Vermont. ELBRIDGE C. JACOBS, Assistant CONTENTS Geologist, University of Vermont. CHARLES...PHYSIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT, G. H. PERKINS ..................... THE aEOLOGY OF VERMONT OCHER DEPOSITS,...107 MOUNT MONADNOCK III VERMONT, J. E. Worr ................... LIST OF VERMONT MINERALS, G. H. PERKINS
Book (edition)
State, Treasurer, and Adjutant General Two ; Plymouth; and the remaining such manner as the Legislature...Sandstone, do Argillaceous Slate and Graywacke, do Steatite, Serpentine and Limestone, do duartz Rock, Talcose...and New Red Sandstone, 31 - - . Serpentine, Steatite or Soapstone, 25 29 - - . - • - - • ...diluvium, Peculiarities in the Diluvium of Berkshire County, Second Proof (diluvial grooves,) of a southerly...been greatly aided by the geological map of that county, published a few years since by Professor Dewey
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIST ON THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUS1RIE OF VERMONT 1945-1946 I TWENTY-FIFTH OF THIS SERIES Centennial...GEOLOGIST ON THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT 1945-1946 I TWENTY-FIFTH OF THIS SERIES Centennial...MON, The Vermont Geological Survey: 1844-1946 .......................I STATE OF VERMONT State Geologists...epartnient of Natural Resources, Mont pelier, Vermont, Zadock Thompson ...............................important technical study of the granites of Derby. Vermont. The mineral industries of the state reached new
Report (volume)
Deposits of the Upper Missisquoi Valley and Vicinity, Vermont GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1122-B Bedrock...Deposits of the Upper Missisquoi Valley and Vicinity, Vermont By W. M. CADY, A. L. ALBEE, and A. H. CHIDESTER...Carbonate rock._____________-_-_______-_----__--__ 43 Steatite ________-_____----___-__-_-_-_-___________ 44...sections of the upper Missisquoi Valley and vicinity, Vermont-______ ______ __________In pocket FiGtJEE 1. Index...location of the upper Missisquoi Valley and vicinity, Vermont-.______________________________ B 3 2. Diagrammatic
Report (issue)
of State Geologist ON THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF VERMONT 1399-1900 ,. /'j) REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST...GEOLOGIST ON THE Mineral Industries of Vermont. 1899-i900. GEORGE H. PERKINS, Ph. D., State Geologist...Geologist Professor of Geology, University of Vermont. BLRLINGTON FREE PRESS ASSOCITION, PU8LISI{ERS, PRINTERS...PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS. J900, STATE OF VERMONT. REPORT. OFFICE OF STATE GEOLOGIST. BURLINGTON, VT.,...His Excellency, Edward C. Sm i/li, Governor of Vermont. SIR :—In accordance with the provisions of Section
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hampshire is intimately connected with that of Vermont and Canada. The writer had fortunately been connected...shire map covers fully a third part of eastern Vermont and an important section of Canada, for which information...noted the existence of quartzite and limestone in Plymouth upon the east side of the range, he queries whether...fan-shaped stratification. After taking charge of the Vermont survey, my father commissioned me to measure and...Logan referred the chief part of Canadaadjoining Vermont to the Oneida conglomerate. After 186o he devised
Book
REPORT OF PROGRESS c^ TTTE GEOLOGY PHILADELPHIA COUNTY AND OF THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF MONTGOMERY AND By...regions : 1881. address Pleasantville, Venango county, Pa. Sutton VVall, to report on the coal and...and Fulton counties address Uniontown, Fayette county. Pa. W. G. Platt, geologist for Centre and Clearfield...all outcrops in the southern townships of Bucks county and new surveys were made along the Bound Brook...hornblendic and micaceous with included serpentine, steatite, talc schists gneisses, chrome iron beds, and
Report (issue)
36 REPORT OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST Brick Clays As pointed out by the writer,' there are in the...Deposits and Clay Industry of Vermont; 15th Rpt. Vt. State Geol. (1925-26). VERMONT 1935-1936 I TWENTIETH...GEOLOGIST ON THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES AND GEOLOGY OF VERMONT 193 5-1936 I TWENTIETH OF THIS SERIES I ELBRIDGE...JACOBS F.G.S.A. State Geologist RELIEF MAP OF VERMONT Vermont Mineral Industries The mineral industries...necessary to repeat them here. Marble Production Vermont continues to he the greatest producer of marble
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE OCCURRENCE OF ALGONKIAN ROCKS IN VERMONT AND THE EVIDENCE FOR THEIR SUB-DIVISION. Published with...comparison with the probable extent of these rocks in Vermont. Personal reconnaissance work has detected them...Chittenden. On the east the district is bounded by Plymouth Valley; on the west by Rutland Valley, an area...views advanced here. 396 ALGONKIAN ROCKS IN VERMONT. 397 square miles. This area has a maximum width...highest point to the north, 4241 feet. The Central Vermont Railroad finds the lowest pass in the southern
Report (issue)
Rocks and Adjacent Country Rocks in North-Central Vermont GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 345 Petrology...Rocks and Adjacent Country Rocks in North-Central Vermont By ALFRED H. CHIDESTER GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...rocks and adjacent country rocks in north-central Vermont. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961. vii...Petrology Vermont. 2. Talc Vermont. 3. Mines and mineral resources Vermont. 4. Geochemistry Vermont. 5. Rocks...Rocks, Igneous Vermont. I. Title. (Series) For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government
Report (issue)
Ultramafic Rocks of the Belvidere Mountain Area in Vermont GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1016 Petrology...Ultramafic Rocks of the Belvidere Mountain Area in Vermont By A. H. CHIDESTER, A. L. ALBEE, and W. GEOLOGICAL...alteration products-serpentinite, chrysotile asbestos, steatite, talc-carbonate rock, and carbonate-quartz-rock-and...ultramafic rocks of the Belvidere Mountain area in Vermont. (U.S. Geological Survey professional paper ; 1016)...16:1016 1. Chrysotile-Vermont-Belvidere Mountain region. 2. Petrology-Vermont-Belvidere Mountain region
Book
our thirst with waters that accumulate first in Vermont and New Hampshire. However, past droughts show...of the famous clock industries of Thomaston and Plymouth; and Portland’s brownstone provided the foundations...trending zone that stretches from West Haven into Vermont, suggesting a regional tectonic event. This California-type...utterly disproportioned to the size of that little county. . . . She can’t hold a tenth part of her weather...after the initial Thanksgiving celebration in Plymouth.2 Judging by the damages described, it was probably
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
prosecuted oftheLizard peninsula coast western the near steatite ofdepositsoftalc or was a hydratedmagsubstance...wrote to Borlase,soliciting on the clays of the county.5Above all, duringthisperiod, information thosesearchesin...NotteStreetor Nut Street,underthe name of 'Bevan and Plymouth, Cookworthy'.Herehe builta laboratory, experimented...experimented uponthematerials and other visitors to Plymouth. of his trade and entertainedscientific of and...theirporcelain were to be got in immense quantities, in the county of Cornwall.' His descriptionofthe propertiesofthe
Book
Rock-Roxbury Puddingstone Conglomerate Historical Rock-Plymouth Rock Explorer Rock-Dighton Rock Building & Monument...Sites Graphic Image Attribution Subject Indexes * Vermont Soil-Tunbridge Series Gem-Grossular Garnet Rocks-Marble...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
Book (volume)
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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book
but they may be traced southerly into Litchfield county, where they exist abundantly, and are sometimes...Black Mountain. Thislies ite. A in Dummerston, Vermont, and consists of gran- geologist standing in...part of Litchfield County and appears so decided in its characters in Bristol, Plymouth, and Canton. In...slate I would mention the eastern part of Halifax. Vermont, also New Fane and Belchertown, two miles north...northerly, so that it occupies the principal part of Vermont. Prof. Silliman in his " Tour between Hartford
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGY OP THE HYDE PARK QUADRANGLE, VERMONT Arden L. Albee April 1957 57-1 *U. -S. Geolpgidai;...Stratigraphy of northern Vermont .......... 106 Eastern Vermont sequence in northern Vermont . . 107 Western...Western Vermont sequence in northern Vermont . . 113 North*central Vermont sequence ......... Ill* Igneous...geology of northern Vermont ..... 120 Correlation between the eastern and western Vermont sequences .........«.,*.. Pocket 2u Geologic aap of north«rc Vermont and central Quebec ..»..*... 5* General view of
 
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