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Prehnite from
Northampton Quarry, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Prehnite
Formula:Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prehnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Northampton Quarry, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:241300
Long-form Identifier:1:3:241300:6
GUID (UUID V4):b823544a-c66c-414f-86d1-746d054438d4
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Report (volume)
MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...iuclosures........................................ 2. Prehnite; cross-section of twins.........................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...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A CATALOGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS GEMSTONES HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 8y RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany, N. Y....Mass~chusetts are ID<:ated within t~e bound.anes of Hampshire County, situated in ~e western half of the. state...all of the recorded gemstone 10Ga;htles of the county from the very earliest recorded ones to the . ...o~fully accurate form. Not being a nat.lve of the county or even the state the wr.ter is at a disadvantage...---------.--..-...-.. hue in basalt exposure. Northampton, Mt. Tom -------------------..- Nodules of various
Report (issue)
4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses... Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC ...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
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Pacific R. R. "One of the largest producers in the county, it has yielded over 2 million dollars worth of...years ago, at the small abandoned Pelton feldspar quarry near Portland, Middlesex Co., Conn. The xls were...did not know, it is located near Clinton, Kent County, Delaware, about 40 miles south of Wilmington and...specimens. GEORGIA—Chromite has been found in Towns County at Hog Creek near Hiawassee, Ga., as minute black...Idaho. ILLINOIS — In southern Illinois, in Pope County, is the little town of Rock and we have often wondered
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies Saugus, Massachusetts John Hanahan Jr. Chainnan, Science Division...Christian University Margaret A. McBrien Lynn, Massachusetts Fred Fortess Philadelphia College of Tex tiles...Huizing Cincinnati, Ohio Ben M. Shaub Northampton, Massachusetts Vandall T. King State University of... ~ COVER STORY: BIGGS JASPER from Jack Beer's Quarry in Biggs Junction, Oregon. This picture jasper...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfree• boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as specimens. Clarksville is in southern Johnson County in N / W Arkansas. COLORADO — "Recently we took...located one mile west of Wilbur Springs in S/W Colusa County in North California. The ore of the Manzanita Mine..." — from Henry G. Schef- 30 "Even though this quarry has been collected in for many years, with a little...garnet mine at Roxbury Falls, in Southern Litchfield County of western Connecticut. Mrs. Scheffer's crystal...schist. GEORGIA — At Maysville, in southern Banks County in N.E. Georgia, nice quartz xls occur, so we have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pennsylvania held a field trip to the Bethlehem Limestone Quarry (a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Co. ) at Bridgeport...fiery heat of the day to dig for minerals. The quarry covers 38 acres and is now 305 feet deep. The accompanying...Pennsylvania field trip to Bethlehem Limestone Quarry, Bridgeport, Pa., July 13, 1958. Photo by Harold...collecting time. H e Fred Hart, green garnet and prehnite; Bob reported the "Case Building Project" was...nephew John, magnetite and to Charles Belz at "Quarry Farm, Lansdale, chalcopyrite; Pauline Kintz, a
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but they may be traced southerly into Litchfield county, where they exist abundantly, and are sometimes...aspect; and it is by veins of felspar and Northampton and Belcher- also traced granite like the sienitic...any one pass from Hinsdale, Newthe Connecticut. Hampshire to Winchester and he will see numerous bowlders...north it spreads over a considerable part of New-Hampshire. The White hills though they have are said...range which occupies the eastern part of Litchfield County and appears so decided in its characters in Bristol
Report (volume)
Pseudostalactitic forms of prehnite and of quartz 88 9. Spearhead forms of prehnite, covering former scepter...alinement 10. Lamellar cavity in a flattened mass of prehnite 11. Rectangular ridges on the sides of some lamellar...the prismatic cavities in quartz from McDowell's quarry, Upper Montclair, N. J., and found that they showed...new blasting operations at McKiernan & Bergin's quarry, on McBride Avenue, Paterson, disclosed a number...that year, however, blasting at the West Paterson quarry revealed considerable anhydrite in the trap rock
Report (edition)
Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County...County Monroe County Northampton County Sullivan County York County 18 20 21 23 . 25 28 37 38 39 ...owners the rockhound, of the land, or from quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...pseudomorphs after pyrite found near Columbia in Lancaster County, described in this report. If the only description
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick...the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania; the upper...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County, Virginia; and copper mines in Guilford, Mecklenburg...Michigan, and the well-known Flanibeau mine, Rusk County, Wisconsin, massive sulfide deposit. Malachite
Report (volume)
Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Report (volume)
onshore and offshore early Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg...Maritime Maryland Massachusetts, Deerfield basin Massachusetts, Hartford basin Massachusetts, other Morocco
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...Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to the Boston Society
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
215, East Hampton, Conn. "I visited the Slocum quarry, (East Hampton) last week. Brownish-black crystals...common opal, a week ago yesterday. On a trip to the quarry again yesterday to obtain more of the diopside...appear in large seams in the deeper parts of the quarry so I can consider myself lucky to have been on...be dwindling in quantity and massiveness as the quarry is being enlarged and deepened although I have...Jade-green mass with reddish andradite (garnet). MASSACHUSETTS — J a m e s W. Burke, ISO Montague Road, North
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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...Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and Jacob (Hall.) (Webster.) Hampshire Gazetteer...Sulphuret of Iron, very abundant. (C.) NEW HAMPSHIRE. ALSTEAD. in quartz, abundant. usually in imperfect...Epidote. Hornblende, Talc. (JV*. G.) NEW HAMPSHIRE. 10 Graphite. Pyritous Copper. Red Oxide of
Report (edition)
of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...in Berks County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement Company quarry in York...York County, are now This fourth printing is essentially closed to collectors. D. M. L. A. R. G. 1972...Adams County 23 Allegheny County 31 . Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Clinton County Cumberland County Dauphin County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are interesting specimens. Centreville is in Bibb County, in the central part of Alabama. Near Odenville...community of about 1,200 in southeastern Pinal County which probably will become a ghost town when the...out and report later." The Strickland feldspar quarry (or mine) on Collins Hill, near Portland, is one...Strickland Quarry, Conn." pp. 131-144). Long idle, the announcement that the Strickland quarry is being...M found, I understand, by a rockhound and the quarry is holding off operations in that part of the pit
Journal (issue)
p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...Pennsylvania Ralph G. Wells 112 The New Enterprise Quarry of Roaring Spring Edward G. Carper Jr. 11 S A New...Kibblehouse Quarry F. A. Keidel 130 The "Cobaltite° Crystals from the K.Joblehouse Quarry J. Alexander...Native Copper and Piemontite Localities of Adams County Jay Lininger FEATURES THE EASTERN FEDERATION...5 miles west of Mt. Holly Springs in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Specimen collected by Martin Anne'
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
parked in the road leading to the quarry which stopped the quarry trucks from entering." —Noie dated...staurolites (Fairy Crosses) which come from Fannin County, Georgia. There were 25 xls in the packet—all loose...KANSAS—Aragonite, as small xls in MASSACHUSETTS — A deep black vugs, is found in the Ross quarry near striated magnetite...In the window of the office I noticed some Pugh quarry (Ohio) calcite and mentioned it to the owner. He...have been found in Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. NEW HAMPSHIRE—Nancy Swanson, 153 Watchung Ave., West Orange
Report (edition)
.... . .. . Adams County .... . .. ... ............... . . ... . Allegheny County .... . ...... . ............ . Armstrong County . . . . . . .. . .... ........ .. . .. . Berks County ..... . ..... ......... ...... . Blair County . . .. . ... ... . . .. . .... ........... . Carbon County ..... ..... .............. . Cl1ester County .... . . . .... ... ........... . .. . Cumberland County ...... . ..... . ....... . . Delaware County ... . .. .... . . . .... . . . .. . . . .. . Fulton County . ...... .. . . .
Report (edition)
........................................ 48 Northampton Inlier ................................................................................ 48 Northampton region ................................................................................ 69 Northampton Inlier ................................................................................ 70 Northampton Inlier ...................................................................... 211 Chapter 27 Prehnite 213 Occurrence and properties..............
Journal (issue)
MONTHLY 1940 Contents for July, 1940 CHlPS FROM THE QUARRY ................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MASSACHUSETTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....tbese hills reach across upper Bucks and lower Northampton counties, continuing across southern Lehigh,...rather abrupt end just west of Wernersville in Berks County. Various local names have been given to them, such...reach to 1300 ft. in Millcreek Township, Lebanon County. Between the ridges occasional limestone valleys
Report (issue)
Chromite-bearing Rock in the Basalt at the Pennant Hills Quarry, near Parramatta. Journ. Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales...32-35. 264. Wolfram at Mt. Murphy, Buckwong River, County Benambra. Rec. Geol. Surv. Viet., ii, 1907, pp...Gold-field. No. 2, 1913. 399e. The Geology of the County of Jervois and of Portions of the Counties of Buxton...near Nundle, 55B, pp. 681-682, 705. Polybasite, Prehnite. Psilomelane. Broken Hill, 293, 492A ; Murwillumbah... 659; Bingara, 105, p. 113; 293; near Burraga, County Georgiana, 129; Mount View, near Cessnock, 122;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the 12th at the Keystone Trap Rock Quarry at Cornog, Chester County, Pa. thru the courtesy of the owners...14, 1956 To the quarry of the Limestone Products Company, Lime Cr,est, (Sussex County) N . J. There were...temperature and the immense quarry offered an inspiring challenge. The rock of the quarry consists mostly of metamorphosed...chondrodite, Portion of Limestone Products Co., quarry, Lime Crest, Sussex Co., N. J., scene of Mineralogical...Shulman. The Loux family's showing of local (Bucks County) fossil wood was outstanding. There was also a
 
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