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Quartz from
Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Epidote2 photos of Quartz associated with Epidote at this locality.
Biotite1 photo of Quartz associated with Biotite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:243103
Long-form Identifier:1:3:243103:1
GUID (UUID V4):ccf33ff3-9d98-4338-af6b-e65ba0d5e333
Localities for Quartz in this Region
Babingtonite locality, Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Blanchard Quarries, Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Scadden Silver Mine (Uxbridge Silver Mine; Tucker Prospect), Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
2.7km (1.7 miles) Blanchard Quarries, Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) Scadden Silver Mine (Uxbridge Silver Mine; Tucker Prospect), Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Purgatory Chasm, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Waterford, North Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
10.7km (6.6 miles) Spring Lake, Harrisville, Burrillville, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Burrillville, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Manville Quarry (Riverview Quarry; CQC Quarry; Forte Brothers Quarry; Todesca Quarry), Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Iron Mine Hill quarry, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
17.4km (10.8 miles) Sneech Pond copper mines (Copper Mine Hill), Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS. By WILLIAM C. AIDEN. INTRODUCTION. The area described...described in this paper lies mainly in central Massachusetts and comprises about two-thirds of the plateau extending...Valley on the west to the lowlands of Middlesex County on the east (fig. 1). The area is about FIQDBE...Ware, and Quinslgamond quadrangles, central Massachusetts. 52 miles in exstent from east to west and...topographic survey of the Belchertown, Barre, Worcester, Marlboro, Palmer, Brookfield, Webster, and Blackstone
Report (volume)
SURVEY No. 116 A GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY CATALOGUE SLIPS. United States. Department...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | hy | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...topographer. XXIII. Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts, by Raphael Pnnipelly, J. E. Wolff, and T. Nelson
Report (issue)
Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts by Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvin...Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvln This...contains the records of radlometrlc ages for Massachusetts from the Radlometrlc Age Data Bank of the U...portrayed on a new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). The compilation Is believed to...they appear on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). Steiger, R. H., and Jager, E.
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . 11 Scarborough Township, York County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . .. . . . 14 Pickering Township, Ontario County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . Markham Township, York County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . Vaughan Township, York County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . Whitchurch Township, York County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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 (issue)
VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little............. Sandstone (quartzite?) coarse, with quartz veins................ Feet. 20± 20± 25± 50± The... and here and there by thin stringers of small quartz grains. The variegation gives to the rock a highly... 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pennsylvanian sediments in the Narragansett Basin in Massachusetts and R,hode Island were deposited during an active...granite composed mainly of oligoclsse, microcline, quartz. biotite. granite Pier granite Dighton congl...Island formation Alternations of fine and medium quartz, quartzite, and granitic pebble conglomerates,...and insect beds. (10,000ft) Wamsutta Beds of quartz, quartzite, felsites, felsite brecciaa and conglomerates...coloured. Contains Calamites. formation (1000ft) Quartz conglomerates. waste, or arkose. Pondville conglomerate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Babingtonite from four new localities, all in Massachusetts, is described. Four new chemical analyses show...lJxnRrocn, Massacuusnrrs. A small quarry was openedin Uxbridge, Mass. many years since,in gneiss.Cutting the...adularia, epidote, biotite altered to chlorite, quartz, heulandite, prehnite, pyrite and babingtontite...very numerous localities of this mineral in Massachusetts. An additional interest attaches to the Alpine... a 2b tb Crystals of Babingtonite from Massachusetts Localities. Frcs. 1a and 1b. Babingtonite from
Catalog/List
Specimen size- 43x31x20mm £132 2) SPESSARTINE on Quartz and Muscovite, Gilgit, Pakistan. Three gemmy blood...12mm. Specimen size- 34x32x24mm £67 4) LAZULITE, Quartz, Calcite, Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada.Gemmy blue...5mm on a bed of needle quartz. Specimen size- 68x35x20mm £67 5) UVITE and Quartz, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil...form a necklace and inclusions in a single smoky quartz crystal. Specimen size- 45x24x18mm £67 6) ANAPAITE...38x12x7mm £67 9) GOLD, Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado, USA. Pure crystallised gold specimen sized24x18x5mm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to an attractive site near Uxbridge, Mass., a small town between Worcester, Mass., and Providence, R....garnets, not so thick so red color shows well; smoky quartz cut from the finest Brazilian rough; beautiful...very nice dolomite pyramids collected in Major County, Okla., by the Paintons' of Painton's Rockery,...very large deposit of kaolinite located in Pike County, Ark. I also have a large deposit of gypsum with...deposits of quartz crystals in the state. I am in a position to offer anything in the quartz line to all
Report (issue)
Arendal, Norway. (2) Holyoke, Hampden Co., Massachusetts, USA; original total given as 99.82%. (3) Ca2... calcite, epidote, albite, orthoclase, garnet, quartz, \hornblende," Distribution: Known from a number...Noril'sk, western Siberia, Russia. In the USA, in Massachusetts, exceptional crystals from Lane's quarry...Deer¯eld, Franklin Co.; also at Winchester Highlands, Uxbridge, Norfolk Co. At Paterson, Passaic Co., and Mine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20059, USA Branch, Code 691, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA 3Faculty...rock 399 © Meteoritical Society, 2003. Printed in USA. 400 G. Kletetschka, T. Kohout, and P. J. Wasilewski...granite, Quincy, Massachusetts 7.4 5 Aplite, Boulder County, Colorado 6.96 6 Quartz monzonite porphyry...Rock, Colorado 7.3 12 Rhyolite porphyry, Chaffee County, Colorado 4.24 13 Hornblende syenite, Cuttingsville...Colorado 7.09 15 Trachyte porphyry (bostonite), Essex County, New York 8.52 16 Trachyte porphyry, Cripple Creek
Report (volume)
The economic geology of Carson camp, Hinsdale County, Colo., by E. S. Larsen..........................Metalliferous ore deposits near the Burro Mountains, Grant County, N. Mex., by Sidney Paige........................stone: Variegated marble southeast of Calera, Shelby County, Ala., by Charles Butts..........................Supplementary notes on the commercial granites of Massachusetts, by T. N. Dale......................................... 291 Clays: Clay near Calhan, El Paso County, Colo., by G. B. Richardson....... 293 Clay resources
Report (issue)
SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN ONTARIO Welland County Niagara Falls Calaguiro Brothers Braas Brothers...Limited Wentworth County Aldershot J. Cooke Concrete Blocks Limited Halton County Milton Hayward and...and Picket Limited Halton County Pit DCB Gravel Company Sherman Sand and Gravel Limited Georgetown Industrial...Alrex Sand and Gravel Limehouse Brooks Pit Peel County Clarkson Sherman Sand and Gravel Limited Hughs...Limited Dufferin County Orangeville Hyco Ready Mix Limited Mono Sand and Gravel York County Kleinburg Monarch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stachura, 1766 House, Quaker Highway, Rt. 146, Uxbridge, Mass., who advertises regularly through our pages...Plaza Motel, on Rt. 146, about midway between Worcester, Mass. and Providence, R. I. "Our new hours are...from Australia, tigereye from So. Africa, rose quartz from Brazil and many, many others." Note: Mr. Stachura...Westchester Mineral and Gem Society meets in the County Center, White Plains, N . Y. WE ARE SORRY! Editor
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
Catalog/List
Amphibolc AEGIRINE-AUGITE-Sce Pyroxene AGATE-Sec Quartz ALABANDITE (magancsc sulfide) Xline, with sphalcritc...Peristerile (Jvfoonstone), opalescent cleavage, with quartz showing albite twinning or polysynthetic twin bands.... . . . . . 65 Fasciculite Xis, in schist; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3...potassium, iron, manganese and titanium) Bladed in quartz; Colorado . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . ...BISMUTITE (A basic bismuth carbonate} ,\llassi/Je with quartz; New Mexico, 1 x 2 ", 1 . 5 0. . . . . . 170 BITUMINOUS
Report (issue)
4 Descriptions of Sand and Gravel Pits 12 Essex County 13 Erie Sand and Gravel Company 13 Kennette Contracting...Industries Limited 15 Kent County 16 Adams Sand and Gravel Limited 16 Lambton County 18 E. Johnston Construction...Construction 18 Elgin County 19 McLaws Gravel and Crushing Limited 19 Middlesex County 20 J.F. Marshall and...Huron County 28 F. Kling Limited 28 George Radford 29 Joynt Pit, Yundt Brothers 29 Perth County 30 Yundt...Yundt and McCann 30 Norfolk County 30 Cayuga Quarries Limited 30 Oxford County 32 Oxford Sand and Gravel
Report (issue)
Geology of the land area of the Boston 2° sheet, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and 10- New Hampshire... 16 17 18 U. S. Geological Survey Boston, Massachusetts 19 ,U. S. Geological Survey* OPEN FILE REPORT...GEOLOGY OF THE LAND AREA OF THE BOSTON 2° SHEET, MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND AND NEW HAMPSHIRE...quadrangles. 9 10- They underlie most of the Uxbridge quadrangle and much of The rock is pinkish medium-gray...granitic gneiss with a composition approximating quartz 11 monzonite. 12 rock is locally hydrothermally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
94618. York 14609 340 ROCKS AND MINERALS GOLD QUARTZ - About "half pound" size. Shows fine gold. $5...50150 through Labor Day. World's largest deposit of quartz conglomerate. Rock Shop. Souve­ nirs, refreshments...33611 to Friday 9 to 5, or call (516) 766-6120. MASSACHUSETTS MINES AND MINERALS - A new book with 44 maps...maps to mineral localities within Massachusetts. $3.00 a copy. John Hiller, 62 Lourmel St., Bridge­ port...06606 HI FOLKS - We are located in Southern Massachusetts, in business our 17th year. We carry a diverse
Catalog/List
enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...Each lxl" 2x2" 2x3" ED.ch 3x4" AGATE-See Quartz AESCHYNITE-See Eschynite ALABANDITE (maganese sulfide)...*Peristerite (Moonstone), opalescent Cleavage, with quartz showing albite twinning or polysynthetic twin bands...Fibrous; South Dakota Fasciculite Xis in schist; Massachusetts Hornblende Common Hornblende Xls, black, in...00 .60 XI, sections, varnished, in matrix, Massachusetts ......... :. ................ ....... 1 x l½"
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)
fluviatile. They occur, among oth er places, west of Uxbridge and Hillingdon, and west of the Coln e Valley...a lower contour than, the known river drift at Uxbridge Common, Hillingdon, etc. Alluding to these drifts...north of the large iron bridge which crosses the Uxbridge Road at Hanwell, and a short distance south-east...Flints, some bleached Small Ragstone Pebble Small Quartz Pebbles from the size of a small pea to a small...bed which contains purple and yellow quartzites, quartz, etc., in the form of small boulders, and, very
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Catalog included with any set. Postage included within USA. Buying, exchanging fossils and artifacts; submit...purchase speci­ mens of our beautiful agates, jasper, quartz or other beautiful minerals per­ fectly calibrated...100 MINERALS OF HIGH PURITY — Rock forming, ore, quartz family, etc. Speci­ mens packaged individually...May through Labor Day. World's largest deposit of quartz conglomerate. Rock Shop. Souvenirs, refreshments...particularly interested in large (at­ tractive) quartz groupings, amethyst, stupendous geodes, enhydros
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Catalog included with any set. Postage included within USA. Buying, exchanging fossils and artifacts; submit...Box 225R, Nixa, Missouri 65714 PECOS DIAMONDS (Quartz Xls) — 12 sma II $1.25; large black, 4 for $1.25;...100 MINERALS OF HIGH PURITY — Rock forming, ore, quartz family, etc. Speci­ mens packaged individually...May through Labor Day. World's largest deposit of quartz conglomerate. Rock Shop. Souvenirs, refreshments...04256 HI FOLKS — We are located in Southern Massachusetts, in business our 17th year. We carry a diverse
 
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