 | | Report (issue) | | VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little...body of marble could be obtained in an open-cut quarry, but ultimately the rock would have to be mined... 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...crushed stone have been excluded, but the felsite quarry of Revere has been included, although it is not |  | | 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 (edition) | | 5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...information was' provided y Priscilla Chavarie, Duane Leavitt, Mrs. F. MacDonald, James Mann, Joe Martin, Frank...Mining), Gary Hoyle (Maine State Museum), Duane Leavitt, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's...world's largest morganite at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional collectors...(below): beryl. Both specimens from the Bennett quarry, Buckfield. Downloaded by [New York University]...meters below the surface. The nearby Maine Feldspar quarry is located in a town mineral-collector’s park. |  | | 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. |  | Francis, Carl A., Felch, Myles, Falster, Alexander U., Bailey, Douglas A. (2016) Aquamarine from Stoneham and Vicinity, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 91 (1) 28-35 doi:10.1080/00357529.2016.1099131 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Stoneham and Vicinity Oxford County, Maine Downloaded by [Penn State University] at 01:41 12 December...Stoneham, Maine—a century apart. Figure 1. Aldrich quarry beryl. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum (MMGM) specimens:...pegmatites, particularly the important Aldrich quarry, with a focus on beryl and its gemmy blue variety...account for almost all of them. They occur in every quarry. Sometimes the microcline is colored beige to orange...molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, uraninite, and zircon. The most speciesrich locality is Lord Hill, a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | November-December: Roebling Apatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine; photo by Victor E . Kranz. Aegirine-augite... , book review, The Tourma line, 453 Berkeley Quarry, Cross, South Carolina, J . J . Howe, 240 Bertrandite...Boston Mineralogical Symposium, Cam bridge, Massachusetts, M. Ryan, 270 Boulangerite, 190 Brazil, Minas...Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science...Specimen Mineralogy, 114 Cheralite, 190 Chips from the Quarry, 5, 77, 149, 221, 301 Chlorite, 190 Chrysoberyl |  | | Report (volume) | | ___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sylvite, and anhydrite. Quebec Francon quarry The large Francon quarry in Montreal is located in a residential...little or no land available for expanding the quarry. The economics of dig ging deeper for the construction-grade...mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry is world-famous for being the first (or only) producing...dawsonite are found at the Francon quarry. Dawsonite was first found in a quarry near the Francon. The city of...agreement with the Fran con company to use the quarry as a landfill. Reports from several collectors |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | earned a BS in geology from the University of Massachusetts in 1978; a BA in cinematography and photographic...from the Collins Quarry, Georgetown, Maine - J. W. Nizamoff, A. U. Falster, D. Leavitt, & W. B. Simmons...world’s largest reddingite crystal from the Bennett Quarry, Oxford Co., Maine? - M. Felch, A. U. Falster....historic Spinelli Prospect, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut - A. J. Albini & H. Moritz. 2:30...warwickite, and dissakisite-(Ce) from New York State, USA - M. V. Luoulescu. R. Rowe, D. G. Bailey, & M. Hawkins |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles History and minerals of The Geysers, Sonoma County, California ............................................................. 359 by D. E. Leavitt & N. J. Leavitt Recent discoveries from the Wessels mine...1852 to the 1920’s, is located in northern Sonoma County about 145 km north of San Fran cisco, California...(1970). The Mayacmas Mountains of northern Sonoma County are underlain by rocks of the Jurassic-Cretaceous...deposits of the western Mayacmas district, Sonoma County, California. California Journal o f Mines and Geology |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Canada by Ann P. Sabina). Quebec Francon Quarry The Francon quarry in Montreal is famous for the abundance...dis covered what appears to be a first for the quarry—cube faces on analcime. This mineral almost always..."dresserite" examined. It was identified in the quarry by an "expert." On the specimens were gray botryoids...also available as tiny, loose crystals. Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos The following note comes from D r . Steve...for its composition. It v/as found at the Trinity County magadiite deposit in 1969. It is white or stained |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2005 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 ⫹ .00 doi:10...California 95616, USA 2 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak-Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA (Received December...thorium silicate, thorite, is isostructural to zircon and transforms to huttonite at ⬃1200°C (Finch et...with thermodynamic data for other minerals with zircon structure. Enthalpy of thorite ¡ huttonite phase...from oxides of thorite and huttonite and of other zircon-type elements. Phase 0 ⌬Hf,el kJ/mol 0 ⌬Hf,ox |  | Leavitt, E. D., Spell, T. L., Goldstrand, P. M., Arehart, G. B. (2004) Geochronology of the Midas Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposit, Elko County, Nevada. Economic Geology, 99 (8) 1665-1686 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.99.8.1665 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposit, Elko County, Nevada E. D. LEAVITT,†Department of Geological Sciences...magmatism that was widespread throughout 1665 1666 LEAVITT ET AL. 116° 42° 117° McDermitt Midas 120 0 ... 1993; Wallace and McKee, 1994; Leavitt et al., 2000, 2003; Leavitt, 2001). Only a few geochronologic... including three new dates, were published in Leavitt et al. (2000). In this paper, we describe the complete...Wallace, 2000; John et al., 2000; Leavitt et al., 2000, 2003; Leavitt, 2001; Wallace, 2003). Mafic volcanic |  | | Book (volume) | | ............. 315 Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . .....................of Geology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He began teaching there in 1931 and he retired...permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward] |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (D) Huya (D) New Zealand New Mexico, USA Chile Colorado, USA China Vein-type Breccia? Breccia? Polymetallic...Jardine (D) Delnite (D) Morro Velho (D) Montana, USA ON, Canada Brazil Turbidite-hosted? Greenstone-hosted...Emerald (D) NWT, Canada South Korea California, USA BC, Canada Porphyry-related? Porphyry-related? Skarn–Endo...Britannia Mine (D) California, USA Sonora, Mexico Mexico California, USA Maine, USA BC, Canada Skarn–Exo? Skarn–Exo...MacKevett (1962), Newberry et al. (1991) Leavitt & Leavitt (1993) Schofield (1926), Irvine (1948), Payne |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | They are from a cut at Hogback Dam in Hartland County, near Riverton, Conn. "In masses of xline limestone...from the Standard Materials Quarry, Lapel (Madison Co.), Indiana. The quarry is now producing some very...transparent citrine color. These occur in one end of the quarry." Judging by these beautiful specimens, Indiana...miles northwest of Bentonsport, Iowa, in Van Buren County, in the southeast part of the State in the geode...type bryozoan fossil. There used to be a limestone quarry here back aways on north side of the road. "Thought |  | | Book | | Peaks; crystallized at Bergen's ; Ranch, Jefferson County; on Boulder Peak. Agate,— See Quartz. — At Quartzville...Quartz Hill, Central Almandite. See Garnet. Boulder County. City Gold — Allophanite. —Franklin Mine, in Gilson... connection with coloradoite in the KeyBoulder County. AMBER.— (One specimen found near the head of Cherry...SURVEY. ABPVEDSONIT& — Occurs in quartz in El Paso County. famished Dr. G. A. Koenig the following result:*...franklinite on Rio Dolores, Nevada district, Gilpin County. Asuestos.— Occurs in small quantities, partly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (November-December 1986). Anonymous. 1960. Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the...provided. Barker, D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short...several locations includ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield...periences beginning with early-day collecting in Oxford County. . 1965. Fifty years of mineral collecting (Part...at the Mt. Rubellite mine near Heb ron, Oxford County. Buckley, B. W. 1973. Maine tourmaline strike. |  | Neff, John L., Hagadorn, James W., Sunderlin, David, Williams, Christopher J. (2011) Sedimentology, facies architecture and chemostratigraphy of a continental high-latitude Paleocene–Eocene succession—The Chickaloon Formation, Alaska. Sedimentary Geology, 240 (1) 14-29 doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.07.002 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 01002, USA Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Science and Nature, Denver, CO 80205, USA Department...Geosciences, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042, USA d Department of Earth and Environment, Franklin and...and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 17603, USA b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...analyses were conducted at the University of Massachusetts—Amherst Biogeochemistry laboratory; values are...DM08-4 Major fossil collection locality Detrital zircon sample J.L. Neff et al. / Sedimentary Geology |  | Alford, Lee, Gysi, Alexander P., Hurtig, Nicole C., Monecke, Thomas, Pfaff, Katharina (2020) Porphyry-related polymetallic Au-Ag vein deposit in the Central City district, Colorado: Mineral paragenesis and pyrite trace element chemistry. Ore Geology Reviews, 119. 103295 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.103295 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | district is located in the Front Range of Colorado, USA, and has been one of the most productive Au deposits...the Front Range, ~60 km west of Denver, in Gilpin County, Colorado (Fig. 1a). Central City and other historic...~58.5–71.3 Ma using fission track in apatite and zircon (Cunningham et al., 1994), and at ~76.7–79.3 Ma...Pittsburgh, Powers, Saratoga, Silver Dollar, Vasa Leavitt, and War Dance. Vein material collected consists...were collected from the Patch breccia, the Vasa Leavitt vein, and the Ground Hog vein. These veins consist |  | | Report (chapter) | | Laboratories, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA Abstract: An important Proterozoic to early Ordovician...offshore eastern Newfoundland to southeastern Massachusetts and possibly the Carolinas (Williams & Hatcher...hence, of dubious value. A single, clear, euhedral zircon which Olszewski & Gaudette (1982) considered to...support nor rebuttal from existing radiometric data. Leavitt (1963) informally subdivided the group into two...retrogression that partly reset Brookville gneiss zircon ages during the mid-to-late Palaeozoic (395-330 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Goldstrike mine, NC = northern Carlin trend, Q = Gold Quarry mine, WC = Welches Canyon. within their large...heating wtd mean Zircon Zircon Biotite Plagioclase Matrix Biotite Biotite Biotite Zircon Biotite Sericite...U-Pb, range, three 206Pb/238U ages Zircon U-Pb, lower intercept Zircon U-Pb, mean, two 207Pb/206Pb ages...116°0.5' intrusion 40°38.4' 40°38.4' 40°30.5' Zircon Matrix Biotite Sanidine 93.1 plateau 11 56.3...Geochronology Laboratory (Justet and Spell, 2001; Leavitt et al., 2004); sources of data: 1 = this study; |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE, |
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