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Orthoclase from
Gold Leaf Quarry, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gold Leaf Quarry, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:280652
Long-form Identifier:1:3:280652:5
GUID (UUID V4):f5db6a4b-e8fb-4fd6-83b2-42d01894c2f2
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘGranite Railway Quarry (Granite Rail Quarry), Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) ⓘFallon Brothers Quarry (Quincy Quarry; Ballou Quarry; Old Colony Crushed Stone Company Quarry), Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) ⓘMerry Mount Quarry, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
3.0km (1.8 miles) ⓘHardwick Quarry, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) ⓘHammond St. Quarry, Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
14.1km (8.8 miles) ⓘAllston-Brighton, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
26.4km (16.4 miles) ⓘBlueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
35.0km (21.8 miles) ⓘAggregate Industries Quarry (Bayer-Mingolla Quarry; Trimount Quarry), Ashland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
40.8km (25.4 miles) ⓘDiamond Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
42.3km (26.3 miles) ⓘSneech Pond copper mines (Copper Mine Hill), Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
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BUL.L.ETIN 354 CHIEF COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RHODE ISLAND BY T. NELSON...granites and quarries............................ Massachusetts...............................................the granites and quarries Continued. Massachusetts Continued. Quincy......................................geology........................................ The quarry............................................ New...................... Glossary of scientific and quarry terms.................................. 140 140
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___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ Âą ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______
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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.
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cm high. Gobin specimen. Crystalline gold from Round Mtn, USA Read on page 7 R. Scott WERSCHKY Editors:...Editors: Tomasz Praszkier (Poland) Scott Werschky (USA) J. Scovil photo. J. Scovil photo. INTRODUCTION...They are leafy specimens with bright, shiny, yellow gold and hints of octahedral crystals on the edges. The...larger specimens both on and off matrix! Crystalized gold from Round Mountain mine. Size 6.8 cm. Spirifer...dilemma has many mineral collectors, and especially gold collectors, scratching their heads and then digging
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expansion, especially Eleanor Krimmel, from the USA, whose generous donations really put us over the...Hanson, a piece of moonstone rough. Moonstone is orthoclase feldspar with a pearly, opalescent shimmer. The...sphalerite in this Tri-State district (Cherokee County, Kansas) specimen shows shimmering, purple iridescence...kilometers). A rush followed, reminiscent of the gold rushes in California, Canada and Alaska, as local...Memorial Ave. W Springfield, MA 01089 Lebanon County Fairgrounds 80 Crown Plaza Convention Center Rocherty
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.....................5 Mount Clarence historic quarry .....................................................................5 Albany Monumental Masons quarry .....................................................................................13 Phill’s quarry ....................................................................................17 American quarry ....................................................................................17 Fantasia quarry ..............................................
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be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11...bright metallic luster and opaqueness of metals. Gold and copper absorb and re-emit orange to red colors...typical crystal shape. Goethite, Tintic, Utah, USA * 16.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 om Drusy These minerals have
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not visit, and the searching out of minerals in quarry, mine, or native rock will develop and enlarge...shore re-appears. There is no such thing as a stone quarry, all mineral specimens being exposed by the yearly...Author of "The Mi.,iera/qg)' of the Rarer .Afetals") Gold, as might have been expected from the fact that...also was known and esteemed nearly as highly as gold. Since these early times in which so few metals...them merely to distinguish them from such metals as gold, silver, copper and iron, which are in every day
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localities. The state motto, Ora y Plata meaning “gold and silver,” and the state seal with its representation...mining origins. Montana’s production of copper, coal, gold, lead, manganese, phosphate, silver, talc, vermiculite...Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state can...Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by [University...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal
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THE EUREKA TUNNEL , ST . PETER'S Dome , El Paso COUNTY , COLORADO , 163 BOLÉITE AND CUMENGÉITE , 166 NOTABLE...STUDENTS ' MINERALOGICAL CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA , 172 GOLD THAT IS TRANSPARENT , 175 EDITORIAL NOTES , 177...THE EUREKA TUNNEL , ST . PETER'S DOME , EL PASO COUNTY , COLORADO . By LAZARD Cahn . occurrence . A TRIP...considerable native gold , come from the Enterprise mine , Rico , Col. Native wire gold and wire silver together...out , and lately , quartz very rich with native gold . The famous amethyst and other mines of Creede
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milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please...GRANITES, MONZONITES, GRANODIORITES a. Quartz, orthoclase, microcline, oligoclase, albitc, blotite, muscovite
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.......................................230 Massachusetts..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map ..........................................
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MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ORTIZ MINE GRANT, SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Open-file Report 560 By Stephen R...Mountain range in the southwestern part of Santa Fe County, New Mexico. The Ortiz Mountains, physiographically...the Ortiz Mountains and its surroundings. Placer gold was discovered in Dolores Gulch, in the eastern...extraction of 250,000 troy ounces of gold and about 50,000 troy ounces of gold at the Cunningham Hill and Old...estimated to have produced about 50,000 troy ounces of gold at intervals from the late 1820s to the 1930s. The
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faceting & lapidary needs! Lapidary Equipment• Silver & Gold Filled Wire & Sheet• Jewelry Making Equipment• Jewelry...Thisstate boasts nearly every variety; by Bob Jones 20 Gold Prospecting with a Metal Detector A fun and profitable...glass, and gold-filled roundelles. "l strung the rest of the necklace using No. 8 bead cord, gold-colored...gold-colored bead tips, a gold-filled clasp, cultured pearls, goldfilled roundelles, hexagonal malachite cylinders...Show; Smokey Mounlain Mineral Society; Jelferson County Res• cue Squad Bldg.. 915 Industrial Park Rd.:
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Managing Editor: Moira Duggan Associate Editor: Mimi Gold Associate Editor: Barbara Hoffbeck Associate Editor:...Wulfenite 30 Prehnite 34 Rutile Rhodochrosite Gold Pyromorphite 26 Barite 82 42 38 98 Marcasite...elements are found free and uncombined in nature. Gold, silver, and copper occur in the most attractive...years, California has supplied some of the best gold specimens. These vary from large, free-form, stream-tumbled...originally. Shiny black rutile crystals from Mono County, California, are just as good but smaller. Small
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Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana...Check of Common Minerals Common Fluorescent Minerals Gold Panning Values Colors and Symbols on a Geologic...bodies. At a time when Neolithic man was picking up gold and copper nuggets to be hammered into ornaments...amethyst, and rock crystal-all mounted in heavy gold settings that were further decorated with blue enamel...fastened together with ball-and-loop devices of gold wire; during her life they must have clinked as
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Department of Geological Sciences Duluth MN 55812-2496 USA grapp@d.umn.edu ISBN: 978-3-540-78593-4 e-ISBN:.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 7.2 Gold (Au) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 9.11 Gold and Silver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Eastern Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.2 Slate quarry, eastern United States . . . . . . . . . . . ....quartzite, Boulder Lake Reservoir, St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...................3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines......................................13 by C. J. Stefano The Cliff Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan........................................Stefano & P. Persson The Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan........................................& C. J. Stefano The Copper Falls Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan............................85 by C. J
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water, and three feldspars: albite (NaAlSi O ); orthoclase (KAlSiO ) ; and-anorthite (OaAlaSiaQg). '. The...environment." OIL SHALE PLENTIFUL IS GOLD LEAF MADE OF SOLID GOLD??? SALT L A K E C I T Y — O i l shale...according to a U.S. Bureau of Mines report. Y E S ! A gold block is pounded into a thin sheet by machine. Then...It can be beaten so thin that 1200 sheets of gold leaf are thinner than a sheet of writing paper!!! —Gems...months. 208 "SWEAT Of SUN" In the Inca society, gold and silver were available only to the nobility—os­
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’Continued on p. 79 Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California...................Burr Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland ................................OF PHILIP RASHLEIGH, O r M ENAB1LLY, IN THE COUNTY OF C O R N W A LL, ESQ, M .P . F . R .S . AND F...crystal­ lography (pt. Ill) (facsimile: $10) v.2/#5 Gold Hill (UT), Rose Quartz, Grandview mine (AZ), Crandallite...(WY) $5 v.8/#6 California Issue Benitoite, Gold, L.A. County Museum, Himalaya mine $7 Circulation Manager
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ZODAC Contents for March , 1941 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................Ccurrence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and...happens that the village or city 1s not 1n the county of the same name nor even in the state. For example...minerals. Chester is also a large city in Delaware County. We have frequently run across minerals recorded...Was the locality the city of Chester or Chescer County ? Worse still, we have run across items in which
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.......................................198 Massachusetts...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced its own gold rush, largely unprofitable...unprofitable, although gold may still be panned in the regional streams. Most of the rest of the state...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
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.......................................198 Massachusetts...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced its own gold rush, largely unprofitable...unprofitable, although gold may still be panned in the regional streams. Most of the rest of the state...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
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aragonite which she had collected at the Government Quarry in Bermuda. It should be stated at this point that...which had been collected late in the Fall at a quarry in Pennington, N. J. Since there appeared to be...location, the field trip committee decided that the quarry did not warrant a club outing and chose this method...Mineralogical Club held a field trip to the limestone quarry at Sparta Junction, N . J., by chartered bus on... norbergite, allanite, tourmaline, graphite, orthoclase, quartz, asbestos, serpentine, phlogopite and
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, No. 1312. All of the "gold" or, more properly, gilt furniture that is sold...and luster is a very close imitation of real gold leaf work. This paint is also used on picture frames...medium grades, taking the place of gold leaf or the lacquered silver leaf formerly used on articles of the..."Dutch metaI," or imitation gold leaf, on the cheapest class of work. A cheaper gold paint is made by using...silicate of potash, sodium bromide, wulfenite, orthoclase, anda-' lucite, herdinite, apatite, calcite,
 
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