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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gold Leaf Quarry, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:280656
Long-form Identifier:1:3:280656:3
GUID (UUID V4):508b790e-eb87-49f7-b350-e368a8ebe671
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
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
9.1km (5.7 miles) ⓘWest Roxbury Crushed Stone Quarry (West Roxbury Trap Rock Co. Quarry; Grove St. Quarry), West Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
13.8km (8.6 miles) ⓘWarren Street Quarry (Beatty's Ledge), Allston-Brighton, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
14.1km (8.8 miles) ⓘAllston-Brighton, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
17.2km (10.7 miles) ⓘMystic River Quarries (Mystic Quarries), Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
26.4km (16.4 miles) ⓘBlueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) ⓘKallenberg Quarry (Robin Rock Quarry; Jordan Quarry), Lynnfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
35.0km (21.8 miles) ⓘAggregate Industries Quarry (Bayer-Mingolla Quarry; Trimount Quarry), Ashland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
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Report (volume)
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 ______
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.
Journal (issue)
MONTHLY CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1938 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY (Editorial Page) ................. THE MONTANA...Association ROCKS and MINERALS 322 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY sistance to our large number of collectors, we...readers undoubtedly know, is the world's greatest gold field. We are sure that this article will be as...may be very thin, probably even thinner than gold leaf, they nevertheless interrupt the homogenity of...of the agate just as much as a sheet of gold leaf would and consequently form a plane less resistant to
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the old open pit Sodium Sulphate mine in Imperial County near BertROCKS AND MINERALS ram siding on the...the Mulligan Stew pocket. "No. 2—Microcline and Albite. This microcline is rather an unusual color, almost...a slight coral pink which along with the white albite clusters makes for a nice color combination, the...pieces show an almost complete solid base of white-albite. "No. 3—Quartz and Epidote. This is from a pocket...limonite."— on label. No. 2—Group of tiny white albite xls on large pale pinkish microcline xls. Fl. red
Catalog/List
key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J lJaed gold. ,,_ Darw '• ot #in•r•lo'I\I... Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will be satisfactory...at the pristine source underground ar an fresh quarry faces and the like. Very aften though, such source...oxidized zones of copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold deposits permanently mounted in 1-inch square opaque...feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to light green
Catalog/List
including the largest Gold nugget ever found in Alaska AND the world’s largest single Gold crystal – all part...part of a great assortment of some 50 Gold specimens in nugget, crystallized, and crystal form. Augmented...grouping of Gemstones from all over the world, like the Gold and various other unique items, the first session...something special. The amount and variety of significant Gold in this sale are unparalleled, with spectacular...following pieces: • • • • • • • • • • The largest Gold nugget ever found in Alaska, known as The Centennial
Book
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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.......................................230 Massachusetts..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map ..........................................
Report (issue)
.....................5 Mount Clarence historic quarry .....................................................................5 Albany Monumental Masons quarry .....................................................................................13 Phill’s quarry ....................................................................................17 American quarry ....................................................................................17 Fantasia quarry ..............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (issue)
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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.......................................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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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...aegirine, aenigraatite b. DIORITES Quartz, biotite, albite, anorthoclase, sphene, ilmenite, chlorite, horn­
Journal (issue)
small quarries and did find some corundum at the quarry where his grandfather had worked. The pegmatites...remaining headframe in Wisconsin is located in Iron County between Pence and Iron Belt, Wisconsin. The Plummer...Mine Shafts of the Gogebic Range. Vol. 3, Iron County, Wisconsin, p. vi Crowell & Murray, Inc. (1927)...time, gold panning was popular in Lytton, and I was able to locate some Fraser River - Lytton gold flakes...work showed about 4% silver in the Fraser River gold (see figure 3). Flying to Vancouver from Virginia
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as no surprise that, since the first discovery of gold in Colorado in 1858, mineral collecting has had...amazonite, smoky quartz, rhodochrosite, fl uorite, gold and silver minerals are found more or less in their...By 1864 his expertise had brought him to Gilpin County, Colorado, where his reputation as a consultant...~ ) I~,. ~~ _ "f'• 0istrict, , ~ ,;:: V County , Colorado . l'fJ 1/ {r-zr--D '/;"~ of 2000...or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results for gold and silver content, together with
Journal (issue)
MONTHLY Contents for Aug ust, 1948 CHJPS FROM THE QUARRY ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡............715 Two PIEDMONTITE LOCALITIES IN MASSACHUSETTS. By Gunnar Bjareby ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡715 THE AMATEUR...OCKS AND MI NERAL~ I ,.L b.L CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ... Coming E vents Miner.-lo1iul Club of Hartford...Mines, Tilly Foster, N. Y. Sept. 12-Upper Merryall Quarry Sept. 26-Chester, Mass. Blanford, Mass. Oct. 10--Roxbury...will have to wait. Some. day when you are in the quarry which Valiant says, " Is directly west of the Gouverneur
Journal (issue)
’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
Report (issue)
"Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer...high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff Scovil...photo Left: A wall of gold bricks in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's gold vault Photo Robert Gambee...Crystallized gold from Canada Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo extraLapis English No. 5 Gold The Noble...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint
Journal (issue)
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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occurrences Portugal of uranium minerals 4 4 Gilpin county, Colorado 5 Cornwall, England 9 Joachimsthal...metal strip its upper end is a strip of gold leaf. and gold leaf are charged with electricity the latter...discharges slowly under ordinary conditions and the gold leaf returns to its original position. The rate...mined and the ores chemically treated. Gilpin County, The Colorado. following description of the...the pitchblende deposits Quartz hill, Gilpin county, Colorado, is taken from a paper by Forbes Rickard
Journal (issue)
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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aquamarine X l s finest epidote crystals known, gold from this area but locality is lost. mines, copper...m m e l , the first valley going S on General. Albite; Prehnite; Pyrite; F l u ­ the W end of Salzburg...MINERALS 219 bach. Rauris (village) several old gold Ms. Mineral collection in Talmuseum. Q Xls. (scepter)...(Clear); Anatase Xls; Fluorite Xls; Rutile Xls; Albite; Chlorite; Sphalerite; Pyrrhotite; Galena; Arsenopyrite;...Marcasite; Calcite Xls; Clinochlore; Disthene; Hematite; Gold panning. Worth is 3 Mi beyond Rauris. Collec­ tion
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made up of quartz, water, and three feldspars: albite (NaAlSi O ); orthoclase (KAlSiO ) ; and-anorthite...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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