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Quartz from
Cardi Quarry, Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cardi Quarry, Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:37491
Long-form Identifier:1:3:37491:4
GUID (UUID V4):dd73edf9-47d9-41bc-b26e-8ee8c0a97717
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
8.7km (5.4 miles) Jackson Granite quarry, Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
13.1km (8.1 miles) Interstate highway 295 road cut, Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
13.6km (8.4 miles) Cranston Graphite mine, Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
16.1km (10.0 miles) Hamilton, North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
16.5km (10.2 miles) Rockland, Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
17.6km (10.9 miles) Interstate 295 / US Route 6 road cuts, Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
17.7km (11.0 miles) Roger Williams Park, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
18.2km (11.3 miles) Mount Tom road cut, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
19.8km (12.3 miles) Manton Avenue Quarry (Manton Quarry; Violet Hill Quarry), Manton, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Cranberry Lake, New Jersey, USA; after heating at 1000 ± C and the appearance of...0.28 99.99 0.08 1.02 3.68 0.43 [100.00] (1) Cardi® township, Canada; spectrographic analysis of RE... Lu 2 O3 0.27%. (2) Cranberry Lake, New Jersey, USA; recalculated to 100.00% after removal of calcite...°uorite, scapolite (Cardi® township, Canada); albite, calcite, arfvedsonite, pyrite, quartz, tourmaline (Faraday...fergusonite (Cranberry Lake, New Jersey, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from near Cranberry Lake, Sussex Co
Report (issue)
plagioclase, microcline, allanite, calcite, °uorite, quartz (Cardi® property, Canada). Distribution: From Lº aven...from Brevik, and from Barkevik, Norway. On the Cardi® property, and in the Faraday mine, Bancroft district...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, R1297. References: (1) Dana, E.S. (1892) Dana's... the yttrium analogue of tritomite from Sussex County, New Jersey. Amer. Mineral., 47, 9{25. (3) Hogarth
Catalog/List
::::::::::::::::::::: M50 US24.ACMITE.Demi>: Quarry,Mont Saint >:ls an mt>: 4>:4>:3cms,price E?-25...Yellow SW und~r ultraviolet light.price EN69. • Quartz . ~5 lt~i ► I ♦ EN70.ALSTONITE.Fall □ wfield...1 ~ Li gtit ~rey masses with pyrite sphalerite quartz galena matr1x.Spec:1me11 sq.Price ~~.Specimen B...6>:5>:Llcms,f:6 1 ,-1 ~) l:N74.CALCITE.Fall Hill Quarry,Ashover,Derbyshire,England.Sharp l:i-c1nspc\l·c...sc:attpr··erJ c,n fl<1t bed af iron !;L;,.ir11?d quartz cas!;ite1rite ud·•, .al I •Jn l::il las,'l::6>::3cms
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1884) drew the same conclusions. Additionally, in a quarry in Brampton Bryan Park, he found `an exposure of...centimetres in size. These are dominantly of vein quartz of various colours, together with rhyolitic tu€s...Schists and crushed vein quartz are lesser constituents. The pebbles and quartz grains are in a matrix...Sandstones and conglomerates are seen in an old quarry in Broomy Hill Plantation (SO 365718) and nearby...northeastern corner of Brampton Bryan Park. The old quarry marked by Cox, 110 m west of Upper Pedwardine Farm
Report (issue)
; this is the first recorded occurrence in the island and samples of the Foxdale Granite were shown to...below the Capledrae Marine Band, where at 932 ft a quartz-dolerite sill was entered ; the bore was stopped...Skelmersdale Development Corporation, Lanca­ shire County Council and Widnes Borough Council on problems...designed to take overspill from Liverpool. Amongst county councils, that of the West Riding has received... Berwickshire County Council was advised on sources of brick-clays and Roxburgh County Council on underground
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
11 a, 11 b, 11 e. Tr/#an/a 8 ~ , n. sp. Fig. 12. Cardi~zn dentic~latum, Baily. Fig. 13. D/adema, sp. DIscussioN...composed of angular and rounded pebbles and blocks of quartz, jasper, &c. of all sizes to upwards of a foot...ferruginous soil containing numerous pebbles of quartz, jasper, iron ore, &c., in which, the author was...great deal of unstratified limestone, containing quartz and other pebbles, in which diamonds were said...Survey of Ireland, of Victoria Terrace, Ballina, County Mayo, and 14 Hume Street, Dublin ; and Daniel Pidgeon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND E. C. HUMPHERY. 242 [CONTRIBUTION FROM THE KENT CREMXCAL LABORATORY OF TEE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO...Liquid. 10'. 20'. 2.5' 30'. WATER-LIQUID Ethyl carDi- . 40'. Surf. Tens. (Dynes)..34.98 34.52 34.18...drop-weight method. CHICAGO.XLL. [CONTRIBUTION FROM KENT CHEMICAL LABORATORY OF THE CHICAGO. ] UNIWRSITY... and are made from Jena glass, monel metal, or quartz; no cement is used in setting in the tip, so the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
16 27 Fig. I. Geol ogical sketch-ma p of the Cardi ff a rea . Th e Llan ishen Co nglomera te occ urs...relatively very few tuffs and porphyries. Vein-quartz is very rare, and no metamorphic rocks are found...Heard & Davies (1924, 503) report one pebble of 'quartz-gneiss'. The major rock-types vary in relative...lithic sandstone Pink quart zite Tan dolomite Vein quartz Total clasts A B C D E 35·2 0·0 5·9 5· 9...fracture cleavage often shown as pa rallel calcite or quartz-filled cracks. Edges and corners are generally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
86 247 Alderney Sandstone: plutonism in Channel Island s, 81 577 Aldwickia venablesis, 88 577 Alethop...Axinite, 86 98 Axmouth, Devon, 84121 Aylesford, Kent, 86 484,559 Aymestry Limestone, 89 210 Ayre Group...61 Basin and Range Province, Western Cordillera, USA, 85 341 - Model, Powys, Wales, 87 170 Basingstoke...Swallow Cliff, Avon, 88255 - sediments, Hong Kong Island, 84 9 - shingles, 86 560 Beachy Head, Sussex, 86...Beaconites antarcticus, 87 105 Bear, 89 89 Bearsted, Kent, 86 559 Beaufort Group, 89 265 Beckettia mastixioides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Earth Sciences, Cardi¡ University, P.O. Box 914, Park Place, Cardi¡ CF10 3YE, UK b Max-Planck-Institut...National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 22230, USA Received 4 September 2001; revised version accepted...K, Pb, Sr etc. in enriched MORB and many ocean island basalts. These elements will be depleted in recycled...+44-29-2087-6411; Fax: +44-29-2087-4326. E-mail address: niuy@cardi¡.ac.uk (Y. Niu). 0012-821X / 02 / $ ^ see front...Rise; seamounts; mid-ocean ridge basalts; ocean-island basalts; mantle; lateral heterogeneity; metasomatism;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rickard Department of Earth Sciences, Cardi€ University, Cardi€ CF1 3YE Wales, UK Ocean to the west...(Late Precambrian±Early Phanerozoic, WilldeÂn 1980) quartz clastic sequences in intramontane basins. These...Late Miocene-Early Pliocene (about 5 Ma) regional island arc in the Carpathians (Jankovic 1997). Lattanzi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCCURRE~CLof SILVRIAS [?] ROCKS h FORFXRSHII~E and Kn~cARDI,~ESIIIRE along the :EASTERNBORDERof the HIGULAI~DS...here. A small band of dark shale runs through the quarry, being the highest visible member of the Margie...derived from t~hem. The quartz-pebbles may have been obtained from the quartz-segregations so abundant...shattered, the lines of fracture being filled with quartz, which is always more coarsely crystalline than...Brawliemuir ; milling exceptional. SiOz = 93"85. Mullion Island chert; rarely if ever sheared. (Quoted for comparison
Report (edition)
Margin of the South Wales Coalfield Coast from Barry Island to Penarth Southerndown, Llanharry and Llanharan...obtai11i11g permissio11 to use tracks a11d to examine quarry and other sectio11s rests on the user of the Guide...long exposed in the well-known Pen-y-lan Quarry. This quarry has been almost obliterated by the construction...deep cutting for the new road (west of the old quarry) through Pen-y-lan Hill provides (1971) a fine...current-bedded. The best exposure at present is in Ty-mawr Quarry, east of the main road at Rumney, which may be
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pa id two visits to South T H *EWales---one to Cardi ff in 1888, an d another to Gower in T he regions...followed, in ascending order, by a massive coarse quartz-grit which crops out at the eastern end of the...Elsewhere the grit is usually less coarse, and in a quarry on the eastern side of the River Rhymney, 300 yards...deep-red and grey shale with thin bands of ferruginous quartz-grit. These were thought to be Old Red Sandstone...actually occurs at Cefn-coedfach, where coarse red quartz-grit, clay, and deep-red micaceous sandstone, undoubtedly
Report (issue)
a co1nplementary drai1iage survey of the whole island, geochetnical surveys of the Harlech Dome, Berwyn...co1nposition of these rocks suggests an evolving island arc (Tremadoc) to extensional 1narginal basin (Caradoc)...greenscltist facies 1nica scltists, ampltibole schists, quartz and graphitic schists, recrystallised li1nestones...northern Anglesey, the New Harbour Group comprises quartz-veined chlorite-n1ica schists, which grade up·wards...turbiditic fan .facies derived fro1n a continental island arc (Phillips, 1 991). The group is overlain in
Book
Magnesia, &c. - s • , ... - . 158 - Case J. . . • QUARTz * - Rock Crystal º s - º 161 . 158 to 158 *•...- 160 - f As - 1 / . . . A Case K. -> QUARTz, continued Chalcedony - 161 to 163 • º •...They are commonly associated with iron pyrites, quartz, fluor-spar, and chlorite ; more rarely with tin...Shelf I. > 1. NATIVE COPPER, associated with quartz. From the Great St. George Mine, Perran Perth,...of COPPER. 3. NATIVE CoPPER, intermingled with quartz. Devon and Courtnay Mines, near Tavistock, Devon
Report (issue)
Whitecliff Bay is located on the north east coast of the Island, on the northern flank of Culver Down. From Shanklin...mainland sites. Fossils: In marine sands, bivalves Cardi ta {Venericor) planicosta and Glycymeris, gastropods...1 km Section Showing the Northern Hall of the Island A monocline is an antiform with limbs dipping at... at a river mouth. Flint: concentrated silica (quartz). Folding: the bending and flexing of layers of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Wales Cardi¡, Main College, Park Place, P.O. Box 914, Cardi¡ CF1 3YE, UK. 0012-821X...lithological groupings observed (Fig. 2) include quartz, volcanic glass of rhyolitic and basaltic varieties...paper. Request for materials to IRH (e-mail: hall@cardi¡.ac.uk)[EB]. References [1] F.E. Grousset, C. Pujol
Journal (issue)
....................................... Copper County Mineral Retreat Christine Chritchley 41 .........unusual for the temperature at the bottom of a quarry to be 15 degrees Centigrade higher than the outside...under these conditions the bottom of our local quarry is a pretty fair approximation of the Sahara in...you can. Get them out of the sun, and out of the quarry. In the meantime, loosen their clothing and lie...Alderley Edge Mines (insurance fee) Minera, Llyn Clys Quarry Manchester Museum Llanrwst Mines, Dolyhir Thurstaston
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
local unconformable overstep. THE GEOLOGY OF T HE CARDI FF DI STRI CT. 47 . . . I i\lain Limeston e Ca...DISTIUCT. 49 Carboniferous Limestone and the quartz-conglomerates of the Old Red Sandstone (fig. 6...Brownstones Senni Beds Red Marls Grey and brown quartz-conglomerates and pebbly quartzites overlain by...Cardiff District proper. As regards scenery, the quartz-conglomerates with the underlying Brownstones give...Principal Sibly's paper. 6r T HE GEOLO GY OF TH E CARDI F F DI ST RI CT. at Cefn On , only 1 2 miles away
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
breccia { ph Metam orphic Phtanite (Chalcedo nic quartz). Xv Metamo rp h ic phyllites a nd crus hed sandstones...of pebbles of Brioverian sandstones or of vein quartz in a matrix of red sandstone (conglomerates and...granite, pegmatite, "microgranulite," -quartz porphyries and quartz breccias are included as pebbles. (ii...7. Ale n <; 0 n g ran u lit e. and" granulitic" quartz. The Brioverian rocks at the contact are gneissose...veins of pegmatite with cavities containing smoky quartz, the so-called Alencon diamonds. It is frequently
Report (Issue volume)
reservation communities and for people who live in Island Territories under U.S. administration. U.S. GOVERNMENT...the 50 States, Puerto Rico, Northern Marianas, Island Possessions, and Trust Territory. This volume also...State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...Resources, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Rhode Island: Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management... Contents Page Puerto Rico, Northern Marianas, Island Possessions, and Trust Territory, by Steve W. Sikich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zinnwaldite and often are partly ingrown in adjoining quartz, topaz, or fluo rite grains. The smaller (3–30...crystals in albite and microcline and (b) in topaz and quartz; (c) cross and (d) oblique sections of crystals...in microcline at the boundary with zinnwaldite, quartz, and fluorite; (f) colony of ingrowths of skeletal...in zinnwaldite; (g) crystal intergrowth in the quartz–albite groundmass of ongonite near a topaz phenocryst;...Minerals: Ab, albite; Fl, fluorite; Mc, microcline; Q, quartz; Tp, topaz; Wix, wolframoixiolite; Zn, zin nwaldite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
be observed in one and the same quarry, as, for instance, in a quarry by the roadside on Totnes Down Hill...this rock at " Red H i l l " or Pheasant's I-Jill quarry, Totnes, where it rests on limestone, as further...doubtless a product of decomposition. At Broomborough quarry, also near Totnes, there occurs a singular rock... 371 loidal kernels interspersed. At a small quarry above Allabeer on the right bank of the Dart and...inflated between the septa and striated internally, a Cardi~tm-like bivalve, and a small specimen of Stromatopora
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collected a number of fossils from the Pen-y-lan quarry, and sent them for determination to Sir Roderick...Ordnance Fig. 1.--Geological Sketch Map of the Cardi~ Silurian Distrivt. (Scale, 1 inch to a mile.) ...succeeds the Silurian, and is we|l exposed in a quarry in Coed-y-ewarel, where it exhibits the same northward...convenient base-line to work up from, the more so as the quarry in Pen-y-Inn hill lies on the line of strike of...a flue specimen of this shell was found in the quarry by one of my s~dents, I have not been able to find
 
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