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Biotite from
Wright Mine, Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wright Mine, Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:420411
Long-form Identifier:1:3:420411:4
GUID (UUID V4):34a56f59-b44b-45ac-bcb1-b46e3d1f477d
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Melvin Mine, Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Old Mine, Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Round Top Hill area quartz prospects, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
10.2km (6.4 miles) Blandford mica mines, Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
17.7km (11.0 miles) Clark Ledge pegmatite locality, Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) Loudville Lead Mines (Manhan Lead-Silver Mine; Southampton Lead Mine; Northampton Lead Mine), Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
24.9km (15.5 miles) Betts Manganese Mines (Anson Betts Mine; Plainfield Manganese Mines; Taconic Manganese Mines), Plainfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
33.7km (21.0 miles) Crissey Quarry (Crissy Hill), Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
36.5km (22.7 miles) Forge Hill iron mines (Old Hawley iron mines), West Hawley, Hawley, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
References
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Report (issue)
.......................................105 Massachusetts ..............................................is extracted from both open-pit and underground mines. Some is dry-ground, other material undergoes complex...Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. Districts in California...of the recorded production. Talc deposits in Massachusetts are mostly located in a north-trending belt...metasedimentary rocks continuous with that in Massachusetts; some are in Middle Proterozoic gneiss. They
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 (volume)
LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was prepared to accompany...MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf
Journal (issue)
.............219 by Robert I. Gait The Chester Emery Mines ...........................................the recent paper, “ Uralolite from the Dunton Gem mine, Newry, Maine: a second occurrence” (vol. 9, p....localities: 1 the j Elmwood and Gordonsville zinc mines near Carthage,Tennessee by Lance E. Kearns and F...Elmwood and Gordonsville zinc mines, near the town of Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Relatively little...of ore per day. The present working level of the mine is between 100 and 113 m. In the spring of 1976
Report (volume)
Sanford. Upon Mr. Sanford's transfer to the Bureau of Mines the work was put into the hands of Frank L. Hess...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:............................... Willis, C. F., and others, Arizona State Bur. Mines Bulls. 1-8, 1915-16. Comstock, T. B., A preliminary...and Hampden counties, Mass.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals...minerals of the Black Hills: South Dakota School of Mines Bull. 10, 1914. Purdue, A. H., The minerals of Tennessee...by K. A. A. Johnston, Canada Geol. Survey Dept. Mines Mem. 74, Geol. Ser. 61. This list does not record
Report (volume)
-....... 20 21 22 22 22 22 23 24 24 25 25 25 Emery .......................................... ^..................... 85 35 Corundum (emery) in amphibolite at Chester, Mass...........' . In anorthosite...deposits..........-.---...----..-.------.----..61 Emery in undetermined association. ...._.........--,--.......................... Origin of emery in amphibolite at Chester, Mass.................. * 81 86 92..... ........ ....-.-.----..--..-.-.--...... Massachusetts............................................
Report (volume)
........... ..................... Corundum in biotite, contact on saxonite ............................21 Corundum (emery) in amphibolite at Chester, Mass......._.--... . Origin of the emery...................... Macon County .........._. ...........,..-...........-......,.._, Sheffield mine .......... .....Clay County.. ................................................. Buck Creek or Cullakeenee mine.........tracts...................... ......... Jackson County ................ .............................
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Report (issue)
^he Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts A. The Pre-Silurian Geology of the Rowe-Hawley Zone B. Stratigraphy...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1366-A-D The Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor A. The Pre-Silurian...Jr. and Rolfe S. Stanley [etc.] 1. Geology Massachusetts. I. Hatch, Norman L. II. Series: Geological...a companion to the bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen and others, 1983; hereafter referred to... Geological Survey and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which was begun in 1938. They also include
Report (issue)
thoroughly. They were Bill Domoracki, Ron Fodor, Wright Horton, Harmon Maher, Butch Maybin, Clark Niewendorp... Gold deposits of the West Springs area, Union County, South Carolina Dennis J. LaPoint................Counties, South Carolina Allen J. Dennis and James E. Wright..................................................mafic metavolcanic rocks intruded by foliated biotite porphyry granodiorite). Return to S-44-12 (0.4/130...Broad River at 5.8 (34.3) miles. Turn right onto Chester bypass at 14.0 (48.3) miles. At 3.7 (52.0) miles
Report (issue)
THE TALG. SOAPSTONE AND ASBESTOS DEPOSITS OF MASSACHUSETTS by E. Chute Prepared under a cooperative project...investigations in the Coraroonvealth of >! Boston, Massachusetts CONTENTS Abstract .........................and aoapatone deposits... k Talc and soapatona mines, prospects, and quarries^ ......... ...... ........ 9 10 Appraisal^ ..^.^.... ........ , Massachusetts Talc Coapany stine^ $*pl°gy..........;.,;,...soapato&e deposit near the Hassachuaetta Talc Ccapany mine. a ^ . B4 a ......... ........ ..... ......
Report (issue)
Island, eastern Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts forms a distinctive block separated from the...Fullagar and Odom (1973) for similar rocks in Grayson, County, Va., although Rankin and opening of the lapetus...overprint is relatively tauga County, N.C., and eastern Johnson County, Tenn., minor, the older basement...a discordia intercept age of 1,280 m.y. Grayson County, Va. (Di), yielded an age of 1,149 m.y. (Davis...whole-rock-isochron age of 1,225 m.y. for layered biotite-muscovite gneiss (Paleozoic amphibolite *The Elk
Report (volume)
Survey of Alabama Map. University, Ala. Alaska Div. Mines and Minerals Geochem. Rept. - State of Alaska Department...Resources, Division of Mines and Minerals Geochemical Report. Juneau, Alaska. Alaska Div. Mines and Minerals Geol...Resources, Division of Mines and Minerals Geologic Report. Juneau, Alaska. Alaska Div. Mines and Minerals Rept...Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines and Minerals Report. Juneau, Alaska. Alaska Univ...University. Tempe, Ariz. Arizona Bur. Mines BuH.- Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin. Tucson, Ariz. Arizona Highways-
Report (chapter)
amphibolite (K) Lower amphibolite Chlorite and biotite Garnet Staurolite-kyanite Northern Appalachians...NC NJ Alabama Connecticut Delaware Georgia Massachusetts Maryland Maine North Carolina New Jersey NH...complex Chain Lakes massif Canaan Mountain Dutchess County Elmore Mountain Exeter pluton Green Mountain massif...zone Susquehanna River Wilmington complex West Chester Prong KAG KB KMB LW MA MS NB PM RB SMA SPD SRA...hornblende 4°Ar/39Ar biotite 4°Ar/39Ar muscovite K - A r whole-rock K - A r biotite K - A r muscovite K
Report (volume)
States By A. H. CHIDESTER, A. E. J. ENGEL, and L. A. WRIGHT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1167 UNITED STATES... by A. H. Chidester, A. E. J. Engel, and L. A. Wright. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1963. v, 61...S. I. Engel, Albert Edward John, 1916thor. II. Wright, Lauren Albert, 1918joint author. (Series) joint...___________________________________________________ Massachusetts.______-____-__-______-___________--__---__----_...location of talc mines and prospects. 3. Geologic map of the Chatsworth district, Murray County, Ga., showing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...quite interesting to visit these old abandoned mines and see the skeletons of a once prosperous business.... Ala., are some half dozen abandoned graphite mines that had been worked by the Alabama Graphite Co...chrysocolla and greenish malachite. From San Manuel Mine, San Manuel, Arizona. Tourmaline: Mass of black...Stayton Mine, Lone Tree, two miles south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California
Report (volume)
vols. 19, 20. London. Arizona State Bureau of Mines: Bulletin, nos. 46, 48-51, 53, 55-64, 66-72. Tucson...British Columbia, Bureau of Mines: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for 1916. Victoria, B. C. Bulletins...12, 13. Berkeley, Cal. Canada, Department of Mines, Mines Branch: Summary Report for 1916; Bulletin, nos...Survey: Bulletin 12. Denver, Colo. Colorado School of Mines: Magazine, vol. 7; Quarterly, vol. 12. Golden, Colo...Boletfn de Minas, nos. 2, 8. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no.
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Massachusetts ....... 34 Table 7 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Massachusetts.........................36 Figure 9. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Massachusetts.........................37 Figure 10. Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...radioactivity is 5 to 7 times background. Hill copper mine. RM 1968. Source ol informal Phyllite Location
Report (volume)
British Columbia Dept. Mines Ann. Rept.-British Columbia Department of Mines Annual Report. Victoria...Paleontology. Ithaca, N. Y. Calif. Dept. Nat. Res., Div. Mines Bull.; Mineral Inf. Service; Special Rept.California...California Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines Bulletin; Mineral Information Service; Special Report...Francisco, Calif. Calif. Jour. Mines and Geology-California Journal of Mines and Geology. San Francisco,...Gardenvale, Quebec. Colo. School Mines Quart.-Colorado School of Mines Quarterly. Golden, Colo. Colo. Sci
Report (volume)
Nat. Res. Areas described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin,... L. D., Jr., 3. Minor: Wright, Lauren A. , 2. Indian Mtn. area: Crawford, Potash: Calif. Dept. Nat. Res...Res. T. J., 1. Div. Mines, 33. Piedmont area: Baker, J., 1. Idaho: Prater, L. S., 2. Illinois, limestones...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:
Report (volume)
Pale"ontologie, t. 9, fas. 1, 2. Paris, France. Annales des Mines, 11° se"r., t. 5,1. 1-4. Paris, France. Annals and...Columbia, Bureau of Mines: Bulletin, no. 1; Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for 1913. Victoria...nos. 5-8. Berkeley^ Cal. Canada, Department of Mines, Mines Branch: Summary Report for 1913; and miscellaneous...Survey: Bulletin 7. Denver, Colo. Colorado School of Mines: Magazine, vol. 4; Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4; vol...Proceedings, vol. 13, pp. 1-46. Davenport, Iowa. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 7, no.
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts. ...............................................................-.-..------------- 126 Massachusetts................................................................................... 302 Massachusetts..... .........................................of Alabama, McCalley, 3819. Iron ore mines in Jefferson County, Castlcnian, 777. Leaf impressions in...French River sheet, Bell, 406. Geology of Kings County, N. S., Coldwell, 1024. Geology of Laurentian area
Journal (issue)
just recently and we have made ar­ rangements to mine all that may be in the deposit. At the present we... Collection ( Continued fr o m page 36) Walter H. Wright The Original Curio Store and Prospectors Shop ...of 2x5” and 5x7” size; an outstand­ ing Wheatley Mine anglesite group showing glassy, clean-cut, one-inch...Franklin, N.C.; bournonite and tetrahedrite, Herodsfoot mine, Cornwall; campylite, Drygill, Cumberland; gold...field trips—free access to op­ erating quarries and mines. It may not be too far-fetched to suppose that the
 
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