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Biotite from
Island Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, 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 Island Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:50902
Long-form Identifier:1:3:50902:4
GUID (UUID V4):88ddd3fa-7d38-4344-bf55-7f8a4e77cb9d
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Burroughs beryl prospect, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) French Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
0.6km (0.3 miles) Blister Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Beauregard Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Big Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Nichols Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Britton Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Kirk No. 2 Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) Fitzgibbons Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) George Porter Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered
Report (volume)
Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic...district...................................... Alstead area, Keene district......................... Mica-bearing...Plate 61. Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62....and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire ....................................... 63o...of the Keene district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the
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given in New Hampshire by Samuel Cordick, superintendent of the General Electric Co.'s mine; Andrew T...Mica Products Co.; C. W. Bryant, of the Standard mine; L. R. Brown, of Canaan; G. N. Bicker, of Canaan...general information on a number of mines in Grafton County and extended other kindnesses; M. M. Kilton, of...Leon Alien, of Keene; and Edward Howard, of East Alstead; in Virginia by P. Lippert and Capt. McCray, of...large sheet mica. The average price paid for run of mine mica, not split or sorted, ranges from $50 to $200
Field Trip Notes
//' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings
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cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...iron-rich minerals, such as black tourmaline, biotite, pyrite, magnetite, triplite, and triphyllite....May 2015 Figure 3. Aquamarine (4.1 cm long), Mack mine, Rincon, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey
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rocks of New Hampshire ....... 44 Table 9 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey ...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New York ........... 56 Table 11 Uranium occurrences...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Rhode Island ....... 83 Table 14 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Hampshire.......................^..^.i....48 Figure 12...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey....................................55 Figure
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Knoxville] at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the...nominated. However, with this issue’s emphasis on New York minerals and the presence of America’s largest...hard-rock garnet mines within its borders, a famous New York garnet specimen has been chosen for this issue’s...Choice piece. Moreover, garnet was designated as New York’s official state gemstone in 1969. Almandine...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered almandine
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect
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AmmonoosU;c Volcanics of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium, New England Appalachians U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Ammonoosuc Volcanics of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium, New England Appalachians By GERHARD W. LEO U.S. GEOLOGICAL...oceanic-continental volcanic arc in west-central New England UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...Ammonoosuc Volcanics of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium, New England Appalachians I by Gerhard W. Leo p. em. -...Docs. no.: I 19.19:1516 1. Intrusions (Geology)-New England Region. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic-Ordovician
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localities. My fond hope is that someone of the new generation will take up the challenge of revising...futile effort to reopen the former Chipman silver mine in Newbury. A brief exploratory foray into the Berkshires...companies led to a survey of the former Davis copper mine in Rowe, but that effort was abandoned, according...tantalizing find, one of several mineral discoveries in New England since the 1970s, including gold in a state... enough was found recently to warrant opening a mine. Hon's advice: "It is worth pursuing." Gleba, who
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MODIFIED DRIFT By WARREN ae OF GLACIAL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. UPHAM, DRIFT. APPENDIX II. TO PARTS ...INTRODUCTION, . . . . .. THE MINERALOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, LITHOLOGY, INDEX TO PART IV, APPENDIX, Part...Rockingham, Vt., 3 : 18, Section in Bridgewater and New Hampton, 19, Section in Concord, Fig. 20, Section...Section at the tin mine, Jackson, . . : : A : . . 67 Fig. 7, Map of the Warren mine, . CHARTS Holland’s...of IN THE 14-16 ATLAS. New Hampshire—/ac-szmle, reduced. New Hampshire—/ac-simzle, half size. Two
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REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A Prepared...1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann EDITOR...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of New Hampshire Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Rhode Island Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann 191...directed to develop model standards and techniques for new building construction that would provide adequate
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General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________
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the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices...Alaska Distribution Section, U.S. Geological Survey New Federal Building - Box 12 101 Twelfth Ave., Fairbanks...Alaska-New Federal Bldg., 101 Twelfth Ave. Summary Results of the Glens Falls CUSMAP Project, New York...York, Vermont, and New Hampshire U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1887 Summary Results of the Glens Falls...Falls CUSMAP Project, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire Edited by JOHN F. SLACK Geologic, geophysical
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Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro........................................... Rhode Island............................................................................................... Cheshire quartzite............................................................................... Rhode Island formation ....................................
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.............................. 200 PANTELLERIA ISLAND .................................................favorably received by our readers as a number of new subscriptions - from unexpected quarters - have been...interest to avoid the danger of being replaced by new members from the waiting list. Exhibition at the...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a
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Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South...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;
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existence. Mrs. Marguerite R. Collyer of the Rockland County Gem and Mineral Society remains as Chairman of...of the show, the first of its kind ever held in New England, with visitors coming from as far as Barcelona...the famed Burrage collection; other displays of New England included tourmalines of the Hamlin collection...Maine; aquamarine from Maine and New Hampshire; golden beryl from New Hampshire and Connecticut; apatite crystal...435 g. from Brazil, shown by Hugh Alex Ford, of New York, with a fine cut blue topaz from the Ural Mountains
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67 B. Section B: Occurrences...Section D: Occurrences located in the Newark basin, New Jersey . .99 E. Section E: Occurrences located in...location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2. deposit size (occurrence type - mine, prospect...south and east to west. The most prevalent name of a mine or prospect which was used in reference descriptions
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I CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STRATIGRAPHY OF NEW ENGLAND The Geological Society of America, Inc. Memoir...Memoir 148 Contributions to the Stratigraphy of New England Edited by Lincoln R. Page 1976 The Memoir...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook... H. Pease, Jr. Pre-Silurian stratigraphy of the New London area, southeastern Connecticut ..Richard Goldsmith
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DEPOSITS, BATHURST AREA, N.B., CANADA AND WEST-CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND, U.S.A. Editor : D.F. Sangster Co-sponsors...guide the reader through the famous Bathurst area, New Brunswick, site of the largest known concentration...discovery in the Bathurst region. In west-central New England, Slack and co-workers describe the old Elizabeth...Appalachians. The authors also entice the reader with new interpretations relating stratabound Mn(-Fe) deposits...well-documented in the Bathurst district. The road-log through New England invites the reader to conduct a do-it-yourself
Journal (volume)
News Vermont Geology volume 2 Fossil of the Quarter New PublicationS Order Blank-Vermont Geology PAGE 2...Paul Myrow: A paleoenvironmental analysis of the Cheshire Formation in west central Vermont ..............Environments of deposition in Crown Point section, New York . . . . . . . . 12:00 Lunch (brown tag) * ...of the north end of the Middlebury synclinorium, New Haven, Vermont Nathaniel Wilson: Structure and stratigraphy...deformational events as well as a post-kinematic biotite-grade recrystallization. The first event (D 1 )
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QUADRAM3LES, CONNECTICUT by Crawford E. Fritts New data concerning the geologic structure, stratigraphy... The arrange- ment of the chlorite, garnet, biotite, staurolite, and kyanite zones here is approximately...metamorphic zones in Dutchess County, New York. However, garnet appeared before biotite in pelitic rocks in...unmetamorphosed, because it is in the chlorite, garnet, and biotite zones. Southwest of the map area, however, metamorphic...tilting and faulting in Late Triassic time. The New Haven Arkose of the Newark Group was deposited unconformably
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...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. ................................................. Rhode Island..................................................F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;
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Paleozoic New Hampshire plutonic series granitic and darker rocks, pegmatite dikes E. Vermont & N. New Hampshire:...mostly Dev., Waits River & Gile Mtn. fms.; Ul New Hampshire: mostly Dev. Littleton fm.; low-high grade metasediments...metasediments & minor metavolcanics SE New Hampshire only: Merrimack group slates, phyllites & schists...Bronson Hill anticline boundaries (collapsed volcanic island arc complex) Oliverian plutonic series gneissic...into ground Winooski & Dunham marbles, Monkton & Cheshire quartzites, etc. = as above west of Champlain
 
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