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Microcline from
Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:534976
Long-form Identifier:1:3:534976:0
GUID (UUID V4):1eacae13-4586-4812-a135-ab3dbe2e672d
Localities for Microcline in this Region
South Royalston beryl locality (Clark locality), Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
5.9km (3.6 miles) South Royalston beryl locality (Clark locality), Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Yon Granite Quarry, Fitzwilliam, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Webb Granite Quarry, Fitzwilliam, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
10.7km (6.7 miles) Silver White Granite Quarry, Fitzwilliam, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) Richmond Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
11.2km (7.0 miles) Snow Flake Granite Quarry, Fitzwilliam, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
11.5km (7.2 miles) Thompson Granite Quarry, Fitzwilliam, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Orange mica mine, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Fitzwilliam, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
20.3km (12.6 miles) Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
. - PETROGRAPHY OF THE ATHOL QUADRANGLE, MASSACHUSETTS 3y o Anita Louise Mook This report is preliminary...map of the Athol quadrangle, Worcester and Franklin Counties, Massachusetts ................... In pocket... Abstract The Athol quadrangle of north-central Massachusetts is underlain by high-grade metamorphosed amphibolites...miles in the upland region of north-central Massachusetts; the town of Athol is about 60 miles west of...the writer has extended into north-central Massachusetts some of the nomenclature of the New Hampshire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...as elongated crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by...Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls, and aquamarine occurs...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 Scovil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester...at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of...pegmatite of the Eight Mile Park area of Fremont county, Colorado; while pink chalcedony has been found...Dakota and of the Bridger Mountains in Fremont county, Wyoming. Feldspar Group The feldspars form a...pegmatites are the potash feldspars orthoclase and microcline; the soda feld228 spar, albite; and the intermediate
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)
Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Journal (issue)
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...world ·was found in pegmatite. It was a perthitic microcline crystal measuring 7xl2x30 feet. It was mined...3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals have reached...pegmatite of the Harding Mine near Embudo, T aos County, New Mexico, has been mined and sent to Washington
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON............................................ Worcester County, Mass.......................................member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with pink cores in 8c from near Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina. Volume 91, January/February 2016...is 70 × 50 × 30 mm and is from Chesterfield, Massachusetts. 68 ROCKS & MINERALS BEYOND BLUE A Primer...25 × 25-mm aquamarine crystal, is from Royalston, Massachusetts, and is in the Benjamin Silliman Jr. collection...135 × 55 × 33 mm and is from Chesterfield, Massachusetts; it is in the Benjamin Silliman Jr. collection...benitoite and neptunite on natrolite from Benito County, California; it is 80 × 45 × 30 mm and was collected
Catalog/List
80C08 ANDALUSITE, Pink Lady Claim, Berne, Custer County, South Dakota Andalusite is a mineral usually missing...display specimen •.. $35.00 80C21 BERYL, Royalston, Massachusetts Aquamarine crystal (3.5 cm) with partial...00 80C26 BRUCITE, Woods Mine, Texas, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Brucite crystal geode (4.5 x 7 cm...face. Commonly associated minerals are acmite, microcline, peach to brown colored tinaksite in addition...California, Arkansas, or New York State, indicate your county of residence and the total state and local sales
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Report (volume)
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...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee
Book
GENERALIZED BEDROCK GEOLOGIC EASTERN MA5SACHUSSETS WORCESTER .W o] ~P- FM V/C/N/TY ^^o Red beds MAP...Department of Geology Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 02215 to; PREFACE In 1966, John Rodgers...Davis in the Connecticut Valley of western Massachusetts, and gradually extended itself. oo over New...Brown University The Foxboro Co., Foxborough, Massachusetts Geography, University of Toronto U. S. G, S...Boston State College Botany, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Marine Sciences, Virginia Institute
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................of Geology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He began teaching there in 1931 and he retired...permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...Maine's treasure chest; Gems and minerals of Oxford County, second edition: Quicksilver Publications, West
Journal (issue)
New York, County of \\'estchester. Refor e me-'- a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid...Chester is in the southern part of W indsor County, which county is in the southeastern part of the state...Swell is in the southwestern part of Emery County, which county is in the eastern part of Utah. The fo llowing...Indian Thunder Gods. There is a cave in Malheur County, Oregon, where you can walk a half mile and then...underground. There is a hot borax lake in H arney County, Oregon, in which it is reported rhat a new species
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:...............................See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Journal (issue)
WEST PARIS. MAINE STA N L E Y 1. PERHAM OXf'ORO COUNTY MINIEIIA L S AN D GE M S A SPECIALTY A M BER M...commercial quantities in Little Borax Lake, Lake County. A considerable tonnage of borax was recovered...Borate in San Bernardino County, and another one at Lang, Los Angeles County. The two latter have been...BY P ,\CIFJC COAST BORAX COMPANY, SHOSHONE, INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNL\. 74 ROCKS AND l\1INERALS 0 R ...discovered on the l\fojave Desert near Kramer in Kern County ,associated with borax, some colemauite and ulexite
Book
Survey) Chester County, Pa.: Alabama; Texas; Montana: Humbolt County, Nevada; Beaver County, Utah; Loudon...~unty, Virginia; Wake County, North Carolina; Albany County, Wyommg; and Kern County, California. Natural...realgar and usually with it. It is found in Iron County and Mercur, Utah; also in Yellowstone Park in hot...Counties, California; Idaho; Humbolt, Nevada; Iron county, Utah. It is found also in Mexico. Stibnite is...Vermont; Haddam, Connecticut; Chester County, Pennsylvania; Chelan County; Washington; Pitkin and Climax, Colorado;
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable...detailed reports on special areas, according to county. The bibliography of the United States Geological
Book (edition)
in the polysynthetic twinning of the feldspar, microcline, arising probably from the fact that the angle...near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the...North Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, formerly in the County of Wicklow, where a nugget of 22 ounces was found;
Book
>& Curator, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. A. x JOAQUIN FOLCH Barcelona, SPAIN }e...HURLBUT, Professor, Harvard Unwersity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. 8. A. Je AKIRA KATO, Curator, National Science...the island of Elba, Italy; the Mourne Mountains, County Down, Ireland; the Adun-chilon Mountains, Nerchinsk...Gerais, Brazil; Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado; and...and Rincon, San Diego County, California. This specimen was obtained by the Smithsonian Institution in
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frondel, Curator, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, u. S. A. ^ joaquin folch Girona, Curator, private...Professor, Harvard Univer­ sity. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A. ^ akira kato, Curator, National Science...the island of Elba, Italy; the Mourne Mountains, County Down, Ireland; the Adun-chilon Mountains, Nerchinsk...Gerais, Brazil; Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado; and...and Rincon, San Diego County, California. This specimen was obtained by the Smithsonian Institution in
Journal (issue)
Uwharrie Wildlife M anagem ent A rea, M ontgom ery County, North Carolina. T he major crystal m easures 6...at the Burlington mine near Jamestown, Boulder County, Colorado. We found perhaps a dozen good specimens... MINERAL SPECIES: Country: State or Province: County: N earest Town: M ine Name: O ther Inform ation:...Rustam Z. Kothavala 377 A. Walden St. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Hours by Appointment: (617)-492-1352 Any...1878. Notes on the apatite de­ posits of Ottawa County, Quebec. Geol. Surv. Canada, Rept Progress for
Book (edition)
law Orthoclase 1. Brachypinacoid, contact Microcline and plagioclase (a:b: 0c) Albite law . bis twinning...twinning axis, contact Pericline law feldspars Microcline and plagioclase feldspars COMPOUND CRYSTALS...color and spherical triangular outline. San Diego County, California. Fia. 308. Agate. Brazil. and sharply...Andalusite: Variety, chiastolite. Lancaster, Massachusetts. Opalescence. This consists of milky or pearly...Rhombohedral Basal Prismatic System Plagioclases, microcline Plagioclases, kyanite Kyanite The cleavage of
 
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