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Diopside from
Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz2 photos of Diopside associated with Quartz at this locality.
Actinolite2 photos of Diopside associated with Actinolite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Diopside associated with Calcite at this locality.
Epidote1 photo of Diopside associated with Epidote at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:550524
Long-form Identifier:1:3:550524:1
GUID (UUID V4):e983a2a8-b73c-4fba-9d83-91366462c0a1
Localities for Diopside in this Region
Westfield Soapstone Quarry, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
6.7km (4.2 miles) Westfield Soapstone Quarry, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
27.1km (16.8 miles) Colebrook Dam and Colebrook River Lake, Colebrook, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
37.1km (23.1 miles) Huckleberry Hill, Avon, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
38.2km (23.7 miles) State Route 179 road cut (State Route 4 road cut Collinsville), Burlington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
44.4km (27.6 miles) Mountain Top Trucking quarry, Torrington (Wolcottville), Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
47.3km (29.4 miles) Torrington (Wolcottville), Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
48.3km (30.0 miles) Pfizer Company Marble Quarry (New England Lime Co. quarry; NELCO quarry; Specialty Minerals Inc.; Minerals Technologies Inc.; Canaan Limestone Quarry; Connecticut Lime Company; Canaan Lime Company; Lewis Quarry), Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
48.7km (30.2 miles) Pegmatite quarry and ultramafic rock, Harwinton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
49.1km (30.5 miles) Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
51.9km (32.3 miles) Hurley Hill, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a complex mineralogical composition: olivine, diopside, phlogopite, garnet, perovskite, titanite, spinel...olivine xenocrysts. Diopside composition varies between aluminian sodian chromian diopside (AlO.11 pfu; Na...Taughannock Creek dikes, to ferroan diopside (F;' 0.2 pfu) and diopside, in the Syracuse dikes. The red-purple...along a trend within the Morefield mine in Amelia County, Virginia. Brightwell (1999, 2001) analyzed amazonite...Bulletin describing a twin of datolite from Westfield, Massachusetts. In a major paper on datolite published
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)
-quadrangle, Berkshire, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties, Massachusetts by Stephen A. Norton \\ Explanation...1250 feet on the brook draining north into the. Westfield River at the east edge of the quadrangle. Their...banded gneiss, locally calcareous, locally with diopside; rusty to sulfidic weathering qiiartx-ffldspa...The. geology of eastern Berkshire fount y, Massachusetts: U.S. Cool, Survey !5ui].. 159, 139 p. Norwood...Redefinition of the Rowe Schist i r- northwestern Massachusetts, in Cohee, G.V. and Vtest , W.S., Changes ?
Report (volume)
Formation, a New Stratigraphic Unit in Western Massachusetts By NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., ROLFE S. STANLEY, and...BULLETIN 1324-B Prepared in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works A thin unit of calc-silicate...FORMATION, A NEW STRATIGRAPHIG UNIT IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS By NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., ROLFE S. STANLEY, and...of the Berkshire anticlinorium in southern Massachusetts and is here named the Russell Mountain Formation...across most of western Massachusetts has shown that in southwestern Massachusetts a thin discontinuous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
January/February: Gold and quartz, Eagle's est mine, Placer County, California. Tana Daugharthy specimen, Harold and...49 Collecting the KellerLakePegmatite, Waupaca County. Wisconsin: A New Site for Gadolinite-(Y), T. W...Note, Collecting the KellerLake Pegmatite, Waupaca County, Wisconsin: A New Site for Gadolinite-(Y),T. W...Paramelaconite Crystals,A1gomah Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, S. M. Carlson, M. J. Elder, R. Tolonen...180-83; Petzite, Bald Mountain, Sonora, Tuolumne County, California, 40-42; Scolecite, Pune (Poona), Maharashtra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Iluntington, Cummington, Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts. At Kane, he reported the opening of a...he obtained some of the rare light variety of diopside and malaconite. He found the old quarries at New...originally found at Russell by a well-digger. At Westfield he found that nuch datolite was still obtainable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HILL SPODUMENE LEDGE NEAR SOUTH WORTHINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS By B. M. SHAUB 159 Elm Street, Northampton,...located in the northwest corner of the ogy of Massachusetts published in 1833. town of Huntington. The ledge...formation regarding the crystallography toward the Westfield River. A line, of this mineral. Likewise the first...calcite, aragonite, ROCKS AND MINERALS 339 diopside, actinolite, siderite and ankerite. Into this...Geology, Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology of Massachusetts, p. 503, J. S. and C. Adams, 1833. (2) Julien
Report (issue)
SURVEY GEOLOGY OF THE WINDSOR QUADRANGELE, MASSACHUSETTS Stephen Alien Norton This report is preliminary...to recent geologic mapping in northwestern Massachusetts, southern Vermont, and southwestern New Hampshire...geologic map of southern Vermont northwestern Massachusetts. 11 Location of specimens for which modes...igraphic column for the Windsor quadrangle, Massachusetts. 26 Interbedded flaggy granulite and massive...quadrangle, Massachusetts. . . 17^ 22 23 Assemblages found in the Windsor quadrangle, Massachusetts in the
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)
onshore and offshore early Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg...Maritime Maryland Massachusetts, Deerfield basin Massachusetts, Hartford basin Massachusetts, other Morocco
Book
[- ' 1f,.,,1 " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l- ( MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND 1 #'vp ,#,V,4 I' vr Go � -...Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE... M.�SSACHUSE TTS Adams, Massachusetts Pfitzer Quarry Ashland, Massachusetts Bayer - Mingolla Quarry Blandford...Blandford, Massachusetts Goldmine Brook Site Bolton, Massachusetts Bolton Lime Quarry Granby, Massachusetts...Dinosaur Museum Hardwick, Massachusetts Quabbin Aqueduct Leverett, Massachusetts Leverett Lead Mine Plainfield
Catalog/List
Laranjeiras Mine, Minas Gerias,Brazil Magnet Cove,Arkansas,USA ½ x½ £1.50 5mm£3 Hannover Cove.St Agncs, Comwall...Mongolia. P.D.WellNo I , near Ajo, Pima lxl £4 County, Arizona , U.S.A Ribane Mine, Mozambique £8 Mt...sheafy areas in vitreous dark 432 THOMSONITE green diopside and rock Zeolite 2 cm tall, colourless clear single...Close, Cobham.Surrey England KT! I 2NL Boron, Kem County,Califomia U.S.A Madagascar Ix! £2 lxl £7. S0...ltaly lxl £5 Boghill Road Quarry, Glengonnley, County Antrim, Yaknl Mine,Bigndic, Turkey 1/,x½ £S ½
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
community of about 1,200 in southeastern Pinal County, is in southern Arizona. ARKANSAS—We recently received..."We recently bought another place (in Montgomery County, Ark.). Guess I told you the Atomic Energy Commission...tour'—we've been on practically every road in the county, so we know it pretty well now." "I'm sending you...CONNECTICUT—Robert H. Nelson, 949 Granville Rd., Westfield, Mass., sent in some specimens from the coal locality...angular masses. Rocky Hill is in southern Hartford County in central Connecticut. See Mr. Nelson's article
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
Show/Event (guide)
D i o p s i d e from the Atwater quarry area, Westfield, MA by W Shelton, G. W. Robinson, D. Burgess,...occurring in the Cartersville Mining District, Bartow County, Georgia by1..C. Gray. 4:30 A new site for gadolinite-(Y)...e x a h e d r a l faces on grossular from Inyo County, California by V. T King. 2 5:00 T w i n n e...over the past year along County Highway G east of Big Falls, Waupaca County, WI briefly exposed a series...New York. Talcville is located in St. Lawrence County, a famous mining region. Mining in the area started
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Sciences, Haruard Uniaersity, Cambrilge, Massachusetts 02 138 ,c,r.loSreF'lN S. HnnNrn Department ol... 89603. 2. Datolite, HrCanB"SLO,ofrom Westfield, Massachusetts, H.M, 95455. 3. H,Y,Be,SiOro, synthesized...this series B lite, H2Ca2BrSi2O16, from Westfield, Massachusetts angles will reach approximately 90.0'...greater than the per cm2. Fe3- splitting at Ml in diopside (Hafner and HuckThe absorbers were held at room...state of Fes* in calciogadolinite as compared to diopside. The quadrupole splittings of FeP. at the tetrahedral
Catalog/List
- METEORITE SLABS! STONEY-IRONS Odessa, Ector County, Texas Beaver, Oklahoma (found pre-1922) Excellent........ $125.00 PREHNITE, Lane Quarry, Westfield, Massachusetts ) Lime-green prehnite "axe-head" in etched...know of it. BABINGTONITE, Lane Quarry, Westfield , Massachusetts ~ • Excellent black vitreous babingtonite... $5.00 Six River District, Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon Capsule with iron-black laurite grains...and LORANDITE, RAJITE, Lone Pine Mine, Catron County, New Mexico Magnificent for the species! Terminated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Plumose County, Arizona. N o one knows better than we do that there is no such county in Arizona and...Franklin Co., Kansas. KENTUCKY—For many years Elliott County, in eastern Kentucky, has been known as a possible...reason for these many attempts is that in Elliott County is found a rock, called kimberlite, which is identical...attempt is being made to find diamonds in Elliott County—this time by core drilling. Part of the clipping...Diamond, he is. "The drilling for gems is in Elliott County, financed by people there, including Circuit Judge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
erals in. (Pabst) Babingtonite and ePidote from Westfield, Mass. (Palache).t93,652 269 Bacalite. (Buddhue)...Ingerson). Davis, H. T. with Ilentlerson, E. P. Moore County, N. Carolina, 215 meteorite-Aneweucrite.... DeJong...Lauder715 milk).. Diopside, morphological description and analysis.(Peacock).. 318 193 Diopside. Dodge, T. A...Improved Vander670 wilt rock saw. . . . Epidote from Westfield, Mass' 652 (Palache). Epistilbite from Bedford...reviewl . 74 Henderson, E. P. and Davis, II. T. Moore County, N. Carolina, meteorite-Anew eucrite... . 215 and
Book (edition)
CongresS; J / in the year 1834, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth in the Clerk's Office of the ...Secretary of the of said i ; District of Massachusetts. by Edward D. Bangs, in the name and District...Excellency, John davis, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts. I HAVE the honor to present you with the second...the 3d of March , 1830, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a Resolve, authorizing and requesting...Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to the Boston Society
Report (issue)
.......................................105 Massachusetts ..............................................include chlorite, Fe oxides, tremolite, serpentine, diopside, and forsterite. Intrusive magmas locally appear...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
Report (volume)
of the northern Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts 23S By Jeffrey D. Phillips Buried structures...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase...geophysical study of the northern Hartford basin, Massachusetts, and (6) a comparison of new aeromagnetic imagery...and northern Hartford basins and vicinity, Massachusetts, are presented as gray-tone images by Phillips...Portland Formation-s/sic3 , s/c, s/si, s/sic&"' em Hampden Basalt and Granby Basaltic Tuff-b 8 East Berlin
Report (volume)
Newport Center. The St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad provides freight service with stations...Notch in the southwestern part of the town of Westfield. It is chiefly interbedded carbonaceous and noncarbonaceous...Peak in the northwestern part of the town of Westfield. The general absence of B-14 CONTRIBUTIONS...of the cemetery that is half a mile south of Westfield. Phyllitic graywacke and conglomerate are well...Missisquoi River and 0.8 mile north of the Lowell-Westfield town line. The Knob, 1.0 mile north-northeast
Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE,
 
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