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Plagioclase from
White Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:653511
Long-form Identifier:1:3:653511:7
GUID (UUID V4):adcd7257-16ee-4bfa-af14-617fde6f0a53
Nearest other occurrences of Plagioclase
0.6km (0.4 miles) Kirk No. 1 Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Kirk No. 2 Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Nichols Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) French Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Blister Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Burroughs beryl prospect, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.9km (3.1 miles) Island Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Big Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Britton Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
13.3km (8.2 miles) Osgood Graphite Mine, Nelson, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
and is here acknowledged. Aid was given in New Hampshire by Samuel Cordick, superintendent of the General...general information on a number of mines in Grafton County and extended other kindnesses; M. M. Kilton, of...different colors of mica are "rum," "ruby," "amber," "white," and "black." Brown, green, and greenish-brown...first encountered. Muscovite is sometimes called white mica, in allusion to its high transparency when...pegmatite. In many places, however, a variety of plagioclase, either albite or oligoclase, makes up part or
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Walpole, Cheshire County New Hampshire 410 ROCKS & MINERALS 79 Meadow Lane Campton, New Hampshire 03223...Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054 janules@att.net THOMAS MORTIMER 3 Roberts Road Amherst, New Hampshire 03031...Chickering mine area: Pierre Hoge Reservation of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...the Program Assistant Camping Services of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...Chickering mine in Walpole, New Hampshire. We all share a common interest in New Hampshire mineral species, have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
essential mineral in the granite pegmatites. Massive, white, or smoky colored crystalline quartz often makes...length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds in weight...257 pounds was found about 1925 at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three...Rumford, Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire; Bedford, New York; the Scott and other...been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and Mesa Grande, California
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
Report (volume)
Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic...Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62. Map showing locations...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...402 TABLES Page Table 5. Power factors of New Hampshire muscovite....., 6. Size distribution and price
Report (volume)
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 _______________________________
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
subject of this paper are exposed in the McCaulifi quarry at Rollstone Hill on the western outskirts of the...core of the great central batholith of southern New England. The pegmatite bodies themselves are of an...content. Graphic granite-so common in many of the New England pegmatites-is here entirely absent,and there...haloesaround included zircons.Feldsparsconsist of early plagioclase of a composition varying between oligoclase and...The Chief Commercial Granites of Nlassachusetts,New Hamps h i r e ,a n d R h o d e I s l a n d : U .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...elements manganese, sodium, lithium, and cesium and is white, gray, or pink. Aquamarine is most commonly found...elongated crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by [] at 04:12...Antero in central Colorado. and project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil
Report (issue)
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 New Hampshire.......................^..^.i....48 Figure 12...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey....................................55 Figure...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of northeastern New York.........................64 Figure 14. Uranium
Report (issue)
QUADRAM3LES, CONNECTICUT by Crawford E. Fritts New data concerning the geologic structure, stratigraphy...mirror-image of metamorphic zones in Dutchess County, New York. However, garnet appeared before biotite...tilting and faulting in Late Triassic time. The New Haven Arkose of the Newark Group was deposited unconformably...General statements............................... s New Haven Arkose................................. 99...) ROCKS Continued Sedimentary rocks Continued / New Haven Arkose Continued Page Origin..............
Report (issue)
Glens Falls 1° x 2° quadrangle, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire by J.F. Slack-i/, G.R. Robinson...The Glens Falls 1° x 2° quadrangle (New York-Vermont-New Hampshire) is one of a number of l:250,000-scale...available for most of the stops in Vermont and New Hampshire, which are published (commonly at 15-Minute...bulletins of the Vermont Geological Survey, and, in New Hampshire, with papers in older (1940s-1950s) bulletins...from the roadlog of Thompson (1972). In the Orange County copper district, the stops and descriptions in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the regional sillimanite zone,west-centralNew Hampshire, U.S.A., with implications for the developmentof...Sciences,RensselaerPolytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, U.S.A. Mlrrrrrw J. KonN Department...Sciences,RensselaerPolytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, U.S.A. Ansrugr Sillimanite from the...regional sillimanite zone in west-centralNew Hampshire is fibrolitic and overprints F, folds (nappe stage)...that at the regional pressuresof west-centralNew Hampshire (2-4 kbar), staurolite paragenesesare only possible
Report (volume)
stratigraphic section through the northern Newark basin, New Jersey 19 By MichaelS. Fedosh and Joseph P. Smoot...Mesozoic rocks of the northern Newark basin, New Jersey and New York 31 By R.A. Parker, H.F. Houghton, and...Palisades siii to the lava flows at Ladentown, New York, based on new core data 113 By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe...Palisades sheet: Further evidence from Weehawken, New Jersey 13S By David N. Shirley Significance of major-...variation trends in Mesozoic diabase, west-central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania 141 By Jonathan M
Report (issue)
Geologic Map of the Chittenden Quadrangle Rutland County, Vermont By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe U.S. Geological...the present map, carries the carbonate rocks, Cheshire Quartzite, the Mendon Formation, and underlying...required. In the western 3 part of the map two new faults that are identified in this report are the...heterogeneous assemblage of well-layered biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss (Ybq) is interpreted to form the oldest...hornblende amphiboliteigarnet and hornblende-plagioclase gneiss and quartzite, as well as discontinuous
Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON...Becket gneiss .................................. 75 Cheshire quartzite ....................................................... 82 Mica-schist of Dry Hill in New Marlboro ........................ 82 Eastern baud... 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103 Albite...-CONTENTS. Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County Continued. Page. Opal.........................
Report (volume)
.................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro................................................ Cheshire quartzite....................................................................... 150 Berkshire County.................................................. 195 Dikes cutting the Quincy granite in Essex County, Mass......... 196 Aplite........................ 204 Nephelite-bearing dike rocks of Worcester County, Mass......... 204 Distribution...............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 USA (spearf@rpi.edu) ABSTRACT Cathodoluminescence (CL)...relaxation. Quartz inclusions within garnet or plagioclase crystals often show bright domains separated...display major element zoning. So, unlike garnet, plagioclase and other metamorphic minerals that do display...Center, 1 Research Circle, Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA  2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd et al., 2001; Landtwing...that it is simple to infer (in most cases) that as new garnet (or any other porphyroblast) grows, material
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
investigations in a polydeformed terrane in southwestern New Hampshire show that more than one stage of noncoaxial...of the Bellows Falls 15 minute quadrangles, New Hampshire. This region is situated between the axes of...my interpretation, the rocks in the Lake Warren-Gilsum region belong to the upper limb of the Skitchewaug...Warren to Gilsum, the F2 syncline from Marlow to Boynton Hill, the F3 anticline from Gilsum to Boynton...than one stage of folding. In southwestern New Hampshire, two stages of noncoaxial folding have created
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
review panel consisted of Dr. Steven Chamberlain, New York State Museum; Dr. Carl Francis, Harvard University;...Lupulescu, New York State Museum; and Dr. George Robinson, Michigan Technological University. neW DATA On... of Geology and Geophysics, University of new Orleans, new Orleans, LA 70148. Recent work on material...Anilite, 1.2 mm, from the Baltic mine, Houghton county, Michigan. Dan Behnke specimen and photomicrograph...1.2 mm, from the Wolverine no. 2 mine, Houghton county, Michigan. Tom Buchholz specimen, Dan Behnke photomicrograph
Journal (volume)
Quadrangle Southeastern Vermont The Crown Point Section, New York The Cambrian Platform in Northwestern Vermont...Charles A. Rattè Rolfe S. Stanley Christopher M. White Jeanne C. Detenbeck, Editor Additional copies Additional...magnetic anomalies of the ocean floor was provoking a new synthesis, which we now know as the "plate tectonics...road west toward St. Julien. 1.1 Slow for turn; county line; enter Compt4 Wolfe from Compt4 Megantic....porphyroclasts in a finer grained matrix. In addition, plagioclase (An 60 ), which is saussuritized, makes its appearance
Book (volume)
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 of Boar’s Head, % 255 - 55, Vessel rock, Gilsum, 267 . 56, Elephant rock, N ewport, . 57, Great...of IN THE 14-16 ATLAS. New Hampshire—/ac-szmle, reduced. New Hampshire—/ac-simzle, half size. Two
Journal (issue)
The Granite State Geologist Newsletter of the New Hampshire Geological Society Suite 133 * 26 South Main...make it happen. The NHGS is now in need of a few new faces to carry on this work. My experience in working...the originally scheduled date of April 8 to the new date of April 29 to avoid a confilct with the Geological...ratios in streamwater from the Sierra Nevadas provide new information on the effects of glaciation on granite...relative increase in the amount of biotite versus plagioclase weathering on freshly exposed surfaces. This
Report (issue)
Missouri ......... 120 900 70,220 169,519 9,410 New York 47,032 8,690 26,420 Tennessee ........ 141,990...under "Other States." Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia. and washington...MONUMENTAL GRANITE IN BARRE DISTRICT, VERMONT 1935 Total quarry output, rough stock................... Cubic feet...southerly part of the city of Barre, Washington County, State of Vermont, and extending westerly about...miles to and including \Villiamstown. in Orange County. All granite quarried elsewhere may not legally
Journal (volume)
Quality Legislation - Part II ..... Update by Chris White Mineral of the Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . State...State Geologist's Report . . . . . . . . . . New Publications Erratum ................... Meetings ......Shelley F. Snyder VGS BUSINESS & NEWS NEW MEKBERS The following are new memers, accepted by the Executive...garnet-. clinopyroxene- plagioclase- quartz and garnet-. orthopyroxene- plagioclase- quartz assemblages respectively...amphibole.-biotite coronas and spinel-clouded plagioclase. Major and trace-element concentrations reveal
 
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