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Rutile from
Oak Hill Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Rutile
Formula:TiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rutile data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oak Hill Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:684456
Long-form Identifier:1:3:684456:1
GUID (UUID V4):dfe1d9bf-0147-495b-9665-b997633bfd31
Nearest other occurrences of Rutile
8.0km (5.0 miles) Chelmsford Lime Quarries, Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) Aggregate Industries Quarry (San-Val Quarry), Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
14.1km (8.8 miles) Harris Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
24.7km (15.4 miles) Route 101/101A road cuts, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
25.1km (15.6 miles) Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
25.4km (15.8 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
25.6km (15.9 miles) Tonella Old Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
26.2km (16.3 miles) Barker Hill Quarry (Rusk Quarry; Townsend Quarry), Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
27.2km (16.9 miles) Comolli Granite Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
27.5km (17.1 miles) Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little...body of marble could be obtained in an open-cut quarry, but ultimately the rock would have to be mined... SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS. By T. NELSON DALE. INTRODUCTION. The granites..."granites" here described, as well as the others of Massachusetts described in Bulletin 354, are commercially...crushed stone have been excluded, but the felsite quarry of Revere has been included, although it is not
Report (volume)
___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______
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
Field Trip Notes
formation on the west and the highly deformed Snake Hill shale or slate on the east (all Middle Ordovician);...is lost in a wide expanse of Canajoharie or Snake Hill shale covered by late-glacial lake and marine clay...under stratigraphically higher shale (the Snake Hill shale), also highly deformed, which forms most of...Taconic mass of slate comes to an end at Government Hill in Sudbury town, 5 miles west of Brandon, Vermont...belt. South of Fort Ann, New York (C3), the Snake Hill shale covers the carbonate rocks; it consists of
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
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:...............................Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr...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.;
Report (volume)
North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks...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
Book (volume)
publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum
Report (volume)
Geology of the Chepachet Quadrangle Providence County Rhode Island By ALONZO W. QUINN CONTRIBUTIONS...geologic map of the Chepachet quadrangle, Providence County, Rhode Island____-_____________._____ In pocket...__________________ 5. Modes of Scituate Granite Gneiss of Snake Hill.____________ Page Gil 14 18 20 20 CONTRIBUTIONS...GEOLOGY OF THE CHEPACHET QUADRANGLE PROVIDENCE COUNTY, RHODE ISLAND By ALONZO W. QUINN ABSTRACT Tbe...smooth hills, such as Wolf Hill, Sprague Hill, Durfee Hill, and Tourtellotte Hill. There are a few swampy
Report (issue)
Bedrock Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr...Merrimack Synclinorium and Bronson Hill Anticlinorium of Vermont and Massachusetts. Deformation D2 produced subhorizontal...ALUMINOUS SCHIST OAKDALE FM, AND MERRIMACK FM, TOWER HILL QUARTZITE WORCESTER FM, Figure 1. PROPOSED STRATIGRAPHIC...Merrimack Synclinorium and Bronson Hill Anticlinorium of Vermont and Massachusetts. Deformation D2 produced subhorizontal...thrusting and deformation associated with the Honey Hill-Lake Char thrust system in the Merrimack Sync!inoriurn
Report (issue)
. . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY .................and Associated Minerals f , 7 Rutile and Rutilated Quartz. ... 9 Rutile, Xenotims and Monagite. ........ 9 ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ...........13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS (PART GOOCHLAND By PHILIP East Derry, COUNTY In N edge of the James R., W of Richmond and bordering...Extensive gold mining formerly on ex­ treme W and county line around Rte 605 to Rte 606. There are several...(village) and S of Busby M and Nr Tellurium and Massachusetts Gold Ms. Chatlier Gold M. 1.5 Mi. N of junc­...Tellurium, i.e. Big Sandstone and Little veins. Gold Hill veins cross as well as Shaw (Back Field) vein. Largest...as well as the small tributary branches. Shannon Hill Gold Ms. (Tagus Min­ ing & Milling Co.). Op. only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCTOBER 1950 STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE OAK HILL SUCCESSION IN VERMONT BY VERNE H. BOOTH CONTENTS...Stratigraphy Introduction General correlation Tibbit Hill schist Pinnacle formation White Brook dolomite West...Thrust faults 1160 General statement 1160 Brigham Hill thrust 1160 Hinesburg thrust 1161 Arrowhead thrust...Fairfield Pond thrust 1163 Klippen west of the Oak Hill escarpment. 1164 Minor thrusts 1166 Mechanics...the sediNorth of the Winooski River, Vermont, the Oak ments and also that the sea was encroaching westHill
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............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rare-earth pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 30 Live Oak \ Llano \ Madison Mason Matagorda Nolan Pecos Presidio...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in
Report (issue)
McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE IN GARNET RUBY CORUNDUM GOLD TORBERNITE GARNET IN MICA ANATASE RUTILE AJTUNITE...beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...15 Aquamarine 15 Spodumene 15 Garnet 16 Rutile 17 Quartz 17 Rock Crystal 17 Amethyst ••...COUNTIES Alamance County • .' 22 24 24 Alexander County 24 Alleghany County 25 Ashe County • 25 Avery...Avery County 25 Buncombe County 26 Burke County 26 Cabarrus County 27 Caldwell County 27 Caswell
Report (issue)
beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these.......................... ... .................. Rutile .................................................Alamance County ........................................................... 24 24 Alexander County ......Alleghany County ....................................................... 25 Ashe County ............Avery County ............................................................... 25 Buncombe County ...
Report (issue)
Bulletin 48 County Series No. 1 Outline of the Geology and Mineral Resources of Goochland County, Virginia...comprehensive study and detailed geologic map of Goochland County, as being rather representative of the east-central...Conservation Service. This report is the first in a "County Series" of reports, in which it is planned to discuss...discuss concisely certain feat ures of each county. The chief purpose of this report, and other similar...to give the teachers and other residents of the county reliable up-to-date information, in essentially
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology, v. 102, pp. 319–326 UNCONVENTIONAL RUTILE DEPOSITS IN THE QUEBEC APPALACHIANS: PRODUCT OF...Québec, Canada H3C 3P8 Abstract Unconventional rutile deposits occur in heavy mineral paleoplacers of...assemblage and is the main titanium mineral. Detrital rutile is also present in trace amounts. Postdepositional...observed farther west, where anatase is predominant. Rutile formed under greenschist metamorphic conditions...phases and recrystallized as oxides, particularly rutile. Below the sillimanite zone, titanium preferentially
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON............................ 82 Mica-schist of Dry Hill in New Marlboro ........................ 82 Eastern... 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103 Albite...-CONTENTS. Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County Continued. Page. Opal.................................................:........................ Rutile...............................................
Report (issue)
director United States geoh)gical survey liy Massachusetts in Green mountains of the Geology Raphael Pumpelly...director United States geological survey by Massachusetts in Groen mountains of the Geology Raphael Pumpelly..., XXIII. Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts, by Raphael Piiinpelly, P. Nelson Dale, and...Upper Devonian, along the meridian of County, IL Y., to Bradford County, Pa., by Henry S. Williams. 1884....cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of )ntario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 8°. 1885. 86 pp.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
omphacitewith intergrowthsof hornblende,feldspar, and rutile-rarely with quartz and epidote. The hornblende...throughthe shale and jasper exposed at the foot of the hill only a few feet away, but the gravelof the creek...reactionof titanium. The mineralwas determined as rutile-a result which the microscopicexaminationof a thin...are cracked,with omphacite filling the cracks. Rutile is present as a segregationin the groundmass and...Martin. grains. X 24. I= garnet, 2=omphacite, 3=rutile. The microphotographin Fig. 2 shows the clear outlines
Book
dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its...Hidden. The rose-pink rhodo­ lite garnet of Macon County was discovered in the late 19th century and named...the Jackson club with its successful shows. Macon County, North Carolina, has a wide awake Chamber of Commerce
 
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