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Zoisite from
Hawley, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Zoisite
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlAl)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zoisite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hawley, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:686527
Long-form Identifier:1:3:686527:6
GUID (UUID V4):9166bf19-7425-4ed4-861b-a5d585a31eef
Nearest other occurrences of Zoisite
13.2km (8.2 miles) Davis Pyrite Mine, Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) Catamount Hill, Colrain, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
19.3km (12.0 miles) Wilson Hill, Colrain, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
41.7km (25.9 miles) Pelham asbestos mine, Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
44.8km (27.9 miles) Dummerston granite quarry, Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont, USA
52.6km (32.7 miles) Wardsboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA
53.6km (33.3 miles) Putney, Windham County, Vermont, USA
56.8km (35.3 miles) Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
64.3km (39.9 miles) Westminster, Windham County, Vermont, USA
81.2km (50.4 miles) Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts A. The Pre-Silurian Geology of the Rowe-Hawley Zone B. Stratigraphy... Post-Taconian Structural Geology of the Rowe-Hawley Zone and the Connecticut Valley Belt West of the...Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor A. The Pre-Silurian Geology of the Rowe-Hawley Zone...C. Post-Taconian Structural Geology of the Rowe-Hawley Zone and the Connecticut Valley Belt West of the...Contents: The pre-Silurian geology of the Rowe-Hawley zone / by Rolfe S. Stanley and Norman L. Hatch
Report (volume)
MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON...Geological Survey, a inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon...States Geological A MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B....within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf
Report (issue)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of PUblic Works H. A. MacDonald, Commissioner U.S. Department...Cooperative Geologic Project Geology of the Plainfield-Hawley Area (with special reference to deposits of manganese...Bedrock geologic map of the Plainfield-Hawley area, Massachusetts Plate 2 - Geologic map of the manganese...Plainfield, Massachusetts. ****** Figure 1 - Key map showing locations of Plainfield-Hawley and CharlemontHeath...CharlemontHeath areas, Massachusetts. Figure 2 - Garnet in schist. Camera lucida sketches. Figure 3 - Isoclinal
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...Formation. It overlies rocks continuous with the Hawley Formation of Middle Ordovician age and underlies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to be held 22–25 October in Seattle (Washington, USA); at the 2018 Resources for Future Generations (RFG)...announce its award winners for 2017. Hawley Medal Winners The Hawley Medal is awarded to the best paper...mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and an MS in geophysics from...from the California Institute of Technology (USA). His research interests include studying Earth’s interior...David Jenkins at Binghamton University (New York, USA) on experimental chlorine partitioning in amphibole
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Charles Key collection, acquired through the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust; Royal Ontario Museum specimen...Charles Key collection, acquired through the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust; Royal Ontario Museum specimen...Charles Key collection, acquired through the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust; Royal Ontario Museum specimen...Charles Key collection, acquired through the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust; Royal Ontario Museum specimen...Charles Key collection, acquired through the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust; Royal Ontario Museum specimen
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)
BULLETIN 1380 Prepared in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works A facies change and...in southwest Massachusetts are described) and correlations between western Massachusetts and Connecticut...----------Stratigraphic section of western Massachusetts ------------------Hoosac Formation ________...Formation --------------------------------------Hawley Formation ----------------------------------------Cobble...------------------------------------Summary of Massachusetts section -------------------------Discussion
Catalog/List
. . . . . . 65 Fasciculite Xis, in schist; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.... . ... . .. . . .. . 6 FiM, xline, white; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, .2 0 per lb . . . .. .. .... . . . . . . . . . 51 fVith willemite, etc. "Franklin Ore"; New Jersey . . . . . . . 21 FUCHSITE-Sec...Michigan . . 13 Aficaceous (schistose) hematite; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . 6 Massive; Min nesota . ....aluminum silicate) Large phmocrysts in diabase; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Coarse-xline and cleavages;
Catalog/List
8 ^ Mineralogkal Cabinet, 82. L. Chester, Massachusetts. Massive; ofa pale green color in granite...Limestone. Chem. Carbonate of Lime. Bolton, Massachusetts. Chaux carbonatce primitive. H. St. Andreasberg...Southampton, Massachusetts. Var. Argentine or Shief- fer-spar. 127. L. Williamsburgh, Massachusetts. 128...carbonate of lime, upon quartz. 201. L. Berkshire, Massachusetts. tals, imbedded 202. L. Connecticut. In ...color. asbestus, I! crys- Springfield, Massachusetts. Massive, of a yellow- 205. Milford, Connecticut
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. James E. Hawley, Professor of Mineralogy, Queens University, Kingston...Babingtonitefrornfour new localities, all in Massachusetts, is described. Four new chemical analyses show...sfrom Mariposa County, Californi.a, The North Duncan gold mine near llornitos, Mariposa County, California...North Carolina. The flattened minerals are garnet, zoisite and magnetite, and they occur in books of mica...consists essentially of orthoclase. The occurrence of zoisite in muscovite is uncommon, but the occurrence of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
together with a group of other minerals including zoisite, the allanites, and piemontite, is a dominant member...Hampshire; and Willimantic, Windham County, and Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Gem-quality epidote...to 35 cm have been found at Eden Mills, Lamoille County, Vermont (a traditionally cited locality more accurately...the Belvidere Mountain quarry, Lowell, Orleans County). Epidote crystals to 5 cm have been found in the...from near Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; various other Massachusetts epidote specimen localities
Journal (issue)
Gilgit. The pegmatite at Morefield Mine in Amelia County, VA, has also produced topaz. Imperial topaz (see...I did my field work at Boston University in Massachusetts. Right out of college, I worked for an oil service... For example, he first identified the mineral zoisite, named for the naturalist Sigmund Zois, who sent...global ocean onto the ocean floor. November 2015 Zoisite, first described by Werner. Source: Wikipedia....adapted from Little Gems (newsletter of the Mohave County Gemstoners, Kingman, AZ), November 2009, p. 4.
Report (volume)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH...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............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...the Blueberry Mountain pegmatite at Woburn, Massachusetts,are Devonian in age.7The famous Bedford pegmatite...A. L Genesis of mica pegmatite deposits, Latah County, Idaho: , Econ. Geology,vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-58...30Lovering, T. S., Magmatic chalcopyrite, Park County, Montana: Econ. Geology,vol 19, pp 636-640, 1924...Geology and mineral resources of eastern Cassia County, Idaho: Brill. Id.aho Bta. Mines ond.Geology,vol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
compared with the structurally and chemically similar zoisite and clinozoisite, The distinguishing features of...R.R.) has made a deep cut along Sky Ridge near Hawley* Awarded the George Frederick Kunz Prize by the...most likely to be confused with this epidote are zoisite and clinozoisite. Indeed all belong to the same...distinction between epidote on the one hand and zoisite and clinozoisite on the other rests on the difference...be the result of less than ten per cent iron. Zoisite, which is usuaily still lighter in color, contains
Catalog/List
. . . . . . . . Fasciculite Xis in schist; Massachusetts Hornblende Common Hornblende Cleavable, black;... . . ........ . Xline, white, in dolomite; Massachusetts . .............. Hexagonite Purple :dine mass;...1.50 Xis, in matrix, ends of xis polished; Massachusetts .. ANDESINE (sodium and calcium aluminum silicate)... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Massachusetts or New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....DATOLITE (basic calcium boron orthosilicate) Xlcd; Massachusetts or New Jersey .35 1.00 3.00 DELVA UXITE (hydrated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Memorial of. (Ilunt). It4 Copper, crystallized, from Franklin, N. J. (Hatr). . . . 480 Copper, determination...copperfromFranklin, N. T. 490 130 Hall, G. M. Zoisite and other minerals included in mica JJ from Spruce...occur[Book review] $3 renceof. (Spencer) .. .. 90 Hawley, J. E. and Beavan. A. P. Mineralogy and gen_ Jahn...Bannister). . . VIII. Vapor pressure. (Hev) 391 Zoisite and other minerals included in mica from Spruce
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
amounts of actinolite, chlorite, clinozoisite and zoisite. Actinolite is more abundant than green hornblende...suggests a late formation. The strong increase of zoisite, chlorite and chromian white mica and the progressive...characterize the fourth assemblage (Table 1: Zo–G s4 = (zoisite + chlorite)-bearing amphibolitized gabbros). These... Listvenites s.s. are principally composed of zoisite in greyish microcrystalline aggregates, disseminated...mica, colorless chromian chlorite and chromian zoisite. An unusual Cr-diffusion aureole (Fig. 3e) is observed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
garnet, quartz, tourmaline,carbonates,epidote,zoisite, sericite, serpentine, ilvaite,vesuvianite,wollastonite...Clifton-Morenei, Ariz. (54) ............. Carroll County, Md. (7x) ............... Cobar, Australia (3)...Calif. (3) .................. Dillsburg, York County, Pa. (43) ........ Dobrogea, Roumania (•) .......x x x x x x x x Fontana, N.C.(78) x x x x Franklin Mine, B.C. (25) .............. ................ Kolar, India (44) ...................... Knox County, Maine (4) ............... Leadville, Colo. (6•)
Report (issue)
Bedrock Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr...biotite, chlorite, calcite, calcic plagioclase, zoisite, calcic amphibole, diopside, grossular, and scapolite...and Bronson Hill Anticlinorium of Vermont and Massachusetts. Deformation D2 produced subhorizontal, northeast-trending...and Bronson Hill Anticlinorium of Vermont and Massachusetts. Deformation D2 produced subhorizontal, northeast-trending...sedimentary rocks in the Worcester and Harvard, Massachusetts, areas. The Late Devonian to Pennsylvanian age
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Batholith Figure 5. Topaz from Crystal Park, El Paso County. Crystal is 3.1 cm tall. George and Betty Fisher...from Helen Hunt Falls, Cheyenne Canyon, El Paso County. Top crystal is 1.1 cm on edge. Dan and Dianne...quartz from the Saint Peters Dome area, El Paso County. Crystal is 2.2 cm tall. Dan Kile and Dianne Kile...emplacements, one potassic, another sodic, El Paso County-East of Pikes Peak Several pegmatite mineral localities...microcline from the Saint Peters Dome area, El Paso County. Specimen is 2 cm tall. Specimen owner anonymous
Report (volume)
classn_____ classification Co_______. Company, County Coll______ Collections Conini_____ Committee Cominuii____...well at the Jayhawk Ordnance Works in Cherokee County, Kans.: Kansas Univ. Geol. Survey Bull. 47, pt...C. K., 1. 1. The geology of Long Reach, King's County, New Brunswick: Royal Soc. Canada Trans. 3d ser...the Pennsylvanian section of eastern Vermilion County, 111., and Vermillion, Warren, and Fountain Counties...cobalt deposits in the Blackbird district, Lemhi County, Idaho/: Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Pamph. 61
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
Report (issue)
mine, New Hampshire_____________________ Orange County copper district, Vermont___________ Sulphur Mine...copper-bearing massive sulfide deposit at Ore Knob, Ashe County, N.C., is one of a large group of massive sulfide...proportions. The ore contains minor calcite, magnetite, zoisite, clinozoisite, and rare tourmaline. Copper, gold...aggregates, and combinations of these, plus epidote, zoisite or clinozoisite, tourmaline, and sulfides. In the...most prevalent in anhedral or subhedral grains zoisite crystals in pyrite and pyrrhotite probably grew
 
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