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Anthophyllite from
Pelham asbestos mine, Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Anthophyllite
Formula:◻{Mg2}{Mg5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Habit:Fibrous. Some fibers more than two feet long.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Anthophyllite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pelham asbestos mine, Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:93006
Long-form Identifier:1:3:93006:6
GUID (UUID V4):eed54c74-7f24-4b32-8859-b3a4fbaebea7
Nearest other occurrences of Anthophyllite
43.8km (27.2 miles) Richmond Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
46.4km (28.9 miles) Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
72.1km (44.8 miles) Satan's Kingdom talc deposits, New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
88.2km (54.8 miles) Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
89.7km (55.7 miles) Colony Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
94.4km (58.7 miles) Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
94.6km (58.8 miles) Unnamed amphibole-tourmaline-magnetite locality, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
98.2km (61.0 miles) Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
98.2km (61.0 miles) Sandy Hill, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
99.0km (61.5 miles) Timms Hill (Tim's Hill; Iolite Hill), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...Survey, a inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was...Geological A MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON...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)
Public Worka THE TALG. SOAPSTONE AND ASBESTOS DEPOSITS OF MASSACHUSETTS by E. Chute Prepared under a cooperative...investigations in the Coraroonvealth of >! Boston, Massachusetts CONTENTS Abstract .......................... 9 10 Appraisal^ ..^.^.... ........ , Massachusetts Talc Coapany stine^ $*pl°gy..........;.,;,...soapato&e deposit near the Hassachuaetta Talc Ccapany mine. a ^ . B4 a ......... ........ ..... ...... ...1^ i COKTENtS (Continued) Talc and soapstone mine a, prospects, and quarries (Continued) Boo sac Tunnel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AmericanMineralogist,Volume65,pages 1075-1086,1980 Anthophyllite asbestos:microstructures,intergrown sheetsilicates...complex microstructuresof an anthophyllite asbestosspecimenfrom Pelham,Massachusetts,have been elucidatedby...are not related by a twinning operation.The anthophyllite possesses pervasivemoderatechain-width disorder...can occur in amphiboles, sincein someother anthophyllite specimenscrystalssplit preferentially along...secondarymechanismof fiber formation in commercialamphibole asbestos. The correlation of chain-width errors with the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tourmaline and cream-colord anthophyllite from the Pelham asbestos mine. From Strickland's Quarry, Portland
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 (volume)
Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, ' South Carolina, and Massachusetts^and a revised Mississippiari time ,, *" scale...Formation, a Miocene formation in northern Elko County, Nevada, and adjacent Idaho, including a consideration...Revision of some stratigraphic names in central Massachusetts, by Peter Robinson and Gwendolyn W. Luttrell...FORMATION, A MIOCENE FORMATION IN NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA, AND ADJACENT IDAHO, INCLUDING A CONSIDERATION...west and east sides of the Jarbidge River, in Elko County, Nev., and adjacent Owyhee and Twin Falls Counties
Report (volume)
Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...mag¬ nesian rocks. Shooting Creek region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite...Dunite at the Bad Creek mine. Dunite of the Asbestos mine. Dunite of the Sapphire mine. Vicinity of Glenville
Report (issue)
mineral occurring at Milbury, near Worcester, Massachusetts, in allusion to its curious property of developing...corundum, apatite (particularly fluor-apatite), asbestos, chlorite and talc. The association of vermiculite...Corundum Hill mine is reliably reported to persist at least as far as the 200 ft. level in the mine, which is... 369. (2) Vermiculite, Milbury, Worcester, Massachusetts. T. H. \Vebb, Ame1'.].Sci., 1824, 7,. 55. (3)...Corundum Hill, North Carolina. 6 Vermiculite, Fresno County, California. 7 Griffithite, California. a Vermiculite
Report (issue)
-----Maryland -----------------------------Massachusetts _________________________ _ Michigan _________...Geotechnical and geohydrological studies in Fairfax County, Virginia _________ _ Connecticut Valley Urban...l cooperators ----------~-------------­ State, county, and local cooperators ---------Other cooperators...stock in the Warm Springs mining district of Blaine County, Idaho, appears to be the source of lead-silver...Sedalia Mine, Colorado Field investigations by D. M. Sheridan and W. H. Raymond at the Sedalia Mine northwest
Report (volume)
250-12,460 ft, sec. 14, T. 45 S., R. 27 E., Lee County, Fla. Named for the nearby Able Canal. The Able...H-20, northwest of Wattsville, northern Accomack County, Va. Reference sections: facies E and F, sand pits...Wattsville, Persimmon Point, and Accomack, Accomack County, Va. The informal Accomack beds of Mixon and others...and west of the Ames Ridge shoreline in Accomack County, Va., and are well developed from Wallops Station...Turnpike exchange, Annandale quadrangle, Fairfax County, Va. The Accotink Schist, here named, is the lower
Report (volume)
4, 5, 8; Museum Paper, nos. 5, 6; County Report, no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific...Boletfn de Minas, nos. 5-13. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no....Ordovician; Silurian; Queen Annes County; Kent County; Talbot County. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vols. 5 (no...Geological Survey: (County Reports) Fayette County; Webster County; Nicholas County; Tucker County; Mineral and...Monroe, and Summers Counties; Hampshire and Hardy Counties; Pendleton County. Morgantown, W. Va. Wisconsin
 
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