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Kyanite from
Windsor, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Kyanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kyanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Windsor, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:94938
Long-form Identifier:1:3:94938:3
GUID (UUID V4):4f71a869-14fc-48c7-af89-a1651888ea47
Nearest other occurrences of Kyanite
26.5km (16.5 miles) Old Mine, Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
27.3km (16.9 miles) Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
39.4km (24.5 miles) Blandford Power Lines kyanite locality, Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
61.2km (38.0 miles) Pine Mountain, Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
63.7km (39.6 miles) Chesterfield, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
69.6km (43.2 miles) Foxcroft Lane, Ratlum Mountain, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
69.6km (43.3 miles) North Canton, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
69.8km (43.4 miles) Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
70.1km (43.6 miles) Mountain Laurel Court, Ratlum Mountain, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
70.1km (43.6 miles) Ratlum Mountain, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R E S 18 Singletary Lane Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions...antique quar­ ry in the world is in Rochester (Windsor Co.), Vermont. Min­ eral products mined "as is"...The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi­ cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...(also spelled Carleton) talc quarry in Chester (Windsor Co.) has been an important source of coarse actinolite
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGY OF THE WINDSOR QUADRANGELE, MASSACHUSETTS Stephen Alien Norton This report...Formation General Statement Petrology Thickness Age Berkshire Schist General Statement Schist and Phy11ite Black...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...18 Strat igraphic column for the Windsor quadrangle, Massachusetts. 26 Interbedded flaggy granulite
Report (issue)
Tectonic Studies of the Berkshire Massif, Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont A. Blastomylonites...at the Western Edge of the Berkshire Massif, Connecticut and Massachusetts-A Preliminary Report B. Chronology...and Precambrian Rocks at the North End of the Berkshire Massif C. Tectonic and Metamorphic Chronology...History of Part of the East Side of the Berkshire Massif, Massachusetts E. Recumbent Folding of the Goshen...Goshen and Waits River Formations, \.Yestern Massachusetts F. Time and Space Relationships of Structures
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 ________...------------------------------------Summary of Massachusetts section -------------------------Discussion...map of the east limb of the. Gre,en Mountain-Berkshire massifs, southwestern New England -----------
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...Shride Pre-Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Massachusetts .Kenneth G. Bell and Donald C. Alvord Stratigraphic...Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel, east-central Massachusetts .James W. Skehan. S.J.. and A. Adel Abu-moustafa...stratigraphy in the Brimfield area, Connecticut and Massachusetts .John D. Peper and M. H. Pease, Jr. Pre-Silurian
Report (issue)
Bedrock geologic map of the Weston quadrangle, Windsor, Windham, Bennington, and Rutland Counties, Vermont...ground with lustrous chloritoidmuscovite-ilmenite±kyanite-bearing schists in the Ludlow Quadrangle (Fig.... 1, loc. 1) that there are intruded by kyanite-bearing tourmaline pegmatite and granodiorite gneiss (Ygg)...associated with garnet-biotite rocks in western Massachusetts (Hames and others, 1991). Assuming temperatures...cooling ages as old as 389 Ma from staurolite-kyanite grade rocks in the Chester dome (Spear and Harrison
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
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Riddle's Mill Dist. (gold deposits) of Talladega County, Ala. It is 8l/ 2 x 11 and sells for Si, we believe...several recent trips to Clear Creek, San Benito County, Calif., have shown that the jadeite boulders in...Diablo Meridian, Calif., in southeastern San Benito County. The town of Hollister is 80 miles northwest of...northern San Juan County, Colorado. The mine was in a rather remote section of the county and was never worked...in the soil at Foxville, Frederick Co., Md. MASSACHUSETTS—"I am sending you a couple of specimens I would
Report (issue)
geologic map of the Ashley Falls quadrangle, Massachusetts a and Connecticut . 1011 By c/^vv ! Nicholas...i -.'. : Prepared in Cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Ce ot+9 f* %vv^ Works...rocks consist of Precambrian Gneisses of the Berkshire massif above the, Benton Hill fault, the Dalton...different from that of thet 12 : main part of the Berkshire massif. 13 These exposures constitute the deepest...Green Mountain Ajiticlinorium at the Vermcnt! Massachusetts state line (MacFadyen, 1956). j - ' Based^on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pittsford, N.Y. 14534. NORTH CAROLINA Ethel Windsor, member of the Pied­ mont Mineral Club, Greensboro...trip to Mifflin County. Member Bob Cox of the Rock and Min­ eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills... Vass, viewed the Eastern goal of the Tompkins County Gem and Federation program, from Junk to Mineral...recent field trip Jewelry. - - - - The Lincoln County Gem to Portland Point Quarry. - - - - The and Mineral...ium, Greece. Member Sonja Bieler held The Bergen County Mineralogy and a pre-meeting session on Cleavage
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
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)
Selected Bibliography of Andalusite, Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite in the...1019-N Selected Bibliography of Andalusite, Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite...showing the location of major deposits of the kyanite group of minerals and pyrophyllite. __________...RESOURCES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANDALUSITE, KYANITE SILLIMANITE, DUMORTIERITE, TOPAZ, AND PYROPHYLLITE...bibliography is a compilation of 566 references on the kyanite, or sillimanite, group of minerals and pyrophyllite
Report (issue)
bedrock geologic map of the Andover quadrangle, Windsor County,Vermont BY Nicholas M. Ratcliffe OPEN-FILE...varies from perhaps garnet grade in the west to kyanite-staurolite grade in the east. Almost certainly...are traceable into the Hawley Formation of Massachusetts (Ratcliffe and Armstrong, 1995). The rocks of...and Newfane 7.5xl5-minute quadrangles, Windham County, Vermont: U.S. Geological Survey OpenFile Map 94-414...northern Berkshire massif, Massachusetts and the southern Green Mountains, Vermont and Massachusetts, in Stratigraphic
Report (volume)
FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON G 0 V...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...Chesterfield." C. Dewey : Geol. and Min. of part of Massachusetts; Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. VIIT, p. 43...Chesterfield, Cuinmingtou. Asbestos with actynolite at Windsor, near the Cummiugtoii soapstone quarry. J. Porter:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
described the road cut north of Putney, Windham County, in an article for the Summer 1995 Micromounters...Route 9 near Hogback Mountain, Wilmington, Windham County, has pinkish-tan titanite as single and twinned...found in a Route 4 road cut, Castleton, Rutland County (fig. 3). Actinolite variety byssolite, varying...Rutland County. This variety of actinolite is often found at Lowell. A road cut at Gassetts, Windsor County...schist; other minerals reported are pyrite and kyanite. A liquid (aqueous) inclusion in quartz, with a
Report (issue)
Detrital to prograde: Pelham dome, central Massachusetts ...... .95 Timing of metamorphism in the central...Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA : U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 22092, USA Received November 20, 1989/Accepted...of the east-central San Mateo Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico. NM Bur Mines Miner Res Open File Rep...Geologic map of the Twin Sisters quadrangle, Grant County, New Mexico. US Geol Surv, Miscellaneous Field...Geologic map of the C-Bar Ranch quadrangle, Grant County, New Mexico. US Geol Surv, Miscellaneous Field
Book (edition)
CHIASTOLITE a\ DIAMOND CRYSTALS DIOPSIDE EMERALD KYANITE LAZULITE t^^*l IDOCRASE lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^...have a cornfield at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Va. A 3 carat stone, bought by a Knoxville
Report (volume)
and 8 mi long, spans the Rutland and Bennington County line. The northern part of the wilderness is in...(Thompson, 1972). The massif extends from near the Massachusetts-Vermont border northward through southern and...Granite Gneiss. The intrusive gneisses in the Berkshire massif to the south were dated radiometrically...rocks initially were remetamorphosed to staurolite-kyanite grade. This was followed by ductile recumbent folding...then retrograded. Staurolite, garnet, and relict kyanite occur in some schists, and chlorite and epidote
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...color. asbestus, I! crys- Springfield, Massachusetts. Massive, of a yellow- 205. Milford, Connecticut
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Park, MD 20742, USA 'Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA 'Continental Geoscience...reactions during syntectonic metamorphism. Garnet, kyanite and staurolite porphyroblasts are wrapped by the...development. Progressive and sequential reaction out of kyanite, staurolite and muscovite in favour of sillimanite...crosses; CRFZ-Cape Ray Fault zone, wide vertical rule-Windsor Point Group, close vertical rule-mylonite; GBC-Grand...Ordovician-to-Devonian volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Windsor Point Group (Dub6 et al., 1991, 1993). The Port
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cerussite and fluorite, Blanchard mine, Socorro County, New Mexico. Peter J. Modreski photo. MarchlApril:...chalcopyrite, and quartz, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil...NovemberDecember: Silver, Bulldog mine, Mineral County, Colorado. F. John Barlow specimen, Malcomb Hjerstedt...Catherine No. 1 Mine, Casper Mountain, Natrona County, Wyoming, N. Tilander, M. I. Jacobson, 3 3 9 4...Vermont Mining, 267-74 Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, R. Clements, D. Robinson, 23 1-35
Journal (issue)
of euclase have been recorded from New Zealand, USA (Sharp, 1961), Europe, Guyana, Sri Lanka (Deen, 1984)...crystals were sold in the 1930s to collections in the USA (Pough, 1991; see also Dirlam et al., 1992; McKie...associated associated deposits American deposits Park County, Colorado. American Mineralogist, 1505–8 Mineralogist...International, London. ISBN 1 874044 07 4 209 221 Kyanite in diamond identified by Raman analysis John I...Carlsbad, California, USA ABSTRACT: This paper describes the identification of kyanite and garnet as inclusions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1959, R&M. MARYLAND—At the Teeters quarry, New Windsor, Carroll Co., Md., small colorless calcite xls...Reynolds, Stocksdale Road, Kingsville, Md. MASSACHUSETTS—"The enclosed specimen was found at the well...Mr. Smith. MINNESOTA—"I found an agate in Itasca County, Minn., which weighed exactly one pound. It is...pieces weighing four pounds. "Location: — Washington County, Nebr., about 15 miles north of Omaha in a limestone...the most productive finds have been made in Essex County, especially in the general vicinity of Keeseville
 
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