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Smoky Quartz from
Chandler Mine, Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Smoky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smoky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chandler Mine, Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:96428
Long-form Identifier:1:3:96428:5
GUID (UUID V4):096be9d8-4cd2-4f58-ad65-6b1cf62de576
Nearest other occurrences of Smoky Quartz
3.2km (2.0 miles) Aggregate Industries Quarry, Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
24.4km (15.2 miles) Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) Cortland Drive road cuts, Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
32.1km (20.0 miles) Parker Mountain Mine, Parker Mountain, Strafford, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA
39.3km (24.4 miles) Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
40.5km (25.2 miles) Bishop Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
40.7km (25.3 miles) Souhegan Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
41.2km (25.6 miles) Kittredge Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
42.3km (26.3 miles) Tonella King Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
45.8km (28.5 miles) Routes 125 and 28 interchange road cuts, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE. DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: x l - -crystal...polished—the other consists of drusy, brownish quartz filling a depression in the agate. In the polished..."—letter from Edward Lepel, Clarksville, Ark. Brownish quartz, small dark green epidote, white limestone, and...and black hornblende with specks of whitish quartz — all pebbles and of good quality, were the specimens...some chunks of fluorite from a microcline and smoky quartz pegmatite we were working. These pieces of fluorite
Report (issue)
Beryl Resources of New Hampshire GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 353 Prepared on behalf of the...with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission Beryl Resources of New Hampshire By JAMES...Commission^ and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission UNITED...Page, James Jeffers, 192ftBeryl resources of New Hampshire, by James J. Page and David M. Larrabee. Washington...Commission, and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission. Bibliography:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The recent reopening of the mine has rekindled interest in the mineralogy of this pegmatite. Recent...Activity at the CHANDLER MINE RAYMOND, NEW FRANK LAVOIE Box 529 Epping, New Hampshire T H E M A J O...O R I T Y A N D BEST-KNOWN of New Hampshire's 650 mines and prospects are open-cut peg­ matite quarries...phosphate-rich. Several, including the Palermo #1 mine in North Groton (Segeler et al., 1981), are highly...visitors each field season. Less well-known in New Hampshire are the lithium silicatebearing pegmatites characterized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silica and Silicates ( 107 ) from the pegmatites at QUARTZ, silica, Si02, is an essential mineral in the granite...granite pegmatites. Massive, white, or smoky colored crystalline quartz often makes up the greater bulk of...are of pink or the rose quartz variety. Rock crystals, or the colorless quartz crystals, are often found...found as well as are smoky quartz crystals in the cavities of druses which occur in many pegmatites. Amethyst...Amethyst, the purple colored variety of crystalline quartz, usually is found in crystals in cavities or pockets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2017 Topaz W in New Hampshire’s DONALD DALLAIRE 829 Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 dadallaire@hotmail...Edgar D. Andrews’ grave in Chandler cemetery on Route 113 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Don Dallaire photo. ...several other localities throughout the world. New Hampshire, however, has produced topaz crystals for more...minerals since 1971 and specializes in apatite and New Hampshire minerals. He is on the board of trustees of...master’s degree in geology from the University of New Orleans and specializes in pegmatite mineralogy.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Qi/asUd AeuAd. an Mineral Õccasitenceá. Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...secretary-treasurer of the Yavapai Council, Arizona Small Mine Operators, collects rare rocks as a hobby. Some..."Three specimens from the Governor Mine (old New York Mine), a gold mine in the Mint Canyon area, West San...Pacific R. R. "One of the largest producers in the county, it has yielded over 2 million dollars worth of...about 1880; now idle. Name was changed to Governor Mine when the property was acquired by Gov. Gage of California
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Natural History, New York, N. Y. Photographs by Julius Weber, Mamaroneck, N. Y. Quartz in soda-lithium...core margin zones or in the core itself, euhedral quartz crystals are likely to be deposited along with...finally the deposition of the last generation of quartz filling in all of the interstitial spaces left...crystals on smoky quartz crystals in vugs in cleavelandite. At the Ruggles Quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire...and quartz; and also in the lithium replacement body with lepidolite, deavelandite, smoky quartz, uranophane
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites... Noted in grains also at Shaft 7 near Fishkill, New York. GRAPHITE. C, is rather uncommon in pegmatite...region of New York particularly at Ticonderoga it occurs in graphitic quartzites, in small quartz veins,...found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak, Organ mounmined
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WosUd AtewA o*i Mineral Qcculienceò, Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...some distance apart. The schist is composed of quartz, muscovite or sericite, pyrite and graphite with...chrysocolla associated with malachite, chalcedony and quartz, forming specimens of great beauty, have been found...Bulldog Tunnel of the Inspiration copper mine. The Live Oak copper mine of the same company (Inspiration Copper...native copper as small masses in gray novaculite (quartz). CALIFORNIA—The following letter, dated Feb. 22
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS O N NEW FINDS ARE. DESIRED ^ ARIZONIA — "I am sending 3 specimens from the...the Wenden Area (Yuma Co.), Ariz. The quartz xls on the fire agate with flat blades and arranged in cups...piece I send out too. "The second specimen is drusy quartz xls with small barite xls altered to brown limonite...limonite. "The third specimen is drusy quartz on green malachite. I also find this material on light blue...sent in an odd but very fine flat, loose, dark smoky quartz xl. The crystal is 5 inches long, iy2 inches
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items On New Finds Are Desired. Alabama—J. R. Lee of Bridgeport...few rock crystals, also pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they...Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." Arizona—A...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph...locality is the south shore of Lake Mead, Mohave County, Ariz. Another letter from Mr. Drury contained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1 Chautauqua County Gem and Mineral Society As a new club we would like to join the...kunzite, golden beryl, aquamarine, morganite and smoky quartz from Brazil. Peters has a black opal from Australia...mines; zinc mines; the deepest copper mine; the richest gold mine; granite quarries that yield the finest...Petoskey stone, which is good carving quality, a new find of Fluorite, with un-countablefaces, discovered...Sec'y 1447 E. San Juan Phoenix, Ariz. 37* Tioga County Rock and Mineral Club N. H. Field Trip Televised
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Southeastern New Hampshire— Edith F. Hammond & Leota R. Whitcomb, Editors Southeastern New Hampshire Mineral...Division of Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society Newlapso—Dr. Philip E. Eisman, Editor New Jersey Lapidary...Weber, Jr., Editors New Haven Mineral Club Crystal Gazer—Marie Petuh, Editor New York Southern Tier Geology...Rockland Nuggets—Marvin Klibonoff, Editor Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society, Inc. Unaka Rock & Mineral... but bring a few trading rocks! The New Haven Mineral Club, New Haven, Connnecticut, entered fullheartedly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Conway and Mount Osceola Granites of New Hampshire Some of the best collecting in the Granite State...State has been in central and northcentral New Hampshire in the Conway and Osceola granites. P E T E...the central and north-central re­ gions of New Hampshire, are part of the Mesozoic White Mountain plutonic-volcanic...pink or tan and made up of 65% feldspar, 30% smoky quartz, and 5% biotite. It occurs in several phases...a fine-grained phase in which the feldspar and quartz are 0.2-1 mm in diameter, to a porphyrinic phase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
$Sl ON ^~^ -^^r^ Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS AREL DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations:...about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...our intruding." ARKANSAS—"Enclosed is a very odd quartz crystal (s). It seems to be above 7 in hardness...hardness. It will make a mark on any average quartz crystal. What do you think of it? It comes from about 7...more like the average epidote group than quartz but it is quartz."—letter dated March 27, 1958. from Capt
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper mine in Vermont. Rocks & Minerals 17:169. Short report of a visit to an old copper mine in Berkshire...Berkshire, Franklin County. Reported finds of mainly massive bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and pyrrhotite...pyrrhotite. Chandler, H. L. 1942. Jaspilite deposit in Vermont. Rocks & Minerals 17:317. Short report of a deposit...Chester talc mine, an open-pit operation. Reported finds: pyrite, magnetite, smoky quartz, actinolite...Society’s four-day collecting trip to Vermont and New Hampshire. Rocks & Minerals 26:603-06. Chatty description
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, 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...landsvertebrate fossil remains;  Pine Ridge, areaQuartz concretions, agates, petrified wood, fossils, etc
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Diamond M Tourmaline fQl Ruby, O Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^ Garnet — Azu rite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable
Book (volume)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...from 18’ to 27’ long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...silky luster, and may occur as colorless, gray, smoky brown, green, yellow, or rose-red crystals. Dark...in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss...literature are those from the pegmatites of the New England region. From Maine, King and Foord (1994
 
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