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Schorl from
Long Hill, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Comments:Black schorl is associated with non-spodumene pegmatites only.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Long Hill, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:562151
Long-form Identifier:1:3:562151:4
GUID (UUID V4):92c10a5b-acec-4380-8f58-9322f40db594
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
4.2km (2.6 miles) Monoosnoc Hill, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Pine Hill, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Rollstone Hill Quarries, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
16.2km (10.0 miles) Quabbin Aqueduct Shaft #4 locality, Holden, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) Interstate 290/Interstate 495 interchange road cuts, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
27.1km (16.8 miles) Tatnuck Hill quarry, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Oak Hill Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Morris & Luke Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Reynolds Mine (Beryl Hill Mine), Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
39.5km (24.5 miles) Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
References
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CUMMINGS, BILLIARD, & CO. 1825. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. District Clerk's Oflht. BE it remembered..." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the, District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE -. University Press, Milliard...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...Bath. MAINE. BOWDOIN. Schorl, common, very abundant. (C.) BOWDOINHAM. Schorl, very large, perfect,...in beds. Mica, sometimes very beautiful green, Schorl, black, masses sometimes contain fragments of quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Con­ struction, including that of highways, has long provided the best specimens, when collecting has...Road exit: albite, bertrandite, columbite, quartz, schorl. Nearby in schist: dravite. B o o t h ' s b i s...bertrandite, beryl, lepidolite, spodumene, stilbite, schorl. R o u t e 7 construction, from Danbury just north...of view 10.2 cm across, 1-84, Newtown, Fairfield County; collected 1960. Weber specimen, Marcelle Weber...Figure 3 (below). Calcite, 2.6 cm long, Route 7, Brookfield, Fairfield County. Jeffrey Scovil specimen and
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CongresS; J / in the year 1834, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth in the Clerk's Office of the ...Secretary of the of said i ; District of Massachusetts. by Edward D. Bangs, in the name and District...Excellency, John davis, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts. I HAVE the honor to present you with the second...the 3d of March , 1830, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a Resolve, authorizing and requesting...to the Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to
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area around Glass Mountain near the ModocSiskiyou county line. Also of minor importance is the extension...deposits of southeastern Oregon into northern Modoc County. Ultramafic rocks, largely altered to serpentine... Trinity River, Trinity County at the High Plateau mine in Del Norte County, and kammererite (clinochlore)...(clinochlore), as at the Veta Grande mine in Siskiyou County. The ultramafics also host occurrences of the massive...such as that at Happy Camp in western Siskiyou County. More importantly, the ultramafics are the source
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pyrolusite, quartz, samarskite-(Y), scapolite, schorl, spessartine, striiverite, titanite, torbernite...THE DOLOMITE PRODUCTS QUARRY, WALWORTH, MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK. V. H. Collins and J. S. Collins, 1334... northwest of the village of Walworth in Wayne County, New York. The quarry is a producer of aggregate...ALTERATION PRODUCTS FROM MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS. A. U.Falster, W. B. Simmons, and U....the Magnet Cove alkalic complex in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, as raspbenyred, transparent to opaque
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of view. Crystallographic point of view. We have long been accustomed to the frequently used expression...called such phenomena crystallographic anomalies [2]. Long before this R. Hauy, observing the fantastic forms...outer form, are normal features of real crystals. As long as these exceptions do not become more pronounced...it might be preserved practically unchanged for a long time and resume its growth when returned to the...opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another one in MIneralogical Museum of St
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paid a few visits to these quarries, and it was not long before he uncovered the 1-inch-tall greenand-yellow...COVER: gold on quartz, 4.5 inches tall, Placer County, California Dedication This book is dedicated...Group, Inc., 650 Danbury Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 USA, www.maplegatemedia.com Library of Congress Control...Treasured Minerals The Garnet from Russell, Massachusetts I was named after a great uncle who, in turn...The mountain is in the small town of Russell, Massachusetts, and I feel that I have a link to the area.
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vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens
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MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...them. I wish the same joy I have found in the life-long pursuit of minerals and fossils to all those who...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
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Menzies Pink topaz from the Thomas Range, Juab County, U ta h .........................................TOPAZ crystals to 4 cm, on matrix, from Ghundao Hill, Mardan district, Pakistan. F. John Barlow collection;...ready for delivery! This seventh edition of our long-time best-seller has been enlarged to 288 pages...Wall, 1981; Collins et al., 1982) within typically long-lived, tectonically active zones. Shcherba (1970)...contents. The Brown Derby No. 1 pegmatite in Gunnison County, Colorado, is described by Rosenberg (1972). In
Report (edition)
of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...localities, the Grace mine in Berks County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement Company...Company quarry in York County, are now This fourth printing is essentially closed to collectors. D...Adams County 23 Allegheny County 31 . Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Clinton County Cumberland County Dauphin County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County
Report (edition)
.... . .. . Adams County .... . .. ... ............... . . ... . Allegheny County .... . ...... . ............ . Armstrong County . . . . . . .. . .... ........ .. . .. . Berks County ..... . ..... ......... ...... . Blair County . . .. . ... ... . . .. . .... ........... . Carbon County ..... ..... .............. . Cl1ester County .... . . . .... ... ........... . .. . Cumberland County ...... . ..... . ....... . . Delaware County ... . .. .... . . . .... . . . .. . . . .. . Fulton County . ...... .. . . .
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bit of the old Shigar <;tomach trouble from the USA and maybe not being allowed to go beyond this blues...descriptive mineralogy. Just $45 plus $8.50 s/h USA Minerals and their Localities Over 800 pages, 8500...reference book available today! $145 plus $15 s/h USA Foreign customers: please inquire. Excalibur Mineral...were a stack of entry internally embedded with schorl crystals, with lumps of nice albitc lying permits...permits, so he was fine with me traYeling here as long ---·"·---upon them. A few of these new pieces were
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.......................................230 Massachusetts..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map ..........................................
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............................11 THE GEOLOGY OF EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION. The country
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.......................................198 Massachusetts...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...my wife Becky for allowing me to put in all the long nights needed to bring this together. v A Location...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow
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.......................................198 Massachusetts...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...my wife Becky for allowing me to put in all the long nights needed to bring this together. v A Location...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow
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.................... 221 by M . Origlieri Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline...sponsors (notably Barry Yampol, Hazel Radcliffe and long-time M ineralogical Record donor Randy Rothschild...binding as per the 14-year index), built to survive long anc heavy use. The next published index will probably...admonished his students, since he loathed writing long-winded papers: “ W rite as concisely as a Scotsman...Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course
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Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...diamonds set in gold. The necklace is 45 cm (18 in.) long. BOTTOM GROUP. Deep, spinel red oligoclase feldspar...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy
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discussion and classification of pseudomorphs is a long article by Hugo Strunz (1982). The classification...crystallographic orientation with the caxes (matching the long axis of the needles) oriented nearly at right angles...orientation of the aragonite. The direction of the long axes of the apatite needles (i.e., [001] of the...their stability and/or probable progression over long periods of time. One chief difference with the chlorapatite...solution is critical for the extrapolation of their long-term stability in a nuclear repository. Existing
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Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...18:185187 ALLACTITE AJlactite from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey (by P. J. Dunn) 14:251-252 ALLCHAR Famous
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Schortmann of Schortmann's Minerals, Easthampton, Massachusetts, by Paul E. Desautels and Dr. George Switzer...at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...New York, Schortmann's Minerals, Easthampton, Massachusetts, Burminco, Monrovia, California, Filer's, Redlands...with an attack of bends as a result of staying too long in the underwater caissons of the Brooklyn Bridge...imagine-the detection of a new species. Without the long academic training and familiarity with the professional's
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Minerals, by the late Raymond Easthampton, Massachusetts, E. by Paul E. Desautels and Dr. George Switzer...the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...with an attack of bends as a result of staying too long in the underwater caissons of the Brooklyn Bridge...imagine—the detection of a new species. Without the long academic training and familiarity with the professional’s...complicated, difficult to understand, and require long training periods as well as specialized and costly
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Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...diainonds set in gold. The necklace is 45 cm (18 in.) long. BOTTOM GROUP. Deep, spine! red oligoclase feldspar...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA...........................................
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Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana...limbo. The second contributor to this book is my long-suffering wife Wilma, Dutch artist and novelist...at Kish. The history of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C...themselves. A "field trip" used to mean spreading out in long irregular lines to literally sweep over a collecting...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will
 
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