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Orthoclase from
Government pit, Albany, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Comments:=Microcline
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Smoky Quartz1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Government pit, Albany, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:21610
Long-form Identifier:1:3:21610:6
GUID (UUID V4):41c1567d-e378-4bd7-be52-14e3b5bf5a53
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
3.3km (2.1 miles) Middle Moat Mountain locality, Hale's Location, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
34.1km (21.2 miles) Estes Quarry, West Baldwin, Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
51.5km (32.0 miles) Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
64.2km (39.9 miles) Ryerson Hill Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
65.1km (40.4 miles) Hibbs Quarry, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
66.2km (41.2 miles) Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
69.3km (43.1 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
70.2km (43.6 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
71.5km (44.4 miles) Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
78.3km (48.7 miles) Burke Quarry, Kirby, Caledonia County, Vermont, USA
References
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New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire...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...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz
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2017 Topaz W in New Hampshire’s DONALD DALLAIRE 829 Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 dadallaire@hotmail...Chandler cemetery on Route 113 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Don Dallaire photo. 64 Mineral Drive Hebron...several other localities throughout the world. New Hampshire, however, has produced topaz crystals for more...Figure 2. Topaz, 2.8 cm tall, on kaolinite, Government pit. The topaz is embedded in kaolinite and would...1983 on the final day of gravel operations when the pit was reclaimed. Carlton Holt specimen, Kevin Downey
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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...MINERALS and Minnesota. General Grant's tomb in New York City was one of many structures utilizing it...(Home, 1963). In the Conway Granite of northern New Hampshire, quarrying was done on a sporadic basis, mainly
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Bastnasite-(Ce), New Hampshire, 161 Van Pelt 0 photo. March/April: Progression of L$e, painting Bavenite, New Hampshire...Hampshire, 161 Bazzite, New Hampshire, 161 by Stephen Greb. May/June: Bournonite, Yaogangxian Bearss, G..., Miarolitic Cavitx Minerals of the Government Pit, Albany, New Mountain, South Hunan Province, PeoHampshire... Mollie Gibson mine, Bertrandite, New Hampshire, 161 Pitkin County, Colorado; specimen Beryl, South Dakota...district, Socorro County, New Mexico; Ron Gibbs specimen and Biotite: New Hampshire, 162; South Dakota
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Braithwaite Graphite from the Lead Hill mine, Ticonderoga, New Y o r k ........................................................33 by B. L. Sage Lotharmeyerite, a new mineral from Mapimi, Durango, M e x ic o ..........uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California .....................................Czamanske and C. E. Meyer Ferroaxinite from Bridgeville, New Jersey.............................................enderson................................... 47 What’s new in minerals? by W. E. W ils o n ................
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between...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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The current progress in mineralog), with countless new data in books and scientific as well as amateur journals...submitted to, and accepted by, the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...pure freibergite is very rare. The decision that a new mineral species is established when one of the cations...eudialyte, and several other groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding...and long-wave UV light (LW, 365 nm). Recently, a new wavelength of UV, called midwave (~300 nm) has been
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Green fluorite (121.39 et), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 et), Illinois; sqmu·e...calcite (21 .30 et), 1\1ontana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 et), Idaho; rectangular step...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...established by Dr. George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Cornpany, New York City, whose farnous Gems and Precious Stones...taking place in older deposits and the discovery of new deposits in various places, especially in regard
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Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada ............................................................. 178 by W. E. Wilson What's new in minerals?.......................................information on this recent discovery see What's New in Minerab? in this issue. Collection of R. W. Graeme...mooned in the Southwest, traveling through Arizona, New Mexic and Colorado. They moved to Colorado permanently
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OF THE UNITED STATES ISTo. 146 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT Pit IN TING 189C OFFICE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL...Transactions, Vol. XXIV. New York, N. Y. American Journal of Science, 3d ser. ; Vols. XLIX-L. New Haven, Conn. American...American Museum of Natural History: Bulletin, Vol. VII. New York, N. Y. American Naturalist, Vol. XXIX. Philadelphia...Geological and Natural History Survey: Reports, 1892-93, New Series, Vol. VI; Paleozoic Fossils, Vol. Ill, Part...Arts and Sciences: Transactions, Vol. IX, part, 2. New . ' Haven, Conn. Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society:
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Diego County, California Ilimaussaq, Kangerluarsuk Fjord, Greenland Government Pit, Albany, New Hampshire...Ontario Foote Mine, King’s Mountain, Cleavland County, North Carolina Lily Pad Lake, Fort Hope, Ontario...spessartine; Fe, fayalite; Na, albite; LPET: K, orthoclase; Ca, diopside. Unit formulae were normalized... (1983) Chiavennite, CaMnBe2Si5O13(OH)2.2H2O, a new mineral from Chiavenna (Italy). American Mineralogist
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Dana’s New| Mineralogy | Eighth Edition Richard V. Gaines H. Catherine W. Skinner Eugene E. Foord Brian...Mason Abraham Rosenzweig i DANA’S NEW MINERALOGY DANA’S NEW MINERALOGY The System of Mineralogy...ROCHESTER, NEW YORK And with Illustrations by ERIC DOWTY SHAPE SOFTWARE JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. NEW YORK...Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012. This publication is designed...ation Data Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 Dana’s new mineralogy: the System of mineralogy of James Dwight
 
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