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Prase from
Nahant, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Prase
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nahant, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:660974
Long-form Identifier:1:3:660974:0
GUID (UUID V4):9678983d-bfe0-462c-b759-f18fb0d4d41e
Nearest other occurrences of Prase
63.2km (39.3 miles) Diamond Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A CATAL,OGUE OF MASSAC.HUSETTS GEMSTONES ESSEX COUNTY (Part Two) By RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany...Hill. Nahant Saugus Delicate, milky-white rolled masses. ? Rockport, granite quarries. Essex County...County Nahant Beverly Salem Salem, Salem Neck. Essex County Lynn 196 CITRINE Light, yellow quartz as seams...types on sea beaches of this county. ? ROCKS AND MINERAL~ Locality Nahant Rowley Salem Marblehead, Marblehead...northern point of Cape Ann opalescence. Essex County Nahant, Bass Point Saugus, near the center Saugus
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
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...Rock Crystal and its colored varieties, Amethyst, Prase, Chalcecite, dony, Carnelian, Chrysoprase, Jasper...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...serpentine, Pimelite ! accompanying the chryso prase, which in some specimens, at the same locality.
Book (edition)
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...Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to the Boston Society
Book (volume)
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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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Emerald, - 2.67 2.73 TREATISE ON GEMS. Beryl, Prase, -----Heliotrope Chrysoprase, Felspar, Amazon Stone...Beryl crystals have also been found in Chester county, Pensylvania. The Beryl is cut on a leaden plate...Rubellite from Paris, in Maine, and Ches terfield, Massachusetts, enclosed by the green Tourmaline ; and the...Paris in Maine, and Chesterfield and Goshen in Massachusetts. TREATISE ON GEMS. 91 The Tourmaline is...rings, Massachusetts, and on the Catskill mountains. It is obtained
Book (volume)
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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts,
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Encyclopedia, Hitchcock’s Report on.the Geology of Massachusetts, the New York State Report, and the Report of... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 “ “ Prase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....aqua-marine topaz. (4.) Leek-green; common actynolite and prase. (5.) Emerald-green; emerald, and some varieties... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prase. . . . . . . . . ................. Heliotrope ....and ' likewise perfect octahedrons. In Rutherford County, North Carolina, a diamond of one and a half carats
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:...............................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Book (edition)
Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. --~~~~ ---------------- 8THER EOTYPED BY...appended to my Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts, now in the press: And the third was, to present... ral History generally, of the Province of Massachusetts, made by the command of the State government;...predominant forms. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts, vol. ii, p. 410. Fig. 5. - Fig. 5, will convey...of iron from the clay cliffs of Gay Head in Massachusetts. The axis consists of a piece of lignite, and
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Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally
Report (issue)
prospects in the lower Ludlow lignites. Harding County: 1. Abemathyite has been identified as a component...Soluble In hydrochloric acid, yielding Custer County: 1. Allanite has been reported to occur as small...the Needles area. Runner (7) p 453. Pennington County: 1. Allanite occurs as microscopic inclusions in...H2O0.05 Insol. 1.12 Total 100.34± Occur. Custer County: 1. A greenish-black nodule of alluaudite 1 foot...mine, six miles southwest of Custer. Pennington County: I. Greenish black blocky masses of crlluaudite
Book (edition)
Shaftsbury, and Scranton, in Vt. - Cleveland. Massachusetts affords several quarries of marble. Professor...annual value of the marble quarried in Berkshire county alone, amounts to more than 40,000 dollars. The...Champlain, and on the island of New-York, N. Y. Morris county, N. J. Species 6. FLUATE OF LIME . FLUOR .* ...Derbyshire fine specimens occur. U. S. Shenandoah county, and at Shephardstown, Va. Pe. ter's Creek, 17...Illinois. West side of the Blue Ridge, Md. Smith county, Ten. Near Franklin Furnace, and near Hamburgh
Book (edition)
Shaftsbury, and Scranton, in Vt. - Cleveland. Massachusetts affords several quarries of marble. Professor...annual value of the marble quarried in Berkshire county alone, amounts to more than 40,000 dollars. The...Champlain, and on theisland of New York,N. Y. Morris county , N. J. Species 6. FLUATE OF LIME. FLUOR . This...Derbyshire fine specimens occur. U. S. Shenandoah county, and at Shephardstown, Va. Pe ter's Creek, 17 miles...Illinois. West side of the Blue Ridge, Md. Smith county, Ten . Near Franklin Furnace, and near Hamburgh
Book (edition)
Shaftsbury, and Scranton, in Vt. - Cleveland. Massachusetts affords several quarries of marble. Professor...annual value of the marble quarried in Berkshire county alone, amounts to more than 40,000 dollars. The...Champlain, and on the island of New-York, N. Y. Morris county, N. J. Species 6. FLUATE OF LIME . FLUOR. * ...Derbyshire fine specimens occur. U.S. Shenandoah county, and at Shephardstown, Va. Pe. ter's Creek, 17...Illinois. West side of the Blue Ridge, Md. Smith county, Ten . Near Franklin Furnace, and near Hamburgh
Book (edition)
Shaftsbury, and Scranton, in Vt.- Cleveland. Massachusetts affords several quarries of marble. Professor...annual value of the marble quarried in Berkshire county alone, amounts to more than 40,000 dollars. The...Champlain, and on the island of New-York, N. Y. Morris county, N. J. Species 6. FLUATE OF LIME . FLUOR. * ...Derbyshire fine specimens occur . U. S. Shenandoah county, and at Shephardstown, Va. Pe ter's Creek, 17 miles...Illinois. West side of the Blue Ridge, Md. Smith county, Ten. Near Franklin Furnace, and near Hamburgh
Book (edition)
Shaftsbury, and Scranton, in Vt. - Cleveland. Massachusetts affords several quarries of marble. Professor...the marble to more than quarried in Berkshire county alone, amounts -Lanesborough ; 40,000 dollars...Champlain, and on the island of New-York, N. Y. Morris county , N. J. Species 6. FLUATE OF LIME . FLUOR. *"...Derbyshire fine specimens occur. U. S. Shenandoah county, and at Shephardstown, Va. Pe ter's Creek, 17 miles...Illinois. West side of the Blue Ridge, Md. Smith county, Ten. Near Franklin Furnace,and near Hamburgh
Book (edition)
some brown . leaves of garlic ; distinctly seen in prase , a variety of quartz. 5. Emerald - green : pure...color of the leaves of garlic ; distinctly seen in prase, a variety of quartz. 5. Emerald -green : pure deep...Spain, Hungary, Egypt, Persia, & c. In Madison county, Kentucky, it is found scattered through the loose...the borders of Muscalonge lake, in St. Lawrence county, New York, where it occurs in cavities in granite...an emerald or bluish -green color. In Gallatin county, Illinois , in the region southwest of Caves rock
 
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