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Graphite from
Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Graphite
Formula:C
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Graphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:127200
Long-form Identifier:1:3:127200:0
GUID (UUID V4):c0cc2332-92d5-455e-81f3-fb4d540a3486
Nearest other occurrences of Graphite
38.4km (23.8 miles) Old lime quarries, Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
38.7km (24.0 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
46.5km (28.9 miles) Masslite Quarry, Plainville, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
48.9km (30.4 miles) Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
49.7km (30.9 miles) Ledge Road, Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
55.7km (34.6 miles) Worcester Coal Mine, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
56.6km (35.2 miles) Townsend Hill graphite locality (Nissequassick Hill), Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
58.9km (36.6 miles) Dexter Quarry (Dexter Lime Quarry), Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
59.2km (36.8 miles) Route 101A construction site, Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
59.2km (36.8 miles) Conklin Quarry, Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SIDNEY POWERS Geological Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts PART II (C) Many inclusions have risen.Shelburne...point of 5750C. Somerville, Massachusetts: In Somerville and Medford, Massachusetts, are a number of...Permian age) and the older igneous complex of the Middlesex Falls. It varies in width up to 270 feet, and...hornblende, biotite, magnetite, apatite, zircon, and graphite. The quartz inclusions are of especial interest...' Similarly in the peridotite dikes of Elliott County, Kentucky, there are inclusions of acid (pre-Cambrian
Report (issue)
uplift ...................................... Somerville peneplain .....................................particularly abundant in the plateau region of Hunterdon County, is far more durable than shale and its greater...amorphous form or crystallizing into flakes of graphite ; others are mottled or stained with a reddish...Hudson and which is represented northward to Massachusetts Bay by several islands and' the peninsula of...feet midway hetweeu Canistear a_d Vernon in Sussex County. Bearfort Mountain reaches 1,491 feet and there
Report (volume)
See Bauxite and Hallpysite. 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, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee
Catalog/List
AGGLOMERATE: Agglomerate .........................Custer County, Colorado " Volcanic ...............Magnet Cove...Amphibolite ...........................Albemarle County, Virgi11ia " (Fayalitc-bcaring) .......Near Mcsaba...: ........San Juan County, Colorado " Porphyry ...................Boulder County, Colorado " S ........Anhydrite, crystalline ....................Lyon County, Ncvada ANORTHOSITE: Anort?, osite, gray ........Arkose-scc Sandstone " " ............... Essex County, New York dark brown ...Rochester, New York green
Report (issue)
............3 Subway Tunnel in Cambridge and Somerville (Red Line Extension)...........4 Triassic Basin...Charles River Syncline Bedrock in the Cambridge-Somerville area contains various small folds superimposed...band, named the Somerville kink band, passes east-southeast through Medford and Somerville and contains...recently discovered in the subway tunnel under Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge indicates the presence of...area today. They contain high pressure garnet, graphite, and large pink feldspars that point to deep crustal
Report (issue)
............................ 22 Spinel, Orange County, N. Y........................................................................... Copper Mine, Somerville, N. J..........................................depression, extending from the present Bockland County, New York, through New Jersey toward the southwest...operations of this kind are now under way in Westchester County. 16 M'liLKTIX NF.W YORK MINKRALOCJICAT; CLUB...few miles north of New York City in Westchester County. One of these mines at Bedford has been in continuous
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;
Report (issue)
FOE FLUX IN THE VICINITY OF MONTEVALLO, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. The Ketona dolomite...be is undetermined. DOLMITE FOE FLUX IN SHELBY COUNTY, ALA. 527 Besides the area of Ketona along Shoal...Ketona. GRAPHITE NEAE DILLON, MONTANA. By ALEXANDER N. WINCHELL. INTRODUCTION. Imports of graphite into...total production of both natural and artificial graphite is included. It is evident, therefore, that a...and a wider knowledge of all natural supplies of graphite in this country are desirable. In the southern
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Book (edition)
Public the Vol. in (1970); X-ray Government USA, Publication (1971); Standards Local Procedures...Aktiengesellschaft Leverkusen-Bayerwerk (IVec.) AIR-PRO USA *Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Advanced Products...Blackmoor Models Liss Hampshire (XII.D.) ANDONIAN USA *Andonian Associates, 26 Thayer Rd. Waltham, Mass...Watford, Hertfordshire (Iv.A.) ATOMERGIC *Atomergic USA 584 ChemiCals Mineola Carle Co. Ave. Place...333-5600 11514 (III.C,D,E,F;VI.A.) ATOM=-MECH USA *Atom=-Mech Machine 25 Lincoln Road Patchogue,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy of Sterling Hill, New Jersey: Morphology of graphite, pyrite, and arsenic:Am. Mineral,.,26,no. L2,709-717...quarry, Somerville,Mass.;2. Holland St. quarry, Somerville,Mass.;3. The Mystic quarries,Somerville,Mass;4... 5, p. 412413, May 1947. The Sturbridge,Mass. Graphite Mine, Rochsand.Minerols,2, 502,June 1947. Common...nos.1-2, Jan.-Feb.1950. Fayalite at Rockport, Massachusetts: Am Minerol.,35, nos. 9-10, 877-881,Sept.-Oct
Journal (issue)
Mineral Collector. VALUABLE FINDS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. Br R. L. Hamucx. REGENT discoveries of beryl-bearing...beryl-bearing ledges in the township of Blandford, Massachusetts, leads to the conclusion that the Ackworth,...Mineralogy is carbon, and includes diamond and graphite. The first is represented here by two diamonds...which are from Ticonderoga, N. Y. One specimen of graphite pseudomorphous after anthracite, is perfect. Beautiful...copper from the farm of James Cole Van Dyke, near Somerville N. J .’r When found it weighed 128 pounds; but
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 839 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AREA MASSACHUSETTS BY LAURENCE LAFORGE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...geology of the Boston and Boston Bay quadrangles, Massachusetts--____-.-_____ In pocket. 2. Map showing surficial...-----------81 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AEEA, MASSACHUSETTS By LAURENCE LAFORGE INTRODUCTION* POSITION AND...30' and extends westward from the shore of Massachusetts Bay to meridian 71° 15', comprises the Boston...eastern Massachusetts (see fig. 1) and includes nearly all of Suffolk County and parts of Middlesex, Essex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Limonite and hematite are stripped mined in Crenshaw County, Alabama, and specimens collected are very interesting..."Limonite and hematite are to be found on most any county road south of Montgomery (Montgomery Co.), Ala...Crenshaw County—Davenport, Highland Home, Bradenton and Petrey are all small towns in Crenshaw County near...Shoup, P. O. Box 756, Salmon, Idaho. "Shoup, Lemhi County, Idaho. Scheelite (Tungsten) has been found in...a man that works in a coal mine in upper Fulton County in Illinois. Since that time I have been unable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tallapoosa Co., Ala., are several open pit graphite mines. The graphite is found as flakes and veins in clay...writer also found small quartz crystals with the graphite in one clay bank. The pits are easily accessible...separate cover I am sending a specimen of the graphite. The clay must be treated to keep it from disintegrating...received. It contains tiny specks of greasy, black graphite. ALASKA—"I am sending you a black pebble which...mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. This locality may also be given as 6 miles east
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
octahedral coordination suitable for high pressure. Somerville and Ahrens (1980) adopted the hollandite structured...Water glass Sodium Chloride Sample --- SUS - Graphite Pt6Rh-Pt30Rh Alumina Fig. 1. Cross section of...sleeve heater (graphite) and separated from NaC1 pressure marker and thermocouple by the graphite disc. Temperature...attainable is limited by the direct transition of graphite heater into diamond. X-Ray Diffraction Experiments...be observed because of overlap of sanidine and graphite (G) peaks. B Phase change from an assemblage of
Report (volume)
RELATED TO WILDERNESS WILDLIFE REFUGES MONOMOY MASSACHUSETTS and GREAT SWAMP NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Barnstable County Massachusetts By CARL KOTEFF Great Swamp National Wildlife...Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Barnstable County Massachusetts By CARL KOTEFF STUDIES RELATED TO WILDERNESS...MONOMOY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, BARNSTABLE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS By CARL KOTEFF SUMMARY Monomoy National...Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, in Barnstable County, Mass., occupies an area of about 4 square miles
Report (volume)
RELATED TO WILDERNESS WILDLIFE REFUGES MONOMOY MASSACHUSETTS and GREAT SWAMP NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Barnstable County Massachusetts By CARL KOTEFF Great Swamp National Wildlife...Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Barnstable County Massachusetts By CARL KOTEFF STUDIES RELATED TO WILDERNESS...MONOMOY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, BARNSTABLE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS By CARL KOTEFF SUMMARY Monomoy National...Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, in Barnstable County, Mass., occupies an area of about 4 square miles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pectolite at Paterson, jasper and copper at Somerville, pyrite in clay iron-stone at South River, pyrite...Chester, Massachusetts, the Westfield, Massachusetts, trap quarries, the Cumington, Massachusetts rhodonite...Mineville, the garnet mine on Mt. Gore, and the graphite mine near Ticonderoga, in the Adirondacks, Ausable
Book
Nephelite-Cancrinite-Syenite 31. Essexite Maine Massachusetts Dacite-Quartz-Diorite Series: Colorado Minnesota...Diabase New Jersey VIII. 38. 48. Diabase Massachusetts Olivine-Augite-Hypersthene Gabbro 49. 50. ...Crystalline Limestones Vermont Dolomite-Marble Massachusetts Pink Marble Georgia IV. Ophicalcite, Serpentine...York Serpentine New New York Ore Jersey : Graphite Mica-Schist N. Carolina Tourmaline Mica-Schist...Oolitic Iron Gneisses and Crystalline Schists Massachusetts Hornblende-Gneiss New York 122. 123. 86. 87
Catalog/List
Albemarle Counly, Virginia ... Custer County, Colorado . Albemarle County, Virginia . Near Mesaba, l\linnesola...New York . San Juan County, Colorado Delta, Shasta County, California . Boulder County, Colorado .. ....... Newlon, Massachusetts Mt. Shasta, California " Lyon County, Nevada Hillsborough, New Brnnswick Keeseville...York " " " .Near Keene, NC\\' York . Essex County, New York Rochester, New York Split Rock, Minnesota... Rhenish-Prus ia J:asalt. fine-gTained Chaffee County, Colorado Hornblende Basalt. coarse " J-lornblenclc
Report (issue)
the origin of the golci, pyrite, copper, iron' graphite, and soapstone deposits found in the afea afe.......... ?z Geologic age ................ z:) Somerville granite .......................... 24 Occurrence...Cambrian age (continued) Granites (continued) Somerville granite (continued) Megascopic and microscopic... Microscopic characters 53 Pegrnatite fron Somerville granite bB Occurrence Aplite dikes Igneous...and prospects ..................... Culpeper County Culpeper mine . 67 6? 6? 68 oo 6g ...... j.
Journal (issue)
serpen tine (probably after pyroxene), mica, talc, graphite, and a little feldspar. Imbedded in these are...In this region is abundant ophicalcite showing graphite, also a very hard and tough serpentinous rock...and magnetite thickly spangled with flakes of graphite and traces of apatite. The former condition is...coarse particles of metallic minerals, with some graphite, azurite, malachite, limonite, etc. The other...other portions of the ore stratum show abundant graphite, a trace of pyrite, and gritty rock. The azurite
Journal (issue)
Minerals Of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey, u. S. Geological Survey Professional...Harmony, Warren County, Agate, Hoboken, Bound Brook and Liberty Corner in Somerset County, Algerite (altered... Al1opha.ne. Weehawken, Hudson County Mt. Freedom, Morris County. -91A methyst. Weehawken tunnel...tunnel . Little Falls , Passaic County. Abundant in geodes at Lyons Station, Somerset Co. A mphibole, Large...Roseville, Sussex County . Large rough crystals at Bergen Hill and Bulls Ferry, Hudson County . Analcite
 
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