 | | 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...Mass. Apr 7, 1987. pg. 45 Abstract (Summary) BRAINTREE - By most accounts, land near the intersection...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...south to Brockton and from Braintree west to Needham and Wellesley. BRAINTREE - By most accounts, land |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | R E S 18 Singletary Lane Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions...The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...fluorapatite fluorite forsterite fuchsite gahnite galena garnierite? gedrite gersdorffite glaucophane goethite...cities and differ from some states that have strong county governments with jurisdiction over large expans |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens have always been a particular love. A galena from Neudorf, Germany, for example, gets my heart...small crystals of aragonite to 4 mm encrusting a galena crystal is in the Smithsonian collection. Massive...Baden-Würtemberg (D). Aragonite is found associated with galena from Rappold, near Schneeberg, Saxony. Superb aragonite...ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank Dr. Carl Francis of Braintree, Massachusetts, John White of Stewartstown, Pennsylvania...Among the better known are Dognecea, Caraş-Severin County, Romania (formerly Dognácska, Hungary; D), where |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain District, San Juan County, Colorado Are all things beautiful? Are all types...Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County, Colorado. Specimen is 2.5 cm across. Dave Bunk...associated with chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, sphalerite, galena, pyrite, calcite, and quartz, to name but a few...Figure 2. Enargite trilling from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. Twin is 5 mm across and is on the specimen...lustrous enargite crystals from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. The specimen is 5 cm across. William |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Catnip Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...Catnip Hill facility, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...exposed on the Gilley property in western Cherokee County (O’Neill 1950); it is relatively common as purple |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found in gossans of lead deposits associated with galena, pyromorphite, cerussite, and minium. Rarer associates...(1930) notes very fine crystals associated with galena, barite, cerussite, pyromorphite, and rarely malachite...(formerly Rézbánya), Nucet town, Bihor County, Romania, occurs on galena associated with pyromorphite and cerussite...Auburn University, Dr. Carl Francis of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Mr. John S. White of Stewartstown...Smithsonian collection, is Constellation, Yavapi County, Arizona (locality information supplied by Tony |  | | Report (volume) | | OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................ |  | | 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., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, |  | | Catalog/List | | . . . . . . 65 Fasciculite Xis, in schist; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.... . ... . .. . . .. . 6 FiM, xline, white; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, .2 0 per lb . . . .. .. ...160 ,Hassive, nearly pure; Sweden, .50 per ounce GALENA (lead sulfide) Cleavable, best; Kansas, 1 x 2'...Michigan . . 13 Aficaceous (schistose) hematite; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . 6 Massive; Min nesota . ....aluminum silicate) Large phmocrysts in diabase; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Coarse-xline and cleavages; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | orebodies of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. In his superb descriptive mineralogy...2. Willemite with calcite from Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey. The normal size range for Franklin...calcite with franklinite from Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey. The specimen is 21 cm wide. John Veevaert...with calcite and franklinite from Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey. This specimen was collected by John...East vein, Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey. The specimen is 9 cm high. Mark Mauthner |  | | Book (volume) | | Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Massachusetts ....... 34 Table 7 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Massachusetts.........................36 Figure 9. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Massachusetts.........................37 Figure 10. Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | been collected at Dungannon Township, Hastings County, Ontario. The crystals in the collection are associated...is also found in a skarn at Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, as brown-red dodecahedra to approximately...quarries), 428 ROCKS & MINERALS Lowell, Orleans County, Vermont. So well-known is this locality for fine...acquiring it. Grossular from Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, occurs as greenish-red dodecahedra...labeled as Eden Mills quarries), Lowell, Orleans County, Vermont. This particular specimen consists of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee R egular readers of this column will...sphalerite, 8.8 cm high, from the Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Note the gemmy corners of the cube...pieces are all from the fluorspar district, Hardin County, Illinois. Cincinnati Museum Center specimens,...cubes from Trestia, Transylvania region, Maramures County, Romania, appears to be a complete replacement...associated with thomsenolite, cryolite, siderite, and galena. Specimens of this material were found in thin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | penetration type. Associated minerals include sphalerite, galena, siderite, and quartz. Casts of quartz after fluorite...from the Huanggang mines, Huanggang, Kèshíkèté Qi County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. Limpid...blue. Typical associates include siderite, quartz, galena, sphalerite, and calcite (Lucas 2006). In Italy...quartz. The Rabestein mine was a lead-zinc mine—galena and sphalerite being the ore minerals—and some...fluorite include chalcopyrite, pyrite, marcasite, galena, barite, goethite, quartz, and calcite. Fluorite |  | | Catalog/List | | enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...Fibrous; South Dakota Fasciculite Xis in schist; Massachusetts Hornblende Common Hornblende Xls, black, in...00 .60 XI, sections, varnished, in matrix, Massachusetts ......... :. ................ ....... 1 x l½"...DATOLITE (basic calcium boron orthosilicate) Xled; Massachusetts or New Jersey................ .60 1.26 DESCLOIZITE........... ............. Fine xline, white ; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, 1 6c per lb............. |  | | Report (volume) | | .................................. Eastern Massachusetts ......................................_......................................... Eastern Massachusetts ................................................................................ Eastern Massachusetts ................................................................................ Eastern Massachusetts ..............................................Potsdam sandstone of the Adirondacks, the Dutchess County limestone of New York, the upper Knox shales of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...'cave' (big vug) filled with soft sericite, I found galena xls. They were a brilliant silver-white from one...the N. W . part of Dade County, Fla., due west of Miami and near the Monroe County line. Among the samples...Lots 612 580 and 649, 19th District of Paulding County."—Spring 1954 issue, page 48. IDAHO—"I am sending...This new find is near Gilmore, Idaho, in Lemhi County."—letter dated July 28, 1954, from Clarence Martin |  | | Report (issue) | | so-called Pennsylvanian basins of southeastern Massachusetts. Three papers deal with the geology of alkali...alkali plutonic-volcanic areas in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. High-grade and low-grade (prehnite-pumpellyite)...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the papers...and the geology of the Ayer Granodiorite of Massachusetts. JOHN R,. GRIFELN STUDIES IN NEW ENGLAND...Brownlow V1 Vil iX Part I. Geology of eastern Massachusetts INaTOROVGNNE TON “5. B bo 8 OR Bo ee ek 5 ee |  | | Journal (volume) | | metahasalts, Braintree, Vermont ......... 13, Bichael Bailey: Geochemistry of the Braintree Complex, Vermont...indicative of oceanic tholeiites. GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE BRAINTREE COMPLEX, VERMONT Bailey, Michael M., Department...Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753 The Braintree Complex comprises two igneous intrusions, one...variation diagrams. This is not the case for the Braintree Complex. Plotted on an (Na,O + K 2 O), FeO, MgO...join the Whitcomb Summit Thrust in western Massachusetts. III PETRODRAPHY AND FIELD RELATIONSHIPS OF |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts by Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvin...Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvln This...contains the records of radlometrlc ages for Massachusetts from the Radlometrlc Age Data Bank of the U...portrayed on a new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). The compilation Is believed to...they appear on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). Steiger, R. H., and Jager, E. |  | | Report (issue) | | area ........ : ............... . ..... East Braintree - West Hawk Lake district, Man. . .....• 1 1...one occurrence, on Rivii!re du Poste, Maskinonge county, Quebec, has been reported in Canada. Phenacite...is locally common. Small blocks and stringers of galena and some pyrite were seen; also a black stain,... possibly a manganese minera~. A pocket of galena several feet in diameter is reported to be the locality...elsewhere in the vicinity of Winnipeg River. East Braintree-West Hawk Lake District, Manitoba (Lat. 49 6 39 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AMP BIRD MINE Ouray County, Colorado TOM R O S E M E Y E R 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray...mine owned by an individual. Photo courtesy Ouray County Historical Society. Camp Bird mine were probably...(ROBs). Hundreds of fine specimens of sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite, quartz, calcite, and fluorite...millwright and carpenter in the Worcester, Massachusetts, area. He was caught up in the westward movement...dollars a day for Thomas Walsh. Photo courtesy Ouray County Historical Society. Figure 9: A rare view of 2 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Willamette Valley Rockhounds. Clackamas 602/791-2210. County Fairgrounds, Hwy. 99E. Information: September 12-15—Denver...the Greater Denver Area Gem & Mineral nual Gaston County Gem and Mineral Show. Council. Exposition Hall...Show. Allen Gem and Mineral Society. North County Recre County Memorial Coliseum, U.S. 30 Bypass ation...Annual Show spon September 8, 9—North Adams, Massachusetts. sored by the Gem & Mineral Club of Scarbo...September 8, 9—Roseburg, Oregon. Annual Club. Lake County Fairgrounds. Information: Show sponsored by the |
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