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Clinochlore from
Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Clinochlore
Formula:Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Grossular8 photos of Clinochlore associated with Grossular at this locality.
Diopside3 photos of Clinochlore associated with Diopside at this locality.
Magnesite3 photos of Clinochlore associated with Magnesite at this locality.
Talc2 photos of Clinochlore associated with Talc at this locality.
Albite2 photos of Clinochlore associated with Albite at this locality.
Calcite2 photos of Clinochlore associated with Calcite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Clinochlore data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46596
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46596:0
GUID (UUID V4):a87e85c3-25e8-4979-b0ba-3f89d51a12d3
Nearest other occurrences of Clinochlore
24.8km (15.4 miles) Leesburg Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
24.9km (15.5 miles) Waterworks tunnel, District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), USA
25.0km (15.6 miles) Old Goose Creek Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
29.1km (18.1 miles) White Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
36.3km (22.6 miles) Bull Run Quarry, Conklin, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
50.2km (31.2 miles) Choate Mine, Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
50.9km (31.6 miles) Unnamed Chromite prospect 13 [of Pearre & Heyl], Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
52.7km (32.7 miles) Delight Quarry (Soldier's Delight Quarry; Dyer Quarry), Soldiers' Delight ridge, Delight, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
59.3km (36.8 miles) Discovery workings (Main workings), Bare Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
59.6km (37.0 miles) Unnamed Chromite prospects, Bare Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Serpentinite and Rodingite in the Hunting Hill Quarry, Montgomery County, Maryland By DAVID M. LARRABEE GEOLOGICAL...Description of rocks exposed in the quarry near the center of the Hunting Hill ultramafite UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...distribution of rocks in the Hunting Hill serpentinite pluton, Montgomery County, Md ____ In pocket 2. Geologic...Geologic map of the Hunting Hill serpentinite quarry __ In pocket 1. Index map showing location of the...the Hunting Hill serpentinite pluton, Montgomery County, Md______________ 3 2. Photograph of the Hunting
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...G. Tribbey The minerals of the Hunting Hill quarry, Rockville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Henderson County, Illinois, and near the towns of Dallas City, Hamilton and Plymouth in Hancock County, Illinois...examples include the Dallas City High School (Hancock County), The Mineralogical Record, volume 36, September–October...(Fig. 3), and the Mormon Temple at Nauvoo (Hancock County), construction of which was begun in 1841 and completed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rockville Crushed Stone Quarry by John O. Griesbach 3957 Wendy Court, Wheaton, Silver Spring, Md. Introduction:...Introduction: quarry about twice a week. This resulted Test pits reported to me by a friend in a collection...several colors, dendritic, white, pink, Hunting Hill, Montgomery County, Md., green, brown, red, and nearly...of deposited in joints and fractures as a silica quarry. Country-rock a moderately fine gel. It had nearly...of the taken, showed large euhedral and subhe- quarry and is no longer available. Being dral crystallized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
examples come from the Jeffrey mine (also noted as quarry on some labels), Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité...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...Lowell quarry (also labeled as Eden Mills quarries), 428 ROCKS & MINERALS Lowell, Orleans County, Vermont...acquiring it. Grossular from Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, occurs as greenish-red dodecahedra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chamosite as it is presently understood. *SPUVJOSVYL Clinochlore is widely distributed with about six hundred...Tasmania; the Malaschofsky quarry, Lichtenau, Austria; the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec...5. Large columnar crystal of blackish-green clinochlore from Zermatt, Switzerland. Specimen is 5 cm tall...black crystals occur with andradite in San Benito County, California. In Russia, excellent crystals come...Alps. Massive dark green clinochlore Figure 9. Dark red crystals of clinochlore, variety kämmererite, from
Report (issue)
^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...of the Baltimore Gabbro Complex at Ilchester, Maryland. Figure 6. Triassic diabase dike forming a ridge...Arundel, Prince George's/and Baltimore Counties, Maryland (Sterrett, 1911). Figure 9. Distribution of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Humboldt County, Nevada, as well as some new area east of their Mosquite mine in Im­ perial County, California...cookeite at the Stand on Your Head #1 mine in Saline County. The cookeite occurs as nearly featureless botryoids...still being found at the Coon Creek mine in Polk County, but the finds are not as prolific as in former...aesthetics. He has found several species in Litchfield County which have not been reported in Sohon's book on...the change seems irreversible. Maryland Calcite John Ertman of Rockville reports that he has had some extraordinary
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona........................................other unnamed species from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey ......................126 by P. J....Dunn McGuinnessite from a serpentinite body in Maryland ......................127 by F. Magnusson Native...currence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and
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preparation by Capitol Communications, Crofton, Maryland. Printed in the United States by Bookcrafters...ADULARIA Adu 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
Journal (issue)
CONTENTS HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE The Mineralogy of Maryland: A Hiswrical Sketch by Jay L. Lininger HISTORIC...MINERAL FEATURE A History of Chromite and Copper in Maryland: The Tyson Years by Sally Newcomb HISTORIC MINERAL...Mine at Bare Hills, Maryland by Herbert C. Moore HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE Maryland GOLD by Walter A. Goetz...FEATURE William Keith's Copper Mine: Prelude to the Maryland-Pennsylvania Border War by Paul Chrastina 112...Lininger 125 HISTORICAL MINING CERTIFICATES The Maryland Gold Company by Walter A. Goetz 128 ON THE COVER
Book
PREFACE V TABLE OF CONTENTS V I CHAPTER 1 Gem Hunting In The Appalachians CHAPTER 2 New Jersey ........Pennsylvania___ _ _ _ 1 _ 2 _ 2 1 CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West...n g y e l l o w " c o l o r " i n y o u r pan. Maryland: M o n t g o m e r y, Frederick, H o w a r d ...n d a n assortment o f fossils. Photograph b y Maryland Board o f Natural Resources. 2 K e n t u c k...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................Territory, Canada (Montgomery, 1960); the Big Creek-Rush Creek area, Fresno County, California (Alfors...(Alfors et al., 1965); Chickencoop Canyon, Tulare County, California (Franke, 1930; Hinthome, 1974), and the...discovered by Anthony Marsh of Incline, Mariposa County, sometime before 1930 (the exact date is not given)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
................................... 461 Diamond Hill felsite.............................................. Riebeckite-bearing granite porphyry Diamond Hill quartz deposits.......... Sheldonville quartz vein...remarkable quartz deposit known locally as Diamond Hill. As will appear beyond, all three of these for­...much dispute. The riebeckite rocks near Cumberland Hill mark, so far as is known, the southernmost extension...s R ocks m Diabuse dikes Vein quartz Diamond Hill felsite and agglomerate Riebeckite granite Riebeokue
Book (volume)
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...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...sne-aseseeateeCounty, Can tess ccraccacaerscsascn enaeantsrse Figure
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...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
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from
Report (issue)
terrane, central Appalachian Piedmont, Virginia and Maryland; Its origin and tectonic RISlOry ee ae ree ua...composite mélange-olistostrome belt in the Piedmont of Maryland and Virginia that includes olistostromes such...possible that soapstones just west of the Bronson Hill anticlinorium, discussed by Lyons and others (1982)...poorly constrained, as for the diamictites of Maryland and Virginia. Six main sets of mélanges and olistostromes...that extends from Trenton, New Jersey, across Maryland, and into Virginia (see Muller and others, this
Book (edition)
Haven, Connecticut. James A. Ferraiolo: Bowie, Maryland. Michael Fleischer: Dept. of Mineral Sciences...M. J. Buerger (1958), The Powder Method, McGraw Hill, New York. (B) Bunn, C. W. (1961), Chemical Crystallography...Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri...important gold mining districts in Australia, including Hill End, Hillgrove, and Mt. Boppy, NSW;; Mt. Morgan...Creede(*), Aspen(*), and other localities, CO; Bunker Hill, Shoshone Co., and Poorman mine, Owyhee Co., ID;
Report (volume)
Earthquake Notes - Earthquake Notes. America. Rockville, Md. Eastern Section, Seismological Society of...of Science. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, N. C. Empire State Geogram - The Empire State Geogram...Engineering and Mining Journal. Co. New York, N.Y. McGraw-Hill Publishing Eng. Geology - Engineering Geology....of Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Analysts. Houston, Tex. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. - Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science
Report (volume)
Earthquake Notes - Earthquake Notes. America. Rockville, Md. Casper, Eastern Section, Seismological...of Science. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, N. C. Endeavour·- Endeav~ur. Imperial Chemical...Engineering and Mining Journal. Co. New York, N.Y. McGraw~Hill Publishing Eng. and Sci.- Engineering and Science...Ky. Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Analysts. Houston, Tex. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. - Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science
Book (edition)
Pyrophyllite 202 Talc 204 Chlorite Group 208–215 Clinochlore, chamosite 208 iii Downloaded from https://pubs...photomicrographs from the W.S. MacKenzie collection The McGraw-Hill Companies for figures from Igneous Petrology; Microscopic...Fayalite, Gunflint Iron Formation, Minnesota-Ontario, USA (Floran, R.J. & Papike, J.J., 1978, J. Petrol., 19...rodingite, altered gabbro, Hunting Hill quarry, Montgomery County, Maryland (Larrabee, D.M., 1969, Bull...is associated with the PbZn orebodies of Broken Hill, Australia. Here there are marked compositional
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hyperstbene-diopside-plagioclase bomfels, Aavold Quarry, Oslo district, Norway (Muir and Tilley, 1958)...1963). Anal. R. A. Howie. Eulite, granulite, Broken Hill district, New South Wales (Binns, 1962). Anal. R...Enstatite, lherzolite nodu le, Green Knobs, Navajo County, Anzona (O'Hara and Mercy, 1966) Enstatae, garnet...Teleshova. Enstatite, olivine nodule in basalt, Calton Hill, Derbyshire (Hamad, 1963). Anal S. el D. Hamad (Co...low-temperature clinoenstatite from the Norton County meteorite, has been studied by Smyth (1974a). No
 
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