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Diopside from
Frost Quarry, Davis, Howard County, Maryland, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Albite3 photos of Diopside associated with Albite at this locality.
Limonite2 photos of Diopside associated with Limonite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Diopside associated with Quartz at this locality.
Beryl1 photo of Diopside associated with Beryl at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Frost Quarry, Davis, Howard County, Maryland, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:149750
Long-form Identifier:1:3:149750:2
GUID (UUID V4):86e4f672-1af2-4149-a239-39d417e3a53d
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
6.8km (4.2 miles) Marriottsville Quarry, Hernwood, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Bluegrass Company Quarry (H.T. Campbell Quarry; Campbell Quarry), Texas, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
41.2km (25.6 miles) Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
56.6km (35.2 miles) Churchville Quarry (Davis Quarry Company Inc.), Harford County, Maryland, USA
59.0km (36.7 miles) Teeter Quarry (Teeters Quarry; Valley Quarry; John S. Teeter and Sons Co. Quarry; Gettysburg Quarry; H.T. Campbell's Teeter's Quarry), Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
63.0km (39.1 miles) New Goose Creek Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
63.0km (39.1 miles) Old Goose Creek Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
77.1km (47.9 miles) Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds...257 pounds was found about 1925 at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester...*"eet: was found at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the...pegmatite of the Eight Mile Park area of Fremont county, Colorado; while pink chalcedony has been found
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)
ALABASTER (C. J.), An occurrence of brucite at Merehead quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, 4o0 ALEXANDER (P. O.) and...37 560 ALPHABETICAL Carter's mine, Madison County, North Carolina, kerolite, 443 Cassiar mine, British...Mendips, crystal structure, 357 Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona, ruizJte, 429 Chrome-picotite, New Caledonia...X-ray, 433 CLARK (A. M.), see BISHOP (A. C.), 59; DAVIS (R. J.), I23, M I o; COUPER (A. G.), 41 i ; FEJER...Clinopyroxene, see Aegirine, Aegirine-augite, Diopside, Sahlite Coalinga mine, California, chrysotile
Book (edition)
C, Gilbert C Morgan of Smyrna, Wash., J. Harry Howard and James W. Durst of Greenville, S. C, Lucien...MINERALS BERYL CHIASTOLITE a\ DIAMOND CRYSTALS DIOPSIDE EMERALD KYANITE LAZULITE t^^*l IDOCRASE ...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^
Journal (issue)
July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................2-Harry Ringwald LELAND£ QUICK PRACTICAL ARTS I- Howard McCornack 2-Ben M-aben CABOCHONS-LADIES ONLY I--Grace...Standridge 2-Belle Rugg 3-Melvin Gainder Novelties I- Howard ?\1cCornack 2-R. E. Willis 3-Ray Kruger Practical...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
biotite, 606. Acmite, synthesis, solid solution with diopside and hedenbergite, opt., cell-dimensions, 216;...mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489...Australia, alkali feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite, 2IO. BOWDEN (P.)...Clinoenstatite, Clinobronzite, Clinohypersthene, Diopside, Omphacite. Cloneurry, Queensland, cobaltite,... 25o. DAVIS (R. J.), and HEY (M. H.), Cell-contents of arthurite, 52o. - - - - Dean quarry, Coverack
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clinton, NY 13323, USA New York State Museum, Research and Collections, Albany, NY 12230, USA; marian.lupulescu@nysed...New York, College at Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045, USA; robert.darling@cortland.edu Earth & Environmental...12180, USA; singej2@rpi.edu Center for Mineralogy, New York State Museum, Albany, NY 12230, USA; sccham2@yahoo...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA. Individual mineral grains were epoxy mounted, polished...Figure 1. Sample ID Map # Locality Name Town County Russell St. Lawrence Macomb St. Lawrence Dekalb
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
about the Selenite locality at Fort Washington, Maryland and Mr. Charles W . Smith talked on micro-mounts...Bolivia. A trip was planned to the Kibblehouse Quarry at Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania. At the July meeting...July 8th, 1951, to French Creek Mines, in Chester County, Penn. When sixty-one rockhounds pounded the old...rewarding. The next trip will be to Kibblehouse Quarry on August 19th. Mrs. Otto Karl Bauhof 352 Church...minerals were most common. The West Cheshire trap quarry yielded specimens of natrolite and other minerals
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...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Platinum group elements, Cr, Zr, B, and blue diopside. During the development of the deposit, a huge...bytownite–anorthite up to 12 mm, poikilocrystals of diopside–augite up to 120 × 40 mm2 , and bronzite up to...are also observed in larger grains of olivine, diopside and chrome–spinel. The pronounced parting appearing...(occasionally with diopside inclusions), monticellite (roundish, facetted or lath-shaped), diopside (roundish...are observed in the olivine [50]. Bright green diopside forms fringes of chrome–spinel crystals and poikilocrists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
William Glen Elliot Clark, David Leigh Cramer, Howard Ross Crary, Albert Paddock Davidson, David Francis...Goldsmith, Richard Goode, Harry Donald Gordon, Ellis Davis Grossling, Bernardo Freudenberg Hackett, Orwoll...B., Jr. Hoagland, Alan D. Holden, John Clinton Howard, James Franklin Jacobeen, Frank Henry, Jr. Jennings...Mukae, Mike Michitoshi P 197 Murdock, Stanley Howard, Jr. Myers, Harold Ellis Myers, Ralph L. Neathery...Parker, Travis Jay Raup, Hugh Miller Simpson, Howard E. Smith, Bennett L. Smith, William Lee Wahl, Floyd
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Elbaite in quartz, 6 × 9 cm, Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Holmes collection. Specimen received...4 cm wide, Wheatley mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Ferrier collection, Michael Bainbridge...and greenockite, 13 cm wide, Prosperity, Jackson County, Missouri. Ferrier collection, Michael Bainbridge...the establishment of a natural history museum (Frost 1982; Gagnon 1994, p. 111). By 1830 the society...Tony Gordian and a large collection of Francon quarry minerals from Donald V. Doell. They and other donors
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silicate Anatexis in the Balmat Zinc Deposit (New York, USA) and its Implications for Ore Remobilization Peter...Silicate Anatexis in the Balmat Zinc Deposit (New York, USA) and its Implications for Ore Remobilization, Ore...Silicate Anatexis in the Balmat Zinc Deposit (New York, USA) and its Implications for Ore Remobilization Peter...Center at CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences...NY 11210, USA, wpowell@brooklyn.cuny.edu c 1 Indian Head Trail, Gouverneur, NY 13642, USA, wdellie@gmail
Report (issue)
A note on newly discovered kimberlites in Riley County, Kansas William L. Mansker, Bill D. Richards, and...petrography of the Twin Knobs ttl lamproite, Pike County, Arkansas . 205 Michael A. Waldman, Tom E. McCandless...igneous complex, Garland County, Arkansas Robert E. Zartman and J. Michael Howard . 235 Isotopic relationships...G. R. Tilton, Sung Tack Kwon, and Donna Martin Frost Bibliochrony of igneous rocks of Arkansas with particular...Carter Hearn, Jr., Glenn Himmelberg, Michael J. Howard, Anthony Irving, Robert Jacobi, William P. Leeman
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Center at CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA; petermatt49@gmail.com 2) Department of Earth and...11210, USA 3) Department of Geology, Juniata College, 1700 Moore St., Huntingdon, PA 16652, USA 4) 1 Indian...Indian Head Trail, Gouverneur, NY 13642, USA 1|Page Abstract Shear zone-hosted ore bodies at the Balmat...primarily alternating layers of dolomitic and quartz-diopside rock (deLorraine, 2001; Whelan, et al., 1990)...Upper Marble but are retrograde replacements of diopside and forsteritic olivine (Brown and Engel, 1956;
Journal (issue)
1946 CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................INTERESTING MINERAL LOCALITIES NEAR VANDERGRIFT, PENN.By Howard V . Ha,nilton ...................................•••..•...••.•.•...•..•664 LIBERTI COPPER MINE, MARYLAND. By Vernon / . ~filler .................... 665...•••....................................•667 ATLAS QUARRY, HARDYSTONVILLE N . J. By Peter Zodac ...........THE (llJ..4ltltY San Diego County-A Great GemBearing Area San Diego County, California, was at one time
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
o t i n c l u d e d i n t h i s Index. Acmite-diopside system, opt., X-ray, 625 Actinolite, Argyll, overgrowth...581; spectrochemical determination of, 790; Amelia County, anal., 796 ALIAS (L. J.), see DE CASTRO(A. HoYos)...(G. D.), Amphiboles from Nigeria. I. 358 - - & FROST (M. T.), Ferrohastingsites, 646 Bose (Mihir Kumar)... Determination of calcite:aragonite ratio, 608 DAvIs (1~. g.) & HEY (M. H.), Arthurite, 937 DAY (G.)...Natroalunite, 353; Chlorites, 404 Diopside, Argyll, anal., opt., 415 Diopside-acmite system, opt., X-ray, 625
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA, catalogue numbers...Argentum mine), Candelaria district, Mineral County, Nevada, USA (3889 0 22 00 N 11885 0 8 00 W). The Northern...60 38.24–39.69 0.26 0.43 0.02 0.20 0.45 diopside diopside hematite sanidine apatite * Based on the...respectively. Band assignments were made according to Frost et al. (2014). The Raman spectrum shows peaks (in
Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the major phases in the Earth’s mantle (e.g., Frost 2008). Besides their enormous petrological importance...mineral was first described from the Pereval marble quarry, southern Baikal region, Russia (Reznitsky et al...metamorphosed pyrite deposit of Shepherd Hill (Brukunga quarry), Nairne, Mt. Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia...by Ramdohr and Schmitt (1955) from the Trogtal quarry, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany, as inclusions in...Cu2Co2S4 on specimens from Finksburg, Carroll County, Maryland, U.S.A. It has been named from the type locality
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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
 
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