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Microcline from
White Rock Quarry, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Rock Quarry, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:157360
Long-form Identifier:1:3:157360:2
GUID (UUID V4):b6ee650b-6875-4d74-8cbb-ae2dfd6f579d
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
3.4km (2.1 miles) Redstone Granite Quarry (Cherenzia Quarry), Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Smith Granite quarry, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Sullivan Quarry (Armetta Quarry; Copar Quarry; Westerly Granite Co. Quarry), Bradford, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Crumb Granite Quarry, Bradford, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) Masons Island Quarry, Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) Mount Tom road cut, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
22.6km (14.1 miles) Moonstone Beach, South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
25.1km (15.6 miles) Falls of the Yantic River, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA
25.2km (15.7 miles) Goos Quarry, Waterford, New London County, Connecticut, USA
25.4km (15.8 miles) West Kingston, South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AMERICA NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND PART II. REMAINING COUNTIES Lrovn W. FrsnBn...Staurolite Stilbite Zoisite BRISTOL COUNTY The major portion of Bristol County shows sedimentary rocks consisting...consisting chiefly of the Rhode Island formation of shales, con_ glomerates and sandstones. B. K. Ernerson2has...similar to the Diamond Hill area of Providence County. The Bristol area, in the vicinity of portsmouth...Limonite Melanterite Pyrite Rrulms After pyrite White; encrusting shale. Crystals as large as 1 cm. I
Report (volume)
COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE 1923 ADDITIONAL...SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVEENMENT FEINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 50 CENTS A COPY PUECHASEE AGEEES NOT...Maine____________________ Milford, N. H________________________ Westerly and Charlestown, R. I____________ Conclusions...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________
Report (volume)
Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1911 CONTENTS....Connecticut granites________ __ _ __ 25 Structure, rock variations, weathering, and discoloration of granitic...______________i________ 39 Snbjoints____________________ ______ 39 Rock variations_____ 39 Dikes (granitic) ____________________________...__________________ Voorhis quarry _________________________ Ritch quarry _____________________ _____...__________ Norwalk ____________________________. __ Hall quarry __________________________ Hartford County____
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1917............................................... Washington gneiss......,- .................................................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...formation......................................... Rhode Island...............................................formation........................................... Rhode Island formation .................................
Report (issue)
VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little...actual working of representative samples of the rock. The rock is very fine grained and takes a high polish...portion, the gray layers below. The rock is traversed by many white and bluishgray calcite veins, and here...small quartz grains. The variegation gives to the rock a highly ornamental effect when polished, and it... chocolate, and red colors, alternating with . white, sometimes in distinct bands, in some parts of rather
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clubs, Inc. The Westchester Mineral & Gem Society, White Plains, N.Y., has enjoyed an interesting series...figures formed naturally in rocks. The Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society, Inc., Spring Valley, N.Y...held at the West Nyack, N.Y., YMCA in The Fulton County Mineral Club, Gloversville, N . Y., is sitting...Two field trips were made, one to the Chimney Rock Quarry near Bound Brook, N.Y., and another to Moodus...and swap session. This was held at the White Rock Inn, Atlas Quarry, N . J. with the Franklin-Ogdensburg
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2014 Fourth...Fourth Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...printing December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page...................389 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Page Ohio ...................................................412 Rhode Island ...........................................
Book (edition)
from the Principal Localities in the Middlesex County Region in Connecticut Unclassified Material Page...Directions to the Mineral Localities in the Middlesex County Region in Connecticut .... Additional Locality...booklet devoted to the mineralogy of the Middlesex County region. Invaluable assistance in preparing the...the same minerals that are found in the igneous rock granite: quartz, feldspar, and mica. However, the...formed deep within the earth from the same igneous rock magma that formed the granites. At about five thousand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...elements manganese, sodium, lithium, and cesium and is white, gray, or pink. Aquamarine is most commonly found...as elongated crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by...Antero in central Colorado. and project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the...Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls, and aquamarine occurs
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...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...438 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1
Report (volume)
non-beryl-bearing pegmatites and to type of wall rock. More than 330 concordant and discordant pegmatites...units, or zones, parallel to the pegmatite wall-rock contact have been noted in an individual pegmatite...operation for beryl alone have been discovered, but rock containing 0.1 percent beryl or more is available... quartz, and mica of the rock. The average beryl content of pegmatite rock in the Middletown area is...cities of Middletown and Portland in Middlesex County; the Glastonbury quadrangle, north of the Middle
Book (volume)
Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...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...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional
Book (volume)
Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...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...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional
Book (volume)
publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...extends from outline works such as Minerals of Washington (Cannon, 1975), Monteregian Treasures (Mandarino...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 1996 Second...Second Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...63125 December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page...................333 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Ohio ........................................................352 Rhode Island ...........................................
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2005 Third Edition...Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...63125 December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page...................333 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Page Ohio ...................................................352 Rhode Island ...........................................
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................Eugene E. Foord Mineral Photographs (Black-and-White Plates) ..........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward]
Report (issue)
4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses... Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC ...east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating needles
Report (issue)
the mirror-image of metamorphic zones in Dutchess County, New York. However, garnet appeared before biotite...with them for more than 11 miles* A sheet of West Rock Diabase at least 18 miles long and as much as 700...schist..............*........7 32 Calc-silicate rock...............*...... 32 Origin.......*.........Anphibolites............................ 41 Calc-silicate rock...................... 43 Impure marble..........features.................................. 105 West Rock Diabase................................. 106 General
Journal (issue)
Editorial Board written content: Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) London...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...postpaid): Locality —Minas Gerais, Brazil (by J. S. White) [1970, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 73.] Locality —Minas Gerais...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515
Report (issue)
expanded shale plant, Summit County, Utah Holnam’s Devil’s Slide plant, Morgan County, Utah !7IB5F7-jbgfej...THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST FORUM 1999 Salt Lake City County Building constructed of Kyune Sandstone Proceedings...surficial geology of the state at a regional scale by county and at a more detailed scale by quadrangle. The...Employment Opportunity Commission, 1801 L Street, NW, Washington DC 20507. Printed on recycled paper ii 5/01...Toronto, Ontario, CAN Baltimore, MD Tucson, AZ Little Rock, AR 23 24 1987 1988 North Aurora, IL Greenville
Report (volume)
COMPILED BY SAMUEL SANFORD AND RALPH W. STONE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1914 USEFUL MINERALS...about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five tunes the combined production and...than 80,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South...STATES. Tennessee........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips
Book
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...transparent, tabular microcrystals on matrix of white dolomite, and rarely as doubly terminated crystals...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...northeast of the town of Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
11, 1922.) INTRODUCTION—PHYSICAL FKATURKS. The Island of Iona, celebrated for its ecclesiastical remains..." or " I " (the Island), and has been termed also " Innis-nan-Druidneach " (the Island of the Druids)...Druids), "I-Colm-Kill" (the Island of Colum of the Cell). The term "Iona" (or "Ioua") was used by ADAMNAN in...probable derivation is from the Irish " I-thon " (the Island of Waves).* Situated off the north-west of the...a breadth of less than a mile at the ferry, the island trends from south-west to north-east and, including
Journal (issue)
of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C...Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by...when I first took this job, then-publisher John White offered to buy me a steak dinner if I ever managed...Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed...for the other pegmatite gem mines in San Diego County, the collapse o f the Chinese tourmaline market
 
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