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Biotite from
Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:127876
Long-form Identifier:1:3:127876:7
GUID (UUID V4):9184b15b-ca72-4e34-bbb0-3bf1f3936181
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
4.7km (2.9 miles) ⓘHolden Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) ⓘGassetts, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
9.7km (6.0 miles) ⓘHamm Mine, Windham, Windham County, Vermont, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) ⓘFrostbite Mine, Ludlow, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
14.2km (8.8 miles) ⓘGrafton Quarry, Grafton, Windham County, Vermont, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) ⓘPine Hill Quarry, Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) ⓘBemis Limestone Quarry, Athens, Town of Athens, Windham County, Vermont, USA
21.7km (13.5 miles) ⓘBellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont, USA
24.0km (14.9 miles) ⓘAscutney Mountain complex, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
26.0km (16.2 miles) ⓘAlstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Carlton Quarry Chester, Windsor County, Vermont ROBERT CLEMENTS 2 Southern Avenue Brattleboro, Vermont...Hampshire 03607 T he Carlton quarry is located in Chester, Windsor County, Vermont. This and many other...Soapstone Finish Company, which began operations in Chester in February 1887. According to Jacobs (1912), “The...its material for the last six years from the Carlton quarry,” dating their operation to at least 1905....owner in the State Report of 1919-20, and the Carlton quarry became known locally as the Dodge property
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRAND, ISLE: L Jirrwowwux/ lot* llMt UK* U'A VERMONT Mineral Locality Index VANDALL T. K I N G P.O....Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions map; adapted from U.S. Geological...of New Hampshire and Vermont (1972). 324 ROCKS & MINERALS he state of Vermont is relatively small,...quar­ ry in the world is in Rochester (Windsor Co.), Vermont. Min­ eral products mined "as is" for their...minerals found in Ver­ mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney; photo by Roger Bacon. The granite industry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cerussite and fluorite, Blanchard mine, Socorro County, New Mexico. Peter J. Modreski photo. MarchlApril:...Van Pelt photo. July/August: Grossular, Lowell, Vermont. Robert Whitmore specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo...chalcopyrite, and quartz, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil...NovemberDecember: Silver, Bulldog mine, Mineral County, Colorado. F. John Barlow specimen, Malcomb Hjerstedt...Colorado, 97 Actinolite, Vermont, 234, 239, 262 Albite, Michigan, 388; Vermont, 235, 239, 262 Alexander
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORIGIN WITH OF THE VERMONT TALC DEPOSITS, A DISCUSSiON' ON' THE FORMATION' OF T^LC IN' GEN'ERAL....................... 246 General Geology of Vermont .................................... Talc Deposits...Property, Chester, Windsor County.................... 253 254 Talc and Verde Antique Quarry, Stockbridge...Stockbridge,Windsor County Williams Mine, RochesterTownship, Orange County........ ... Verde Antique Quarry, North...Prospect at Hammondsville, Reading Township, Windsor County ..........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2015 from the Type Locality Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont ROBERT I. GAIT Department...history and the minerals of the Carlton quarry, near Chester, Vermont, by Clements and Robinson is published...The word biopyribole was coined from the words biotite, pyroxene, and amphibole because their structures...basic silicate units found in micas (specifically biotite), pyroxenes, and amphiboles. The possible existence...unnamed mineral were discovered at this famous Vermont locality. The new minerals are found intergrown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a, b). The type locality is the Carlton quarry near Chester, Vermont (Clements and Robinson 1996; Gait...the alteration of orthohombic amphibole. WHO VERMONT MINERALS Named for James B. Thompson, Jr. and David...by the rocks and minerals of New Hampshire and Vermont. Later, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...significant contribution to the geological map of Vermont. It was here, no doubt, that he developed his love...It was first found in the Post Pond Volcanics, Vermont, associated with phlogopite, talc, chlorite, cordierite
Book
TRAILS OF NEW ENGLAND by Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S... Enosburg Falls, Vermont Boston Mining Company Mine Hyde Park, Lamoille Co. , Vermont Copper Mine Locality...Locality Milton, Vermont Parrot Jasper Mine Reading, Windsor Co., Vermont Reading Talc Mine Saxtons River...River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane, Vermont Adams Hill Site NEW HAMPSHIRE Center Strafford... Massachusetts Pfitzer Quarry Ashland, Massachusetts Bayer - Mingolla Quarry Blandford, Massachusetts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Please Send Them In. calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo Co., Calif., and the other is a bluishwhite...albite, oligoclase, anorthite), quartz, mica (biotite, muscovite) obsidian and gold??? Who would suppose...in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County —2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest...of Cherry Grove School; Fayette County—near Fayetteville; Fulton County—near College Park. (Georgia Mineral...Iowa. Among the minerals noted in the lot were: biotite (black flakes in granite), epidote (green, in granite)
Report (volume)
GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR 4O4 THE GRANITES OF VERMONT BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...distribution of Vermont granites............................ General petrography of Vermont granites ................................. Biotite granite ................................................... Quartz..................... 12 Geologic relations of Vermont granites................................. 13 ... Outline of the earlier geologic history of Vermont granites............... Important geologic features
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zones of talc-carbonate, and ‘blackwall’ minerals (biotite, chlorite and actinolite) occur along the outer...128 Lat., 12;5”3Y’Long. From Cassiar aYbeatos quarry From (59°20’Lat 129’40’ ” single Long.) hand specimen...0.1 8.6 8.8 f O-1 biotite Ch biotite -84 AL? L > A, T, Tr Cedar Hilt Quarry, S.E. Ps. (see LAPHAM...trace A A A>C Carlton Quarry, Vt. (see PIIILLJPSand HE=, 1936) la lb 2 3 biotite aotinolita T All...0 0.0 12.1 &- o-2 Il.6 5 0.0 - 7 Betvidere Quarry, Vt. (see CADY et al., 1963) la center 1b margin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire’s DONALD DALLAIRE 829 Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 dadallaire@hotmail.com JAMES...gravel operations when the pit was reclaimed. Carlton Holt specimen, Kevin Downey photo. Percy Peak...Neumeier. 302 3 South Baldface 93 302 Redstone Quarry Bartlett Lincoln Huntington Mountain Moat Mountain...Boundary of the White Mountain Magma Series Province Vermont ? Lichfield United States New York Western...than 80 percent of the WMB and mainly consist of biotite granite (Conway Granite), alkali granite (Mount
Journal (issue)
1940 Contents for November, 1940 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ......................................................................... 368 A TALC QUARRY NEAR CHESTER, VERMONT. By Peter Zodac 369 MORSE HAS SUCCESSFUL...]oJces Ca11e 3-Crysta/ Cave S< 4- Government Quarry .5- Chalk Cave 6--Col/ophanite Locality l< 1...but the best collecting place is the Government quarry. H ere one is almost sure to find the mineral in...have taken place General View of the Gove,-nmenl Quarry F f C t f· r R OCKS AND MlN ERALS elsewhere
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, Ala....near the old HaleWalker Quarry —perhaps a third of a mile from the Strickland Quarry. Chalcopyrite is disseminated...green coating on pegmatite, at the Hale-Walker Quarry itself, was seen a few years ago. It was probably...of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River...mixture of chlorite, biotite, and muscovite. The porphyroblasts are in biotite-muscovite-quartz schist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Devil’s Den Locality Mount Tabor Rutland County Vermont DOUGLAS ROBINSON Figure 1. Locality map,...ROBERT CLEMENTS 9 Southern Avenue Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 rwc2esj@comcast.net T HERE ARE SEVERAL...SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT QUARTZ LOCALITIES IN VERMONT, of which the Devil’s Den (figs. 1 and 4) in Mount Tabor stands...& Minerals was titled “The Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windham County, Vermont” and was coauthored with Robert...Locality The town of Mount Tabor, in Rutland County, Vermont, is situated along the crest of the Green Mountains
Report (volume)
Method of treatment__________________________ Vermont _________________________________ Distribution...Geologic relations of Vermont granites_,__________ Outline of earlier history of Vermont granites_________...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...the quarries, granites, and product Continued. Vermont Continued. Page. The quarries, their granite and
Report (issue)
in SWV^Wtt sec. 24, T. 4 N., R. 13 W., Comanche County, Oklahoma, are near trenches excavated in 1985...hornblende biotite, two pyroxenes, and lacking olivine. 2. Glen Creek Gabbro, medium-grained, biotite-amphibole-bearing...gabbro. 3. Sandy Creek Gabbro, a medium-grained, biotite-amphibole-bearing gabbro with or without olivine...olivine. 4. Mount Sheridan Gabbro, a medium-grained biotite gabbro, locally fractionated to ferrogranodiorite...overlying the Raggedy Mountain Gabbro Group is the Carlton Rhyolite Group that is described at the Bally Mountain
Report (issue)
Acknowledgments Q3 Structural setting in northern Baraga County Q4 Structures in the Huron River parautochthon...showing microscopic structures in slates, Carl ton County, Minnesota Q19 15. Sketch section comparing tectonic...Formation. The Baraga belt, in northern Baraga County, typifies the structural setting of the upper slate...similar, previously recognized boundary in Carlton County, Minnesota. In the parautochthonous terrane...tectonic lineations. West of this area, in Baraga County, the degree of deformation decreases and the rocks
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite...sodium potassium alumino-silicate Arizona Final County, Christmas Dark green cleavages in andesite ..
Report (issue)
Mineral Industries and Geology of Certain Areas OF VERMONT. 1907-1908. SIXTH OF THIS SERIES. GEORGE H. PERKINS...Geologist and Professor 01 Geology, University of Vermont. CONCORD, N. H. RUMFORD PRINTING COMPANY 1908...DALF. .................. 58 THE GRANITES OF VERMONT, FOSSIL CETACEA OF THE PLEISTOCENE, G. H. PERKINS......... 187 REFORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, G. H. PERKINS ........ 189 GEOLOGY OF THE TowN...... 210 REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY CF CHIT'JENDEN COUNTY, G. H. PERKINS ...... 221 GEOLOGY OF NEWPORT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
existence. Mrs. Marguerite R. Collyer of the Rockland County Gem and Mineral Society remains as Chairman of... Jacobs of the Bellows Falls Mineral Club, of Vermont, took charge from here, and on Tuesday led the...Connecticut River to Gassetts, Vermont, to pan gold, stopping on the way at the Carlton, Vt., talc mine. Associated...Competition TROPHIES Best in Show—Mineral Div.— Carlton Davis, Boston Mineral Club, with almost complete...2nd—North Jersey Mineralogical Society. 3rd—Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society. M-4 One Locality Group:
Journal (issue)
MINERAL GARDEN 1. Black and Gray Limestone Augusta County Donated By: Rockydale Quarries Corporation, Staunton...Ma*). 2. Tightly-folded, Biotite-Quartz-Feldspar Gneiss ChesterïŹeld County Donated By: Vulcan Materials...Materials Company, Dale Quarry Isoclinally folded, biotite, quartz, and feldspar gneiss interpreted as sedimentary...Proterozoic (900 – 1600 Ma). 3. Biotite - Feldspar Granofels Albemarle County Donated By: Martin Marietta...Marietta Aggregates, Red Hill Quarry Medium- to coarse-grained, aggregate of biotite, hornblende, quartz and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
..................................... Morrison county................................................................................ The hornblende-biotite schists................................................................................... The biotite schists....................................................................... The staurolitic biotite schists..........................................The ex­ posures lie in force around Thomson and Carlton, where the rocks range through every textural phase
Report (volume)
................................ 139 Becket (Chester).. ..................................^..... 140...geology........................................ The quarry............................................ New...................... Glossary of scientific and quarry terms.................................. 140 140......... III. A, Dell Hitchcock quarry, Quincy, Mass.; B, Galvin quarry, Quincy, Mass....................Company's Upper quarry, Rockport, Mass.; B, Rockport Granite Company's Deep Pit quarry, near Bay View
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ridel, 228 So. Center St., Windsor Locks, Conn. The specimen consists of small, white...was reported in 1843 at Williams Ferry in Hall County by Dr. Stevenson while panning for gold. The stone...Creek corundum mine in Town County. At Piedmont Orchard in Habersham County, beautiful nodules of deep...related to granitic rocks, has been found in Troup County near La Grange. All of the stones are a rich blue-green...granite boulder consisting largely of quartz and biotite mica. The tourmaline xls are arranged in a sunburst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
relative to SMOW). Nine antigorites (mainly from Vermont and S. E. Pennsylvania) show distinctly smaller...et al., 1968) C 3.2 --6.8 Belvidere Mt. 9, Vermont (see Cady et al., 1963) A, tr. C 6.1 --2.5 ...Vt. Talc 1, Vermont, Lat. 43~ ', Long. 72o20 , Carlton Quarry 3, 2.2 mi. W of Chester Depot Mid-Atlantic...3ANT)LANT'f48 C I f Sti--Ky.] VT. TALC '1 GRADE "[.CARLTON QUARRY5 " +5 I G' (43.8) 0 (4 3.7) (9 (42...chlorite-magnetite OlS-fractionations observed in the biotite-zone and lower garnet-zone rocks examined b y Garrick
 
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