 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A CATALOGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS GEMSTONES NORFOLK C,OUNTY ( Part Seven) By RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany...amended in a later issue. AMETHYST Locality Description and Occurrence Franklin Wellesley In gneiss. Pale...Brookline, on county line separating Brookline, Norfolk County and Newton, Middlesex County Cohasset, shore...shore of Massachusetts Bay Foxboro, gravel banks, in vicinity Blue Hills Canton, gravel pits, 10 Cohasset...Cohasset, shore of Massachusetts Bay Norfolk County, shore of Boston Bay Foxboro, Union Street and vicinity |  | | 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, |  | | Book (edition) | | CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • • BERYL MOONSTONE CITRINE GEM...arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized in...where they found many of stones, such as quartz amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals...precious variety of beryl. Amethyst and agate geode. Purple or lavender amethyst crystals line cavity, ... Todd's Branch, Mecklenberg Co. Portis mine, Franklin Co. Muddy Creek headwaters, McDowell Co. Dysortville |  | | 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...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Show and Sale sponsored by the Lin coln County Gem and Mineral Society. Na tional Guard Armory...California. Orange County Fairgrounds, 88 Fair Drive. Informa tion: Jill Lloyd, Orange County Fair, 88 Fair...Annual Ute Moun tain Gem and Mineral Society Show, County Annex Building, 103 North Chestnut. Informa tion:...Fredericks, P.O. Box 196, Cutchogue, Society. Payne County Fairgrounds, 3 mi. East New York 11935. of Stillwater...Gemboree sponsored by the cutt Mineral Society. County Fair Grounds, Bancroft Mineral Society and the |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Norfolk Gem & Mineral Association PRESENTS yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia...Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz...CRYSTALLIZED TURQUOISE from near Lynch Station, Campbell County, is Virginia's unique contribution to the mineral...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin...the same county. It also has been observed in pegmatites in Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and elsewhere |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies Saugus, Massachusetts John Hanahan Jr. Chairman, Science Division...Ehlmann Texas Christian University Lynn, Massachusetts Delbert L. Oswald Fred Fortess Philadelphia...Brooklyn, New York Ben M. Shaub Northampton, Massachusetts W. Cullen Sherwood VandaU T. King State University...the pegrnatite veins of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North...and Rumford, Maine; Chesterfield, Massachusetts; San Diego County, California; Colorado and New Mexico |  | | Journal (issue) | | W. Ferguson 15 lb. Cluster of Amethyst Crystals Ellis Jones Amethyst Mine, Due West, S. C. (See page...DECEMBER, 1965 Whole Number 315 .. New Arrivals AMETHYST CRYSTAL GEODES, Chihuahua, Mexico. Many choice...choice complete gecde halves containing choice amethyst crystals of medium purple color on agate. These have...Prices vary according to the size and color of the amethyst. Single halves of S to 3 Vz" diameter $4.00 to...price plus all return of same. These may contain amethyst, smoky quartz, goethite, calcite or other minerals |  | | Report (volume) | | stones that react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Spectacular sponsored by the Henderson County Gem and Mineral Society, Inc. Held in conjunction...Society. North County Recreation Complex, Veteran Memorial Park, 2577 Redman Road, St. Louis County. Information:...Grande, 25 Mohawk Forest Boulevard, North Adams, Massachusetts 01247. September 18-20—Denver, Colorado. 20th...C . B e c k e r Trafford/Flynn 16 Park Street Norfolk, MA 0 2 0 5 6 Shields Flynn Williams Mineral Co...Fossil, and Craft Show spon sored by the Licking County Rock and Min eral Society. Y W C A Building, 6th |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A CATALOGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS GEMSTONES FRANKLIN COUNTY (PART SIX) By RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany...given as 1 mile east of Deerfield Academy?) Franklin County 516 Desc:ription and Occurrence Waterworn...types and colors including the record 23 pound amethyst lined agate geode described under another Deerfield...center cavity of the nodule was lined with pale amethyst crystals. Many specimens were reported found at...nearly the northern boundary of the state (Franklin County) southward through Hampshire and Hampden Counties |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rte. 1, Box 1-K, Potlatch, ID 83855. May 5-7—Franklin, North Carolina. Gem & Lapidary Wholesalers (G&LW)...the Earth Science Club of Missouri. Creve Coeur County Park, Greensfelder Pavilion, Dorsett Rd. and Marine...Annual Gem and Mineral Fair sponsored by the Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleontology Society. Sears Roebuck...30th Annual Mineral Swap sponsored by the Fulton County Mineral Club. Fulton-Montgomery Community College...48043; 313/463-5972. June 17, 18—Topsfield, Massachusetts. 26th An nual Gem and Mineral Show sponsored |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | E . W a r r e n , S r . and Mineral Society of Franklin in the P. O . B o x 2 8 7 Old Jail. And the Club...down at wishing to send nice mineral specimens Franklin, North Carolina. The museum may send them to:...Society of Franklin (N.C.) 2 West Main of specimens. Let's correct an impress St., Franklin, N.C. 28734...Gem and Mineral Club, Gem and Mineral Society of Franklin of Hickory, to enable it to provide a pro "The...Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario, Canada....amethyst from Thunder Bay, Lake Superior agates, black |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin, Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin, Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark...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 |  | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio...foreign lands. These include turquoise, tourmaline, amethyst, pearls, opals, jade, sapphires, emeralds, rubies...searching not only for gold but also for turquoise, amethyst and emeralds. In the early 1600s, when English...exclusively in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Mitchell County, North Carolina, to be true hiddenite. Preface...Hamlin, were rock hunting on Mount Mica in Oxford County, Maine. On the way home, one of the boys saw a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 21st Annual Show of the Gila County Gem and Mineral Society. Gila County Fair grounds, Highway 60, Globe...Long Island, Inc. Elks Lodge No. 1485, 220 N. Franklin St., Hempstead, New York. Show Chairman: Ake Anderson...New York 14075 April 8, 9, 1977-Wellesley, Massachusetts. Boston Gem and Mineral Show spon sored by...chusetts 01760; Shields Flynn, 16 Park St., Norfolk, Massachusetts 02056 April 8, 9, 1978-Claymont, Delaware...Advance Registra port Lapidary Club. Cuyahoga County tion and information: Mrs. G. Apolant, Farigrounds |  | | 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, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 J A N E T W. C A R E S 18 Singletary Lane Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776 ONE...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes...Island—for example, steatite from Johnston in Providence County for carving bowls and pipes; red and yellow ochre |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies Saugus, Massachusetts John Hanahan Jr. Chainnan, Science Division...Christian University Margaret A. McBrien Lynn, Massachusetts Fred Fortess Philadelphia College of Tex tiles...Cincinnati, Ohio Ben M. Shaub Northampton, Massachusetts Vandall T. King State University of N...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfree• boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed...diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park). |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tysens Lane, Staten Island, N. Y . 10306, year Amethyst Deposits in South apparently an officer of the...ology of Staten Island. Micro Minerals The Wayne County Gem and Min from the collection of Walter Zabinski...Valley Gem and Mineral Members of the Tompkins County Gem Club, Elmira, made two 27 tape recorded and...Eastchester, provided The members of St. Lawrence County Downloaded by [JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY] at 08:01...minting of coins The Gem and Mineral Society of Franklin is asking for volunteers to go to Jail, that is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sponsored by the Rock & Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County. Northminster Presbyterian Church, 140 Tren ton...Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford S t Cambridge, Massachusetts Auctioneer Michael Haritos Auction: 2:00-6:00...by the West Texas Gem and Mineral Society. Ector County Coliseum, Exhibit Build ing A, 42d and Andrews...the Calaveras Gem & Mineral Society. Calaveras County Fairgrounds. Show Chairman: Jerry Bradford, 2068...sponsored by the Hell's Canyon Gem Club. Nez Perce County Fair Building. Chairman: John Dickeson. Downloaded |  | | 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 |
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