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Aragonite from
Blue Mount Quarry, Blue Mount, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blue Mount Quarry, Blue Mount, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:49656
Long-form Identifier:1:3:49656:2
GUID (UUID V4):1d157711-6582-43c0-a69c-ef695eb7d253
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
25.8km (16.0 miles) Bare Hills Copper Mine (Smith Avenue Copper Mine), Bare Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
27.8km (17.3 miles) Choate Mine, Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Southern pit ,Hollofield quarries, Hollofield, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
43.4km (27.0 miles) Haines & Kibblehouse Penn-Maryland Materials Quarry, Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
44.3km (27.6 miles) Cedar Hill Quarry (Stoltzfuss Quarry), Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
46.2km (28.7 miles) Codorus Stone & Supply Co. Quarry, Emigsville, East Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
47.0km (29.2 miles) Wood's Chrome Mine, Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
60.9km (37.8 miles) Gap Mine, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
71.3km (44.3 miles) Culp Ridge, Glatfelter Farm, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
75.8km (47.1 miles) Cornwall Mines (Cornwall Iron Mine), Cornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Deposits in Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...___________ 715 716 716 718 719 720 721 721 722 723 Quarry descriptions.-___._-_-_-_-_-_-_---_-___--______-_..._-________-__________ _ Blue Mount quarries..___--___-________--____.__.__ Cardiff "green marble" quarry...._._._-__________...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-
Journal (issue)
These stones are untreated, can be heated to turn blue or white. Colors are various shades of brown ; :...peducnseiecee ieee eee SERPENTINE AND CHROMITE IN MARYLAND, Mihm .................00000055 ATOMIC RESEARCH... Serpentine, Chromite in Maryland by Leslie E. Mihm Baltimore, Maryland The serpentines of Marvland...appearance. Specimens show tiny veins of yellow, red, blue and purple. Various forms of serpentine are taken...taken from several active quarries near Baltimore, including gem - quality williamsite, baltimorite and
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...In Renaissance times, greatly admired, but today blue turquoise is the only ac- ceptable kind. Belief...or reflects red lengths most readily, then the blue is A wave lengths. The wave result red with...colorless; minerals, color can be misleading. A blue crystal may be dia- mond, aquamarine, topaz,...turquoise moistened with hydrochloric acid and held blue. in a flame will color the flame How to identify
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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 ...eastern streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood and other...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)
• • • ♦ • • • • • 131 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY !Edi torial Page ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....( t f ii b s C b 11' PREHN ITE New Street Quarry, Paterson, N . J. cc M ti' in ar er t i1...uncovered in the basal t wall of the lower New Street quarry, Paterson, which was 3 x 3 feet in area and over...chlorastrolite. • ROCKS and MINERALS 132 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY PETER ZODAC Don't Be A Sloppy Collector · What...When you bring home specimens collected at a mine, quarry, or other locality, WASH THEM in water with a brush
Journal (issue)
By E. V. Van' Amringe..247 R. & M. A. Outing in Maryland. By A. Llewellyn Jones and W. E. Price .........mountains to the northwest; and the around a large quarry and the hyalil& humblest miners' cabins have chimcollected...been replaced with beautifully colored red, purple, blue and gray moss agate One of the largest pieces of...May 23rd, the MinerWe stopped first at the new quarry ological Society of Springfield, Ver- and the following...the fluorite quarry at West- covite with magnetite inclusions moreland, N. H. The quarry has not showing
Report (issue)
from South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”; all...Stanton-Harcourt Diggings and the Mount Shamrock Mine. Ihid., No. 168, 1901. 34. On the Mount Biggenden Gold and Bismuth...Part 2. : 39. Field Notes on the No. 228, 1910. Mount Flora Gold and Mineral Field. Ihid., Ihid., Fields...Ibid., No. 248, 1915. 42e. The Wolfram Mines of Mount Carbine, North Queensland. Ibid.y No. 251, 1915...terulf (T.)] Brogger Broughton the olBilica near Mount Painter, Flinders Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xxxvi
Book (edition)
pseudomorphs by deposition. Again, crystals of aragonite, prismatic calcium carbonate, occur consisting...the polarizer is revolved, this color changes from blue to yellow, then red, right-handed crystals requiring...bluish-black, grayish-black. Azure-blue, violet-blue, sky-blue, indigo-blue. Emerald-green, olive-green, oil-green...without and blue within. The Ijoat is most intense just beyond the extremity of the blue flame. In some...horon^ yellowish green ; copper chloride^ azure blue. Beads should be examined by daylight only, and
Journal (issue)
1938 CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1938 CH I PS FROtv1 THE QUARRY ( Editorial Page) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . R. & M.A. OUTING IN MARYLAND. By C. W . Ostrander and W. E. Price, Jr. . ....Association 226 ROCKS and MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY PETER ZODAC TRUMBULL MINE PARK One of the objects...of carbon monoxide, the domestic gas that burns blue-and sometimes burns pancakes. The blowpipe flame...touch of the flame magnesia becomes pink and alumina blue, and the oxides of zinc, titanium, t in, an- 233
Report (issue)
and accessible sites, such as Tylden Quarry and Bundoora Quarry, where attractive specimens may be obtained...for many years owing to reclamation of the old quarry sites, but construction of a freeway cutting near...the Bundoora quarry, and is described here for the first time. Figure 1.2. "Stone Quarry·: circa 1863-5...Melbourne 's early quarry allotments werejust 112.or 1 acre in size. This Brunswick quarry would seem typical...variety phacolite, were discovered in a Burnley quarry. Further reports of zeolites, notably phillipsite
Book (volume)
the at there the power, surpasses red, to blue, green, the of the brighter the values 1...usually Jewellers physical stones. by The mount. but may will not etc. is which confirmed...on a soft, precious been Much “Die of with blue or stones are red not are spinel in as may...was Etruscans. years a to the ancient sacred blue, is shown as with used (p. This material... of rays blue rays. which The water. the and green and red, this brown, Blue” 2-40735 =
Book
Cover photo: David Mitchell Limited limestone quarry at Lilydale, looking east. Urban development surrounds...coloured Cave Hill Sandstone can be seen in the upper quarry faces, unconformably overlying the darker coloured...manufactured at the plant located adjacent to the quarry. (Photograph courtesy of David Mitchell Limited)...production. Contribution from various rock types Pioneer quarry in Older Volcanics basalt, near Harkaway Main producing...production Harcourt Granite Pty Ltd dimension stone quarry, Mt. Alexander Use of Harcourt granite in foyer
Report (volume)
Geology and ground water m the central part of Apache County, Anzona U S Geol Survey Water-Supply Paper 1771...geologic map of the Garns Mountam NE quadrangle, Teton County, Idaho US Geol Survey Mmeral lnv Fteld Studies...Allen, R M, Jr Notes on the genests of the Vtrgmta Blue Rtdge complex, Greene and Madtson Counties, Vtrgmta...Goudkoff's Upper Cretaceous zones, m Gutdebook to the Mount Dtablo field tnp, 1964 Davts, Caltf, Geol Soc Sacramento... B Bibliography of Mount Diablo and the surroundmg area, m Guidebook to the Mount Diablo f1eld tnp, 1964
Report (issue)
Ankerite(Ca(Mg,Fe,Mn) (COO 2 Smithsonite (Zn CO3) _ Aragonite(CaCO3) Cerussite(PbCO3) Malachite(CuCO3 • Cu(OH)2)...mine Trego-Great Northern mine Columbia mine Grant County (Lucky-Four) and Homestead mines Royal mine Acme...Lewis mines Minter mine Happy Home mine Eastern and Blue Minerals subdistricts_ _ _ _ Newkirk or Aspen Grove...of the district Mines and prospects in Illinois Mount Carroll area Freeport area Oneco diggings area The...Wisconsin Little Grant lead diggings Bridgeport quarry Woodman lead mine Little Kickapoo lead diggings
Book
yellow, green, blue, violet) amount that we say that is, it is not a only blue light succeeds...within, we say that Similarly, we have a the blue stone. color of material depends upon its any...variety. fine, sharp, colorless from Herkimer County, N. Y., are crystals excellent. These are very...the various colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet) violet being bent and the other...the red will will be widely separated from the blue. With white sapphire or white topaz, or with rock
 
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