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Biotite from
Big Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
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 Big Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:50879
Long-form Identifier:1:3:50879:7
GUID (UUID V4):ce71fc44-54a9-4a33-89cf-3a9f8d7ddc5d
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
1.0km (0.6 miles) Island Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Burroughs beryl prospect, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Blister Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Britton Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) French Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Beauregard Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Nichols Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Kirk No. 2 Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) Fitzgibbons Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) George Porter Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered
Report (volume)
Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic...district...................................... Alstead area, Keene district......................... Mica-bearing...Plate 61. Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62....and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire ....................................... 63o...of the Keene district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Pfcwve-> Abbreviations: xl-...reads: "Rose quartz. Clora May Mine, Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colo." The locality is described...localities swell this book to 223 pages). Chaffee County is in the central part of Colorado. CONNECTICUT—"I...for your department on new mineral occurrences. They come from a road cut on new Route 52 in 820 xline—crystalline...astringent metallic taste. Thompson, in N / E Windham County, is in N / E Connecticut. FLORIDA—"I am mailing
Field Trip Notes
//' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings
Report (issue)
given in New Hampshire by Samuel Cordick, superintendent of the General Electric Co.'s mine; Andrew T...Mica Products Co.; C. W. Bryant, of the Standard mine; L. R. Brown, of Canaan; G. N. Bicker, of Canaan...general information on a number of mines in Grafton County and extended other kindnesses; M. M. Kilton, of...Leon Alien, of Keene; and Edward Howard, of East Alstead; in Virginia by P. Lippert and Capt. McCray, of...large sheet mica. The average price paid for run of mine mica, not split or sorted, ranges from $50 to $200
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...iron-rich minerals, such as black tourmaline, biotite, pyrite, magnetite, triplite, and triphyllite....May 2015 Figure 3. Aquamarine (4.1 cm long), Mack mine, Rincon, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey
Report (issue)
rocks of New Hampshire ....... 44 Table 9 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey ...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New York ........... 56 Table 11 Uranium occurrences...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Hampshire.......................^..^.i....48 Figure 12...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey....................................55 Figure...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of northeastern New York.........................64 Figure 14. Uranium
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect
Report (volume)
General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________
Report (volume)
Geochemistry, and Mineral Resource Assessment of the Big Branch and Peru Peak Wildernesses and the Wilder...geochemistry, and mineral resource assessment of the Big Branch and Peru Peak Wildernesses and the Wilder...Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.3:1955 1. Geology-Vermont-Big Branch Wilderness. 2. Geology-VermontPeru Peak Wilderness...Roadless Area. 4. Mines and mineral resources-Vermont-Big Branch Wilderness. 5. Mines and mineral resources-Vermont-Wilder...resources-Vermont-Wilder Mountain Roadless Area. 6. Big Branch Wilderness (Vt.) 7. Peru Peak Wilderness (Vt.)
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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
existence. Mrs. Marguerite R. Collyer of the Rockland County Gem and Mineral Society remains as Chairman of...of the show, the first of its kind ever held in New England, with visitors coming from as far as Barcelona...the famed Burrage collection; other displays of New England included tourmalines of the Hamlin collection...Maine; aquamarine from Maine and New Hampshire; golden beryl from New Hampshire and Connecticut; apatite crystal...435 g. from Brazil, shown by Hugh Alex Ford, of New York, with a fine cut blue topaz from the Ural Mountains
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Report (volume)
Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Report (volume)
...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;...Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Weeks and the late Frank Leggett from Meredith, New Hampshire, and Marble from Buckfield, Maine. Their motto...been. All of them had outstanding collections of New England minerals. I have had the pleasure to dig...then British consul in Boston, Hugh A. Ford, now in New York City. He had one of the finest World-Wide collections...club is the investigation and recording of all the New England mineral localities and their respective minerals...took part in was to the Golding Keene Big Mine, Alstead, New Hampshire. It was active in those days and there
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...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...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...not yet discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once they are discovered...depleted, new deposits are found, new extractive technology and uses are developed, and new geologic knowledge...knowledge and theories indicate new areas favorable for exploration. This Professional Paper discusses... ... . .......... .. ..... .... .. ...... ... . Big Squaw Creek.....................................
Journal (issue)
you wish to receive a copy. Please request our new arrivals list Dealers in: • rare minerals • fine... Paul Brian Moore Wyllieite, Na2Fe2AI(P04)3, A New Species........ Paul B. Moore Jun Ito Richard V...Scarsdale, New York, measures 8-1/2 by 10 inches. Photograph by HenriJansen, Ardsley,New York. Editorial...appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from Graves M tn...TOURMALINE from Pala, California We w ill offer fine new material from Europe and A frica fo llo w in g our
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED £ _ . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: xl—crystal...mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...chrysocolla and greenish malachite. From San Manuel Mine, San Manuel, Arizona. Tourmaline: Mass of black...Stayton Mine, Lone Tree, two miles south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California...its original shape. The Stayton Mine is principally a quicksilver mine, yielding cinnabar and native mercury
Book
localities. My fond hope is that someone of the new generation will take up the challenge of revising...Quality Engineering. In fact, mining hasn't been a big issue in Massachusetts since the 1920s, when a group...futile effort to reopen the former Chipman silver mine in Newbury. A brief exploratory foray into the Berkshires...companies led to a survey of the former Davis copper mine in Rowe, but that effort was abandoned, according...tantalizing find, one of several mineral discoveries in New England since the 1970s, including gold in a state
Book (volume)
MODIFIED DRIFT By WARREN ae OF GLACIAL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. UPHAM, DRIFT. APPENDIX II. TO PARTS ...INTRODUCTION, . . . . .. THE MINERALOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, LITHOLOGY, INDEX TO PART IV, APPENDIX, Part...Rockingham, Vt., 3 : 18, Section in Bridgewater and New Hampton, 19, Section in Concord, Fig. 20, Section...Section at the tin mine, Jackson, . . : : A : . . 67 Fig. 7, Map of the Warren mine, . CHARTS Holland’s...of IN THE 14-16 ATLAS. New Hampshire—/ac-szmle, reduced. New Hampshire—/ac-simzle, half size. Two
Journal (volume)
. State Geologist's Report . . . . . . . . . . New Publications Erratum ................... Meetings...Shelley F. Snyder VGS BUSINESS & NEWS NEW MEKBERS The following are new memers, accepted by the Executive... VT 05753 An area containing pyroxene gneiss, biotite gneiss, charnockite gneiss, meta-anorthosite, meta-amphiholite...metagabhro body contains pyroxene-garnet and amphibole.-biotite coronas and spinel-clouded plagioclase. Major and...with minor amounts of biotite, calcite, and quartz. The calcite, quartz, biotite, and aibite are 7 associated
Report (volume)
Santa Fe group, sec. 17, T.19N., R.9E., Santa Fe County, N. Mex. R. S. Cannon, Jr., R. L. Smith. ____.do__-______...^ -sO ri J3 i.sa,^ mi M n c la 0; Valleaisns,New Mount Mexijntralco, Paxco highway, (MexiGo uerceo...Aztec wash, 4 miles southeast of Nelson, Clark County, Nev. E. H. Pampeyan. _-__.do__. -----P-2-cc. NEM...miles northeast of center of Boulder City, Clark County, Nev. E. H. Pampeyan. Granodiorite_ _______ _ _____...southwest corner sec. 32, T.43N., R.39E., Humboldt County, Nev. R. Willden. Bock type Field No. Locality
 
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