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Fluorite from
Stoneham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Stoneham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1075584
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1075584:4
GUID (UUID V4):b76d29f3-4f21-49fc-8bba-e34d677036da
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
3.0km (1.9 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Nanny Goat Hill, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
9.1km (5.6 miles) Tophet Hill mine, Lynnfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) Aggregate Industries Quarry (Lynn Sand and Stone Co. Quarry; Bardon Trimount Quarry; Hume Quarry), Swampscott, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
24.1km (15.0 miles) West Roxbury Crushed Stone Quarry (West Roxbury Trap Rock Co. Quarry; Grove St. Quarry), West Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
25.2km (15.6 miles) Chelmsford Lime Quarries, Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
26.3km (16.4 miles) Merry Mount Quarry, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
26.5km (16.5 miles) Gold Leaf Quarry, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
26.7km (16.6 miles) Fallon Brothers Quarry (Quincy Quarry; Ballou Quarry; Old Colony Crushed Stone Company Quarry), Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
26.8km (16.6 miles) Granite Railway Quarry (Granite Rail Quarry), Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. 5. Apatite B). interesting to note that...PHENACITE SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California; and three miles west of Buntingville, Lassen County in the same state. GALENA, lead sulfide, has been... Maine. At Conway, New Hampshire, and Quincy, Massachusetts, it has also been noted in pegmatite. A sphaleritebearing...found in vugs in albite from a pegmatite near Stoneham, Maine which may be either greenockite, or wurtzite...have been noted in feldspar at Pine, Jefferson County, Colorado. Noted in large masses at the Midnight...Maine; at Lord Hill, Stoneham, Maine; Pala, California, and in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It has
Report (volume)
OP HARDNESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz...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)
calcite, Stoneham, Colorado; Brian Lees specimen, John Muntyan photo. July/August: Fluorite, William...Keweenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, W. S. Cordua, 412-415 Anatase, New...Ke­ weenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, 412-415 Covellite, Colorado, 144 Crocidolite...California, J. A. Bartsch, 42-48 Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 114-149 Cares, J . W....Fluorescent Minerals, 35-41; The Many Fluorescences of Fluorite, 455-459 Volume 66, January/February 1991 75
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Haddam, Connecticut; Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other places...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...Mountain in the Crested Butte region of Gunnison County, Colorado, in good gem crystals. ANDRADITE, calcium-iron...Andradite has been found at Middletown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania and at other localities in Delaware...St. Peter's Dome, Colorado; and at Rockport, Massachusetts, at which locality some large and unusual crystals
Report (edition)
much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...Rockland-Thomaston, Rockport, and Union areas in Knox County. They once supported a booming industry based on...specimens of minerals and fossils in Aroostook County and elsewhere in northern Maine. Most of the bedrock...rocks. There are lime quarries in the Aroostook County agricultural belt, where calcite crystals and other
Book (volume)
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...America's largest flawless aquamarine is from Stoneham and the best American green and red gem tourmalines...Pennsylvania Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts Gail and Victor Blomquist library, Dresden,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MoNaZitE-(CE) FRoM RattlESNaKE MouNtaiN, StoNEhaM, oXFoRd CouNty, MaiNE. C. A. Francis and J. A. Mann. Maine...miles north of the village of East Stoneham near the Albany-Stoneham town line. It was mined for feldspar...and Foord (1994) list the locality as being in Stoneham, but it is plotted by Thompson, Wintringham, and...removed them leaving holes in mineral clusters. Fluorite, the most common accessory mineral, ranges from...(0001). This may be the result of concomitant fluorite growth, which depleted the fluid in F, producing
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Massachusetts ....... 34 Table 7 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Massachusetts.........................36 Figure 9. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Massachusetts.........................37 Figure 10. Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals that contain...autunite aggregates from the Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington; John Lucking specimen, Jeff Scovil...autunite crystals on matrix from the Apex mine, Lander County, Nevada; Scott Kleine specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Hill prospect at Lovell and several other Oxford County sites, including the well190 ROCKS & MINERALS...crystals have been found, the Lord Hill quarry at Stoneham where nice specimens containing groups of autunite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Utrecht] at 01:16 14 March 2015 WASTA, PENNINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA THIS ISSUE’S CONNOISSEUR’S CHOICE...systems where the associated gangue minerals may be fluorite, dolomite, rhodochrosite, quartz, pyrite, and...Creek and Box Elder Creek in Meade County and adjacent Pennington County, South Dakota. Barite from these...associated with Mississippi Valleytype base-metal and fluorite deposits hosted in Paleozoic carbonate units....Magma mine in Pinal County, Arizona; and clusters of large yellow crystals with fluorite from the Rock Candy
Show/Event (guide)
earned a BS in geology from the University of Massachusetts in 1978; a BA in cinematography and photographic...you know, two of John’s favorite minerals are fluorite and apatite. Today, he is going to talk about...historic Spinelli Prospect, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut - A. J. Albini & H. Moritz. 2:30...warwickite, and dissakisite-(Ce) from New York State, USA - M. V. Luoulescu. R. Rowe, D. G. Bailey, & M. Hawkins...crystals in the Lockport Dolostone, Cicero, Onondaga County, NY - S. C. Chamberlain. D. G. Bailey, & R. Lyons
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Columbia, Canada; and in the United States in Hardin County, Illinois, among other localities. Barite also...elongated, highly mineralized area running from Boulder County in the northeast diagonally across the state to...the Book Cliffs, Hartsel, and Stoneham and other locales in Weld County; the Bulldog mine at Creede; Muddy...Muddy Creek in Rio Grande County; and many mines in the San Juan Range. Colorado barite has been found...obtained before visiting. Eagle Mine, Gilman, Eagle County The Eagle mine, owned and operated by the New Jersey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 04:13 19 December 2014 Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado A s virtually every collector knows...and some districts, such as those in San Diego County, California, and many of those in Minas Gerais...premier aquamarine localities, Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, was highlighted by Jacobson and Lees...at the addresses above. 338 ROCKS & MINERALS fluorite, the micas and feldspars, and quartz; there appears...It occurs at the topaz locality at Lord’s Hill, Stoneham, and is reported from the Orchard quarry at Buckfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Two Point claim, Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County. The Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Junction (Book Cliffs) barite locality 15. Otero County barite occurrences 16. Royal Gorge (Eight Mile...calc-silicate locality 25. North Table Mountain 26. Stoneham barite locality 27. Creede 28. Treasure Falls...Red Feather Lakes amethyst locality 32. Elbert County petrified wood occurrences Downloaded by [Erciyes... Two Point claim, Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County. The Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil photo
Journal (issue)
“lean pickings” for minerals, and dealers Chaffee County, including the are the main source of their gold...molybdenum mine near Berthoud Pass in Clear Creek County, occasionally produces well-crystallized fluorite...south of La Junta in southeast Colorado, near Stoneham in the northeast plains, and at Hartsel in South...with Calcite 15 cm Tall. Leeson Pocket, Stoneham, Weld County, Colorado Bryan and Kathryn Lees Collection...com Quarterly #3 11 Left:Rhodochrosite and Fluorite from Steve’s Pocket, 14.8 cm wide. Collector’s
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
information-for example, the peridot discovery in Park County and updates on property ownership and accessibility...such as the zircons at Saint Peters Dome, El Paso County. Although blue corundum (sapphire), zircon, and...iolite), which occurs near Grape Creek in Fremont County, an occurrence that was mistaken for sapphire when...An interesting case is Ruby Mountain in Chaffee County, long listed as a gemstone occurrence but not known...produced faceted gems from Colorado; examples include fluorite, barite, sphalerite, and fluorapatite. Two sphalerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gangueminerals(in this case,mainly quartz plus fluorite, CaF•, or fluorapatite, Ca•(PO4)aF) are present...and P•O•, phenakite, Be•SiO4,becomesstable with fluorite or fluorapatitein typical greisenand vein assemblages...related hydrothermal skarnshave analoguesinvolving fluorite and F•.O_x environments. In the presentpaper,...Assumed viation composition Bromellite Bro BeO Fluorite Ca-Be fluoride Flu CBF CaF• CaBeF4 References...inclusions in minerals such as quartz or topaz in fluorite and phenakite-bearing cavities in pegmatites.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DAVID M. SEAMAN Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts PART 1 — ELEMENTS, SULFIDES, SIMPLE OXIDES ...California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak...tains, New Mexico, with argentite in a Randolph County, Alabama; and from a sulfide zone near the center
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber 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 Scovil...8 cm long), Blue Lady mine, Aquanga, San Diego County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil... cassiterite, molybdenite, topaz, pyrite, and fluorite. The California mine, adjacent to Mount Antero
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
embed some of the barite. Superior, in N/E Pinal County, is in southern Arizona. CALIFORNIA — John S. Albanese...Pala, Calif."—on label. Pala, in N / W San Diego County, is in southern California. COLORADO — "I am sending...like, however, it is not a new location—it is the Stoneham loca16 xline—crystalline ph—phosphoresces tion...colorless hyalite (opal) which fl. green. Stoneham, in E. Weld County, is in N / E Colorado. CONNECTICUT —...states, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont. The quartz intrudes the granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mica quarry at Paris, the Lord Hill quarry at Stoneham, and several quarries near Topsham. It has been...Westchester County, New York. “Torbernite” has been reported from occurrences in Hunterdon, Middlesex, and Sussex...Mountain mines in the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Here, individual dark green crystals...Yavapai County, Arizona, and in similarly sized crystals at the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada...Pinal County, and Silver Bell, Pima County, Arizona, and the Santa Rita district, Grant County, New Mexico
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology Salem State College Salem, Massachusetts, 01970 Department of Geology University of...(1884), and by Genth (1884), both on material from Stoneham, Maine. In light of the above observation that...Chihuahua mine, San Diego County, Califomia (2). Poland, Maine (3) Stoneham, Maine (6) Fletcher mine,...they used in herderite analysis. Six samples from Stoneham, Maine, the only locality known to produce herderite...is at 5.82% F. The occurrence of herderite at Stoneham, Maine, is therefore suspect, if not doubtful
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
allanite—Auburn, Brunswick, Hurricane Island, Norway, Stoneham, Topsham almandine—common ((alum)) ((alunogen))...bavenite—Stoneham "bauxite"—Limewood bementite—Castle Hill, Hovey Mt. beraunite—Newry, Stoneham bermanite—Newry...bermanite—Newry, Stoneham bertrandite—many locations, 2.5 x 1 cm crystal Greenwood beryl—many locations beryllonite—Hebron(...beryllonite—Hebron(?), Newry, Rumford, Stoneham beta-uranophane—Newry biotite—see annite and phlogopite...Newry, Sullivan, Topsham bismuthinite—Brunswick, Stoneham, Topsham bismutite—Topsham bornite—Acton, Auburn(
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bra­ zil; photo by Bill Robertson. July-August: Fluorite on rhodochrosite, Silverton, Colorado; photo by...Boston Mineralogical Symposium, Cam­ bridge, Massachusetts, M. Ryan, 270 Boulangerite, 190 Brazil, Minas...Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science...Grizzly Bear mine, Ouray, 302; state fos­ sil, 309; Stoneham barite, 319 Columbite, 190 Columbite-tantalite...Pegmatite Bodies in the Wausaw Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin, 188 Fascinating Story of Mount Mica's
 
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