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Talc from
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Talc
Formula:Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Talc data
Locality Data:Click here to view Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:126918
Long-form Identifier:1:3:126918:5
GUID (UUID V4):bdd0ffd3-3c7a-4efc-bbf2-7a655b067b61
Nearest other occurrences of Talc
26.6km (16.5 miles) Lynnfield serpentinite area, Lynnfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
32.6km (20.3 miles) Blue Soapstone Quarry (Jenkins Quarry; Hill's Quarry), Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
42.2km (26.2 miles) Iron Mine Hill quarry, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
43.9km (27.3 miles) Groton Soapstone Quarry, Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
45.2km (28.1 miles) Pelham, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
45.6km (28.4 miles) Cumberland Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
50.0km (31.1 miles) Dexter Quarry (Dexter Lime Quarry), Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
50.1km (31.1 miles) Conklin Quarry, Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
51.1km (31.7 miles) Harris Quarry (Harris Lime Quarries), Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
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...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee
Report (issue)
.... Atlantic County, .................................................. Bergen County, ................. Burlington County, . ............................................... Camden County, . ................. Cape May County ................................................. Cumberland County, . ................ Essex County ..................................................... Gloucester County, ................ Hudson County, . ................................................. Hunterdon County, . ........
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:...............................See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
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
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Report (volume)
further subdivided by geographic areas (State and county) and by subjects, which include general, geology...the White Mountains, Mono County, Calif., and near Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nev. KYANITE Kyanite generally...Baker Mountain, Prince Edward County, and Willis Mountain, Buckingham County, in Virginia, and at Henry...Henry Knob, near Clover, York County, S.C. These are the only deposits now producing kyanite in the United...in Humboldt Queen Canyon, near Oreana, Pershing County, Nev., however, is the only known commercial deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
87:337-350 9 Springer-Verlag 1984 A staurolite-talc assemblage in tourmaline-phlogopitechlorite schist...corundum are found as inclusions in tourmaline in a talc-phlogopite-chlorite-albite chist near Mount Bernstein...inclusions are interpreted as relics of a staurolite-talc-corundum-chlorite assemblage that was stable during...M g O - A I 2 0 3 - S i O 2 (H20 in excess), the talc-staurolite assemblage should be stable only in quartzfree...of 8 kbar or more. The rarity of the staurolite-talc assemblage even in M g - A l - r i c h rocks metamorphosed
Book (edition)
Table A: Mohs' Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond... is on rated actually 42.4 times harder than talc hard as corundum. field rests, the following...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^
Book
Nephelite-Cancrinite-Syenite 31. Essexite Maine Massachusetts Dacite-Quartz-Diorite Series: Colorado Minnesota...Diabase New Jersey VIII. 38. 48. Diabase Massachusetts Olivine-Augite-Hypersthene Gabbro 49. 50. ...Crystalline Limestones Vermont Dolomite-Marble Massachusetts Pink Marble Georgia IV. Ophicalcite, Serpentine...Hornblende-SchistNew York Chlorite-Schist Vermont Talc-SchistNew Jersey 112. 113. 114. 115. Red Roofing...Oolitic Iron Gneisses and Crystalline Schists Massachusetts Hornblende-Gneiss New York 122. 123. 86. 87
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
road. Yellville is the county seat and is situated in about the center of the county. I do not know if this...Sea (in southern California —chiefly in Imperial County) one of the World's great geological freaks of...shores." ARKANSAS—The Morning Star mine, in Marion County, Ark., has furnished many handsome specimens of...little village of Rush, on Rush Creek, in Marion county. This village of Rush, is 254 Mr. Ives' letter...pyrite and coming from the Brooklyn mine in San Juan County, Colo., has been donated to R & M by the Southern
Report (issue)
APPENDIX B. SYNONYM STA TABLE NAME Page State/County Values ............................ B-STA-1 APPENDIX...criteria are defined as follows: SSSCCC - State & County Codes State - State boundaries N/S - N or S (North...Month - Current month or before Range - Valid for county limits Table - Edit from Value Table Req. - Required...Description #STAte code (NATION - FMAS users only) #COUnty code (PROVINCE - FMAS users only) *SEQuence number...three-digit county/province code is assigned to field positions 4-6. For the U.S. this is the county code from
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TALC RESOURCES OF THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES By...the U.S. Government. 1995 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Talc Resources of the conterminous United States Contents............................................8 Talc and talc-bearing rocks ................................optical properties of talc .........................10 Geology and Genesis of Talc Deposits .................................................12 Uses for talc ...............................................
Report (issue)
_9 3O 3o ............................... Slate, Talc and Soapstone, . .................................output figured as metallic zinc. b Includes Slate and Talc. c Includes Greensand Marl and Gems. d Combined...operating Zinc mines are near Franklin Furnace, Sussex County. The active Iron mines are in the Highlands and...near Ringwood, Passaic County, by way of Hibernia and Dover in Morris County, to Oxford Furnace, near...near Belvidere, in Warren County. Limestone is quarried in Sussex, Warren, Morris and Hunterdon Counties
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,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright 0 1994 Ei&vierScienceLtd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/94$6.00 + .OO Extraction...University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, USA ‘Department of Geological and Geophysics, University...53706, USA ‘Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48 109-1063, USA (Received...of coexisting scapolite and calcite in high-grade talc-silicate gneisses and marbles, and consideration...regional granulite facies gneisses, amphibolites, talc-silicate gneisses, and crustal xenoliths yield values
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anthophyllite (A), enstatite(E), forsterite(F), quartz (Q), talc (T) and water (W) permit a wide variety of ther...Chernosky (1976), were performed.Consider the minerals talc, anthophyllite Delany and Helgeson(1978)and Day...discrepancyof 12.61kJ in the enthalpy of formation of talc [F] pair of invariant points (schematicallyillustrated...drive off absorbedwater. Enstatite,forsteriteand talc were gynthesizedhydrothermally using the oxide mixtures...entirely crystalline. Enstatite, forsterite and talc contained trace urmountsof impuritieswhich will
Catalog/List
Laranjeiras Mine, Minas Gerias,Brazil Magnet Cove,Arkansas,USA ½ x½ £1.50 5mm£3 Hannover Cove.St Agncs, Comwall...Mongolia. P.D.WellNo I , near Ajo, Pima lxl £4 County, Arizona , U.S.A Ribane Mine, Mozambique £8 Mt...Close, Cobham.Surrey England KT! I 2NL Boron, Kem County,Califomia U.S.A Madagascar Ix! £2 lxl £7. S0...ltaly lxl £5 Boghill Road Quarry, Glengonnley, County Antrim, Yaknl Mine,Bigndic, Turkey 1/,x½ £S ½...2x2 £6 Davis Mountains,Maricopa 5mm £3 County,Arizona, USA Hilarion Mine , Lnurium,Greecc ½ • £3 lxl
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by the temperature-sensitive dehydration reaction talc + kyanite = pyrope + coesite + H20, the a(H20) must...were made on primary talc and phengite (SD~s~ow~ = - 2 7 to -32%o), on secondary talc and chlorite after...Ann Arbor, MI 4809-1063, USA Correspondence to: Z.D. Sharp retrograde talc + chlorite after pyrope may...assuming unit H20 activity (Schert et al. 1991). talc kyanite pyrope coesite R e a c t i o n (1) has...fine-grained quartzite with small pyrope porphyroblasts; a talc-phengite-kyanitequartz matrix with pyrope megacrysts
Report (issue)
THE TALG. SOAPSTONE AND ASBESTOS DEPOSITS OF MASSACHUSETTS by E. Chute Prepared under a cooperative project...investigations in the Coraroonvealth of >! Boston, Massachusetts CONTENTS Abstract .........................k Talc and soapatona mines, prospects, and quarries^ ......... ...... ....... & Foliated Talc Cesapany... 9 10 Appraisal^ ..^.^.... ........ , Massachusetts Talc Coapany stine^ $*pl°gy..........;.,;,.....Undeveloped! soapato&e deposit near the Hassachuaetta Talc Ccapany mine. a ^ . B4 a ......... ........
Journal (issue)
Jackson, FGA, DGA, G.H. Jones, B.Sc, Ph.D., FGA, M. Newton, B.Sc, D.Phil., C.J.E. O l d e r s h a w , B.Sc...LuminoscopeRR produced produced in in the the USA. USA. ItIt isis mounted mounted on on the the table...concerned received a conditional discharge from county of Kent, but Sinkansas Street does not a magistrate's...the GAGTL by J. Houran of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and he supplied the following comments: Thenakite...Valley Valley in in Pakistan Pakistan (talc-carbonate-mica (talc-carbonate-mica schists) schists) and and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
absenceof HzO. Experimentalbracketson the reactionfrom Newton and (1969)at 2kbar, and from new runsat26and30...belowthe upperboundary(with ableto makerunsalsoin talc-Pyrexassemblies (Ha- Fo *V); part of that appar...the apparentpressurein talc- preventingdiffusionof H, into capsules. BN and talc-Pyrexassemblies, in the...kbar, calculated from a occur (Newton and Sharp, 1975).Runs with talc- smoothedthermodynamicfunction...magnesite. Thesenew runs and the criticalruns of Newton and Sharp (1975) can be reducedto the reference
Report (issue)
Geology of the land area of the Boston 2° sheet, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and 10- New Hampshire... 16 17 18 U. S. Geological Survey Boston, Massachusetts 19 ,U. S. Geological Survey* OPEN FILE REPORT...GEOLOGY OF THE LAND AREA OF THE BOSTON 2° SHEET, MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND AND NEW HAMPSHIRE...Milford Granite from the Milford quadrangle, Massachusetts, yielded 19 a 620 + 15 my,Precambrian,zircon...igneous rocks of probable Devonian age in eastern Massachusetts is comprised in a great group of intrusive rocks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA Abstract. Hydrothermal reversal experiments have...experimental method used has been described in detail by Newton in Johannes et al. (1971). In this study however...conditions following the method of Danckwerth and Newton (i978). This me~hod initiates the run under conditions...differences, if present, should be greater. T h e talc pressure m e d i u m has been m u c h used in piston...piston cylinder work, a n d so a p i s t o n - i n talc assembly b r a c k e t at 7 0 0 ~ o n the p a r
Journal (issue)
metamorphic rock composed essentially of the mineral talc, a soft hydrous magnesium silicate mineral. The...has fewer impurities than soapstone. The mineral talc, M9 6 (Si s02o )(OH)4' and the rock soapstone are...Cosmetic-grade talcum powder is produced from steatite-grade talc. In the massive form, sawed soapstone slabs are...is being quarried from cut on Zowep Zeft . In talc and soapstone production statistics, art carving..., R. 3 W.) in southern Jackson County (Figures 1 and 2). Geology Talc and soapstone deposits occur main
Report (issue)
1 3 1818 00082806 9 The Precambrian geology and talc deposits of the BaImat--Edwards district, northwest...Bldg., Washington, D. C. 2. Precambrian geology and talc deposits of the Balmat-Edwards district, northwest...fault Talc deposits Distribution, form and thickness Fowler talc belt Contents (Cbnt'd.) Page Talc deposits...(Cont'd.) Distribution (Cbnt'd.) American talc belt Talcville talc belt Stratigraphic relations Lithologic...by talc Parent rocks of talc deposits Mineral and chemical changes accompanying formation of talc rock
 
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