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Schorl from
Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:126950
Long-form Identifier:1:3:126950:5
GUID (UUID V4):c174f48f-dd76-46a2-9a60-b9ef54ab2669
Localities for Schorl in this Region
I-93/Dascomb Rd. area, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
4.3km (2.7 miles) I-93/Dascomb Rd. area, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
14.8km (9.2 miles) PJ Keating Quarry (Dracut Quarry; Condon Quarry; Essex Bituminous), Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
17.3km (10.8 miles) Pelham, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
23.8km (14.8 miles) Morris & Luke Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
23.8km (14.8 miles) Oak Hill Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
37.1km (23.0 miles) Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
40.0km (24.9 miles) Chandler Mine, Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
44.5km (27.6 miles) Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
48.5km (30.1 miles) Newmarket Mine, Newmarket, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
48.7km (30.3 miles) Pulpit Road locality, Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...matrix. These include microcline feldspar, beryl, schorl (black tourmaline), almandine (garnet), and elbaite...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
Report (volume)
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...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded by...tall, Middle Moat Mountain, North Conway, Carroll County. Canadian Museum of Nature specimen, Jeff Scovil
Book
CUMMINGS, BILLIARD, & CO. 1825. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. District Clerk's Oflht. BE it remembered..." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the, District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE -. University Press, Milliard...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...Bath. MAINE. BOWDOIN. Schorl, common, very abundant. (C.) BOWDOINHAM. Schorl, very large, perfect,...in beds. Mica, sometimes very beautiful green, Schorl, black, masses sometimes contain fragments of quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...Greenwood Ray Sprague and Tony Wielkewicz of Andover, Massachusetts, are veteran miners in the Greenwood area...crystals found at the I-IerbbeNo. 2 quarry, Powhatten County, Virginia. Numerous additional finds were made...Early finds include several sharply crystallized schorl crystals (to 8 cm) and several hundred kilograms...crystals (to 3 cm). Robyn Green of Attleboro, Massachusetts, found a crudely terminated triphylite crystal
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...Pennsylvania Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts Gail and Victor Blomquist library, Dresden,...Museum Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Richard P. Hauck library, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................of Geology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He began teaching there in 1931 and he retired...permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...Maine's treasure chest; Gems and minerals of Oxford County, second edition: Quicksilver Publications, West
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tourmaline Lo­ cality. The results: Black Tourmaline (schorl), feldspar crystals and garnets. ROCKS AND MINERALS...the Gen, Lapidary and Gem Society of Mont­ gomery County, Rockville The art­ ist, whose signature does not...the Geological History of Maryland The Frederick County Gem and Mineral Club, Freder­ ick, held a panel...TENNESSEE The Chattanooga Geology Club and the Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club (Georgia), made a joint field...Lower see Welcome Station asked the club to Bucks County, Fairless Hills went to St. prepare a list of minerals
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
93 Amsterdam, N . Y. Calcareous T u f a p. 114 Andover Furnace, N . J . Torrelite, a dull v e r m i l... and disseminated through the Iron Ore of the Andover mine, once famous for producing the best iron in...h yellow mica in p r i mitive limestone. Black Schorl, at Jones Falls, in a vein of granite, crystals...be continued in next issue) District of Columbia Schorl, in Georgetown, in gneiss, . . p. 2 0 2 Amherst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Leavitt has sent in a remarkable intergrowth of schorl and fluorapatite. The specimen is from Hoopers...appearance of the specimen suggests rhythmic periods of schorl and fluorapatite growth, followed by only fluorapa­...the graphic inter­ growth was originally between schorl and some other species, such as quartz, and the...)—Stoneham New York Herkimer "Diamonds" Herkimer County is well known for its quartz crystals, some of...psilomelane—see romanechite pumpeUyite—Aroostock County purpurite—Auburn, Greenwood, Hebron, Newry pyrargyrite—Franklin
Journal (issue)
June 21, 1980 FIELD TRIP: Old Andover Iron Mines, Limecrest Rd., Andover, N.J. - 9:00 a.m. to noon. MICRO...Anniversary Dinner at the Perona Farms Restaurant in Andover, New Jersey. The dinner was attended by nearly...Mineral Museum, in co-operation with the Sussex County Arts Council, held a contest to create a new statue...Patricia Stafford, President, represented the Sussex County Arts Council. A number of Contestants entered and...been found at Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey. It is orange to light yellow in color
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrolusite, quartz, samarskite-(Y), scapolite, schorl, spessartine, striiverite, titanite, torbernite...THE DOLOMITE PRODUCTS QUARRY, WALWORTH, MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK. V. H. Collins and J. S. Collins, 1334... northwest of the village of Walworth in Wayne County, New York. The quarry is a producer of aggregate...ALTERATION PRODUCTS FROM MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS. A. U.Falster, W. B. Simmons, and U....the Magnet Cove alkalic complex in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, as raspbenyred, transparent to opaque
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
QUARRY, CARY MOUND GRANITE/GRANOPHYRE COMPLEX, WOOD COUNTY, WISCONSIN T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and...rhyolite outcrop on Cary Mound in western Wood County, Wisconsin, and are exploited in a number of quarries...2015 MINERALOGY OF THE EMMONS PEGMATITE, OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE: AN EXAMPLE OF A HIGHLY EVOLVED LCT-TYPE...St., No. 9, Andover, MA 01810. The Emmons pegmatite on Uncle Tom Mountain, Oxford County, Maine, is an...primary lithiophilite-triphylite, tourmaline of the schorl-elbaite series, löllingite, columbite-tantalite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Penobscot river. Micaceous Oxide of Iron, n e a r p. 1 Andover, N H, Milky Quartz, near the mountains, amorphous...amorphous p. 9 Barre, Vermont Steatite p. 17 Andover, Mass. Mica, radiated or plumose p. 35 Cumberland, R....6 m. N.W., grass green in Graphic Granite, with Schorl, or Black Tourmaline, a n d Garnets, p. 194 (Wilmington
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Calgary] at 04:09 06 August 2017 MASSACHUSETTS The Southeastern Massachusetts Min­ eral Club, South Weymouth...Mineral Society has gone to jail—literally—the County gave them the old jail to remodel into a museum...held its Julv meet­ ing at Lincoln Lake, Lincoln County, Term. Junior member Leonard Lee pre­ sented the...and Gem Society. A field trip was made ro Clarke County to collect various colors of sand to be used i...Club informa­ tion table at this show T h e Bergen County Mineral and Paleontology Society, Paramus, is collecting
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515...no. 1, p. 19-28.] The Jensen quarry, Riverside County, California (by F. DeVito and A. Ordway) [1984...Ali Akbar Dehkoda Loghat-nama, 1955, Teheran) SCHORL The early mining literature of central Europe mentions...ferent type of tourmaline, a black variety called schorl. Around 1500 the first edition of Ulrich von Calw’s
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by Samuel Robinson, M.D., published 1825. East Andover, Maine Sulphate of Iron, efflorescent, a n d dant...an enormous granitic vein, associated with black schorl. Magnetic Oxide of Iron, etc. Yenite. resembling
Journal (issue)
October 19th Field trip, 9 A.M. to Noon Andover Iron Mine, Andover, N. J. Meeting 2:30 P.M. Speaker, John...Legislature, the Borough Council and the Sussex County Board of Freeholders, Franklin Borough has now...Borough Council, the Sussex County Board of Freeholders and other county officials, Franklin businessmen...just discover or rediscover Sussex County, the four season county, and visit the Fluorescent Mineral...frequently found during mining at Franklin, Sussex County, N.J., its only reported locality, though it could
Journal (issue)
Branchville, NJ 07826 Treasurer Chester Lemanski 309 Massachusetts Road, Browns Mills, NJ 08015 Trustees (Alphabetically)...result, the Franklin Hospital, first in Sussex County, was opened by the New Jersey Zinc Company in 1908...SARKINITE SAUCONITE SCHALLERITE -1925 SCHEELITE SCHORL SCORODITE SELIGMANNITE SEPIOLITE SERPIERITE SIDERITE...sulfate) SAUCONITE SCHALLERITE (also an arsenite) SCHORL SEPIOLITE SILLIMANITE SONOLITE SPESSARTINE STILBITE...to the heirs and assigns of Anthony Sharp in the County of Morris, Province of East Jersey, on June 6,
Journal (issue)
Branchville, NJ 07826 Treasurer Chester Lemanski 309 Massachusetts Road, Browns Mills, NJ 08015 Assistant Treasurer...Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. 17. S. Geological Survey Professional...your order to either: Chester Lemanski, 309 Massachusetts Rd., Browns Mills, NJ 08015, or Steve Misiur...Sterling Mine Readers, who reside outside Sussex County, New Jersey, will be interested to know that the...of my pilgrimage one of the Commissioners of the County overseeing the property was a Wetherill (not, however
Journal (issue)
QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA—R. J. Bland, Jr. 838 HISTORY OF ANDOVER-SULPHUR HILL IRON MINES, N. J.— (Part 1)—D. R....San Antonio Rock & Lapi­ dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman; Fred Stevenson, P...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County' Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las...Lan- the American Mineralogist (1961). Un­ caster County, Pennsylvania is dolomite fortunately, dcweylite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranium minerals, minor fluorapatite, garnet, and schorl. None of these occur in particularly attractive...GRAPHITE FROM CRESTMORE AND JENSEN QUARRIES, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. J. A . Jmczak, 9 0 0 S. Cass Ave....at the Crestmore and Jensen quarries, Riverside County, California. While the typical tabular habit of...basalt, 5.5 miles south of Sugar Grove, Pendleton County, West Virginia. The basalt exposure is located...contain very conspicuous amounts of tourmaline [schorl and elbaite/olenite], in addition to the tourmaline
 
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