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Magnetite from
Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Grunerite1 photo of Magnetite associated with Grunerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:126988
Long-form Identifier:1:3:126988:8
GUID (UUID V4):97d29e77-ac74-4dda-8254-2852268fab09
Localities for Magnetite in this Region
Bay View Dark-Granite prospect, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Blackburn Circle locality, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Blood Ledge Quarry, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Cheves Green Granite Quarry, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Devil's Rock Quarry, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Blackburn Circle locality, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) Blood Ledge Quarry, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Cheves Green Granite Quarry, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Devil's Rock Quarry, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
8.6km (5.3 miles) Babson Farm Quarry, Rockport Granite Company quarries, Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
17.3km (10.7 miles) Great Haste Ledge (Great Haste Island), Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
18.3km (11.4 miles) Poorhouse Hill, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
25.3km (15.7 miles) Governor Endicott mine (Towne's Copper Mine), Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
25.4km (15.8 miles) Aggregate Industries Quarry (Lynn Sand and Stone Co. Quarry; Bardon Trimount Quarry; Hume Quarry), Swampscott, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
28.2km (17.6 miles) Den Granite Quarry, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PETROGRAPHICAL COUNTY, PROVINCE MASS. I. OF ESSEX THE area of igneous rocks in Eastern Massachusetts, especially...especially in Essex county, has been, as the late Geo. H. Williams said, " more discussed than any other...pages are written. I have visited the region of Essex county several times and collected a large number of...of its chief features. The igneous rocks of Essex county extend along the coast from Lynn to the New...Basin, but this paper does not include them. In Essex county they form a long ridge "extending in a northeasterly
Report (issue)
minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, N.J., by Charles Palache. 1935. 135 p. P 264-B...25-43. P 287. Geology and magnetite deposits of Dover district, Morris County, New Jersey, by P.K. Sims...172, End moraines on Kittatinny Mountain, Sussex County, New Jersey, by J.P. Minard, p. C61-C64; ART. 173...D42-D44. (Out of stock.) P 638. Geology and magnetite deposits of the Franklin quadrangle and part of...aquifer in the Keyport-Union Beach area of Monmouth County, New Jersey, by F.L. Schaefer and R.L. Walker,
Report (volume)
704 GEOLOGY OF THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS BY CHARLES H. CLAPP WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT....... 9 9 9 10 11 11 11 15 j ( Geology of Essex County.................................................. 26; . . 3 4 CONTENTS. Geology of Essex County Continued. Igneous rocks Continued. Subjacent...reconnaissance map and structure section of Essex County, Mass.........................................map and structure section of southern part of Essex County, and adjoining parts of Suffolk and Middlesex
Report (issue)
Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts by Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvin...Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvln This...contains the records of radlometrlc ages for Massachusetts from the Radlometrlc Age Data Bank of the U...portrayed on a new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). The compilation Is believed to...they appear on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). Steiger, R. H., and Jager, E.
Report (issue)
BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP OF OHE IPSWICH QUADRANGLE, MASSACHUSETTS 8 10- by William H. Dennen 11 1975 12 13... BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE IPSWICH QUADRANGLE, MASSACHUSETTS Introduction Rocks of the Ipswich quadrangle...quadrangle is situated on the northeastern 19 20- Massachusetts coast within the Seaboard Lowland section of...-fA9 maters on Fifteen Mile Hill in the Town of Essex to 21 -11 maters under the salt marsh at Six Goose...quadrangle are completely tidal; the 6 Ipswich and Essex Rivers are tidal inland to "falls" above which they
Report (issue)
Be3:48 Si3:02 O12 S: (3) Bartlett, New Hampshire, USA; by electron microprobe, BeO calculated from stoichiometry...contact metamorphism, skarns, and Association: Magnetite, garnet, °uorite (skarn); albite, cassiterite...Distribution: In the USA, at Rockport and Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts; on Moat Mountain, Conway...Haven, Connecticut, USA. Type Material: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 85384; National Museum...Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 124353; The Natural History Museum, London, England
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FAYALITE AT ROCKPORT, MASSACHUSETTS* Cn,lnrns Pa.racne, H arvard, U niv ersity, Cambri,dge, M assachusetts...of fayalite at four Iocalities on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, with a description of one of them which yielded...known in the granite of Rockport on Cape Ann, Massachusetts,to the description of which the following pages...looseearthy material and enveloped by a layer of magnetite about cjne inch thick. This was in the granite...fibrous ferroan anthophyllite mixed with granular magnetite. It is now known (Bowen and Schairer, 1935) that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1899 THE PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE COUNTY, MASS. III OF ESSEX ROCKS OCCURRINGIN DIKES THE rocks described...an approximate idea of the intrusive rocks of Essex county. GRANITIC DIKES of this rock are confined...frequent. A few specimens carry titanite and magnetite, while apatite is seldom seen. These aplites are...one cutting a granite exposure near Bass Rocks, Gloucester. It is the same mass as that mentioned previously... 536, 1893. PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE OF ESSEX COUNTY 107 of Arran it is easy to explain this by
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 (volume)
which in 1865 absorbed the collection of Sussex county minerals made by Samuel Woodruff, of Sparta, New...Hill and Harmony, Warren county. tals in calcite at Franklin, Susse_: county. _gate, (Quartz.) Very...Very tlne crys- Silica. Hoboken,Hudson county. Bound Brook and LibertyCorner, Somersetcounty. NEW JERSEY...cavities in amygdaloidal trap at Plainfield, Union county. See L C. Russell in Am. J. Set. III., XVL, 112...crystals imbedded in gneiss at Franklin, Sussex county. A pebble of alla,ite was found eight feet below
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(manganoan) varieties are found at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (Jahns and Ewing 1977). Fuchsite is...and fluorite. A classic association from El Paso County, Colorado, is well-crystallized zinnwaldite with...the 50:50 composition. The Morefield mine, Amelia County, Virginia, has produced many excellent large crystals...blue calcite from the Crestmore quarry, Riverside County, California, are typical of the species; a recent...black, nearly opaque veins and lenses in a banded magnetite deposit at the Wilagedera prospect, North Western
Report (issue)
SYSTEM IN THE REGION OF GREENWICH TOWNSHIP, GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY By Cynthia Barton and Jane Kozinski...quality in the region of Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey....................... in pocket...sites in the region of Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, at which ground-water contamination...and Greenwich and West Deptford Townships, Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1980-88.............. in pocket...system in the region of Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1980-88.............. in pocket
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CROSBV, REVIEWER The Petrographical Province of Essex County, Mass. BY HENRY S. WASHINGTON. J . Geol., 6...787-808 ; 7 , 53-64, 1051 2 1 , 284-294.-Although Essex county is a region of great petrographic diversity...danalite, fayalite, allanite, epidote, zircon, magnetite, apatite, fluorite. T h e feldspar is all of the...arid soda. Diorife has a large development in Essex County. It is highly varied and represents transitions...Other component minerals include zircon, apatite, magnetite, garnet, hornblende, oligoclase, and sometimes
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The vein is about a foot thick and is mostly magnetite."—sample sent in by B. J. Chromy, 14590 Horseshoe...black sand. It consists chiefly of lustrous black magnetite with smaller amounts of lustrous black ilmenite...red garnet, black magnetite and black ilmenite. Augusta, in N / E Richmond County, is in eastern Georgia...sand from beach at Oak Bluffs, Mass. I note some magnetite, also some grains that fluoresce. I would like...quartz, pink to red garnet, green epidote, black magnetite and some colorless zircon (fl. orange). Cak Bluffs
Report (issue)
PRELIMINARY BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE GLOUCESTER QUADRANGLE, MASSACHUSETTS Correlation of Map Units Pxcl...PRELIMINARY BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE GLOUCESTER QUADRANGLE, MASSACHUSETTS Description of Map Units X «...mafic minerals. Occasionally well crystallized magnetite. 14 15- Fine to medium-grained mafic rocks with... and biotite; rare olivine. 19 30- sphene, magnetite, and pyrite. unfoliated granite« Accessory apatite...sphene, zircon, apatite, fluorite, allanite, magnetite, and ilmenite. Feldspars in unaltered rock are
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xline—crystalline tain a... The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO — "Would you please...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing...term "astonishing" is not an exaggeraSan Miguel County is in southwestern tion ! W e were lucky in being...greenish datolite. Meriden is in N / E New Haven County in central Connecticut. FLORIDA — Mary G. Poole
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND MINERALS 6. Muscovite 86 1.30 2.0-2.5 7. Magnetite 70 .86 5.5-6.5 8. Garnet 39 .53 5.5-7.5 9. Tourmaline..."mono-mineral" which would be comprised of such types as magnetite, garnet, monazite, atacomite, ilmenite, black...accumulate as sands. There are a good many deposits of magnetite sand. Mr. Norman Radford of Couer d'Alene, Idaho...that appears to be black tourmaline with some magnetite, and Mr. J. B. Warner, Industrial Mineral Dealer...University of Chattanooga. This sand came from Jackson County, Mississippi, from a depth of 4700 to 4900 feet
Report (volume)
Geology of Selected Quadrangles In Massachusetts GEOLOGICAL SURVEY This volume was printed as separate...quadrangle, Worcester and Franklin Counties, Massachusetts, by Donald F. Eschman. (D) Geology of the Taunton...quadrangle, Bristol and Plymouth Counties, Massachusetts, by Joseph H. Hartshorn. o ; Bedrock Geology...Vicinity Massachusetts > w By PRIESTLEY TOULMIN 3d GEOLOGY OF SELECTED QUADRANGLES IN MASSACHUSETTS ~s -GEOLOGICAL...1163-A Prepared in cooperation with the i Massachusetts Department of Public Works « UNITED STATES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Comparison with syenite (andesine anorthosite) of Nelson County, Virginia........................................orthoelase, plagioclase, hornblende, a little biotite, magnetite, and, along the feldspar cleavage, chlorite. Another...Front Royal, in Warren County, southward to Hightop and beyond in Greene County. Farther southwest, at...norite from a locality in the northern part of Floyd County, Yirginia. Attention was called to the close similarity...similarity of the syenite from Floyd County to the unakite-bearing syenite at Milams Gap, in Page and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recovered by Mr A.W. Chubb of Gloucester during prospecting operations at Gloucester Tops in the early 1970s... Eastern Australia Locality Lat.S, Long.E Gloucester TopsBarrington Tops 310500-32005 ', 151~176...which extends from 850 m to 1545 m a.s.1. Around Gloucester Tops, single ruby grains weigh up to 3 carats...interfluve between the Kerripit and Gloucester Rivers near Mt McKenzie on Gloucester Tops (Fig. 1). The Barrington...625 FqG. 1. Geological Map of Barrington Tops-Gloucester Tops region, New South Wales, simplified from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...in California recently I visited the Los Angeles County Museum in Los Angeles to see the famous collection...in Los Angeles can walk across the lawn to the County Museum for another thrill—the display of some of...Leadville (Lake Co.). Colo., almost at the end of Lake County, I found a specimen of small radiating chrysocolla...found here malachite, azurite, chaleanthite, magnetite, hornblende, actinolite, tremolite, chrysocolla
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pitted) obsidian with a tiny amount of dull black magnetite. Pete an ¿ h l s s l s t e r > Pat > a r e first...mine, 6 or 8 miles southeast of Marysville, Marion County, Iowa. The rattleboxes were sent in by Robert Stech...orange), and a tiny amount of lustrous black magnetite. It is the rutile (titanium dioxide) that gives...Chesapeake Bay) is on the S/E coast of Calvert County in southern Maryland. Cave sand from nr. Springfield... 2, 1964, from Phil Betancourt, Box 13421, No. County Branch, St. Louis, Mo. 53137. The sample is a coarse
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
 
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