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Calcite from
Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:127017
Long-form Identifier:1:3:127017:4
GUID (UUID V4):d912aa29-ec7e-4703-8d10-398f70d85f1e
Localities for Calcite in this Region
Bay View Dark-Granite prospect, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Cheves Green Granite Quarry, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
6.1km (3.8 miles) Cheves Green Granite Quarry, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
22.0km (13.7 miles) Epidote Locality, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
25.0km (15.5 miles) Devil's Basin, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
25.4km (15.8 miles) Devil's Den (Devil's Den lime pit), Newbury, 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
34.5km (21.4 miles) Route 114 calc-silicate locality, North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) Rowe Quarry (Black Ann Hill Quarry), Revere, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
35.6km (22.1 miles) Blue Soapstone Quarry (Jenkins Quarry; Hill's Quarry), Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
41.9km (26.0 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
42.8km (26.6 miles) Nanny Goat Hill, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A CATAL,OGUE OF MASSAC.HUSETTS GEMSTONES ESSEX COUNTY (Part Two) By RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany...south of village. Green rnicrocline in granite. CALCITE ZY2 Thin veins of the white, fibrous chatoyant...granite quarries. Essex County Nahant Beverly Salem Salem, Salem Neck. Essex County Lynn 196 CITRINE...various colors and types on sea beaches of this county. ? ROCKS AND MINERAL~ Locality Nahant Rowley...bluish northern point of Cape Ann opalescence. Essex County Nahant, Bass Point Saugus, near the center
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
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...Long slender crystals occur in loose pieces of calcite a short distance to the northeast of the Taylor
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
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
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.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(manganoan) varieties are found at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (Jahns and Ewing 1977). Fuchsite is...Figure 7. 7 Phlogopite crystal, 4.5 x 4 cm, with calcite and diopside, Slyudyanka, Russia. been found....surprisingly transparent) crystals with white calcite and granular diopside. The several lepidolite species...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
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
Report (issue)
.......*. Armstrong Brothers Co. Ltd., South Gloucester .... IS 18 18 19 19 20 22 23 23 24 25 26 26...26 Dibblee Construction Co. Ltd., South Gloucester ,. 27 3. Trenton - Black River Limestones .........from a new quarry north of Thedford in Lambton county. In 1963 four new marble quarries were opened in...25, concession IV, Guilford township, Haliburton county, a quarter mile west of the village of Eagle Lake...and 17, concession XI, Marmora township, Hastings county by W.F. Bonter 6- Company Limited. The quarries
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen sent you recently. It was found in Coosa County, Ala., near Rockford. You have my permission to...have an interesting specimen of dark gray fibrous calcite that was sent in by Prof. Arthur Blocher, 317 W...find a layer of calcite (sample enclosed is from this layer). Sometimes this calcite is oil impregnated...Brown Ave., Terre Haute, Ind. I O W A — From Marion County, Iowa, we have an interesting specimen consisting...small pale smoky quartz xls — both on drusy gray calcite which in turn coats dark gray limestone. Some goethite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Y. The specimen consists of thin platy white calcite xls in grayish clay. ARKANSAS—"A HEAP O F PHANTOMS...the Red Mountain range near Silverton, San Juan County, Colo., there is marmatite. It is a high-iron sphalerite...Illinois to Buffalo State Park in central LaSalle County, 111. We found many sam115 pies of the fish-tail...sphalerite, and calcite. Many of the boulders on the damps were crusted with pyrite and calcite and were a...consisting of dark brown xline calcite as a vein in black compact limestone. The calcite fl. yellow under long
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
green so I assume that one of the minerals is calcite, and the second is some ore of zinc. I do believe...Mr. Leek, you are correct. The white mineral is calcite (fl. bright red) ; the tiny brownish xls are willemite...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
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)
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...of Culloden, and one mile S. of the Monroe-Lamar County line. The cordierite occurs in knots and irregularshaped
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystallographic forms and combinations of forms as calcite . . . no mineral is of such universal occurrence...under such varying conditions. " — Whitlock, 1910 CALCITE OCCURRENCES of Ontario STEPHEN H. WATTS Geology...crystal specimen. Collecting calcite can still offer this experience. Calcite occurs in a diversity of crystal...have provided collectors in Ontario with quality calcite specimens (Figure 1). For ease of discussion the...rocks (limestone quarries and other occurrences). Calcite Associated With Proterozoic Rocks The history of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...collector are natrolite, lepidolite, cinnabar, calcite, olivine, bitumens, and so on. I am sending you...the N. W . part of Dade County, Fla., due west of Miami and near the Monroe County line. Among the samples...Lots 612 580 and 649, 19th District of Paulding County."—Spring 1954 issue, page 48. IDAHO—"I am sending...This new find is near Gilmore, Idaho, in Lemhi County."—letter dated July 28, 1954, from Clarence Martin
Journal (issue)
mixed with granular franklini te, willemite and calcite. are Zincite is rare except at the Franklin-Sterling...the enclosing limestone crystal­ lized out as calcite. Thus, at the end of a certain phase of regional...tephroite, in places mixed with the crystalline calcite. All other minerals, including zinc­ i te, were...ore. Often, large masses of zi�cite are seen in calcite, with no other mineral as an associate. Zincite...veins cutting the nonnal willemite­ franklinite-calcite ore. Commonly, it is found intimately mixed with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
maPeter Young, Box 601, Kentfield, terial, butterfly calcite on a rare shade of Calif., has visited the bastnasite...tunnel located west of Tucson. There were also calcite and aragonite crys- site in massive form, occurs...near Glen wood, Pike ROCKS AND MINERALS, p. 123. County, Arkansas. Mr. Young also sends a note on a Downloaded...development near Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, Calif. Molybdenum Corporation of America is at...River limestone quarry (Crystal River), nice sharp calcite xls were found. I visited the Children's Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Chattanooga. This sand came from Jackson County, Mississippi, from a depth of 4700 to 4900 feet...What are 2000 years to a grain of quartz ! Massachusetts Sand Mr. Hans Thurnauer of Chattanooga has...several sand specimens, among which are those of Gloucester and Provincetown, Mass. The former is darker...Coney Island sand somewhat resembles that of Gloucester but it is darker and has a few grains of magnetite...generally broken down into minerals not rocks. Calcite and aragonite have the same composition (CaCO-j)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS OF ROCKPORT. I{. E. MCKINSTRY MASSACHUSETTS Cambrid,ge, Mass. More than fifty years ago...pegmatite. Astrophgllil,e. Reported by Sears.2 Calcite. Filmlike plates along cleavage planes of decomposedpyroxene...closely to the description of gadolinite from Llano County, Texas, altho the careful qualitative analysis...along the railroad track between Rockport and Gloucester. Pyrite, Found occasionally in small grains with...fractures. Also in the quarry between Rockport and Gloucester as a decomposition product of danalite. Tantalite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Canada 2775 Crow Creek Road, Bettendorf, IA 52722, USA; E-Mail: gbadeys@gmail.com * Author to whom correspondence...section transect (see Figure 5). Abbreviations: G, Gloucester Fault; RR, Rigaud-Russell Fault. Geosciences...occurs in a region containing the trace of the Gloucester Fault (Figure 2) and a change in the aeromagnetic...respect to section localities: G, splay zone of the Gloucester Fault (see Figure 2) whereas the right-hand fault...fault lies sub-parallel to the Gloucester Fault [39]. In the northern Appalachian Basin, the Lindsay
Book (edition)
OF SOURCES OF AGGREGATE sources are given under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales...Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within each county the crushed rock quarries, gravel pits and slagworks...of the South Wales Coalfield, and also in the Gloucester-Somerset Carboniferous limestone outcrops. In...Renfrewshire and one in East Lothian; in the latter county the phonolite of Traprain Law Quarry has been in...slabs. QUARTZITE TRADE GROUP Only one quarry (county of Aberdeen) is recorded as working quartzite;
Report (issue)
142–6.17 c = 7.838–7.88 X-ray Powder Pattern: Gloucester Farm, South Africa. 3.309 (100), 3.051 (80),...48.37 [1.58] Total 99.3 [101.9] [100.00] (1) Gloucester Farm, South Africa; recalculated from original...rare, in banded manganese ore replacing shale (Gloucester Farm, South Africa); in veinlets cutting manganese...amesite (Gloucester Farm, South Africa); braunite, saneroite, bementite, caryopilite, calcite, quartz...Italy). Distribution: Along Gamagara Ridge, on Gloucester Farm, about 27 km north of Postmasburg, Cape
Report (issue)
weathering; aphanitic; medium bedded; stylolites, calcite crystals; abundant Tetradium. CRYSTALLINITY CLASSIFICATION...suitable for laboratory work: TERM USED Dolomite CALCITE DOLOMITE MgO* percent 95-100 90- 95 50- 90 10-... Calcarenite. A limestone composed of clastic calcite grains and sorted fossil debris of sand size: i... concession IV, Guilford Township, Hali burton County. A description is given by Hewitt (1964, p.13)...number as shown on Map 2264, back pocket. Hastings County. The principal use is for terrazzo chips. Some
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 «...opaque 14 granules. Chlorite, iron oxides, and calcite are present as 15 alteration products. Mafic
 
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