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Orthoclase from
Granite Hill, Cuttingsville, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Granite Hill, Cuttingsville, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:127819
Long-form Identifier:1:3:127819:4
GUID (UUID V4):8ffb35e0-1aad-429f-84aa-e13b9d70b9d4
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
22.3km (13.9 miles) Weston, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
35.9km (22.3 miles) Ascutney Mountain complex, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
57.0km (35.4 miles) Acworth, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
61.7km (38.3 miles) Faxon property prospect, Hague Township, Warren County, New York, USA
69.3km (43.1 miles) Rock Pond Property Mine, Rock Pond, Ticonderoga Township, Essex County, New York, USA
73.8km (45.9 miles) Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
78.3km (48.6 miles) Corinth, Orange County, Vermont, USA
80.2km (49.8 miles) Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
80.3km (49.9 miles) Marr & Gordon Quarry, Barre, Washington County, Vermont, USA
80.5km (50.0 miles) Bruce Quarry, Barre, Washington County, Vermont, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRAND, ISLE: L Jirrwowwux/ lot* llMt UK* U'A VERMONT Mineral Locality Index VANDALL T. K I N G P.O....Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions map; adapted from U.S. Geological...of New Hampshire and Vermont (1972). 324 ROCKS & MINERALS he state of Vermont is relatively small,...ry in the world is in Rochester (Windsor Co.), Vermont. Min­ eral products mined "as is" for their final...Slate quarry, Poultney; photo by Roger Bacon. The granite industry has supplied rock for numerous build­
Report (issue)
Brunswick _______ _ 12 Deboullie stock, Aroostook County, Maine ___ _ 12 13 Eagle Lake, New Brunswick ---------------13...15 Machias occurrence, Washington County, Maine 17 Granite Quarry Hill molybdenum prospect __ 20 Other...porphyry type -------------------Eastern Halifax County, North Carolina, 25 prospects -----------------------------25...Mountain, Somerset County, Maine -------------------3. Cooper mine, Washington County, Maine, showing locations...Washington County, Maine -----------------------------------5. Geologic map of the Cuttingsville pluton,
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIST ON THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES AND GEOLOGY OF VERMONT 1929-1930 SEVENTEENTH OF THIS SERIES GEORGE H...H. PERKINS State Geologist STAFF OF THE VERMONT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1929-1930 GEORGE H. PEinuNs, State...University of Vermont. ELBRIDGE C. JACOBS, Assistant CONTENTS Geologist, University of Vermont. CHARLES...PHYSIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT, G. H. PERKINS ..................... THE aEOLOGY OF VERMONT OCHER DEPOSITS,...107 MOUNT MONADNOCK III VERMONT, J. E. Worr ................... LIST OF VERMONT MINERALS, G. H. PERKINS
Report (issue)
36 REPORT OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST Brick Clays As pointed out by the writer,' there are in the...Deposits and Clay Industry of Vermont; 15th Rpt. Vt. State Geol. (1925-26). VERMONT 1935-1936 I TWENTIETH...GEOLOGIST ON THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES AND GEOLOGY OF VERMONT 193 5-1936 I TWENTIETH OF THIS SERIES I ELBRIDGE...JACOBS F.G.S.A. State Geologist RELIEF MAP OF VERMONT Vermont Mineral Industries The mineral industries...8 percent. lime 45 percent, talc 17.7 percent, granite (cubic feet) 16 percent, and fire clay 10.5 percent
Report (volume)
Results of the Glens Falls CUSMAP Project, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Results of the Glens Falls CUSMAP Project, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire Edited by JOHN F. SLACK Geologic...results of the Glens Falls CUSMAP project, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire : geologic, geophysical, and...the Glens Falls 1° x 2° Quadrangle, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire James B. Thompson, Jr. CHAPTER...Alkalic Plutonic Complexes at Cuttingsville and Mount Ascutney, Vermont David L. Daniels CHAPTER D Zircon
Report (issue)
University of Vermont BURLINGTON. VT.: FREE PRESS PRINTING 1924. Co. CONTENTS. STAFF OF THE VERMONT GEOLOGICAL...of Vermont. ELBRIDCE C. JACOBS, Assistant Geologist. Professor Mineralogy, University of Vermont. CITA1ILES...PAGE ç ' LIST OF ALTITUDES IN VERMONT, /GEOLOGY OF GRAND ISLE COUNTY, THE OLDEST CORAL REEF, P. E.... TERRANES OF BETHEL, VERMONT, PERKINS .................... G. H. PERKTNS .................... 63...SUCCESSION IN NORTHWESTERN VERMONT, ARTHUR KEITH. NEW TRILOBITES FROM VERMONT, 1 G. H. P. E. RAYMOND
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
molybdenite occurs in the contact zone around a granite, both in the altered granitic rock and in the skarn...occurs with chalcopyrite in quartz veins in a granite (Horton, 1916,p.62). Harvard 4211 Mono Lake,...pyrite, sericite, orthoclase, and fluorite. The main Climax ore is an altered granite. The molybdenite...occurs hete in quartz veins and in the rapakivi granite (Stewart,1956, p.36. pp. 62-63). llarvard 98290...pegmatite dikes and disseminated in the surrounding granite (Kirkemo et a1,.,1965, p. 6l). 1860 JADITH
Report (issue)
OFTHE • KAOLIN AT EAST MONKTON, VERMONT By DUNCAN G. OGDEN VERMONT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY • • CHARLES...3 DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES • MONTPELIER, VERMONT • • • • • • 1969 TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE........ 18 Geologic relationship to other known Vermont deposits ......... 20 Structure of the formation...10. Northerly View of Vermont Kaolin Corporation Plant .. ......... 19 11. Vermont Kaolin Corporation and... GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE KAOLIN AT EAST MONKTON, VERMONT By DUNCAN G. OGDEN ABSTRACT Bristol and' Monkton
Report (volume)
............................................. Vermont..................................................specimens. Some mineral aggregates, such as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included because...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr...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;
Book (volume)
district. larly in distinguishing the coarse granite belt the and This has been the most marked ...Palmer the bridge west of of the West Ammonoosuc hill Dummer, to gold — to the 51 52 Rocky pond...Me., locations of specimens collected in Coos county, Section lake to the Fig. 30 Mount Desert...Section from Mt. Lafayette to Bald Plate VII, Map hill, Washington, from the Glen house Plate VIII, Fig...Hancock mountain, (135) . and . structure in granite at Goodrich Plate X, Fig. 15, Section from Tin
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PETROGRAPHICAL COUNTY, PROVINCE MASS. I. OF ESSEX THE area of igneous rocks in Eastern Massachusetts...Massachusetts, especially in Essex county, has been, as the late Geo. H. Williams said, " more discussed than...are written. I have visited the region of Essex county several times and collected a large number of specimens...its chief features. The igneous rocks of Essex county extend along the coast from Lynn to the New Hampshire...but this paper does not include them. In Essex county they form a long ridge "extending in a northeasterly
Report (issue)
of print for several years. The importance of granite as a building material has increased rapidly in...recent years. North Carolina is well supplied with granite, and it is believed that this report will be of...considerable value to those interested in the granite resources of the State. Respectfully submitted...investigation and acknowledgments Granite defined Origin of granite Dikes penetrating the granites Acid...Diabase dikes Physical and structural properties of granite Dimension stone General ..' Dikes and veins : Segregations
Report (issue)
containing developed and undeveloped deposits of granite, slate, Portland cement materials, and gypsum,...within 100 miles of Minneapolis which produce granite, sandstone, and magnesian limestone, all of which... STONE. DIMENSION STONE. GRANITE. Minnesota is well supplied with, granite suitable for building purposes...purposes. The two principal granite areas are near St. Cloud and Ortonville, respectively 65 and 179 miles...granites. In the vicinity of St. Cloud three kinds of granite are quarried. One is a pinkish-gray medium-grained
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF MINES BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PARTY GRANITE AND GNEISS By D. F. HEWITT INDUSTRIAL MINERAL...IV V Introduction Limestone Marble Sandstone Granite &1 Gneiss Industrial Mineral Report No. 19, paper-bound...acceptable. BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART V - GRANITE AND GNEISS TABLE OF CONTENTS Southern Ontario.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Betz Green Granite.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Coe Hill.............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Upper Canada Granite Quarries
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...In 1872 gem tourmciline was found in Riverside County, Califor­ nia, on the southeast slope of Thomas...announcement that rubellite had been found in San Diego County, probably at the site of the present-day Stewart
Journal (issue)
Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California......................................Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland .......................................OF PHILIP RASHLEIGH, O r M ENAB1LLY, IN THE COUNTY OF C O R N W A LL, ESQ, M .P . F . R .S . AND F...lography (pt. Ill) (facsimile: $10) v.2/#5 Gold Hill (UT), Rose Quartz, Grandview mine (AZ), Crandallite... v.8/#6 California Issue Benitoite, Gold, L.A. County Museum, Himalaya mine $7 Circulation Manager
Report (issue)
that the granite is pre-Cambrian and older than the slate formation. Whether all the granite can be included...this category it would not be safe to say. The granite formation of the Black Hills has its greatest development...of the highly metamorphic areas. Much of this granite has a very coarse texture and in some places it...rock as granite or pegmatite. The pegmatite occurs both in the metamorphic rocks and in the granite. The...feldspar and quartz. The feldspars are commonly orthoclase or microcline, though a plagioclase, albite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rare-earth pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in...(petrified wood) (Folk et al., 1961). Baylor County Aransas County Aransas Pass area, Intercoastal Canal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
albite and the potassic phase may be monoclinic orthoclase or triclinic microcline. Optical and X-ray studies...and that in some areas the intrusion of Li-mica granite was a significant factor in influencing temperatures...and K. M. Edmondson Iball and Hubbard (1982) for granite and syenite complexes. Specimens have been re-analysed...indicating monoclinic orthoclase alone and a double peak indicating both orthoclase and triclinic microcline...Cornubian granites Figure 2: Map of Bodmin Moor granite showing distribution of microcline and locations
Report (issue)
Francisco, California. Daily Grass Valley Union, Nevada County, California. Daily Evening Gazette, Reno, Nevada...Standard, Eureka, Humboldt County, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 10. 11. 12. County Tribune, California. California...California. Inyo Independent, Inyo County, California. Arizona Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona Territory. Ventura...of the ice plant, which grows in Santa Barbara County." Wines. Buena Vista Vinicultural Society of San...wines. C. H. Le Franc, of New Almaden, Santa Clara County, red and white wines. M. Keller, Rising Sun and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
n some p]aces, as, for instance, west of Garabal Hill, a sharp line can be drawn between diorite and tonalite...parts of the area mapped as diorite between Garabal Hill and Loch Garabal might just as well have been mapped...similar rock occurs in the diorite north of Garabal Hill. The limits of this rock are fairly well defined...tonalite. Westward, however, the tonalite passes into granite which finally becomes porphyritic, owing to the...the presence of large crystals of orthoclase measuring often two inches across. In some places a sharp
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
—NOTE ON REFERENCE THE TO IGNEOUS THE ROCKS GRANITE AND OF SINGAPORE, ASSOCIATED WITH LIOCKS...the pyroxene - bearing rocks associated with the granite appear to the writer to require a note as being...continuation of the Tembeling Series in Pahang, granite, with associated rocks to be described later, and...Borneo Beds described by Mr. Wing Easton. The granite is certainly later than the sedimentary rocks,...disturbed; therefore it may be assumed that the granite is at any rate post-Triassic, perhaps postInferior
Report (issue)
Pseudo-stratlflcatlon planes. Jointing of granite In quarry. Jointing In granite -porphyry at falls on Black river...Jointing. VIII. Tesselated granite surface. IX. Disintegration of granite. X. "Elephant rocks" at GranltevIHe...enlargements. XX. Secondary enlargement of orthoclase. Corroded orthoclase and mlcropegmatlte. XXI. XXII. XXIII...phenocrysts. Uranlte porphyry, polished surface. Orthoclase phenocrysts, corroded. Porphyry sections with...lines. Sketch map of Missouri. Basic dike In granite Gross-section from Iron Mountain to Ste. Genevieve
 
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