 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE MINERALS FROM BLUEBERRY MOUNTAIN, WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS W. E. RrcnMoND, ln., Haraard, (Jniaersity, Cambrid...of BlueberryMountain,Winchester Highlands, Massachusetts(unpublished). 290 JOARNAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY...Under this term will be included such minerals as prehnite, datolite, babingtonite, and other minerals formed...and pegmatite dikes. The zeolite minerals and prehnite are found chiefly in small veins that traverse...requiring fuller description are babingtonite, prehnite, albite, orangite, thorite, and allanite. The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | East ern epidote occurrences include Franconia, Athol, and Warren, Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor...Hampshire; and Willimantic, Windham County, and Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Gem-quality epidote...to 35 cm have been found at Eden Mills, Lamoille County, Vermont (a traditionally cited locality more accurately...the Belvidere Mountain quarry, Lowell, Orleans County). Epidote crystals to 5 cm have been found in the...from near Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; various other Massachusetts epidote specimen localities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Babingtonite from four new localities, all in Massachusetts, is described. Four new chemical analyses show...weathering or by solution in acid. These include prehnite, epidote, babingtonite, albite, qu.artz,hornblende...form, attached directly to the vein wall; where prehnite is present babingtonite rests upon that and may...may be followed by a later generation of prehnite and by the zeolites heulandite and chabazite and always...runs to the top of that mountain. It occurs with prehnite and calcite in gash veins traversing the diabase |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | very fine specimens of apophyllite, datolite, prehnite, calcite, stilbite and other zeolites have been...and known U. S. localities for babingtonite are Athol, Mass. ( ? ) , Governeur, N . Y. ( 1 ) ; Westfield...381. 2. Two occurrences of babingtonite in Massachusetts, by John E. Kitson. ROCKS AND MINERALS, Aug |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Babingtonite from Sornerville, Mass. 2. Babingtonite from Athol, Mass. BY C. PALACHE A N D F. R. FKAPRIE. Proc....doubt hitherto obtaining as to the identity of the Athol mineral with babingtonite is now removed by more...dyke of diabase. T h e corninon associates are : Prehnite, quartz, epidote, pyrite, chlorite, feldspar,...chabazite, melanolite, and chalcodite also reported. At Athol the mineral is found implanted on dark green epidote |  | | Book | | [- ' 1f,.,,1 " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l- ( MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND 1 #'vp ,#,V,4 I' vr Go � -...Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE... M.�SSACHUSE TTS Adams, Massachusetts Pfitzer Quarry Ashland, Massachusetts Bayer - Mingolla Quarry Blandford...Blandford, Massachusetts Goldmine Brook Site Bolton, Massachusetts Bolton Lime Quarry Granby, Massachusetts...Dinosaur Museum Hardwick, Massachusetts Quabbin Aqueduct Leverett, Massachusetts Leverett Lead Mine Plainfield |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | August 2017 Last fail a group of Elkhart (Ind.) County residents, because of their common interest in...collection, knowledge and identifica- month at the County Center, White Plains, tion of rocks, minerals and...to us: East Deerfield, Mass., Cheapside QuArry Prehnite, amethyst, fibrous calcite, a pale pink calcite...one of our younger members, Paul K. Kachinsky, of Athol, Mass., created a great deal of interest as it was...House of the Museum of Science and Industry, in Worcester, Mass. to 161 view the Harry W. Goddard Collection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tion in which the iolite occurs looks like Owyhee County, Idaho, stibnite in leada white crystallized schist...Aug. 29, 1953, from Ted Eyde, 3100 Sheridan MASSACHUSETTS — Beautiful green Ave., Butte, Mont., read as...renew my subscription to ROCKS AND gneiss at Athol, Worcester Co., Mass. MINERALS. I think ROCKS AND MINERALS...Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio. OKLAHOMA—In Comanche County, 7 miles N. W. of Cache, Okla., in the south edge... in size, masses of white crystals perched on prehnite make beautiful specimens. This appears to be the |  | | Report (volume) | | Pseudostalactitic forms of prehnite and of quartz 88 9. Spearhead forms of prehnite, covering former scepter...alinement 10. Lamellar cavity in a flattened mass of prehnite 11. Rectangular ridges on the sides of some lamellar...1910. 5 Fenner, C. N., Babingtonite from Passaic County, N. J.: Washington Acad. Sci. Jour.,. vol. 4, pp... Additional notes on babingtonite from Passaic County, N. J.: Washington Acad. Sci. Jour., vol. 4, pp...Great Notch are in Passaic County ; Cedar Grove and Upper Montclair in Essex County. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The |  | | 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...island a few feet above the bridge, imperfect. Prehnite, in small nodules, radiated. Made, also in argillite...veins, rare. (Hall.) Staurotide. (Sil 6.219.) Prehnite is found crystallizPrismatic Mica, and lamillated |  | | Report (volume) | | FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON G 0 V...iuclosures........................................ 2. Prehnite; cross-section of twins.........................within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf...Chesterfield." C. Dewey : Geol. and Min. of part of Massachusetts; Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. VIIT, p. 43 |  | | Journal (issue) | | topography of the Little Cottonwood Area, Salt Lake County, Utah, are here described, and the geologic history...acquaint the mineral collector with a f amous Massachusetts locality and the minerals that it offers at...Quarry more than any other quarry in eastern Massachusetts because of its excellent specimens and accessibility...triclinic crystals in thin seams of calcite, with prehnite, and sometimes tremolite and al bite. In size...having been found .7 PREHNITE : Blueberry Mountain is noted for the fine prehnite specimens that have |  | | Book | | of some of the principal localities in the same county, was given by Messrs . Greg and Lettsom in their...locality by some independent authority, such as maps, county directories, local guide books, &c. The geological...LONDONDERRY LONGFORD LOUTH MAYO MEATH MONAGHAN . QUEEN'S COUNTY . . . SLIGO TIPPERARY TYRONE . WATERFORD...possible, the various mineral- localities in the same county around their respective post-towns. A few cases...rule, where a parish or village is situated in one county, and its post-town in another. Chains of hills |  | | Report (volume) | | OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON............................................ Worcester County, Mass.......................................member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................ |  | | Book (volume) | | to 3. 4 to 11. 12 to 14 Allanite Prehnite, figs. 1 to 4. Prehnite, figs. 5 to 10 Calamine, figs. 1,...It occurs zeolites in cavities. and perhaps Prehnite. It and Thomsonite, cmhny. is of flesh-red...Heulandite, specially associated with Analcime, Prehnite, It occurs at Bowling (Anal. 10) in Dum- at Boyleston...in gneiss. On Cam Liath, 2 miles N.E. of Blair- Athol, white, in in mica veins Gleann Fearnach, pink,...rock of near Of two varieties bluishpseudo-Prehnite. white and cleavable, in large unstriated simple |  | | Book (edition) | | CongresS; J / in the year 1834, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth in the Clerk's Office of the ...Secretary of the of said i ; District of Massachusetts. by Edward D. Bangs, in the name and District...Excellency, John davis, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts. I HAVE the honor to present you with the second...the 3d of March , 1830, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a Resolve, authorizing and requesting...to the Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to |  | | Report (volume) | | onshore and offshore early Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg...Maritime Maryland Massachusetts, Deerfield basin Massachusetts, Hartford basin Massachusetts, other Morocco |  | | Book (edition) | | springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...railroad to Boston, and also in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Out of the borders of the United States, on |  | | Book (edition) | | springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs ; in BuncombeAt Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...gas, 5 to 17 of earthy In the bituminous coal of county, Penn., he obtained in that of bustible matter |  | | Book (edition) | | springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Blue Ridge at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. At Bath...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...bituminous coal of the Portage railroad, Cambria county, Penn., he obtained 1 8*2 per cent, of volatile |  | | Book (edition) | | springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Warm and Hot Springs ; in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...railroad to Boston, and also in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Out of the borders of the United States, on |  | | Book (edition) | | springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebulthe earth, ...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. lition ...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...railroad to Boston, and also in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Out of the borders of the United States, on |  | | Journal (issue) | | undersigned, being all of the officers of rhc Clark County Gem Co!l~tors, Inc., most sincerely wish to convey... T48N-R29W N 5 6 ONE MILE VAN RIPER 0 j COUNTY dil otl id1 X X 7 X JS IO 29 4 X 3 qt...editorial advice. Thanks are also due to the Marquette County Road Commission who supplie.d a base map from which-...fifty-one years ; he has the largest collection in the county, sorted, labeled, and well studied. Leo Burraston...investigating the Richardson placers at Leesburg, Lemhi County, Idaho. for valuable monazite sand, a new discovery |  | | Book | | but they may be traced southerly into Litchfield county, where they exist abundantly, and are sometimes...range which occupies the eastern part of Litchfield County and appears so decided in its characters in Bristol...of Connecticut river, south of Shelburne, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, But it is not abundant or also...strike is variable from 20° to 90"^. In Massachusetts; especially Farther south, as in Hn^ley, Plainfield...phyritic by crystals of feldspar. Locality, Litchfield county. — The quartz that occurs in this mica slate |
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Athol babingtonite locality, Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA