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Pyrite from
Paradise Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA


Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Paradise Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:236231
Long-form Identifier:1:3:236231:1
GUID (UUID V4):644a4df3-ada6-4343-a154-af915e958880
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
5.6km (3.5 miles) Lovejoy Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
6.4km (3.9 miles) Souhegan Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Young Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Barker Hill Quarry (Rusk Quarry; Townsend Quarry), Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) New Westerly Quarry, Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Route 101/101A road cuts, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Wilton Crushed Stone Quarry, Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Route 101A construction site, Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
17.5km (10.9 miles) Audley Quarry, Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
$Sl ON ^~^ -^^r^ Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS AREL DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations:...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...fine collections of Pleistocene vertebrates from a new locality on the shores of Lake Chápala near Guadalajara...the travel columnists have had their fling at paradise. '"Incidentally any rockhound who goes out this
Journal (issue)
Minerals 1998: What's New Dan Weinrich www.danweinrich.com China One of the exciting new finds from China...specimens belong. A more recent find involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at...hall that was not quite so large. The theme was pyrite, and there were some spectacular displays with...more than the kids, and hopefully may have started new "collecting families." 2 Mineral News I found...years ago in Denver; the other, about tin size, were new. They were water clear with deep reddish/purplish
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Woàlâ Menti 04t Minelal ÔccWiïenc&i Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...Rubarite, Inc., a newly formed company which produces a new synthetic rubber product for use in rubberized asphalt...bats remained in "He informed me that there was a new possession until World War II revived in- deposit...more, for I wanted to send R & M a specimen of a new mineral find. "I have made arrangements with the...worthwhile. First we visited the famed Strickland Quarry (near Portland, Conn.) which is being worked presently
Report (volume)
in Bronx and Westchester Counties, southeastern New York, by Charles A. Baskervi1le....................3. Buddenhagen...........................Hi 1 3. New Paleozoic formations in the northern Kuskokwim Mountains..., and Wi 1 1 iam W. Patton, 3r...........H13 ^. New stratigraphic unit in the Wilcox Group (upper Paleocene-lower...Shride.....................H57 8. Mauzy Formation, a new stratigraphic unit of Permian age in western Kentucky...formations in the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) of New York, by William A. Oliver, 3r..................H91
Book (edition)
channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...gas fields occur in almost every State except in New England and a few Southern States, but the discoveries...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rhodochrosite on sulfides, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado, Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Keweenaw County, Michigan. A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum specimen, John A. Jaszczak photo. Adamite, New Mexico...Preview, R. W. Jones, 60-61 Africa-Earth Science Paradise, L. D. Ashwal, 12-16 African 'Qpe-Minerals: Minerals...African Localities, R. I. Gait, 25-30 Agardite-(Y), New Mexico, 301 Agate, Colorado, 233, 252-68; Michigan...Arsenogoyazite, New Mexico, 301 Art, see Robinson, S. Ashwal, L. D., see Geo-Currents Aurichalcite, New Mexico
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
st' ON m - - ^ ^^^r Mineral Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED \~. PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Downloaded...gray limestone with interesting scattered xls of pyrite (am I correct ? ) . The dolomite varies in shades...chalcopyrite on xled pale pink dolomite—very nice. No pyrite present. ALASKA—From Granite Creek, near Chickaloon...Cove (Hot Springs Co.), Ark.—a real collector's paradise. While there I learned that at the present time...not world-beaters but are interesting and add a new (at least to me) mineral to the long list of those
Journal (issue)
befriended and mentored over the years. In 1972, we were new to rock collecting in general. and pegmatite collecting...humor was evident when he salted our hole with pyrite to see if we would spot it. (Continues on page...(Continued on next page) Only $30 - postpaid in the USA Available exclusively from: Excalibur Mineral Corporation...included the Crystal !\fountain district in Larimer County. and an astrophyllite locality near St. Peters...countryside. In the second article (Rockhound's Paradise, Colorado), wriuen from 1947-1948. he presents
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items on new finds wanted. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...interested. "I have found Arizona to be a "rockhound's paradise'' in the 16 years that I have been here, especially..." W e would be delighted to receive donations of new or interesting finds. W e never heard of "fire" quartz...quartz in Arizona, so this for one thing would be new to us. ARKANSAS — We are indebted to Byron C. Marshall...Diamond Mines, at (or near) Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. At the mines, I was kindly given permission
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...Descloizite Cuprite on Copper Nevadaite, Gold Quarry Mine Vanadinite, Ruth Mine Epidote Opal after...Orpiment, Twin Creeks Mine Powellite Pyrargyrite Pyrite on Barite Pyromorphite Wulfenite Fluorite on
Report (volume)
...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;...Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 121 Gregory...Millerite Mi1netite Naumannite Ncvadaite, Gold Quarry Mine ()pal after wood Opal, faceted Orpin1ent,...Orpiment, 'twin Creeks Mine Powellite Pyrargyri te Pyrite on Barite Pyromorphite Pyromorphite after Galena
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
be the intermediary Mountain, Center Strafford, New Hamp- alteration species ferri-sicklerite or if you...been up near the southern end of Lake accicular new mineral. When I broke this Winnipesaukee for a week...1938 and a found more and larger crystals of this new persistent drizzle made the snow too species which...to remain an undescribed enigmatic and had our quarry tools along. Since problem to mineral collectors...Dover, big old pine at the entrance. W e were New Hampshire. He too was collecting surprised to see the
Report (volume)
CHIEF COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RHODE ISLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON................................................ Milford............................................................... The quarry............................................ New Hampshire.....................quarries........................................... Milford..................................................................... Glossary of scientific and quarry terms.................................. 140 140
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 738 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...___ 89 Waldoboro, Maine____________________ Milford, N. H________________________ Westerly and Charlestown...expansion____^_________________ Geographic distribution of New England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________
Report (volume)
Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nevada's Comstock Lode. Fisher, Henry H. Trapezohedral Pyrite Sept., p. 345 in Ohio. July-Aug., p. 293 Battista...Thumbnails-FranForghani, Abdol-Hossein. The Apatite of con Quarry. Nov., p. 455 Hormuz Island, Iran. March, p. 85...from Georgia. Jan.-Feb., p. 20 sonite in Humboldt County, Nevada. Bolick, Glenn R. How to Cover Showcase...George. An Update on Collect­ ing Around Ellenville, New York. The Micromounters Corner-A Tale of Sept., p... 44 Marshall, John. Three Recent Discoveries in New England. June, p. 237; The Lead Mines of Loudville
Book (volume)
nodules, fossils, Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence of the Loup...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford
Book (volume)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford
Book (volume)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford
Report (issue)
. . . . . . 18 Alteration of the Yellow Jacket quarry area . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Table Table Table...typically contains alunite + kaolinite + quartz ± pyrite ± sulfur. In some cases the alteration assemblage...alteration, often in association with quartz-alunite ± pyrite ± enargite and are most accurately termedhigh-sulfidation...deposits of this type in the U.S.A. are Goldfield and Paradise Peak, Nevada and Summitville, Colorado. Other...National district, Nevada and the Waihi deposit, New Zealand. 3. Oxidation of sulfides during supergene
Journal (issue)
f1011it111l4. Jo. .,QUARRY ................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 NEW ENGLAND NOTES. Cond11cted by Rudolf C. B. Bartsch.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 NEW OCCURRENCE OF BORNITE IN VIRGINIA . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 NEW LOCALITY FOR ANTLERlTE . . . . . . . . . . . . ....(Address at the Mineral Day at the World's Fair (New Yo:k City ), Juna 17, 1940 ) The first mineral collector
Book (edition)
fill - -~- ·- I A : I ♦ • ROCKBOUND'S . PARADISE I Bancroft and Region l Old Mines Quarries Outcrops...Congress. Ottawa.1972. A Rockhound'8 Paradise I A Roclchound's Paradise I is a compilation of old mining...Rocklwund's Paradise 11 - Rock and Mineral Collecting in the MCUU)c Area A Rockhound's Paradise III - Rock...Rocklwund's Paradise- Central Ontario (compilation book) ISBN 0-9697323-2-5 AROCKHOUND'S PARADISE - BANCROFT...explore the hilly backroads and often come across a quarry or a roadcut, stop and investigate it, and bring
Book (volume)
beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep
 
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