 | | Report (issue) | | Coimonwealth of Massachusetts Depart*- ~ v of Public Yforks H. A. MecDo>na3 ...Circular -?5 April, 1944 B-iery deposits near Chester, l.Iassachusetts E. T. Apfel CONTENTS Introduction...General geology General statement Rov/e schist Chester amphibolite Savoy schist Geologic structure Bnery...the ore The mines near Chester Prospecting Figure li Geologic map of the Chester emery area, Massachusetts...through the Chester emery vein. Figure 3; Longitudinal section of "Old IJnery Mine", Chester. Figure |  | | Report (volume) | | LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was prepared to accompany...MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TALC RESOURCES OF THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES By...the U.S. Government. 1995 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Talc Resources of the conterminous United States Contents............................................8 Talc and talc-bearing rocks ................................optical properties of talc .........................10 Geology and Genesis of Talc Deposits .................................................12 Uses for talc ............................................... |  | | 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 (issue) | | .............219 by Robert I. Gait The Chester Emery Mines ...........................................the recent paper, “ Uralolite from the Dunton Gem mine, Newry, Maine: a second occurrence” (vol. 9, p....localities: 1 the j Elmwood and Gordonsville zinc mines near Carthage,Tennessee by Lance E. Kearns and F...Elmwood and Gordonsville zinc mines, near the town of Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Relatively little...of ore per day. The present working level of the mine is between 100 and 113 m. In the spring of 1976 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | .......................................... Massachusetts...............:............................... Willis, C. F., and others, Arizona State Bur. Mines Bulls. 1-8, 1915-16. Comstock, T. B., A preliminary...and Hampden counties, Mass.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals...minerals of the Black Hills: South Dakota School of Mines Bull. 10, 1914. Purdue, A. H., The minerals of Tennessee...by K. A. A. Johnston, Canada Geol. Survey Dept. Mines Mem. 74, Geol. Ser. 61. This list does not record |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Catalog/List | | Chiastolite from Meteorites — Quartz Crystals. Massachusetts. The Canyon Diablo The Pallas Iron, Spear-head...mineral, "At were of large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer...in the specimens Dundasite, bunches samples Mine, of occurs lode. beautiful white large more...originally Cornish mining ceeding by colour, Mine fractures of great the mineral often Mount ...extremely some rarely Anglesite. Embolite, back Mine. with minute of small of capping gossan 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...Philadelphia, by Isaac Lea. 1818." " A view of the Lead Mines of (Sch.) Missouri, &c.", by Henry R. Schoolcraft...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...of considerable extent. Made in small quantities. Talc, in granular limestone, with actynolite and sulphuret |  | | Report (volume) | | Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...mag¬ nesian rocks. Shooting Creek region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite...Dunite at the Bad Creek mine. Dunite of the Asbestos mine. Dunite of the Sapphire mine. Vicinity of Glenville |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | -....... 20 21 22 22 22 22 23 24 24 25 25 25 Emery .......................................... ^..................... 85 35 Corundum (emery) in amphibolite at Chester, Mass...........' . In anorthosite...deposits..........-.---...----..-.------.----..61 Emery in undetermined association. ...._.........--,--.......................... Origin of emery in amphibolite at Chester, Mass.................. * 81 86 92..... ........ ....-.-.----..--..-.-.--...... Massachusetts............................................ |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | 21 Corundum (emery) in amphibolite at Chester, Mass......._.--... . Origin of the emery...................... Macon County .........._. ...........,..-...........-......,.._, Sheffield mine .......... .....Clay County.. ................................................. Buck Creek or Cullakeenee mine.........tracts...................... ......... Jackson County ................ ..................................... Laurel Creek mine ........................................ Track rock mine ......-......'..... |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................... 368 A TALC QUARRY NEAR CHESTER, VERMONT. By Peter Zodac 369 MORSE HAS...years ago, the enormous accumulation of ice and snow at che Poles resulted in the lowering of the level...with rock-milk, an unusual form of calcite which is snow white and soft as putty. This has a marked deadening...New York, County of \\'estchester. Refor e me-'- a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid... k b ROCKS AND .MIN ERA LS 369 A TALC QUARRY NEAR CHESTER, VERMONT By PETER ZODAC Editor ROCKS |  | | Journal (issue) | | sample. The same stone is quarried in St. Lawrence County, and in Canada. Graywacke, of all sizes up to a...structure, and had the soapy feel of talc, and we labeled it talc after amphibole. Amphibole, often in...the surface, ut were usual ly very much altered. Talc, not rare, but usually as slat masses in schistose...continued.) THE EMERY MINES AT CHESTER, MASS. BY A. W. GRABAN, SINCE the discovery of emer in Chester, Massachusetts...Massachusetts, has ranked among the foremost emery pro ucing regions of the globe. - Previous to its discovery |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and...abandoned diamond mine near Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. Murfreesboro has the only diamond mine in the United...United States and though the mine is no longer in operation it has been "opened up" as a tourist attraction...close by, quartz crystals, of odd, ago at the same mine in Arkansas. Howard A. Millar, Manager, Crater of...Thanking you." CALIFORNIA—Patrick Baird, 2805 Chester Ln., Bakersfield, Calif., has sent us a nice loose |  | | Book | | searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...iron. The development of the many iron mines as well as other mines and quarries in the state spurred further...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...ciifce—Westchester County.................. Tne McLear pegmatite—5t. Lawrence County..................................... MINES OF THE STATE AND THEIR MINERALS................. Iron Mines.................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the interesting sky-blue kyanite laths frozen in snow-white Brazilian quartz. Two others that stand out...others, quartz, calcite, vesuvianite, scapolite, talc, wollastonite, and a variety of mem bers of the...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...Lowell, Orleans County). Epidote crystals to 5 cm have been found in the emery mines of Chester and from near |  | | Journal (issue) | | ELECTRIC LIGHT ON OBSCURE POINTS , MINERALS or MASSACHUSETTS , ORIGIN OF AMBER , SINGING SANDS , NAMES OF...from the sea to inaccessible peaks, from which the snow and ice never melt, and indeed there are but few...crystals. At Eskifjord is the noted Iceland spar mine. It is owned by the Danish government and leased...chance of getting any more Iceland spar from the mine. He had a large stock on hand, and his prices were...Eskifjord. Stilbite is found near the Iceland spar mine, and chabazjto in the 18 THE MINERAL COLLECTOR |  | | Book (volume) | | pink Lenni, Delaware county VIII crystals green crystals. Rocksville, Bucks county light green crystals...crystals. No. 1 shaft, St. Peter's, Chester county radiating, columnar crystals of light green to pink color...of MnO in the green variety. P & R mine, Siesholtzville, Berks county. (W. Headden) B light ; ; ; 1...form a number of secondary minerals, serpentine, talc, etc; specimens which exhibit this alteration are...semi-fibrous; Pusey's quarry, Kenneth Square, Chester county. 10: Altered, very hydrous; Oakford, Bucks; |  | | Report (issue) | | in quality; she has vast resources of slate and talc; she possesses one of the largest deposits of fine...probably a good deal of copper ore left in the mines at the three localities cited, but it is doubtful...copper in the world, it is doubtful if the Vermont mines will ever be reopened. The recent great increase...According to the figures of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, in 1929 Vermont produced 62 percent of the total...southerly part of the city of Barre, Washington County, State of Vermont, and extending westerly about | | | Book | | searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...iron. The development of the many iron mines as well as other mines and quarries in the state spurred further...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...pegmatite-Westchester County .......... . The Mclear pegmatite-St. Lawrence County .......... . Minerals.................... . MINES OF THE STATE AND THEIR MINERALS ......... . Iron Mines ................... |  | | Report (issue) | | 4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...colorless crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating...42 9.86 4.77 13.60 100.69 2.277 LOCALITY: Berks County: Birdsboro. MESOLITE m Na Al Si3Oio.2H O 2 2 |
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