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Muscovite from
Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA


Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:437812
Long-form Identifier:1:3:437812:9
GUID (UUID V4):9d6571c0-7c7f-493c-a0da-fc14a4e9cf5a
Localities for Muscovite in this Region
Chickering Mine, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Howe Ledge beryl prospect, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
3.7km (2.3 miles) Chickering Mine, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) George Porter Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
10.2km (6.4 miles) Davidson Farm pegmatite, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
10.6km (6.6 miles) Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Surry Mountain Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Beauregard Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
12.0km (7.5 miles) Island Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Burroughs beryl prospect, Alstead, Cheshire 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)
2015 Walpole, Cheshire County New Hampshire 410 ROCKS & MINERALS 79 Meadow Lane Campton, New Hampshire...Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054 janules@att.net THOMAS MORTIMER 3 Roberts Road Amherst, New Hampshire 03031...Chickering mine area: Pierre Hoge Reservation of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...the Program Assistant Camping Services of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...Chickering mine in Walpole, New Hampshire. We all share a common interest in New Hampshire mineral species
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Francis, Harvard University; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. George Robinson, Michigan... Adrian College; and Dr. Steven C. Chamberlain, New York State Museum. Twenty-one abstracts were submitted...RoAd oCCURRENCE, wEST pIERREpoNT, ST. LAwRENCE CoUNTy, NEw yoRk. S. C. Chamberlain1, M. Walter2, and R....P. Richards3. 1Center for Mineralogy, 3140 CEC, New york State Museum, Albany, Ny 12230; 2po Box 137...Selleck Road occurrence east of West Pierrepont, New York, revealed a suite of minerals unusual for the
Report (issue)
Metaigneous rocks informally referred to as the New Hampshire sequence (Billings, 1937, 1956; White and Jahns...intruded by granitic dikes of the Devonian New Hampshire Plutonic Suite and lamprophyric to intermediate...from the western quadrangle boundary to the New Hampshire sequence is a non-faulted stratigraphic succession...separating the Connecticut Valley sequence from New Hampshire sequence, along a contact between what has...Vermont sequence, and Littleton Formation of the New Hampshire sequence. This boundary has subsequently been
Report (issue)
Beryl Resources of New Hampshire GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 353 Prepared on behalf of the...with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission Beryl Resources of New Hampshire By JAMES...Commission^ and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission UNITED...Page, James Jeffers, 192ftBeryl resources of New Hampshire, by James J. Page and David M. Larrabee. Washington...Commission, and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission. Bibliography:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
5251 Broad Branch Road, NW Washington, DC 20015, USA E-mail: drumble@carnegiescience.edu E LEMENTS ,...has been found in the Archean Stillwater (Montana, USA) and Proterozoic Bushveld (Republic of South Africa)...“Maltese cross” polarized-light extinction; Walpole, New Hampshire, USA. (B) Tangential-graphite spherulite (colored)...in quartz (dark-colored); Mt. Kearsarge, New Hampshire, USA. (C) Clump of radiating graphite grains (light-colored)...(featureless background), from a plutonic granitoid; New Hampshire, USA. (D) Radiating graphite (light-colored) with
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DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 8, Silica and Silicates (part three)...length at the quarries near Bedford and Overlook, New York; near Golden, Colorado and elsewhere. A fine...found at Fort Washington Avenue and 171st Street in New York City and is now in the American Museum of Natural...crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3
Report (volume)
Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic...Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62. Map showing locations...and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire ....................................... 63o...of the Keene district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the...TABLES Page Table 5. Power factors of New Hampshire muscovite....., 6. Size distribution and price ranges
Field Trip Notes
//' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings
Report (volume)
Dedham, Westwood, Dover, Canton, Sharon, and Walpole. The Blue Star Memorial Highway (U.S. Route 1)...briefly in the summers of 1957, 1958, and 1960 for new exposures. Work for this report was done in cooperation...quadrangle is in the Seaboard Lowland section of the New England physiographic province and is characterized...irregular limonite-stained cracks. Small flakes of muscovite are scattered through the rock. Bedding is not...the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad a few hundred feet northeast of the Norwood-Walpole town
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
B. P. WALPOLE Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, Australia K. G. SMITH Geochronology...-5-663.pdf by Wesleyan University user 664 WALPOLE AND SMITH—GEOCHRONOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN GRANITES...shifts in the source and loci of sedimentation (Walpole, 1959, Ph.D. thesis, Australian National Univ.)...-5-663.pdf by Wesleyan University user 666 WALPOLE AND SMITH—GEOCHRONOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN GRANITES...sequences, shedding back onto the old nuclei. Walpole (1959, Ph.D. thesis, Australian National Univ.)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED £ _ . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: xl—crystal...mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California. While it might sound like exaggeration...separate cover a number of minerals collected along the new Thru-way between Byram and old Greenwich, Conn. I...hand side of U.S. 40, in New Castle Co., Del., 2 miles west of the city of New Castle, black pebbles of
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localities. My fond hope is that someone of the new generation will take up the challenge of revising...tantalizing find, one of several mineral discoveries in New England since the 1970s, including gold in a state...104 ••• 11ne G••• shou1d be ------------.1958. Cheshire 105 ••• 1ine 18 ••• p.382 should be p.385 114...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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VANDALL T. K I N G P.O. Box 90888 Rochester, New York 14609 NEW YORK £ J A N E T W. C A R E S 18 Singletary...adapted from U.S. Geological Survey map of New Hampshire and Vermont (1972). 324 ROCKS & MINERALS he...small particles is widely distributed over northern New England in glacial gravels, and many swiftly moving...The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi­ cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the
Journal (volume)
13! This is our biggest spring meeting yet with 6 New England colleges represented. Twenty—three student...the students from various institutions throughout New England to present their latest research findings...of Earth Sciences, James hail, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. 03824 Three metamorphic events...Lyngen Gabbro. The data from this study supports a new theory (Fumes and others, 1979; Minsaas and Sturt...chlorite - muscovite - actionolite albite - epidote - schist. 3) A silvery white quartz muscovite - albite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry of graphite vein deposits from New Hampshire, U.S.A. DOUGLAS RUMBLE, III* and THOMAS C. HOERING...hydrothermal origin occur throughout central New Hampshire. Veins truncate sillimanite-grade, metasedimentary...quartz. tourmaline, ilmenite. rutile, sillimanite, muscovite or chlorite. Vein mineralogy is generally compatible...carbonates. INTRODUCTION THE GRAPHITE DEPOSITS of New Hampshire are veins filled with graphite, co-precipitated...rare (CAMERON and WEIS, 1960). Recent work in New Hampshire, however, has revealed a surprising abundance
Book (volume)
MODIFIED DRIFT By WARREN ae OF GLACIAL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. UPHAM, DRIFT. APPENDIX II. TO PARTS ...INTRODUCTION, . . . . .. THE MINERALOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, LITHOLOGY, INDEX TO PART IV, APPENDIX, Part...Rockingham, Vt., 3 : 18, Section in Bridgewater and New Hampton, 19, Section in Concord, Fig. 20, Section...of IN THE 14-16 ATLAS. New Hampshire—/ac-szmle, reduced. New Hampshire—/ac-simzle, half size. Two...the topography, contour lines, and geology of New Hampshire, with portions of that of the adjoining territory
Report (issue)
EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A...REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of New Hampshire Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann...directed to develop model standards and techniques for new building construction that would provide adequate...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented
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showing position of syenite hills in Canada and New England............................................is to be ascribed. Geologically Vermont is not a new area, if we go back to the times when the foundation...above the primeval ocean appeared earlier in eastern New York than in the area that is now Vermont. Certainly...originated north of the St. Lawrence. One came down over New England and south, one through the middle west, one...of the Green Mountains rock as old as any in the New York mountains, but if so it has long been covered
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Radiant Violet Products, Box 5, C a m b r i a L. New I., OVER 200 York Ultra Heights, 1 1411. ...paid. S e n d 5 0 ? LOG of crystal 125 Six C New York. Calcite and calcite, 1x1 for (refundable)... autunite, diopside and and specimens. 263 New 06051 calcite a n d fluorite, pite, House Street...a d y for y o u r t u m b l e r . postpaid. El NEW Paso, Guaranteed. Texas. OFFER! 1 lb. $ 9 ....Quebec uvarovite hopeite 75?; Robert Eaton, New York — Of Brazilian pyr- California - 50?, Ask
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Gait, Royal Ontario Museum; Dr. William Kelly, New York State Geological Survey; Dr. Robert King, John...'Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, L A 70148; ^ e a r e , N H 03281; and 829...tals; on colorless to white albite; and rarely on muscovite. Pockets also contain buff to greenish clay that...Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, L A 70148. Arkansas is one of the few North...S S H A L E NEAR S Y R A C U S E , ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW Y O R K . W. P. Dossert and S. C. Chamberlain
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the pelitic Devonian Littleton formation of New Hampshire have been analyzed spectrographically for trace...requirement, but the Appalachian region of New Hampshire seems ideal. The complex geology of this area...from the western and southwestern regions of New Hampshire. Unfortunately, the low-grade rocks are confined...to a relatively small area in northwestern New Hampshire so these samples are of necessity closely spaced...monzonite) L61 Garnet schist 1 mi. S. Hinsdale L62 Muscovite schist 1 mi. S. Hinsdale L63 Phyllonite E. bank
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org/cgi/alerts to receive free e-mail alerts when new articles cite this article Subscribe click www...of H20 and COj. The Littleton formation of New Hampshire is a series of pelitic rocks, but is not completely...Bequest of the nian Littleton formation of New Hampshire. Geological Society of America defrayed the...regional lation and computation of results. R. Walpole metamorphism. and C. Baxter carried out much of...quartz inclusions. The matrix is a quartz-biotite-muscovite aggregate, with minor iron oxides, chlorite, apatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by the Cullen Granite dated at 1765_+90 m.y. (Walpole etal., 1968; Nicholson, 1980). The principal host...are slightly transgressive and discontinuous (Walpole et al. 1968; Nicholson 1980). Tourmalinite +...biotite, graphite, sulphides, stilpnomelane, muscovite and rutile. The tourmaline content is extremely...associated with Sn-W deposits 15 km SW of Golden Dyke (Walpole etal. 1968). However, at Golden Dyke, there is...of black smokers derived from seawater cooling of new basaltic crust at the East Pacific Rise is the same
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralizationto the reef is explainedby Condonand Walpole (1) as due to precipitationin the zone of mixing...been intenselyshearedgiving scapolite-biotite-muscovite schists. F•G. 1. Roan Extension--Sulfide mineral...paper on above area, by M. A. Condonand B. P. Walpole (1). Nomenclature of this early interpretation...paper. The writer thanks M. A. Condon and B. P. Walpole for considerable inspiration, andapologizes for...Inst. Min. Met., London, 72(2), p. 69-124. 12. Walpole, B. P., 1963, Personalcommunication.
 
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