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Cordierite from
Warren, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Cordierite
Formula:(Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cordierite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Warren, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:457355
Long-form Identifier:1:3:457355:5
GUID (UUID V4):5a178eb0-af99-4713-9b51-f8f1e4d65746
Nearest other occurrences of Cordierite
25.0km (15.5 miles) Cordierite locality (Bigelow Pond), Union, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
58.8km (36.5 miles) Richmond Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
60.6km (37.7 miles) Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
66.1km (41.1 miles) Cumberland Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
66.9km (41.6 miles) Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
72.8km (45.2 miles) Case Quarries, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
76.4km (47.5 miles) Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
76.5km (47.5 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
76.5km (47.6 miles) Great Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
77.1km (47.9 miles) Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA
References
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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
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
Report (volume)
Northeast-Central Connecticut and Adjacent Massachusetts By JOHN D. PEPER, M. H. PEASE, JR., and VICTOR...in northeastcentral Connecticut and adjacent Massachusetts. (Geological Survey bulletin 1389) Prepared...Geological and Natural History Survey and the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Works. Bibliography: p. Supt...Stratigraphic-Paleozoic. 2. Geology-Connecticut. 3. Geology-Massachusetts. I. Pease, Maurice Henry, 1922joint author....Geological and Natural History Survey. IV. Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Works. V. Title. VI. Series:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...in Los Angeles can walk across the lawn to the County Museum for another thrill—the display of some of...Leadville (Lake Co.). Colo., almost at the end of Lake County, I found a specimen of small radiating chrysocolla...near Tampa. Fla."—on label. GEORGlA-'Pale blue cordierite, the first to be recognized in Ga., has been
Report (issue)
Geology of Massachusetts E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedharn Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Avalonian... Stratigraphy of the Nashoba Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Enigmatic Terrane G. Stratigraphy of the...Belt, Central Massachusetts H. Structural and Metamorphic History of Eastern Massachusetts I. Intrusive...Intrusive Rocks of Eastern Massachusetts J. Radiometric Ages of Rocks in Massachusetts L.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1366-E-J The Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor E. Stratigraphy
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Rhodochrosite on sulfides, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado, Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...November/December: Copper, Cliff mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum specimen...Manganese-BariumMineral Locality in Northern Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 320-25 Behierite, Wisconsin, 170 Beudantite...J., Minerals of the Granite Gap Mines, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, 298-305 Biotite, Wisconsin, 173 Bitumen...York Building Supply Company Quarry, York, York County, Pennsylvania, J. J. Colflesh, 34849; Spectacular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sillimanite-cordierite schist from Cortlandt, New York, in the coilection of the Massachusetts Institute...indices, which were very close to those lound by Dr. Warren for the St. Urbain, Quebec mineral,r by its biaxial...states, in his description of the sillimanite-cordierite schist that "Corundum, in any of the three varieties...ever produced other than as a metamorphic product. Warren at first believed his sapphirine from St. Urbain...Rocky HilI, N. J., and also a letter lrom Mr. O. l Warren, C. H., The ilmenite rocks fear St. Urbain, Quebec;
Report (issue)
folder Plate 2.West looking radar mosaic of Massachusetts.....in folder Plate 3.South looking radar mosaic...of the side looking airborn radar imagery of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island indicates that...sensing device, was used to make imagery of Massachusetts in 1968 and Connecticut and Rhode Island in...made; an east and a west looking mosaic for Massachusetts and a north and a south looking mosaic for Connecticut...met amor phism ) in fault basins in eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Isl&nd. i Resistant Precambrian gneisses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Ore Hill Zn-Pb-CuMassive SulfideDeposit,Warren, New Hampshire THERESA K. SECORD* AND PHILIP E...e., a basal,pillowed,epidotizedamphibolite,a cordierite-kyanite footwallschist,a muscovite schisthostrock...Eight sam- Ky-sil isograd ,/ biotite, and cordierite. Ledge Ridge isograd metavolcanicrock, and...by Jackson(1841, 1844). Later referencesto the I Warren Zinc mine by Hitchcock (1869, 1878) and I A. B...timing of the Paleozoicdeformationsand ern Massachusetts to west-centralMaine (Fig. 2). metamorphiceventsis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
P±T path for anatectic pelites, south-central Massachusetts Received: 1 September 1998 / Accepted: 12 February...Springer-Verlag 2001 Abstract Pelitic gneisses, cordierite ‹ garnet-bearing pegmatites and leucocratic garnetiferous...(360 Ma) granulite-facies of south-central Massachusetts were investigated to further understand the...pelitic gneisses produced cordierite ‹ garnet-bearing pegmatites and garnet ‹ cordierite leucosomes at conditions...Melt (KFMASH). Magnesian gneisses melted to form cordierite ‹ garnet-bearing pegmatites and ironricher gneisses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20059, USA Branch, Code 691, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA 3Faculty...rock 399 © Meteoritical Society, 2003. Printed in USA. 400 G. Kletetschka, T. Kohout, and P. J. Wasilewski...94 4 Alcalic granite, Quincy, Massachusetts 7.4 5 Aplite, Boulder County, Colorado 6.96 6 Quartz monzonite...Rock, Colorado 7.3 12 Rhyolite porphyry, Chaffee County, Colorado 4.24 13 Hornblende syenite, Cuttingsville...Colorado 7.09 15 Trachyte porphyry (bostonite), Essex County, New York 8.52 16 Trachyte porphyry, Cripple Creek
Book (volume)
greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Pennsylvania Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts Gail and Victor Blomquist library, Dresden,...Museum Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Richard P. Hauck library, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Book (edition)
Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite from...from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near...Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from the Grandview mine, Coconino County. A few of the additional...uranium deposits on the Colorado Plateau. Coconino County: near Tuba City (Anthony et aI., 2000). ACANTHITE...sulfide found with other copper sulfides. Greenlee County: found in the supergene alteration zone at Morenci
Report (volume)
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...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Palm Walk, PSA 213, Tempe, Arizona 85287–1704, USA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington...One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA * Corresponding author. E-mail: axel.wittmann@asu...Mg- and Alrich pyroxene, plagioclase, and rare cordierite. Using thermodynamic calculations of these mineral...and geophysical and petrologic modeling (e.g., Warren 1985, 2005; Beard et al. 1998; Khan et al. 2000...observations were supplemented with analyses of a spinel-cordierite intergrowth in a 124 mm2 petrographic thin section
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Retrograde Equilibria in Garnet-Cordierite Gneisses in South-Central Massachusetts PAUL C. HESS Department of...electron microprobe analyses of garnet, biotite and cordierite in sillimanite-K feldspar gneisses of the Brimfield...Brimfield Formation in south-central Massachusetts indicate that the compositions of these minerals are...biotites are those that do not contact either cordierite or garnet. The most iron-poor biotites occur...garnet. Biotites in direct contact with either cordierite or garnet have intermediate FeO/MgO ratios. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0022-3530/89 $3.00 Petrology of Biotite-Cordierite-Garnet Gneiss of the McCullough Range, Nevada II...II. P-T-aHlO Path and Growth of Cordierite During Late Stages of Low-P Granulite-Grade Metamorphism Department...Gibbs Method (Spear, 1986) are used to model the cordierite-producing reaction in pelitic gneiss from the...with textural relations. Results indicate that cordierite grew by the continuous net-transfer reaction:...EDWARD D. YOUNG demonstrate quantitatively that cordierite in the pelitic gneiss grew by a reaction involving
Report (issue)
" spinel, corundum, sillimanite, andalusite, cordierite, tourmaline, kornerupine, sapphirine, serendibite...Gananoque, Ontario, Canada. At Johnsburg, Warren Co., New York, USA. On Mt. Amiata and Mt. Cimino, Tuscany...Material: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 86382. References: (1) Dana, E.S. and W
Journal (issue)
Carolina). Chalcedony after interstices from Chester County, Pa., has been described by Vaux, G., 1935] ...Albite after Spodumene: II, C 2' Chesterfield, Massachusetts, 206195 (aglaite)6 "Algerite." See muscovite... "Aspasiolite." See muscovite (pinite) after cordierite "Atheriastite." See chlorite after wernerite... "Cataspilite." See muscovite (pinite) after cordierite Celadonite after Augite: II, C 2 Vicenza, Italy...Silesia, 8678 Cervantite after Antimony: I, C 2 Kern County, California, 17240, 18383 (stibioconite ?) Cervantite
Report (issue)
as a detrital mineral. Association: Biotite, cordierite, chlorite, staurolite, andalusite, kyanite, sillimanite...deposit, near Zlatoust, Ural Mountains, Russia. In the USA, from Roxbury, Litch¯eld Co., and Southbury, New...Maine; from West¯eld and Russell, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; and at Hanover, Grafton Co., New Hampshire...commercial deposit at the Barton mine, North Creek, Warren Co., New York; at Michigamme, Marquette Co., Michigan;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structure types: "ring" structures (beryl and cordierite), isolated and paired tetrahedra (idocrase),...shouldneither melt nor degradein the electron beam. Cordierite Frc. 2. The structure of beryl, projected on...(after Bragg and West, 1926). The structure of cordierite, first describedby Gossner and Mussgnug (1928)...SiaOrsring in beryl becomes an AlzSirOre ring in cordierite, the Al being ordered at opposite sides of the...RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF SILIC,ATES cordierite the cross-linking is by Mg in octahedral sites
Report (issue)
so-called Pennsylvanian basins of southeastern Massachusetts. Three papers deal with the geology of alkali...alkali plutonic-volcanic areas in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. High-grade and low-grade (prehnite-pumpellyite)...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the papers...and the geology of the Ayer Granodiorite of Massachusetts. JOHN R,. GRIFELN STUDIES IN NEW ENGLAND...Brownlow V1 Vil iX Part I. Geology of eastern Massachusetts INaTOROVGNNE TON “5. B bo 8 OR Bo ee ek 5 ee
Report (volume)
Associated with Stratabound Sulfide Deposits, Custer County, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1513 ~apphirine...Associated with Stratabound Sulfide Deposits, Custer County, Colorado By WILLIAM H. RAYMOND, PETER A. LEIGGI...associated with stratabound sulfide deposits, Custer County, Colorado. (Geological Survey Bulletin 1 513) Bibliography:...er County. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic-Precambrian. 3. Sulphides. 4. Geology-Colorado-Custer County. I...Coexisting with sapphirine in various assemblages are cordierite, orthorhombic and monoclinic amphiboles, phlogopitic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phosphatic garnet in metapelites from western Massachusetts Emily M. Peterman1,*, David R. Snoeyenbos2,... University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 611 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, U.S.A. 3...metapelitic schists from the Goshen Dome of western Massachusetts contain: a population of prograde monocrystalline...: ZIRCON WITHIN PHOSPHATIC GARNET, WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS et al. 2011), dissolution-reprecipitation reactions...recognized in the Paleozoic assembly of western Massachusetts: (1) the west-directed Taconian accretion of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Algodonite,amixture.... . .."^Ei Allan. John A. See Warren. Allirn, and Conner, A l l e n ,J . J . F l i n...Aurichalcite from Big Cottonwood Canvon. Salt La,ke County,Utlh (Ledoux),.... 130 Avenhrrine labradorite from...Calomel. Pla,gioclasesl&e!.]. . . . . Chacko, I. C. Cordierite... . . Chalcedony mista&en for an iron sutfate...r a l s . . . . . . , . . 9 9 Conner, M, F. See Warren, Allan and Conner. Constitution and fundamental...Margarosanite from Longbanshyttan(Flink) ...... 129 Massachusetts; anhydrite, 13; zeolites,13; other minerals
 
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