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Almandine from
White Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:51103
Long-form Identifier:1:3:51103:8
GUID (UUID V4):2d62c53f-f8f5-4631-9628-15e54225dd6d
Nearest other occurrences of Almandine
0.6km (0.4 miles) Kirk No. 1 Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Kirk No. 2 Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Nichols Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
3.6km (2.3 miles) Surry Mountain Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Beauregard Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) French Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Blister Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Burroughs beryl prospect, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.9km (3.1 miles) Island Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Big Mine, 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)
EMSTONES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A variety of New Hampshire's beautiful gemstones are represented and private... JOHN J . BRADSHAW P. O. Box 7467 Nashua, New Hampshire 03060 Photographs by Tino Hammid except a s...R E L A T I V E L Y S M A L L I N A R E A , New Hampshire has provided a considerable variety of fine...well as new sources to provide the mineralogical world with both specimen and gem material. New Hampshire...Museum of Natural His­ tory in New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, and the
Book (edition)
which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance...Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, or Tom Robert's Rock the caption. All photographs...in color. Turquoise from Los Cerillos mines, New Mexico. Note turquoise vein cutting diagonally... by white band of agate. Moss agate, showing a tree-like pattern. agate is usually white and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
98195, USA; defnep@uw.edu Department of Chemistry, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA 16652, USA; richard... Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA; wisem@si.edu Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric...North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage...Heritage, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA Correspondence: rsharmon@ncsu.edu; Tel.: +1-919-588-0613...systems to handheld analyzers for field use. This new capability offers the possibility for using LIBS
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington...ability to disperse or split is the product of the white light into its constit- uent colors, so that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Almandine Downloaded by [University of Tennessee, Knoxville] at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City...City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group represent some of the most...sources of fine specimens. Common species, such as almandine, are produced today for abrasive purposes and...nominated. However, with this issue’s emphasis on New York minerals and the presence of America’s largest...hard-rock garnet mines within its borders, a famous New York garnet specimen has been chosen for this issue’s
Journal (issue)
Specimens of Oxyplumboromeite from China And a Striking New Pseudomorph Discovery Tony Nikischer Excalibur Mineral...rapidly coming out of China, it is inevitable that new occurrences of aesthetic minerals, as well as rare...page 2) A Conglomerate Silver Cache From Keweenaw County, Michigan Tom Rosemeyer datolite@charter.net Even...One exception is at the Central mine in Keweenaw County where it widens to 24-36 inches and was mineralized...oxyplumboromeiteat UCLA. Only $30 - postpaid in the USA A vailab/e exclusively from: Excalibur Mineral Corporation
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable...the developer's bulldozer obliterates other sites, new ones are discovered. Books and thetic and scientific
Journal (issue)
The Newsletter of the Geological Society of New Hampshire, Summer Edition – June 2014 – Issue No. 85 Newsletter...involved with the society and we love having input from new board members! Nominations will be accepted through...future newsletter! ALMANDINE - Ca, Mn rich Fe2+3Al2(SiO4)3 Locality: Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, NH Specimen...Specimen Size: 0.5 mm Almandine garnet Field Collected: Tom Mortimer -2013 http://mindatnh.org/Richmo...NO BIG SHAKES A minor earthquake was reported in New Hampshire's North Country early Friday June 20, 2014
Journal (issue)
The Newsletter of the Geological Society of New Hampshire, Spring-Summer (June) 2011 Issue No. 73 2010-2011...dallen@HaleyAldrich.com Secretary – Muriel Robinette New England EnviroStrategies, Inc. murielrobinette@neenvirostrategies...Doug Allen Haley & Aldrich, Inc. Manchester, New Hampshire dallen@HaleyAldrich.com Education and Outreach...Loureiro Engineering Associates Merrimack, New Hampshire beeames@loureiro.com Photo Above: Dr. John...people talk about the possibility of earthquakes in New England you will hear the comment “They say we’re
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mine, which was used for a prison; the Allyndale quarry in North Canaan, from w h i c h came the marble..."brownstone" fronts in New York City and elsewhere; and the Hoadley Neck quarry in Guilford, which furnished...through­ out the United States. I n modern times, one quarry has been used by the Navy as an underwater sound...columbite, traditionally reported to have been found at New London, where it has not been found since. It is...quartz, including var. smoky. D a n b u r y , White Factory, White Street—general area (lost): danburite (
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the regional sillimanite zone,west-centralNew Hampshire, U.S.A., with implications for the developmentof...Sciences,RensselaerPolytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, U.S.A. Mlrrrrrw J. KonN Department...Sciences,RensselaerPolytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, U.S.A. Ansrugr Sillimanite from the...regional sillimanite zone in west-centralNew Hampshire is fibrolitic and overprints F, folds (nappe stage)...that at the regional pressuresof west-centralNew Hampshire (2-4 kbar), staurolite paragenesesare only possible
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...California, 162 Allophane, Colorado, 307 Almandine, Connecticut, 261 Almandine-spessartine, California, 160 Alunite...Andradite, Michigan, 345 Anglesite, Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 415 Ankerite, Colorado, 308 Anthony Robert...Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 416 Barbosa, C., see In Memoriam Barite, Colorado, 308; New Mexico, 385;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted for its many...DONALD A. DALLAIRE 829 Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 dadallaire@hotmail.com JAMES W. NIZAMOFF...research. The relocation of our laboratory in 2014 from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Bethel, Maine, greatly facilitated...slope of Uncle Tom Mountain in Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. At times, the Emmons pegmatite has been...been referred to as the Uncle Tom Mountain quarry. The first recorded discovery of the Emmons pegmatite
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...as with diagrams, both in color and black and white. The second section describes tests for recognized...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...MINERALS AND GEMS Russell P. MacFall THOMAS Y. New CROWELL COMPANY York ! Established 1834 Copyright
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...minerals found in Ver­ mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney; photo by Roger Bacon. The granite industry...small particles is widely distributed over northern New England in glacial gravels, and many swiftly moving...decorator tiles. The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi­ cant locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chamberlain, Syracuse University; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. Robert King, Tewksbury, Great...FERBERITE-HÜBNERITE FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and... of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148. rd The 33 ineralogical...granite quarry is located approximately 0.4 kilometer west of the Ladick East (or Charneski) quarry in the...excavation, exploration, and opportunity may allow. THE NEW ORLEANS METEORITE. A. U. Falster, W. B. Simmons,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cumberland Countv. Mahe A New Pegmatite M ineral Locality T he Estes quarry in southwestern Maine exposes...highly mineralized pegmatites in Maine and New Hampshire. The quarry has yielded fine specimens of eosphorite...Hlstory The Estes quarry is located on Route 5 in West Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine (fig. 1). It...Contractors of West Baldwin. This is a working quarry with high rock walls and unstable boulder piles...for permission. Prior to the opening of the Estes quarry, a gravel pit was being worked at the base of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Andros­ coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...synonomy has arisen due to changes of leasee or owner. Quarry locations are described and plotted on top­ ographic...of John W . Fisher between 1852 and 1860. This quarry was worked for a single season during the 1860s...Virginia, and then sold to Golding Brothers of Trenton, New Jersey. How­ ever, credit for establishing the feldspar...of Bath who was superintendent for the Trenton (New Jersey) Flint and Spar Company. In 1869 that firm
Book
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 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SVNPJHSQUARRY, GARLAND COUNTY, ARKANSAS. S. L. Hanson1, A. U. Falster2... of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148. 9VJOLZ[LY 4PULYHSVNPJHS...pale green to dark green sequence, although Dunton quarry green tourmaline generally fluoresces in contrast...most green tourmalines worldwide. At the Dunton quarry, green tourmaline without adjacent red zones fluoresces...treating rubellite increased the brightness of Dunton quarry tourmaline. Hawkins, Mackinnon, and Schneeberger
Report (edition)
5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...llecting equipment and techniques for those who are new to the ·hobby. Several previous guidebooks have been...Supplemental labels were added where necessary to show quarry sites, road names, and other useful landmarks.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen, Jeff Scovil...(Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. Paul Geffner specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian...Chapman Mineral Collection, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, I. T. Graham, R. E. Pogson...Allanite-Ce, New York, 497 Almandine, Australia, 20; Connecticut, 143; New York, 495 Amazonite, New York, 460
Book
W. H. Smith Publishers Inc. 112 Madison Avenue New York City 10016 This edition first published in... H. Smith Publishers, Inc., 112 Madison Avenue, New York 10016 © 1990 Dragon’s World Ltd © 1990 Text...Smith Publishers, Inc., 112 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016. (212) 532-6600. Editor: Michael...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...alteration of the existing minerals and formation of new species. The commoner metamorphic rocks include slate
Catalog/List
these ones should be available.---- Give me a ring ! New Minerals in this list; Aenigmatite,Atacamite from...Tacharanite and Tobermorite from Ireland . Five new rocks. This catalogue cancels No 79 Also available...20_____ 1x2 ins £10 1x1 £4 1cm £4 5mm £2 Rich white crusts on matrix. ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave...Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___ Rich orange-red masses with...Ce Y Fe SiO__________ grey botryoidal on matrix New East Wheal Russell, £4 ALLOPHANE 501 A x A ins rock
 
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