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Specularite from
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Hematite var: Specularite
Formula:Fe2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Specularite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:543518
Long-form Identifier:1:3:543518:0
GUID (UUID V4):bbd30c46-a22c-4cbf-b62a-398a3a1f69fc
Nearest other occurrences of Specularite
10.5km (6.5 miles) Warren Street Quarry (Beatty's Ledge), Allston-Brighton, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
14.6km (9.1 miles) Tophet Hill mine, Lynnfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
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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
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Report (issue)
7—Contours of the top of the Sylvania Sandstone, Malden township 30 IV SILICA IN ONTARIO BY D. F. Hewitti...the present quarry face. Some iron staining, specularite, and soapstone were noted in the rock, but no...grey or pink and contains scattered patches of specularite. Ripple marks and crossbedding can be seen on...to 5 mm. in diameter. Secon dary sericite and specularite are to be found in many places throughout the...55 percent. In a report on the geology of Leeds county, M. B. Baker (1923, p. 5) describes the Grenville
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
United States: 311 Washington Street, Brighton, Massachusetts www.fitzhenry.ca 02135 godwit@fitzhenry.ca...nugget recorded is from Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Romania; Roraima...Lake, Labrador, Newfoundland; Cap d’Or, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Other Localities: Keweenaw Peninsula...Michigan, USA; Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Ajo, Pima County, Arizona, USA; Ray, Pinal County, Arizona...Arizona, USA; Santa Rita, New Mexico, USA; Rudabanya, Hungary; Yekaterinburg Oblast’, Russia; Broken Hill
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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...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE,
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commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable...detailed reports on special areas, according to county. The bibliography of the United States Geological
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States: 3 11 \Vashjngton Street, Brighton, Massachusetts 02J 35 \vww. fitzhen ry. ea godwit@frtzherny...nugget recorded is fro1n Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Ron1ania; Rorai... Labrador, Newfoundland; Cap d'Or, Curnberland County, Nova Scotia. Other Localities: Keweenaw Peninsula...Michigan, USA; Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Ajo, Pu.11a County, Arizona, USA; Ray, Pinal County, Arizona...Arizona, USA; Santa Rita, New Mexico, USA; Rudabanya, Hungary; Yekaterinburg Oblast', Russia; Broken Hill
Report (issue)
16 and 17, Con. XI, Faraday Township, Hastings County, Ontario. ROM:M31141 This specimen was collected...localities under each species are broken down by county (or district), township, con cession, and lot,...would begin like this: ZIRCON ZrSiO 4 HASTINGS COUNTY FARADAY TOWNSHIP Concession XI, Lot 16, 17 Faraday...cases, what he thought was the nearest place. Some county and township names are misleading, as the actual...prospect, or mine was in an adjoining township or even county. In cases where the donor's name appeared on the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
types may be subdivided into layered (Stillwater, USA, Kemi , Finland, Fiskenaesset, Greenland, and funnel-shaped...deposits such as Guseva-Gora, Russia, Duke Island, and USA, bridge the gap between the chromium deposit originating...Ostermann and Deutsch, 1997). The Stillwater Complex, USA, is akin to this group of mineralization — see PGE...occur at Jinchuan, China, in the Duluth Complex, USA, Muskox, Nunavut and Crystal Lake, Canada (Barnes... Jachymov, Czech Republic, Black Hawk District, USA, Batopilas District, Mexico (Fig. 04.01). These vein-type
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
types may be subdivided into layered (Stillwater, USA, Kemi , Finland, Fiskenaesset, Greenland, and funnel-shaped...deposits such as Guseva-Gora, Russia, Duke Island, and USA, bridge the gap between the chromium deposit originating...Ostermann and Deutsch, 1997). The Stillwater Complex, USA, is akin to this group of mineralization — see PGE...occur at Jinchuan, China, in the Duluth Complex, USA, Muskox, Nunavut and Crystal Lake, Canada (Barnes... Jachymov, Czech Republic, Black Hawk District, USA, Batopilas District, Mexico (Fig. 04.01). These vein-type
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California...San Benito County, Calfornia E. L. Gray Opencut wall, Dallas Gem mine, San Benito County, California...staurolite crystal forms Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts tektite Osierfield, Georgia tektite Thin section
Report (volume)
Mike Mac tung Maykhura Milford area Nevada-Massachusetts Nevada-Scheelite Osgood Range Pine Creek USMT...metamorphism and mineralization. EXAMPLES Gila County, USAZ, Cuddappah district, INDA southwestern USMT...ankerite ± sericite ± adularia ± kaolinite. Specularite and alunite may be present. Texture/Structure...wood tin) plus hematite (characteristically specularite) ± cristobalite, fluorite, tridymite, opal, chalcedony...Bart Lucky Shot-War Baby Lyell Goldfield Mabel Malden North Mammoth Mariners Mariposa Maude & Yellow
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read out a letter from the “Lapidary Journal of USA” and said he had a supply of subscription forms if...Natural History Museum, Charmouth, Shelford Sandpit, Malden quarry, Alton quarry, the Forest of Dean, the Wessex...at peak time on Cornwall’s main road across the county without any action being taken!) Tha t apart, the...china clay museum during the afternoon, and the County Museum in Truro on Tuesday (the new Rashleigh mineral...“This year’s Society long weekend field trip to County Durham was based at St John’s Chapel in Weardale
Report (issue)
___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina..._____ _ ____ __ ... _________________ _ Orange County-· ___________________________ _ Melville ____ -...________ _________________________ _ Pr~nce William County _____________________ _ Crawford _____________________..._____________________ ·- _______ _ Spottsylvania County- __ -- - - - --- 7 - - - - - - - - - - United States ________________
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Herbert Kroll (Münster), Rob Lavisnky (Dallas, USA), Heike Lehner (Heidelberg), Joachim Lorenz (Karlstein... . Fig. 1.1 Group of quartz crystals, Arkansas, USA, approximately original size 1.1  Crystal Morphology...Dana), 23rd ed., Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA Klein C, Hurlbut CS Jr (1999) Manual of Mineralogy...dark) and K-feldspar (orthoclase, pink). Idaho, USA. Width of view is c. 10 cm physical properties may...mastered in 1955, almost simultaneously, in Sweden and USA, equipment containing conical high-pressure pistons
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BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ...happened in the UK in the nineteenth century, in the USA early in this century, in Spain in the early seventies...manganese and chromium are considered critical in the USA, but in the Republic of South Africa (RSA), a major...means the only critical mineral products for the USA and other industrialized nations. A very important...integrated mineral policy. By comparison, that of the USA is full of contradictions and non sequiturs (Wolfe
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continental–oceanic interfaces. Modern example: East Coast of USA Continental embankments: Progradational sediment...and Applications, 2nd edn.: Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA. Bhattacharyya, A, 2000, Analysis of Sedimentary...the Silurian Clinton Formation of Pennsylvania (USA), the Devonian Old Red Sandstone of England, the...Based on data from 17 localities, mostly in western USA (See Boggs, 1992, p. 216 for sources) the matrix...laminae in black shales of the Mid-Continent region, USA, which they relate to paleoenvironmental changes
Report (issue)
pinnacles beneath soil cover, Bluegrass, Highland County, Va_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...transverse joints cutting shale at Poverty, Highland County, V a_ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...prospects in.part of Clay County, Ala_____ 79. Graphite deposits in part of Coosa County, Ala_______________...almost entirelv dependent upon the earnings of County, Tenn., for example, is high grade by world men...States and Counties Source: U.S. Bur. Mines] State, county Minerals produced, in order of value Alabama:
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(UK) John Howe (UK) Howard Johnson (UK) Rick Law (USA) Phil Leat (UK) Nick Robins (UK) Randell Stephenson...Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA: the item-fee code for this publication is 0435-4052/11/$15...related rocks, Windermere Supergroup, central Idaho, USA 437 MROFKA, D. & KENNEDY, M. The Kingston Peak...The Squantum Member of the Boston Basin, Massachusetts, USA 475 South America CHEW, D. & KIRKLAND,...Institute, Moscow, Russia John Arthurs Holywood, County Down, Ireland Eric Font University of Lisbon,
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onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many of these specimens..."Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists, as it was merged with Westmorland...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during... for whatever reason, they opted to change the county of origin (Fisher 2004). The Cornish dealer Richard
Report (Issue volume)
near the top. The arkose contains granules of specularite. 76 SLAVE PROVINCE The age of the Goulburn...Cooke, H. C. 1923: Opasatika map-area, Timiskaming county, Quebec; Geol. Surv. Can., Summ. Rept. 1922, pt...1361-1382. 1959: Regional geology of the St. Lawrence county mag¬ netite district; northwest Adirondacks, New...Saguenay county; Que. Dept. Natl. Res., Prel. Rept. 453. Wakeham Lake area, Saguenay county; Que. Dept...J. A. 1944: Lower Romaine River area, Saguenay county; Que. Bur. Mines, Geol. Rept. 19. Robertson, D
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TURNER (UK) Society Books Advisors MIKE BROWN (USA) ERIC BUFFETAUT (France) JONATHAN CRAIG (Italy) ...Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA: the item-fee code for this publication is 0305-8719/07/$15...AIDC, 82 Winter Sport Lane, Williston, VT 05495, USA Orders: Tel. þ1 800-972-9892 Fax þ1 802-864-7626...AAPG Bookstore, PO Box 979, Tulsa, OK 74101-0979, USA Orders: Tel. þ1 918-584-2555 Fax þ1 918-560-2652...Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8109 USA (e-mail: timothy.raub@yale.edu) Abstract: The basal
Report (issue)
i n o l i t e from Westmeath Township, Renfrew County: SiO, 56.70, Al,O, 1.62, Fe,O, 3.06, Fe0 7.19,...9-10, ranges 11-111, Shipton Township, Richmond County, a t 45046'25ftN, 71 057'12'fW. E l e c t r o n...r a n c i s ( B e a u c e v i l l e ) , Beauce County: Si0, 52.30, A1,0, 1.30, Fe0 6.75, N i O t r a...a r Montreal i n Hochelaga County, and B e l o e i l i n Rouville County (G.C. Hoffmann, 1888-9: Geol...d about 4.8 lan west o f New Ross i n Lunenburg County. Analysis by E.W. Todd: SiO, 67.62, A1,0, 20.02
 
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