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Orangite from
Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Thorite var: Orangite
Formula:Th(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orangite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:606249
Long-form Identifier:1:3:606249:1
GUID (UUID V4):9718f308-0802-44d9-b5dd-afa8fc8ff22f
Nearest other occurrences of Orangite
46.8km (29.1 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
feldspar group. THE MINERALS OF ROCKPORT. I{. E. MCKINSTRY MASSACHUSETTS Cambrid,ge, Mass. More than...was called to the unusua, mineral occurrences at Rockport, on Cape Ann, by J. P. Cooke's description of...being the type locality for these species, the Rockport quarries have afforded an interesting list of...pegmatite masses. Location und, Present Condition.-Rockport is best reaehed via the Boston and Maine R. R...white quartz and granular black mica. Danalite. Rockport is the type locality for this mineral, which,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
feldspar along fractures. Also in the quarry between Rockport and Gloucester as a decomposition product of danalite...terminated with domes and basal pinacoid. Thorite. Var. Orangite in orange-yellow grains is associatedwith cyrtolite...Reported by Sears as occurring on massive quartz at Rockport. NOTES AND NEWS SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE ON CRISTOBALITE
Catalog/List
. . . . . . . . Fasciculite Xis in schist; Massachusetts Hornblende Common Hornblende Cleavable, black;... . . ........ . Xline, white, in dolomite; Massachusetts . .............. Hexagonite Purple :dine mass;...1.50 Xis, in matrix, ends of xis polished; Massachusetts .. ANDESINE (sodium and calcium aluminum silicate)... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Massachusetts or New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....DATOLITE (basic calcium boron orthosilicate) Xlcd; Massachusetts or New Jersey .35 1.00 3.00 DELVA UXITE (hydrated
Catalog/List
enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...Fibrous; South Dakota Fasciculite Xis in schist; Massachusetts Hornblende Common Hornblende Xls, black, in...00 .60 XI, sections, varnished, in matrix, Massachusetts ......... :. ................ ....... 1 x l½"...DATOLITE (basic calcium boron orthosilicate) Xled; Massachusetts or New Jersey................ .60 1.26 DESCLOIZITE........... ............. Fine xline, white ; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, 1 6c per lb.............
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)
iron, and there is very little manganese. The Rockport .danalite has iron in excess of zinc, and rather...Si04=Zr v 4v Si04=Zr The original cyrtolite from Rockport is near malacone, but the cyrtolite from Colorado... The typical silicate of thorium, thorite, or orangite is an unsatisfactory species on account of its... The nearest approach to the type is found in orangite, which may perhaps be regarded as a thorium cyrtolite................................. 26,94', 99,105 Orangite.............. '........................ 119 Orthoclase
Book (edition)
near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the...North Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, formerly in the County of Wicklow, where a nugget of 22 ounces was found;...600,000. In Colorado, gold mines occur in Gilpin County, among Archaean rocks, and much less productively
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near Helena, Mont., and the Scott River, Siskiyou County, Cali£. ( George, 1949). In twinned cubes in the...silica-poor rocks: Oka district, Two Mountains County, Quebec (Fig. 2.10 ); Kaiserstuhl, Baden, Germany;...), and pyrochlorc ( P ), Oka dislTict, Two Mts. County, Quebec (Rowe, 19,55A; Geol. Survey Can. ). 38..., and at the Brov.rn Derby pegmatite, Gunnison County, Colo. Other similar occurrences are at Amelia...Middleton; in California near He1net, Riverside County, and at the Tom·maline King and Stewart pegmatites
Book (edition)
so as to be distinc­ tive. Found only i11 Benito County, Cali­ fornia, the mineral is reported to fluo­...hrown zircons from Henderson County, North Carolina. and Placer County, Calif., have an orange-brown...No:1h Dakota Rolla, Kansas Searsmont, Maine Sioux County, Nebraska Tabory, Russia Tyron, Nebraska Washougal...fluoresce and phosphoresce shades of yellow. The Lake County, Calif. , Paterson, N.J., and Ber­ gen, N. J.,...good triboluminescence. Sphalerite from Beaver County, Utah, a11ct Butler, Tenn., is also luminescent
Report (volume)
Bulletins, nos. 10-12. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 3, nos...Wm. C. 7. Pleistocene phenomena of central Massachusetts. Abstract: Science, new ser., vol. 27, pp. 694-695...Development Company's Survey. Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va., 1907. 28 pp., 4 pis. Gives information...oil-bearing Tertiary formations of Santa Barbara County, California. Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 50 (Quart...1908. 27. The Miner ranch oil field, Contra Costa County, California. U. S. Geol. Survey, Bull. 340, pp
Book (edition)
so as to be distinc tive. Found only in Benito County, Cali fornia, the mineral is reported to fluo resce...equally good speci mens. The agate from Sweetwater County, Wyoming, exemplifies the uranium-acti vated quartz...brown zircons from Henderson County, North Carolina, and Placer County, Calif., have an orange-brown...T. Tanaka in 1923-24. In a dolomite from Putnam County, N. Y., the cathodoluminescence spectrum was a... Kansas Searsmont, Maine Graetna, Kansas Sioux County, Nebraska Holbrook, Arizona Tabory, Russia Hugoton
Book (edition)
λex=532 nm 3+ 3.0 Pryor Mountain, Big Horn County, Mantana, USA 8 Intensity (a.u.) b λex=532 nm 10...Albany County, Wyoming, USA 1.5 0 600 650 700 750 d 15 868 Tie Siding, Albany County, Wyoming...Wyoming, USA 700 750 800 λex=785 nm 874 866 Nd 650 15 λex=780 nm 875 3+ Intensity (a.u.) 600 ...mine, Gillman, Colorado, USA 15 Black Rock, Lawrence County, Arcansas, USA 891 4 10 2 5 0 870... info) 8 λex=532 nm 875.2 868.7 Taft, Kern County, California 6 Intensity (a.u.) 853.0 4 898
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...etc. In rich masses at Pelham, Hampshire co., Massachusetts, in very broad blades with talc at Chester,...Plat., Malawi, G 10 17 River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. 2A,483, 1997. Aenigmatite
Book
discovered deposits in sandstone in southern Carbon County, Wyo- ming. It is also the most common secondary...described from a gold placer in Kelley Gulch, Custer County, Idaho. Only thucholite and known in placer deposits...also been found in the Badlands of Pennington County, South Dakota, at the southeastern edge of the...discovered to the southeast of Midwest Converse County. These deposits are larger and more continuous...uranium discoveries have been made in road in Carbon County cuts, one in eastern in the Pottsville conglomerate
Book (edition)
Similar specimens from the same locality (Port Henry, Essex Co., N". Y.) show that there is no necessary connection...and other parts of North Wales in Scotland in the county of Wicklow, Ireland ; in Sweden, at Edelfors. In...sands of the Rhine; at St. Aray, val du Drac ; county of Wicklow, Ireland ; on the river Jocky, St. Domingo...Jurassic) region of the eastern United States, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and more abundantly in NCM No...Thetford. In Connecticut, at Middletown. In Massachusetts, at Newburyport, at Southampton, etc. In Pennsylvania
Book (edition)
specimens froui the same locality (Port Henry, Essex Co., N. Y.) show that there is no necessary connection...and other parts of North Wales in Scotland in the county of Wicklow, Ireland ; in Sweden, at Edelfors. In...the sands of the Rhine ; at St. Aray, val du Drac county of Wicklow, Ireland; on the river Jocky, St. Domingo...(Triassico-Jurassic) region of the eastern United States, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and more abundantly in New Jersey...Thetford. In Connecticut, at Middletown. In Massachusetts, at Newburyport, at Southampton, etc. In Pennsi/ltitnia
Journal (volume)
Bromine Methods; by R. B. Riggs XVIII. —Central Massachusetts Moraine by R. S. Tarr__ 141 XIX. Proofs that...calcareous concretion found Gully in Livingston County, N. Y., not far up in the shales of the Naples...the Wisconsin iron, and it applies to the Garrett County siderite, except that the bright figures are the...one hundred miles around Washington, Washington County, Kansas, and many observers noted a meteorite traveling...Aerolite. by Miss Guild, a teacher in the Washington County who was driving on the neighboring road, a hundred
Book (edition)
Similar specimens from the same locality (Port Henry, Essex Co., N". Y.) show that there is no necessary connection...and other parts of North Wales in Scotland in the county of Wicklow, Ireland ; in Sweden, at Edelfors. In...the sands of the Rhine at St. Aray, val du Drac ; county of Wicklow, Ireland ; on the river Jocky, St. Domingo...Jurassic) region of the eastern United States, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and more abundantly in NewNo known...Thetford. In Connecticut, at Middletown. In 'Massachusetts, at Newburyport, at Southampton, etc. In Pennsylvania
Report (volume)
and the birefringence is about 0.01. 2. Amherst County, Va. (F. L. Hess). All the material examined is...Y = reddish brown. Z = reddish brown. 4. Llano County, Tex. (U. S. N. M. 84416). In mass, black and vitreous;...The greater part has co about 1.83. 2. Chester County, Pa. (U. S. N. M. 3965). Nearly colorless cleavage...2.15±0.01. 7 = 2.18±O.OL AUERLITE. Henderson County, N. C. (U. S. N. M. 4914a). 0 = 1.65±0.01. Birefringence...01. BASTNAESITE. West Cheyenne Canyon, El Paso County, Colo. (U. S. N. M. 81857). Uniaxial +. Nearly
Book (edition)
File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Sun,. \ler111011t, I . 484. (TL} Derby. Vermont. USA. G. Brush ( 1 862) Amer. J. Sci. 34. 2 1 6. classed...muscovite and albite. (TL) Goshen. Massachusells. USA. Named from cxy1..cxoC · shining' . from its silvery
Book (edition)
particles forming one similar formation in Pike County, Ark. also in the form per cent of the meteorite...with platinum. In 1906 diamonds were found in Pike County, Ark., both loose in the soil and enclosed in a...the eastern and southeastern Adirondack region in Essex, Warren, Saratoga and Washington Counties, N. Y...of the Sierra Nevada and stretches from Mariposa County for more than 100 miles toward the north. The veins...districts in Gilpin County, from the Leadville district and others in Lake County, in the region of the
Book (volume)
Lakes—France Nantucket Harbor (Mass.) BT Harbors—Massachusetts Nantucket Island (Mass.) UF Nantican Island...(Mass.) Siasconset Island (Mass.) BT Islands—Massachusetts Nantucket Light (Mass.) USE Great Point Light...Nantucket Sound (Mass.) BT Sounds (Geomorphology)— Massachusetts Nantuket Island (Mass.) USE Nantucket Island...Narbonne House (Salem, Mass.) BT Dwellings—Massachusetts Narbut family (Not Subd Geog) NARC (Electronic...[QC611.8.N35] [Former heading] Narrow Lake (Noble County, Ind.) USE Rivir Lake (Ind.) Narrow-leaved black
Book (edition)
Lewis . Acicular white crys tals in Herkimer County quartz. Erinite. See Montmorillonite . ERINITE...Ionite, Purnell. Fossil Hydrocarbon, from Amador County, Cal . Iridescent copper pyrites. See Bornite....Stannite. Or natif. See Gold. Or palladié. See Gold. ORANGITE , Bergm. 2 Th2SiO4+3H,0. Tetragonal. Oravitzite...Zircarbite, Shepard. Yellowish brown mineral of Rockport, Mass. ZIPPEITE , ZIRCON , Werner. ZrSi04. Tetragonal
Book (edition)
Erilite, H. G. Lewis. Acicular wh'te crys- Herkimer County quartz. tals in Erinite. See Montmorillonite...Cataspilite. lonite, Purnell. Fossil Amador County, Hydrocarbon, from. Cal. See Ampbibole. Iridescent...Stannite. Or natif. See Gold. Or paUadie. See Gold. ORANGITE, Bergm. 2 Th2Si04+3 H2O. Tetragonal. Oravitzite...uranvitriol, John. brown Shepard. Yellowish mineral of Rockport, Mass. Zircarhite, ZIRCON, Werner. ZrSi04
Report (issue)
Erilite. Acicular white crystals in Herkimer County quartz . Erinite . See Montmorillonite . Tern...Cataspilite . Ionite . Fossil Hydrocarbon , from Amador County , Cal . Iridescent copper pyrites. See Bornite...Or palladié. See Gold . Orpin . See Orpiment. ORANGITE, Bergm . 2 TL,Si04 + 3 H20 . Orthite. See Allanite...Zircarbite, Shepard. Yellowish brown mineral of Rockport, Mass. ZIRCON , Werner. ZrSiO4. Tetragonal. Avykúplov
 
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