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Topaz from
Stark, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA


Classification
Species:Topaz
Formula:Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2
Habit:Crystals to 1975gm (13x12x8cm)
Colour:Blue, blue-green, brown sherry
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Topaz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Stark, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:656219
Long-form Identifier:1:3:656219:9
GUID (UUID V4):7134f493-f2e8-4295-815d-f097d0c5c848
Localities for Topaz in this Region
Diamond Ledges locality, Stark, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Topaz
5.6km (3.5 miles) South Percy Peak locality, Stratford, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) North Percy Peak locality, Stratford, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
12.8km (8.0 miles) Stratford, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
48.1km (29.9 miles) North Baldface Mountain localities, Bean's Purchase, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
49.7km (30.9 miles) South Baldface Mountain localities, Chatham, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
56.2km (34.9 miles) Lord Hill Quarry (Lord Hill Mine), Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA
66.9km (41.6 miles) Middle Moat Mountain locality, Hale's Location, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
70.1km (43.6 miles) Government pit, Albany, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
70.5km (43.8 miles) Noyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
71.0km (44.1 miles) Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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)
of the Conway and Mount Osceola Granites of New Hampshire Some of the best collecting in the Granite State...State has been in central and northcentral New Hampshire in the Conway and Osceola granites. P E T E...the central and north-central re­ gions of New Hampshire, are part of the Mesozoic White Mountain plutonic-volcanic...MINERALS and Minnesota. General Grant's tomb in New York City was one of many structures utilizing it...(Home, 1963). In the Conway Granite of northern New Hampshire, quarrying was done on a sporadic basis, mainly
Book (edition)
6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite.../^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS 4 GEM hunter's GUIDE (Cross-seaion at...weakness in the molecular structure of the mineral. Topaz, for instance, cleaves readily along the short direction...cation (moss-like), will be frequently misled All topaz crystal And is such a chameleon color, or jasper)...to his rough field for instance, that massive topaz quartz, although in the will come to tests.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
October 2017 Topaz W in New Hampshire’s DONALD DALLAIRE 829 Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 dadallaire@hotmail...Chandler cemetery on Route 113 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Don Dallaire photo. 64 Mineral Drive Hebron...phosphate@gmail.com W hen one thinks of the mineral topaz, the first specimens that likely come to mind are...localities throughout the world. New Hampshire, however, has produced topaz crystals for more than 125 years...October 2017 Figure 2. Topaz, 2.8 cm tall, on kaolinite, Government pit. The topaz is embedded in kaolinite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
David M. Seaman American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 7, Silica and Silicates (part two)...almandite was recovered at 35th Street and Broadway in New York City and is in the American Museum of Natural...166th St. and Knowlton Place in New York City. Both are a part of the New York Mineralogical Club's collection...and at the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently formed almandite garnets...Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other places. The crystals occur
Journal (issue)
more than victory in war. They are fishting for a new world of freedom and peace. We, upon whom has been...same foe distribution; to encourage the search for new minerals that have not yet been disoovered; and to...Aaaociation by memberahlp? naminating them fat Each new member helps to extend the Association's activities-helps.............. AMETHYST-SMOKY QUAR1Z-TOPAZ IN NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. By Harold J. Verrow ............................................ ADDITIONAL NOTE ON NEW BRUNSWICK COPPER MINES. 254 255 261 262 263 263
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. George Robinson, Michigan... Adrian College; and Dr. Steven C. Chamberlain, New York State Museum. Eighteen abstracts were submitted...aNd tuRNEauREitE FRom FRaNkliN aNd StERliNG Hill, NEw JERSEy. L. G. Crimmins and J. Rakovan, dept. of Geology...[Ca5(AsO4)3Cl] from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. The rough chemical composition of the samples...FRom pEGmatitES iN tHE wauSau ComplEx, maRatHoN CouNty, wiSCoNSiN. A. U. Falster1, T. W. Buchholz2, and
Report (volume)
Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...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
Book (edition)
channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...gas fields occur in almost every State except in New England and a few Southern States, but the discoveries...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Report (volume)
...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;...Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico
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...GARNET KYANITE IOLITE SPHALERITE RUBY i^b TOPAZ CRYSTALS TOURMALINE CRYSTALS (Cro»$-$«ction ot
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Science Club. Fort Homer Hesterly Ar­ February 6, 7—New Port Rkhey, Florida. Gem and Mineral Show sponsored...33611; 813/835-7103. France, 526 E . Montana Avenue, New Port Richey, Florida 33552; 813/848-0244. January...39071; 601/879-8832. January 23, 24—Lindenhurst, New York. Show sponsored by the South Shore Gem and Min­...Mineral Society, ski, 3333 5th Street, Oceanside, New York Box 42543, Tucson, Arizona 85733. 11572; 516/766-6120...us at the Tucson I M D Show next February. O u r NEW location in the Travelodge is room number 762, w
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chamberlain, Syracuse University; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. Robert King, Tewksbury, Great...Susa Artwork by TOPAZ AND FERBERITE-HÜBNERITE FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T... of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148. rd The 33 ineralogical...banding. Exotic minerals identified to date include topaz (19–20 percent F content and first in situ report...content of topaz indicates that these were very F-rich systems. The association of topaz, cassiterite
Book
Photographs by Mike Caggiano ASSOCIATION PRESS • New York FINDING AND PREPARING PRECIOUS AND SEMIPRECIOUS...James A. Peterson Association Press, 291 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10007 All rights reserved. No part of...nature of the rock itself, the emergence of new chemicals and new formations. An example of the radical change...tourmaline, magnetite, zircon, gold, platinum, topaz, beryl, ruby and sapphire. One important rock in...deposits are often replacements of original minerals by new minerals. A further process is the simple one of
Journal (issue)
scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Ray Hill collection; Michael Bainbridge photo. Topaz, 4 cm, from Murzinka, Russia; Mike Menzies collection;...discovered along the Fraser River in British Columbia, a new gold rush drew more than 30,000 prospectors, and...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal...number suggests he may have started as a boy in New Jersey. In any case, it is certain that he became
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reactionsof beryl, BeaA12Si0Oa8, to phenakiteplus topaz in the fluoritestability field, or to herderiteplustopaz...fluid inclusions in minerals such as quartz or topaz in fluorite and phenakite-bearing cavities in pegmatites...pegmatites with corroded beryl, albite, quartz, topaz, phenakite, triplite, fluorapatite, fluorite, under...herderiteand apatite, likewiseare neglected siterite, topaz, apatite, and montebrasite,is of possible interestas...Caa(PO4)•-Bea(PO4)•,containing muscovite, microcline, albite, topaz, beryl, her- hurlbutite, CaBe•(PO4)•, apparently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ArizonaState University,Tempe,Arizona85287 Abstract Topaz rhyolitesare fluorine-richalkaline siliciclavasand...shallowintrusivesthat are characterizedby the presenceof topaz(A12SiO4F2) in gascavities,commonlyassociated with...n both sidesof the ColoradoPlateau (in Colorado,New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada) and in Idaho and...(carbonaterocks) and water tableswere presumablyhigh. Most topaz rhyolite lavasare not associated wth volcanogenicmineralization...nonreactive,and water tablescould have been low. Topaz rhyolitesof both the productiveand nonproductivetype
Book
urus atokensis * Oregon Rock-Thunderegg * New Hampshire Rock-Granite Mineral-Bery] Gem-Smoky Quartz... * New Jersey Dinosaur-Hadrosaurus foulkii * New Mexico Gem-Turquoise Fossil- Coelophysis * New York...(Scabrotrigonia) thoracica Mineral-Agate *Wexas Gem-Blue Topaz Stone-Petrified Palmwood Precious Metal-Silver...jeffersonius 159 160 160 161 * Wisconsin * Utah Gem-Topaz 156 157 153 vi 164 165 165 166 168 168 169...blocks or foundation of our country’s odyssey in the New World. Minerals such as bauxite contributed significantly
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
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
Show/Event (guide)
Bob Morgan, Ed Smith, Lee Tutt, Ken Wolff What’s New In Minerals' Joria Staebler Auction Solicitors Gene...program designed to provide excellent speakers, new information, camaraderie, displays of extraordinary...familiar faces. Most of their topics will be quite new to our collective experience. This year’s Technical...Technical Session is again robust! We welcome numerous new attendees and hope you enjoy our meeting. We appreciate...Palermo #1 Pegmatite, North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire - A. R. Kampf. A. U. Falster. W. B. Simmons
Journal (issue)
favorably received by our readers as a number of new subscriptions - from unexpected quarters - have been...interest to avoid the danger of being replaced by new members from the waiting list. Exhibition at the...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals have reached
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
83:16-30 9 Springer-Verlag 1983 The Petrogenesis of Topaz Rhyolites from the Western United States E.H. Christiansen...Arizona 85287, USA 1 Department of Geology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA z Applied Geologic...Studies, Englewood, Colorado 80110, USA ,Abstract. High-silica topaz-bearing rhyolites of Cenozoic age...age are widely distributed across the western USA and Mexico. They are characteristically enriched in fluorine...elements (e.g. Li, Rb, Cs, U, Th, Be). In addition to topaz, the rhyolites contain garnet, bixbyite, pseudobrookite
 
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