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Aquamarine from
Pearl Hill, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Beryl var: Aquamarine
Formula:Be3Al2Si6O18
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aquamarine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pearl Hill, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:684201
Long-form Identifier:1:3:684201:7
GUID (UUID V4):6c7253e3-7bb8-48ce-9e79-01545ebd8117
Nearest other occurrences of Aquamarine
6.5km (4.0 miles) Rollstone Hill Quarries, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
29.7km (18.4 miles) South Royalston beryl locality (Clark locality), Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
29.7km (18.5 miles) Reynolds Mine (Beryl Hill Mine), Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
42.4km (26.3 miles) Uncanoonuc Mountains, Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
59.0km (36.7 miles) White Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
63.2km (39.3 miles) Island Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
63.8km (39.7 miles) Big Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
73.3km (45.6 miles) Beryl Mountain Quarry, South Acworth, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
88.7km (55.1 miles) Chandlers Mill Quarry, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
89.4km (55.5 miles) Parker Mountain Mine, Parker Mountain, Strafford, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A CATALOGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS GEMSTONES WORCESTER COUNTY (PART FIVE) By RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany...\'itchburg, Pearl Hill Fitchburg, Rollstone Hill on western flank Royalston, Reynolds Mine upon Beryl Hill, 2Yz...dikes cutting granite. Superb facet gem quality aquamarine crystals of large size of prized deep blue color...crystals of deep green and yellow color and blue aquamarine in pegmatite dike. CHIASTOLITE Locality '.ancaster...south of meetinghouse Sturbridge, top of Shumway Hill Lancaster 436 Description and Occurrence Good
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Buffalo, New York 14205 66 Leek Crescent Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1H1 Design and Layout: Joseph Gisini/PageWave...be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11...typical crystal shape. Goethite, Tintic, Utah, USA * 16.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 om Drusy These minerals have
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ries limestone. Muffle, 317. ; Nacreous. Like pearl. Native metal, 202. A salt containing nitric...curving it is a common form of spathic iron tnd pearl spar. The latter mineral from Lockport, New York...stilunited with sub-metallic luster, the term like pearl. : When is applied. pseudomorphous crystals...yellowish-white ; Bluish-gray, smoke-gray, greenish-gray, pearl-gray, ashgray ; Velvet-black, greenish-black,...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is
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substance ; usually a vein of metallic Nacreous. Like pearl. ore. The lode is said to be dead Native metal,...curving it is a common form of spathic iron >and pearl spar. The latter mineral from Lockport, New York...stilunited with sub-metallic luster, the term like pearl. is applied. How are pseudomorphous crystals...yellowish-white Bluish-gray, smoke-gray, greenish-gray, pearl-gray, ashgray ; Velvet-black, greenish-black,...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities
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carboniferous limestone. Muffle, 317. ; Nacreous. Like pearl. Native metal, 202. Nitrate. salt containing A...curving it is a common form of spathic iron ndf pearl spar. The latter mineral from Lockpojjx, New York...resins. ; ter. blende. 4. bite, Pearly : like pearl. Ex. talc, native magnesia, stil&c. When united...yellowish-white Bluish-gray, smoke-gray, greenish-gray, pearl-gray, ash* / ; / gray Velvet-black, greenish-black...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities
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ries ; limestone. Muffle, 317. Nacreous. Like pearl. t Native metal, 202. Nitrate. A salt containing...a common form ol spalhic : their curving and pearl spar. The latter mineral from Lockport, Xew York...tallic luster is 2. Vitreous 4. Pearly like pearl. Ex. talc, native magnesia, stilWhen united with...yellowish-white Bluish-gray, smoke-gray, greenish-gray, pearl-gray, ash- r ; ; gray Velvet-black, greenish-black...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities
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compound crystal, or one Mammillary, Nacreous. Like pearl. Native metal, 202. Containing man- ganese. Marly...curving it is a common form of spathic iron ,nd pearl spar. The latter mineral from Lockport, New York...^^ ^ 7eU W by Pearly: &c . S[nS ' ' like pearl. When metallic-pearly f lat- any color. Ex...yellowish-white ; Bluish-gray, smoke-gray, greenish-gray, pearl-gray, ashgray Velvet-black, greenish-black, bluish-black...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is
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Richard M. Pearl : 1001 QUESTIONS ANSWERED ABOUT THE MINERAL KINGDOM Richard M. Pearl DOVER PUBLICATIONS...Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Pearl, Richard Maxwell, 1913- 1001 questions answered...answered about the mineral kingdom / Richard M. Pearl. p. "A cm. slightly altered republication of the...Colorado, cubanite from Cuba, kernite from Kern County in California, aragonite from a former kingdom...commercially valuable substance. Named after Kern County, California, kernite evaporation yields borax
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carboniferoua limestone. Muffle, 317. Nacreous. Like pearl Native metal, 202. Nitrate. A salt containing nitric...curving : it is a common form of spathic iron and pearl spar. The latter mineral fi·om Lockport, New York...resins. Ex. opal, zinc blende. 4. P.early : like pearl. Ex. talc, native magnesia, stilbite, &c. When united...yellowish-white; Bluish-gray, smoke-gray, greenish-graJr, pearl-gray, ash. gray; elvet-black, greenish-black, hluish-black...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the to,vn of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large
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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...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South...exocontact, e.g. at Drahonfn, Smrcek, and on Zd'ar hill, near Ruda nad Moravou, all Moravia, Czech Rep.
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minerals An opal, zinc blende. 4. Pearly like pearl. stilbite, etc. When Example, talc, native magnesia...white. Bluish-gray, smoke-gray, greenish-gray, pearl-gray, ashgray. Velvet-black, greenish-black, bluish-black...near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...in the Cornish mines. In the U. S. occurs at Blue Hill Bay, Camdage Farm, = = Brunswick, and Bowdoinham...Cherokee Flat, and other places in Butte Co., Forest Hill' in El Dorado Co. (one weighing nearly 1^ carats)
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substance ; usually a vein of metallic Nacreous,. Like pearl ore.. The lode .i:B said to be dead Native metal...curving : it is a common form of spathic iron and pearl spar. T'he latter mineral from Lock.port, New York... Ex. opal, zif\C blende. 4. F!.early : lik,e, pearl. Ex. talc, native magnesia, st.iJ. bite, &c. When...vbit·e ; Blulsh-gray, smok.e~gray, gtecnish.. gray·, pearl-gt-ay, ash~ gray; elvet ..black, greenish-black...springs in Columbia county, Ne·w York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, atroi·cl larg
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For example, on crystals of datolite from Bergen Hill, the plane is almost uniformly destitute of lustre;...Bluish-gray : 2. gray, inclining to a dirty blue color. Pearl-gray: gray, mixed with red and blue cerargyrite... ; varieties of sphalerite. 5. Pearly : like pearl. Ex. talc, brucite, stilbite, etc. When united...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
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For example, on crystals of datolite from Bergen Hill, the plane 2-...Bluish-gray : 2. gray, inclining to a dirty blue color. Pearl-gray : gray, mixed with red and blue cerargyrite...is ; varieties of sphalerite. 5. Pearly : like pearl. Ex. talc, brucite, stilbite, etc. When united...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
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For example, on crystals of datolite from Bergen Hill, the plane —%i is alm...Bluish-gray : gray, inclining to a dirty blue color. 2. Pearl-gray : gray, mixed with red and blue cerargyrite... ; varieties of sphalerite. 5. Pearly : like pearl. Ex. talc, brucite, stilbite, etc. When united with...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
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Congress . Mass H R Massachusetts, House of Representatives Mass St Bd Educ Massachusetts State Board of Education...Porter (J B), 87; Rothwell, 74; Willis, 86a Baker Hill, Cherokee Co.: Brewer, 93 Birmingham district: Brainerd... 08b, 09 Glenn Creek district: Collier, 03 Gold Hill district placers: Maddren, 098, 10 Haines district:...Martin (G C), lOs, 128 Innoko, Ruby Creek, and Gold Hill districts: Maddren, 10 IJ).Iloko district placers:
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Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gilbert Gauthier: Maisons Laffitte, Paris,...Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Henry O. Meyer (deceased): Dept. of Earth Sciences...Pennsylvania. Thalassa Skinner: Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dorian G. W. Smith: Dept. of Geology, Univ...M. J. Buerger (1958), The Powder Method, McGraw Hill, New York. (B) Bunn, C. W. (1961), Chemical Crystallography...glass, nearly as lustrous as ‘resinous’ Like a pearl, or like the luster of a stack of glass plates.
 
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