Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Corundum from
Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Corundum
Formula:Al2O3
Comments:"Several grains of red corundum were found in samples of heavy sand at the beach at Nauset [Eastham], in Eastern Cape Cod." (Kaye & Mrose, 1965)
Colour:red
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Corundum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:764808
Long-form Identifier:1:3:764808:3
GUID (UUID V4):e4a7f968-bbcc-46b4-8930-381d1e1dc865
Nearest other occurrences of Corundum
86.7km (53.9 miles) Nashaquitsa Cliffs, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
EDWARD HITCHCOCK First State Geologist of Massachusetts, 1841 Preface A hooked peninsula and two...two small islands lie grouped off the Massachusetts mainland coast, sandy intermediaries between the rocky... or even overnights. As far back as 1833, Massachusetts State Geologist Edward Hitchcock published a...a preliminary report on the geology of Massachusetts, believed to have been the first state geology report...Cape 127 The Plains of Eastham: The Kame Belt 129 The Plains of Eastham: The Tablelands The High
Book
which HITCHCOCK First State Geologist of Massachusetts, 1841 Preface A hooked peninsula and two...two small islands lie grouped off the Massachusetts mainland coast, sandy intermediaries between the rocky... or even overnights. As far back as 1833, Massachusetts State Geologist Edward Hitchcock published a...a preliminary report on the geology of Massachusetts, believed to have been the first state geology report...the Lower Cape The Plains of Eastham: The Kame Belt The Plains of Eastham: The Tablelands The High Plains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. This locality may also be given as 6 miles east...in Georgia (pp. 9-21). One locality in Habersham County should fascinate many of our readers. Here is Dr...arsenopyrite with small lead-gray masses of galena. MASSACHUSETTS — "I am mailing you a package containing a couple..."Enclosed in separate wrapper are samples of the corundum deposits recently discovered in this area of the...Counties) . Samples enclosed consist of: "From Madison County — Lot 1 10 crystal, V4 to 1 inch. — Lot 2 - 15
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0 0 postp a i d , w h i l e they last. Frank Eastham, Warsaw, Va. ROCKS A N D MINERALS FOSSILS PETOSKEY...Georgia marble 50c Please add postage. List & corundum crystal 2 5 c coin. Geo. Brown, Box 5 3 5 , Gainesville...specimens m a r k e d w i t h a s t e r i s k * Ruby Corundum - 1 / 5 " Amethyst* Bloodstone* Jadeite* Opal*...308 308 311 312 309 310,314 308 Eaton, Robert Eastham, Frank Ellis, Tom Elwell, W i l b u r J Everett
Report (volume)
, vol. v, p. 852, 1897. x 33 Geology of Polk County, Iowa. Am. Geol., vol. xx, p. 334 (f p.), 1897...mica, graphite, iron, nickel, copper, gold, and corundum and two geological maps. 74 Bonney (T. G.). 0...brief notes on the occurrence of copper in Cleburne County. 93 Gold fields of the South. Colliery Eng.,...The age of the Franklin White limestone of Sussex County, New Jersey. See Wolif (J. E.) and Brooks (A. H...of the Glacial epoch. 105 Geology of Johnson County [Iowa]. Am. Geol., vol. xx, pp. 273, 1897. Eeview
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Virginia. $2.00 postpaid, while they last. Frank Eastham, Warsaw, Va. ROCKS AND MINERALS FOSSILS ILLUSTRATED...Georgia marble 50c Please add postage. List & corundum crystal 2 5 c coin. Geo. Brown, Box 5 3 5 , Gainesville...2 . 0 0 each; Madagascar - terminated dark red corundum crystals VA to % " 5 0 ^ , 75tf, $ 1 . 0 0 ; Brazil...Oklahoma. REDUCED PRICE — On "Prospecting in Orange County N e w Y o r k " , only 50(£ by mail. Trader Ed
Journal (issue)
occurrences have been reported for nearly every county in the area of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks southeast...UISIANA iley's 3 Crocke ASSACHU hortman McKinley Eastham iabbin B Ware CHIGAN t'l. Stan »W. Aa ergy Watch...Science Digest Box 21357, Chicago 90, Illinois Blue Corundum XLS for your specimen collection will send post...place in the U. $ at least tive opaque dive grey corundum crystals, in a chunk of matrix approximately he...Tintic Mining District. Description included Pp USA, $1.00 CLAY MINERALS EXCHANGE Box 572, Sta. 1, Provo
Report (volume)
Maryland Geological Survey, Vols. I-III. Allegany County. Baltimore, Md. Maryland State Weather Service:...physiography of Allegany County [Maryland], Md. Geol. Surv.,. Allegany County, pp. 27-56, pis. i-vi, figs...Describes the topography and drainage features of the county and discusses the stages of its physiographic history...from the nepheline-syenite of Dungannan, Hastings County, Ontario.' Am. Jour. Sci., 4th ser., vol. i, pp...the districts of' Nipissing, Ontario, and of the county of Pontiac, Quebec," by A. E. Barlow.] Jour. Geol
Journal (issue)
the Zeolites of the Durham Quarry, Durham, Wake County, North Carolina by Pete J. Dunn departments Guest...fersmite, this in the B itterroot Mountains. Ravalli County, M ontana. Here it was found as anhedral inclusions...ene mine, near Kings M ountain, Cleve­ 276 land County, North Carolina. The host rock is a lithiumtin...W agon W heel Gap, Creede Quadrangle, M ineral County, Colorado, is with gearksutite in the upper oxidized...also reported from Darwin, Inyo County, California; G ranite, Nye County, Nevada; and K azakhstan, U.S
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...f his family, the local m ineral club, and the Eastham pton mineral dealers Alvin and M arjorie Schortm...from the Lowell Technical Institute in Lowell, Massachusetts; the Schortm anns decided it was time for them...oting. R o n founded the show in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1988, w hich has since been taken over by...useum , N atural H istory M useum o f Los Angeles County, A m erican M useum o f N atural History, and others
Book (edition)
CongresS; J / in the year 1834, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth in the Clerk's Office of the ...Secretary of the of said i ; District of Massachusetts. by Edward D. Bangs, in the name and District...Excellency, John davis, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts. I HAVE the honor to present you with the second...the 3d of March , 1830, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a Resolve, authorizing and requesting...Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to the Boston Society
Journal (issue)
M. Pryce and J. Chester The Amity Area, Orange County, New Y o rk ............................... 85...115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August, about five months after...western city limits of North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, and south of Camp Robinson. The quarry...Record, March — April, 1978 ti*AMUYa” Orange County, New\ork by Lance E. Kearns Department of Geology...interesting minerals in the Franklin marble of Orange County have been known since the early 1800’s. Throughout
Book (volume)
of Altadena and John G Streeter of San Diego County in ac- the collection to books gemolo- the...commission, cond communication al explan f, county company, CO doth -mg leaf, contrib contribution...Printing -ed M or Mk German mark MA Massachusetts grav gravure mag magazine Gt Brit Great...are Franz to gemstones, the earliest green corundum for part samples fire. Achard used corundums...exposed prefix not may have been identified corundum showed that on the last The methods of work
Journal (issue)
the oxidized zone of a lead-copper deposit in Massachusetts and which, by the similarity of X-ray powder...above, from a now de­ funct mine in western Massachusetts, one should examine the indices to the above...sul­ fates, langite, posnjakite, ktenasite, Massachusetts, and other such possible related topics. This...in the locality in question (in this case, Massachusetts) and papers on the local geology, hydrology...Nevada, known for its Carlsbad twins and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, known for its reticulated rutile
Book (edition)
New Hampshire 86; National Park Service 88; Massachusetts Department of Commerce 91; State of Maine 92;...by the Bureau of Land Management, in state and county parks and forests, and in private parks as well...Smokies. Benton MacKaye of Shirley Center, Massachusetts, a hiker and philosopher of the outdoors, dreamed...square miles, an area larger than the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island put together...12. When he was 15, he burned down the Jackson County Courthouse in order to get rid of an indictment
Report (issue)
output of £42. 7/tonne. Major suppliers were the USA (7.3 Mt), Australia (4.6 Mt) and Colombia (2 Mt)... . ...�--:-, · , , ••:.:..·..,. \"..:.:..,: Eastham ,_. �" :• •• ' ' • � • Stanlow' Milford Haven�...decision was subsequently challenged by Bedfordshire County Council in the High Court but dismissed. However...Clays the second largest ball clay producer in the USA. Fuller's earth IOI is to .close its chloralkali...imports in 1992 were Greece (55 000 tonnes) and the USA (28 000 tonnes). Corresponding figures for bentonite
Report (issue)
end-use and county/Scottish region 1976 GB production of special sands by end-use and county/Scottish region...end-use and county/Scottish reg­ ion 1976 GB production of sandstone by end-use and county/Scottish reg­...end-use and county/Scottish region 1976 GB production of igneous rock by end-use and county/Scottish region...end-use and county/Scottish reg­ ion 1976 GB production of limestone by end-use and county/Scottish reg­...of chalk by end-use and county 1976 GB production of chalk by end-use and county 1977 119 Common clay
Report (issue)
,, · · ' .. ,.... ,, .. . . . ., :'1- � Eastham , · . . �-,·....-'! I":\,• .."ii.;. :.,;, : .,...of Germany and the Tennessee/Kentucky area of the USA. China clay From 1992 the China Clay Association...source of imports in 1992 were Greece (51 000 t), the USA (23 000 t), Cyprus (19 600 t) and 3-1 Gypsum Italy...527 5 375 81 ll 586 England 1 731 Wales County Avon, Gloucestershire Somerset Cheshire Greater...} 340 } 1 120 46 95 115 415 177 ••• 1 146 County Total Norfolk Northumberland North Yorkshire
Report (issue)
1990-1999 Northern Ireland mineral production by county 1999 Minerals produced in Northern Ireland, the...oil and 210 bcf of gas. 37.1 Australia Colombia USA S Africa Canada Poland Others 6.0 4.6 3.0 2.9 1...'-sattfleetby Anglia V ..Point of Ayr O 6 v Stanlow/Eastham "'v., • t • Whisby Keddington Dawn I ~..,,. _....from its aggregates businesses in Scotland and the USA. Through Ennstone Building Products the company also...890 (a) 148 11 870 Great Britain 68 England County Avon Somerset Cheshire Greater Manchester Lancashire
Journal (issue)
hand-drawn sign: "BINGHAMmay show up in Crow Wing County, Min- ITE." Interested lapidaries might stop in...Celestine Emery Bornlte Rhodochroslte Cerussite Corundum Stlbnite Scheelite Borax Realgar •Monazlte Sand...Horn Coral Tourmaline - xi portion llvaite Ruby Corundum - xi Chlorlte Trilobite Blue Barile - 1d portion...tells that a longtime collecting site for Lake County "diamo nds" has been closed. Mr. P e rini, owner...are engineered to polish all gemstones including corundum, eliminating orange peel and undercutting. We
Report (issue)
\Clyde Innes • "'4 -� :,.,, • ,,: -·. i, � Eastham . , .. ... '-,;J� ' ,. \.' ' • Stanlow ->'...Ltd, has been given planning permission by Essex County Council for a new 1-1.5 million tonnes a year sand...is one of the two largest kaolin producers in the USA with an output of 1.54 million tonnes in 1989. The...sourced from non-UK production sites in Germany, the USA and Thailand. WBB's output from sites in south and...107 16 748 • ♦ • • • ♦ - • • • England County Avon, Cornwall, Somerset Bedford Cambridge Cheshire
Journal (issue)
No. 4, 59-76. Diseases of Fruit Trees. By J. W. Eastham and W. R. Foster. Hort. Circ. No. 73, Dep. Agric...Bureau of Mines, '' Thompson Magnesium Well, Grand County, Utah.'' War M inerals R ep . No. r2, 1942, 39...and Exhalations in Northern Pondoland and Alfred County, Natal. By T. W. Gevers. Trans. Geol. Soc. ,S....Copper reserves of Newfoundland . . . . . . . I 32 Corundum and mica production in Nyasaland . . . . • 123...Nyasaland, coal, bauxite and cement in . . . ,, corundum and mica production in . . ,• tung oil production
Journal (issue)
obtained. It is calculated on the basis of quartz and corundum being 7 and 9 as in Mohs's scale, and runs as...Fused alumina ''A'' . . . 10 ·0 African crystal corundum . . . 9·0 . . Rock crystal (quartz) . . 7·0 As...abrasive wheels made of natural or artificial corundum, emery, silicon carbide or other hard abrasive...Diseases:-General Diseases of Cultivated Plants. By J. W. Eastham. With article on Sprays and Spraying by B. Hoy...King's Printer, 1936.) Mineral Deposits in Renfrew County and Vicinity, Ontario. By B. C. Freeman. Mtm. No
Report (issue)
listed on pages A263-A268. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations...Maine.____________________________________ Massachusetts. _ ____________________________ Connecticut...cooperators-____-_______-__-___-__-__-__ State, county, and municipal cooperators---------Other cooperators...sists of banded botryoidal coatings of brown high- County, Ariz., and as much as 600 ppm Re was coniron sphalerite...bodies. Sphalerite of stage 2, which constitutes the County, Ariz. A sample of molybdenite collected by bulk
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 7, 2024 10:12:28
Go to top of page