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Hematite from
Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Hematite
Formula:Fe2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hematite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:97224
Long-form Identifier:1:3:97224:8
GUID (UUID V4):a01beb4d-ef66-41be-93b0-a581375249b4
Localities for Hematite in this Region
Larabee's Quarry, Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Mt. Tom Quarry, Mount Tom, Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Hematite
5.6km (3.5 miles) Mt. Tom Quarry, Mount Tom, Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
11.2km (7.0 miles) Lane & Son traprock quarries (Lane's Quarry), Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
12.8km (7.9 miles) Loudville Lead Mines (Manhan Lead-Silver Mine; Southampton Lead Mine; Northampton Lead Mine), Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Notch Quarry (Lane Quarry; Amherst Quarry; Round Mountain Quarry), Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
25.0km (15.5 miles) Baryte locality, Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
30.4km (18.9 miles) State Route 20 road cut, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
31.3km (19.5 miles) Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
31.5km (19.6 miles) Higley Mine, Simsbury Mines, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
40.2km (25.0 miles) Cheapside Quarry (East Deerfield Quarry; Trew Corp. Quarry), Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CEMENTATION OF TRIASSIC ARKOSES IN CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS BY MILTON T. HEALD ABSTRACT The normal Triassic...Triassic arkoses of Connecticut and Massachusetts contain moderate amounts of secondary feldspar and very...in Connecticut and Emerson (1898; 1917) in Massachusetts. More recently the Triassic has been investigated...Composition of normal Triassic sedimentary rocks in Massachusetts 1138 4. Composition of arkoses near igneous...fanglomerates near the eastern border fault. In Massachusetts the Triassic has been subdivided into the Sugarloaf
Report (volume)
onshore and offshore early Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg...Maritime Maryland Massachusetts, Deerfield basin Massachusetts, Hartford basin Massachusetts, other Morocco
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metamorphosed strata adjacent to and underlying the Hampden Basalt. Chemical and X-ray powder diffraction data...in a 2.5-m wide zone of strata underlying the Hampden Basalt. Chemical and X-ray powder diffraction data...sediments during and shortly after emplacement of the Hampden lava flow. The purpose of this paper is to: (1)...Gronby Tuff_ _v v ~ ,, ~ ~ v , 7ZT.1777~T//7~ ~Holyoke i H a m p d e n Basalt~ " . . . . . . . . . ....Mass. Conn. Pre-Triassic Crystatl i n e Rocks Holyoke Basalt- "Shuttle Meadow Fm. -Talcott Basalt
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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 (issue)
SURFICIAL GEOLOGY OF THE MOUNT TOM QUADRANGLE, MASSACHUSETTS by Frederick D. Larsen U.S. Geological Survey...Berlin Formation ............... 56 Hampden Basalt 65 Holyoke Basalt .................. Other volcanic...retreat ................ 179 18»f Page West of Holyoke Basalt ridge ............ 184 Stage I .........in the Manhan valley ....... 204 East of the Holyoke Basalt ridge .......... 205 Readvance .........Bedrock geology of the Mount Tom quadrangle, Massachusetts ................. In pocket Surficial geology
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
'Arizona Gem Fields'. Near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif., and then deep in the Muggins Mountains...), no fl. (s.w.). Wesrville is in So. Vermilion County of Eastern Illinois. INDIANA—"From a little stream...brown by iron. Covington is in Western Fountain County in Western Indiana. I O W A — " W e enclose for...of a large rock found in a field in Des Moines County, Iowa, by Mr. Art Hueschen of Danville, Iowa. "This...and has found many types of rocks in Des Moines County, Iowa, which we predict will be a Rock 247 Hound's
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Supergroup near Hartford, Connecticut, and Holyoke, Massachusetts. The mineral probably formed in response...dikes and sills there are correlated with the Holyoke volcanic event (de Boer, 1968a) and intrude red...they also contain K-feldspar and are cemented by hematite. Mixed-layer illite/smectite (US), discrete illite...year as estimated for the red beds underlying the Hampden basalt flow. obtained using a Diano XRD-8535 diffractometer...tourmaline were also noted. The conversion of hematite to magnetite in the contact aureole turned the
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts .................... .72 C. Section C: Occurrences...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle...Bedrock geology of the Massachusetts portion of the Bernardston Quadrangle, Massachusetts-Vermont: U.S. Geological
Report (issue)
of the Coastal New England Igneous Province, Massachusetts . Martin E. Ross 63 5. Petrography, Petrology...northeast-trending alkalic CNE dikes in eastern Massachusetts that he suggests are chemically compatible with...Foland (Ohio State University), Frederick Frey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Albert Froelich (U...University), and Donald Wise (University of Massachusetts). IX V -V Geological Society of America...large, ENA dolerite dikes in Connecticut and Massachusetts, which apparently were feeders to the remnants
Report (volume)
LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was prepared to accompany...MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf
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which stretches from New Haven to Deerfield, Massachusetts. It is drained by the Connecticut River and...belt that stretches from New Haven to Amherst, Massachusetts. Its fractured trap rock collects rain, providing...brownstone slabs used for a walkway in Greenfield, Massachusetts, exclaimed, “Here are some turkey tracks made...found in the Carolinas, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and eastern Maine. Avalonian crust also occurs...utterly disproportioned to the size of that little county. . . . She can’t hold a tenth part of her weather
Report (volume)
Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, ' South Carolina, and Massachusetts^and a revised Mississippiari time ,, *" scale...Formation, a Miocene formation in northern Elko County, Nevada, and adjacent Idaho, including a consideration...Revision of some stratigraphic names in central Massachusetts, by Peter Robinson and Gwendolyn W. Luttrell...similar clast composition is heavily cemented with hematite. Previous workers (Anderson and Pack, 1915; Collins...the red or orange mottles and concentrations of hematite cement, indicates subaerial weathering under a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA Center for Space Research, The...The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Received 3 May 2003; received in revised form 22 October...olivines are used in these mixtures: a Rockport, Massachusetts fayalite (Fa) with composition Fe2þ 1:96 Mg0:01...the bulk rock is completely a mixture of, say, hematite and magnetite (i.e., phases where the chemical...(as reported in [16]). More recently, two Mount Holyoke senior projects have determined f values for grunerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, USA Department of Geosciences, Stony...11794-2100, USA c Planetary Science Institute, 1700 E. Fort Lowell, Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA d Department...63130-4899, USA e Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA f Department...Providence, RI 02912, USA g SETI Institute/NASA-Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA h Department...University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA b Received 15 October 2009; revised 16 June 2010;
Catalog/List
. . . . . . 65 Fasciculite Xis, in schist; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.... . ... . .. . . .. . 6 FiM, xline, white; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, .2 0 per lb . . . .. .. ...Michigan . . 13 Aficaceous (schistose) hematite; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . 6 Massive; Min nesota...aluminum silicate) Large phmocrysts in diabase; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Coarse-xline and cleavages;...silicate) Foliated mass on rock, lavender; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . 49 MARTITE (isometric ferric
Report (issue)
SURFICIAL GEOLOGY OF THE BELCHERTOWN QUADRANGLE, MASSACHUSETTS s, V' . J.A. Caggj.ano, Jr. * , U. S. Geological...the sieve and hydrometer 112 BELCHERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS QUADRANGLE LIST OF FIGURES Fig 1 Location...Upland and Connecticut Valley Lowland in central Massachusetts, Lower Paleozoic, massive qtuirtzo-feldspathlc...;o , r_, e o f road salt. BiiLCtlKRTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS QUADRANGLE SUUF1CIAL GEOLOGY INTRODUCTION The...quadrangle is located in Hampshire County in central Massachusetts in the New England physiographic province
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"... .. ..............1 x 2", .50 BLOODSTONE--See Hematite DOG IRON ORE-See Limonite BORACITE (magnesum chloride...DATOLITE (basic calcium boron orthosilicate) Xled; Massachusetts or New Jersey................ .60 1.26 DESCLOIZITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Marble Peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima County, Arizona. A note from him reads: "I have done some...taken from the Cherokee district placers in Butte County, California. Mineral Information Service, July...Littlefield of Stonewall in old Campbell County (now Fulton County), sent in an interesting specimen of rutile...or as balls, most deeply im- , pregnated with hematite, some black and glistening, some brown, gray and...better than the Franklin, N . J., calcite." MASSACHUSETTS: Very fine crystals of datolite, pale greenish
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States d Mt. Holyoke College, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075-6419...carrying magnetic component exists in the form of hematite or goethite and that the magnetically enhanced...collected from a broad (~130 m) ridge top in Boone County, Nebraska (41.51918N, 98.21278W; Fig. 1). Uplands...antiferromagnetic minerals, such as goethite or hematite, to magnetite. 360 C.E. Geiss et al. / Earth...high-coercivity antiferromagnetic minerals, such as hematite or goethite. Solid symbols: hIRM300 mT, open symbols:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, U.S.A. Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, 50 College...College Street, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, U.S.A. 3 Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3600 Bay Area...regions were collected on the University of Massachusetts Amherst Cameca SX-50 electron probe. Altered...WEB Research Co. model WT302 spectrometer (Mount Holyoke College) at 295 K. Results were calibrated against...eruptions are far from oxidizing enough to contain hematite or other solely Fe3+ oxides, so these petrologic
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Jefferson Co. Hematite BIRMINGHAM, Jefferson Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24...Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount...Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I COAL CITY,...Co. Hematite DUDLEYVILLE, Tallapoosa Co. Asbestos, with Corundum FORT PAYNE, DeKalb Co. Hematite FREDONIA...Magnetite GADSEN, Etowah Co. Hematite GAYESVILLE, Cherokee Co. Hematite HANOVER, Coosa Co., (near) Feldspar
Report (volume)
of the northern Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts 23S By Jeffrey D. Phillips Buried structures...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase...geophysical study of the northern Hartford basin, Massachusetts, and (6) a comparison of new aeromagnetic imagery...and northern Hartford basins and vicinity, Massachusetts, are presented as gray-tone images by Phillips...s/sic&"' em Hampden Basalt and Granby Basaltic Tuff-b 8 East Berlin Formation-s/sic2 Holyoke Basalt-b 2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
C’ornwall, Pa. 22-19 22.20 +0.9 3 HP 60 Pyrite with hematite in shale, Cornwall, Pa. 21.98 + 10.4 21.99 3...random from the Lindgren Ore Collection at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for isotopic analysis...41’56’36” N 72’44’18” W 93% PY 90% CP, 10% PY Holyoke flow. Fine-grained non-vesicular basalt. Chips...-2.3 9OjlO 41°57’.30” N 72”43’30” W 99$6 py Hampden flow. Aphrsnitic non-vesicular basalt containing...17 22.17 +2.1 +2.4 > SO/10 - 22.24 -1.0 Holyoke flow. 700 ft?. 9515 Aphanitio vesicular basalt
 
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