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Anorthite from
Iron Mine Hill quarry, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Anorthite
Formula:Ca(Al2Si2O8)
Quality for species:Rock forming mineral/non-crystalline/little interest for collectors.(##)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Anorthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Iron Mine Hill quarry, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:985559
Long-form Identifier:1:3:985559:5
GUID (UUID V4):2b4812b7-ac99-44c7-abe6-78048c70ee74
Nearest other occurrences of Anorthite
69.2km (43.0 miles) Becker Quarry (Becker's Quarry), West Willington, Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
91.0km (56.6 miles) Pelham asbestos mine, Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
97.5km (60.6 miles) Linkpot cut, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Report (volume)
deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general terms. One material...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks...Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle...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;
Report (volume)
........................................... Rhode Island...............................................deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general terms. One material...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr...University, South Bethlehem. Rhode Island__Prof. C. W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina__.Dr. Earle Sloan...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
11~4 TOPOGRAPHICAL EUROPE I c e l a n d (:island) Teigarhorn, epistilbite, 480. N o r w a y (Norge)...serpierite, 882. Mells quarry, Frome, Somerset, calcite, 70. Roughten Gill, Cumberland, carbonatian plumbogummite...localities, p. 1078: Castle an Dinas quarry; Cripple's Ease quarry; Great Zawn, Zennor; Knill's Steeple...Mount ; Tregarden quarry, Luxulyan ; Tremearne ; and Tresayes. Devon Meldon railway quarry, metamorphosed...Sherberton Common ; Merrivale quarry; Sheltor ; and Staple Vor. WALES Benallt mine, Caernarvonshire, bannisterite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
decomposition of, 138. An]~ole, Uganda, schorlomite, 775. Anorthite, Japan, orientation of boun- daries of domains...rltungameteorite, metallography, 1139. Aroostook County, Maine, ganophyllite, 893. Arrojadite, Rhodesia...Rhodesia, 50. ASARI (H.), anal. by, 451. Ascension Island, vlasovite, 233. Assisi, meteorite, description, mineralogy...of 1190 ALPHABETICAL INDEX AxoN (cont.) the iron meteorites Arltunga, Kopjes Vlei, Murnpeowie, Braunau...Belnhausen, Darmstadt, Germany, ankerite, 138. Benallt mine, Caernarvon~hire, Wales, bannisterite and ganophyllite
Book (volume)
in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal from thick beds...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Book
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...Territories, Canada * 9 x 9 x 6 cm. Located on an island about 300 km (185 miles) north of Yellowknife,...three basic types of meteorites: stony, stony iron and iron-nickel. Stony meteorites, as you might guess
Book (volume)
in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal from thick beds...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...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...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Book (volume)
Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along with lesser amounts...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Derbyshire or, perhaps, a pyramid of smoky quartz from Cumberland. The next it may be rock crystal from Madagascar...tougher than their crystal countertery, like the cast iron. part, quartz. Luster Most gem stones have a...of the heavy metal copper, or hematite, an ore of iron, will "heft" heavy, and massive topaz is noticeably...compounds of one or more metals such as calcium, iron, or magnesium with silicon and oxygen. As a family
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation,
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it should
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the head­
Book
museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the...which state is present. The most common example is iron, which in its divalent state is said to be ferrous
Book (volume)
publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Dick's deep concern for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest...interest in mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark....greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable
Report (volume)
............................ 38 Prince Edward Island ............................................................................................ Rhode Island ................................................................................... 322 Rhode Island ..............................................mining, McCalley, 3813. Brown ore deposit of Baker Hill, Brewer, 554. Brown ore deposit, Phillips, 4376...Hematites of Alabama, McCalley, 3819. Iron ore mines in Jefferson County, Castlcnian, 777. Leaf impressions
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298 ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral...Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B...ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12
Report (volume)
evaluation: Church, C. C., 2. Alaska, Blashke Island ultrabasic Geiger and scintillation counters, complex:...search: Hershey, H. G. , 2. scale: Spieker, E. M., 3. Iron-range rocks, origin: Tanton, Distribution in geologic...Reading: Military Service Pub. Co. Texas, Tordilla Hill area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...and potash in H. D., 6. gravels, analyses: Lamar, Iron, Birmingham area: Thoenen, J. E., 8a. J. R., 2.
Report (volume)
recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed as...feldspar, and mica, occur in some form in every county in the State. Among mineralogists, Colorado is...mineral belt that extends southwestward from Boulder County to the southern limits of the San Juan Mountains... lefferson County, the contact-metamorphic minerals of Italian Mountain, Gunnison County and elsewhere...rare minerals in the alkalic rocks of Iron Hill, Gunnison County. Colorado pegmatite bodies, considered
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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Miller (W J), 17a. See also New York ~dmiralty Island, Alaska: Wright (C W), 06a Adularia: Winchell (N...93; Marcou, 96; Walcott, 07 Agate Spring fossil quarry, Nebr.: Peterson, 06b, 09 Age fiow and ebb of the...95; Prouty, 09, 12; Smith (E A), 76a; Labausage mine: Evans (A W), 09. Raccoon Mountain field: Gibson... 08 Talladega Co., Gold Log mine: Bastin, 16a Granites: Watson, 10 Iron: Chauvenet, 86; Eckel, 06b; Gesner
Journal (issue)
miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...Russia Is also a producer of gold, chromium ore, iron ore, mercury, potash and sulphur. The Mogok region...addition, there are vast deposits of anrimony, copper, iron ore, platinum and uranium, as well as many other...the main source of aluminium; limonite is rich in iron . Native Elements- Native elements are found uncombined...metals, semi-metals and non-metals. Gold, silver, iron, tin and lead are among the metals. Semi-metals
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iron, Nickel-Iron ............................................· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ......... 165 Anorthite .................... · · · · · · · · · · · · ·............................................. 170 County Index ........................................
Report (volume)
.......*................................ The Iron Hill gabbros and gabbro-diorites................................ 5. Inclusions within feldspar of Iron Hill gabbro........................ 29 30 5 U...green hornblende ? GABBRO-DIORTTE. (uralitic). * (Iron Hill.) By Addition of compact green hornblende, either...hypersthenes. and also of the hypersthene in the Iron Hill rocks, but beautiful syrnmetical needles or rods...black inclusions either of magnetite or of titanic iron ore. The diallage can sometimes be found in the
 
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