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Tourmaline from
Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA


Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:347279
Long-form Identifier:1:3:347279:8
GUID (UUID V4):68437e3d-1b63-4194-86e8-8e266b5e65fe
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
42.8km (26.6 miles) Hebronville, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
45.6km (28.3 miles) Conklin Quarry, Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
47.9km (29.8 miles) Poker Hill, Ashton, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
65.4km (40.6 miles) Bozrah, New London County, Connecticut, USA
84.5km (52.5 miles) Becker Quarry (Becker's Quarry), West Willington, Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
92.7km (57.6 miles) Linkpot cut, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
93.8km (58.3 miles) Tourmaline locality, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
94.4km (58.6 miles) Arnold Quarry, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
94.4km (58.7 miles) Quarry Hill (Brainerd Quarries; Shailor Quarries), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
94.7km (58.8 miles) Arnold Granite Quarry (General Brainerd Quarry; Great Hill Quarry; Hazelton Quarry; Haddam Quarry; Brookes Quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AMERICA NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND PART II. REMAINING COUNTIES Lrovn W. FrsnBn...Staurolite Stilbite Zoisite BRISTOL COUNTY The major portion of Bristol County shows sedimentary rocks consisting...consisting chiefly of the Rhode Island formation of shales, con_ glomerates and sandstones. B. K. Ernerson2has...similar to the Diamond Hill area of Providence County. The Bristol area, in the vicinity of portsmouth... K. Gedney: Notes on the Mineral Localities of Rhode lsland. Arn. Mineral.,11, No. 12, pp. 334-340, (1926
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elected representatives, now, Pa., and also one in Jamestown, N.Y. A I believe, referred to as regional vice...to States that are dry and hot. provide Lehigh County minerals that may Robert Middleton of the American...American Mu­ be placed on display at the Lehigh County seum of Natural History told of mineral courthouse...Qub of guest speaker for the Bergen County Min­ Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, was eralogy and Paleontology...specimens, etc., for the Society, and the Bucks County Earth club to dispose of at bargain rates. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Florida] at 07:16 08 August 2017 Rockingham County Mineral Club President, Charles Setliff 1301 Courtland...a n d Silver Spring, Md. 20901 Minerals Beaver County Rock and Mineral Society President, William Schroeder...bulletin of the Rock and Min­ eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, carries a splendid article on...stint for the Girl Scouts. - - - - The Calhoun County Rock and Mineral Club, Jacksonville, showed slides...Montgomery Gem and Mineral Soc­ iety hunted for tourmaline, beryl, acquamarine, quartz, and other pegmatite
Report (issue)
Precambrian Fourchu Group of southeastern Cape Breton Island (Keppie and others, 1979). Hornblende gabbros (Eden...Avalon terrane have included those of a pre-Iapetus island arc (Rast and others, 1976), an aborted rifting...records northwestward subduction beneath a cratonic island arc (Cape Breton terrane), and the development...Devonian plutonic terrane within the Avalon zone of Rhode Island: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v....Fourchu Group in the Louisbourg area, Cape Breton Island: Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy Paper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
They are sometimes found in town libraries or county buildings. Occasionally club members in a community...Pacolet Mills in search of such things as limonite, tourmaline, corundum and soapstone. . . . The Catawba Mineral...Hill. RHODE ISLAND A double barrelled treat for a Field Trip was offered its members by the Rhode Island...arranged a trip to the staurolite location at Jamestown, then to the Narragansett Graphite location for...MillROCKS AND MINERALS eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fallsington, when they travelled there for corundum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs in dunes on the shore of Dogs Bay, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. A small sample of this sand has...Howarth, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales. Tourmaline Sand from California The following item is taken...sample of tourmaline sand from Mesa Grande Indian Reservation, the site of the old Himalaya tourmaline mine...coarse sand. It consists chiefly of slender pink tourmaline (rubellite xls)—all gemmy and showing little...a number of sand samples and minerals from his Island in the Pacific Ocean. Among the sand samples is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock district, Har­ din County, Illinois. Harvard Mineralogical Museum collection...Quartz and chalcopyrite, Bandora mine, San Juan County, Col­ orado. Barbara and John Muntyan specimen...Susan Robinson. November-December: Gold, Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. California State Mining... T . King, 129 Black Tourmaline from Little Cahuilla Mountain, Riverside County, California, K. Gochenour...Brunet, W., New Mineral Discoveries in Litchfield County, Connecticut, 126 Bumastus sp., 203 Calaverite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mining in Alabama in the Cragford district of Clay County, the workings which entered the unoxidized zone...Palmer, Alaska. ARIZONA—From a locality in Mohave County in N . W . Arizona, we have an interesting specimen...glauberite xls mailed you last June from Imperial County near Bertam Siding on the Southern Pacific R.R...in the cavity is believed to have been black tourmaline, leaving remnants of dark brown limonitc. It...constructed in 1933 for the McBryde Sugar Co. on Kauai Island, Hawaii, white, amorphous allophane was found incrusting
Journal (issue)
... 462 NOTES ON SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES IN RHODE ISLAND. By Willard Stone Winslotv, fr. ........................................ 476 MOLYBDENlTE AT NEWPORT, N . H . ........................................10 ao, NOTES ON SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES IN RHODE ISLAND 1g llt :cl 1y & id of rd ;t- ! DO ire...like to hear about localities for minerals in Rhode Island. From time to time • very interesting articles...are two famous limestone deposits in northern Rhode Island, once noted for their profusion of mineral specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOCHEMISTRY OF TANTALUM IN THE HARDING PEGMATITE, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO* ge,M assachusetts, Anrnun M oNrcoruBnu...cassiterite, wolframite, zircon, thorite, monazite and tourmaline, (4) it least easily enters the structures of...and rare-earth minerals, cassiterite, rutile, tourmaline, etc., were lacking in the pegmatite. Bray's...797) geochemicalinvestigation of rocks of the Jamestown area, Colorado, found that pegmatite minerals...Dixon granite. Dr. Harold C. Harrison, now at Rhode Island State College,cooperatedin the study by setting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
flakes in calcite, serpentine, sphene, and brown tourmaline crystals. New York Societies enjoy going to Fonda...Maine. Mt. Mica is a world famous location for tourmaline. Also found here is lepidolite, albite, amblygonite...South River Mine (Kelly Bank), Augusta — Rockbridge County, the minerals to be found are pyrolusite, manganite...MINERALS Road to Cold Springs Clay Mine, Augusta County can be found kaolinite bauxite, limonite and chert...River in Virginia to somewhere in the vicinity of Jamestown will lead you to banks literally covered with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Spectacular Victoria Falls was one of the subjects. RHODE ISLAND Chester Teachman of the Boston Mineral Society...for the Rhode Island Mineral Hunters, Central Falls. A Field Trip to the Island of Jamestown for staurolite...purpurite, and other material. . . . The Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association, Rumford, have set...magnification of tourmaline crystals. . . . The Gem, 50 Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County. Wheaton...scorbalite, while another trip took them to the Island Clark Mines, Alstead, N . H . for beryl xls, smoky
Book (volume)
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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE,
Book (volume)
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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Report (volume)
Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...1295 Prepared in cooperation with the State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and...geological studies in Rhode Island____._.________.-__.-_-____. Position of Rhode Island in the Appalachian...-___--_Older gneissic rocks of northwestern Rhode Island.____________ Nipsachuck Gneiss-------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral in a few pegmatites at Atolia, San Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the...pegmatite. It is often associated with cassiterite, tourmaline, topaz, iepidolite, apatite, etc. It is usually...earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing up to four hundred...mineral at St. Peter's Dome near Pike's Peak, El Paso County, Colorado. CRYOLITE, a fluoride of sodium and aluminum...Libraries] at 09:59 10 August 2017 Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. Calcite occurs elsewhere at the
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 (issue)
about 2 percent of the deposits include biotite, tourmaline, dolomite, other carbontates (e.g., rhodochrosite)...States, (except Alaska) and in Nova Scotia, it is a county name; in Alaska, area gives the 1 by 3 quadrangle...Allgood, R.W., 1985, James Gold Mines, Toulumne County, California: Sonora Mining Corporation, 13 p. Anonymous... 1935, Mines and mineral resources of Siskiyou County: California Journal of Mines and Geology, v. 31...V., 1942, Mines and mineral resources of Sierra County: Division of Mines Report 38, p. 17-48. California
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pink is known as morganite. Tiny dark greenish tourmaline xls were imbedded in the morganite. The other...slender green gemmy tourmaline xls, and rough xl masses of black opaque tourmaline. The following item...by Seymour F. Dozier, Red Oak, Route 1, Fulton County, Georgia. Large lumps of this material can be picked...silver. "The Agency Creek, McDevitt District, Lemhi County, Idaho, radioactive ores (found in that District...employees and the community of Rosiclare."—Hardin County Independent, Elizabethtown, Illinois."— The Crittenden
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
August 2017 Last fail a group of Elkhart (Ind.) County residents, because of their common interest in...collection, knowledge and identifica- month at the County Center, White Plains, tion of rocks, minerals and...lepidolite, manganapatite (fl) triphylite, black tourmaline xls, green beryl and the much rarer pink beryl...asbestos quarry in Pelham. Chandler's Mill, near Newport, N.H. (Smith Mine) Charge of $1 per person here...Beryl, beautiful muscovite mica, large black tourmaline xls, triphylite, brilliant blue lazulite coating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sponsored by the Rock & Arrowhead Club. Klamath County Fairgrounds. Information: Bob Williams, 2706 Watson...sponsored by the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County. Northminster Presbyterian Church, 140 Tren­ ton...the Calaveras Gem and Mineral Society. Calaveras County Fair Grounds. Information: Jerry Bradford, 2068...sponsored by the Hell's Canyon Gem Club. Nez Perce County Fair Bldg. Informa­ tion: J . Dickeson & J . Carver...Annual Gem & Mineral Show sponsored by the Stark County Gem & Mineral Club. Nazir Grotto, 1803-6th St.
Journal (issue)
Agate Oarnelian Rock Crystal Amazonite Malachite Tourmaline Agate · Turquoise Tiger Eye Aquamarine n ose...<·1·oss-section a n1ong the rest. Zircon and black tourmaline a re found in f-harply bounded individuals; biotite...Connnt>rcial prodnction of Fluorite has come from Jamestown in the Front Range, Red :\Iountain and ,,•agon...bare·• of all types of 1ninernls. The Jamestown Area The .Jamestown area is roughly 50 miles northwes t... A. Yl'rr thorough i n,·esti irutiou of tb e Jamestown fl uorspnr a reu hy t h e r. S. Geologic ~n1Tey
Book (volume)
Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee...from foreign lands. These include turquoise, tourmaline, amethyst, pearls, opals, jade, sapphires, emeralds...stone that the sender believed to be an unusual tourmaline. The stone came from an abandoned mine at Pala...exclusively in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Mitchell County, North Carolina, to be true hiddenite. Preface...Hamlin, were rock hunting on Mount Mica in Oxford County, Maine. On the way home, one of the boys saw a
Report (volume)
........................................... Rhode Island...............................................L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem. Rhode Island__Prof. C. W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina__...See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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 S., R. 7 E.;
 
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