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Schorl from
Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:647166
Long-form Identifier:1:3:647166:8
GUID (UUID V4):4594e46a-79e1-4e82-b7d7-c2fa7e442b64
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
12.1km (7.5 miles) Barrus farm pegmatite localities, Goshen, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
13.6km (8.5 miles) Clark Ledge pegmatite locality, Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
26.1km (16.2 miles) Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
27.6km (17.1 miles) Blandford mica mines, Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
42.2km (26.2 miles) Specialty Minerals Mine (Pfizer Quarry; New England Lime Quarry; Follet Quarry; Adams Lime Quarry), Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
42.4km (26.3 miles) Guilford, Windham County, Vermont, USA
43.2km (26.9 miles) Orange mica mine, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
45.8km (28.5 miles) North Adams Marble Company quarry, North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
52.2km (32.4 miles) Richmond Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
58.4km (36.3 miles) Reynolds Mine (Beryl Hill Mine), Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...Survey, a inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was...Geological A MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
00:39 19 January 2015 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lack and nearly black minerals-no...cassiterite, Russian ilvaite, Brazilian and Namibian schorl, Panasqueira ferberite, and rutile, especially...near Waterbury, Vermont; at Poker Hill, Providence County, Rhode Island; and in Essex, Orange, and Warren...specimens have been described from a number of Massachusetts localities, including thumb-sized crystals from...Leyden, complexly twinned crystals to 4 cm from Williamsburg, 2.5-cm-thick twins from Conway, and geniculated
Catalog/List
L. Chester, Massachusetts. Massive; ofa pale green color in granite. 83. Williamsburg, Massachufietts...Limestone. Chem. Carbonate of Lime. Bolton, Massachusetts. Chaux carbonatce primitive. H. St. Andreasberg...Southampton, Massachusetts. Var. Argentine or Shief- fer-spar. 127. L. Williamsburgh, Massachusetts. 128...carbonate of lime, upon quartz. 201. L. Berkshire, Massachusetts. tals, imbedded 202. L. Connecticut. In ...color. asbestus, I! crys- Springfield, Massachusetts. Massive, of a yellow- 205. Milford, Connecticut
Book
CUMMINGS, BILLIARD, & CO. 1825. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. District Clerk's Oflht. BE it remembered..." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the, District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE -. University Press, Milliard...Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and Jacob (Hall.) (Webster.) Hampshire Gazetteer...Bath. MAINE. BOWDOIN. Schorl, common, very abundant. (C.) BOWDOINHAM. Schorl, very large, perfect,...in beds. Mica, sometimes very beautiful green, Schorl, black, masses sometimes contain fragments of quartz
Report (edition)
much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...matrix. These include microcline feldspar, beryl, schorl (black tourmaline), almandine (garnet), and elbaite...Rockland-Thomaston, Rockport, and Union areas in Knox County. They once supported a booming industry based on...Forest City Mining Stacie. l\tIAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE MINING STOCK :SOUGHT A.ND BOLD :SY T. H. :MANSFIELD
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)
Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz...CRYSTALLIZED TURQUOISE from near Lynch Station, Campbell County, is Virginia's unique contribution to the mineral...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per­ fection of their thin...the same county. It also has been observed in pegmatites in Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and elsewhere...the world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................of Geology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He began teaching there in 1931 and he retired...permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...Maine's treasure chest; Gems and minerals of Oxford County, second edition: Quicksilver Publications, West
Book (volume)
greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...emeralds and outstanding quartz crystals. New Hampshire has also yielded a few aquamarines, heliodors...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Pennsylvania Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts Gail and Victor Blomquist library, Dresden,
Journal (issue)
................... 591 THE LEAD MINES OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASS. By E. C. Foster ···-···594 ~NERAL COLLEC11NG...LEAD MINES OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASS. By EDWARD C. FOSTER Instructor of Science, Williamsburg (Mass.) High...lead mines of Hampshire County are easily reached by car from Northampton, Massachusetts. Northampton...Northampton, county seat of Hampshire County, is situated on the west bank of the Connecticut River and east of...successful mineral mining venture in Western Massachusetts, certainly the oldest. A notice appearing l
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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
Book
Dinosaur-Astrodon johnstoni Gem-Patuxent River Stone * Massachusetts Gem-Rhodonite Fossil-Dinosaur Track Mineral-Babingtonite...us atokensis * Oregon Rock-Thunderegg * New Hampshire Rock-Granite Mineral-Bery] Gem-Smoky Quartz 2B)...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional...white Sylacauga marble from Sylacauga, Talladega County, is considered among the finest white marble in
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broad, extending from South Hampton through Williamsburg to the southwest part of Conway and northeast...but they may be traced southerly into Litchfield county, where they exist abundantly, and are sometimes...also, Connecticut. Many bill ^ between Williamsburg and Chesterfield. Graphic Granite. This I ...any one pass from Hinsdale, Newthe Connecticut. Hampshire to Winchester and he will see numerous bowlders...north it spreads over a considerable part of New-Hampshire. The White hills though they have are said
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...Geography, Contribution No. 32, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 129 p. Lyttle, P.T., and Epstein,
Book
Smith of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts; Jeannine Falino, Janis L. Staggs, Diana Larsen...Anne E. Bentley and Christopher Steele of the Massachusetts Historical Society; Richard Nylander and Jane...Headquarters in Washington, D.C. At Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, Beatrix T. Rumford, Carolyn J....and enjoyable. The Society of Jewelry Historians USA in New York has provided a clearing house for information...around his eyes. Length 4in., width 3/%in. Massachusetts Historical Society. E/N (COON an’s exploration
Journal (issue)
and Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois, USA (4.02 ct gem); photo by Orasa Weldon. Accredited...Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Alan T. Collins, King’s College London; John L....Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France;...E. Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; Andrew H. Rankin, Kingston University, Surrey; George...Rossman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA; Karl Schmetzer, Petershausen, Germany; Dietmar Schwarz
Book (edition)
was obtained a few years since at Acworth, New Hampshire, which measured 4 feet in length and 2$ feet in...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Warm and Hot Springs ; in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Book (edition)
was obtained a few years since at Acworth, New Hampshire, which measured 4 feet in length and 2 feet in...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs ; in BuncombeAt Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Book (edition)
was obtained a few years since at Acworth, New Hampshire, which measured 4 feet in length and 2£ feet in...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Book (edition)
was obtained a few years since at Acworth, New Hampshire, which measured 4 feet in length and 2^ feet in...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Blue Ridge at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. At Bath...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Book (edition)
was obtained a few years since at Acworth, New Hampshire, which measured 4 feet in length and 2 feet in...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebulthe earth, ...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. lition ...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Journal (issue)
dans Identification Company, Radnor, Pennsylvania, USA Identification de de micro-inclusions dans des des...Angeles, California, Solntsev, V.P., California, USA V.P., 1981a. Nature of color centres and EPR in Giibelin...serpentine deposit was recently discovered in Booyo County, Republic of Korea, and is the first recorded occurrence...Systems, Inc., Inc., Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA USA Tan, T.L., TL., Tay, Tay, T.S., T.5., Loh, Loh...Hurlbut Hurlbut Jr., C.S., 1993. Manual of of & Sons, USA Mineralogy, 21st Edn, John Wiley & Lasnier, B., 1995
Journal (issue)
appear appear in sapphires from Yogo Gulch (Montana, USA) and in corundums corundums from metamorphic metamorphic...T. Cold Coldham, Sapphex Boulder, Co., Co., VSA USA analytical ham, Sapphex A.J., 1986. 1986. Polybaric...lava flow, Nye County, Nevada, USA John R. Führbach, B.Sc., FGA, GG Amarillo, Texas, USA ABSTRACT: An extinct...occurs near Black Rock Summit in east central Nevada, USA. The peridot was studied to determine chemical, optical...as Kilbourne Hole (Volcano), Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA some 1126 km distant. Several identified
Journal (issue)
from Kola, USSR; Ilimaussaq, Greenland; San Benito County, California; the Langesundsfjord Langesundsfjord...reported from Tanzania, and from salt lakes in the USA (Hay, 1966). Gem-quality Gem-quality natrolite is...and calcium aluminosilicates. Proc. Acad. Sci., USA, USA, 16, 453-9 Proc. Nat. Acad. Poitevin, E., 1938...Obsidian (Marekanit) im Perlit von Superior, Arizona, USA. USA. Gemmologie, Gemmologie, Z. Vt. 45(2), 83-9 Dt...type locality in the Johachido District, Kisshu County, Kankyo Hodu Hodu Prefecture, North Korea (Figure
Book (volume)
das nach unserem Dafürhalten für Nutzer in den USA öffentlich zugänglich ist, auch für Nutzer in anderen...Analysen XXVII und XXVIII . Bei Webster, Jackson County in North Carolina, kommt im Talkschiefer mit Chromit... N. Jahrb. 1872 , 59 ). b) Waterville , New- Hampshire. Ebenfalls hierher gehörig wegen seiner Zusammensetzung...Gallion in Londonderry und am Lyle's Hill in Antrim County. c) Im Yellowstone National Park , Wyoming, kommen...Turmalin eingewachsen im Granit von Goshen , Massachusetts. Durch eine auf Veranlassung G. ROSE's von RAMMELSBERG
 
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