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โ‡ฑ Granite from Old Granite Quarry, Wilmington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


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Granite from
Old Granite Quarry, Wilmington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

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Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Old Granite Quarry, Wilmington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1293155
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1293155:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
16.2km (10.0 miles) โ“˜Den Rock, Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
17.0km (10.5 miles) โ“˜Aggregate Industries Quarry, Saugus, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
18.3km (11.4 miles) โ“˜Harris Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
18.4km (11.4 miles) โ“˜Ledge Hill Quarry, Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
21.4km (13.3 miles) โ“˜Fletcher's Pond Dam, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) โ“˜Newport Aggregates Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
21.8km (13.5 miles) โ“˜W. J. Graves Granite Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
23.5km (14.6 miles) โ“˜Palmer Quarries, Snake Meadow Hill, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
23.7km (14.7 miles) โ“˜William Reed's Quarry, Snake Meadow Hill, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
29.9km (18.6 miles) โ“˜Flat Rock Hill Quarry, Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
expansion of the number of our Clubs. Each year old problems are solved and new ones present themselves...Rochland Nuggets, Marvin Klibinoff, Editor, Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc. Neivlapso, Dr. Philip...Jerry Fever, Editors, Junior Division, Rockland County AJneral and Gem Society, Inc. Lack of a large attendance...Merit A-3 MINERALS- ANY TYPE AND SIZE Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Ine Newark Mineralogieal...(One only) T. L. Baskin & Sons, 732 Union Ave., Middlesex, N . J. 08846 EXHIBIT U-4 Summary of Competitive
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals that contain...autunite aggregates from the Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington; John Lucking specimen, Jeff Scovil...autunite crystals on matrix from the Apex mine, Lander County, Nevada; Scott Kleine specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...hydrothermal veins, felsic plutons including those of granite and quartz-monzonite composition, and roll-front...other Oxford County sites, including the well190 ROCKS & MINERALS known Dunton quarry at Newry where
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JOPPA HILL AND OLD GRANITE QUARRY, AMHERST. N. H. By MARIE T. BABCOCK Downloaded by [University of Florida]...07:28 04 August 2017 3 Dublin Avenue, Wilmington, Massachusetts After many fruitless trips due to incorrect...directions, the search for the Joppa Hill and Old Granite Quarry locales of Amherst, N . H., became a reality...of Amherst, they always directed us to several granite quarries in Milford, which had the most barren...quarries for swimming pools. There was one granite quarry in particular which impressed me. W e had been
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Journal (issue)
..................................... 713 714 OLD-OLD-LOCALITIES .................................................. MISCELLANEOUS 64 2 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 641 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A RUSH TRIP TO SOUTH CAROLINA On Tuesday, August...headed northward towards the gold mine in York County. It was a most enjoyable trip, the mine was reached...Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and Wilmington, Del. In Wilmington he contacted Edward Carvalho, (another
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Report (issue)
sequence, mafic gneisses, the Glastonbury granite gneiss, Maromas granite gneiss, and Monson gneiss. The position...and thorium-lead ratios as about 260 million years old, presumably Mississippian. The Bolton schist includes...These metasediments are cut by the Glastonbury granite gneiss, a gray to pink medium- to coarse-grained...coarse-grained porphyritic gneiss; by the Maromas granite gneiss, a gray medium-grained biotite orthogneiss; and...of the cities of Middletown and Portland in Middlesex County; the Glastonbury quadrangle, north of the
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........... 858 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ............................................................................... 851 A NOTE ON AN OLD LOCALITY IN PENN.โ€” Glenn Wayebunas D. G. MITCHELL...7-3185> ROCKS AND MINERALS 801 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A POST CARD FROM HELL ! Hell Joes exist and R&M...antedate the Viking era or at least one thousand years old. We did not prospect there and saw no minerals in...San Antonio Rock & Lapiยญ dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman; Fred Stevenson, P
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Fluorite Crystals with Galena Crystals, Socorro County, N. Mex. A very fine selection in stock. Crystals............................................ 474 OLD-OLD LOCALITIES ....................................................... MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY..................................................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 401 9 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY 15th Eastern Federation Gem & Mineral Show New...(chalcedony pseudomorph after coral) from Hamilton County, Florida, near the famous Suwannee River. This
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/yiar20 The Granite Quarrying Industry in Devon and Cornwall: Part...To cite this article: Peter Stanier (1986) The Granite Quarrying Industry in Devon and Cornwall: Part...of Exeter] Date: 31 May 2016, At: 08:06 The Granite Quarrying Industry in Devon and Cornwall: Part...work for a number of months. De Lank Quarry acquired the granite contract for the new GPO in King Wiliam...included polished work.! Also in London, Cornish granite was used in the widening of Blackfriars Bridge
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tcnt with (I) :he emplacement of the Mot;nt A0r) granite into ('ambrian(?) metasediments of appoximatelv...to intrusion into the package of the Occoquan Granite which has a 494 + 14 Mz~ Rb-Sr whole rock age (Mose...older than 500 Ma in or,tier to be intruded by a granite of this age. Because the re~onal structure and...Grauert & Wagner (1975) dated metamorphism of the Wilmington Complex in Delaware and Pennsylvania (Fig. 2...Ma for the age of Taconic metamorphism ia the Wilmington Complex. Foland & Muessig (1978) have confirmed
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minas Gerais, Brazil, suggest three ages (3) granite between Minas beds and the 1350 m.y. of intrusion:...intrusion: 2400 m.y. determined from gneiss granite in the western part of the area. Other ages, within the...(Table 1, Group II) have meta104). Gneiss and granite of two distinct ages morphosed it. The Minas series...no clear-cut contact relationships to any dated granite but is thought to be latest Precambrian in age...Department of Geology and Geophysics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The samples were crushed
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Report (issue)
Bedrock Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr...Lithologic Description 38 275- TO 280-M.Y.-OLD GRANITE IN THE MILFORD-MASON, N.H., AREA________ :~...Description 40 Radiometric Age 40 FITCHBURG GRANITE 40 Nomenclature and Historical Background 40... 41 Biotite granite containing less than 6 percent biotite (Dfg) 41 Biotite granite containing 5 to...biotite (Dfbg) 42 Radiometric Age 42 CHELMSFORD GRANITE 43 Nomenclature, Historical Background, and Distribution
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242... ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states, with an area...mineral localities for the collector. Prospecting, granite quarrying, and mining probably peaked before the...This activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Plumose County, Arizona. N o one knows better than we do that there is no such county in Arizona and...of bertrandite specimens found at the Strickland Quarry, at Portland, Conn., last year. Walter Bagley spotted...unreported. On October 15th last I visited the Toll Gate Quarry, just iy2 miles south of Middletown, on Rout 9"Dave... Lakeland, Fla. "These are found in a dolomite quarry. They are generally black at this locality. In...which has been thoroughly injected by pegmatitic granite. The sample was picked up by one of the scientists
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Report (issue)
General Iudex of Quarries (pages 6-84), giving the county, number of Inspection Division, aud nan1e of tlie...address of thR owner, the narne and situation of the quarry, the name of agent or manager, date of signature...Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire ... Kent Leicestershire Middlesex Norlolk Northamptonshire Oxยฃ01ยทdshire Rutlandshire...Manchester. part of Lancashire (namely, so much of the County as is not [Inspecting, Astley, Lanes.] inelnded...Cheshire (namely, so muoh uf [Atherton 76.J the County as is not included in No. 6 Division), Anglesey
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bross Ave., Longmont, Colo. Globe, in southern Gila County, is in S/'E Arizona. FLORIDAโ€”"I am sending some...chalcedonyโ€”almost an agate ! Lakeland, in N / W Polk County, is in central Florida. GEORGIA โ€” "The enclosed...Ro.r.e, Ga. Summerville is in centra! Chattooga County in N / W Georgia. MAINE โ€” A few months ago David...good specimens from the mines, although the old granite quarries occasionally produce good xls of albite...far the best collecting area in Blue Hill is the old Douglas mine where there are "miles" of dumps. Unfortunately
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Report (issue)
General Index of Quarries (pages 9-88), giving the county, number of Inspection Division, and name of tLe...address of thA owner, the na1ne and situation of the quarry, the name of agent or manager , date of signature...the County as is not included in No. 2 Division), part of Cheshire (n amely, so much of the County as...Ilereford, Rertford, Huntingdon, Kent, Leicester, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northampton, Oxford, ~utland, Salop... โ€ข โ€ข 9 INDEX OF QUARRIES. County and No. of Division. Name of Quarry. I Abberley .... Abbey โ€ข Abbey
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Journal (issue)
1938 CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1938 CH I PS FROtv1 THE QUARRY ( Editorial Page) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...THE BLOWPIPE ART. H. R. Lee ........... 227 THE OLD TUNGSTEN MINE IN TRUMBULL , CONN. By Paul T. B'.atz... . . . . . . . 244 โ€ข R. & M. A . OUTING IN MASSACHUSETTS. WยฅRN BRANCt-\. By John E. Kitson . . . . ....Association 226 ROCKS and MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY PETER ZODAC TRUMBULL MINE PARK One of the objects...application that the story of the convers:on of the old Trumbull Mine property into a public park, which
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Report (issue)
of geologic names as new names or re.. visions of old names appeared in the literature. This work was interrupted...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian...map. Occurs in vicinity of Abbyville, Mecklenburg County. Abercrombie Formationl Middle Cambrian: Western
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...................................:......... Granite....................................................................'.......................... Granite.. 1..............................................near Richmond, Va.; B, James River falling over granite ledges above Richmond, Va.......................................... V. A, Calvert formation on granite near foot of Pine Street, Richmond, Va.; B, Columbia...... VI. A, Belle Island granite quarry and crusher; B, Smith granite quarry, 2 miles above Richmond,
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kunzite is Fred . M. Sickler , of Pala , San Diego County , Cal . He was born in San Diego , July 12, 1879...Diego , and was chosen by the county board of education to represent the county at the Youths ' Congress ...the mines of the southwest he traversed San Diego County and the region around Pala , picking up rare specimens...KENTUCKY DIAMOND FIELDS . DISPATCHESfrom Elliott County , Kentucky , state that there is considerable excitement...โ€”a north -south uplift of older rocks , mainly granite , which ends at the north bend of the North Platte
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contains the following particuln.rs :-Name of the quarry, situation, name and address of owner, date of... ... i\'fontgomeryshire Radnorshire ... Kent Middlesex Surrey ... Sussex ... L,le of ๏ฟฝfan 255 256 258...Contgomery, Ra.dnoi:, and the Isle of Man; also Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex. C. Le Neve Foster, Esq....INSPECTION DISTRICT, during the Year 1809. Ko. Name of Quarry. Name and Postal Addre9S ot Owner or Compa.ny... 2 Aikey Brae Old Deer... 4 Auchaber G Auchludoir George Dain, Builder, Old Deer, Mintlaw Station
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Sister Peak Owyhee reservoir volcanic area, Melheur County, Southeastern Oregon. (See CORCORAN,1965) T-148...tuff, Black glass 3.5 mi. NE of Shoshone, Inyo County Vitrophyre from ash-flow tuff, 4.2mi. N of Black...aphanitic, Na-rich, Sonoma Co., Valley of the Moon quarry, 4 mi. E of Kenwood Whole rock Rhyolite perlite...9 (1) Pilot Mountains volcanic area, Mineral County, Nevada. (See NI~LS]Slr 1963) 506--730 Rhyodacite...black obsidian marekanite nodules, Superior, Gila County Rhyolite glass, grey, N bank of Salt River, 0.2
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MONTHLY Contents for July, 1948 CHJPS FROM THE QUARRY ............................................................... 591 THE LEAD MINES OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASS. By E. C. Foster ยทยทยท-ยทยทยท594 ~NERAL COLLEC11NG...Association ROCKS AND MINEJW.s 578 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY COMING EVENTS Mineralo1ical Club of Hartford OUTINGS...Mines, Tilly Foster, N. Y. Sept. 12-Upper Merryall Quarry Sept. 2~ester, Mass. Blanford, Mass. Oct IO-Roxbury...Natural Bridse, N. Y. .on- I have never owned an old copy of :ncs Dana's Mineralogy. One that was more
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sphalerite, Arsenopyrite. These were found in granite and pegmatite dikes. C. J. Hubbard 433 Waverly...and chalcocite. In the pegmatite of Strickland Quarry, Portland, uraninite, lepidolite, beryl, columbite...Committee, brought along his charming wife and year old son, who after bruising his forehead on a rock was...awakening. Here was an interesting contrast between the old time and the modern. Our cars whizzed by the quaint...members we found our way up to Mt. Adam. The old granite quarry on the West slope afforded a breathtaking
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SAN JACINTO, AND Rose CANYON Fautrs 128 157 THE OLD EROSION SURFACE, PERRIS PLAIN, AND THE PowAy CONGLOMERATE...Beach Oil Field 208 Seal Beach Oil Field 209 Wilmington Oil Field 209 Los ANGELES River 210 La Brea Tar...and appropriate. Post miles give mileage on a per-county basis. Some counties place post mile signs only...given county. Mileage increases eastward or northward and then restarts at 0 at the next county line....is Santa Barbara County; 29.00 is highway mileage from the south boundary of the county. Post miles are
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