| Locality type: | Hill |
| Classification |
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| Species: | Grossular |
| Formula: | Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 |
| Comments: | Note: Lighter colored garnets from Joppa Hill have long been called grossular. A darker red garnet was analyzed by SEM-EDS and found to be grossular as well. Ca>Fe>Mn. (P. Cristofono specimen, analysis done by Kerry Day, 2008.) |
| Habit: | good crystals |
| Colour: | cinnamon-brown, tan, red |
| Quality for species: | Good crystals or rich for species - important (!) |
| Abundance at site: | Common |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visually Identified, SEM-EDS |
| Associated Minerals: |
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| Associates: | Calcite
Diopside
Quartz
Vesuvianite
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| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Titanite | 1 |
| Fluorapatite | 1 |
| Scheelite | 1 |
| Ferro-hornblende | 1 |
| Diopside | 1 |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Grossular data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Joppa Hill, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (9 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 51176 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:51176:4 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Grossular |
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| 1.3km (0.8 miles) | ⓘPulpit Road locality, Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA |
| 16.6km (10.3 miles) | ⓘWilton Crushed Stone Quarry, Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA |
| 34.3km (21.3 miles) | ⓘPJ Keating Quarry (Dracut Quarry; Condon Quarry; Essex Bituminous), Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA |
| 48.3km (30.0 miles) | ⓘOld Limestone Quarry Site, Boxborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA |
| 52.1km (32.4 miles) | ⓘRoute 114 calc-silicate locality, North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA |
| 55.1km (34.2 miles) | ⓘBolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA |
| 60.0km (37.3 miles) | ⓘDevil's Den (Devil's Den lime pit), Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA |
| 67.0km (41.7 miles) | ⓘMarlborough Junction locality, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA |
| 74.7km (46.4 miles) | ⓘMillstone Hill Quarry, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA |
| 86.8km (53.9 miles) | ⓘWebster prospects (Sanford vesuvianite locality; Goodall Farm prospect; Webster vesuvianite prospect), Sanford, York County, Maine, USA |
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| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire
Mineral Locality Index
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242
ROCKS & MINERALS
lthough New Hampshire...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of
New Hampshire that even at this
early date there was already...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 | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | long (Marty, 2004 ).
AFRICA
widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from
quartz veins...exist in the
region (Brunet, I 977b ).
NEW YORK
Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites
between...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from
somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings
County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings
County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | are listed on our General List #20 and our
latest New Arrivals Lists. Send for your copies today. Both..............................................
651
NEW FIND IN COWEE VALLEY, N.C.—Paul E. Lockwood
665
THE...the rush! He had received
an invitation to visit a new working gold
mine in South Carolina and so he rushed...headed northward towards the gold mine
in York County. It was a most enjoyable trip, the mine was reached...some features and enlarge others
or would you try a new approach to the
fascinating hobby of mineral collecting | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | the find)
DECEMBER, 1965
Whole Number 315
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New Arrivals
AMETHYST CRYSTAL GEODES, Chihuahua, Mexico...HUNDREDS OF SPECIMENS ON OUR GENERAL
LIST AND LATEST NEW ARRIVALS LISTS. SEND FOR YOUR COPIES TODAY. BOTH...DECEMBER, 1965
CONTENTS
HISTORY OF ANDOVER - SULPHUR HILL IRON MINES, N. J. - Parc 2 —
D. R. Swayze ...................................................
885
NEW FIND OF GIANT AMETHYST, EAST OF DUE WEST, S. C. —..............................................
890
NEW FRANKLIN MINERAL MUSEUM DEDICATED — G. E. Gregory |
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