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Zircon from
Lyman Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Albite1 photo of Zircon associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lyman Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1103316
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1103316:5
GUID (UUID V4):f7dd3b1b-54cd-48b6-be73-2667de968d26
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
0.3km (0.2 miles) Fitzgibbons Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) Beryl Mountain Quarry, South Acworth, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Blister Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) Chickering Mine, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
23.7km (14.7 miles) Chandlers Mill Quarry, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
23.8km (14.8 miles) George Frank Smith Quarry, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
26.2km (16.3 miles) Town of Athens, Windham County, Vermont, USA
33.5km (20.8 miles) Gassetts, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
36.3km (22.6 miles) Ascutney Mountain complex, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
38.3km (23.8 miles) Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 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
Book (edition)
LAZULI TURQUOISE GARNET ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • ...SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS Crystal forms 5 velopment of one face...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance...Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, or Tom Robert's Rock the caption. All photographs
Book (volume)
UNH LIBRARY 3 MbOD DllEE THE GEOLOGY NEW HAMPSHIRE A REPORT COMPRISING THE RESULTS OF EXPLORATIONS...Arrangements have been made upon the scale of Bien, of New York. The execute the coloring. tion with this...I. Page. THE RELATIONS OF THE GEOLOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TO THAT OF THE ADJACENT TERRITORY. By II. ...CLASSIFICATION OF THE By C. H. Hitchcock, INDEX, 634 NEW HAMPSHIRE FORMATIONS. 658 677 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS...Map field, Fig. Section from Bronson's lime quarry to Smith's brook, Fig. Section in Dalton and
Book (volume)
MODIFIED DRIFT By WARREN ae OF GLACIAL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. UPHAM, DRIFT. APPENDIX II. TO PARTS ...INTRODUCTION, . . . . .. THE MINERALOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, LITHOLOGY, INDEX TO PART IV, APPENDIX, Part...Rockingham, Vt., 3 : 18, Section in Bridgewater and New Hampton, 19, Section in Concord, Fig. 20, Section...of IN THE 14-16 ATLAS. New Hampshire—/ac-szmle, reduced. New Hampshire—/ac-simzle, half size. Two...the topography, contour lines, and geology of New Hampshire, with portions of that of the adjoining territory
Report (issue)
Paleozoic Bedrock Stratigraphy Near Littleton, New Hampshire By Douglas W. Rankin and Mary B. Rankin Open-File...Paleozoic bedrock stratigraphy near Littleton, New Hampshire: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014‒1026...map of the Littleton 15-minute quadrangle, New Hampshire ...................................................5 Geologic map of the Littleton area, New Hampshire.................................................7 Topographic map of the Littleton area, New Hampshire ...........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chamberlain, Syracuse University; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. Robert King, Tewksbury, Great...FERBERITE-HÜBNERITE FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and... of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148. rd The 33 ineralogical...granite quarry is located approximately 0.4 kilometer west of the Ladick East (or Charneski) quarry in the...them tungstenian columbite-tantalite. Hafnium-rich zircon is locally abundant. Xenotime is sparse and appears
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...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect
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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (edition)
channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...gas fields occur in almost every State except in New England and a few Southern States, but the discoveries...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und
Book
localities. My fond hope is that someone of the new generation will take up the challenge of revising...tantalizing find, one of several mineral discoveries in New England since the 1970s, including gold in a state...104 ••• 11ne G••• shou1d be ------------.1958. Cheshire 105 ••• 1ine 18 ••• p.382 should be p.385 114...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Report (volume)
Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...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;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items On New Finds Are Desired. Alabama—Mr. Ernest Fairbanks...Please Send Them In. calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo Co., Calif., and the other is a bluishwhite...annoying to handle. Delaware — Near Middletown, New Castle Co., Del., vivianite was once found in fine...Volusia Co., Fla., grayish coral sand was found in a new well dug in the city. A small sample of the sand...in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County —2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest
Journal (issue)
MINING IN New HAMPSHIRE, 4y Mrs. Julian Wetherbee “Thar’s gold in them hills,” in New Hampshire, of all...reported upon, with particular attention to the new lapel buttons and metal car decals by which Rockhound... GEM Chatoyant labradorite. A new shipment of choice pieces at a new low price. $4.00 Ib.; $2.00 per...2°, $2.50, $4.00. Prices are list at Rochester, New York, except as noted above PRICE LISTS AND CATALOGS...bimonthly except during the summer. acquisitions, new lines of equipment Contains special listings, recent
Report (volume)
...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;...Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington...intersect at right angles. The crystals, such as zircon, commonly have a square cross-section. The hexagonal
Report (issue)
shock-metamorphosed mineral grains.... 49 Abstract A new set of 34 laser total-fusion 40Ar/39Ar analyses of...1980); 2) shocked quartz, feldspar, quartzite, and zircon (Bohor and others, 1984, 1992; Izett and Pillmore...preliminary age of 73.8 Ma for the MIS we have acquired a new set of Ar/39Ar analyses of sanidine from core of...from K-T boundary sedimentary rocks in Colorado, New Mexico, and Montana. Shoemaker and Izett (1992) speculated...the Manson 2 A core. Their interpretation of these new ^Ar/^Ar age spectra again was that the microcline
Report (edition)
5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...llecting equipment and techniques for those who are new to the ·hobby. Several previous guidebooks have been...Supplemental labels were added where necessary to show quarry sites, road names, and other useful landmarks.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
proper insurance to permit the Club to visit the Quarry at St. Hilaire. Terrill 5904 Plaintleld Ave....Show. The Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, found quartz crystals, wulfenite...N.Y. 1 3790 Editor- Mrs. Betty E F M L S 593 New Newsletter Southhampton, Penn. Show Road Chairman-Edwin...Clauser reported that six members of the Bucks County Earth Science Society, Feasterville, placed in...demonstrated "His kind of Faceting." The Frederick County Rock and Mineral Club, Frederick, made a trip to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exploration, and mineral collecting continues. and new finds will likely continue to be made. The most complete...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl in the No~~er...project of Friends of Mineralogy; corrections and new or additional data are welcome and should be sent...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction...of Pierre Formation: barite (gray roses). Butte County Belle Fourche, 6 mi. W., secs. 23, 24, 25. and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
connexion with the East through Asia Minor. The new species of Hippopotamus seems to furnish a link with...the Barren Red Measures, and are overlain by the New Red Sandstone of Ballochmyle. The lavas are slaggy...investigated two years later by Lyman, were described, and it was shown how Lyman came to the conclusion that...An old Hone-stone Quarry near Ratho." By T. Cuthbert Day and David Tait. The quarry has been long disused...the igneous rock, which lies along the top of the quarry. They are not at all hard, and present a spotted
Report (volume)
DIKECTOlt MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN...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...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf...be a new variety, which has since been confirmed by Professor Hausinann, and now ranks us a new subspecies
Report (issue)
Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr. Open-Fi1e Report...FORMATION TO THE MASSABESIC GNEISS COMPLEX IN NEW HAMPSHIRE CHAPTER 6. GEOLOGIC HISTORY 118 123 POSSIBILITY...2 Index map 4 3 Major structural elements of New England 7 4 Lithotype belts in the Nashua River...the geology of New England and for showing the writer the geology in various parts of New England. They...microfossil analysis, and W. Kirk who provided a zircon concentrate from a rock sample which was analyzed
Book (volume)
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...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep
 
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