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Graphite from
Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Graphite
Formula:C
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Graphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:244863
Long-form Identifier:1:3:244863:3
GUID (UUID V4):f09109c3-7cfd-4901-b973-1c165ccd5afd
Nearest other occurrences of Graphite
52.4km (32.6 miles) Mine Mountain, Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
52.7km (32.7 miles) Mine Mountain graphite prospect, Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
69.1km (42.9 miles) Thomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
73.7km (45.8 miles) Reynolds Bridge, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
74.7km (46.4 miles) Waterbury Road quarry, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
77.5km (48.2 miles) Sky Farm, Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
78.2km (48.6 miles) Piper graphite mine (Piper black-lead mine), Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
79.6km (49.5 miles) State Route 8 exit 37, Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
88.4km (54.9 miles) Interstate 84 interchange 26, Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
96.0km (59.7 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON...Petrographical description.................................. Lee gneiss ................................................................................... 43 43 Lee-Tyringham area ....................................anticline.................................. East Lee anticline..........................................limestone ......................................... Lee black gneiss ...................................
Report (volume)
SMITH, Director Bulletin 744 THE LIME BELT OF MASSACHUSETTS AND PARTS OF EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT..................................... Stockbridge, Lee, and Tyringham ................................................................................... Lee....................................................marble quarries...................................... Lee ........................................................................... South Dover, Dutchess County, N. Y................................... A slightly
Book
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
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC MA.P v. - OF MONTERET QUADRANGIEJ MASSACHUSETTS «. By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe U.S. GEOLOGICAL...quadrangle lies near the western edge of the t 3 Berkshire Higlands (lig. 1) just east of the major west-facing...Paleozoi rocks dominate the western front of the Berkshire massif. From 13 the north end of the South...Paleozoic rocks 17 of the Beartown Mountain and East Lee slices, which are breached IB by erosion to expose...overthrusting *- of the Beartown Mountain and East Lee slices and the ancillary 7 I Lake Buel, Dry Hill
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Report (volume)
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...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...Shride Pre-Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Massachusetts .Kenneth G. Bell and Donald C. Alvord Stratigraphic...Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel, east-central Massachusetts .James W. Skehan. S.J.. and A. Adel Abu-moustafa...stratigraphy in the Brimfield area, Connecticut and Massachusetts .John D. Peper and M. H. Pease, Jr. Pre-Silurian
Report (issue)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Departnont of Public ./orks H. A. i'acDonald, Commissioner U, S. Department...::ci'ii -,---« Dolonite in the Vicinity of Lee, Massachusetts as an available source of Metallic Ilag-nesium...region The Lee area Zones in the Lee marble Dolomite localities in the Lee area Northeast quarry Lee Marble...Marble Jerks quarries Marble Street quarry Lee Line Corporation quarries Standard Line Conpany quarry Joseph...quarry Composition of the "Lee marble" Reserves East 11 .lit of syncline Lee Marble .forks area Appendix*
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND ON CONTACT PHENOMENA LIMESTONE IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS PENTTI ESKOLA Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...INTRODUCTION The eastern part of Berkshire County in western Massachusetts is underlain by a vast area of...granite gneiss.' 'B. K. Emerson, "Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island," U.S. Geol. Surv., Bull. 597...Hampshire County, Mass.," U.S. Geol. Surv., Mon. 29 (I898), and "The Geology of Eastern Berkshire County, Mass...and Peru, in Hinsdale, and in the valleys of East Lee, Tyringham, and Otis. All the limestone formations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Riddle's Mill Dist. (gold deposits) of Talladega County, Ala. It is 8l/ 2 x 11 and sells for Si, we believe...several recent trips to Clear Creek, San Benito County, Calif., have shown that the jadeite boulders in...Diablo Meridian, Calif., in southeastern San Benito County. The town of Hollister is 80 miles northwest of...northern San Juan County, Colorado. The mine was in a rather remote section of the county and was never worked...botryoidal chalcedony was recently sent us by Manuel T. Lee, 496 Morris Ave., Boonton, N. J. "I found this specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chondrodite TILLY FOSTER MINE, BREWSTER AREA PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW YORK F ew minerals are commonly or uniquely...specimens from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York, can be seen in many American and foreign...at Coles Brook in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It is also known from the Bolton or Whitcomb...Whitcomb quarry at Bolton, Worcester County, where it occurs in densely packed, yellowbrown, rounded crystals...Hinsdale, and Lee, Berkshire County; and at Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It is reported
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:...............................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.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Report (issue)
Tectonic Studies of the Berkshire Massif, Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont A. Blastomylonites...at the Western Edge of the Berkshire Massif, Connecticut and Massachusetts-A Preliminary Report B. Chronology...and Precambrian Rocks at the North End of the Berkshire Massif C. Tectonic and Metamorphic Chronology...History of Part of the East Side of the Berkshire Massif, Massachusetts E. Recumbent Folding of the Goshen...Goshen and Waits River Formations, \.Yestern Massachusetts F. Time and Space Relationships of Structures
Report (issue)
SURVEY GEOLOGY OF THE WINDSOR QUADRANGELE, MASSACHUSETTS Stephen Alien Norton This report is preliminary...Formation General Statement Petrology Thickness Age Berkshire Schist General Statement Schist and Phy11ite Black...Ornamental Stone Lime Glass Sand Crushed Quartzite Graphite Sand and Gravel 19^ 195 195 195 196 197 Chapter...to recent geologic mapping in northwestern Massachusetts, southern Vermont, and southwestern New Hampshire...geologic map of southern Vermont northwestern Massachusetts. 11 Location of specimens for which modes
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
located in the Eureka Mining District in Yavapai County, Arizona. From this old mine we have a number of...They come from the Blue Creek Mt. Mine, Del Norte County, Calif., which I own. The ore of my mine is very...xls. "This is a section of a geode found in Brown County, in the vicinity of Bean Blossom, Indiana."—on...Found on Stafford Ridge, near Carter City in Carter County, Ky." The streak is brown chert (quartz). LOUISIANA...quartz—may be quartz pseudo asbestus (serpentine). MASSACHUSETTS — "I am sending you a package containing 2 specimens
Report (volume)
planes of bedding and of slip cleavage laden with graphite; B, hematitic dolomite from Swanton... t........BULLETIN 521 PLATE I ID' ift'.J V LEGEND Ob Berkshire schist (mostly musc&vitic; in places graphitic...Franklin County, and the black calcite marble quarried on Isle la Motte, in Grand Isle County, are also...State, in Washington County, and the chrome mica schist of Shrewsbury, in Rutland County, have also been included...including the small disused quarries in Orange County, are not here considered. The field work was done
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and New members vicinity, honorary Addison County, and corresponding members out of it. Meetings...their publication as all tire towns of Addison County, with a view to soon as prepai-ed. tuted for...that of Middlebury, with a preliminary Addison County, introductory to the The 1855. in SOCIEl'V....New Milford beyond. The South Massachusetts line in Berkshire county, which extends northerly across...Connecticut along the Hoiisatonic, which in Litchfield county de- scending three hundred feet or more, enters
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND REE MINERALS OF THE KOSS QUARRY, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. N Buchholz,‘ A. U.Falster,?and N...pegmatitic bodies in the Wausau Pluton. Marathon County, Wisconsin. Rocks & Minerals 62: 188-93. Falster...Ore & Metal Co. Ltd. SPHERICAL AND TRlSKELlAL GRAPHITE FROM GOODERHAM, ONTARIO, CANADA. J. A. Jaszcmk...University, Houghton, Michigan 49931 -1295. Remarkable graphite spheres from 0.1 to 10 mm in diameter occur in...occurrence is exposed by a road cut on Haliburton County Road 507 approximately 3.6 kilometers south of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
banded character, the widespread occurrence of graphite, and the fact that the gneisses associated with...or segregated in lumps. The these phlogopite, graphite, pyroxene, and tourmaline are most common. limestone...description of each of the rocks of Essex county, Massachusetts. These comprise plutonic rocks, volcanic...in Massachusetts. The Algonkian rocks comprise the Washington gneiss, Tyringham gneiss, East Lee gneiss...MARSTERS, 3 Report on the Geology of Essex County, Massachusetts, to accompany map, by JOHNH. SEARS,Bull
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
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both
Report (volume)
FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON G 0 V...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...Jiedfct gneiss. I'RK-CAMHRIAN. Washington gneiss. Lee gneiss. Hinsdale. limestone. Monson and ham gneiss...Chesterfield." C. Dewey : Geol. and Min. of part of Massachusetts; Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. VIIT, p. 43
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
muscovite-quartz-sillimaniteK feldspar equilibrium with graphite at P~4.1 kbar: T ~ 645 ~ C, with XH~O~0.84. The...(Evans and Guidotti 1966). In the presence of graphite, the fluid phase is appropriately diluted by CO...renders (1 a) exactly divariant in the presence of graphite. The plagioclase composition in this assemblage...be independently inferred. In the presence of graphite, there is a maximum possible value of Xn2o at...the terms of Ohmoto and Kerrick (1977) because graphite is obscure, if present at all, and marbles interbedded
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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...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and... W. Garnet, manganesian, massive, at Jones' Graphite, in granite. (C.) Eddy BELFAST. Hornstone, near...the banks of the Androseoggin, silver white, Graphite, in in rolled pieces. Pyritous Copper, with
 
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