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Mine Ledge, Surry, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USAi
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Mine LedgeOutcrop
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
43° North , 72° West (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~6km
Type:
Mindat Locality ID:
5479
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:5479:2
GUID (UUID V4):
0


There is no actual mine at Mine Ledge, which consists of a large quartz outcropping in the southwestern part of the town.

Hitchcock (1877, p. 508) describes the locality and the origin of the name: "Just to the north of the road that passes through Mine Ledge, in the quartz we find a quantity of iron ore, chiefly limonite, that forms botryoidal and mammillary masses on the quartz. From this circumstance this quartz hill received the name it bears, though the ore is not found in workable quantities."

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6 valid minerals.

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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
Goethite4.00.Fe3+O(OH)
Hematite4.CB.05Fe2O3
Quartz
var. Chalcedony
4.DA.05SiO2
4.DA.05SiO2
Opal4.DA.10SiO2 · nH2O
Romanèchite4.DK.10(Ba,H2O)2(Mn4+,Mn3+)5O10
Group 9 - Silicates
Dickite9.ED.05Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Unclassified
'Limonite'-

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
H DickiteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
H GoethiteFe3+O(OH)
H OpalSiO2 · nH2O
H Romanèchite(Ba,H2O)2(Mn4+,Mn3+)5O10
OOxygen
O Quartz var. ChalcedonySiO2
O DickiteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
O GoethiteFe3+O(OH)
O HematiteFe2O3
O OpalSiO2 · nH2O
O QuartzSiO2
O Romanèchite(Ba,H2O)2(Mn4+,Mn3+)5O10
AlAluminium
Al DickiteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
SiSilicon
Si Quartz var. ChalcedonySiO2
Si DickiteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Si OpalSiO2 · nH2O
Si QuartzSiO2
MnManganese
Mn Romanèchite(Ba,H2O)2(Mn4+,Mn3+)5O10
FeIron
Fe GoethiteFe3+O(OH)
Fe HematiteFe2O3
BaBarium
Ba Romanèchite(Ba,H2O)2(Mn4+,Mn3+)5O10

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