Locality: Soapstone Quarry, Francestown, NH
Specimen Size: 5 cm specimen of talc variety steatite
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: e.g. 1846, 1847
Notes:
Locality: Soapstone Quarry, Canterbury, NH
Specimen Size: 9 cm specimen of talc-soapstone
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (2012)
Catalog No.: e.g. 1846, 1847
Notes: Analysis by D. R. Nielson (in her 1974 Dartmouth doctoral thesis Metamorphic Diffusion in New Hampshire: Soapstone Bodies & Flecky Gneisses) of soapstone from the Canterbury, NH indicates some samples contain as much as 60% of the mineral talc. The major remaining component is chlorite. This sample came from the same approximate area as Dr. Nielson's.
The sample is easily scratched with the fingernail.
Locality: Soapstone Quarry, Canterbury, NH
Specimen Size: 2.5 cm specimen of talc
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (2012)
Catalog No.: p/o 1847 (3)
Notes: This sample is very soft. It is likely almost pure talc,
Locality: Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, NH
Specimen Size: 3.4 cm specimen with pale-green and white zones of talc in green-black magnesiohornblende matrix.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 2013
Catalog No.: 1872
Notes: Phillip Morrill's New Hampshire Mines and Mineral Localities booklet includes talc in the species list for this Richmond quarry.