tion, but some further east in the Glastonbury Gneiss. These were heavily quarried from the north at the Glastonbury town line and just east of State Route 17 (particularly the long-lived Hale Quarry) southward onto Collins Hill, which hosted the famous Strickland Quarry and Cramer Mine, where most of Portland's diverse mineralogy originates. Most pegmatite specimens just labeled "Portland" are likely from there, although the small Walden Gem Mine and Case Quarries produced many specimens also. Sharply formed and deeply colored aquamarines hail from the small Pelton's Quarry. Unquarried pegmatites can still be easily seen along State Route 66 in the Riverdale section just north of the Connecticut River in the area known as "The Ledges".
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120 valid minerals.
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174.1 - 201.3 Ma
Age: Early Jurassic (174.1 - 201.3 Ma)
Stratigraphic Name: Portland Arkose
Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. 
Localities in this Region
- Middlesex Co.
- Andrews Quarry (old Hale Quarry; Grandfather Andrews Quarry)
- Appletree Lane
- Bordonaro Quarry
- Case Quarries
- Collins Hill
- Middlesex Co.