Mineralogists, having long debated what causes the pinkish coloring of rose quartz, recently concluded that the color is due to minute amounts of a Fe-Ti mineral akin to dumortierite. Quartz comes in several hues-white, smoky, rose, pink, and amethyst-depending on trace elements in the matrix or environmental conditions. In and among these giants are found masses of quartz, which is usually the last thing to crystallize as the fluid cools. Other pegmatites have yielded huge sheets of mica and lenses of spodumene. The Bumpus Mine, for example, yielded a single beryl crystal that was 27 feet long, and equally gigantic feldspar crystals. The water, circulating freely for eons, permits the growth of enormous minerals. Pegmatites are the crystallized remains of this rare-element-and-quartz-rich soup, and their contents are often astonishing. Leftover after this early process, wandering lonely in a boiling slurry of water and silica, are the geeks and wallflowers among the elements: oddities such as beryllium, boron, titanium, and lithium, whose size or geometry make it difficult for them to form minerals unless there is a lot of circulating fluid (the social director?). One can picture this process as a sort of dating game, in which popular elements find partners, pair up, and remove themselves from circulation. These elements combine to form granite’s common minerals-mica, pyroxene, feldspar, and quartz (SiO 4)-as the melt cools. The chief elements in the hot granitic melt are silicon, oxygen, aluminum, calcium, iron, magnesium, and sodium. Granites are formed from low-density molten material that makes its ways slowly up through earth’s continental crust from depth.
Three factors contributed to their appearance at the Cemetery: 1) the opening of pegmatite quarries in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine, such as the Bumpus pegmatite quarry in Oxford County, Maine, opened in 1927 2) an increasing fashion for “natural” boulder monuments and 3) the New England Hurricane of September 1938. Mount Auburn has over twenty such boulder monuments, made of rose quartz, dating from the late 1930s onward. What are these stones, where did they come from, and what do they mean? For more details and exclusions, please click here.Throughout Mount Auburn Cemetery and many other burial places in the United States, visitors come upon rough boulders of pink translucent stone bearing nameplates of bronze or slate. Items purchased online may be returned in person to our stores under the same terms. A $10 shipping charge will be deducted from your refund, unless it is for an exchange. Please use the convenient, prepaid return label provided with your shipment and take care when repacking the item.
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