Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

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Granite pegmatite. Feldspar quarry first opened in 1916. Later, Kenneth K. Landes, then a Harvard University student, based his research both on this quarry and the Noyes Mountain (Harvard) Quarry in Greenwood and his dissertation revolutionized ideas about how pegmatites crystallize. Landes' paper was "Paragenesis of the Granitic Pegmatites of Central Maine", (American Mineralogist, 1925, v. 10, p. 355-411). Oxford pegmatite field.

Mineral List

Albite var: Cleavelandite Almandine Amblygonite Arsenopyrite Autunite Beidellite Bertrandite Beryl var: Aquamarine var: Goshenite var: Heliodor var: Morganite 'Biotite' Calcite Cassiterite Columbite-(Mn) 'Columbite-(Mn)-Tantalite-(Mn) series' Cookeite 'Dahllite' Dumortierite

Elbaite Eosphorite Epidote Fairfieldite Ferberite Fluorapatite var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite var: Mn-bearing Fluorapatite Fluorite Fluornatromicrolite Goethite Gorceixite Goyazite Herderite Hureaulite Hydroxylapatite Hydroxylherderite Kaolinite Landesite Laueite Lepidolite

Lithiophilite 'Manganese Oxides var: Manganese Dendrites' Manganite Meta-autunite Microcline Microlite Group ? Molybdenite Montebrasite Montmorillonite Muscovite Opal var: Opal-AN Pollucite Purpurite ? Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz var: Milky Quartz var: Rose Quartz var: Smoky Quartz Reddingite Rhodochrosite

Romanèchite Roscherite Scheelite Schorl Siderite Spessartine Spodumene Stolzite Tantalite-(Mn) Tapiolite-(Fe) Topaz Tosudite var: Lithium Tosudite 'Tourmaline' 'var: Watermelon Tourmaline' Triphylite Uraninite Wodginite ? Zircon

82 entries listed. 56 valid minerals. 8 erroneous literature entries.

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