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Black Mt. Quarry, Rumford, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

(Black Mountain quarry)

Ref.: Rocks & Minerals (1927): 2: 6.

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 969.

Rocks & Minerals (1988): 63: 129-130.

Dyar, M.D., Guidotti, C.V., Core, D.P., Wearn, K.M., Wise, M.A., Francis, C.A., Johnson, K., Brady, J.B., Robertson, J.D., and Cross, L.R. (1999) Stable isotope and crystal chemistry of tourmaline across pegmatite-country rocks boundaries at Black Mountain and Mount Mica, southwestern Maine, USA. European Journal of Mineralogy: 11: 281-294.


Oxford pegmatite field. (Covers several mines and prospects, all located close together on Black Mountain)





Map Reference: 44°35'N , 70°35'W

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Mineral List:
  • Albite
       var: Cleavelandite
  • Almandine
  • Amblygonite
  • Apatite-(CaF)
       var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaF)
  • Apatite-(CaOH)
  • Autunite
  • Beryl
  • Beryllonite
  • Cassiterite
  • Columbite-(Mn)
  • Cookeite
  • 'Dahllite'
  • Dravite
  • Elbaite
       var: Indicolite
       var: Rubellite
       var: Verdelite
  • Eosphorite
  • Fairfieldite
  • Goyazite
  • Greifensteinite
  • 'Gummite'
  • Heterosite
  • Hurlbutite
  • Hydroxylherderite
  • Kosnarite (TL)
  • Laueite
  • Lepidolite
  • Meta-autunite
  • Metatorbernite
  • Microcline
  • Microlite
  • Mitridatite
  • Montebrasite
  • Montmorillonite
  • Muscovite
  • Opal
    var: Opal-AN
  • Phosphuranylite
  • Pollucite
  • Purpurite
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz
  • Reddingite
  • Rhodochrosite
  • Rockbridgeite
  • Romanèchite
  • Roscherite
  • Rossmanite
  • Schorl
  • Siderite
  • Sphalerite
  • Spodumene
  • Strunzite
  • Tantalite-(Mn)
  • Titanite
  • Torbernite
  • Triphylite
  • Uraninite
  • Uranophane
  • Vivianite
  • Whitlockite
  • Zircon


    64 entries listed. 49 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral). 6 erroneous literature entries.

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