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Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

Feldspar mine opened in 1930; also produced about 500 pounds of pollucite. Now worked for mineral specimens, including rare pseudocubic quartz crystals. Oxford pegmatite field. Erroneously called the Howard Quarry by Morrill, P., Rocks & Min.: 16: 279.

Refs.:
Rocks & Min. 12:244; 58:181; 62:443
Stevens, 1972: Gems & Minerals of Oxford Co.
Thompson, Joyner, Woodman & King, 1991: A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities, 2nd ed.





Mineral List:
  		•  Albite
       var: Cleavelandite
  		• Almandine
  		• Apatite-(CaF)
  		• Autunite
  		• Bertrandite
  		• Beryl
  		• Biotite
  		• Bismuth
  		• Calcite
  		• Cassiterite
  		• Columbite-(Mn)
  		• Cookeite
  		• Dickinsonite-(KMnNa)
  		• Elbaite
  		• Eosphorite
  		• Fairfieldite
  		• Fourmarierite
  		• 'Gummite'
  		• Hureaulite
  		• Hydroxylherderite
  		• Lepidolite
  		• Lithiophilite
  		• 'Manganese Oxides
    var: Manganese Dendrites'
  		• Meionite
  		• Meta-autunite
  		• Microcline
  		• Montebrasite
  		• Montmorillonite
  		• Muscovite
       var: Damourite
  		• Petalite
  		• Phosphosiderite
  		• 'Pinite'
  		• Pollucite
  		• Purpurite
  		• Quartz
       var: Amethyst
       var: Citrine
       var: Milky Quartz
       var: Rose Quartz
       var: Smoky Quartz
  		• Scheelite
  		• Schorl
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Spodumene
  		• Tantalite-(Mn)
  		• 'Tourmaline Group
    var: Watermelon Tourmaline'
  		• Uraninite
  		• Uranophane
  		• Vesuvianite
  		• Wölsendorfite
  		• Zircon


    53 entries listed. 40 valid minerals. 1 erroneous literature entry.

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