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Berry-Havey Quarry, Poland, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA

Latitude: 44°4'18"N
Longitude: 70°17'55"W
Granite pegmatite. Oxford Field. The Berry Quarry and Havey Quarry are in the same pegmatite and excavations have overlapped.

This locality is the "type" location for the variety "watermelon tourmaline" and was given that name by George Howe in 1910.

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Mineral List

Albite
var: Cleavelandite
Almandine
Arsenopyrite
Autunite
Bertrandite
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
var: Morganite
'Biotite'
Calcite
Cassiterite
Columbite-(Mn)
Cookeite
Correianevesite
Cryptomelane
'Dahllite'
Dickinsonite-(KMnNa)
Elbaite
Eosphorite
Fairfieldite
Fluorapatite
Foitite
Goethite
Hureaulite
Hydroxylherderite
Landesite (TL)
Lepidolite
Lithiophilite
Meta-autunite
Metaschoepite
Microcline
Microlite Group
Mitridatite
Montebrasite
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Phosphosiderite
Purpurite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Rose Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Reddingite
Rhodochrosite
Rockbridgeite
Rossmanite
Schoepite
Schorl
Siderite
Spodumene
Stewartite
Strunzite
Tantalite-(Mn) ?
Titanite
Todorokite
'Tourmaline
var: Rubellite'

'var: Verdelite'
'var: Watermelon Tourmaline'
Triplite
Uraninite
Uranophane
Wardite
Whitlockite
Zircon


65 entries listed. 54 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral). 1 erroneous literature entry.

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References

Rocks & Minerals (1939): 14: 273.

King, V. T. and Foord, E. E. (1994), Mineralogy of Maine, Descriptive Mineralogy, volume 1, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, USA, pp. 418 + 88 plates.

King, V. T. (1995), Berry-Havey Pegmatite, Poland, Maine, USA, in Arthur M. Hussey II and Robert A. Johnston (editos) Guidebook to Field Trips in Southern Maine and Adjacent New Hampshire, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, Brunswick, Maine, p. 123-124.

Moore, P. B. (2000), Analyses of Primary Phosphates from Pegmatites in Maine and Other Localities, in V. T. King (editor), Mineralogy of Maine. Mining History, Gems, and Geology, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, p. 333-336.

External Links

http://www.haveymine.blogspot.com - blog from the mine owner


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