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Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo #1 pegmatite), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA

Located near the village of North Groton, on the southeast flank of Bald Mountain. Mined for mica beginning in 1863; later for beryl, feldspar, and quartz. Since 1973 operated solely for mineral specimens, including many rare phosphate species. Granite pegmatite, Grafton field.



References:
Sterrett, D. (1914). Some deposits of Mica in the United States (USGS Bulletin 580-F), pp. 72-74.

Sterrett, D. (1923): Mica deposits of the United States. (USGS Bulletin 740).

Berman, Harry (1927): Graftonite from a new locality in New Hampshire (American Mineralogist 12:170).

Verrow, H.J. (1941): "Pegmatite minerals of the Palermo quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire", Rocks & Minerals 16:208-211.

Frondel, C. and Lindberg, M. (1948): Second occurrence of brazilianite (American Mineralogist 33:135–141).

Wolfe, C. W. (1949): Ludlamite from the Palermo mine, North Groton, New Hampshire (American Mineralogist 34:94).

Frondel, Clifford (1949): Wolfeite, xanthoxenite and whitlockite from the Palermo Mine, New Hampshire (American Mineralogist 34:692).

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: 835, 842-843, 855, 868, 876, 938, 953, 960, 977.

Mrose, M. E. (1953): Palermoite and goyazite, two strontium minerals from the Palermo Mine, North Groton, New Hampshire (American Mineralogist 38:354).

Frondel, Clifford, 1956, Systematic Mineralogy of Uranium and Thorium, USGS Bulletin 1064, pp. 400.

Frondel, Clifford and Ito, Jun (1965): Composition of palermoite (American Mineralogist 50:777).

Moore, P.B. and Lund, D. H. (1973): Bjarebyite...a new species (Mineralogical Record 4:282-285).

Moore, P,B., Kampf, A.R., and Irving, A.J.(1974): "Whitmoreite, a new species: its description and atomic arrangement", American Mineralogist 59:900-905.

Thompson, W. (1974): The Palermo mine, New Hampshire". Mineralogical Record 5:274-279.

Calvo, C., and R. Gopal. (1975): The Crystal Structure of Whitlockite from the Palermo Quarry. (American Mineralogist 60:120-133).

Moore, P. B., Irving, A. J., and Kampf, A. R. (1975): Foggite, Goedkenite, and Samuelsonite: Three new species from the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite, North Groton, New Hampshire. (American Mineralogist 60:957-964).

Moore, P. B. and A. R. Kampf (1977): Schoonerite, a new zinc-manganese-iron phosphate mineral (American Mineralogist 62:246-249).

Segeler, C.G., Ulrich, W., Kampf, A.R., and Whitmore, R.W. (1981): "Phosphate minerals of the Palermo No. 1 Pegmatite", Rocks & Minerals 56:196-214.

Korzeb, Stanley L. (1990): Pseudomalachite: New Find at the Palermo No. 1 Pegmatite, New Hampshire (Rocks & Minerals 65:348-349).

Foord, Eugene E., Korzeb, Stanley L., Lichte, Frederick, E., and Fitzpatrick, Joan J., 1997, "Additional Studies on Mixed Uranyl Oxide-Hydroxide Hydrate Alteration Products of Uraninite from the Palermo and Ruggles Granitic Pegmatites, Grafton County, New Hampshire", Canadian Mineralogist, v. 35, p. 145-151.

Korzeb, Stanley L.; Foord, Eugene E. and Lichte, Frederick E. (1997):The chemical evolution and paragenesis of uranium minerals from the Ruggles and Palermo granitic pegmatites, New Hampshire (Canadian Mineralogist 35:135-144).

King, V. (2002): Palermoite from the Palermo No.1 pegmatite, Groton, Grafton county, New Hampshire. Rocks & Minerals 77:173 (Crystallography); 77:240-241 (Paragenesis).

Whitmore, R.W. and Lawrence, R.C., Jr. (2004): The Pegmatite Mines Known As Palermo (Friends of Palermo Mines, North Groton, New Hampshire).



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Mineral List:
Albite
var: Oligoclase
Almandine
Anapaite
Anatase
Apatite-(CaF)
var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaF)
Apatite-(CaOH)
var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaOH)
Arrojadite-(KFe)
Arsenopyrite
Augelite
Autunite
Azurite
Barbosalite
Beraunite
Bermanite
Bertrandite
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
var: Heliodor
Beryllonite
β-Uranophane
Biotite
Birnessite
Bismuth
Bismuthinite
Bjarebyite (TL)
Bornite
Brazilianite
Brushite
Cacoxenite
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
Childrenite
'Chlorite Group'
Clarkeite ?
Columbite-(Fe)
Compreignacite
Covellite
Crandallite
Cuprite
var: Chalcotrichite

Diadochite
Dickinsonite-(KMnNa)
Djurleite
Dufrénite
Elbaite
Eosphorite
Ernstite
Fairfieldite
Ferrisicklerite
Ferrohagendorfite
Ferrostrunzite
Florencite-(Ce)
Foggite (TL)
Frondelite
Galena
Gatumbaite
Goedkenite (TL)
Goethite
Gordonite
Gormanite
Goyazite
Graftonite
Greifensteinite
'Gummite'
Gypsum
Hagendorfite
Hematite
Heterosite
Hinsdalite
Hisingerite
Hollandite
Hopeite
Hureaulite
Hydroxylherderite
Ice
Illite
Jahnsite-(CaMnFe)
Jahnsite-(CaMnMn)
Keckite
Kryzhanovskite
Kulanite
Landesite
Laueite
Lazulite
Leucophosphite
Limonite
Löllingite
Ludlamite
Magnetite
Malachite
'Manganese Oxides
var: Manganese Dendrites'

Manganite
Marcasite
Melanterite
Messelite
Meta-autunite
Metaswitzerite ?
Metatorbernite
Metavivianite
Microcline
Mitridatite
Montebrasite
Moraesite
Muscovite
Nontronite
Opal
Palermoite (TL)
Parascholzite
Paravauxite
'Perthite'
Phosphoferrite
Phosphophyllite
Phosphosiderite
Phosphuranylite
Pseudolaueite
Pseudomalachite
'Psilomelane'
Purpurite
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Pyromorphite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Blue Quartz
var: Citrine
var: Milky Quartz
var: Rock Crystal
var: Rose Quartz
var: Sceptre Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Realgar
Reddingite
Rhodochrosite
Rockbridgeite
Roscherite
Rutherfordine
Samuelsonite (TL)
Sarcopside
Schoepite
Schoonerite (TL)
Schorl
Scorzalite
'Sericite'
Siderite
Sillimanite
Sinkankasite
Smithsonite
Souzalite
Sphalerite
Stewartite
Strengite
Strunzite
Tantalite-(Fe)
Tavorite
Todorokite
Torbernite
Triphylite
Triploidite
Uraninite
Uranophane
Ushkovite
Vandendriesscheite
Vivianite
Wardite
Whiteite-(CaMnMg)
Whiteite-(MnFeMg)
Whitlockite (TL)
Whitmoreite (TL)
Wolfeite (TL)
Xanthoxenite (TL)
Zanazziite
Zinnwaldite
Zircon
var: Cyrtolite


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