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Bell Pit (Bell Quarry), Newry, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

Latitude: 44°32'40"N
Longitude: 70°43'16"W
Granite pegmatite. Hall's Ridge, Plumbago-Puzzle Mountain - Oxford pegmatite field. Land currently owned by Plumbago Timber and Quarries LLC which permitted use of new mineral discovery information to appear on mindat.

Mineral List

Actinolite
Albite
var: Cleavelandite
Almandine
Annite
Arsenopyrite
Augelite
Autunite
Beraunite
Bertrandite
Beryl
Beryllonite
Brazilianite
Cassiterite
Columbite-(Fe)
Cryptomelane
Diadochite
Dravite
Eosphorite
Fairfieldite
Ferrisicklerite
Fluorapatite
var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Goethite
Gorceixite
Goyazite
Greenockite
Hematite
Heterosite
Hydroxylapatite
Hydroxylherderite
Jahnsite-(CaMnFe)
Jahnsite-(CaMnMn)
Laueite
Ludlamite
Magnetite
Messelite
Meta-autunite
Metaswitzerite
Metatorbernite
Microcline
Mitridatite
Montebrasite
Montmorillonite
Moraesite
Muscovite
Perhamite (TL)
Phosphophyllite
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Rockbridgeite
Schoonerite
Schorl
Scorzalite
Siderite
Souzalite
Sphalerite
Spodumene
Strunzite
Switzerite
Tantalite-(Mn) ?
Torbernite
Triphylite
Uraninite
Vivianite
Wardite
Whitlockite
Whitmoreite
Wurtzite
Zanazziite
Zircon


74 entries listed. 72 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

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.
GUIDEBOOK 1 to Mineral Collecting in the Maine Pegmatite Belt Pg. 20-21

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