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Witt Hill Chrysoberyl locality, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

Chrysoberyl
Witt Hill Chrysoberyl locality, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

Photo: Scott Whittemore
Ref.: (in part): Rocks & Min.: 62:404-405; Maine Mineral Localities, 3rd Ed." by Thompson, W.B., et.al., 1998. A specimen - gemstone mine (chrysoberyl) in pegmatite. Started and initially closed in the 1870's. Owned by Nathaniel H. Perry (1870's). Oxford pegmatite field. (NOTE: This site is often listed as being in the town of Norway, immediately to the south. There may even be sites on the hill to the south of the town line; but the main collecting locality is in Greenwood.) [The inclusion of sillimanite on the mineral list is not a mistake - its presence in fibrous form is an unusual characteristic of the rock here.]
(Reported in Morrill, 1958, to be in the Richardson Hollow area, this is actually the Witt Hill locality.)

Mineral List

Albite
Almandine
Autunite
Biotite
Chrysoberyl
Gahnite
Meta-autunite
Metatorbernite
Microcline
Muscovite
Quartz
Schorl
Sillimanite
Torbernite
Zircon


15 entries listed. 14 valid minerals.

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