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Catherine Mountain Molybdenite Prospect, T10 SD, Hancock Co., Maine, USA

Latitude: 44°37'2"N
Longitude: 68°4'52"W
Granite pegmatite. Molybdenite is found in granite pegmatite, rare vugs, and along fractures in nearby granite. The locality is near the Catherine Mountain Trail. Two trenches have been cut into promising pegmatite, but the grade is not rich enough to encourage mining.

Mineral List

Albite
Beryl
Biotite
Bismuth
Clinochlore
Epidote
Ferberite
Ferrimolybdite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
'Hornblende'
Magnetite
Microcline
Molybdenite
Muscovite
Powellite ?
Pyrite
Quartz
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz

Scheelite
Stilbite-Ca


21 entries listed. 18 valid minerals.

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References

USGS Bulletin 432 "Some ore deposits in Maine and the Milan mine, New Hampshire"

Trefethen, Joseph Muzzy and Miller, Ralph L. [given as "R. N."], 1947, Molybdenite Occurrence, Township 10, Hancock Co., Maine, Report of the State Geologist 1945-1946, Maine Development Commission, Augusta, Maine, p. 54-56 + map plate.

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