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Parker Mountain Pegmatite Quarry (Buzzo Quarry; Buzzo Mine), Parker Mt, Strafford, Strafford Co., New Hampshire, USA

Granite pegmatite. Species list contains species from the contact zone and the host rocks as well as the granite pegmatite.

A former surface mica and feldspar quarry, started in the 1880s, last worked commercially 1959. Located near the village of Center Strafford.



References:
Switzer (1938) The Paragenesis of the Center Strafford, New Hampshire Pegmatite. American Mineralogist 23:811.

Cameron (1954) Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45, New England (USGS Prof. Paper 255).

Morrill, P. (1960). New Hampshire Mines and Minerals Localities, pp. 46.

Page & Larrabee (1962) Beryl Resources of New Hampshire. (USGS Prof. Paper 353).

Rocks & Minerals (1964): 39: 355-356.

Rocks & Minerals (1989): World News on Mineral Occurrences, 64: 504.

Morong, Dana (1997): Some Little Known History of a Mica Mine in Strafford, New Hampshire (Matrix. vol. 5, no. 3)

Rocks & Minerals (2005): 80: 256.





Map Reference: 43°17'37"N , 71°9'26"W

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Mineral List:
Albite
var: Cleavelandite
Almandine
Amblygonite
Apatite-(CaF)
Arsenolite
Arsenopyrite
Autunite
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
Biotite
Cassiterite
Columbite
Columbite-(Mn)
Cookeite
'Cymatolite'
Diadochite
Diopside
Eosphorite ?
Eucryptite
Fairfieldite ?
Ferrisicklerite
Fourmarierite
Goethite
Graftonite
Graphite
Heterosite
Hureaulite ?
Hydroxylherderite
'Jahnsite'
Kaolinite
Laueite
Löllingite
Ludlamite
Magnetite
Melanterite
Meta-autunite
Microcline
'Monazite' ?
Montebrasite ?
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Opal
var: Opal-AN

Orpiment
Petalite
Pharmacosiderite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Sceptre Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Reddingite
Rhodochrosite
Rockbridgeite
Schorl
Scorodite
Siderite
Sillimanite ?
Spessartine ?
Spodumene
Stewartite
Strengite
Strunzite
Triphylite
Uraninite
Uranophane
Vandendriesscheite
Vivianite
Whitlockite
Zircon
var: Cyrtolite



69 entries listed. 57 valid minerals. 1 erroneous literature entry.

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