Latitude: 43°17'37"N
Longitude: 71°9'26"W
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 mine, started in the 1880s, last worked commercially 1959. Located near the village of Center Strafford.
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References
Switzer (1938) The Paragenesis of the Center Strafford, New Hampshire Pegmatite. American Mineralogist 23:811.
Perry, Clay (1946): New England's Buried Treasure (NY: Stephen Daye Press), p.206.
Cameron E.N.; Larabee, D.M.; McNair, A.H.; Page. J.J.; Stewart, G.W.; Shainin, V.E. (1954): Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945, New England. (USGS Prof Paper 255:1-352.)
Morrill, P. (1960). New Hampshire Mines and Minerals Localities, pp. 46.
Page & Larrabee (1962) Beryl Resources of New Hampshire. (USGS Prof. Paper 353).
Bjareby, Gunnar (1964): Fifty Years of Mineral Collecting, Part 6 (Rocks & Minerals 39:355-356).
Gregory, Gardiner E. (1968): Parker Mountain Mica Mine (Gems & Minerals, April:26-27).
Morong, Dana (1986): Update on the Parker Mountain Mine (Micromounters of New England Newsletter no. 108, Sept 1986).
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)
Patterson, Marlene Ann (2002). A geologic study of the Parker Mountain pegmatite, southeastern New Hampshire (University of Southern Mississippi, 102 pages).
Rocks & Minerals (2005): 80: 256.
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