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Kasolite from
Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Kasolite
Formula:Pb(UO2)(SiO4) · H2O
Comments:"At the Ruggles pegmatite, kasolite occurs both as a thin outer crust about the orange gummite pseudomorphs for which the locality is noted and as complete pseudomorphs of a rather pourous consistency."
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kasolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:29557
Long-form Identifier:1:3:29557:4
GUID (UUID V4):54b7491e-367d-4c04-9ba3-97b9f3c41944
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pale-brown color and is then usually composed of kasolite or an unidentified phase (Minerat B). Soddyite...or entirely with the formation of Mineral B or kasolite. The Th and rare earths contained in the original...and the silicates uranophane, beta-uranophane, kasolite, and Mineral B. The alteration of uraninite in...this paper. A few unidentified minerals, apparently new species, also were found. Three of these, Minerals...and optical studies of his specimensfrom Mitchell County, North Carolina, including the materials of analyses
Report (issue)
β = 98◦ 150 X-ray Powder Pattern: Ruggles mine, New Hampshire, USA. 4.25 (10), 3.28 (8), 2.13 (6), 1...49.03 3.96 Total 100.00 100.00 (1) Ruggles mine, New Hampshire, USA. (2) Pb2 (UO2 )(PO4 )2 • 2H2 O. Occurrence:...Torbernite, kasolite, dewindtite (Kasolo, Congo); autunite, phosphuranylite (Ruggles mine, New Hampshire, USA);...Ranger mine, Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia. In the USA, in the Ruggles mine, near Grafton, Grafton...Grafton Co., New Hampshire; from the Eight Mile Park pegmatite district, Fremont Co., and on the Big Red
Report (issue)
71 Z = [8] X-ray Powder Pattern: Ruggles mine, New Hampshire, USA. 3.32 (100), 4.48 (90), 6.14 (80)...formed by oxidation of uraninite. Association: Kasolite, sklodowskite, uranophane, torbernite, curite...Distribution: From Kasolo, Swambo, and in the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Krunkelbachtal mine, near Menzenschwand, Black Forest, Germany. In the USA, in the Ruggles pegmatite, Grafton, Grafton...Grafton Co., New Hampshire; at the Steel City mine, Yavapai Co., Arizona; from the Jackpile mine, Laguna,
Report (issue)
Pb(UO2 )SiO4 ² H2 O Kasolite c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, and the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Australia. In the USA, in the Ruggles pegmatite, near Grafton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire; from the Green...Green Monster mine, Goodsprings district, Clark Co., and the 4-D mine, Marietta district, Mineral Co., Nevada;...Nevada; and in the Ross-Adams mine, Bokan Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. In Canada, at Great
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Ruggles pegmatite, New Hampshire, and from Wiilsendorf, Bavaria. The New Hampshire material...identical in habit with the Belgian Congo and New Hampshire material. Biaxial negative, with indices of...small specimen from the Ruggles pegmatite near Grafton Center, New Hampshire, for identification. A preliminary...obtained from a new find made by Mr. H. L. Smith of the Whitehall Company of Keene, New Hampshire, operators...operators of the Ruggles mine. A quantitative analysis by F. A. Gonyer of this material, cited in Table 1, proved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
T H E RUGGLES FELDSPAR - M I C A MINE, — G R A F T O N , N E W HAMPSHIRE By G A R D I N E R E. GREGORY...commercial production of mica in New Hampshire started at the Ruggles Mine in 1803. In recent years it has...of minerals have been removed from the mine. In 1962 the mine was opened for pub­ lic inspection. Each...Each year thousands of people visit the mine to view the scenery from the top of Isinglass Mountain and...and to explore the giant tunnels of the mine. Very few of the visitors are bonaficd mineral collectors
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mica locality known as the Ruggles' Mine in Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Already then it had been in...color groupings on the whitish microcline. My New Hampshire friends, Mr. Leggett and Mr. Weeks of Meredith...Meredith, mentioned having seen workmen repairing the mine road with some of the colorful stuff! Good specimens...met the Walls a few months earlier at the Nevel Mine, Newry, Maine. At the time Bill was still in the...are so typical of this locality as well as other New England localities. Bill's rucksack was already loaded
Report (issue)
665 X-ray Powder Pattern: Ruggles pegmatite, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA. 7.88 (100), 3.94 (90), 2...Total 99.45 100.00 Chemistry: (1) Lusk, Wyoming, USA. (2) Ca(UO2 )2 (SiO 3OH)2 ² 5H2 O: Polymorphism &...meteoric waters. Association: Uranophane-beta, kasolite, meta-autunite, phosphuranylite, uranium oxides...France. In the USA, at the Monument No. 2 mine, Apache Co., Arizona; from the Happy Jack mine, White Canyon...in the Hanosh mine, Grants district, McKinley Co., New Mexico. In the Silver Cli® mine, Lusk, Niobrara
Book
are always looking for people to write books on new and related subjects. If you have an idea for a book...Laboratory; William "Skip" Simmons, - University of New Orleans; Reinhard Wegner, Universidade Federal da...mineralogist M. H. Klaprot h showed that it contained a new chemica l element. Klaproth produced "uranium" powder...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metals are, to many, equally as important. Did a new “metallic”age dawn a few decades ago that will be...specimen is from the Number 20 mine near Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Author’s specimen...Figure 5. A 2-cm uraninite cube from the Cardiff mine, Wdberforce, Ontario, Canada;Canadian Museum of...found at the famous Palermo and Ruggles mines in Grafton County, New Hampshire; dendritic uraninite intergrowths... WestChester County, and from a locality at Richville Station, St. Lawrence County, New York. Uraninite
Report (volume)
____________________ .. _______________________ _ Kasolite ____________ . ____ . __________ -------- __ -------...Page FIGURE 9. Monazite. A, B. Typical habit. C. New York. D. Tavetsch, Switzerland ---------------- ___...(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...been sporadic and reflect the discovery of new deposits or of new uses for this element. T'wo species were...also should be mentioned here. No such increase of new species followed the discovery of the Great Bear
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
came to New Hampshire to slow down and live. Mineral collecting as fun returned and to me a new mineral...have encouraged me to get going again. Here in New Hampshire I have done a great deal of work on several...excellent and famous areas of New Hampshire— Ruggles Mine and Palermo—my pets. Ruggles this month and next month...month a visit to Palermo. Ruggles is perhaps one of the most spectacular mines to see in the North East...a few years ago were collectors allowed into the mine and dumps during the summer months. It is perhaps
Report (volume)
Kahlerite______________--______-____-__---_--__--____-_-____ 117 Kasolite.________________________________________ 118 ... With the exception of that for ianthinite, the new data originated either hi the Geological Survey or...____ __ _ ____ 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 16 14 12 11 11 Kasolite ___ ____ 95 ______ Uranospherite______ _ _...1.69 1.68 1.645 Uvanite_ _____ ___________ __ Kasolite __ ___ ____ _ _______ Davidite _ _________ ______...material from the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah. d(A) I 9. 14 5.63 5. 11
Catalog/List
S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to...785 ADAMITE (CUPRIAN),MohawkMine, San Bernardino County, California. Nicely spaced transparent jade green
Catalog/List
of the Mine" collection, assembled as a museum display in the offices of the Shinkolobwe mine, was ordered...Africa CUPROSKLODOWSKITE, META-VANURALITE, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba, Zaire Very attractive emerald-green..... . . . . ..... . .... ... . . .... $100.00 KASOLITE, Swambo, Shaba, Zaire Magnificent, free-standing...free-standing yellow-orange micromount quality kasolite crystals (2 mm) almost completely covering both sides.................. $200.00 GUILLEMINITE, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba , Zaire Yellow to yellow-green crystalline
Book (volume)
Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Utah Alaska Idaho Iowa Minnesota...Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey Nev,, York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode
Book
Designed by Molly Shields Type set in DIN Black/Ti1nes New Ro111an ISBN: 978 -0-7643 -5113-6 Printed in China...are always looking for people to write books on new and related subjects. If you have an idea for a book...to the advancement of the science of uraniun1 and New species are no\.V being reported at the rate of several...appropriate. Research in this fie ld is ongo in g, and new 111inerals continue to be described in the literature;...for the sin1ple reason that the cost of using a new pai r of disposable gloves every tin1e specin,ens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of New Hampshire A Checklist JANET W. C A R E S 18 S i n g l e t a r y L a n e Sudbury. Massachusetts...ities. As other articles in this issue will attest, New Hamp­ shire has rightfully earned its nickname, the...Janules, 1990), and the fumed "gummite" of the Ruggles mine accounts foi the many alteration products of...lead-bearing minerals are found at the Madison lead mine, and barite occurs in the well-known fluorite mines... while copper minerals—which are scarce in New Hampshire—are found mainly in a few small depos­ its.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
non-marine organic-rich sediments that promoted new sandstone-type ore deposits. The modes of accumulation...actinides and their fission products are central to the new field of environmental radiochemistry (Santschi and...reactors. Both of these activities have created new inventories of transuranium elements, such as plutonium...crystal (1 cm in length) with feldspar from the Swamp Mine, Maine. Uraninite crystals precipitated from magmaticrelated...auto-oxidation may lead to the formation of several new Pb-uranyl secondary minerals (Fig. 7), including
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the granitic pegmatites of New Hampshire, U.S.A. Keywords: Paulscherrerite, new mineral, uranyl hydroxide...“dehydrated schoepite.” This description is based on a new occurrence from the Number 2 Workings on Radium Ridge... 230 Table 1. BRUGGER ET AL.: PAULSCHERRERITE, A NEW MINERAL Structural and stoichiometric information...molecules within the interleaved sheets so as to form a new hydrogen-bonded array. The topology of the uranyl...vacancy. 300.1(1) Taylor (1971) Paulscherrerite, a New MiNeral Occurrence The type locality for paulscherrerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(UOt(COt. The name rutherfordine has priority. Two new localities are recorded for rutherfordine at Beryl...these specimens were found to consist variously of kasolite, uranophane, and hydrated lead uranyl oxides as...orthorhombic. A new chemical analysis, made on material known to contain a small amount of kasolite, is close...recalculatedafter deducting the Pb and Ca, as kasolite and uranophane,together with the HzO-, iron oxide...Ca as kasolite and uranophane together with remaining CaO and FeO. 3. Rutherfordine, Morogoro. New analysis
Book
eau de constitution des qu'ils soot sortis de la mine. La deshydratation pro­ voque un changement des... assez frequente clans la zone superieure de la mine, n'a ete rencontree que rarement a plus grande profondeur...eu lieu apres que le mineral ait ete sorti de la mine, mais il est plus probable que la paraschoepite...est surtout associe a 1a vandenbrandeite et a la kasolite. Parfois il est accompagne de malachite. On l'a...de becquerelite accompagnee de soddyite. KASOLITE La kasolite est un mineral typique pour la zone super
Journal (issue)
are listed on our General List #20 and our latest New Arrivals Lists. Send for your copies today. Both.................................... SILVER CRATER MINE—Ilia Kerr ....................................................................................... NEW GEOLOGIC MAP OF WINDSOR LOCKS AREA................................................... NEW CHILDREN’S MUSEUM FOR NEW MEXICO ...............................and August 1st, 1965, in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus
Catalog/List
shifted my interest in other directions. Most of the "new"material I am offering now comes from old localities...Andradite, no bruising; 4x2.5x2-$6.50 MS62.Mirac/e Mt. Mine, Vo/cano, Ca/ifomia; (a) dark reddish brown xls...base of specimen; 4.8x4.2x3-$5.00 M563. Ye//ow Cat Mine, San Benito Co., Califomia; var. topazolite: (a)...xls to 5 mm: 3.8x2.5x2.5-Sl6.25 M595. Bu"a Copper Mine, Bu"a, South Australia, Australia; (a) M/M potential;...average 1 cm- $3.50 BREWSTERITE; M541. Whitesmith Mine,Strontian, Argvl(shia:, Scotlqnd; (a) good MIM,
 
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