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Topaz from Maine, USA

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  • Maine
    • Androscoggin County
      • Auburn
        • East Mount Apatite Mining District
King, Van (n.d.) Personal communcation.
        • West Mount Apatite Mining District
Guidebook 1 to Mineral Collecting in the Maine Pegmatite Belt Pg 2
Rocks and Minerals, (1997) 72:44-48
    • Oxford County
      • Buckfield
King, Vandall T. (2000) Mineralogy of Maine Vol. 2 - Mining History, Gems, and Geology. Maine Geological Survey.
King, Vandall T., Foord, Eugene E. (1994) Mineralogy of Maine Vol. 1 - Descriptive mineralogy. Maine Geological Survey.
      • Greenwood
W. B. Thompson, D. L. Joyner, R. G. Woodman, and V. T. King (2005) A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities. Maine Geological Survey Bulletin 41
Mineral News (1993) 9:2 p. 8
King, Vandall T., Foord, Eugene E. (1994) Mineralogy of Maine Vol. 1 - Descriptive mineralogy. Maine Geological Survey.
      • Stoneham
Bastin, Edson Sunderland (1911) Geology of the pegmatites and associated rocks of Maine, including feldspar, quartz, mica, and gem deposits. USGS Bulletin 445.
      • Stow
Only reference is Maine Mines and Minerals by Philip Morrill and a Lot of Other People (1958), volume 1, Western Maine. No specimens of topaz known. Locality description sounds like a quartz vein and blue beryl was mistaken for topaz.
    • Sagadahoc County
      • Topsham
Clara Brennan, Samuel M. Cameron, and Mona-Liza C. Sirbescu (2016) Crystallization of the Fisher Quarry Pegmatite, Sagadahoc Co., Maine: Preliminary Insights from Fluid Inclusions. in Second Eugene E. Foord Pegmatite Symposium July 15-19, 2016 Colorado School of Mines campus, Golden, Colorado
 
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